List of Sons and Daughters of the City of Indianapolis

This is a list of public figures that American US in the city of Indianapolis ( Indiana ) were born. The list does not claim to be complete.

19th century

1801-1880

Merrill Moores
(1856-1929)

George Andrew Reisner
(1867-1942)

John Coburn (1825-1908), politician
John Taffe (1827-1884), politician
William A. Pile (1829–1889), general and politician
Allen M. Fletcher (1853–1922), politician and governor of Vermont from 1912 to 1915
Merrill Moores (1856-1929), politician
Mary Harrison McKee (1858–1930), daughter of US President Benjamin Harrison
Harry S. New (1858-1937), politician
Emil Klein (1865–1943), history painter and illustrator
George Andrew Reisner (1867–1942), Egyptologist
Waldo A. Evans (1869-1936), naval officer
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), writer
Frederick Burton (1871–1957), actor
Moritz Hainebach (1872–1941), German violinist and violin and piano teacher
Frederick Coffay Yohn (1875–1933), painter
Reginald H. Sullivan (1876–1980), politician
Mary Quinn Sullivan (1877–1939), art teacher, art collector, gallery owner and one of the three founding curators of the New York Museum of Modern Art
Major Taylor (1878-1932), cyclist
Albert Von Tilzer (1878–1956), music producer
Sid Grauman (1879–1950), theater director and actor

1881-1900

Norman Scott
(1889-1942)

Clifton Webb
(1889-1966)

Woody Headspeth (1881-1941), racing cyclist
Johnny Aitken (1885–1918), racing car driver
Margaret Anderson (1886–1973), writer; Founder and Editor of "The Little Review"
Julia Lee Niebergall (1886–1968), pianist and composer
Monte Blue (1887–1963), actor
May Aufderheide (1888–1972), composer
Richard H. Ranger (1889–1962), electrical technician, engineer and inventor
Norman Scott (1889–1942), two-star admiral in World War II
Noble Sissle (1889-1975), African American singer and lyricist
Clifton Webb (1889-1966), actor
Carl Zigrosser (1891–1975), art historian
Janet Flanner (1892–1978), writer, journalist and feminist eccentric
Reginald DuValle (1893–1953), jazz musician and music teacher
Jan Garber (1894–1977), violinist and big band leader
Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), general, diplomat and director of the CIA
Robert Twyman (1897–1976), politician
Charlie Davis (1899–1991), jazz musician and band leader
J. Russel Robinson (1892–1963), pianist and composer

20th century

1901-1920

John Dillinger
(1903-1934)

Evangeline Walton
(1907-1996)

Irvine Page (1901-1991), physiologist
John Dillinger (1903-1934), bank robber
James Baskett (1904–1948), film and stage actor
Clarence Melvin Zener (1905-1993), physicist
Harry von Zell (1906–1981), radio and television speaker, actor and singer
Evangeline Walton (1907-1996), fantasy writer
Harold Courlander (1908–1996), novelist and anthropologist
Laurence Wylie (1909–1996), anthropologist and novelist
Jimmy Jackson (1910–1984), racing car driver
Reunald Jones (1910–1989), jazz musician
Catherine Lucile Moore (1911–1987), science fiction and fantasy writer
Priscilla Lawson (1914–1958), actress
Bobby Sherwood (1914–1980), jazz musician, band leader and actor
Bernard Vonnegut (1914–1997), scientist
Gardner Ackley (1915–1998), economist and diplomat
Trigger Alpert (1916–2013), jazz musician and photographer
James McClure (1916-2005), table tennis player
Alberta Adams (1917-2014), blues singer
John Fitch (1917–2012), racing car driver
John C. Greene (1917-2008), historian of science
Joseph Hayes (1918-2006), writer
Bill Jennings (1919–1978), jazz guitarist
Leroy Warriner (1919–2003), racing car driver
Jackie Holmes (1920–1995), racing car driver

1921-1930

Kurt Vonnegut
(1922-2007)

Ted Stevens
(1923-2010)

Francis Marion Busby (1921-2005), science fiction writer
Monk Montgomery (1921–1982), modern jazz bassist
Madelyn Pugh (1921–2011), screenwriter and television producer
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007), writer
Philip Warren Anderson (1923–2020), professor of theoretical physics, Nobel Prize winner 1977
Wes Montgomery (1923-1968), jazz musician
Ted Stevens (1923-2010), Alaska politician and senator
Paul Weeden (1923–2011), jazz guitarist
JJ Johnson (1924-2001), jazz musician
Elmer Gill (1926-2004), jazz musician
Alonzo Pookie Johnson (1927–2005), jazz musician and music teacher
Carl Perkins (1928-1958), jazz pianist
Leroy Vinnegar (1928-1999), jazz bassist
Benny Barth (* 1929), jazz musician
Will Insley (1929–2011), painter, architect and planner of utopian city models
Dick Weber (1929–2005), professional bowling player
Allan Bloom (1930–1992), philosopher and professor
Bob Hammer (* 1930), jazz musician, pianist and arranger
James McGarrell (1930-2020), painter
Steve McQueen (1930–1980), film and television actor
Buddy Montgomery (1930–2009), vibraphonist, composer and pianist of modern jazz

