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Jesse Owens (1913–1980), track and field; set three world records in one day while in college at the Ohio State University; won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics; raised in Cleveland, and attended college in Columbus; Jerry Page (1961- ), boxer; born in Columbus; Alexis Peterson (1995- ), basketball combo guard; born in Columbus
Jeff Immelt (chairman and CEO of GE) (Cincinnati) Charles Keating (banker, activist) (Cincinnati) Charles F. Kettering (inventor, industrialist, philanthropist) (Loudonville/Dayton) James Michael Lafferty CEO of Fine Hygienic Holding; prior CEO within Procter and Gamble, Coca-Cola, and British American Tobacco.
Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /, kə-LUM-bəs) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.With a 2020 census population of 905,748, [10] it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest (after only Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital, after only Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas.
Columbus, the capital city of Ohio, was founded on the east bank of the Scioto Riverin 1812. The city was founded as the state's capital beside the town of Franklinton, since incorporated into Columbus. The city's growth was gradual, as early residents dealt with flooding and cholera epidemics, and the city had few direct connections to other ...
Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Columbus Street , Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Interstate 10 in California , U.S. was designated and signed as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway from 1976 to 2022
Columbus Grove was founded in 1842. [5] A large share of the early settlers being natives of Columbus, Ohio caused the name to be selected. [6] A post office called Columbus Grove has been in operation since 1862. [7] The village was incorporated in 1864. [8]
March 22, 1974. Ohio Stadium is an American football stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on the campus of Ohio State University. It primarily serves as the home venue of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team and is also the site for the university's Spring Commencement ceremonies each May. Common nicknames for the stadium include "The Horseshoe", "The ...
The Ohio History Connection is headquartered in Columbus, with its flagship museum, the 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) Ohio History Center, 4 mi (6.4 km) north of downtown. Adjacent to the museum is Ohio Village , a replica of a village around the time of the American Civil War.