Somebody mentioned JR Gay for Ohio. He is an incredible player in Ohio and definitely deserves to be in there. I used to watch him play years ago. Someone also mentioned Troy Frank, but he lives in Florida now. A good bit of the great players stopped playing in NE Ohio other than Frank Zuma, JR Gay and Tulio Antonelli.
For NC (where I live now) I would list Mike Davis, Mike Fuller, Ron Park, Brian Capps, Earl Strickland, Kelly Fisher, Allison Fisher, Gerda Hofstetter, Jeff Abernathey and quite a few others that I am losing my mind thinking about.
I have been very lucky when it comes to pool. I lived in NE Ohio when they had some of the very best in the state playing at their very best. When I moved to NC I apparently moved to pool central in NC where Tony Watson had his base and it bred a group of hungry ppl as well.