Other
- Jordan Anderson, former slave and author of "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master"
- Charles Bassett, astronaut
- Hugh Downs, journalist
- George J. Graham, Jr., political theorist
- Ahad Israfil, gunshot victim
- W. S. McIntosh, civil rights activist
- Melvin Lorrel Nichols, emeritus professor of chemistry, Cornell University
- Jane Reece (photographer)
- Howard Dwight Smith, architect of Ohio Stadium
- Norman Steenrod, mathematician
- Strobe Talbott, writer and diplomat
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