Notable People from Indiana

Chubby Johnson

American actor

Richard Voliva

American wrestler and coach (1912–1999)

John Clarke

American actor (1931–2019)

Richard "Skeets" Gallagher

American actor (1891-1955)

Arthur C. Cope

American chemist (1909–1966)

Dwight H. Green

American politician (1897-1958)

Lon Poff

actor (1870-1952)

William Donald Borders

Catholic bishop (1913–2010)

Timothy Brown

American football player and actor (1937–2020)

Ole Olsen

American vaudevillian and comedian (1892-1963)

William Wesley Peters

American architect

Patrick McVey

American actor (1910-1973)

John Riley Tanner

Governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901

Newell Sanders

American politician (1850–1939)

Fred Gamble

actor (1868-1939)

Bill Shirley

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

Earl C. Slipher

American astronomer and politician (1883-1964)

Stuart Randall

American actor (1909-1988)

Larry Steers

actor (1888-1951)

Herm Schaefer

American basketball player-coach (1918-1980)

William Temple Hornaday

American conservationist and zoologist (1854–1937)

Baby Huey

American singer (1944–1970)

Derrick Norman Lehmer

American mathematician (1867–1938)

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)

Sam Rice

American baseball player (1890–1974)

Ruth Page

American dancer (1899-1991)

Monk Montgomery

American jazz bassist (1921–1982)

Samuel D. Jackson

American politician (1895–1951)

Conte Candoli

American jazz trumpeter (1927-2001)

Leroy Vinnegar

American jazz bassist (1928–1999)

James Hill

American film producer (1916–2001)

George Washington Whistler

railroad engineer; (1800-1849)

Jonas H. Ingram

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

May Aufderheide

American composer (1888–1972)

Joe Dawson

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

John Scott Harrison

American politician (1804–1878)

Leo Sharp

American horticulturist and drug trafficker (1924-2016)

Alan Abel

American percussionist (1928-2020)

Robert Adair

Physicist and author (1924–2020)

David Graham Phillips

American writer (1867–1911)

James McCracken

American opera singer (1926–1988)

Frank Gray

American physicist

James E. Newcom

American film editor (1905–1990)

James Eli Watson

American politician, Indiana (Republican)

Myron McCormick

American actor (1908–1962)

Chuck Klein

American baseball player and coach (1904–1958)

May Wallace

actress (1877-1938)

John D. Works

American judge (1847–1928)