- Jonathan Winters, comic and actor
- Phil Donahue, television talk show host
- Martin Sheen, actor
- Brooklyn Decker, model
- Roger Clemens, major league pitcher
- Billy Strayhorn, jazz great
- Dorothy Gish, silent movies star
- Erma Bombeck, newspaper humorist
- Luke Grimes, actor
- Rob Lowe and younger brother Chad, actors
- Chris Collinsworth, football star and broadcaster