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The [[wikipedia: American Greetings|American Greetings]] greeting card company has been based in the city for well over a century. During the 1960s, American Greetings employed a group of young artists, some of which became pioneers in the underground comic genre, most notably [[Robert Crumb]] ([[Fritz the Cat (comics)|Fritz the Cat]]) and [[wikipedia: Harvey Pekar|Harvey Pekar]] ([[American Splendor]]). In contrast, the company would develop greeting card characters [[Ziggy]], [[Strawberry Shortcake]] and the [[Care Bears]] in the late 1970s and early 1980s, all three of which would become licensing powerhouses.
Its baseball and basketball teams--the Indians and Cavaliers respectively--are fairly solid, although the Indians have currently gone more than 60 years without winning the World Series, longer than any other team in the American League and longer than any Major League Baseball team that hasn't been [[The Windy City|cursed by a goat-owning bartender]], and the Cavs lost its star player; ESPN had an hour-long special dedicated to his announcement. But [[All Just a Dream|said star player returned to the Cavs]] four years later, [[And There Was Much Rejoicing|and there was much rejoicing]]. And supporting its football team, the Browns <ref>Before you ask what a "Brown" is, the team was named after its first owner Paul Brown, former Ohio State coach and a highly respected figure in Ohio athletics. It wasn't even his idea and he was against it at first, but later went along with it. Throughout his tenure as coach, the team embraced a [[wikipedia: Brownie|brownie elf]] as their mascot, which has been revisited from time to time by the team's ownership. For an animal mascot, dogs have long been popular due to the city's first pro football team, the Bulldogs.</ref>, tends to be [[Butt Monkey/Sports|a lesson in masochism]]. The city has had a sports rivalry with [[Pittsburgh]] for decades. [[Unknown Rival|Sort of]]. Also, never, ''ever'' say anything nice about the [[Berserk Button|Baltimore Ravens]].
The city was named for surveyor Moses Cleaveland (the first 'A' was reportedly dropped so the name would fit on a newspaper masthead) and has no connection to [[Oop North|the English county of Cleveland]], or the [[Grover Cleveland|22nd and 24th President of the United States]] (who was only distantly related to Moses Cleaveland).
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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 (one strip had Calvin's family visiting a natural history museum with a similar landmark to Cleveland's natural history museum, and the back cover of one Cavlin and Hobbes treasury had a giant Calvin terrorizing the public square of Chagrin Falls).
* 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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* [[Bone Thugs-n-Harmony]]
* Mark Foster (lead singer of [[Foster the People]], who spent his formative years in Cleveland)
* [[Halle Berry]]
* Mushroomhead
* Drew Carey (star of [[The Drew Carey Show|his eponymous sitcom]] and host of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' and ''[[The Price Is Right]]'')
* Alan Freed (a Cleveland disc jockey who not only coined the phrase "rock and roll" but organized [[wikipedia: Moondog_Coronation_Ball| the first rock concert '''ever''']]. {{spoiler|Police called it off because of safety concerns - waves of counterfeit tickets resulted in the arena having '''twice it's seating capacity in attendance''' - and a riot almost ensued.}})
* Tracy Chapman
* Patricia Heaton
* Jim Backus
* [[Anne Heche]]
* Gerald Levert
* Dan O'Shannon
* 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
* Filter
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* Mary Ann Winkowski - Television personality whose claims of paranormal experiences are the basis for [[Ghost Whisperer]], on which she is also a paid producer.
* [[Harlan Ellison]] (Grew up in the nearby town of Painesville)
* George Steinbrenner (
* Lady Akashia ([[Drag Queen]] who appeared in the first season of ''[[Ru Paul's Drag Race]]'')
* [[Kid Cudi]]
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