Activists, Philanthropists, Public Agitators, Advocates, Lawyers, Etc.
- Daniel Carter Beard (founder of The Boy Scouts of America) (Cincinnati)
- Elizabeth Blackwell (abolitionist, women's rights activist, and the first female doctor in the United States) (Cincinnati)
- John Brown (abolitionist) (Hudson)
- Clarence Seward Darrow (lawyer, leading member of the ACLU) (Kinsman)
- Ronald Daniels (activist) (Youngstown)
- Richard Dillingham (Quaker abolitionist) (Morrow County)
- Albert B. Graham (founder of 4-H) (Springfield, Clark County)
- Linda Hirshman (lawyer, feminist) (Cleveland)
- William Alexander Morgan (fought in the Cuban Revolution) (Cleveland/Toledo)
- Carl Oglesby (activist) (Akron)
- Achilles Pugh (Publisher of "The Philanthropist" and Anti-Slavery Activist) (Cadiz, Waynesville, Cincinnati)
- Jerry Rubin (60s/70s radical activist) (Cincinnati)
- Bob Smith (doctor) (founder of Alcoholics Anonymous) (Akron)
- Gloria Steinem (feminist) (Toledo)
- Lillian Wald (activist) (Cincinnati)
- Irvin F. Westheimer (founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters)
- Raymond Winbush (scholar/activist) (Cleveland)
- Victoria Woodhull (activist, stock broker, journalist, politician) (Homer/Mount Gilead)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)