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Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
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Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
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  • Steven Adler
    Steven Adler

    Steven Adler is a well known United States rock drummer. He is most famous for his tenure as a member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he performed and recorded from 1985 to 1990....
  • Corey Allen
    Corey Allen

    Corey Allen is an United States film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director....
  • Ray Anthony
    Ray Anthony

    Ray Anthony is an United States bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.As a child Anthony moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he began studying the trumpet with his father....
  • Albert Ayler
    Albert Ayler

    Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz Saxophone, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved by using the stiff plastic Fibrecane...
  • Avant
    Avant

    Myron Avant , better known simply as Avant is a multi-platinum United States R&B singer. Avant, despite some rumours is in no way related to the famed R&B singer, R....


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  • Jim Backus
    Jim Backus

    James Gilmore Backus was a radio, television, film actor, character actor, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of "Mr. Magoo," the rich "Hubert Updike, III," of the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis' husband on TV's I Married Joan, James Dean's father in Rebel Without a Cause and "Thurston Howell, III" on the...
  • Rodney Bailey
  • Kaye Ballard
    Kaye Ballard

    Actress Kaye Ballard, also credited as Kay Ballard was born as Catherine Gloria Balotta on November 20 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, to an Italy immigrant father....
  • Brian Michael Bendis
    Brian Michael Bendis

    Brian Michael Bendis is an United States comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim for his self-published, and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics, with his books selling consistently highly for nearly a decade....
  • LeCharles Bentley
    LeCharles Bentley

    LeCharles Vernon Bentley is a former American football Center of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft....
  • Halle Berry
    Halle Berry

    Halle Berry is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African-American descent to have won the a...
  • Earl Billings
    Earl Billings

    Earl William Billings is an American character actor who may best be known as Rob in the 1976-1977 television series What's Happening!!....
  • David Birney
    David Birney

    David Birney is an United States actor. He was born in Washington, D.C. and is an award-winning actor/director whose career has embraced a substantial list of performances in both contemporary and classical roles in theatre, film and television....
  • Bizzy Bone
    Bizzy Bone

    Bryon Anthony McCane II, better known by his stage name Bizzy Bone, is a United States rapper and is a member of the Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony....
  • Nina Blackwood
    Nina Blackwood

    Nina Blackwood is an United States disc jockey and music journalist, who was the first of the original five MTV VJs. She has also been an actress and Model ....
  • Hanne Blank
    Hanne Blank

    Hanne Blank Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Hanne Blank is a historian, writer, editor and public speaker. She has also edited and written erotica but is retired from that genre....
  • Earl Boykins
    Earl Boykins

    Earl Antoine Boykins is an United States professional basketball player. He has played in the National Basketball Association during his career....
  • Jim Brickman
    Jim Brickman

    Jim Brickman is an United States composer and pianist. Brickman is known for his solo piano compositions, which are classified as New Age music, although the diversity of his music makes Brickman skeptical of this classification....
  • Jim Brown
    Jim Brown

    James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown is an United States former professional American football player who has also made his mark as an actor and social activist....
  • Charles Brush
  • Eliza Bryant
    Eliza Bryant

    Eliza Simmons Bryant was an United States Humanitarianism. She was the daughter of a freed slave and helped former slaves as a benefactor after the American Civil War....
    , (1827-May 13, 1907), humanitarian


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  • Anthony O. Calabrese Jr.
    Anthony O. Calabrese Jr.

    Anthony Orlando Calabrese Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is an Ohio state court judge of the United States Republican Party party.Calabrese attended Benedictine High School in Cleveland and earned a bachelor's degree from John Carroll University....
  • Drew Carey
    Drew Carey

    Drew Allison Carey is an United States comedian, actor, and game show host. After serving in the United States Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own Situation comedy, The Drew Carey Show, and serving as host on the U.S....
  • Mary Carey
  • Eric Carmen
    Eric Carmen

    Eric Howard Carmen is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.His greatest success came in the 1970s, first as a member of The Raspberries , then with his solo career, including hits like "All By Myself" and "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"....
  • Wynona Carr
    Wynona Carr

    Wynona Merceris Carr was an African-American gospel music, rhythm & blues and rock & roll singer/songwriter, who recorded as "Sister" Wynona Carr when doing gospel material....
  • Drew Carter
    Drew Carter

    Christopher Drew Carter is an American football wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the fifth round of the 2004 NFL Draft....
  • William Case
    William Case

    William Case was an United States of America politician of the United States Republican Party and served as the 12th List of Mayors of Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio from 1850 and 1851....
  • Ray Cash
    Ray Cash

    Ray Cash is an United States rapper from Cleveland, Ohio. Cash started his music career in the 2000s....
  • Chris Chambers
    Chris Chambers

    Christopher J. Chambers is an American football wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft....
  • Tracy Chapman
    Tracy Chapman

