Not many really Beatifull south

John Swift (Chelsea football club u18s) but will defo be profesh soon



i went to school with him @ Brunepark and he use to live in gosport but now lives in london its really nice to no that someone has made it in life

I live in New York, so.... A lot of people!

Jake bugg, search him on youtube amazing musician.

Will Rogers, he's from where i'm from

Well.... Noone that I know of

Film and theatre





Anne Baxter




James Dean




Louise Fazenda




Carole Lombard




Karl Malden




Steve McQueen




Sydney Pollack




Alice Terry




Clifton Webb Lillian Albertson, actress, producer (Noblesville)
Leon Ames, actor (Portland)
David Anspaugh, director (Decatur)
Arija Bareikis, actress (Bloomington)
Rhonda Bates, actress (Evansville)
Anne Baxter, actress (Michigan City)
Billie Bennett, actress (Evansville)
Abraham Benrubi, actor (Bloomington)
Monte Blue, actor, (Indianapolis)
Beulah Bondi, actress (Valparaiso)
Avery Brooks, actor, (Evansville)
Ezra Buzzington, actor, (Muncie)
David Canary, actor (Elwood)
Ann Christy, actress (Logansport)
Embeth Davidtz, actress (Lafayette)
James Dean, actor (Fairmount)
Major Dodge, actor, producer, model, (New Albany)
Heather Douglas, actress, (New Albany)
Louise Dresser, actress (Evansville)
Irene Dunne, actress, (Madison)
Louise Fazenda, actress (Lafayette)
Jenna Fischer, actress, (Fort Wayne)
Ken Foree, actor, (Indianapolis)
Vivica A. Fox actress (Indianapolis)
Brendan Fraser, actor, (Indianapolis)
Dolores Fuller, actress (South Bend)
Maude Turner Gordon, actress, (Franklin)
Sid Grauman, impresario (Indianapolis)
Phil Harris, actor (Linton)
Heather Headley, actress, singer (Fort Wayne)
Doug Jones, actor (Indianapolis)
Greg Kinnear, actor (Logansport)
Anita King, actress (Michigan City)
Elmo Lincoln, actor (Rochester)
Sarah Litzsinger, actress, (Indianapolis)
Jake Lloyd, actor, (Carmel)
Carole Lombard, actress, (Fort Wayne)
Shelley Long, actress, (Fort Wayne)
Marjorie Main, actress (Acton)
Karl Malden, actor, (Gary)
Strother Martin, actor (Kokomo)
Randy McDowell, actor, (Warsaw)
John McMartin, actor, (Warsaw)
Steve McQueen, actor, (Beech Grove and Indianapolis)
Michael Michele, actress, (Evansville)
Keith Alan Morris, director, screenwriter, (South Bend)
Ryan Murphy, writer, director (Indianapolis)
Dean Norris, actor, (South Bend)
Tommy O'Haver, director, screenwriter (Carmel)
Angelo Pizzo, screenwriter, (Bloomington)
Sydney Pollack, actor, producer, director, (Lafayette)
Victor Potel, actor, (Lafayette)
James Rebhorn, actor, (Anderson)
Michael Rosenbaum, actor, (Newburgh)
Robert Rusler, actor, (Fort Wayne)
Jake Short, actor, (Indianapolis)
Liz Stauber, actress, (Indianapolis)
Valeska Suratt, actress, (Owensville)
Max Terhune, actor, (Anderson)
Alice Terry, actress, (Vincennes)
Twyla Tharp, dancer (Portland)
Forrest Tucker, actor, (Plainfield)
William Walker, actor (Pendleton)
Clifton Webb, actor, (Indianapolis)
Dreya Weber, actress, (Bloomington)
Isiah Whitlock, Jr., actor, (South Bend)
Fred Williamson, actor, (Gary)
Robert Wise, director, (Winchester)
Jo Anne Worley, actress, (Lowell)

[edit] Comedians





Red Skelton Mike Epps, comedian (Gary)
Michael Essany, comedian (Valparaiso)
Jim Gaffigan, comedian (Chesterton)
David Letterman, comedian (Indianapolis)
Buddy Lewis, comedian (Gary)
Dan Nainan, comedian (Bloomington)
Herb Shriner, comedian (Fort Wayne)
Red Skelton, comedian (Vincennes)
Brad Stine, comedian (Bremen)

