Arts & Entertainment:
* Marilyn Manson: Canton
* Tom Hanks: Concord
* Drew Carey: Cleveland
* Steve Carell: Concord
* Halle Berry: Cleveland
* Zach Galifianakis: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (but grew up in Ohio)
* Dean Martin: Steubenville
* Andy Warhol: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (but spent his youth in Ohio)
* The Black Keys: Akron
* Ludacris: Champaign, Illinois (but attended college in Ohio)
* Harry Styles: Redditch, England (but lived in Ohio for a period)
Business & Politics:
* Warren G. Harding: Blooming Grove
* William McKinley: Niles
* John Glenn: Cambridge
* Neil Armstrong: Wapakoneta
* Jim Jordan: Urbana
* Sherrod Brown: Mansfield
* John Kasich: Columbus
* Ken Chenault: Columbus
* Larry Page: East Lansing, Michigan (but attended college in Ohio)
Science & Sports:
* Charles Kettering: Loudonville
* Neil deGrasse Tyson: New York City (but raised in Ohio)
* Lebron James: Akron
* Jim Brown: Syracuse, New York (but grew up in Ohio)
* Archie Griffin: Columbus
* Jack Nicklaus: Columbus
* Jesse Owens: Cleveland
* Jim Tressel: Berea
Literature & History:
* Harriet Beecher Stowe: Litchfield, Connecticut (but lived in Ohio)
* William Howard Taft: Cincinnati
* William Dean Howells: Martinsville, Ohio
* Paul Laurence Dunbar: Dayton
* Langston Hughes: Joplin, Missouri (but spent his youth in Ohio)
* Wright Brothers: Dayton
This list is by no means exhaustive, but provides a diverse range of people born in Ohio who have achieved significant success in their respective fields.