List of people from South Bend, Indiana

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The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of South Bend, Indiana.

• Tom Abernethy - basketball player
• Michael Alig - convicted felon
• Jeremy Michael Boorda - Navy admiral
• Pete Buttigieg - politician, South Bend Mayor, Navy Reserve Lieutenant, Presidential Candidate
• John Bromfield - actor
• Howard G. Bunker - Air Force general
• Charles Butterworth - actor
• Edward Hale Campbell - Navy admiral
• Beatrice Carmichael - opera singer and director
• John Clarke - actor
• Craig Counsell - baseball player
• Bill Doba - football coach
• Anne Doyle - sportscaster
• Chad Everett - actor
• Robert Fassnacht - researcher killed in bombing
• Vivica A. Fox - actress
• Kent Gaydos - football player
• Jon Gruden - football coach
• Nathan Gunn - opera singer and professor
• Lloyd Haynes - actor
• Catherine Hicks - actress; attended Saint Mary's College
• Larry Karaszewski - film and TV screenwriter / producer
• Joe Kernan - politician
• Mike LaRocco - motocross racer
• John Laskowski - basketball player
• Ted Leo - musician
• Jeremy Leven - writer, director
• Clarence Long - U.S. Congressman of Maryland
• Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr. - mammalogist, pathologist
• Keith Alan Morris - filmmaker
• Lee Nailon - basketball player
• Ryan Newman - auto racer
• Dean Norris - actor
• Sydney Pollack - film director and actor
• Andy Replogle - baseball pitcher
• Dan Resin - actor
• Kenneth Rexroth - writer
• George Seaton - film director
• David Stremme - NASCAR driver
• Steve True - sportscaster
• Michael Warren - actor
• Daniel Waters - film director and screenwriter
• Mark Waters - film director and producer
• John Wooden - basketball coach
• Chuck Zink - TV personality
• Traci Paige Johnson - co-creator, Blues Clues TV show
• Junior Walker - Motown saxophonist and vocalist

Associated with University of Notre Dame

• Jacqueline Batteast
• Skylar Diggins
• George Gipp
• Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC
• Lou Holtz
• Paul Hornung
• Moose Krause
• Frank Leahy
• Johnny Lujack
• Joe Montana
• Ara Parseghian
• Digger Phelps
• Regis Philbin
• Condoleezza Rice
• Knute Rockne
• Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
• Joe Theismann
• Charlie Weis