African
Americans in Southeastern Ohio
Richard
Dean Anderson actor, played Angus MacGyver on TV
Nancy
Cartwright voice of TV's Bart Simpson
Jim
Dine artist
Thomas
Ewing first graduate of Ohio University, US Senator from
Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Harrison and Tyler,
Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Taylor and Fillmore
Joe
Eszterhas screenwriter
Dow
Finsterwald golfer
Jorma
Kaukonen musician, guitarist, guitar guru...Jefferson
Airplane, Hot Tuna, etc.
Sammy
Kaye dance band leader...'Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye'
Daniel
Keyes author of 'Flowers for Algernon' and Professor of
English and Creative Writing
Matt
Lauer host of the NBC-TV 'Today' show
Herman
Leonard perhaps the greatest photographer of jazz and jazz
musicians; see also the Ohio University HL
page
Maya
Lin designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - her
buildings
William
Holmes McGuffey author of the McGuffey's Readers and fourth
president of Ohio University (1839-1843)
Paul
Newman actor
Ed
O'Neill actor, played Al Bundy on 'Married...with children'
Clarence
Page Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and columnist,
Chicago Tribune; PBS-TV News Hour essayist
Piper
Perabo actress
Stanley
Plumly poet
Mike
Schmidt Hall of Fame baseball player, Philadelphia Phillies,
now retired. MVP many times.
Walter
Tevis author of several novels that have been filmed,
including 'The Hustler.' 'The Color of Money,' and 'The Man who Fell to
Earth'
George
Voinovich Former Senator, State of Ohio
David
Wilhelm Former Chair, Democratic National Committee
