Notable People from Indiana

Michael Jackson

American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer (1958–2009)

Kurt Vonnegut

American author (1922–2007)

Mike Pence

Vice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021

James Dean

American actor (1931–1955)

Paul Samuelson

American economist (1915–2009)

Dan Quayle

vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993

Steve McQueen

American actor (1930-1980)

Theodore Dreiser

American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)

Sydney Pollack

American film director, producer and actor (1934-2008)

Harold Urey

American physical chemist (1893-1981)

Philip W. Anderson

American physicist (1923-2020)

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

Carole Lombard

American actress (1908-1942)

Wendell Meredith Stanley

American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)

Frank Borman

American astronaut (1928–2023)

Thomas R. Marshall

vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921

Cole Porter

American composer and songwriter (1891–1964)

Robert Wise

American film director, film producer and film editor (1914–2005)

Howard Hawks

American film director, producer and screenwriter (1896–1977)

Gus Grissom

American astronaut (1926–1967)

Gordon Allport

American psychologist (1897–1967)

Ferid Murad

American physician and pharmacologist (1936–2023)

Colonel Sanders

American entrepreneur (1890-1980) who founded KFC

Jim Jones

American cult leader (1931–1978)

Lew Wallace

American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur' (1827-1905)

Eugene V. Debs

American labor and political leader (1855–1926)

John Dillinger

American bank robber

Rex Stout

American writer (1886-1975)

Philip José Farmer

American writer (1918–2009)

Jimmy Hoffa

American labor union leader (1913 – disappeared 1975)

Clifton Webb

American actor, singer, dancer (1889–1966)

John Hay

American statesman (1838–1905)

Beulah Bondi

American actress (1888/1889–1981)

John Wooden

American basketball coach (1910–2010)

Charles A. Beard

American historian (1874-1948)

Ray Ewry

American track and field athlete (1873–1937)

Ryan White

American AIDS spokesperson and "poster boy" (1971–1990)

Hoagy Carmichael

American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader (1899–1981)

Freddie Hubbard

American jazz trumpeter (1938–2008)

Louise Dresser

American actress (1878–1965)

Wes Montgomery

American jazz guitarist (1923–1968)

Ambrose Burnside

American general and politician (1824–1881)

Booth Tarkington

American novelist (1869–1946)

The Ultimate Warrior

American professional wrestler and bodybuilder (1959-2014)

Robert Indiana

American artist (1928–2018)

Janice E. Voss

American engineer and NASA astronaut (1956-2012)

Florence Henderson

American actress and singer (1934-2016)

Richard Lugar

American politician (1932-2019)

Ted Stevens

American politician (1923–2010)

Clarence Zener

American physicist