editor) (Cleveland) Michael Wadleigh (film director) (Akron) Paula Wagner (film producer) (Youngstown) Brad Warner (author) (Akron) Jack L. Warner (movie mogul) (Youngstown) Harvey Wasserman (author, political activist) (Columbus) Lew Wasserman (studio executive) (Cleveland) Daniel Waters (screenwriter) (Cleveland) Bill Watterson (cartoonist) (Chagrin Falls) Sharon Waxman (born c.1963) (journalist) Laura Rosamond White (author, poet, editor) (Geneva) David Whitney (author) (Youngstown) Gerri Willis (television journalist) (Cincinnati) M. Wintermute (poet, author) (Berkshire) Charles Woodson (football) (Fremont) James Wright (poet) (Martins Ferry) John Yang (television journalist) (Chillicothe) Politicians, public servants, public officeholders A–L Charles Anderson (Ohio governor) (Dayton) Frank J. Battisti (judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio) (Youngstown) Albert J. Beveridge (political leader) (Highland) Ken Blackwell (politician) (Cincinnati) Blue Jacket (Shawnee Indian Chief) (presently known as Ross County) John Boehner (U.S. Speaker of the House) (Reading/West Chester) John Brough (politician, Ohio governor) (Marietta) Henry Lawrence Burnett (prosecutor in trial for Abraham Lincoln assassination) (Youngstown) Prescott Bush (U.S. Senator, businessman) (Columbus) William Case (Cleveland) Steve Chabot (politician, U.S. representative) (Cincinnati) Salmon P. Chase (Ohio governor, abolitionist, U.S.Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice) (Cincinnati) Gary Cohn (National Economic Council Director) (Shaker Heights) James M. Cox (Governor, Presidential candidate, Media mogul) (Dayton) Ephraim Cutler (a framer of Ohio Constitution, abolitionist, longtime Ohio University Trustee (Ames Twp) Charles G. Dawes (politician) William R. Day (US Supreme Court Justice) (Ravenna/Canton) John Dean (White House Counsel to President Nixon) (Akron) R. Michael DeWine (politician, U.S. Senator) (Cedarville) Steve Driehaus (politician, U.S. representative) (Cincinnati) James A. Garfield (Civil War general, 20th President of the United States) (Moreland Hills) James Rudolph Garfield (U.S. Interior Secretary) John J. Gilligan (politician, Ohio Governor) John Glenn (U.S. Senator, astronaut) Bill Gradison (politician, U.S. representative) Ulysses S. Grant (soldier, politician, 18th President of the United States) (Point Pleasant) Joe Hagin (White House Deputy Chief of Staff) (Indian Hill) Warren G. Harding (29th President of the United States) (Blooming Grove/Caledonia) Marie Harf (State Dept. spokesperson) (Granville) Andrew L. Harris (Civil War general, U.S. Commissioner, Ohio Governor) Benjamin Harrison (soldier, politician, 23rd President of the United States) (North Bend) William Henry Harrison (soldier, politician, 9th President of the United States) (North Bend) Rutherford B. Hayes (politician, 19th President of the United States) (Delaware) Dave Hobson (politician, U.S. representative) (Springfield) Darrell Issa (politician, U.S. representative) (Cleveland) Cheryl Johnson (judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals) (Columbus) Nathaniel R. Jones (judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit) (Youngstown) Marcy