List of Famous people born in Ohio, United States of America

William Odis Bertelsman is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Abigail Louise Johnston is a medical doctor. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's synchronized 3 metre springboard with partner Kelci Bryant. She also competed at the 2016 Olympics in the individual 3 m springboard.

Katharine Wright Haskell was the younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. She was a high school teacher and later became an international celebrity when she accompanied her famous brothers in Europe. Wright also worked to support women's suffrage efforts in Ohio.

Michael Patrick Dougherty is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and comic book creator. He began his career working alongside Dan Harris on the screenplays for Bryan Singer's superhero films X2 (2003) and Superman Returns (2006), and worked one final time with them on X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).

Sander "Sandy" Vanocur was an American television journalist who focused on U.S. national electoral politics.

Donte Demetrius Whitner Sr. is a former professional American football strong safety. He played college football at Ohio State, and was drafted by the Buffalo Bills eighth overall in the 2006 NFL Draft. Whitner has also played for the San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns, and Washington Redskins.

Jesse William Dirkhising, also known as Jesse Yates, was an American teenager from Prairie Grove, Arkansas. He was staying with two men who bound, drugged, tortured, and repeatedly raped him. He died from drugging and positional asphyxia during the ordeal.

Robert James Kelly III is a former professional American football player who played safety for four seasons for the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League and one on the injured reserve list for the New England Patriots.

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo, collectively known as the Russo brothers, are American directors, producers, screenwriters, and actors. They direct most of their work together.

Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an American actress of the stage and screen. She is best known for her debut performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. The next year, she appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now as Barbara Darling, for which she was nominated for a second Golden Globe Award. Hartman also starred opposite Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page in Don Siegel's The Beguiled, and the 1973 box office smash and cult favorite Walking Tall. On stage, Hartman was best known for her interpretations of Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, for which she won Ohio's "Actress of the Year" award, and Emily Webb in the 1969 Broadway production of Our Town.