Notable People from Indiana

Jonas H. Ingram

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

Leroy Vinnegar

American jazz bassist (1928–1999)

James Hill

American film producer (1916–2001)

Joseph Levering

American actor and screenwriter (1874-1943)

May Aufderheide

American composer (1888–1972)

Henry G. Blasdel

American politician (1825–1900)

Janet Scudder

American sculptor (1869–1940)

Max Carey

American baseball player and manager (1890–1976)

John Coit Spooner

Union United States Army officer (1843–1919)

John B. Allen

American soldier and politician (1845-1903)

Leo Sharp

American horticulturist and drug trafficker (1924-2016)

May Wallace

actress (1877-1938)

Mack V. Wright

American actor and director (1894–1965)

James E. Newcom

American film editor (1905–1990)

James Noble Tyner

American politician (1826–1904)

James McCracken

American opera singer (1926–1988)

Moses E. Clapp

American politician (1851-1929)

David Butler

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

James Eli Watson

American politician, Indiana (Republican)

Alan Abel

American percussionist (1928-2020)

Myron McCormick

American actor (1908–1962)

Robert Adair

Physicist and author (1924–2020)

Chuck Klein

American baseball player and coach (1904–1958)

William Louis Culberson

American lichenologist (1929-2003)

Joseph R. Burton

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

Jeremy Michael Boorda

United States admiral (1939–1996)

Charles Major

American novelist, lawyer (1856-1913)

Harold Courlander

American anthropologist (1908-1996)

Wilbur de Paris

American musician (1900–1973)

John L. Wilson

American politician (Republican) (1850-1912)

John MacLeod

American basketball coach (1937–2019)

James A. Hemenway

American politician (1860-1923)

Mordecai Brown

Major League Baseball player (1876–1948)

John F. Hennessey

American tennis player (1900–1981)

Charles Reid Barnes

American botanist (1858-1910)

Thomas J. O'Brien

Catholic bishop of Phoenix

Easley Blackwood, Jr.

American classical pianist (1933–2023)

Abe Silverstein

American aerospace engineer

Willis Van Devanter

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

Tom Harmon

American football player and sportscaster (1919–1990)

Edwin S. Johnson

American politician (1857-1933)

Samuel J. Crawford

American politician (1835-1913)

William E. Jenner

American politician (1908–1985)

John Korty

American film director

Thomas Francis, Jr.

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

Lexemuel Ray Hesler

American mycologist (1888-1977)

Billy Herman

American baseball player and coach (1909–1992)

Mary Jane Ward

American writer (1905-1981)

Richard Sumner Cowan

American botanist (1921–1997)

Gerald D. Hines

American businessman (1925–2020)