Notable People from Indiana

Conte Candoli

American jazz trumpeter (1927-2001)

Henry G. Blasdel

American politician (1825–1900)

Leroy Vinnegar

American jazz bassist (1928–1999)

Jonas H. Ingram

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

Joe Dawson

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

Janet Scudder

American sculptor (1869–1940)

John Coit Spooner

Union United States Army officer (1843–1919)

John B. Allen

American soldier and politician (1845-1903)

Monk Montgomery

American jazz bassist (1921–1982)

Dick the Bruiser

American football player professional wrestler (1929–1991)

James Noble Tyner

American politician (1826–1904)

May Aufderheide

American composer (1888–1972)

James Hill

American film producer (1916–2001)

James McCracken

American opera singer (1926–1988)

David Butler

U.S. political figure, first Governor of Nebraska (1829-1891)

Moses E. Clapp

American politician (1851-1929)

May Wallace

actress (1877-1938)

John F. Hennessey

American tennis player (1900–1981)

Alan Abel

American percussionist (1928-2020)

Robert Adair

Physicist and author (1924–2020)

James Eli Watson

American politician, Indiana (Republican)

Myron McCormick

American actor (1908–1962)

James E. Newcom

American film editor (1905–1990)

Chuck Klein

American baseball player and coach (1904–1958)

Mack V. Wright

American actor and director (1894–1965)

Joseph R. Burton

first American Senator convicted of a crime (1852–1923)

Leo Sharp

American horticulturist and drug trafficker (1924-2016)

William Louis Culberson

American lichenologist (1929-2003)

Charles Major

American novelist, lawyer (1856-1913)

Wilbur de Paris

American musician (1900–1973)

Jeremy Michael Boorda

United States admiral (1939–1996)

John L. Wilson

American politician (Republican) (1850-1912)

Terry Lester

American actor (1950-2003)

Harold Courlander

American anthropologist (1908-1996)

Joseph Levering

American actor and screenwriter (1874-1943)

William Ruckelshaus

American politician (1932-2019)

Dick Durock

American actor (1937-2009)

Robert D. Orr

American politician (1917-2004)

Walter Kaegi

American historian (1937–2022)

Karl E. Weick

Organisational psychologist

Willis Van Devanter

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1859-1941)

Samuel J. Crawford

American politician (1835-1913)

Edwin S. Johnson

American politician (1857-1933)

Tom Harmon

American football player and sportscaster (1919–1990)

Abe Silverstein

American aerospace engineer

Erwin Baker

racecar driver (1882–1960)

Thomas Francis, Jr.

American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist (1900-1969)

William E. Jenner

American politician (1908–1985)

John Korty

American film director

Mary Jane Ward

American writer (1905-1981)