The Cleveland Skyline
Today’s photo of the Cleveland Skyline! Did you know that there are a whole bunch of famous Clevelanders? Here is a list of some of them from the Positively Cleveland Website:
Halle Berry – Actress/producer – the first African American actress to win the Oscar for Best Actress
Drew Carey – Creator/producer and star of ABC-TV’s “The Drew Carey Show” and host of “The Price is Right”
Traci Chapman – Singer/songwriter
Tim Conway – Comedian/actor
Ben Curtis – Graduate of Kent State University and the 2003 PGA British Open Champion
Dorothy Dandridge – Actress – First African American woman to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
Phil Donahue – Talk show host and winner of 19 Daytime Emmys
Alan Freed – D.J. who coined the phrase “Rock n’ Roll”
James A Garfield – 20th US President
Arsenio Hall – Comedian/Actor – The first African American host of a nationally televised late night talk show
Patricia Heaton – Actress
Anne Heche – Actress
Langston Hughes – Poet
Bob Hope – Actor/Comedian – Winner of 5 Special and Honorary Oscars
Sammy Kaye – Band leader – Kaye had more than 100 hit records from 1937-1953
Don King – Boxing promoter
Henry Mancini – Composer of “Moon River,” “The Pink Panther” and many more memorable melodies. Winner of 20 Grammys and four Oscars
Toni Morrison – Winner of 1993 Nobel Prize for literature
Paul Newman – Actor, director, race car driver and Oscar Winner for Best Actor
The O’Jays (Eddie Levert & Walter Williams) – Popular R&B group
Jesse Owens – Olympic track star
John D. Rockefeller – Standard Oil founder
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster – Creators of Superman
Molly Shannon – Actress and cast alumni of Saturday Night Live
Henry Sherwin – Founder, Sherwin Williams
Don Shula – Football coach
Tris Speaker – Baseball player
George Steinbrenner III – Former owner, NY Yankees
Vernon Stouffer – Founder, Stouffer Foods
Joe Walsh – Singer, songwriter, guitarist and member of the “James Gang” and the “Eagles”
Archibald Willard – Artist, painted “Spirit of ’76”
Tom Wilson – Cartoonist, Ziggy
Debra Winger – Actress
Cy Young – Baseball player
For more info on visiting Cleveland:
http://www.positivelycleveland.com/