Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located about 31 miles southwest of Cleveland within the Cleveland metropolitan area. The population was 8,555 at the 2020 census.

Oberlin is also the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students. Oberlin was founded in 1833 by two Presbyterian ministers, John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart. The pair had become friends while spending the summer of 1832 together in nearby Elyria and discovered a shared dissatisfaction with what they saw as the lack of strong Christian morals among the settlers of the American West. Their proposed solution was to create a religious community that would more closely adhere to Biblical commandments, along with a school for training Christian missionaries who would eventually spread throughout the American frontier.

Oberlin College was known for its progressive social activism being the first college to provide racial equal rights to its college students. The town is the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League which engineered the passage of the 18th Amendment of the United States that restricted the consumption of alcohol, which was repealed in 1933.