    Tracy Chapman is an United States singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason", "New Beginning " and "Telling Stories"....
  • Charles Chesnutt
  • Gilby Clarke
    Gilby Clarke

    Gilby Clarke is a guitarist and record producer, born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 17, 1962. He spent his childhood playing with musical instruments and neglecting school....
  • Tim Conway
    Tim Conway

    Thomas Daniel Conway, known professionally as Tim Conway , is an American comedian and Emmy award winning actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television....
  • Tom Cousineau
    Tom Cousineau

    Tom Cousineau is a former American Football linebacker who played six seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers from 1982 to 1987....
  • Franklin Cover
    Franklin Cover

    Franklin Edward Cover was an United States actor most noted for starring on the sitcom The Jeffersons. His character, List of The Jeffersons supporting characters#Tom Willis, was half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time television....
  • Wes Craven
    Wes Craven

    Wesley Earl Craven is an United States film director and screenwriter, perhaps best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street series featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character and as the director of the Scream ....
  • Susan Crile
    Susan Crile

    Susan Crile is an artist, primarily a Painting and printmaker. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions, and her work is in the collections of the Solomon R....
  • Catalina Cruz
    Catalina Cruz

    Catalina Cruz , born in Cleveland, Ohio, is an United States pornographic actress....
  • Ben Curtis
    Ben Curtis (golfer)

    Ben Clifford Curtis is an United States professional golfer best known for winning the 2003 The Open Championship.Curtis was born in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio and grew up in Ostrander, Ohio, Ohio....
  • Harvey Cushing
    Harvey Cushing

    Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgery and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is widely regarded as the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century and often called the "father of modern neurosurgery"....
  • Delbert Cowsette
    Delbert Cowsette

    Delbert Raymond Cowsette is a free agent American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. He was originally NFL Draft in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL Draft out of the University of Maryland, College Park by the Washington Redskins....


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  • William H. Daniels
    William H. Daniels

    William H. Daniels, A.S.C. was an Academy Award-winning film cinematographer best known as Greta Garbo's personal lensman. He worked regularly with director Erich von Stroheim....
  • Khashyar Darvich
    Khashyar Darvich

    Khashyar Darvich is a documentary film producer and director. He directed a documentary film about the Dalai Lama entitled "Dalai Lama Renaissance," which is narrated by actor Harrison Ford....
  • Ed Delahanty
    Ed Delahanty

    Edward James Delahanty , nicknamed "Big Ed", was a Baseball Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player from 1888 to 1903 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Infants and Washington Senators , and was known as one of the early great power hitters in the game....
  • Dorothy Dandridge
    Dorothy Dandridge

    Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an United States actress and popular singer. Dandridge was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress....
  • Ruby Dee
    Ruby Dee

    Ruby Dee is an Academy Award nominated American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activism....
  • Donald DeFreeze
    Donald DeFreeze

    Donald David DeFreeze , aka Cinque Mtume, was the leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army, an United States revolutionary group operating in the mid-1970s, under the nom de guerre "Field Marshal Cinque."...
  • Cheri Dennis
    Cheri Dennis

    Cheri Dennis is an United States singer, signed to Bad Boy Records.Cheri Dennis was born in 1979 and raised in a housing projects of Cleveland, Ohio....
  • Dominic Dieter
    Rover's Morning Glory

    Rover?s Morning Glory is a syndicated talk radio program hosted by Shane ?Rover? French. It airs live Monday through Friday from 6 AM to 11 AM ET....
  • Charles Dolan
    Charles Dolan

    Charles Francis "Chuck" Dolan is an American business executive. He was the founder of HBO and is best known as the owner of Cablevision , a large cable television operator in the New York City area, which also owns Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and several sports teams....
  • Larry Dolan
    Larry Dolan

    Lawrence J. "Larry" Dolan is an attorney and owner of the Cleveland Indians. He has three brothers, Charles ; Bill and; David who died in a glider plane crash in 1980....
  • Phil Donahue
    Phil Donahue

    Phillip John "Phil" Donahue is an Emmy award winning American media personality and writer, best known as the creator and star of The Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, the first tabloid talk show....
  • Stephen R. Donaldson
    Stephen R. Donaldson

    Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an United States fantasy fiction, science fiction and Mystery fiction novelist. He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and master's degree from Kent State University....
  • Mike Douglas
    Mike Douglas

    Mike Douglas, born Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr. , was an United States entertainer....
  • Herbert H. Dow
  • Keir Dullea
    Keir Dullea

    Keir Dullea is an United States actor perhaps best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman he portrayed in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 1984's 2010 as well as in the cult film Bunny Lake is Missing....


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  • Mike Easler
    Mike Easler

    Michael Anthony Easler is a former Major League Baseball outfielder with a 14 year career from 1973 to 1987 and is a minor league hitting instructor for the Los Angeles Dodgers....
  • Harlan Ellison
    Harlan Ellison

    Harlan Jay Ellison is a prolific United States writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism. His literary and television work has received many awards....
  • Joe Eszterhas
    Joe Eszterhas

    Josef Eszterhas is a Hungary-United States screenwriter, best known for his work on the pulp fiction erotica films Basic Instinct and Showgirls....


