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INDIANA - NOTABLE HOOSIERS

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Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker - Serving INDIANA & ILLINOIS

Activists:
Albion Fellows Bacon
Eugene Debs
Ida Husted Harper
Jimmy Hoffa
May Wright Sewall*
Ryan White

Actors:
Claude Akins*
Anne Baxter
James Best*
Monte Blue
Avery Brooks
James Dean
Irene Dunne*
Chad Everett
Frances Farmer*
Vivica A. Fox
Brendan Fraser
Will Geer (Biographical essay)
Ron Glass
Florence Henderson
Greg Kinnear
Carole Lombard
Shelly Long
Marjorie Main
Karl Malden
Steve McQueen
Betsy Palmer
Meshach Taylor*
Michael Warren
Clifton Webb
Dick York

Artists:
William Forsyth*
Michael Graves
John Hardrick
Felrath Hines
Robert Indiana
Nancy Noel
Janet Scudder
Julia Graydon Sharpe
Portia and Ralph Sperry
Otto Stark
T.C. Steele
Marie Webster

Aviators and Astronauts:
Joseph P. Allen
Frank Borman
Virgil "Gus" Grissom (Biographical essay)
Charles "Buster" Hall
Jerry Ross
Donald Williams
David Wolf
Wilbur Wright

Authors:
George Ade (Biographical essay)
Sarah T. Bolton*
Jared Carter
Theodore Dreiser
Shirley Graham DuBois
Max Ehrmann
Mari Evans*
Annie Fellows Johnston
Etheridge Knight*
Ross Lockridge, Jr.
Meredith Nicholson
James Whitcomb Riley (Biographical essay)
Jean Shepard
Gene Stratton-Porter (Biographical essay)
Booth Tarkington
James Alexander Thom
Kurt Vonnegut (Biographical essay)
Dan Wakefield
Lew Wallace (Biographical essay)
Jessamyn West

Business:
James Allison*
Frank Clayton Ball*
George A. Ball*
Carl Fisher (Biographical essay)
Elwood Haynes (Biographical essay)
Hulman family
Colonel Eli Lilly*
Eli Lilly (Biographical essay)
Orville Redenbacher
Colonel Harland Sanders
Studebaker family*
Madam C.J. Walker* (Biographical essay)

Cartoonists:
Norman Bridwell (Clifford)
Jim Davis (Garfield)
Johnny Gruelle* (Raggedy Ann)
Kin Hubbard* (Abe Martin) (Biographical essay)
John T. McCutcheon
Dale Messick (Brenda Starr)
Bill Peet (Disney animator)
Tom Ryan (Tumbleweeds)

Comedians/Clowns:
Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers
Phil Harris
Emmett Kelly*
David Letterman
Herb Shriner*
Red Skelton (Biographical essay)

Designers:
Bill Blass
Roy Frowick (Halston)*
Norman Norell

Early Indiana Legends:
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)*
George Rogers Clark*
Levi and Catharine Coffin* (Biographical essay)
John and William Conner*
Little Turtle
Chief Menominee
Robert Owen*
Robert Dale Owen*
Johann George Rapp*
Frances Slocum*
Tecumseh*
The Prophet*
Anthony Wayne*

Educators:
Eliza Blaker
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh*
Alfred Kinsey*
Caleb Mills
Herman Wells

Explorers:
Julius R. Frederick*

Film/TV/Theater/Dance:
David Anspaugh
Gretchen Cryer
Madelyn Pugh Davis
Howard Hawks
Will Hays
Angelo Pizzo
Sydney Pollack
Steve Tesich*
Twyla Tharp
Matt Williams
Robert Wise

Inventors:
James Buchanan Eads
Dr. Richard J. Gatling*
James Oliver (Biographical essay)
Dr. William Scholl

Journalists:
Margaret C. Anderson
John Bushemi
Janet Flanner
Brian Lamb
Jane Pauley
Ernie Pyle (Biographical essay)
William Raspberry*
Tavis Smiley*
Dr. Nancy Snyderman
George Stewart
Juliet Strauss (Biographical essay)

Judges:
S. Hugh Dillin
Sherman Minton
William E. Steckler

Medicine/Science:
Percy Julian (Chemist)*
Mariah Mendenhall (Midwife)
James Mooney (Ethnology/Anthropology)
Richard Royce Schrock

Musicians:
May Frances Aufderheide
Dave Baker
Joshua Bell
Hoagy Carmichael (Biographical essay)
Paul Dresser (Biographical essay)
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
Gaither Family
Crystal Gayle
Josef Gingold*
The Hampton Family Orchestra*
Freddie Hubbard
Jackson Five
Janet Jackson
Michael Jackson
J.J. Johnson
John Mellencamp
Bill Monroe*
Wes Montgomery
Oliver Nelson
Sandi Patty*
Cole Porter (Biographical essay)
Ned Rorem
Axl Rose (William Bailey)
David Lee Roth
Constance LeRoy Runcie
Noble Sissle
Albert Von Tilzer
Steve Wariner

Notorious:
John Dillinger
Belle Gunness*
Jim Jones
Reno Brothers
D.C. Stephenson*

Politics:
Evan Bayh
Dr. Otis Bowen
Schuyler Colfax*
William H. English
Charles Fairbanks*
Walter Q. Gresham
Benjamin Harrison* (Biographical essay)
William Henry Harrison* (Biographical essay)
Thomas A. Hendricks*
Jonathan Jennings*
Abraham Lincoln* (Biographical essay)
Richard Lugar
Thomas R. Marshall (Biographical essay)
Paul V. McNutt
Harry S. New
J. Danforth Quayle
Wendell Willkie (Biographical essay)

Religion:
William Biederwolf
Billy Sunday
Saint Theodora Guerin

Sports:
Andretti family*
Mike Aulby
Bettenhausen family
Larry Bird
Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown
Oscar Charleston
Ray Crowe
Anita DeFrantz*
Carl Erskine
Jeff Gordon*
Bob Griese
Tom Harmon
Gil Hodges
Tommy John
Don Mattingly
George McGinnis
Dan Patch (Biographical essay)
Eddie Rickenbacker*
Oscar Robertson*
Tony Stewart
Marshall "Major" Taylor
John Wooden
Fuzzy Zoeller

*Indicates person was not born in Indiana

Comments (5)

Ronda Myers-Waters
Willems Realtors, Principal Broker - Chesterton, IN

Chuck,

Wow, thanks for the post.  I don't know who all these people are but it gives me something to research!

Jun 19, 2007 03:14 AM
Chuck Dellorto
Coldwell Banker - Serving INDIANA & ILLINOIS - Highland, IN
"Talk To Chuck"

Ronda - Thanks for checking out the list.

Jun 19, 2007 11:41 AM
Chuck Dellorto
Coldwell Banker - Serving INDIANA & ILLINOIS - Highland, IN
"Talk To Chuck"
Ronda - Thanks for checking out the list.
Jun 19, 2007 05:29 PM
Kimberly Wester
Valparaiso, IN
Awesome list.  I am going to bookmark it for my girls, as they will both have to do a report on a famous Hoosier for school.  Thanks for all the work you put into it!
Jun 20, 2007 04:27 AM
Chuck Dellorto
Coldwell Banker - Serving INDIANA & ILLINOIS - Highland, IN
"Talk To Chuck"

Hi Kim,

Thanks for checking this out. Hopefully it will come in handy with your girls.

Also, let me know when you are in the Schererville area. I would like to talk to you about staging and the procedures. Maybe you can bring some brochures for me so I can use them on my listing appointments.

Take care.

Jun 20, 2007 04:18 PM