List of people from Mansfield, Ohio

The following is a list of people from Mansfield, Ohio. These people were born, lived, or worked in and around the city.

Actors, entertainers, and models

*Lee Adams, stage lyricist
*Lester Cowan (b. April 1, 1906) Producer: (film) "My Little Chickadee" (with Mae West and W. C. Fields), "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man", "Main Street to Broadway"; Past Executive Director of the Motion Picture Academy
*Amy Douglas (b. December 21, 1902) Actress: (film) "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Please Don't Eat the Daisies"; (television) "Marcus Welby, M.D.", "Ben Casey", "77 Sunset Strip", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
*James Lapine, playwright and director
*Martha Mansfield, stage actress
*Michael McConnohie, voice actor
*Sylvia McNair, operatic soprano
*Luke Perry, television actor
*Daniel Roemer, film director, screenwriter
*Robert F. Simon (b. December 2, 1908 Actor: (film) "Seven Angry Men", "Foxfire", "The Benny Goodman Story", "Operation Petticoat", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

Architects

*Paul Gilger, architect, set designer and playwright

Astronaut

*Michael L. Gernhardt, astronaut

Athletes

*Ernie Beam, former baseball player
*Hugh Douglas, Philadelphia Eagles defensive end
*Pete Henry, professional football player
*Ricky Minard, professional basketball player
*Don Nehlen, former head football coach
*Marc Wilkins, former Major League Baseball player

Authors

*Jacob Brinkerhoff, jurist, congressman, and author
*Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
*Christopher Moore, author

Writers and cartoonists

*John Bishop, playwright and film writer
*Roeliff Brinkerhoff, layer, editor and owner of the "Mansfield Herald", and later a bank president
*Terry Hertzler, poet and writer

Entrepreneurs

*Homer Lee, engraver, artist, entrepreneur, founder Homer Lee Bank Note Company.
* Scott Bleakley, Retired CEO of Global Support Software and noted technology executive.

Military

*Matthias W. Day, US Army Medal of Honor recipient
*Frank Purdy Lahm, first Army aviator
*Mark Matthews, American veteran

Bands

*Ohio Express, Rock Group-Doug Grassel (rhythm guitar), Dale Powers (lead guitar), Dean Kastran (bass), Jim Pfahler (keyboards), and Tim Corwin (drums)
*Music Explosion, Rock Group-James "Jamie" Lyons (singer, percussion), Donald Atkins (guitar), Richard Nesta (guitar), Burton Stahl (bass), Robert Avery (drums). Top Ten hit in 1967, "Little Bit O'Soul."
*Switch, Motown R&B/soul group

Politicians

*Sherrod Brown, United States Senator, D-Ohio
*Jay Goyal, Ohio State Representative, D-Mansfield
*William Johnston, was a U.S. Representative, D-Ohio from 1863 to 1865
*Lovana Jones, served as an Illinois State Representative
*Winfield S. Kerr, was a U.S. Representative, R-Ohio from 1895 to 1901

Zooarchaeology

*Paul Parmalee, zooarchaeology

Other

*Stephanne Dennis (b. May 20, 1974), Literary Agent for Donna D'Errico, Robert W. Morgan, Marty Tuley, Erik Seedhouse
*Rebecca Gernhardt Cox (b. circa 1955), Assistant Secretary of Transportation, Public Liaison Director for President Reagan, Senior Vice President Continental Airlines.
*Phoebe Wise (b. 184?) Relative of Pulitzer-prize winning author Louis Bromfield, she was the historical basis for many of Bromfield's short stories

ee also

*Mansfield, Ohio