Cleveland

Famous Citizens

Famous citizens born in the Cleveland area include:

Charles Brush (1849–1929), inventor of the arc light.

Hart Crane (1899–1932), modernist lyrical poet.

Jesse Owens (1913–80), Olympic athlete, set a world record for the 100-yard dash when he was a senior at East Tech High.

Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869–1950), founder and first manager of the Cleveland Orchestra.

Bob Hope (b. 1903), actor and vaudevillian.

Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, creators of Superman, the comic book hero, while students at Glenville High in 1933.

Dorothy Fuldheim (1893–1989), the first woman television news anchor, beginning in 1947.

Alan Freed (1922–65), radio disc jockey who coined the term "rock and roll".

Paul Brown (1908–91), coach of Cleveland Browns football team.

Carl B. Stokes (1927–96), grandson of a slave who defeated Seth Taft, grandson of President William H. Taft, in the November 13, 1967, election to become the first black mayor of a major U.S. city.

Toni Morrison (b. 1931), born in Cleveland-area community of Lorain, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for literature and the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature.

Famous citizens who resided in Cleveland include:

John D. Rockefeller (b. New York, 1839–1937), founder of Standard Oil of Ohio, richest man in the world and philanthropist.

George Szell (b. Hungary, 1897–1970), internationally renowned conductor and music director of the Cleveland Orchestra.

Elliot Ness (1903–57), famed crime fighter, stationed in Cleveland 1934–1942.