(lived in Bath) Donald DeFreeze (Patty Hearst kidnapper) (Cleveland) Thomas Dillon (serial killer) (Canton) Martin Frankel (financier) (Toledo) Jimmy Fratianno (mobster) (Cleveland) Shawn Grate (serial killer) (Ashland, Mansfield, Marion) Danny Greene (mobster) Cleveland Gary M. Heidnik (rapist, kidnapper, murderer) (Eastlake) James Oliver Huberty (murderer) (Massillon) Anthony Kirkland (Cincinnati serial killer) Samuel Little (serial killer) (Lorain) Jeffrey Don Lundgren (cult leader, murderer) Kirtland Charles Makley (bank robber) (Saint Marys) Charles Manson (convicted murderer, cult/commune leader) (Cincinnati/Walnut Hills) Carmen Milano (mobster) (Cleveland) Peter Milano (mobster) (Cleveland) Anthony Sowell (rapist and serial killer) (Cleveland) Educators, religious leaders, lecturers, motivational speakers, self-help gurus Aaron Brumbaugh (president of Shimer College) (Hartville) Cynthia S. Burnett (educator and temperance reformer) (Niles) John Lewis Dyer (Methodist circuit rider in Minnesota and Colorado; considered one of 16 founders of Colorado) (born in Franklin County) Yusuf Estes (Islamic scholar) (born in Ohio) William Holmes McGuffey (educator, author) (Tuscarawas County/Oxford/Cincinnati) Raymond Moley (professor, member of FDR's "Brain Trust", author) (Berea) Norman Vincent Peale (author, professional speaker, clergyman) (Bowersville) Michelle Rhee (educator, education reform leader) (Toledo) William P. Richardson (co-founder and first Dean of Brooklyn Law School) (Farmer Center) William Strunk Jr. (educator, author) (Cincinnati) Tenskwatawa (religious and political leader of the Shawnee Indians) (Ross County) Scholars, scientists, historians, theorists, philosophers, opinionists Zoltan Acs (economist) (Cleveland) Mary Ainsworth (psychologist) (Glendale) Gordon Allport (psychologist) (Cleveland) James B. Anderson (chemical engineer) (Cleveland) Edgar Bain (metallurgist) (LaRue) Richard C. Banks (ornithologist) (Steubenville) Brand Blanshard (philosopher) (Fredericksburg) Michael Brooks (historian, journalist) (Toledo) William Merriam Burton (chemist) (Cleveland) William Campbell (astronomer) (Hancock County) Richard E. Caves (economist) (Akron) Neil W. Chamberlain (economist) (Lakewood) Walker Lee Cisler (mechanical engineer) (Marietta) John R. Commons (economist, historian) (Hollansburg) Gustav Eckstein (writer, medical doctor, psychologist) Thomas Alva Edison (scientist, inventor) William A. Fowler (physicist, Nobel Prize Winner) (The Ohio State University, Lima) Marye Anne Fox (organic chemist) (Canton) James J. Gibson (psychologist) (McConnelsville) Rosetta Luce Gilchrist (physician, writer) (Kingsville) Donald A. Glaser (physicist, Nobel Prize Winner) (Cleveland) Irving I. Gottesman (psychologist, behavioral geneticist) (Cleveland) Charles Martin Hall (inventor, engineer) (Thompson) Samuel Dana Horton (monetary theorist) Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer) (Loudonville) Thomas Kuhn (philosopher of science) (Cincinnati) Arthur Laffer (supply-side economist) (Youngstown) Harry March (football historian, doctor) (New Franklin/Canton) Albert A. Michelson (physicist) (Case Institute of Technology) Virginia Minnich (biologist) (Zanesville) Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore (physician, newspaper editor) (Chillicothe) Garrett Morgan (inventor) (Cleveland) Edward W. Morley (physicist) (Western Reserve University) Ralph Paffenbarger