[edit] Musicians





Hoagy Carmichael




John Hiatt




Janet Jackson




Michael Jackson




Amanda Overmyer




Axl Rose Steve Allee, jazz musician and composer (Indianapolis)
DJ Ashba, lead guitarist of Sixx:A.M. (Monticello)
Joshua Bell, violinist (Bloomington)
Scrapper Blackwell Blues Legend, writer of the earliest version of Sweet Home Chicago (Indianapolis)
Jeremy Camp singer (Lafayette)
Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter (Bloomington)
Leroy Carr, blues pianist and songwriter (Indianapolis)
Randy Carr, singer, songwriter, producer (Columbus)
Kyle Cook, Matchbox Twenty guitarist (Frankfort)
Paul Dresser, songwriter (Terre Haute)
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, singer, producer (Indianapolis)
Janie Fricke, singer (South Whitley)
Bill Gaither, singer (Alexandria)
Danny Gaither, gospel singer (Alexandria)
Gloria Gaither, songwriter (Alexandria)
Crystal Gayle, singer (Wabash)
Lisa Germano, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Mishawaka)
Krystal Harris, pianist, singer-songwriter (Anderson)
Bobby Helms, singer (Bloomington)
John Hiatt, singer, songwriter (Indianapolis)
Shannon Hoon, Blind Melon singer (Lafayette)
Janet Jackson, singer, dancer, songwriter (Gary)
La Toya Jackson, singer-songwriter, musician (Gary)
Michael Jackson, singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, entertainer, actor(Gary)
Jane Jarvis, jazz pianist (Vincennes)
Denny Jiosa, jazz guitarist/composer (Huntington)
JJ Johnson, jazz trombonist (Indianapolis)
Adam Lambert, singer-songwriter, American Idol Runner-Up (Indianapolis)
Mick Mars (real name Robert Deal), Mtley Cre lead guitarist (Terre Haute)
Kym Mazelle, singer (Gary)
Ryan McCombs, singer (Dunkirk, Indiana)*
Jon McLaughlin, singer-songwriter (Anderson, Indiana)
John Mellencamp, singer, songwriter, musician (Seymour)
Luke Menard, singer, musician (Crawfordsville, Indiana)
Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist (Indianapolis)
Rich Mullins, Christian Contemporary Artist (Richmond)
Ken Navarro, jazz guitarist (Lafayette)
Amanda Overmyer singer, American Idol (season 7) finalist (Camden)
Amanda Perez R&B artist, singer, songwriter, producer (Fort Wayne)
Cole Porter, songwriter (Peru)
Ned Rorem, composer (Richmond)
Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses singer (Lafayette)
David Lee Roth, Van Halen singer (Bloomington)
Connie Smith, singer (Elkhart)
Izzy Stradlin, Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist (Lafayette)
Henry Lee Summer, singer (Elwood)
Steve Wariner, singer (Noblesville, Indiana)
Deniece Williams, singer (Gary, Indiana)
Andy Timmons, guitarist, Danger Danger, Andy Timmons Band (Evansville, Indiana)

[edit] Musical groups
The Ataris
Blind Melon
Days of the New
Doppelganger
The Elms
Emanuel
Haste The Day
Hoosier Hot Shots
Iced Earth
The Jackson 5
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
Mock Orange
Murder by Death
The Ready Set
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Umphrey's McGee
Virgin Millionaires
The Why Store
Wright Brothers Band
The Four Freshmen
Straight No Chaser

