Kettering (inventor) (Loudenville/Dayton) Jim Lovell (astronaut) (Cleveland) G. David Low (astronaut) (Cleveland) Garrett Morgan (inventor) (Cleveland) Russell C. Newhouse (inventor) (Clyde) Robert F. Overmyer (astronaut) Ronald A. Parise (astronaut) James Polshek (architect) (Akron) Judith Resnik (astronaut) (Akron) Ron Sega (astronaut) (Cleveland) Howard Dwight Smith (architect) (Dayton/Columbus) Oberlin Smith (engineer) (Cincinnati) Robert C. Springer (astronaut) (Ashland) Kathryn D. Sullivan (astronaut) Don Thomas (astronaut) Ernest H. Volwiler (inventor) (Hamilton) Carl Walz (astronaut) (Cleveland) Mary Ellen Weber (astronaut) (Cleveland) Alexander Winton (inventor) (Cleveland) Granville Woods (inventor) (Columbus/Cincinnati) Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright (inventors) (Dayton) Businesspeople, entrepreneurs John Chambers (CEO of Cisco Systems) (Cleveland) Henry D. Coffinberry (industrialist) (Cleveland) John R. Commons (economist) (Hollansburg) Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr. (developer, real estate magnate) (Youngstown) Larry Dolan (owner of the Cleveland Indians) (Cleveland Heights) Paul Dolan (CEO of the Cleveland Indians) (Chardon) Herbert H. Dow (chemist, industrialist) (Cleveland) Benjamin Franklin Fairless (steel company executive) (Pigeon Run) Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone, inventor, industrialist) (Columbiana/Akron) John W. Galbreath (real estate mogul, owned Pittsburgh Pirates and Darby Dan Farm) (Columbus) Charles Geschke (co-founder of Adobe Systems) (Cleveland) B. F. Goodrich (industrialist) (Akron) Jeff Immelt (chairman and CEO of GE) (Cincinnati) Charles Keating (banker, activist) (Cincinnati) Charles F. Kettering (inventor, industrialist, philanthropist) (Loudonville/Dayton) James Michael Lafferty CEO of Fine Hygienic Holding ; prior CEO within Procter and Gamble, Coca-Cola, and British American Tobacco. Olympic Track and Field Coach. (Cincinnati) Peter B. Lewis (entrepreneur, philanthropist, activist) (Cleveland) Carl Lindner (entrepreneur, political contributor, philanthropist) (Cincinnati) Brian Moynihan (CEO of Bank of America) (Marietta) Henry Nicholas (co-founder of Broadcom Corporation) (Cincinnati) Ransom Olds (automaker, Oldsmobile) (Geneva) James Ward Packard (automaker) Packard (Born Warren, Died Cleveland) William Doud Packard (automaker) Packard (Warren) Don Panoz (entrepreneur) (Alliance) John H. Patterson (industrialist) (Dayton) Roger Penske (racing driver, entrepreneur) (Shaker Heights) Ira M. Petersime (inventor, entrepreneur, industrialist) (Webster) William Procter (industrialist) (Cincinnati) Bruce Ratner (real estate developer, owned the New Jersey Nets) (Cleveland) John D. Rockefeller (industrialist) (Strongsville/Cleveland) Michael J. Saylor (co-founder of MicroStrategy) (Fairborn) Ernesto Schmitt (entrepreneur) (Cincinnati) Frank Seiberling (industrialist) (Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.) David Sinton (industrialist) (Cincinnati) George Steinbrenner (shipping magnate, owned the New York Yankees) (Cleveland) W. D. Twichell (Texas surveyor) (reared in Madison County, educated in Lebanon, Ohio) Ronald Wayne (co-founder of Apple Inc.) (Cleveland) Ralph Wilson (Hall of Fame owner of the Buffalo Bills) (Columbus) Denise DeBartolo York (co-chair of the San Francisco 49ers) (Youngstown) Jed York (president