History UsefulNotes / Ohio

* Creator/JimCummings (Youngstown)

* J.D. Vance (Middletown, though he spent much time in eastern Kentucky during his youth)

* Chrissie Hynde, frontwoman of Music/ThePretenders (Akron)

* '''Southwest:''' Anchored by Cincinnati, this region culturally includes Northern Kentucky (where its main airport is located) and a tiny bit of Indiana due to Cincy's metro area extending into both states. Cincy has a better reputation and economic outlook than Cleveland, which isn't hard to accomplish, but the city has a mediagenic glamor that most of Ohio lacks; quite a few TV shows, movies, and books are set here. It also has a solid counter-park to Cedar Point in Kings Island (both owned by the same company). Dayton is in this region as well, hometown of Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the modern airplane (though their first flight was in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina). Several institutions are named after the Wright Brothers, including the city's main airport and public university, and aviation technology is a big field here. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, home of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, is located 10 miles northeast of the city. Dayton is also home to Union Terminal, an art-deco train station that was the artistic basis for the [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends Hall of Justice]] (Cincy-based Taft Broadcasting owned Creator/HannaBarbera at the time, and several HB artists visited Taft's corporate headquarters, likely explaining the similarities). In a case of full-circle irony, stock footage of Union Terminal was used as a Hall of Justice-esque building by Creator/TheCW's Series/{{Arrowverse}} crossover event ''Invasion!''.

* Wrestling/DanaBrooke (Seven Hills)

* Creator/GeorgeChakiris (Norwood)

* Wrestling/{{EC3}} (Willoughby)
* Creator/MikeFaist (Gahanna)

* Wrestling/JackieGayda (Strongsville)

* Creator/JasonGriffith (Lakeline)

* Music/DaveGrohl (Warren, though he mostly grew up in DC's Virginia suburbs)

* UsefulNotes/RutherfordBHayes (Delaware)

* Creator/GatesMcFadden (born in Akron, raised in Cuyahoga Falls)

* Creator/PtolemySlocum (born in UsefulNotes/{{Kenya}} but immigrated to raised in Cincinnati)

* Creator/AmyYasbeck (Blue Ash)

* ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' is set in the creator's native Ohio, and it is not spared from the show's offbeat sense of humor.

* '''Southwest:''' Anchored by Cincinnati, this region culturally includes Northern Kentucky (where its main airport is located) and a tiny bit of Indiana due to Cincy's metro area extending into both states. Cincy has a better reputation and economic outlook than Cleveland, which isn't hard to accomplish, but the city has a mediagenic glamor that most of Ohio lacks; quite a few TV shows, movies, and books are set here. It also has a solid counter-park to Cedar Point in Kings Island (both owned by the same company). Dayton is in this region as well, hometown of Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the modern airplane (though their first flight was in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina). Several institutions are named after the Wright Brothers, including the city's main airport and public university, and aviation technology is a big field here. It's also home to Union Terminal, an art-deco train station that was the artistic basis for the [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends Hall of Justice]] (Cincy-based Taft Broadcasting owned Creator/HannaBarbera at the time, and several HB artists visited Taft's corporate headquarters, likely explaining the similarities). In a case of full-circle irony, stock footage of Union Terminal was used as a Hall of Justice-esque building by Creator/TheCW's Series/{{Arrowverse}} crossover event ''Invasion!''.

* Creator/GatesMcFadden (Cuyahoga Falls)

* Creator/PaulNewman (Shaker Heights)

* Wrestling/RandySavage (Columbus)

After UsefulNotes/{{Virginia}}, Ohio is the state with the second most presidents born within its borders, with seven -- all late-19th to early 20th century Republicans ([[UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant Grant]], [[UsefulNotes/RutherfordBHayes Hayes]], [[UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield Garfield]], UsefulNotes/BenjaminHarrison, [[UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley McKinley]], [[UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft Taft]], [[UsefulNotes/WarrenHarding Harding]]),[[note]]An eighth (UsefulNotes/WilliamHenryHarrison -- Benjamin's grandfather) moved from Virginia. The younger Harrison, however, was raised in Indiana, and Grant was elected out of Illinois[[/note]] and is also the birthplace of UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon. Other luminaries include fellow astronaut and long-time Democratic Senator John Glenn (the namesake of Columbus's airport), Creator/JamesThurber, and a number of professional athletes, actors, and musicians. The United States Air Force maintains two bases in Ohio, one in Toledo and one in Dayton, the latter being where the 1998 Dayton Peace Accords were signed and the location of the Air Force's National Museum.

After UsefulNotes/{{Virginia}}, Ohio is the state with the second most presidents born within its borders, with seven -- all late-19th to early 20th century Republicans ([[UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant Grant]], [[UsefulNotes/RutherfordBHayes Hayes]], [[UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield Garfield]], UsefulNotes/BenjaminHarrison, [[UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley McKinley]], [[UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft Taft]], [[UsefulNotes/WarrenHarding Harding]]),[[note]]An eighth (UsefulNotes/WilliamHenryHarrison -- Benjamin's grandfather) moved from Virginia. The younger Harrison, however, was raised in Indiana, and Grant was elected out of Illinois[[/note]] and is also the birthplace of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon. Other luminaries include fellow astronaut and long-time Democratic Senator John Glenn (the namesake of Columbus's airport), Creator/JamesThurber, and a number of professional athletes, actors, and musicians. The United States Air Force maintains two bases in Ohio, one in Toledo and one in Dayton, the latter being where the 1998 Dayton Peace Accords were signed and the location of the Air Force's National Museum.

