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This is a list of famous people from Indianapolis, Indiana.
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- John Andretti, NASCAR driver
- Steve Bellamy, sports media entrepreneur, founder of The Ski Channel & The Tennis Channel
- Allan Bloom, philosopher and essayists
- Scrapper Blackwell Blues legend, writer of the earliest version of Sweet Home Chicago
- Monte Blue, actor
- Rupert Boneham, reality show contestant Survivor: Pearl Islands, Survivor:All-Stars, Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, and politician
- Steve Burton, actor
- Rodney Carney, NBA player
- Adam Lambert, singer
- Darrell Clanton, singer[1]
- Mike Conley Jr., NBA player
- Joyce DeWitt, actress in the television program, Three's Company
- John Dillinger, bank robber
- John P. Donohue, doctor
- Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, R&B music producer and performer
- Steve Ells, founder, CEO Chipotle Mexican Grill
- Mike Epps, actor
- Charles W. Fairbanks, twenty-sixth Vice President of the United States
- Francis Farmer, actress
- Jared Fogle, Subway restaurant endorser and motivational speaker
- Vivica A. Fox, actress
- Brendan Fraser, actor
- Jeff George, NFL quarterback
- Eric Gordon, NBA player
- Greg Graham, 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 and notable vlogger
- Ron Hacker, country blues slide guitarist[2]
- John Wesley Hardrick, artist
- Benjamin Harrison, U.S. President
- Joseph Hayes, author
- Alan Henderson, NBA player
- Billy Henderson, singer
- Thomas A. Hendricks, twenty-first Vice President of the United States
- John F. Hennessey, 1920s tennis star
- Todd David Hess, military commander & first AF member to receive Army Legion of Merit
- John Hiatt, musician
- George Hill, NBA player
- Ken Hixon, screenwriter
- Louis McHenry Howe, advisor to FDR
- Freddie Hubbard, jazz trumpeter
- Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver
- J. J. Johnson, jazz trombonist
- Doug Jones, actor
- Scott Jones, inventor
- Brook Kerr, actress who plays Whitney Russell on NBC soap opera Passions
- Mathias Kiwanuka, NFL player
- Kyle Krisiloff, NASCAR driver
- Courtney Lee, NBA player
- Ted Leo, musician
- Charles Scott Leonard, current member of the a cappella group Rockapella
- David Letterman, talk show host
- Eli Lilly, founder of Eli Lilly and Company
- Eli Lilly (industrialist), President of Eli Lilly and Company
- Josiah K. Lilly, Sr., President of Eli Lilly and Company
- Ruth Lilly, philanthropist
- Richard Lugar, U.S Senator from Indiana
- Marjorie Main, actress
- Charles Major, author
- Tim McIlrath, musician
- Steve McQueen, actor
- Julie McWhirter, actress
- Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist
- Eric Montross, former NBA player
- Thomas A. Morris, railroad executive, civil engineer, and Union general in the Civil War
- Ryan Murphy, film and television screenwriter, director, and producer
- Greg Oden, NBA player
- Jane Pauley, news anchor and journalist
- Myrta Pulliam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Dan Quayle, forty-fourth Vice President of the United States
- Aron Ralston, mountain climber and public speaker, forced to amputate arm while canyoneering.
- Larry Ridley jazz bassist
- James Whitcomb Riley, famous Hoosier poet
- Oscar Robertson, Hall of Fame basketball player
- Bill Shirk, Escape Artist, Radio Personality, Broadcast Entrepreneur, Actor Hoosier Broadcasting Corp., The Escapist
- Avriel Shull, architect
- Noble Sissle, composer
- Raymond A. Spruance, commander of the US Fifth Fleet in 1944-1945
- Ted Stevens, Senior U.S. Senator from Alaska
- Marc Summers, game show host, television personality
- Steve Talley, actor
- Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Albert Von Tilzer, composer - most notably "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
- Kurt Vonnegut, author
- 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
- Greg Wojciechowski, former Indiana wrestler
- David A. Wolf, astronaut
- John Wooden, retired UCLA basketball coach, Purdue University
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