List of Famous people born in Ohio, United States of America
Dina Spybey
Dina Spybey also known as Dina Waters and Dina Spybey-Waters is an American actress. She has appeared in more than 20 films, including John Q., subUrbia and The Haunted Mansion. She is perhaps best known for her role as Tracy Montrose Blair on the first season of Six Feet Under. She played "young Elise Eliot" in The First Wives Club and a ghost named Emma in Disney's film The Haunted Mansion.
Phyllis McGuire
The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in American popular music. The group was composed of three sisters:
- Ruby Christine McGuire
- Dorothy "Dottie" McGuire
- Phyllis Jean McGuire
Claire Shipman
Claire Shipman is an American television journalist, currently the senior national correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America. She is married to Jay Carney, President Barack Obama's former White House Press Secretary.
Fiona Maazel
Fiona Maazel is the author of three novels: Last Last Chance, Woke Up Lonely, and A Little More Human. In 2008 she was named a 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2017, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Elizabeth Franz
Elizabeth Franz is an American stage and television actress.
Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success on the stage, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.
Kingsley A. Taft
Kingsley Arter Taft was an American politician and distant relative of Ohio's more famous Taft family. He served as chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and also served briefly as a United States Senator. Kingsley's father, Frederick Lovett Taft, II was also a noted figure in the Ohio legal profession.
Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun (1961). Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and Do the Right Thing (1989).
John Lounsbery
John Mitchell Lounsbery was an American animator who worked for Walt Disney Productions. He is best known as one of Disney's Nine Old Men, of which he was the shortest lived as well as the first to die.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney was an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris.