Religion
| Name | Occupation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| George Bennard | Evangelist | Best known for composing "The Old Rugged Cross", born in Youngstown. |
| Edward Mooney | Roman Catholic cardinal | Served as Roman Catholic archbishop of Detroit in the from 1937 until his death in 1958, raised on the North Side of Youngstown. |
| George Murry | Roman Catholic bishop | First African-American bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown. |
| Frank Schulman | Unitarian Universalist minister | Published several well-regarded books on the Unitarian tradition, served as Unitarian pastor in Youngstown. |
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“Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible of civilisation. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that their reformation must be worked, and that Missionaries of that description from [France] would avail more than those who should endeavor to tame them by precepts of religion or philosophy.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)