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Mentor is a city in Lake County, Ohio, on the south shore of Lake Erie about 20 miles northeast of Cleveland.

Mentor was first settled in 1797, when Connecticut Land Company surveyor Charles Parker built a cabin at Mentor Marsh — the first settlement in what later became Lake County.

The name Mentor comes from Greek literature: Mentor was the tutor of Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, and the name reflects the Western Reserve settlers' fascination with the ancient world.

Mentor Township was officially organized in 1815, Mentor Village was incorporated in 1855, and the village and township consolidated to form the City of Mentor on December 18, 1963.

Mentor sits in Lake County, which was established in 1840 and is the smallest county in Ohio by land area.

In 1876 future president James A. Garfield bought a farm in Mentor, and from its front porch in 1880 he ran the first successful front-porch campaign for the presidency.

Garfield's Mentor home, nicknamed Lawnfield by reporters camping on its lawn, is preserved today as the James A. Garfield National Historic Site, operated by the National Park Service; the Memorial Library wing his widow Lucretia added in 1885 became a prototype for later presidential libraries.

Mentor was once known as the Rose Capital of the Nation after local nurseryman Joseph Kallay developed 'Blaze' in 1932, the country's first patented rose.

Mentor is home to Headlands Beach State Park, which has the longest public swimming beach in Ohio.

The 2020 census counted 47,450 people in Mentor, up slightly from 47,159 in 2010.