Maya Lin
born 1959 American sculptor and architect
Kevin Hartman
born 1974 American soccer player
Art Tripp
born 1944 American musician
John William Brown
1913–1993 Ohio politician
Gwyneth Philips
born 2000 American ice hockey player
Charles F. Scott
1864–1944 American engineer
Israel Moore Foster
1873–1950 American politician
Dow Finsterwald
1929–2022 American professional golfer
Julia Perkins Ballard
1828–1894 Nature writer
Megan Griffiths
born 1975 American screenwriter, cinematographer and film director
Bernarda Bryson Shahn
1903–2004 American artist
Edwin Tappan Adney
1868–1950 Photojournalist
Charles Caldwell McCabe
1836–1906 American methodist leader
Claire Ball
1941–2019 American politician
Hubert Bobo
1934–1999 American football player
Ruby Mercer
1906–1999 Canadian singer, writer and broadcaster
Sxip Shirey
born 1950 American composer
David Hastings Moore
1838–1915 Union Army officer
Dewey Bohling
1938–2025 American football player
George Kahler
1889–1924 Major League Baseball pitcher
Paul Melko
born 1968 American writer
Robert Caplin
born 1983 American photographer
Robert Katona
born 1947 American artist
Austin Eldon Knowlton
1909–2003 American architect
Dickie Adams
born 1948 American gridiron football player
Frank McDowell Leavitt
1856–1928 American engineer
Jon Loomis
born 1959 Writer
Larry Hunter
1949–2018 American basketball player-coach
Stephen H. Fuller
1921–2005 Academic and businessman
Elliot Forhan
born 1980 American politician from Ohio
John Rood
1902–1974 American sculptor, author
Lydia Lavelle
American politician and professor of law
Paul R. Lehman
born 1931 American music educator
Ralph C. Kenney
?–1966 American sports coach, athletics administrator, military officer (c. 1887 – 1966)
Robert Woods
1887–1949 American football player and coach
Todd Snyder
born 1948 American football wide receiver
Addison Hogue
1849–1942 American classical philologist
Blaine R. Goldsberry
From Athens, Ohio, served in WWI, Ohio University football team physician
Charles G. O'Bleness
1877–1969 Banker and philanthropist from Athens, Ohio
Charles H. Townsend
1847–1911 "American, born ca. 1847. Photographer"
Charles Henry Harris
1884–1962 Athens, Ohio journalist and author
Frederick W. Stehr
1932–2021 American entomologist
Louise H. Currier Grosvenor
1844–1939 Wife of Charles H. Grosvenor
Also called Athens home
Atul Gawande
born 1965 American surgeon
Richard Vedder
born 1940 American writer, economist, and distinguished professor at Ohio University
Bianca Spriggs
born 1981 American poet, professor, and multidisciplinary artist
Andrew Jackson Davison
?–1922 African-American attorney
John Kopchick
born 1950 American biologist
Patricia Goedicke
1931–2006 American poet
Alec G. Holcombe
Researcher, historian, professor at Ohio University
Chaka Shango
born 1943 Black writer
Elizabeth Peters McGrath
1870–1959 First woman elected to public office in Athens, Ohio
Eric LeMay
American author
Lenny Eliason
Politician, Athens County, Ohio, USA holiding office of county commissioner
Lloyd E. Moore
1931–2010 Ohio lawyer and photographer
Marvin Bartlett
born 1961 American journalist from West Virginia
Matthew Cornish
American theater historian
Raymond O. Lane
1924–2020 Physicist, Ohio University distinguished professor
Troy Wilson Organ
1912–1992 Philosopher, Ohio University Distinguished Professor
Victor Goedicke
Researcher, Ohio University professor in Mathematics and Astronomy