Notable Natives
- Doug Bair, pro baseball player
- Alene Duerk, first woman to be selected for flag rank in the U. S. Navy
- Chad Billingsley, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Sam Hornish Jr., Indianapolis 500 winner and current driver for the Nascar Penske Racing team
- Michelle Burke, television and film actress
- Jason Berry, television meteorologist and avid storm chaser
- Wild Bill Davison, jazz cornet player
- Greg Kampe, men's head basketball coach at Oakland University
- Don Miller, one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame
- Jon Niese, pitcher for the New York Mets
- Chad Reineke, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
- Evelyn Ryan, jingle-writer, and subject of the film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.
- Terry "Tuff" Ryan, author
- Bruce Shingledecker, Alaskan wildlife painter
- H. Allen Smith, humorist
- Alan Francis, 16 time Horseshoe World Champion
- Kevin Boyd, Professional Musician, Studio Musician, Tour Musican
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“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
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“Stay on the beach. The natives over there are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men.”
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