List of people from Indiana

State flag of Indiana

Location of Indiana on the U.S. map

This is a list of notable people born in, or notabe for their relations with the U.S. state of Indiana.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Creators and explorers

• Squire Boone, frontiersman (Laconia)
• Jonathan Jennings, first Governor of Indiana
• Dennis Pennington, first speaker of the house in Indiana, also built the first capitol building (Corydon)
• Spier Spencer, militia leader who died in the Battle of Tippecanoe

Military

Jeremy Michael Boorda	Ambrose Burnside	John Howard Cassady	George Rogers Clark	Sammy L. Davis
Jonathan D. George	William Grose	Scott S. Haraburda	Horace Meek Hickam	Jonas Ingram
Henry Maston Mullinnix	John Poindexter	David M. Shoup	Walter Bedell Smith	Raymond Ames Spruance
Lew Wallace	Anthony Wayne	Samuel Woodfill

• Jeremy Michael Boorda, Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (South Bend)
• Ambrose Burnside, General in the Civil War, sideburns are named after him (Liberty)
• John Howard Cassady U.S. Navy Admiral, Commander in Chief Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (Spencer)
• George Rogers Clark, man who conquered Indiana for the United States (Clarksville)
• Sammy L. Davis, Medal of Honor recipient (receiver) from the Vietnam War, U.S. Army (Freedom)
• Jonathan D. George, retired Air Force brigadier general. 9th District congressional candidate (Bedford)
• William Grose, Civil War General (New Castle)
• Scott S. Haraburda, Colonel, U.S. Army. President of the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers (Spencer)
• Horace Meek Hickam, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Air Corps. Aviation pioneer. The Hickam AFB was named in his honor (Spencer)
• Jonas Ingram, Medal of Honor recipient, Atlantic Fleet commander in World War II (Jeffersonville)
• Henry Maston Mullinnix, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy. USS Mullinnix was named in his honor (Spencer)
• John Poindexter, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy. National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, figure in the Iran-Contra affair (Odon)
• David M. Shoup, Medal of Honor recipient, 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps (Battle Ground)
• Walter Bedell Smith, General, U.S. Army, chief of staff to General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Indianapolis)
• Raymond Ames Spruance, Admiral, U.S. Navy, Flagship Commander USS Indianapolis (Indianapolis)
• Lew Wallace, General in the Civil War (Crawfordsville)
• Anthony Wayne, known for being mad and overrunning Chief Little Turtle (Fort Wayne)
• Samuel Woodfill, most decorated American soldier in World War I (Jefferson County)