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  • Ed Feighan
    Ed Feighan

    Edward F. Feighan is an United States politician, popularly known as Ed Feighan. He served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and as a Democratic Party Party U.S....
  • Bob Feller
    Bob Feller

    Robert William Andrew "Bob" Feller , nicknamed the "Heater from Van Meter" and "Rapid Robert", is an United States former Major League Baseball pitcher....
  • Rich Fields
    Rich Fields

    Richard Wayne "Rich" Fields is an United States broadcaster and meteorology, best known for being the announcer of the American television game show The Price Is Right ....
  • Flesh-N-Bone
    Flesh-n-Bone

    Stanley Howse, better known as Flesh-N-Bone, is a member of the rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. He is the brother of Layzie Bone and cousin of Wish Bone.He was also the first member of the group to release a solo album entitled T.H.U.G.S....
  • London Fletcher
    London Fletcher

    London Levi Fletcher-Baker is an American football linebacker who currently plays for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League....
  • Miriam Flynn
    Miriam Flynn

    Miriam Flynn is an United States voice artist and character actor. She is best known as Cousin Catherine in the National Lampoon's Vacation franchise....
  • Alan Freed
    Alan Freed

    Alan Freed , also known as Moondog, was an United States disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll....
  • Benny Friedman
    Benny Friedman

    Benjamin "Benny" Friedman was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan , Cleveland Bulldogs , Detroit , New York Giants , and Brooklyn Dodgers ....
  • Dorothy Fuldheim
    Dorothy Fuldheim

    Dorothy Fuldheim was an United States journalist and news presenter.Fuldheim has a role in United States television news history; she is credited with being the first woman in the United States to news presenter a television news broadcast as well to host her own television show....


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  • Danny Garcia
    Danny Garcia

    Daniel Joseph Garcia is a free agent Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the New York Mets in and .In , with the New York Yankees Triple-A affiliate, the Columbus Clippers, Garcia Batting average .242, with 3 home runs, and 39 Run batted in....
  • James A. Garfield
  • Teri Garr
    Teri Garr

    Terry Ann "Teri" Garr is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian....
  • Sonny Geraci
    Sonny Geraci

    Sonny Geraci is an United States musician and singer, best known as the former lead singer of musical groups The Outsiders and Climax .Geraci first became known as the original lead vocalist with The Outsiders, a band from Cleveland, Ohio....
  • Ted Ginn Jr.
  • Willie Gilbert
    Willie Gilbert

    Willie Gilbert was an American author and playwright.Born William Gomberg in Cleveland, Ohio, Gilbert's proclivity for creating gags emerged as the humor writer for the Glenville High School Torch on which he worked alongside future playwright Jerome Lawrence and the creators of Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster....
  • Lillian Gish
    Lillian Gish

    Lillian Diana Gish , was an United States stage, screen and television actor whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W....
  • Donald A. Glaser
    Donald A. Glaser

    Donald Arthur Glaser , is an United States physicist, neurobiologist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his invention of the bubble chamber....
  • Jim Glover
    Jim Glover

    Jim R. Glover is a long-time peace activist and folk music from Cleveland, Ohio, who currently lives in Brandon, Florida.Jim was part of the 1960s folk music duo Jim and Jean, along with Jean Ray , and they performed and recorded music from the early 1960s to the late 1960s....
  • Carlin Glynn
    Carlin Glynn

    Carlin Glynn is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Mary Stuart Masterson.Glynn made her Broadway theatre debut as "Mona Stangley" in the original cast of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas....
  • Bob Golic
    Bob Golic

    Robert Perry "Bob" Golic is a former National Football League defensive tackle who played for the New England Patriots , Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Raiders in the National Football League....
  • Mike Golic
    Mike Golic

    Michael Louis "Mike" Golic , is a co-host of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning and a former defensive lineman in the National Football League....
  • Elvis Grbac
    Elvis Grbac

    Elvis M. Grbac is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. During his career he was a Starting lineup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Baltimore Ravens....
  • Joel Grey
    Joel Grey

    Joel Grey is a Tony Award-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, & Academy Award-winning American stage and screen actor known best for his role as the Emcee in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret ....
  • Dorian Gregory
    Dorian Gregory

    Dorian Gregory is an United States actor most notable for playing Darryl Morris on the television show Charmed, and as the fourth and final permanent host of Soul Train, replacing Shemar Moore....
  • Tom Griswold
    Tom Griswold

    Thomas "Tom" Bruce Griswold co-hosts the radio The BOB & TOM Show together with Bob Kevoian, Kristi Lee, and Chick McGee. This comedy-based early morning program is among the highest rated in American radio and has been nationally Radio syndication since 1995....
  • DeJuan Groce
    DeJuan Groce

    DeJuan Anthony Groce is an American football cornerback in the National Football League who is a free agent.Groce attended St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio, and was a letterman in football and Athletics ....
  • Gordon Gund
    Gordon Gund

    Gordon Gund is the former principal owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers, a co-owner of the San Jose Sharks National Hockey League team, and remains the CEO of Gund Investment Corporation and a minority owner of the Cavaliers....


