Notable People from Indiana

Timothy Brown

American football player and actor (1937–2020)

Richard "Skeets" Gallagher

American actor (1891-1955)

Richard Voliva

American wrestler and coach (1912–1999)

William Donald Borders

Catholic bishop (1913–2010)

Herm Schaefer

American basketball player-coach (1918-1980)

Dwight H. Green

American politician (1897-1958)

Fred Gamble

actor (1868-1939)

John Riley Tanner

Governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901

Newell Sanders

American politician (1850–1939)

Ole Olsen

American vaudevillian and comedian (1892-1963)

Bill Shirley

American actor, singer, Broadway theatre producer (1921-1989)

Earl C. Slipher

American astronomer and politician (1883-1964)

William Wesley Peters

American architect

Larry Steers

actor (1888-1951)

Stuart Randall

American actor (1909-1988)

Patrick McVey

American actor (1910-1973)

Derrick Norman Lehmer

American mathematician (1867–1938)

William Temple Hornaday

American conservationist and zoologist (1854–1937)

Bill Blass

American fashion designer (1922-2002)

Herb Baumeister

American serial killer (1947-1996)

Baby Huey

American singer (1944–1970)

Elwood Hillis

American politician (1926–2023)

Daniel Garber

American artist (1880-1958)

John Shaw Billings

American surgeon, statistician, United States Army officer, designer of New York Public library (1838–1913)

Charles Reid Barnes

American botanist (1858-1910)

John Bunch

American jazz pianist (1921–2010)

Monk Montgomery

American jazz bassist (1921–1982)

Ruth Page

American dancer (1899-1991)

Conte Candoli

American jazz trumpeter (1927-2001)

Leroy Vinnegar

American jazz bassist (1928–1999)

Sam Rice

American baseball player (1890–1974)

May Aufderheide

American composer (1888–1972)

Leo Sharp

American horticulturist and drug trafficker (1924-2016)

Frank Gray

American physicist

James McCracken

American opera singer (1926–1988)

Jonas H. Ingram

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient, American football player and coach, college athletics administrator (1886–1952)

Samuel D. Jackson

American politician (1895–1951)

George Washington Whistler

railroad engineer; (1800-1849)

Joseph Levering

American actor and screenwriter (1874-1943)

Robert Adair

Physicist and author (1924–2020)

David Graham Phillips

American writer (1867–1911)

John Scott Harrison

American politician (1804–1878)

May Wallace

actress (1877-1938)

William Louis Culberson

American lichenologist (1929-2003)

Joe Dawson

American racing driver & Winner of the 1912 Indianapolis 500 (1889–1946)

John MacLeod

American basketball coach (1937–2019)

James Hill

American film producer (1916–2001)

James Eli Watson

American politician, Indiana (Republican)

Alan Abel

American percussionist (1928-2020)

John F. Hennessey

American tennis player (1900–1981)