(epidemiologist) (Columbus) Roy J. Plunkett (chemist) (New Carlisle) Willard Van Orman Quine (logician and philosopher) (Akron) Joseph Ransohoff (neurosurgeon, inventor) (Cincinnati) Frederick Rentschler (aviation engineer) (Hamilton) Charles Richter (physicist) (Overpeck) Frank Sherwood Rowland (chemist, Nobel Prize Winner) (Delaware) Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. (historian) (Xenia) Zalman Shapiro (chemist, inventor) (Canton) Thomas Sherwood (chemical engineer) (Columbus) Thomas J. Silhavy (molecular biologist) (Wauseon) Richard Smalley (chemist, Nobel Prize Winner) (Akron) Oberlin Smith (engineer, magnetic recording pioneer) (Cincinnati) Lee Smolin (theoretical physicist) (Cincinnati) George Smoot (astrophysicist, Nobel Prize Winner) (Upper Arlington) Sander Vanocur (commentator) (Cleveland) John S. Wilson (economist) (Lakewood) Elizabeth Witherell (editor-in-chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) (Toledo) Michael S. Witherell (particle physicist, president of Fermilab) (Toledo) Richard D. Wolff (Marxist economist) (Youngstown) Allyn Abbott Young (economist) (Kenton) Singers, musicians, composers, songwriters, conductors A–C Rita Abrams (songwriter-performer-writer) (Cleveland) Lee Adams (Broadway lyricist) (Mansfield) Leslie Adams [H. Leslie Adams] (composer) (Cleveland) Steven Adler (musician, original drummer, Guns N' Roses) (Cleveland) Harley Allen (singer-songwriter) (Dayton) Ray Anthony (musician) (Cleveland) Joseph Arthur (musician) (Akron) Dan Auerbach (guitarist and singer, The Black Keys) (Akron) Avant (musician) (Cleveland) Albert Ayler (musician) (Cleveland) David Baerwald (musician) (Oxford) Benny Bailey (jazz trumpeter) (Cleveland) Anita Baker (singer) (Toledo) Julius Baker (classical flutist) (Cleveland) Bobby Bare (singer) (Ironton) Lou Barlow (musician) (Dayton) John Bassette (singer, musician) (Cleveland) Stiv Bators (musician) (Youngstown) Kathleen Battle (opera singer) (Portsmouth) Margaret Baxtresser (classical pianist) (Kent) Andy Biersack (singer) (Cincinnati) Cindy Blackman (musician) (Yellow Springs) Bow Wow (rapper) (Reynoldsburg) Crystal Bowersox (musician) (Toledo) Don Braden (jazz saxophonist) (Cincinnati) Tiny Bradshaw (jazz bandleader) (Youngstown) Teresa Brewer (singer) (Toledo).. Jim Brickman (musician, songwriter) (Cleveland) Jerry Brightman (producer, musician, Buck Owens) (Akron) Dave Burrell (jazz pianist) (Middletown) Chris Butler (musician, The Waitresses) (Akron) Billy Butterfield (jazz trumpeter) (Middletown) Glen Buxton (guitarist, original Alice Cooper band) (Akron) Casey Calvert (vocalist, Hawthorne Heights) (Dayton) Eric Carmen (musician) (Cleveland) Patrick Carney (drummer and producer, The Black Keys) (Akron) Ralph Carney (saxophonist) (Akron) Lionel Cartwright (musician, singer) (Gallipolis) Gerald Casale (musician) (Kent) Tracy Chapman (singer-songwriter) (Cleveland) Cheetah Chrome (musician, Dead Boys) (Cleveland) Charles W. Clark (operatic singer, vocalist teacher) (Van Wert) Gilby Clarke (musician) (Cleveland) Tammy Cochran (singer) (Austinburg) David Allan Coe (singer, musician) (Akron) Marc Cohn (singer) (Cleveland) Bootsy Collins (musician) (Cincinnati) Earl Thomas Conley (singer) (Portsmouth) Cowboy Copas (singer) (Adams County) Susan Cowsill (singer) (Canton) Stanley Cowell (jazz pianist) (Toledo) Gavin Creel (singer) (Findlay) D–I Tadd Dameron (jazz composer) (Cleveland)