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  • Imani Hakim
    Imani Hakim

    Imani A. Hakim is an United States Child actor. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her father and two brothers.She plays Tonya Rock in The CW's hit comedy Everybody Hates Chris....
  • Arsenio Hall
    Arsenio Hall

    Arsenio Hall is an American actor, comedian, and former talk show host. He is best known for his talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show, which ran between 1989 and 1994....
  • Margaret Hamilton
    Margaret Hamilton

    Margaret Hamilton was an United States film actress best known for her portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz ....
    , actress, The Wicked Witch of the West
    Wicked Witch of the West

    The Wicked Witch of the West is a fictional character in the fictional Land of Oz created by United States author L. Frank Baum in his children's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz....
     in The Wizard of Oz
    The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

    The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States musical film-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 Children's literature novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L....
  • Marcus Hanna
  • Greg Harbaugh
  • Steve Harvey
    Steve Harvey

    Broderick Steven "Steve" Harvey is an United States comedian, actor, entertainer, and radio personality. best known as the star of the The WB Television Network sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy....
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins
    Screamin' Jay Hawkins

    Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins was an African-American singer. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You" and "Constipation Blues," Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him perhaps the first shock rocker....
  • Patricia Heaton
    Patricia Heaton

    Patricia Helen Heaton is a two-time Emmy Award-winning United States actress best known for playing lead character and Ray Barone's wife Debra Barone on the CBS television sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond....
  • Anne Heche
    Anne Heche

    Anne Celeste Heche is an United States actor, film director and screenwriter....
  • John Heisman
    John Heisman

    John William Heisman was a prominent American football player and college football coach in the early era of the sport and is the namesake of the Heisman Trophy awarded annually to the season's best college football player....
  • Kim Herring
    Kim Herring

    Kimani 'Kim' Masai Herring is an American football Defensive back in the National Football League, currently a free agent....
  • Alphonso Hodge
    Alphonso Hodge

    Alphonso Hodge is a professional gridiron football defensive back for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was originally drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League in the fifth-round of the 2005 NFL Draft....
  • Hal Holbrook
    Hal Holbrook

    Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an United States actor. He is best known for his appearances in several TV series, such as Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt....
  • Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
    , actor/comedian
  • Desmond Howard
    Desmond Howard

    Desmond Kevin Howard is a former American football wide receiver, punt returner, and kickoff returner in the National Football League.He played for the Washington Redskins , Jacksonville Jaguars , Green Bay Packers , Oakland Raiders and Detroit Lions ....
  • Terrence Howard
    Terrence Howard

    'Terrence Dashon Howard' is an Academy Award-nominated actor, singer and rapper. Having appeared in film and on television since the late 1980s, Howard had his first major role in the 1995 film Mr....
  • Andy Hrovat
    Andy Hrovat

    Andy Hrovat is a wrestler who specializes in freestyle wrestling. He wrestled in the 2008 Olympic Games....
  • Langston Hughes
    Langston Hughes

    James Mercer Langston Hughes, was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance....
  • Ross Hunter
    Ross Hunter

    Ross Hunter was a Hollywood film producer....


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  • Philip Johnson
    Philip Johnson

    Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades....
  • Joe Jurevicius
    Joe Jurevicius

    Joseph Michael Jurevicius is an American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was NFL Draft by the New York Giants in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft....


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  • Jack Kahl
  • Sean Kanan
    Sean Kanan

    Sean Kanan is the stage name of Sean Perelman , an United States actor....
  • Carol Kane
    Carol Kane

    Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane is an Academy Award-nominated , two-time Emmy-winning United States Actor, known for her work on theatre, film and television....
  • Sammy Kaye
    Sammy Kaye

    Sammy Kaye was a famous United States bandleader and songwriter, whose tag line "Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye" became one of the most famous of the so-called Big Band Era....
  • Don King
  • Krayzie Bone
    Krayzie Bone

    Anthony Henderson better known as Krayzie Bone, is a two-time Grammy Award-winning artist and member of the rap/hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony....
  • Dennis Kucinich
    Dennis Kucinich

    Dennis John Kucinich is a United States Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives and was a candidate for the Democratic National Convention in the U.S....


