Howard Sirak (1922-2015) was a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at Ohio State who performed the first open-heart surgery in Columbus in the early 1950s. In 1957, he led an Ohio State team that developed a heart pump.
Herbert Osborn (1856-1954) was professor of entomology at Ohio State and served as chairman of the Department of Zoology and Entomology from 1898-1916.
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser is a Distinguished University Professor and the S. Robert Davis Chair of Medicine at Ohio State. She is also director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research.