player) (Gilmore/Newcomerstown) Dolph Ziggler (professional wrestler) (Cleveland) Don Zimmer (baseball player, coach) (Cincinnati) Ron Zook (football coach) (Loudonville) Michael Zordich (football player) (Youngstown) Journalists, writers, cartoonists, poets, authors, playwrights, screenwriters, film directors and producers A–F Berenice Abbott (photographer) (Springfield) Karen Ackerman (author) (Cincinnati) Julia Carter Aldrich (author, editor) (Liverpool) Dede Allen (film editor) (Cleveland) Eunice Gibbs Allyn (author) (Brecksville) Sherwood Anderson (author) (Camden/Clyde) R. W. Apple Jr. (journalist and author) (Akron) Helen Vickroy Austin (journalist, horticulturist) (Miamisburg) Brian Azzarello (comic book writer) (Cleveland) Jamie Babbit (film director, producer, screenwriter) (Shaker Heights) Libbie C. Riley Baer (poet) (Bethel) Bill Balas (screenwriter and director) (Cleveland) Melissa Elizabeth Banta (poet) (Cheviot) Natalie Barney (author) (Dayton) Dorothy Barresi (poet) (Akron) Billy Bass (radio host, program director) (Cleveland) Margret Holmes Bates (author) (Fremont) Tom Batiuk (cartoonist) (Akron) William Bayer (crime fiction author) (Cleveland) Brian Michael Bendis (comic book writer) (Cleveland) Ambrose Bierce (author) (Meigs County) Hanne Blank (author) (Cleveland) Erma Bombeck (newspaper columnist, author) (Dayton) Christine Brennan (sportswriter) (Toledo) Douglas Brinkley (author and professor) (Perrysburg) Louis Bromfield (author) (Mansfield) Raymond Buckland (author) (Warren) Michael Buckley (author) (Akron) Milton Caniff (cartoonist) (Dayton) Vincent J. Cardinal (playwright and director) (Kent) Alice Cary (poet) (Cincinnati) Charles Chesnutt (writer) (Cleveland) Gordon Cobbledick (Sports Editor, Author, War Correspondent (Cleveland) Bud Collins (journalist) (Lima) Gail Collins (journalist) (Cincinnati) Chris Columbus (film director) (Warren) Eliza Archard Conner (journalist, lecturer) (Monroe Township) Jerome Corsi (author) (East Cleveland) Carol Costello (television correspondent) (Minerva) Hart Crane (poet) (Garrettsville) Wes Craven (film director) (Cleveland) Anne Virginia Culbertson (writer) (Zanesville) Michael Cunningham (author) (Cincinnati) Steve Curwood (journalist, author) (Yellow Springs) William H. Daniels (cinematographer) (Cleveland) Khashyar Darvich (film producer, director) (Oxford, Cleveland) Stephen Donaldson (author) (Cleveland) Rita Dove (poet) (Akron) Elizabeth Drew (journalist, author) (Cincinnati) Paul Laurence Dunbar (poet) (Dayton) Jane Dunnewold (author) (Oberlin) Harlan Ellison (author) (Cleveland) Mel Epstein (film producer) (Dayton) Joe Eszterhas (screenwriter) (Cleveland) Dominick Evans (filmmaker/activist) (Toledo) Lydia Hoyt Farmer (author, women's rights activist) (Cleveland) George Fett (cartoonist) (Cleveland) G–M Atul Gawande (journalist, physician) (Athens) Elizabeth George (novelist) (Warren) Paul Gilger (playwright, set designer, architect) (Mansfield) Florence Magruder Gilmore (religious writer, novelist, translator (Columbus) Bob Greene (columnist, author) (Columbus) Zane Grey (author) (Zanesville) Cathy Guisewite (cartoonist) (Dayton) Stephen Gyllenhaal (film director, poet) (Cleveland) Margaret Peterson Haddix (author) (Columbus) Virginia Hamilton (children's author) (Yellow Springs) Benjamin Hanby (writer, composer) (Rushville, Westerville) Bill Hemmer (television journalist) (Cincinnati) William Dean Howells (author, critic) Elizabeth O. Sampson