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  • Ryan Lambert
  • Dale Launer
    Dale Launer

    Dale Launer is an United States comedy screenwriter. His best known films include Ruthless People, Blind Date , Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and My Cousin Vinny....
    , screenwriter
  • Frank Lausche
  • Jerome Lawrence
    Jerome Lawrence

    Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright and author.Born Jerome Schwartz in Cleveland, Ohio, he worked for several small newspapers as a reporter/editor before moving into radio as a writer for CBS....
  • Layzie Bone
    Layzie Bone

    Steven Howse, better known by his stage name of Layzie Bone,and since his 2001 debut album Thug By Nature he also went by the name L-Burna....
  • Hal Lebovitz
    Hal Lebovitz

    Hal Lebovitz was a longtime sportswriter and award-winning columnist. He was a fixture on Cleveland, Ohio's sports scene for more than six decades....
  • Mike Lebowitz
    Mike Lebowitz

    Michael J. Lebowitz is an award-winning international journalist, as well as a noted Washington, DC attorney and expert in the field of military law and Military Expression....
  • Gerald Levert
    Gerald Levert

    Gerald Levert was an United States Contemporary R&B singer. Gerald Levert sang with his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon in the R&B trio LeVert....
  • D. A. Levy
    D. A. Levy

    d.a. levy , born Darryl Allan Levy, was an United States List of poets, artist, and alternative publisher active during the 1960s, based in Cleveland, Ohio....
  • Peter B. Lewis
  • Dwight Little
  • Frank Lockhart
    Frank Lockhart

    Frank Lockhart was an United States automobile auto racing driver, and Indianapolis 500 winner, and considered a Legend in the sport by many historians....
  • Steve Logan
    Steve Logan

    Steve Deontay Logan is an American professional basketball player. He played with the University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball....
  • Jim Lovell
    Jim Lovell

    James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., is a former NASA astronaut and a former Captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered an explosion en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control....
  • G. David Low
    G. David Low

    George David Low was an United States aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut....
  • Greg Lowe


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  • The Miz
    Mike Mizanin

    Michael "Mike" Mizanin better known by his ring name The Miz, is an United States Professional wrestling signed to World Wrestling Entertainment on its Extreme Championship Wrestling WWE Brand Extension, and also makes appearances on WWE Friday Night SmackDown and WWE Raw where he is one half of the World Tag Team Championship with...
  • M-Dogg 20
  • Diane McBain
    Diane McBain

    Diane McBain is an United States actress who, as a Warner Bros.#New owners contract player, reached a brief peak of popularity during the early 1960s....
  • Timm McCoy
  • Michael McElroy
    Michael McElroy (actor)

    Michael McElroy is an United States musical theatre actor, singer and music director.Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, McElroy moved to New York City in May 1990 after earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Carnegie Mellon University....
  • Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
  • Burgess Meredith
    Burgess Meredith

    Oliver Burgess Meredith , known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was a versatile two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor. He was known for portraying Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky films and Penguin in the television series Batman , amongst many other roles....
    , actor, The Penguin
    Penguin (comics)

    The Penguin , a DC Comics supervillain, was introduced by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, making his debut in Detective Comics #58 ....
     on TV's Batman
    Batman (TV series)

    Batman is a 1960s United States television series, based on the DC Comics comic book Batman. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for two and a half seasons from January 12, 1966 in television to March 14, 1968 in television....
  • Howard Metzenbaum
    Howard Metzenbaum

    Howard Morton Metzenbaum was an United States of America politician who served for almost 20 years as a Democratic Party member of the United States Senate from Ohio ....
  • Garrett Morgan
  • Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison , is a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic poetry themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon , and Beloved , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988...


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  • Nick Nemeth
    Nick Nemeth

    Nicholas Theodore "Nick" Nemeth is an United States Professional wrestling, currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment under the name Dolph Ziggler on the WWE Raw brand....
  • Paul Newman
    Paul Newman

    Paul Leonard Newman was an United States actor, film director, entrepreneur, Humanitarianism, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations three Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a...
    , actor
  • Chuck Noll
    Chuck Noll

    Charles Henry Noll is a former professional American football player and coach and now works in the steelers front office as Administration Advisor, most notably the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League from 1969 to 1991....
  • Andre Norton
    Andre Norton

    Andre Alice Norton was an USA science fiction and fantasy author . Born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio, she published her first novel in 1934, was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the SFWA in 1983....


O

  • Terrence O'Donnell
    Terrence O'Donnell

    Terrence O'Donnell is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio of the U.S. state of Ohio.He serveddd as a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, common pleas court judge for 15 years until 1994, when he ran for a seat on the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Eighth District against former Ohio Chief Justice Frank Celebrezze....
  • Charles Oakley
    Charles Oakley

    Charles Oakley is an United States retired professional basketball player who played Power forward in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors, Washington Wizards and Houston Rockets....
  • Susan Orlean
    Susan Orlean

    Susan Orlean is an United Statesn journalist whose feature writing drolly but affectionately considers "softer" subjects than some of those covered by her colleagues....
  • Jesse Owens
    Jesse Owens

    James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an United States Athletics athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 metres relay team....