[edit] Television





Nicole Anderson




Kate Bolduan




Joyce DeWitt




Jenna Fischer




David Letterman




Carly Schroeder Nicole Anderson, actress (Rochester)
Arija Bareikis, actress (Bloomington)
Julia Barr, actor (Fort Wayne)
James Best, actor (Corydon, Indiana)
Kate Bolduan, CNN correspondent (Goshen)
Kyle Bornheimer, actor (Mishawaka)
John Bromfield, actor (South Bend)
Avery Brooks, actor (Evansville)
Dan Butler, actor (Fort Wayne)
Jose Pablo Cantillo, actor (Terre Haute)
Terri Conn, actress (Bloomington)
Nancy Criss, producer, director (Elkhart)
Mary Jane Croft actress (Muncie)
Scatman Crothers, actor (Terre Haute)
Joyce DeWitt, actress (Speedway)
Polly Draper, actress (Gary)
Chad Everett, actor (South Bend)
Bianca Ferguson, actress (Gary)
Jenna Fischer, actress (Fort Wayne)
Dolores Fuller, actress (South Bend)
Will Geer, actor (Frankfort)
Ron Glass, actor (Evansville)
Florence Henderson, actress (Dale)
Drake Hogestyn, actor (Fort Wayne)
Jamie Hyneman, MythBusters host (Columbus)
Chubby Johnson, actor (Terre Haute)
Anissa Jones, actress (West Lafayette)
Kennedy, 1990s MTV VJ (Indianapolis)
Adam Kennedy, actor, author, painter (Otterbein)
Brook Kerr, actress (Indianapolis)
Michael King, Emmy-winning TV producer, political commentator (Gary)
Steve Kroft, journalist and correspondent for 60 Minutes (Kokomo)
David Letterman, late night entertainer (Indianapolis)
Shelley Long, actress (Fort Wayne)
Karl Malden, actor (Gary)
Claire Malis, actress (Gary)
Patrick McVey, actor (Fort Wayne)
Julie McWhirter, voice actress (Indianapolis)
Tammy Lynn Michaels, actress (Lafayette)
Dylan Minnette, teen actor (Evansville)
Alvy Moore, actor (Vincennes) and (Terre Haute)
Jane Pauley, news anchor (Indianapolis)
Nancy Priddy, actress (South Bend)
Madelyn Pugh, writer (I Love Lucy) (Indianapolis)
Sarah Purcell, talk show host, game show host (Richmond)
Michael Rosenbaum, actor (Newburgh)
Carly Schroeder, actress (Valparaiso)
Tavis Smiley, talk show host on PBS and NPR (Kokomo)
David Shuster, reporter (Bloomington)
Casey Stegall, correspondent (Evansville)
Marc Summers, Double Dare host (Indianapolis)
Trista Sutter, reality TV star (Indianapolis)
Zuzanna Szadkowski, actress (Fort Wayne)
Vincent Ventresca, actor (Indianapolis)
Chuck Vinson, TV director & producer (Elkhart)
Kristina Wagner, actress (Indianapolis)
Michael Warren, actor (South Bend)
Fred Williamson, actor (Gary)
Jama Williamson, actress (Evansville)
Dick York, actor (Fort Wayne)

[edit] Modeling





Hanna Hilton




Karen McDougal AJ Alexander, model, Playboy Playmate (Evansville)
Bridget Bobel, beauty queen,softball in the face Miss Indiana 2006 (Peru)
Pamela Bryant, model, Playboy Playmate (Indianapolis)
Kaitlyn Christopher, beauty queen, Miss Indiana 2005 (Kokomo)
June Cochran, model, Playboy Playmate (Indianapolis)
Jami Ferrell, model, Playboy Playmate (Muncie)
Danelle Folta, model, Playboy Playmate (Hammond)
Hanna Hilton, model, Penthouse Pet (Brookville)
Heather Kuzmich, America's Next Top Model finalist (Valparaiso)
Stephanie Larimore, model, Playboy Playmate (Fort Wayne)
Brittany Mason, model, Miss Indiana 2008 (Anderson)
Karen McDougal, fitness model, Playboy Playmate (Merrillville)
Nicole Rash, model, Miss Indiana 2007 (South Bend)
Roman and Gabriel Slaybaugh, Twin Models (LaPorte)
Jami Stallings, beauty queen (Evansville)
Katie Stam, Miss America 2009 (Seymour)
Heather Stohler, Calvin Klein model (Zelenfield)
Marjorie Wallace, model and 1973 Miss World (Indianapolis)