After UsefulNotes/{{Virginia}}, Ohio is the state with the second most presidents born within its borders, with seven -- all late-19th to early 20th century Republicans ([[UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant Grant]], [[UsefulNotes/RutherfordBHayes Hayes]], [[UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield Garfield]], UsefulNotes/BenjaminHarrison, [[UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley McKinley]], [[UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft Taft]], [[UsefulNotes/WarrenHarding Harding]]),[[note]]An eighth (UsefulNotes/WilliamHenryHarrison -- Benjamin's grandfather) moved from Virginia. The younger Harrison, however, was raised in Indiana, and Grant was elected out of Illinois[[/note]] and is also the birthplace of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon. Other luminaries include fellow astronaut and long-time Democratic Senator John Glenn (the namesake of Columbus's airport), Creator/JamesThurber, and a number of professional athletes, actors, and musicians. The United States Air Force maintains two bases in Ohio, one in Toledo and one in Dayton, the latter being where the 1998 Dayton Peace Accords were signed.

-->--'''Cliched joke.'''

Ohio, the Buckeye State,[[note]]Named after a nut-bearing tree native to Ohio. The nuts are poisonous, but "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckeye_candy buckeye candy]]"--chocolate-covered balls of peanut butter--are a favorite local confection.[[/note]] is the seventh-most populous state in UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates, and is often stereotyped as socially-conservative farm country. This isn't a total lie--there is at least one working farm in all 88 counties--but it's not the whole truth either. Ohio is also one of the most heavily urbanized states in the country. With over 11 million people, it's the densest state outside the Atlantic coast. It has six cities of 100,000 or more; three of which--the "Big C's" Columbus, Cincinnati, and UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}--have metro areas in the millions. As such, Ohio is more diverse in people and belief than most outsiders realize.

* ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' - The DistantPrologue.

After Virginia, Ohio is the state with the second most presidents born within its borders, with seven -- all late-19th to early 20th century Republicans ([[UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant Grant]], [[UsefulNotes/RutherfordBHayes Hayes]], [[UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield Garfield]], UsefulNotes/BenjaminHarrison, [[UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley McKinley]], [[UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft Taft]], [[UsefulNotes/WarrenHarding Harding]]),[[note]]An eighth (UsefulNotes/WilliamHenryHarrison -- Benjamin's grandfather) moved from Virginia. The younger Harrison, however, was raised in Indiana, and Grant was elected out of Illinois[[/note]] and is also the birthplace of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon. Other luminaries include fellow astronaut and long-time Democratic Senator John Glenn (the namesake of Columbus's airport), Creator/JamesThurber, and a number of professional athletes, actors, and musicians. The United States Air Force maintains two bases in Ohio, one in Toledo and one in Dayton, the latter being where the 1998 Dayton Peace Accords were signed.

* Wrestling/{{Wardlow}} (Middlefield)

* '''Northeast:''' By far the most populous and urbanized region, this is where you'll find UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} along with the smaller metropolises of Akron, Canton, and Youngstown. Akron is the "Rubber Capital" of America, as Firestone and Goodyear both got their start here, forming the backbone of the city's industrial base. Both companies have long since moved manufacturing elsewhere, though Goodyear's corporate headquarters is still here. Even though Cleveland and Akron are technically separate metro areas, they're less than an hour apart and close enough to effectively function as one, not unlike UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC and UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}. Then there's Canton, where in 1920, a handful of semi-professional football teams from all over Ohio (and one from Illinois) met to form the American Professional Football Association, now known as the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]]. The Pro Football Hall of Fame & Museum is in Canton for this reason, and the city hosts the NFL's annual preseason Hall of Fame Game. As for Youngstown, it used to be a steel town until the abrupt closure of Youngstown Sheet and Tube in 1977, which laid off 5,000 workers and cost the city an additional 400 satellite businesses and 35,000 manufacturing jobs connected to ''them'', an event known locally as "Black Monday." Since then, the city has been trying to rebrand itself as a college town since it isn't known for much else these days other than crippling poverty and the crime that comes with it. Northeast Ohio is also notorious for getting loads of snow in the winter thanks to Lake Erie's effect on the weather. The "Snow Belt" starts around here and extends to Buffalo, UsefulNotes/{{New York|State}}.

* Creator/JasonDohring (Toledo)

* Creator/ChrisWoodActor (born in Dublin, Franklin County)

* [[Wrestling/DeanAmbrose Jon Moxley/Dean Ambrose]] (Cincinnati)

* ''Film/LiberalArts'' - The movie is set in Ohio. No exact place mentioned but it was shot in Kenyon College, which is in Gambler.