P

  • Lawanda Page
    LaWanda Page

    LaWanda Page, born Alberta Peal was an United States actress, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Esther Anderson in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son....
  • Paul Palnik
    Paul Palnik

    Paul Palnik is a Jewish-United States artist, writer and educator.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Palnik introduced kabbalistic, spiritual themes, into his cartoons in the 1980s-1990s His cartoons could be described as equal parts graphic design, drawing, and literature....
  • Robert Patrick
    Robert Patrick

    Robert Patrick is a Saturn Award-winning United States film and television actor. His best known roles include John Doggett in The X-Files, Ray Cash in Walk the Line, Tom Ryan in The Unit and the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, a character that became a staple of popular culture....
  • Gary Patterson
    Gary Patterson

    Gary Patterson is the head coach of the TCU Horned Frogs football college football team. He played football at Dodge City Community College and Kansas State Wildcats football....
  • Ruben Patterson
    Ruben Patterson

    Ruben Nathaniel Patterson is an United States professional basketball player. He was signed by the Los Angeles Clippers after playing the final year of a six-year contract with the Milwaukee Bucks....
  • Harvey Pekar
    Harvey Pekar

    Harvey Lawrence Pekar is an Underground comics writer best known for his autobiographical American Splendor series.In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the American Splendor ....
  • Dav Pilkey
    Dav Pilkey

    David "Dav" Pilkey , is a popular children's literature author and artist. Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series....
  • Terry Pluto
    Terry Pluto

    Terry Pluto is an award-winning sportswriting who primarily writes columns for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and formerly for the Akron Beacon Journal about Cleveland, Ohio sports and religion....
  • James Posey
    James Posey

    James Mikely Mantell Posey, Jr. is an United States professional basketball player, currently a small forward for the New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association....
  • Monica Potter
    Monica Potter

    Monica Potter is an United States film and television Actor....


R

  • Raz-B (DeMario Thornton)
    Raz-B

    De'Mario Monte Thornton, better known by his stage name Raz-B is an United States singing and actor, most famous for being a member of contemporary R&B boy band B2K....
  • Marge Redmond
    Marge Redmond

    Marge Redmond is an United States actress. Redmond was the first wife of actor Jack Weston, with whom she developed her acting craft at the Cleveland Play House in the 1950s....
  • Trent Reznor
    Trent Reznor

    Trent Reznor is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He operates under the studio name Nine Inch Nails, and was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm , among others....
  • Bumper Robinson
    Bumper Robinson

    Larry Clarence "Bumper" Robinson II is an African American actor and voice actor. Robinson got his nickname because he repeatedly bumped into things while running through his home as a young child....
  • John D. Rockefeller
    John D. Rockefeller

    John Davison Rockefeller was an United States industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy....
  • Alan Ruck
    Alan Ruck

    Alan Ruck is an United States stage, television and film actor....
  • Michael Rupp
    Michael Rupp

    Michael "Mike" Rupp is a professional Ice Hockey currently with the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League....
  • Anthony Russo
  • Joe Russo
    Joe Russo

    Joe Russo may refer to:*Joe Russo , American film and television director*Joe Russo , an American jazz/rock drummer*Joe Russo an American racecar driver active in the 1930s...


S

  • Scott Savol
    Scott Savol

    Scott Thomas Savol is an United States singer and was the 5th place finalist on the American Idol of American Idol....
  • Jen Schefft
  • Ron Sega
  • Molly Shannon
    Molly Shannon

    Molly Helen Shannon is an American actress, comedienne and writer. She is best known for her work as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1995-2001, and is currently starring on the NBC sitcom Kath & Kim ....
  • Sam Sheppard
    Sam Sheppard

    Samuel Holmes Sheppard was an United States Osteopathic medicine involved in a famous and controversial murder trial when he was convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard....
  • Henry Sherwin
    Henry Sherwin

    Henry Sherwin was one of the two founders of the Sherwin-Williams Company in 1866. The Company was created in part by both Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams...
  • Don Shula
    Don Shula

    Donald Francis Shula is a former professional American football coach for the National Football League. He is best known as coach of the Miami Dolphins, the team he led to two Super Bowl victories, and to the National Football League first and only post-AFL/NFL merger Perfect Season....
  • Joe Shuster
    Joe Shuster

    Joseph "Joe" Shuster was a Canada-born American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics fictional character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, first published in Action Comics #1 ....
    , co-creator of Superman
    Superman

    Superman is a Character , a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, and sold to DC Comics in 1938, the character first appeared in Action Comics Action Comics 1 and subseque...
  • Jerry Siegel
    Jerry Siegel

    Jerome "Jerry" Siegel , who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S. Fine, was the American co-creator of Superman , the first of the great comic book superheroes and one of the most recognizable fictional characters of the 20th century....
    , co-creator of Superman
    Superman

