Notable People
- Jim Bollman offensive coordinator of the Ohio State Buckeyes
- Jarrod Bunch, former NFL 1st round draft choice by the New York Giants
- Charles E. Burchfield, American watercolor painter
- Edwin Cowles (1825–1890), born in Austinburg, publisher and editor of the Cleveland Leader and one of the founders of the Republican Party
- Joshua Reed Giddings and Benjamin Wade, two of the earliest and most powerful Republicans from 1850–1870
- Jesse Fuller McDonald, 16th governor of Colorado
- Urban Meyer, head football coach at The Ohio State University and former head football coach at the University of Florida
- Joseph Naper, founder of Naperville, Illinois
- Danielle Nicolet, American actress best known from a supporting role on 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Maila Nurmi (stage name Vampira), Hollywood actress raised in Ashtabula
- Louis C. Shepard, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient from Ashtabula County, buried in Lakeview cemetery, Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio
- Platt Rogers Spencer, the inventor of Spencerian Script of writing
- Decius Wade,was an American attorney, judge, writer, and politician who has been called the "Father of Montana Jurisprudence" for his role in establishing the common law and statutory law of the U.S. state of Montana.
- Connie Schultz, an American Pulitzer Prize author in 2005 for commentary.
- Sheila McCarthy, 1994 state runner-up in high jump
- Tim Henson, creator of The Distorted View Show, an online podcast.
- Freddie Smith, Actor, known for playing the first openly gay character Jackson "Sonny" Kiriakis of the daytime soap opera Days Of Our Lives.
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