| Name | Dates | Contributions |
|---|
| Thomas Ewing | 1789-1871 | Lawyer, salt manufacturer, twice United States Senator and cabinet member |
| Daniel Lindley | 1801-1880 | Presbyterian missionary to southern Africa |
| Daniel Read | 1805-1878 | educator at Ohio University and Indiana State University and innovative president of the University of Missouri |
| James Merrill Safford | 1822-1907 | state geologist of Tennessee |
| William Sooy Smith | 1830-1916 | Civil War Union general and civil engineer who made innovations in bridge construction techniques |
| Joseph Carter Corbin | 1833-1911 | post-Civil War African American president of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff |
| Oliver Perry Shiras | 1833-1916 | federal district judge in Iowa, expert on equity cases |
| Earl Cranston | 1840-1932 | Methodist church bishop, advocate of reunion between northern and southern churches split during the mid-19th century |
| Clinton P. Biddle | 1897-1939 | associate dean and professor, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration |
| John W. Galbreath | 1897-1988 | realtor and owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team |
| Edwin M. Kennedy | 1904-1997 | investment banker and partner with Lehman Brothers and collector of Navajo weavings |
| Ruby Gladys Mercer | 1907-1999 | opera singer, radio and television personality in the United States and Canada, and music historian |
| Sammy Kaye | 1910-1987 | popular band leader from the Big Band era into the 1970's |
| Irving Shulman | 1913-1995 | novelist, author of The Amboy Dukes and The Square Trap, and screen writer |
| Frank Baumholtz | 1919-1997 | two-sport professional athlete |
| Glenn H. Brown | 1915-1995 | pioneering scientist with liquid crystal display |
| Ichiro Seto | 1927- | Japanese metalworkers labor union official |
| Dow Finsterwald | 1929- | professional golfer, PGA tournament champion 1958 |
| Jeanette G. Graselli Brown | 1929- | director of corporate research and analytical sciences at Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio, later BP of America) |
| Jim Dine | 1935- | artist, print maker |
| George Voinovich | 1936- | mayor of Cleveland, governor of Ohio, United States Senator |
| Phillip Saunders ("Tony Phillips") | 1937-1995 | Chicago television show host, religious minister, and founding member of Operation Breadbasket |
| Roger Ailes | 1940- | television producer and political consultant |
| William Heyen | 1940- | poet and teacher |
| Stanley Plumly | 1940- | poet and teacher |
| Dave Smith | 1942- | poet, teacher and literary review editor |
| Tony Buba | 1943- | documentary film maker |
| Tom D. Crouch | 1944- | senior curator, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution |
| Richard Brown | 1947- | telecommunications industry executive |
| Clarence Page | 1947- | Pulitzer Prize-winner, syndicated columnist and broadcast commentator |
| Betty Thomas | | Emmy Award-winning star in "Hill Street Blues" and director |
| Mike Schmidt | 1949- | professional baseball player now a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| Jenny Holzer | 1950- | artist |
| Robin L. Smith | 1950- | film maker |
| Paul Glabicki | 1951- | experimental film maker |
| Joyce Nesnadny | 1956- | graphic designer |
| David Wilhelm | 1956- | former chair of the Democratic National Committee |
| Matt Lauer | 1957- | co-host for the Today Show on NBC-TV |
| Leon Harris | 1961- | news anchor on CNN |
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