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Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946), commonly referred to as Steven Spielberg, is a highly famous, enormously influential, three-time Academy Award winning American film director and producer who is one of the most prominent figures from the world of cinema and whose very name has become synonymous with the word 'film director' around the globe.
Spielberg is seen as putting together such a popular body of work that to date has never been done by any other director or producer. In a career that spans almost four decades, Spielberg has touched many diversified themes proving that a director's eye is not confined to some particular material. During the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, three of his films: Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park became the highest grossing films for their time and had huge impact on popular culture around the world. Later in the 90s, after the release of Jurassic Park and Schindler's List, Spielberg took a four year break from filmmaking to spend more time with his family and more importantly, creating a media colossus overnight by founding DreamWorks Studio along with David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
BornDecember 18, 1946 (age 60)
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

 

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The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871?January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867?May 30, 1912), were two Americans generally credited with building the first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air human flight on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, they developed their flying machine into the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft.BornAug. 19, 1871
Dayton, OhioDiedJan. 30, 1948
Dayton, Ohio

 

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Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 ? June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist (see Suffragette) who was publicized in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage movement in the 19th century. She became a colorful and notorious symbol for women's rights, free love, and labor reforms. Woodhull was born into a poor family (citation needed) in Homer, Licking County, Ohio.

 

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I can't believe that my relative hasn't been mentioned yet.

Einstein isn't from Ohio.

 

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Denton True Young Better known as Cy Young(March 29, 1867 ? November 4, 1955) was an American baseball pitcher during the 1890s and 1900s. The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Young in 1937 and he won one championship in 1903 as a member of the Boston Americans. An accomplished athlete, Young won the 1901 AL Triple Crown for Pitchers. The annual award given for the pitcher of the year in each league is named the Cy Young Award. Young played twenty-two years of professional baseball. He set the records for most wins all-time, most innings pitched all-time, most games started all-time, and most complete games all-time. His longevity also allowed him to set the record for the most career losses, despite winning 62% of his decisions.
There are several different stories as to how Young earned the nickname "Cy", however they all acknowledge that it is short short for "Cyclone." One version is that when pitching he twisted his body around and whipped around with such speed, it resembled a cyclone. Another story says that barns and fences would show cyclone-like damage after Young hit them with a throw.[citation needed] He was born in Gilmore, Ohio, and raised in Newcomerstown, Ohio. Young later died in Newcomerstown, where the local park bears his name and a memorial to the pitcher stands.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

I can't believe that my relative hasn't been mentioned yet.

cletus mcinbreed. one of the most famous ohians. famous for producing a great bp poster named buckiprof.



kidding aside no mention of george custer? you never hear about his civil war roles especaill gettysburg. union general at 23. also fought and won many other decsive battles during the cw.

 

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cletus mcinbreed. one of the most famous ohians. famous for producing a great bp poster named buckiprof.



kidding aside no mention of george custer? you never hear about his civil war roles especaill gettysburg. union general at 23. also fought and won many other decsive battles during the cw.

I was getting to it jeesh.

 

[Taosman]

I grew up with cowboy TV, so one of my favs is..............

Dale Evans & Roy Rogers

Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 ? July 6, 1998), who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German shepherd, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show which ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1964. His productions usually featured two sidekicks, Pat Brady, (who drove a jeep called "Nellybelle"), and the crotchety bushwhacker Gabby Hayes. Roy's nickname was "King of the Cowboys". Dale's nickname was "Queen of the West." For many Americans (and non-Americans), he was the embodiment of the all-American hero.
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Roy Rogers on Floodwall Mural painted by Robert Dafford, LaFayette, LA as part of a series of murals at his hometown, Portsmouth, Ohio


Rogers was born to Andrew ("Andy") & Mattie (Womack) Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his family lived in a tenement building on 2nd Street. (Riverfront Stadium was constructed at this location in 1970 and Rogers would later joke that he had been born at second base.) Dissatisfied with his job and city life, Andy Slye and his brother Will built a 12-by-50-foot houseboat from salvage lumber and in July 1912 the Slye family floated up the Ohio River towards Portsmouth, Ohio. Desiring a more stable existence in Portsmouth, Rogers' parents purchased land on which to build a home, but the flood of 1913 allowed them to move the houseboat to their property and continue living in it on dry land.

