Thomas William Ludlow "Lud" Ashley was an American businessman and politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1955 to 1981.

Maumee Valley Country Day School is an independent and non-religious private school located in Toledo, Ohio. The school was founded in 1842 as an all-girls finishing school in Western New York and was moved to Toledo in 1884, where it became The Smead School for Girls. The school became coeducational and adopted its present location and name in the early 1930s.