Editing Springfield, Ohio (section)

==Notable people==<!--consensus reached to standardize this heading per WP:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline -->
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The following are notable people born and/or raised in Springfield:
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* [[Berenice Abbott]], photographer<ref>{{cite web |title=Berenice Abbott {{!}} American photographer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Berenice-Abbott |website=Britannica |access-date=September 7, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=August 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818062704/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Berenice-Abbott |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Randy Ayers]], head coach of [[Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball|Ohio State]] men's basketball and the [[Philadelphia 76ers]]
* [[Minnie Willis Baines Miller]], author
* [[Leslie Greene Bowman]], president of the [[Thomas Jefferson Foundation]]
* [[Bobby Bowsher]], racing driver
* [[J. T. Brubaker]], baseball player
* [[Edward Lyon Buchwalter]], first president of the Citizens National Bank of Springfield; U.S. Civil War captain.
* [[Dave Burba]], professional baseball player
* [[William R. Burnett]], novelist and screenwriter
* [[Ron Burton]], professional football player
* [[Garvin Bushell]], musician
* [[Butch Carter]], [[NBA]] player and coach
* [[Justin Chambers]], actor (Alex Karev, ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'') and former model
* [[Jia Cobb]], federal judge
* [[Call Cobbs, Jr.]], jazz pianist
* [[Jason Collier]], professional basketball player
* [[Trey DePriest]], linebacker of the [[Baltimore Ravens]], 2-time NCAA National Champion with the [[Alabama Crimson Tide football]] team.
* [[Mike DeWine]], 70th Governor of Ohio
* [[Marsha Dietlein]], actress
* [[Joe Dunn (baseball)|Joe Dunn]], major league baseball player and manager for the [[Springfield Dunnmen]] and [[Springfield Reapers]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=dunn--001jos|title=Joe Dunn Minor & Independent Leagues Statistics|website=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=December 27, 2023|archive-date=April 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409065742/https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=dunn--001jos|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Adam Eaton (outfielder)|Adam Eaton]], professional baseball player
* [[Nathan Ebner]] -  professional football player for [[New England Patriots]]
* [[Wayne Embry]], professional basketball player
* [[Dorothy Gish]], actress from the [[silent film]] era and after; younger sister of Lillian
* [[Lillian Gish]], actress from the [[silent film]] era and after
* [[Luther Alexander Gotwald]], tried for and acquitted of Lutheran heresy at Wittenberg College in 1893
* [[Albert Belmont Graham]], founder of [[4-H]]
* [[Anais Granofsky]], actress, screenwriter, producer and director
* [[Harvey Haddix]], professional baseball player
* [[Robert C. Henry]], first African American mayor in Ohio
* [[Dustin Hermanson]], professional baseball player
* [[Dave Hobson]], U.S. Congressman for Ohio's Seventh District
* [[Alice Hohlmayer]], All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
* [[Griffin House (musician)|Griffin House]], singer-songwriter
* [[Quentin Jackson]], jazz trombonist
* [[Jimmy Journell]], professional baseball player
* [[Taito Kantonen]], academic and theologian
* [[J. Warren Keifer]], Civil War general and Speaker of the House
* [[Bradley Kincaid]], America's first country music star
* [[David Ward King]], inventor of the [[King road drag]]
* [[Brooks Lawrence]], professional baseball player
* [[John Legend]], singer, musician, R&B and neo-soul pianist
* [[Lois Lenski]], author and illustrator of children's fiction, including ''[[Strawberry Girl]]''
* [[Deborah Loewer]], U.S. Navy admiral
* [[Johnny Lytle]], jazz musician
* [[John Mahoney (Ohio politician)|John Mahoney]], Ohio state senator<ref>{{Cite web |author=Staff Writer |title=Former legislator advocated for cities |url=https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2011/04/06/former-legislator-advocated-for-cities/23708782007/ |access-date=September 11, 2022 |website=The Columbus Dispatch |language=en-US |archive-date=November 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117172040/https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2011/04/06/former-legislator-advocated-for-cities/23708782007/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Will McEnaney]], professional baseball player, pitcher for the [[Cincinnati Reds]]
* [[Jeff Meckstroth]], multiple world champion bridge player
* [[Braxton Miller]], [[Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State]] [[quarterback]] and [[National Football League|NFL]] player
* [[Davey Moore (boxer, born 1933)|Davey Moore]], boxer, World Featherweight Title holder 1959–1963
* [[Henrietta G. Moore]], Universalist minister, educator, temperance activist; president, Equal Suffrage Club of Springfield, Ohio
* [[Randolph Moss]], federal judge
* [[Troy Perkins]], professional soccer player
* [[Carl Ferdinand Pfeifer]], presidential aide
* [[Coles Phillips]], early 20th-century illustrator, inventor of the "fade-away" girl
* [[Robert Bruce Raup]], professor, [[Teachers College, Columbia University]], writer, and critic of American Education system.
* [[Alaina Reed Hall]], television actress, ''[[227 (TV series)|227]]'' and ''[[Sesame Street]]''
* [[William Ridenour]], member of the [[West Virginia House of Delegates]]
* [[Barbara Schantz]], police officer, gained national attention for ''[[Playboy]]'' pictorial, and subject of the 1983 movie ''[[Policewoman Centerfold]]''
* [[Cecil Scott]], jazz clarinetist, tenor saxophonist, and bandleader
* [[Dick Shatto]], professional Canadian football player
* [[Winant Sidle]], [[U.S. Army]] major general
* [[Elle Smith]], model, journalist, and [[Miss USA 2021]]
* [[J. Elmer Spyglass]] - singer and employee of the [[Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt]]
* [[James Garfield Stewart]], Supreme Court of Ohio's 109th justice
* [[Dann Stupp]], author
* [[Charles Thompson (jazz)|Charles Thompson]], jazz musician
* [[Tommy Tucker (singer)|Tommy Tucker]] (a.k.a. Robert Higginbotham), jazz musician
* [[Chris Via]], professional [[Ten-pin bowling|bowler]] on the [[PBA Tour]], winner of the 2021 [[U.S. Open (bowling)|U.S. Open]]
* [[Crista Nicole|Crista Nicole Wagner]], [[Playmate of the Month|''Playboy Playmate'']] (May 2001) and [[Hawaiian Tropic#Miss Hawaiian Tropic USA|''Miss Hawaiian Tropic'']] (2001)
* [[Christopher J. Waild]], screenwriter
* [[Helen Bosart Morgan Wagstaff]], artist
* [[James R. Ward]], World War II [[Medal of Honor]] recipient
* [[Earle Warren]], jazz saxophonist with [[Count Basie]]
* [[Walter L. Weaver]], [[U.S. Representative]] from Ohio
* [[Rick White (baseball player)|Rick White]], professional baseball player
* [[Worthington Whittredge]], [[Hudson River School]] painter
* [[Jonathan Winters]], actor and comedian
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