[edit] Sports

[edit] Baseball





Don Mattingly Clint Barmes, baseball player (Vincennes)
Tim Bogar, baseball player (Indianapolis)
Phil Bradley, baseball player (Bloomington)
Eric Bruntlett, baseball player (Lafayette)
Donie Bush, baseball player (Indianapolis)
Max Carey, baseball player (Terre Haute)
Jamey Carroll, baseball player (Evansville)
Lou Criger, baseball player (Elkhart)
George Crowe, baseball player (Whiteland)
*** Cuppy, baseball player (Logansport)
Chad Curtis, baseball player (Marion)
Carl Erskine, baseball player (Anderson)
Jake Fox, baseball player (Beech Grove)
Bob Friend, baseball player (West Lafayette)
Billy Herman, baseball player (New Albany)
Gil Hodges, baseball player (Princeton)
Tommy Hunter, baseball player (Indianapolis)cousin
Tommy John, baseball player (Terra Haute)
Jeff King, baseball player (Marion)
Chuck Klein, baseball player (Indianapolis)
Don Larsen, baseball player (Michigan City)
Adam Lind, baseball player (Muncie)
Kenny Lofton, baseball player (East Chicago)
Lance Lynn, baseball player (Brownsburg)
Justin Masterson, baseball player (Fort Wayne)
Don Mattingly, baseball player (Evansville)
Lloyd McClendon, baseball player (Gary)
Dan Plesac, baseball player (Gary)
Ron Reed, baseball and basketball player (LaPorte)
Jason Repko, baseball player (East Chicago)
Sam Rice, baseball player (Morocco)
Scott Rolen, baseball player (Jasper)
Edd Roush, baseball player (Oakland City)
Janet Rumsey, baseball player (Moores Hill)
Jeff Samardzija, baseball player (Valparaiso)
Everett Scott, baseball player (Bluffton)
Eric Stults, baseball player (Argos)
Walt Terrell, baseball player (Jeffersonville)
Sam Thompson, baseball player (Danville)
Dickie Thon, baseball player (South Bend)
Cory Wade, baseball player (Indianapolis)
Eric Wedge, baseball player (Fort Wayne)
Cy Williams, baseball player (Wadena)
Rollie Zeider, baseball player (Hoover and Auburn)
Larry Bigbie, baseball player (Hobart, Indiana)

[edit] Basketball





Larry Bird Steve Alford, basketball player (New Castle)
Damon Bailey, basketball player (Heltonville)
Alison Bales, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Larry Bird, basketball player (French Lick)
Rodney Carney, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Calbert Cheaney, basketball player (Evansville)
Mike Conley, Jr., basketball player (Indianapolis)
Terry Dischinger, basketball player (Terre Haute)
Katie Douglas, WNBA player (Indianapolis)
Bill Garrett (William Leon Garrett), basketball player (Shelbyville)
Katie Gearlds, basketball player (Beach Grove)
Eric Gordon, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Luke Harangody, basketball player (Schererville)
Gordon Hayward, basketball player (Brownsburg)
Aaron Heilman, baseball player (Logansport)
Alan Henderson, basketball player (Indianapolis)
George Hill, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Jared Jeffries, basketball player (Bloomington)
JaJuan Johnson, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Shawn Kemp, basketball player (Elkhart)
Courtney Lee, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Sean May, basketball player (Bloomington)
Walter McCarty, basketball player (Evansville)
George McGinnis, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Josh McRoberts, basketball player (Carmel)
John Mengelt, basketball player (Elwood)
Brad Miller, basketball player (Kendallville)
E'Twaun Moore, basketball player (East Chicago)
Rick Mount, basketball player (Lebanon)
Stretch Murphy, basketball player (Marion)
Greg Oden, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Zach Randolph, basketball player (Marion)
Ron Reed, baseball and basketball player (LaPorte)
Oscar Robertson, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Glenn Robinson, basketball player (Gary)
Scott Skiles, basketball player (Plymouth)
Charles "Chuck" Taylor, basketball player, sports shoe pioneer (Brown County)
Jeff Teague, basketball player (Indianapolis)
Bonzi Wells basketball player (Muncie)
Stephanie White, former WNBA player (Williamsport)
John Wooden, basketball player and coach (Martinsville)
Mike Woodson, basketball player and head coach (Indianapolis)
Shanna Zolman, WNBA player (Syracuse)

