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South Euclid is an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, covering about 4.66 square miles on the city's east side.

The area was named in 1797 when Moses Cleaveland's surveyors called the land east of the Cuyahoga River "Euclid" after the Greek mathematician Euclid, the patron saint of surveyors; Euclid Township was formally organized in 1809.

By the 1860s, quarrying the area's rich bluestone deposits replaced farming as South Euclid's main industry, and in the 1870s the Forest City Stone Company consolidated the quarries into one of the region's largest bluestone producers; the northern part of town was long known as Bluestone village.

South Euclid voters chose independence from Euclid Township on October 13, 1917, incorporating as a village, and it officially became a city in 1941.

South Euclid's population boomed after World War II and peaked at 29,579 in 1970; at the 2020 census it had 21,883 residents.

South Euclid has about 8,604 households with an average of 2.44 persons per household, and about 82% of its homes are owner-occupied — a high rate for an inner-ring suburb — with a median owner-occupied home value of about $153,700.

The city maintains four public parks — Quarry (split into North and South sections, with a splash park and dog park), Victory, Bexley (with the city swimming pool), and Oakwood — and the Euclid Creek Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks runs through the city.

South Euclid students attend the South Euclid–Lyndhurst City School District, whose high school is Charles F. Brush High School, named for the Cleveland inventor of the arc lamp.

South Euclid was home to Notre Dame College, a Catholic college founded in 1922 as a women's college that became coeducational in 2001, until the college closed in May 2024.

The historic William E. Telling Mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and long used as a public library branch, now houses the Museum of American Porcelain Art.