List of people from Indianapolis
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This is a list of famous people from Indianapolis, Indiana.
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- John Andretti, NASCAR driver
- Allan Bloom, philosopher and essayists
- Monte Blue, actor
- Steve Burton, actor
- Jim Davis, cartoonist, creator of Garfield
- Joyce DeWitt, actress in the T.V. show Threes Company
- John Dillinger, bank robber
- Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, R&B music producer and performer
- Mike Epps, actor
- Charles W. Fairbanks, twenty-sixth Vice President of the United States (born in Union Center, Ohio)
- Francis Farmer, actress (born in Seattle, Washington)
- Jared Fogle, Subway restaurant endorser
- Vivica A. Fox, actress
- Brendan Fraser, actor
- Jeff George, former NFL Quarterback
- Greg Graham, former NBA player
- Sid Grauman, founder of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, home of the Academy Awards.
- Michael Graves, architect
- John Green, award winning author
- Benjamin Harrison, U.S. president (born in North Bend, Ohio)
- Joseph Hayes, author
- Alan Henderson, NBA player (born in West Virginia, but grew up in Indianapolis)
- Billy Henderson, singer
- Thomas A. Hendricks, twenty-first Vice President of the United States (born in Fultonham, Ohio)
- John F. Hennessey, 1920s tennis star
- Todd David Hess, Military Commander & first AF member to receive Army Legion of Merit.
- Ken Hixon, screenwriter
- Freddie Hubbard, jazz trumpeter
- Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver
- J. J. Johnson, jazz trombonist
- Doug Jones, actor
- Brook Kerr, actress who plays Whitney Russell on NBC soap opera Passions
- Kyle Krisiloff, NASCAR driver
- Ted Leo, musician (born in South Bend, Indiana, spent first few years of life in Indianapolis)
- Charles Scott Leonard, current member of the a cappella group Rockapella
- David Letterman, talk show host
- Richard Lugar, U.S Senator from Indiana
- Charles Major, author
- Julie McWhirter, actress
- Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist
- Eric Montross, former NBA player
- Greg Oden, NBA player
- Jane Pauley, news anchor and journalist
- Dan Quayle, forty-fourth Vice President of the United States
- James Whitcomb Riley, famous hoosier poet
- Oscar Robertson, hall of fame basketball player
- Noble Sissle, composer
- Ted Stevens, Senior U.S. Senator from Alaska
- Marc Summers, game show host, television personality
- Dick the Bruiser, former Indiana wrestler
- Steve Talley, Actor
- Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
- Albert Von Tilzer, composer - most notably "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
- Greg Wojciechowski, former Indiana wrestler
- Kurt Vonnegut, author
- Reggie Miller, former basketball player
- Madame C.J. Walker, African American Business Woman
- Johnny Weaver, pro-wrestler, first to use the sleeper hold, "Weaver Lock"
- Clifton Webb, Stage and film actor
- RD Reynolds, co-creator/owner/webmaster of WrestleCrap, author of three books
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