[edit] Basketball Coaches





John Wooden Del Harris, basketball coach (Plainfield)
Tony Hinkle, basketball coach (Logansport)
Ralph Jones, basketball coach (Marion County)
Ward Lambert, basketball coach (West Lafayette)
Gregg Popovich, basketball coach (East Chicago)
Scott Skiles, basketball coach (La Porte)
Brad Stevens, college basketball coach (Zionsville)
John Wooden, basketball player and coach (Martinsville)

[edit] Football
William "Dick the Bruiser" Afflis, football player and professional wrestler (Indianapolis)
Blaine Bishop, football player (Indianapolis)
James Brewer, football player (Indianapolis)
Mark Clayton, football player (Indianapolis)
Roosevelt Colvin, football player (Indianapolis)
Jay Cutler, football player (Santa Claus)
Len Dawson, football player (West Lafayette)
Mike DeBord, football coach (Muncie)
Kris Dielman, football player (Goshen)
Ken Dilger, football player (Lincoln City)
Tandon Doss, football player (Indianapolis)
Vaughn Dunbar, football player (Fort Wayne)
Trai Essex, Football player (Fort Wayne)
Jason Fabini, football player (Fort Wayne)
Justin Gage, football player (Indianapolis)
Jeff George, football player (Indianapolis)
Bob Griese, football player (Evansville)
Rex Grossman, football player (Bloomington)
Nick Hardwick, football player (Indianapolis)
Corey Harris, football player (Indianapolis)
Mark Herrmann, football player (Carmel)
Alex Karras, football player (Gary)
Dustin Keller, football player (Lafayette)
Mathias Kiwanuka, football player (Indianapolis)
Brad Maynard, football player (Tipton)
Rick Mirer, football quarterback (Goshen)
Brandon Moore, football player (Gary)
Devin Moore, football player (Indianapolis)
Mike Neal, football player (Merrillville)
Elmer Oliphant, football player (Washington)
Mike Phipps, football player (Columbus)
Jason Pociask, football player (Indianapolis)
Bernard Pollard, football player (Fort Wayne)
Courtney Roby, football player (Indianapolis)
Anthony Spencer, football player (Fort Wayne)
John Standeford, football player (Monrovia)
Dan Stryzinski, football player (Vincennes)
Steve Weatherford, football player (Crown Point)
Eugene Wilson, football player (Merrillville)
Rod Woodson, football player and television analyst (Fort Wayne)
Joe Zeller, football player (East Chicago)




[edit] Football Coaches
Cam Cameron, football coach (Terre Haute)
Jack Chevigny, football coach (Hammond)
Clem Crowe, football head coach (Lafayette)
Weeb Ewbank, football head coach (Richmond)
Hank Stram, football coach (Gary)

[edit] Race Car Drivers





Jeff Gordon




Tony Stewart John Andretti, racer (Indianapolis)
Kenny Irwin, racer, (Indianapolis)
Mel Kenyon, midget car racer (Lebanon)
Steve Kinser, 20 time World of Oultlaws Sprint Car Champion (Bloomington)
Ryan Newman, racer (South Bend)
Tony Raines, racer (LaPorte)
Tony Stewart, auto racer (Columbus)
David Stremme, racer (South Bend)

[edit] Wrestlers/Fighters/Boxers
William "Dick the Bruiser" Afflis, football player and professional wrestler (Indianapolis)
Danny "the Damaja" Basham, professional wrestler (Seymour)
Mick Foley, professional wrestler (born in Bloomington, but raised on Long Island)
Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman, wresting valet (Gary)
Tony Zale, boxer (Gary)
Ultimate Warrior, WWE Wrestler (Crawfordsville)
Jon Fitch, ufc fighter (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

