Famous People from Indiana

Leon Ames (1903 - 1993) Born Leon Wycoff Was an American film and television actor. Born in Portland, IN (1316)

Arija Bareikis (1966 - ) Is an American actress. She starred alongside Rob Schneider as Kate in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and currently is cast as LAPD police officer Chickie Brown, in the police drama series Southland, which originally aired on NBC before moving to TNT in 2010. Born in Bloomington, IN (1317)

Anne Baxter (1923 - 1985) Was an American Academy Award-winning actress known for her performances in films such as The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), All About Eve (1950), The Razor's Edge (1946) and The Ten Commandments (1956). Born in Michigan City, IN (905)

Abraham Rubin Hercules Benrubi (1969 - ) Is a famous actor. Born in Bloomington, IN (839)

Larry Bird (1956 - ) Basketball Hall of Famer who led the Boston Celtics to three NBA championships (1981, 1984, 1986). Born in West Baden Springs, IN (156)

Monte Blue (1887 - 1963) Born Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather, Was a movie actor who most of his career played the romantic leading man in the silent film era. Born in Indianapolis, IN (1318)

Avery Franklin Brooks (1948 - ) Is an American actor, jazz musician, opera singer and college professor. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and his film role in American History X. Born in Evansville, IN (1319)

Jim Davis (1945 - ) Creator of Garfield. Born in Marion, IN (152)

James Dean (1934 - 1955) Famous actor for movies like Rebel Without a Cause. Born in Marion, IN (155)

John Herbert Dillinger Jr. (1903 - 1934) Was an American bank robber in the Midwest during the early 1930s. He was considered to be a dangerous criminal who was involved in the deaths of several police officers, robbed at least two dozen banks and four police stations, escaped from jail twice and was idolized by some as a modern-day Robin Hood. Born in Indianapolis, IN (841)

Regina Marie Fischer (1974 - ) Is an American television and film actress. She has appeared in several film comedies, including Blades of Glory, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The Promotion, but is most widely known for playing Pam Beesly on the NBC situation comedy and mockumentary The Office. Born in Fort Wayne, IN (1320)

Kentotis Alvin "Ken" Foree (1948 - ) Is an American actor. Born in Indianapolis, IN (1321)

Vivica Anjanetta Fox (1964 - ) Is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Independence Day, Set It Off, Soul Food, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, and Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Born in South Bend, IN (1322)

Brendan James Fraser (1968 - ) Is a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen. He has starred in many major Hollywood films, including The Mummy film series, Crash, Dudley Do-Right, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, George of the Jungle and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Born in Indianapolis, IN (1323)

Sidney Patrick Grauman (1879 - 1950) Was an American showman who created one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theater. Born in Indianapolis, IN (1324)

Phil Harris (1904 - 1995) Born Wonga Philip Harris,Was an American singer, songwriter, jazz musician, actor and comedian. Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his voice work in animation and as a pioneer in radio situation comedy, first with Jack Benny, and then in a series in which he co-starred with his second wife, singer-actress Alice Faye, for eight years. Born in Linton, IN (1325)

George Dewey Hay (1895 - 1968) Was an American radio personality. He is the founder of the original Grand Ole Opry radio program on WSM (AM) in Nashville, Tennessee, from which today's country music stage show of the same name evolved. Born in Attica, IN (1412)

Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009) Singer and songwriter famous for songs such as Thriller and Beat It. Born in Gary, IN (154)

Doug Jones (1960 - ) Is an American film and television actor best known to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans for his various roles playing non-human characters, often in heavy makeup, in films and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Born in Indianapolis, IN (1326)

Gregory Kinnear (1963 - ) Is an American actor and television personality, who first rose to stardom as the first host of E!'s Talk Soup. He has appeared in a number of motion pictures. Kinnear was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in As Good as It Gets. Born in Logansport, IN (1327)

David Letterman (1947 - ) Comedian late night talk show host. Born in Indianapolis, IN (158)

Elmo Lincoln (1889 - 1952) Was an American film actor. Born in Rochester, IN (1328)

Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942) Born Jane Alice Peters, was an American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey. Born in Fort Wayne, IN (1329)

Shelley Lee Long (1949 - ) Is an American actress best known for her role as Diane Chambers in the popular sitcom Cheers, for which she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress. Born in Fort Wayne, IN (1330)

Marjorie Main (1890 - 1975) Born Mary Tomlinson, was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Born in Acton, IN (1331)

Steve McQueen (1930 - 1980) Born Terrence Steven McQueen was an American movie actor nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno. In 1974 he became the highest paid movie star in the world. Born in Beech Grove, IN (1332)

John Cougar Mellencamp (1951 - ) Singer, songwriter. Born in Seymour, IN (161)

Dalia Messick (1906 - 2005) Was the first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States. Under the pseudonym Dale Messick, she was the creator of Brenda Starr, which at its peak during the 1950s ran in 250 newspapers. Born in South Bend, IN (838)

Jane Pauley (1950 - ) Television journalist that hosts Dateline. Born in Indianapolis, IN (159)

Sydney Irwin Pollack (1934 - 2008) Was an American film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting. He began directing television shows in the 1960s before moving to films. Born in Lafayette, IN (1333)

Colonel Harland Sanders (1890 - 1980) Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken; lived in Corbin. Born in Henryville, IN (205)

Red Skelton (1913 - 1997) Born Richard Bernard Skelton, was an American comedian who was best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while pursuing another career as a painter. Born in Vincennes, IN (1338)

Stephen Sommers (1962 - ) Is a famous screenwriter. Born in Indianapolis, IN (840)

Max Terhune (1891 - 1973) Was an American film actor. He appeared in nearly 70 films, mostly B-westerns, between 1936 and 1956. Born in Franklin, IN (1334)

Forrest Tucker (1919 - 1986) Was an American actor in both movies and television from the 1940s to the 1980s. Tucker, who stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and weighed 200 pounds (91 kg), appeared in nearly 100 action films in the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Plainfield, IN (1335)

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007) Well-known author of books such as Slaughterhouse Five. Born in Indianapolis, IN (160)

Clifton Webb (1889 - 1966) Born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck, was an American actor, dancer and singer. Born in Beech Grove, IN (1336)

Jo Anne Worley (1937 - ) Is an American actress. Her work covers television, movies, theater, game shows, talk shows, commercials, and cartoons. She is best known for her work on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Born in Lowell, IN (1337)

Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912) Invented the first airplane with his brother Orville Wright; He, along with his brother, also made the first controlled human air flight. Born in Milville, IN (462)