Notable Natives
Listed alphabetically, by last name:
- John Blackburn, wrote the lyrics of "Moonlight in Vermont"
- Paul Brown, football player and hall of fame coach
- David Canary, actor
- Jacob S. Coxey, Sr., politician and activist
- Shawn Crable, second-team All-American linebacker and defensive team captain at the University of Michigan; selected in the third round of the 2008 NFL draft by the New England Patriots
- Joseph Davenport, founder of the Massillon Bridge Company, inventor of the locomotive cab and cow catcher.
- Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
- Mayhew Folger, ship captain and uncle of Lucretia Mott
- Lillian Gish, film star
- Rod Graber, member of 1958 Cleveland Indians.
- Bobby Grier, first African-American to play in a college football bowl game (the 1956 Sugar Bowl)
- Morton Grossman, known as the "father of modern gastrointestinal endocrine physiology"
- Mike Hershberger, MLB player for the Chicago White Sox, Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, and the Milwaukee Brewers
- Jim Houston, member of College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Bowl linebacker for the Cleveland Browns
- Lin Houston, an All-American guard who played for Paul Brown in Massillon, at Ohio State and with the Cleveland Browns
- Don James, college football coach
- Bob Knight, college basketball coach
- Mark Kozelek, singer/songwriter
- Matt Lanter, actor and model
- Stanley Macomber, inventor of the open-web steel joist.
- Ed Molinski, member of College Football Hall of Fame, two-time All-American guard, member of 1938 Tennessee Volunteers National Championship team
- Robert R. Scott, Machinist's Mate First Class aboard the USS California (BB-44) posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Warren Shanabrook, Major League Baseball player
- Joe Sparma, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers and quarterback for Ohio State University
- Chris Spielman, 1987 Lombardi Award winner at Ohio State and two-time All-Pro NFL linebacker
- Rick Spielman, GM of Minnesota Vikings
- Stalley, rapper
- Harry Stuhldreher, three-time All-American quarterback at Notre Dame, one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame
- Patrick Sweany, blues-rock musician
- Jeff Timmons, founder/member of pop group, 98 Degrees
- Ryan Travis, Tuslaw High School graduate signed as an undrafted free agent by the Seattle Seahawks
- Bob Vogel, football player
- John Wager, NFL center
- Tom Weiskopf, professional golfer
- Stanfield Wells, Massillon's first All-American football player, selected in 1910
- Alex Wood, college and NFL football coach
- James Young, White House physician to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
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“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The partridge and the rabbit are still sure to thrive, like true natives of the soil, whatever revolutions occur. If the forest is cut off, the sprouts and bushes which spring up afford them concealment, and they become more numerous than ever. That must be a poor country indeed that does not support a hare. Our woods teem with them both.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)