    Superman is a Character , a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, and sold to DC Comics in 1938, the character first appeared in Action Comics Action Comics 1 and subseque...
  • Ruth Simpson
    Ruth Simpson

    Ruth Simpson was the founder of the United States' first lesbian community center, an author, and former president of Daughters of Bilitis, New York....
  • Eric Singer
    Eric Singer

    Eric Doyle Mensinger , better known as Eric Singer, is a Hard rock and Heavy metal music drummer for the rock band Kiss and singer Alice Cooper....
  • Troy Smith
    Troy Smith

    Troy Smith is an American football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was a former starting quarterback#Dual threat quarterbacks for Ohio State Buckeyes football team from 2004-2006 and the winner of the 2006 Heisman Trophy....
  • Tris Speaker
    Tris Speaker

    Tristram E. Speaker , nicknamed ?Spoke? and ?Grey Eagle? , was an United States Major League Baseball player known as one of the best offensive and defensive center fielders in history....
  • Michael Stanley
    Michael Stanley

    Michael Stanley is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, and disc jockey. Both as a solo artist and with the Michael Stanley Band, his brand of heartland rock was popular in Cleveland and around the American Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s....
  • George Steinbrenner III
    George Steinbrenner

    George Michael Steinbrenner III is an United States billionaire businessman, and owner and the former principal executive of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees....
  • Carl B. Stokes
    Carl B. Stokes

    Carl Burton Stokes was an United States of America politician of the United States Democratic Party who served as the 51st List of Mayors of Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio....
  • Louis Stokes
    Louis Stokes

    Louis Stokes is a United States Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives.Born in Cleveland, Stokes and his brother Carl B....
  • Vernon Stouffer
    Vernon Stouffer

    Vernon B. Stouffer, owned a national chain of restaurants, motor inns, and food-service operations and the Cleveland Indians from 1966-72. He played a key part in developing frozen foods and microwavable foods....
  • Michael Symon
    Michael Symon

    Michael Symon is an Iron Chef and the owner and Chef#Executive chef of the restaurants Lola and Lolita, both in Cleveland, Ohio. He was one of the rotating hosts of Food Network show Melting Pot, and appeared on Sara's Secrets with Sara Moulton, Ready, Set, Cook and FoodNation with Bobby Flay....


T

  • Jim Tocco
    Jim Tocco

    Jim Tocco was a Minor league baseball baseball announcer who is now working in marketing. Tocco grew up in North Olmsted, Ohio and attended North Olmsted City School District, Cuyahoga County, Ohio before moving on to Bowling Green State University, where he graduated with a B.A....
  • Joseph Trohman
  • Julia Tuttle
    Julia Tuttle

    Julia DeForest Tuttle, was an entrepeneur and businesswoman who was largely responsible for, and the original owner of, much of the land upon which the city of Miami, Florida, was developed....


V

  • Sander Vanocur
    Sander Vanocur

    Sander Vanocur, born January 8 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an United States journalist.In 1950, he earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the Northwestern University School of Speech....
  • George Voinovich
    George Voinovich

    George Victor Voinovich is the Senate seniority United States Senate from the U.S. state of Ohio, and a member of the Republican Party . Previously, he served as the 65th List of Governors of Ohio from 1991 to 1998, and as the 54th List of mayors of Cleveland, Ohio of Cleveland, Ohio from 1980 to 1989....


W

  • Joe Walsh
    Joe Walsh

    Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an United States guitarist, songwriter, and rock musician. He has been a member of three successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm , and The Eagles....
  • Carl Walz (astronaut) (Cleveland)
  • Lew Wasserman
    Lew Wasserman

    Lewis Robert Wasserman was an American talent agent and studio executive credited with first creating and then taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades....
  • Mary Ellen Weber
  • Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland

    Not to be confused with Scott WeingerScott Weiland is an United States musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notably known for his work with Grammy Award-winning United States rock band Stone Temple Pilots , and also for his five-year career with Supergroup Velvet Revolver....
  • Tom Weiskopf
    Tom Weiskopf

    Thomas Daniel Weiskopf is an United States golfer who was most successful in the 1970s.Weiskopf was born in Massillon, Ohio. He attended Benedictine High School and The Ohio State University and turned professional in 1964....
  • Bill Wertz
    Bill Wertz

    William Charles Wertz is an United States former Major League Baseball player. A pitcher, Wertz played for the Cleveland Indians in and . He played college baseball at Ohio State University....
  • Jack Weston
    Jack Weston

    Jack Weston was an United States film, stage, and television actor.Weston usually played comic roles in films such as Cactus Flower and Please Don't Eat the Daisies , but also occasionally essayed heavier parts, such as the scheming crook and stalker who, along with Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna, attempts to terrorize and rob a bl...
  • Michael R. White
    Michael R. White

    Michael R. White is an United States of America politician of the United States Democratic Party party and was the 55th and longest-serving List of Mayors of Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio encompassing three four-year terms, from 1990 to 2002....
  • Kym Whitley
    Kym Whitley

