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==Notable people==<!--consensus reached to standardize this heading per WP:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline --> <!-- NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * *NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * NOTICE Only people who already have a Wikipedia article may appear here as Notable people. This establishes notability. The biographical article should say how they are associated with THIS CITY examples = born, raised, residing, etc. A reliable external source of their association with THIS CITY should be cited in their Article and MUST be cited HERE. All others will be deleted without further explanation. Alphabetical by the last name, please. Use a short one-line description of Notability. If the person you think is Notable and does not have a Wikipedia Article for themselves create one. Guidelines for the Notability of a person can be found by entering WP:PEOPLE in the wiki search. Guidelines on what is needed and how to write the Article can be found by entering WP:MOSBIO in the wiki search. END OF NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * * END OF NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * *END OF NOTICE --> The following are notable people born and/or raised in Springfield: {{div col}} * [[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 1959β1963 * [[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 {{div col end}}
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