Notable People from Indiana

Leroy Vinnegar

American jazz bassist (1928–1999)

John Bunch

American jazz pianist (1921–2010)

Jonas H. Ingram

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

Henry G. Blasdel

American politician (1825–1900)

Ruth Page

American dancer (1899-1991)

Janet Scudder

American sculptor (1869–1940)

John Coit Spooner

Union United States Army officer (1843–1919)

Joseph Levering

American actor and screenwriter (1874-1943)

John B. Allen

American soldier and politician (1845-1903)

James Hill

American film producer (1916–2001)

Sam Rice

American baseball player (1890–1974)

Mack V. Wright

American actor and director (1894–1965)

James Noble Tyner

American politician (1826–1904)

May Wallace

actress (1877-1938)

James McCracken

American opera singer (1926–1988)

David Butler

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

Leo Sharp

American horticulturist and drug trafficker (1924-2016)

Moses E. Clapp

American politician (1851-1929)

James E. Newcom

American film editor (1905–1990)

Alan Abel

American percussionist (1928-2020)

Robert Adair

Physicist and author (1924–2020)

John F. Hennessey

American tennis player (1900–1981)

James Eli Watson

American politician, Indiana (Republican)

Myron McCormick

American actor (1908–1962)

Chuck Klein

American baseball player and coach (1904–1958)

Joseph R. Burton

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

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)

John MacLeod

American basketball coach (1937–2019)

William Louis Culberson

American lichenologist (1929-2003)

Mordecai Brown

Major League Baseball player (1876–1948)

Harold Courlander

American anthropologist (1908-1996)

Erwin Baker

racecar driver (1882–1960)

Robert D. Orr

American politician (1917-2004)

Karl E. Weick

Organisational psychologist

Willis Van Devanter

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

Edwin S. Johnson

American politician (1857-1933)

Samuel J. Crawford

American politician (1835-1913)

Abe Silverstein

American aerospace engineer

Easley Blackwood, Jr.

American classical pianist (1933–2023)

William E. Jenner

American politician (1908–1985)

Thomas J. O'Brien

Catholic bishop of Phoenix

Thomas Francis, Jr.

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

Tom Harmon

American football player and sportscaster (1919–1990)

John Korty

American film director

Mary Jane Ward

American writer (1905-1981)

Billy Herman

American baseball player and coach (1909–1992)