Notable Alumni
- Anthony A. Alaimo, jurist
- John C. Bishop, president, CEO, and chairman of Motorists Insurance Group.
- Frank T. Bow, jurist and politician who was honored by naming the Frank T. Bow Federal Building in Canton, Ohio.
- James Cloyd Bowman, a children's book author who received a Newbery Honor in 1938 for Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time.
- Benjamin Brafman, a prominent criminal defense attorney based in New York.
- William J. Brown, former Ohio Attorney General (1971–1983).
- Anthony J. Celebrezze Sr., an American politician who served as the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and as a cabinet member in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
- George Crile, founder of the Cleveland Clinic and inventor of the system for blood transfusion.
- Robert R. Cupp, Ohio Supreme Court Justice.
- Mike DeWine, a politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio between 1995 and 2007.
- Simeon Davison Fess, a Republican politician a former president of Antioch College.
- Stacey Hairston, former Cleveland Browns player.
- Robert Franklin Jones, graduated with a law degree. Served as Allen County (Ohio) prosecuting attorney, 1935 - 1939. Elected in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth U.S. Congress, and elected for three subsequent terms to Congress, serving from 1939 - 1947. Appointed Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, serving from 1947 - 1952.
- J.E. Keeny, studied music at Ohio Northern. Served as president of Louisiana Tech University, 1908-1926
- George E. Killian, a sports administrator and a president of the International University Sports Federation.
- Cassius Jackson Keyser, a mathematician.
- Clayton Mathile, former owner of Iams pet food.
- Bruce Mays, Director of Operations for the Dallas Cowboys.
- Melvin (Mel) S. Narol, foremost authority on legal rights of sports officials
- Bill Peterson, former head football coach at Florida State, Rice University, and with the Houston Oilers.
- Bob Peterson, story artist, animator and voice actor.
- Joseph Banks Rhine, founder of the parapsychology lab at Duke University
- Jamal Robertson, NFL football player.
- R. L. Ropp (Class of 1923), president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston from 1949 to 1962
- Brian Smith, Chief Operating Officer of St. Rita's Health Partners and CEO of Catholic Health Partners' North Division
- Michael B. Smith, President of The Washington Center.
- Baldemar Velasquez, is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO.
- John R. Willamowski, appellate court judge and former state representative.
- Laurence Neal Woodworth, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy in 1977
- Jim Wilson (Los Angeles), city council member, studied pharmacy
- Jason Trusnik, NFL football player. Currently plays for the Cleveland Browns.
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