Mentor (/ˈmɛntər/ MEN-tər) is the largest city in Lake County, Ohio, United States.

Major products include medical related, polymers, plastics, electric boards and other peripherals that generally serve the computer and automation industries.

Two major railroads pass through the city, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern.

Mentor is named after the Greek figure Mentor, in keeping with the Connecticut Western Reserve settlers' tradition, as well as that of most other Americans at the time, of celebrating aspects of Greek classicism (nearby Solon, Macedonia, Euclid, and Akron also were named using that principle).

Mentor was formally established in 1855 but founded in the late eighteenth century by Charles Parker who built the first settlement.

It earned the nickname "Rose Capital of the Nation" due to the abundant rosebushes that grew throughout the city.

Post World War II, most Mentor dwellers had cars and could efficiently drive to work.

This caused an increase in middle and working-class families and by 2000, about 50,000 people lived in Mentor.

There are six stars surrounding the circle symbolizing the 6 original townships, including Mentor, surveyed in 1797.

[13] Mentor is a suburb of Cleveland and is located on the south shore of Lake Erie.

19.8% were of German, 15.1% Italian, 13.1% Irish, 8.8% English, 6.5% Polish, 5.5% Slovene and 5.4% American ancestry according to Census 2000.

However, its rate of 22.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents was higher than the state median of 18.3 per 1,000 people.

The property crime rate was high primarily due to the incidence of theft (larceny) in the city.

[32] In 2014, Garden Thieves Pictures released Mentor, a documentary directed by Alix Lambert about a series of four student suicides beginning in 2010 at Mentor High School that have been attributed to bullying and harassment at the school.

Lambert received ten violent threats after the release of the film's trailer.

[33] The Boston Globe wrote about the documentary, saying "This is a problem of not just one town, but of the entire culture of conformity.