Editing Lancaster, Ohio (section)

==Notable people==
Lancaster is the birthplace and/or hometown of:
* [[Allan Anderson (baseball)|Allan Anderson]], [[Major League Baseball]] pitcher, American League ERA leader 1988<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=anderal02|title=Allan Anderson Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac|first=Baseball Almanac|last=Inc.|website=www.baseball-almanac.com|access-date=6 April 2018}}</ref>
* [[Mark Baltz]], [[National Football League|NFL]] official, 1989–2013
* [[Jim Brideweser]], Major League Baseball player
* [[Bobby Carpenter (football player)|Bobby Carpenter]], [[National Football League|NFL]] player [[Dallas Cowboys]], [[Miami Dolphins]], [[Detroit Lions]], [[New England Patriots]]
* [[Rob Carpenter (running back)|Rob Carpenter]], [[National Football League|NFL]] player, [[New York Giants]], [[Houston Oilers]]
* [[Gene Cole]], 1952 Olympic silver medalist – 4 x 400 metre relay
* [[Jim Cordle]], [[National Football League|NFL]] player, [[New York Giants]]
* [[Hugh Boyle Ewing]], [[Union Army]] [[Major General]]
* [[Thomas Ewing]], first [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]], appointed by President [[Zachary Taylor]]
* [[Thomas Ewing, Jr.]], Union Army [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]], defender of [[Abraham Lincoln assassination]] [[Conspiracy (criminal)|conspirators]]
* [[Malcolm Forbes]], publisher of ''Forbes'' magazine who ran a local Lancaster newspaper in 1941<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20082678,00.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140413125852/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20082678,00.html| archive-date = 2014-04-13| title = Malcolm Forbes : People.com}}</ref>
* [[Bill Glassford]], football player and coach
* [[David Graf]], actor, is best known as Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry in the ''[[Police Academy (film series)|Police Academy]]'' series of films.
* [[Robert G. Heft]], designer of the current 50-star [[flag of the United States]] adopted by the [[United States Congress|Congress]] in 1960
* [[Edward Gerard Hettinger]], auxiliary bishop of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus]]
* [[James A. Hill]], retired U.S. Air Force general and former vice chief of staff of the Air Force
* [[George King Hunter]], U.S. Army brigadier general, born in Lancaster<ref>{{Cite book |title=Generals in Khaki |last=Davis |first=Henry Blaine Jr. |publisher=Pentland Press |location=Raleigh, NC |year=1998 |pages=192 |isbn=978-1-5719-7088-6 |id=D507.D281998 |ref={{sfnRef|Davis}}}}</ref>
* [[James Hyde (actor)|James Hyde]] Actor, Model and Dancer, known for his role as Sam Bennett on the [[soap opera]] ''[[Passions]]''
* [[Rex Kern]], football quarterback, [[Ohio State Buckeyes football]] 1968 national championship team
* [[Brannon Kidder]], professional middle-distance runner
* [[Augustus Roy Knabenshue]], American aeronautical engineer and aviator, manager of [[Wright Exhibition Team]]
* [[James A. Lantz]], lawyer and Ohio state legislator
* [[Clarence E. Miller]], a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[United States House of Representatives|congressman]] from Ohio, serving January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1993
* [[Marc Wolfgang Miller]], author, explorer, known for his [[cryptozoology]] expeditions
* [[Mary Murphy (choreographer)|Mary Murphy]], ballroom dance champion and accredited dance judge
* [[Joe Ogilvie]], [[PGA Tour|PGA]] golfer
* [[Richard F. Outcault]], cartoonist and creator of [[Yellow Kid]] and [[Buster Brown]]
* [[Jacob Parrott]], first recipient of the [[Medal of Honor]]
* [[Cora Rigby]], first woman at a major paper to head a Washington news bureau
* [[John Sherman]], [[U.S. senator]], [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] and [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]]
* [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], [[Union Army]] and [[U.S. Army]] general and [[General of the Army of the United States]]
* [[Henry Stanbery]], [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]], defender of President [[Andrew Johnson]] at his [[Impeachment of Andrew Johnson|impeachment trial]]
*[[Rebecca Harrell Tickell]], actress, best known as Jessica Riggs in the 1989 film ''[[Prancer (film)|Prancer]]''
* [[Patricia A. Weitsman]], international relations scholar