List of people from Steubenville, Ohio

This is a list of notable past and present residents of the U.S. city of Steubenville, Ohio, and its surrounding metropolitan area. People born in Steubenville are printed in bold.

Arts

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews (1835 - 1915) – painter
Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) – artist, oil painter, founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting
Alexander Doyle (1857 - 1922) – sculptor
Eugene Louis Faccuito (born 1925) – jazz dancer and teacher, choreographer
Albert Newsam (1809-1864) - artist^[1]

Athletics

Danny Abramowicz (born 1945) – NFL wide receiver
Chinedu Achebe (born 1977) – Arena Football League linebacker
Johnny Bates (1882 - 1949) – former MLB outfielder
Zinn Beck (1885 - 1981) – MLB infielder
Ray Bracken (1891 - 1974) – Olympic gold medal-winning sport shooter
Zach Collaros (born 1988) – CFL quarterback
Chip Coulter (born 1945) – former MLB infielder
Sylvia Crawley (born 1972) – former ABL forward, women's basketball head coach
Rich Donnelly (born 1946) – former MLB coach
Rollie Fingers (born 1946) – National Baseball Hall of Famer
Tom "Knute" Franckhauser (1937 - 1997) – former NFL cornerback
Joe Gilliam, Sr. (c. 1923 - 2012) – Tennessee Sports Hall Of Famer, former college football quarterback and coach
Mike Gulan (born 1970) – former MLB infielder
Jim Hudson (1943 - 2013) – former NFL and AFL safety
Tony Jeter (born 1944) – former NFL tight end
Cal Jones (1933 - 1956) – All-American football player at University of Iowa in College Football Hall of Fame
Don Joyce (1929 - 2012) – former NFL and AFL defensive end, wrestler
George Kaiserling (1893 - 1918) – FL and MLB pitcher
Eddie Kazak (1920 - 1999) – former MLB infielder
Tom Needham (1879 - 1926) - former MLB catcher
Tom Perko (born 1954) – former NFL linebacker
Wally Pesuit (born 1954) – former NFL and USFL offensive and defensive lineman
Eric Piatkowski (born 1970) – former NBA forward
Adam Riggs (born 1972) – former MLB and Japanese Central League infielder
Will Robinson (1911 - 2008) – first African-American head coach at a Division I school
Gene Trosch (born 1945) – former AFL defensive lineman
Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856 - 1924) – first African-American MLB player
Weldy Walker (1860 - 1937) – second African-American MLB player
Johnny Wilson (1915 - 2002) – former NFL tight end
Quincy Wilson (born 1981) – former NFL running back
Bobby Joe Young (born 1959) – former welterweight boxer

Business

Dard Hunter (1883 - 1966) – papermaker, authority on printing

Literature

Richard C. Banks (born 1931) – ornithologist, writer
Bob Borden (born 1969) – writer
Richard Hague (born 1947) – poet and novelist
Jeffrey Hatcher – playwright, screenwriter
Tad Mosel (1922 - 2008) – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Mary Tappan Wright (1851 - 1916) – novelist

Military

John S. Mason (1824 - 1897) – Union Army general during the Civil War, Indian fighter
Anson G. McCook (1835 - 1917) - Union Army general during the Civil War, U.S. Congressman
Daniel McCook, Jr. (1834 - 1864) - Union Army general during the Civil War
Edward M. McCook (1833 - 1909) – Union Army general, U.S. Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii (1866-1868)
George Wythe McCook (1821 - 1877) - Union Army general, Ohio attorney general
Henry Christopher McCook (1837 - 1911) - Union Army chaplain and officer, minister
John James McCook (1806 - 1865) – patriarch of the "Fighting McCooks" U.S. Army family, physician
Robert Latimer McCook (1827 - 1862) - Union Army general
Cas Myslinski (1920 - 1993) – USAF officer, athletic director of The University of Pittsburgh (1968-1982)
Mele "Mel" Vojvodich (1929 - 2003) – USAF major general

