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* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' (whose one-time theme song is the [[Trope Namer]], used in full irony here)
* ''[[Funky Winkerbean]]'', originally a gag-a-day newspaper comic about high school students that has since evolved into an episodic strip replete with recurring story lines about illness, death and other tragic events, takes place in the fictitious suburb of "Westview." Spin-off comic ''[[Crankshaft]]'' is also based in a similar suburb of "Centerville."
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' never referred to when the strip took place by name, yet, the winter landscapes and occasional shout-outs would reflect Bill Watterson's youth and residence in Northeast Ohio
* Overton from ''[[Sereis/Living Single|Living Single]]''
* [[Marvel Universe|Marvel]] superheroine Dagger (of ''Cloak and Dagger'' fame) is from Shaker Heights, a wealthy suburb in the East Side.
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* Not fiction, but a number of Cleveland's restaurants have been featured on TLC.
* Several books/movies based on the Torso Murder (a Cleveland serial killer) such as Butcher's Dozen or John Peyton Cooke's novel Torso.
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had an episode with a serial killer in Cleveland. Unfortunately, [[wikipedia: Cleveland Torso Murderer|real life]] has been [[wikipedia: Anthony Sowell|just as shocking]]<ref>Although [[wikipedia: Ariel Castro kidnappings|one real-life story]] had an incomprehensibly happy ending in comparison.</ref>.
* Blood and Rust by S. A. Swiniarski a book that contains two vampire stories set in Cleveland.
* A few ''[[Route 66]]'' episodes take place in Cleveland.
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* [[Anne Heche]]
* Gerald Levert
* Dan O'Shannon (executive producer for ''[[Modern Family]]''; writer for ''[[Frasier]]'', ''[[Cheers]]'' and ''[[Newhart]]'', and co-writer of the latter's acclaimed series finale)
* Joe Eszterhas (a former journalist for the ''Cleveland Plain Dealer'' who helped expose the My Lai Massacre; later found fame as a screenwriter, most notably for ''[[Basic Instinct]]'')
* Avant
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* [[The Miz]]
* Molly Shannon
* Martin Mull (spent much of his early childhood in North Ridgeville)
* Teri Garr
* Monica Potter
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* Pere Ubu
* [[American Splendor|Harvey Pekar]] (who also wrote about it)
* Steve Harvey (stand-up comic, sitcom star, radio host and current host of ''[[Family Feud]]'')
* [[Tim Conway]]
* Mike Douglas
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* Langston Hughes
* Paul Newman
* Ernest Tidyman (writer of ''[[Shaft]]'')
* [[Bob Hope]] (acclaimed actor and entertainer, and was heavily involved with USO and annual TV specials on NBC<ref>Note that the [[wikipedia: Hope Memorial Bridge|Hope Memorial Bridge]], a major bridge span from Cleveland's west side into downtown, isn't named for Bob Hope, but for ''his father'', William Henry Hope.</ref>)
* Michael Symon (Food Network Chef)
* Wes Craven
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