Andrea Lunsford, former Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State, is a world leader in the field of rhetoric and composition. She also completed her PhD in English at Ohio State.
James Phelan is a Distinguished University Professor and Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at Ohio State. He has been a worldwide leader in building the field of narrative theory since the mid-1980s.
Melvin Newman (1908-1993) was professor of Chemistry at Ohio State. Newman is best known for the Newman projection, which he developed to understand molecular structure.