 

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Not a big fan of his but he is famous.
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 ? June 25, 1876) was a United States Army cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Promoted at an early age to brigadier general, he was a flamboyant and aggressive commander during numerous Civil War battles, known for his personal bravery in leading charges against opposing cavalry. He led the Michigan Brigade whom he called the "Wolverines" during the Civil War. He was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against a coalition of Native American tribes led by the Sioux chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806-1892), a farmer and blacksmith, and Maria Ward Kirkpatrick (1807-1882). Through his life Custer was known by a variety of nicknames: Armstrong, Autie (his early attempt to pronounce his middle name), Fanny, Curley, Yellow Hair, and Son of the Morning Star.

 

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I like this guy much more.
Tecumseh (c.1768? - October 5, 1813), Tecumseh whose given name might be more accurately rendered as Tecumtha or Tekamthi, was a famous Shawnee leader. He spent much of his life attempting to rally disperate Native American tribes in a mutual defense of their lands, which eventually culminated in his death in the War of 1812.

 

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John William Heisman

John Heisman was one of the leading football coaches of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. He was born on October 25, 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Heisman attended Brown University from 1887 to 1889. He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania for his final two years of college. Upon graduation, Heisman became the head coach of the football team at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. His team went undefeated his first season at Oberlin, defeating both The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. He remained at Oberlin College for only a single season, before coaching at the University of Akron for one year. He returned to Oberlin the following year, before accepting the head coaching position at Auburn University.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=183

 

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I like this guy because he was a historian.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger (October 15, 1917 ? February 28, 2007), was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the liberalism of American political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as the men who surrounded Andrew Jackson. He served as Special Assistant to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, entitled A Thousand Days.
Schlesinger was a prolific contributor to liberal theory and was a passionate and articulate voice for Kennedy-style liberalism. He was admired for his wit, scholarship, and devotion to delineating the history and nature of liberalism. Since 1990 he had been a critic of multiculturalism.
He popularized the term "imperial presidency" during the Nixon administration.
Born:October 15, 1917
Columbus, Ohio

 

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Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 ? March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. He had previously served as a senator from Indiana. His administration is best known for a series of legislation including the McKinley Tariff and federal spending that reached a billion dollars. Democrats attacked the "Billion Dollar Congress" and defeated the GOP in 1890, as well as defeating Harrison's bid for reelection in 1892.
A grandson of President William Henry Harrison and great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, Benjamin was born on August 20, 1833, in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio as the second of eight children of John Scott Harrison (later a U.S. Congressman from Ohio) and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin. He attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta (later in life, he joined Delta Chi) and graduated in 1852. He studied law in Cincinnati, Ohio, then moved to Indianapolis, Indiana in 1854. He was admitted to the bar and became reporter of the decisions of the Indiana Supreme Court.
On October 20, 1853, Harrison, 20, married Caroline Lavinia Scott, 21, in Oxford, Ohio.

 

[Taosman]

Schlesinger
Already covered earlier, Buckeyedynasty!

 

[buckiprof]

Einstein isn't from Ohio.

LMFAO! Although, in a way, one could say that there is a connection between Einstein and the famous relative:)

cletus mcinbreed. one of the most famous ohians. famous for producing a great bp poster named buckiprof.

Naw, cletus' maternal side of the family, the mcinbred's, were more famous.

kidding aside no mention of george custer? you never hear about his civil war roles especaill gettysburg. union general at 23. also fought and won many other decsive battles during the cw.

In a way another connection.