The following is a list of natives, residents and former residents of Shaker Heights, Ohio. A Danesha Adams, soccer player Griff Allen, auto racing promoter, broadcaster, engineer Erick Anderson, football linebacker Albert Ayler, jazz saxophonist B Jamie Babbit, director, producer, and screenwriter Newton D. Baker, politician Bill Balas, screenwriter, director, producer William Bayer, crime fiction writer Carter Bays, television writer, creator of How I Met Your Mother David Mark Berger, weightlifter, one of 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Arab commandos at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games Peter Bergman, member of The Firesign Theatre Wrestlers The Beverly Brothers (Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom) were billed as hailing from Shaker Heights Leon Bibb, television anchor Keith Black, neurosurgeon John Blackburn, songwriter Sara J. Bloomfield, Executive Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Roberts Blossom, actor and poet Andy Borowitz, comedian and satirist Eric Brakey, politician and Maine State Senator Jim Brickman, musician Aris Brimanis, ice hockey defenseman Paul Brown, football coach and owner Dick Brubaker, football player for the Chicago Cardinals and Buffalo Bills Judith Butler, gender theorist and philosopher C Jane L. Campbell, politician; 56th Mayor of Cleveland James Card, film preservationist Martha Chase, geneticist Adrien Clarke, Virginia Destroyers offensive lineman Ward Cleaver, fictional character in Leave It to Beaver Nate Clements, Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Wat T. Cluverius, diplomat Anne Cochran, singer Gary Cohn, President and COO of Goldman Sachs, economic advisor to the Trump Administration Jim Cohn, poet Bruce Cole, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities Constance Cook, Republican Party politician D Rebecca Dallet, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Marc Dann, former Ohio Attorney General William Daroff, director of the Washington, D.C. office of the Jewish Federations of North America Arthur Carter Denison, federal judge Cheri Dennis, the Princess of Bad Boy Entertainment Derf Backderf, John Backderf, cartoonist Samuel Deutsch, jeweler and sports franchise owner Maximilian Dimoff, principal bassist of the Cleveland Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor E Eric Ehrmann, author and columnist Harry Eisenstat, baseball pitcher James Emery, jazz guitarist F Michelle Federer, theatre and film actress Danny Ferry, former NBA player; former General Manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers Bobby Few, jazz pianist Eric Fingerhut, politician and academic administrator Craig Finn, singer and guitarist Nate Fish, American-Israeli writer, baseball player/coach Lee Fisher, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio James Frey, author Devin Friedman, journalist Marcia Fudge, congresswoman G Zelma Watson George, actress, philanthropist Jeff Gerth, journalist Nicole