Movies, television, and media

John Buccigross (born 1966) – ESPN sportscaster
Big Bully Busick (born 1954) – former WWF wrestler
Traci Lords (born 1968) – adult film actress
Al Mancini (1932 - 2007) – actor
Dean Martin (1917 - 1995) – singer, actor, entertainer.^[2] His daughter, Deana Martin, and her husband John Griffith, established the Dean Martin Festival in Steubenville. It is held annually in mid-June. Gail Martin, also a singer and another of Dean Martin's daughters, was born in Steubenville.
Tad Mosel (1922 - 2008) - playwright and screenwriter
Jon Nese – meteorologist, TV weather channel personality
Charles Stanton Ogle (1865 - 1940) – actor
Scott Paulin (born 1950) – actor
John Scarne (1903 - 1985) – magician, authority and writer on card manipulation
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder (1918 - 1996) – bookmaker, sports commentator

Music

4th Disciple, aka El-Divine Amir Bey – record producer
Ed Crawford, aka ed fROMOHIO (born 1964) – musician, guitarist
Paul Howard (1895-1980) - musician, bandleader
Kinetic 9, aka Beretta 9 – musician, rapper
Robert Porco – choral conductor
Rza (born 1969) – musician, rapper, music producer
Dorothy Sloop (1913 - 1998) – jazz musician, pianist
The Stereos (formed c. 1955 - disbanded c. 1968) – doo-wop/pop group
Patricia Welch (born 1954) – singer
Wild Cherry (formed 1970 - disbanded 1979) – funk rock band

Politics

Douglas Applegate (born 1928) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1977-1995)
Ted Brown (born 1960) – politician nicknamed "the perennial candidate"
Jacob Pitzer Cowan (1823 - 1895) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1875-1877)
Joseph S. Fowler (1820 - 1902) – United States Senator (1866-1871)
John M. Goodenow (1782 - 1838) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1829-1830)
Robert H. Hatton (1826 - 1862) – United States Congressman, confederate during the Civil War
Joseph P. Hoge (1810 - 1891) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1843-1847)
Daniel Parkhurst Leadbetter (1797 - 1870) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1837-1841)
Humphrey H. Leavitt (1796 - 1873) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1830-1833, 1833-1834), United States district court judge
William C. McCauslen (1796 - 1863) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1843-1845)
Anson G. McCook (1835 - 1917) – Union Army general, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1877-1883)
B. Frank Murphy (1867 - 1938) – Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1919-1933)
Rees G. Richards (1842 - 1917) – politician
Edwin M. Stanton (1814 - 1869) – lawyer, Secretary of War (1862-1868)
Samuel Stokely (1796 - 1861) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1841-1843)
Andrew Stuart (1823 - 1872) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1853-1855)
Henry Swearingen (c. 1792 - 1849) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1838-1841)
Benjamin Tappan (1773 - 1857) – founder of the city of Ravenna, Ohio, U.S. Senator (1839-1845)
Edward Vincent (1934 - 2012) – politician
Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822-1903) - theologian, father of President Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Stokeley Wilson (1813 - 1894) – jurist and judge, legislator
Jack Yost (born 1945) – politician

Religion

Charles Clinton Beatty (1800 - 1882) – Presbyterian minister, founder of Steubenville Female Seminary
Daniel DiNardo (born 1949) – Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
Roger Joseph Foys (born 1945) – 10th bishop of Covington
John McDowell Leavitt (1824 - 1909) – lawyer, Episcopal priest
Hlib Lonchyna (born 1954) – Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Family of London
Jeffrey Marc Monforton (born 1963) – fifth Bishop of Steubenville
Stephen Return Riggs (1812 - 1883) – Christian missionary with the Dakota people, linguist
David Stanton Tappan (1845 - 1922) – Presbyterian minister
Edward F. Walker (1852 - 1918) – Minister, general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene (1911-1918)
Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822–1903) – Presbyterian theologian; father of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson

Miscellaneous

Dino Cellini (1914 - 1978) – mafioso, ran casinos for Meyer Lansky
Charles Dillon Perrine (1867 - 1951) – astronomer
Eli Todd Tappan (1824 - 1888) – educator
Richard Timberlake (born 1922) – Professor of Economics

References

↑ "Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb". The Library Company of Philadelphia. World Digital Library. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
↑ Wilson, Earl (Nov 27, 1969). "Small Towns Have Produced Many Big Stars". The Milwaukee Sentinel. pp. A33. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

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