    Kym Elizabeth Whitley is an United States actress and comedienne.Whitley was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio and graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee....
  • Donte Whitner
    Donte Whitner

    Donte Whitner is an American football Safety who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Bills in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft....
  • Archibald Willard
  • Fred Willard
    Fred Willard

    Fred Willard is an American comedian and actor known for his improvisational comedy skills. He is best known for his roles in the Christopher Guest mockumentary films This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show , and A Mighty Wind....
  • Aaron Williams
    Aaron Williams (boxer)

    Aaron Williams is a US-American boxing....
  • Jawad Williams
    Jawad Williams

    Jawad Hason Williams is an United States professional basketball player who is currently a free agent He played high school basketball at St. Edward High School of Lakewood, Ohio, Ohio and collegiately for the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball....
  • Debra Winger
    Debra Winger

    Debra Winger is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
  • Alexander Winton
  • Wish Bone
  • Bobby Womack
    Bobby Womack

    Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40 years and has spanned a repertoire in the style...
  • Cecil Womack
    Cecil Womack

    Cecil D. Womack is one of the famous musical Womack brothers. Although lesser known than his elder brother Bobby Womack, he has had some success both as a songwriter and musician....
  • Pierre Woods
    Pierre Woods

    Pierre Woods is an American football linebacker for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. Woods made the Patriots' 53-man roster as a rookie free agent out of the University of Michigan....


Y

  • Frank Yankovic
  • Cy Young
    Cy Young

    Denton True "Cy" Young was an American baseball player who Pitch for five different professional baseball teams from 1890 to 1911.During his 22-year career, Young recorded numerous professional pitcher records in Major League Baseball, some of which have stood for a century....


Z

  • Joe Zelenka
    Joe Zelenka

    Joseph John Zelenka is an American football long snapper for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. He was signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 1999....


Groups

  • Mushroomhead
    Mushroomhead

    Mushroomhead is a metal music ensemble from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in Cleveland's Warehouse District, the band?s music can be described as a synthesis of Alternative music, Heavy metal music, and electro-industrial influences....
    , a heavy metal
    Heavy metal music

    Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
     band
  • all five members of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
    Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

    Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is an United States hip hop group from the Glenville, Cleveland section of Cleveland, Ohio. They are best known for their fast-paced, aggressive rapping style and harmonizing vocals....
    , a rap
    Hip hop music

    Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
     group
  • all six members of Chimaira
    Chimaira

    Chimaira is an American heavy metal music band from Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, formed in 1998. The band is a notable band in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal....
    , a heavy metal
    Heavy metal music

    Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
     band
  • all eleven members of Dazz Band
    Dazz Band

    The Dazz Band is a former United States funk music band that was most popular in the early 1980s. Emerging from Cleveland, Ohio, the group's biggest hit songs include the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals-winning "Let It Whip" , "Joystick " , and "Let It All Blow" ....
     a funk
    Funk

    Funk is an United States Music genre that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music....
     band
  • The O'Jays
    The O'Jays

    The O'Jays are a Cleveland Ohio-based soul/R&B group, originally consisting of Walter Williams , Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, William Powell and Eddie Levert ....
    , hall of fame R&B group founders Eddie Levert
    Eddie Levert

    Eddie Levert is an United States singer, and is the lead vocalist of the soul music/funk/R&B vocal group, The O'Jays.Levert was born in Bessemer, Alabama, Alabama, but was raised in Canton, Ohio, Ohio....
     and Walter Williams
    Walter Williams

    Walter Williams may refer to:* Walter Williams , best known as the Saturday Night Live writer who created Mr. Bill* Walter Williams , founder of the Missouri School of Journalism...
    .
  • Old Grandma Hardcore
    Old Grandma Hardcore

    Barbara St. Hilaire, better known by her nickname Old Grandma Hardcore is an United States citizen from Mantua, Ohio. She has become best known for her interest in video games and her excessive preoccupation with them even at her "high" age of 71....
     (Barbara St. Hilaire)
  • Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails

    Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock music group, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. As its main Producer , singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction....
  • The Raspberries
    The Raspberries

    Raspberries are a power pop/rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, United States. They had a brief run of success in the 1970s with Beatleesque songs, recalling the heyday of the 1960's "British Invasion"....
    , 1970's band: smash hit "Go All the Way"


See also

  • Notable Cleveland politicians
    Notable Cleveland politicians

    Notable politicians from the city of Cleveland, Ohio:* John W. Willey was the first mayor of Cleveland from 1836 to 1837. Willey, an expert Jacksonian democracy, was also a prominent jurist and a land developer who played a part in the early battles between Cleveland and Ohio City....
  • List of mayors of Cleveland, Ohio
  • List of people from Ohio
    List of people from Ohio

    The following is a list of famous people born in Ohio and people who spent significant periods of their lives living in Ohio....