Notable People
The following are notable people were born and/or raised in Springfield:
Berenice Abbott - photographer
Randy Ayers - assistant coach of the Washington Wizards, former assistant coach of the Orlando Magic and former head coach of Ohio State and the Philadelphia 76ers, and his brother, Tim Ayers, the city's former mayor
Dave Burba - major league baseball player
William R. Burnett - novelist and screenwriter
Ron Burton - SHS, Northwestern University and Boston Patriots all star football player.
Garvin Bushell – musician (saxophone, clarinet, etc.)
Justin Chambers - former model and actor (in the cast of Grey's Anatomy)
Lewis Strong Clarke - Louisiana sugar planter and Republican politician in 19th century[19]
Call Cobbs, Jr. - jazz pianist
Jason Collier - professional basketball player
Andrew Daniel - winner of Big Brother 5
Mike DeWine - former US Senator for Ohio and present Ohio Attorney General
Wayne Embry - professional basketball player
Lillian Gish - actress from the silent film era and after
Luther Alexander Gotwald Prof., D.D. - tried for and acquitted of Lutheran heresy at Wittenberg College in 1893.
Albert Belmont Graham - Founder of 4H
Harvey Haddix - major league baseball player
Robert C. Henry - first African American mayor of any city
Dustin Hermanson - major league baseball player
Dave Hobson - Former U.S. Congressman for Ohio's Seventh District
Alice Hohlmayer - All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Griffin House - singer-songwriter
Elwood V. Jensen – biologist
Jimmy Journell - major league baseball player
J. Warren Keifer - Civil War General and Speaker of the House
Bradley Kincaid -America's first country music star. He performed on WLS, WBZ, and WLW.
David Ward King - inventor of the King road drag
Brooks Lawrence - major league baseball player
John Legend (aka John Stephens) - singer, musician, R&B and neo-soul pianist
Lois Lenski - author and illustrator of children's fiction, including Strawberry Girl
Deborah Loewer - U.S. Navy flag officer
Luke Lucas - major league baseball player
Johnny Lytle - jazz musician
Will McEnaney - major league baseball player, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
Jeff Meckstroth - Multiple world champion bridge player
Davey Moore - Boxer, World Featherweight Title holder 1959-1963
John Newbrough - writer of the Oahspe
Troy Perkins - professional soccer player
Carl Ferdinand Pfeifer - Presidential aide
Coles Phillips - early 20th century illustrator, inventor of the "fade-away" girl
Robert Bruce Raup - Professor, Teachers College,
Columbia University, writer, and critic of American Education system.
Alaina Reed Hall – television actress, "227 (TV series)" and "Sesame Street"
Cecil Scott - jazz clarinetist, tenor saxophonist, and bandleader
Dick Shatto - SHS and professional Canadian football player with Toronto Argonauts
Winant Sidle - U.S. Army Major General
Dann Stupp – author
Charles Thompson - jazz musician
Tommy Tucker (aka Robert Higginbotham) - jazz musician
W. D. Twichell - surveyor
Christopher J. Waild - screenwriter
Earle Warren - jazz saxophonist with Count Basie
Walter L. Weaver - U.S. Representative from Ohio
Rick White - major league baseball player
Worthington Whittredge - Hudson River School painter
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