Frank D. Celebrezze I (May 12, 1899 – August 21, 1953) was an Italian-American politician, judge and former public safety director in Cleveland, Ohio.
[1] He was born in 1899 to Dorothy (née Marcogiuseppe) and Rocco Cilibrizzi, Italian immigrants in Cleveland.
Celebrezze and some of his family spent part of his childhood in his parents' home region of Basilicata, in southern Italy.
In 1942, Celebrezze replaced Eliot Ness as city safety director, serving under Cleveland mayors Frank Lausche and Thomas A. Burke.
Frank Jr. became an attorney and was elected to the Supreme Court of Ohio, where he advanced to serve as Chief Justice.