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

Mark Metcalf is an American television and film actor often identified as playing the role of antagonistic and aggrieved authority figure.

John Charles Hicks Jr. was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League. He is best remembered for being the last lineman to be runner-up in the vote for the Heisman Trophy.

Janis Carter was an American stage and film actress who performed throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s. During the mid-1950s, she began working regularly on television, co-hosting with Bud Collyer the NBC daytime game show Feather Your Nest.

Austin Campbell Pendleton is an American actor, playwright, theatre director and instructor. He is a Tony Award nominee and the recipient of Drama Desk and Obie Awards.

John Henry Diehl is an American character actor. Noted for his work in avant-garde theater, Diehl has performed in more than 140 films and television shows, including Land of Plenty, Stripes, Nixon, Jurassic Park III and the TV series Miami Vice, The Shield and Point Pleasant.

Chrystee Pharris is an American actress, best known for her role as Simone Russell on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions.

Vicki Lewis is an American singer and actress of film, stage, and television. She is best known for her role as Beth in the NBC sitcom NewsRadio.

Harvey Samuel Firestone was an American businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires.

James Jacob Ritty, saloonkeeper and inventor, opened his first saloon in Dayton, Ohio in 1871, billing himself as a "Dealer in Pure Whiskies, Fine Wines, and Cigars." Some of Ritty's employees would take the customers' money that was meant to pay for the food, drink, and other wares. In 1878 while on a steamboat trip to Europe, Ritty became intrigued by a mechanism that counted how many times the ship's propeller went around. He wondered whether something such as this could be made to record the cash transactions made at his saloon.

George Tryon Harding, known as Tryon Harding, was an American physician and businessman who is best known as the father of Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States. Harding was named in honor of his grandfather; however, he did not use "Jr." or the suffix "II" in his adult life. He was the first presidential father to outlive his son, and the second presidential father to live through his son's presidency. In his biography of Warren G. Harding, Charles L. Mee describes Tryon Harding as "a small, idle, shiftless, impractical, lazy, daydreaming, catnapping fellow whose eye was always on the main chance".