•
Darren Anderson (1987) — professional football player (NFL 1992–1998) •
Stan Aronoff (1950) — politician and longtime member of the Ohio Senate •
Helen Elsie Austin (1924) — attorney, US Foreign Service Officer, first black female graduate of UC Law School, first black woman to serve as assistant attorney general of Ohio •
Theda Bara (Theodosia Goodman 1903) — early movie star of the silent screen •
Janet Biehl (1971) — author and graphic novelist •
Caroline Black (1887–1930) — botanist •
Jowon Briggs (2019) — professional football player for the
New York Jets •
Ric Bucher (1979), NBA correspondent, author and radio presenter •
Elisabeth Bumiller (1974) —
The New York Times White House correspondent •
Nina Castagna — Olympic rower •
Stanley M. Chesley (1954) — attorney who won Bhopal, MGM Grand, and
Beverly Hills Supper Club fire class action settlements •
Michael L. Chyet (1975) — linguist •
Carl W. Condit (1932) — historian of urban and architectural history •
Douglas S. Cramer (1949) — TV and Broadway producer, art collector, co-founder and board member of
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, board member
Museum of Modern Art, New York. •
Naomi Deutsch (1908) — public health nursing administrator, author •
Jim Dine (1953) — pop artist •
Michael Dine (1971) — theoretical physicist •
Alan Dressler (1966) — astronomer and astrophysicist •
Elizabeth Brenner Drew (1953) — political journalist, author and lecturer •
Isadore Epstein (1937) — astronomer •
Frank Benjamin Foster, III (1946) —saxophonist, composer, member of
Count Basie Orchestra •
Paula Froelich — columnist, Page Six of the
New York Post •
Helen Iglauer Glueck (1925) — physician and hematology researcher •
Dick Gordon — professional football player 1965–1974 for Chicago, Green Bay, Los Angeles, San Diego •
Bill Gradison — mayor of Cincinnati (1945) •
Marcel Groen (1963) — attorney and chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party •
Charles Guggenheim (1942) — four-time
Academy Award-winner for documentaries •
Richard S. Hamilton — geometer who discovered the
Ricci flow (and applied it to the
Poincaré conjecture), winner of the
Veblen and
Shaw Prizes •
Fred Hersch — jazz composer and musician, Grammy Award nominee •
Charles R. Hook, Sr. (1898) — American industrialist, former president of
Armco Steel Corp •
Ronald Howes — toy inventor; invented the
Easy-Bake Oven •
DeHart Hubbard (1921) — first African-American to win an individual gold medal in the Olympics (long jump, 1924 Paris Summer Games) •
Miller Huggins (1897) — managed
Babe Ruth and the
New York Yankees, inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964 •
Rick Hughes (1991) — professional basketball player in European leagues •
Dani Isaacsohn (2007) - politician •
Fred Karpoff (1981) — pianist •
Kenneth Koch (1947) — poet of the
New York School, dramatist and educator •
Walter Laufer — Olympic gold medalist •
James Levine (1961) — pianist, conductor, musical director of the
Metropolitan Opera and the
Boston Symphony Orchestra •
Steven Levinson (1964) — associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Hawaii from 1992 to 2008 •
Sabina Magliocco (1977) — professor of anthropology and religion at the
University of British Columbia •
Jonathan Meyer (1982) — lawyer and general counsel of the
United States Department of Homeland Security •
Alexis Nikole Nelson — forager and internet personality •
Stanley B. Prusiner (1960) — 1997
Nobel Prize for medicine •
Carl West Rich (1916) — attorney, Hamilton County prosecutor, city councilman and three-term mayor of Cincinnati, US congressman •
Lois Rosenthal — author, publisher, arts & humanities philanthropist. •
Jerry Rubin — 1960s-era radical and later a social activist •
Stephen Sanger (1964) — chairman and CEO of
General Mills •
Robert Shmalo (1996) — international ice dancing competitor •
Itaal Shur (1985) —
Grammy Award-winner (2000) •
Lee Smolin (1972) — theoretical physicist •
Donald Andrew Spencer Sr. (1932) — first African American trustee of
Ohio University •
Rick Steiner (1964) — stockbroker, professional poker player, five-time
Tony Award-winning Broadway producer •
Mary Lee Tate (c. 1907) — painter •
MaCio Teague (2015) — basketball player, member of the NCAA Champion
2020–21 Baylor Bears basketball team •
Jane Timken (1985) — attorney •
Tony Trabert (1948) — tennis star of the 1950s, won 1955 French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open •
Jean Trounstine (1965) — author, actress, activist on prison issues •
Jonathan Valin (1965) — mystery series novelist •
Evelyn Venable (1930) — Hollywood actress with star on
Hollywood Walk of Fame; professor of ancient Greek and Latin at UCLA •
Richard Weber — Emeritus Professor on the
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge •
Worth Hamilton Weller (1931) — herpetologist •
Mary Wineberg (1998) — track and field Olympian, gold medalist in the women's 4 × 400 m relay at the
2008 Beijing Olympics ==References==