1931-1940

Andrew Jacobs
(1932-2013)

Dan Burton
(born 1938)

David Baker (1931-2016), jazz musician
Thurston Harris (1931-1990), R&B singer
Andrew Jacobs Junior (1932–2013), politician
Richard Lugar (1932–2019), Indian politician and senator
Peter Lupus (* 1932), bodybuilder and actor
William Ruckelshaus (1932–2019), lawyer, politician and manager
Bobby Lewis (1933-2020), rock and roll and R&B singer
David Young (1933–2009), jazz saxophonist
Michael Graves (1934–2015), architect and designer
George Shirley (born 1934), opera singer
Clayton Eshleman (* 1935), poet, translator and editor
Thomas J. O'Brien (1935–2018), Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Phoenix
Melvin Rhyne (1936–2013), organist of modern jazz
Larry Ridley (* 1937), jazz bassist and music teacher
James Spaulding (* 1937), jazz musician
Dan Burton (born 1938), politician
Freddie Hubbard (1938-2008), jazz trumpeter
Orlester Watson Cavanaugh (1939-2005), drummer and singer
Mary-Dell Chilton (* 1939), microbiologist and geneticist
Ronnie Haig (* 1939), rockabilly musician
Virgil Jones (1939–2012), trumpeter and flugelhorn player of modern jazz
Larry Bland (1940-2007), historian
Thomas M. Scanlon (* 1940), moral philosopher
Claude Sifferlen (1940-2010), jazz pianist
James Sloyan (* 1940), film and stage actor
Michael Troy (1940-2019), swimmer

1941-1950

Connie Booth
(* 1944)

David Letterman
(born 1947)

Dan Quayle
(born 1947)

Ray Appleton (1941–2015), jazz musician and percussionist
Alan Somers (born 1941), swimmer
Anthony W. England (born 1942), astronaut
Carl Saunders (* 1942), jazz musician, arranger, composer and band leader
Spanky Davis (1943-2014), jazz musician
Dick Van Arsdale (born 1943), basketball player
Connie Booth (* 1944), screenwriter and actress
Allen Hatcher (* 1944), mathematician
Mary Mackey (* 1945), writer
Kathleen Ellis (* 1946), swimmer and Olympic champion
Gloria Gresham (* 1946), costume designer
Herbert Baumeister (1947–1996), serial killer
Steve Englehart (* 1947), comic book author
David Letterman (born 1947), talk show host
Dan Quayle (* 1947), 44th Vice President of the USA
Thomas Becker (* 1948), bobsleigh athlete
Ken Foree (born 1948), actor
Francis Kenny (* 1948 or 1949), cameraman
Howard Arthur Allen (born 1949), serial killer
Michael Berkowitz (* 1949), musician
Marilyn Quayle (born 1949), lawyer; Wife of Dan Quayle, former US Vice President
Terry Lester (1950-2003), actor
Gaylen Ross (born 1950), filmmaker and actress

1951-1960

Jim Jontz
(1951-2007)

Jim Jontz (1951-2007), politician
John Hiatt (born 1952), country singer and songwriter
Gordon Letwin (* 1952), software developer
Jim Miller (≈1953–2019), jazz drummer
Marvin Johnson (born 1954), boxer
Terry Lingner (* 1954), entrepreneur and racing car driver
Michael Anthony Perry (* 1954), Roman Catholic religious chaplain; since 2013 Minister General of the Franciscan Order
Mark Warner (born 1954), Governor and Senator of Virginia
Robert Gambill (* 1955), opera singer
Ratzo Harris (* 1955), jazz musician
Dick Nalley (1955-2002), bobsledder
Chris MacAllister (* 1956), racing car driver
David Alexander Wolf (* 1956), astronaut
Dwane Casey (born 1957), basketball coach
Maria Cantwell (* 1958), politician and senator from Washington
Bart Peterson (* 1958), politician and Mayor of Indianapolis from 2000 to 2008
Michael Quigley (* 1958), legal scholar and politician
Kenneth Edmonds (* 1959), R'n'B and pop singer, songwriter and producer
Tom Schneider (* 1959), poker player
Jeffrey St. Clair (* 1959), author, publicist and investigative journalist
Doug Jones (born 1960), actor
Hyapatia Lee (* 1960), dancer and porn actress
Pharez Whitted (* 1960), jazz trumpeter