Indianapolis Star-Fact Files

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
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
Charles “Buster” Hall
Jerry Ross
Donald Williams
David Wolf
Wilbur Wright

Authors:

George Ade
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
Jean Shepard*
Gene Stratton-Porter
Booth Tarkington
James Alexander Thom
Kurt Vonnegut
Dan Wakefield
Lew Wallace
Jessamyn West

Business:

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

Cartoonists:

Norman Bridwell (Clifford)
Jim Davis (Garfield)
Johnny Gruelle* (Raggedy Ann)
Kin Hubbard* (Abe Martin)
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

Designers:

Bill Blass
Roy Frowick (Halston)*
Norman Norell

Early Indiana Legends:

John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)*
George Rogers Clark*
Levi and Catharine Coffin*
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
Dr. William Scholl

Journalists:

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

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
Paul Dresser
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
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*
William Henry Harrison*
Thomas A. Hendricks*
Jonathan Jennings*
Abraham Lincoln*
Richard Lugar
Thomas R. Marshall
Paul V. McNutt
Harry S. New
J. Danforth Quayle
Wendell Willkie

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
Eddie Rickenbacker*
Oscar Robertson*
Tony Stewart
Marshall “Major” Taylor
John Wooden
Fuzzy Zoeller