[edit] Other Sports Figures
Lloy Ball, volleyball player (born in Fort Wayne, raised in Woodburn)
Damarcus Beasley, soccer player (Fort Wayne)
Donald Brashear, hockey player (Bedford)
Charlie Finley, MLB owner of Kansas City/Oakland A's, NHL owner Oakland/California Seals, ABA owner Memphis Pros/Tams (LaPorte)
Ford Frick, writer and Commissioner of Major League Baseball (Wawaka)
Tony Hulman, owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Terre Haute)
Don Lash, long-distance runner (Bluffton and Auburn)
Dan Patch, pacer (Oxford)
Aron Ralston, mountain climber (Indianapolis)
Marshall "Major" Taylor, cyclist (Indianapolis)
Fuzzy Zoeller, golfer (New Albany)
Rich Balchan, soccer player (Carmel, Indiana)
Ray Gaddis, Soccer player (Indianapolis, Indiana)

[edit] Business





Madam C. J. Walker Madam C.J. Walker, businesswoman (Indianapolis)
Bill Blass, fashion designer (Fort Wayne)
Steve Bellamy, sports and media businessman
Charles G. Conn, manufacturer of band instruments (Elkhart)
Steve Ells, Founder and CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill (Indianapolis)
Michael L. Eskew, former CEO of UPS (Vincennes)
Carl G. Fisher, founder of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Prest-O-Lite (Indianapolis)
Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of gatling gun (Indianapolis)
Edward Mead Johnson, co-founder of Johnson & Johnson and founder of Mead Johnson & Co. (Evansville)
Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC (Henryville)
Jared Fogle, spokesperson of Subway (Indianapolis)
Halston, fashion designer (Evansville)
Norman Norell, fashion designer (Noblesville)
Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint.com (Evansville)
Orville Redenbacher, businessman (Valparaiso, Indiana)
Francis Joseph Reitz, banker and philanthropist (Evansville)
Alvah Curtis Roebuck, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company (Lafayette)
John Schnatter, founder and CEO of Papa John's Pizza (Jeffersonville)
Fred Zollner, industrialist and founder of the Fort Wayne Pistons NBA franchise

[edit] Education
Enoch Albert Bryan, President, Vincennes University and Washington State University (Bloomington)
Ray Ginger, Harvard professor in American labor history and economic history; target of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, ending his academic career. (Greencastle) and (Indianapolis).
George P. Smith II, Catholic University of America professor of Law. (Wabash).

[edit] Art and literature





James Whitcomb Riley George Ade, author and journalist, (Kentland)
J. Ottis Adams, artist (Indianapolis)
Radley Balko, journalist, blogger (Greenfield)
Charles A. Beard, historian (Knightstown)
Albert J. Beveridge, historian (Indianapolis)
Allan Bloom, philosopher, classicist, and academic (Indianapolis)
Norman Bridwell, author (Kokomo)
Meg Cabot, author (Bloomington)
Jared Carter, poet (Elwood)
William Merritt Chase, painter, (Nineveh, Johnson County)
Will Cuppy, humorist (Auburn)
Jim Davis, cartoonist (Fairmount)
Lloyd C. Douglas, author, (Monroeville)
Theodore Dreiser, author (Terre Haute)
Marilyn Durham, author (Evansville)
William Forsyth (artist), artist (Indianapolis)
Art Green, painter (member of The Hairy Who)
John Green, author, (Indianapolis)
Richard Gruelle, artist (Indianapolis)
Christine Howser, author
Kin Hubbard, humorist, writer, cartoonist (Indianapolis)
Robert Indiana, artist (New Castle)
Ross Lockridge, Jr., author (Bloomington)
Bubba the Love Sponge, radio personality (Warsaw)
John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist (Lafayette)
Dale Messick, comic strip artist (South Bend)
Bruce Nauman, artist (Fort Wayne)
Meredith Nicholson, author (Crawfordsville)
Bill Peet, author, Disney artist, and Caldecott Honor recipient (Grandview)
Edith Pfau, painter, sculptor, art educator (Jasper)
Ernie Pyle, newsman, legendary war correspondent during World War II (Dana)
E. A. Richardson, poet, first Poet Laureate of Indiana. (Pike County)
James Whitcomb Riley, poet (Greenfield)
William Edouard Scott, artist (Indianapolis)
Zerna Sharp, author and educator (Frankfort)
Will Shortz, editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle and host of the puzzle segment on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday (Crawfordsville)
David Smith, Abstract Expressionist sculptor (Decatur)
Otto Stark, artist (Indianapolis)
T. C. Steele, artist (Indianapolis)
Gene Stratton Porter, author (Wabash County)
Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Alice Adams, Seventeen, and The Magnificent Ambersons (Indianapolis)
James Alexander Thom,author, Indianapolis, Brown County
Gilbert R. Tredway, historian (Jasper)
Kurt Vonnegut, author (Indianapolis)
Lew Wallace, author (Crawfordsville)
Jason Whitlock, sportswriter (Indianapolis)
J.N. Williamson, author (Noblesville)
Marguerite Young, poet, author, and critic. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
Amy Spindler, American journalist (Michigan City) The New York Times Magazine.

