Tom Niehaus is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate who has represented the 14th District since 2005. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2000 until 2004. Niehaus succeeded Ohio Senate President Doug White, who was prevented by Ohio's term limits law from running for re-election, and who became President of the Ohio Senate for the 129th Ohio General Assembly.

In the 129th General Assembly, Niehaus is serving as President of the Senate. On opening day of the assembly, Niehaus set a tone for bipartisanship, stating "I want to assure the Senate that this will be a deliberative body where all voices will be heard." As President of the Senate, Niehaus also serves as chairman of the Rules and Reference Committee; and Energy and Public Utilities.

Tom Beck (born December 21, 1940) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Illinois Benedictine College, now Benedictine University, from 1970 to 1974, Elmhurst College from 1976 to 1983, and Grand Valley State University from 1985 to 1990. During his college football head coaching career, he compiled a 137–52–1 record, good for a .724 winning percentage. All three institutions where Beck coached had historically losing teams before he turned them into nationally ranked programs. Beck was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2004.

Beck played football at Northern Illinois University, where he started on offense, defense, and played special teams. He was the last two-way player in the history of Northern Illinois Huskies football. Beck was All-Conference on both offense and defense, an Academic All-American, and was inducted into the Northern Illinois University Athletics Hall of Fame. He has also been inducted into the athletic hall of fame at Elmhurst College, Benedictine University, and Grand Valley State University as a coach.

Tom Freund is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the U.S.A.. Freund met Ben Harper when he was attending Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 1992 the duo released an album, Pleasure and Pain. Not long after, he joined the alternative country group The Silos as their bassist, and moved to Austin, Texas. He has also contributed to albums by artists including Graham Parker, Mandy Moore, and Josh Kelley.

He released his debut solo album in 1998 on Red Ant Records. He has released albums on his own Surf Road Records since his 2000 EP, L.A. Fundamentalist Music. In 2007, he released an album of children's music with artists including Victoria Williams and Abra Moore, called Hug Trees.

Some of his work, including "Can't Cry Hard Enough" and "Copper Moon", appeared on the TV program One Tree Hill.^{[citation needed]}