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

James Mikely Mantell Posey Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played the small forward position for the Denver Nuggets, the Miami Heat, the Boston Celtics, the New Orleans Hornets, and the Indiana Pacers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Posey won NBA championships as a member of the 2006 Miami Heat and the 2008 Boston Celtics. He is also a former assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA.

Dwier Brown is an American film and television actor. In the 1989 film Field of Dreams he played John Kinsella, the father of Kevin Costner's character, and he played Henry Mitchell in Dennis the Menace Strikes Again in 1998. Brown has appeared in several horror films, such as House (1986) and The Guardian (1990), the latter directed by William Friedkin, who also directed The Exorcist. He has also made appearances on several television series, including Firefly, Criminal Minds, and Ghost Whisperer. In 2014, he wrote a memoir entitled If You Build It... described as a book about "fathers, fate, and Field of Dreams."

Crystal Lynn Bowersox is an American singer, songwriter and actress who was the runner-up on the ninth season of American Idol. She was the first female finalist in three years.

Rodger Wilton Young, was a United States Army infantryman from Ohio during World War II. Born in the small town of Tiffin, Ohio, in 1918, Young suffered a sports injury in high school that led to his becoming nearly deaf and blind. Despite this, Young was able to pass the exams necessary to enter the Ohio National Guard. Soon after the United States entered World War II, Young's company was activated as part of the U.S. Army. Soon after his activation, in 1943, Young was killed on the island of New Georgia while helping his platoon withdraw from a Japanese ambush. For his actions, he was posthumously awarded the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.

Andrew Norwell is an American football guard for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2014. Norwell played college football at Ohio State.

Randy Fichtner is an American football coach. He most recently served as the offensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 2018 to 2020.

Oba Chandler was an American convicted murderer who was convicted and executed for the June 1989 murders of Joan Rogers and her two daughters, whose bodies were found floating in Tampa Bay, Florida with their hands and feet bound. Autopsies showed the victims had been thrown into the water while still alive, with ropes tied to a concrete block around their necks. The case became high-profile in 1992 when local police posted billboards bearing enlarged images of the suspect's handwriting recovered from a pamphlet in the victims' car. Chandler was identified as the killer when his neighbor recognized the handwriting. This was the first use of billboards by law enforcement in the US. Billboards then became useful tools in searches for missing people.

Michael Cavanaugh is an actor, musician and singer most famous for playing the piano and lead vocals in the band for the Broadway musical Movin' Out. Cavanaugh was handpicked by Billy Joel for this musical and appeared in the show for three years and over 1300 performances, receiving many accolades.

Richard Lawrence Garwin is an American physicist, best known as the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.

Orion Perseus Howe was among the youngest recipients of the Medal of Honor for his service in the American Civil War as a Union drummer boy. He was awarded the medal on April 23, 1896.