[edit] Science and medicine
Gordon Allport, psychologist, one of the founding figures of personality psychology (Montezuma)
Philip Warren Anderson, Nobel Prize in Physics (Indianapolis)
Herbert C. Brown, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (West Lafayette)
James Bert Garner, chemist, inventor of the gas mask (Lebanon)
Colonel Eli Lilly, founder of Eli Lilly (Indianapolis)
Goethe Link, surgeon (Indianapolis)
Elwood Haynes, Inventor of stainless steel (Kokomo)
C. Francis Jenkins, inventor of the motion picture projector and television (Richmond)
Salvador E. Luria, Nobel Prize in Medicine (Bloomington)
E. J. Pennington, inventor and promoter of many mechanical devices (Moores Hill)
Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel Prize in Physics (West Lafayette)
Ben Roy Mottelson, Nobel Prize in Physics (West Lafayette)
Hermann Joseph Muller, Nobel Prize in Medicine (Bloomington)
Paul A. Samuelson, first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics (Gary)
Julian Schwinger, Nobel Prize in Physics (West Lafayette)
Vernon Smith, Nobel Prize in Economics (West Lafayette)
Lewis Terman, psychologist, inventor of the Stanford-Binet I.Q. test and pioneer in educational psychology (Johnson County)
Harold Urey, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Walkerton)
James D. Watson, Nobel Prize in Medicine (Bloomington)

[edit] Aviation and space





Wilbur Wright Joseph P. Allen, astronaut (Crawfordsville)
Frank Borman, astronaut (Gary)
Kenneth Bowersox, astronaut (Bedford)
Mark N. Brown, astronaut (Valparaiso)
Amelia Earhart, pioneer woman aviator (West Lafayette)
Anthony England, astronaut (Indianapolis)
Gus Grissom, astronaut (Mitchell)
Jerry Ross, astronaut (Crown Point)
David Wolf, astronaut (Indianapolis)
Charles D. Walker, astronaut (Bedford)
Wilbur Wright, Inventor (Millville)

[edit] Martial artists
Robert Bowles, An American Karate teacher, 10th Degree black belt in Shuri-ryu karate (Fort Wayne)
Chris Lytle, UFC Fighter (Indianapolis)
Joe Morris, Founder of Morris Martial Arts Academy, USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame, Writer, instructor, instructional videos (Rising Sun)
Bill Wallace, World Karate Champion, Actor, Author (Muncie)
Stephan Bonnar, UFC Fighter (Munster, Indiana)
Miguel Torres, Former WEC Bantmaweight Champion and present UFC fighter (East Chicago, Indiana)
Jon Fitch, UFC Fighter (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

[edit] Notorious and infamous Indiana
Michael Alig, founding member of Club Kids, murderer (South Bend)
Lowell Amos, murderer, (Anderson)
Sam Bass, train robber (Mitchell)
Herb Baumeister, serial killer (Westfield)
John Dillinger, bank robber (Indianapolis)
Belle Gunness, serial killer (La Porte)
Jimmy Hoffa, labor-union leader (Brazil)
Jim Jones, cult founder/leader (Richmond)
Tony Kiritsis, hostage-taker (Indianapolis)
Sylvia Likens, murder victim (Indianapolis)
Madge Oberholtzer, murder victim (Clay City)
Harry Pierpont, Prohibition era gangster (Muncie)
Reno Brothers, murderers, committed the first three peacetime train robberies in U.S. history (Rockford)
Shanda Sharer, murder victim (New Albany)
D.C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, convicted murderer and rapist (Evansville)
Homer Van Meter, criminal and bank robber (Fort Wayne)

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