Musicians
- The Devil Wears Prada (band), Metalcore band.
- Little Axe, blues musician
- Leroy Bonner, musician/producer The Ohio Players (bands)
- Stevie Brock, pop singer
- Kim Deal, rock musician, member of Pixies, The Amps, and The Breeders with sister Kelley Deal
- Rick Derringer, rock musician
- Jim Ferguson, classical/jazz guitarist, composer, author, educator, and music journalist
- Michael Harris, guitar instrumentalist
- Tommy James, rock musician and singer of "Mony Mony"
- Mark Miller, lead singer of country group Sawyer Brown
- Vess Ossman, 5-string banjoist
- Dottie Peoples, gospel singer
- Robert Pollard, founder and singer of lo-fi rock band Guided By Voices and other aliases thereof
- Harry Reser, banjoist and leader of the Clicquot Club Eskimos
- Kim Richey singer/songwriter
- John Scofield, jazz guitarist
- Bud Shank, jazz saxophonist
- Tyler "Telle" Smith, singer (The Word Alive)
- Roger Troutman and Zapp, musicians/producers
- Johnnie Wilder, Jr., founder and lead singer, and Keith Wilder, founder, Heatwave (band), R&B group
- Booty Wood, jazz trombonist
- Snooky Young, jazz trumpeter
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