This is a list of the people born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Terre Haute, Indiana, and its surrounding metropolitan area.

Actors and actresses

* Wally Bruner – actor, television personality *

Jose Pablo Cantillo Jose Pablo Cantillo (born March 30, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Ricky Verona in '' Crank'', Miguel in ''Cleaner'' (2007), Pepe in ''Streets of Blood'' (2011), Detective Martinez in '' El Chicano'' (2018), Hector Sal ...

– movies, television * Benjamin

Scatman Crothers Benjamin Sherman Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986), known professionally as Scatman Crothers, was an American actor and musician. He is known for playing Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show '' Chico and the Man'', and Dick Hal ...

– musician, movies, television * Dorothy Dalton – theatre, movies * Johnnie "Scat" Davis – musician, bandleader, movies *

Ross Ford Ross William Ford (born 23 April 1984) is a Strength and Conditioning coach for the Scottish Rugby Academy. He was previously a Scotland international rugby union player who played as a hooker. He made 110 test appearances for Scotland, mak ...

– theater, movies * Richard "Skeets" Gallagher – vaudeville, theatre, movies *

Jess Hahn Jesse Beryle Hahn (October 29, 1921June 29, 1998) was an American-French character actor who mostly starred in French films. Biography After serving with the Marines in the Second World War, he moved to France in 1949 and took French citizen ...

– French movies *

Chubby Johnson Charles Randolph "Chubby" Johnson (August 13, 1903 – October 31, 1974) was an American film and television supporting character actor with a genial demeanor and warm, country-accented voice. Early years Johnson was the son of entertaine ...

– movies, television *

Grover Jones Grover Jones (November 15, 1893 – September 24, 1940) was an American screenwriter - often teamed with William Slavens McNutt - and film director. He wrote more than 100 films between 1920 and his death. He also was a film journal publish ...

– screenwriter, producer, director, author *

Joe Keaton Joseph Hallie Keaton (July 6, 1867 – January 13, 1946) was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actor. He was the father of actor Buster Keaton and appeared with his son in several films. Life and career Keaton was born a few mile ...

– vaudeville, movies; father of actor Buster Keaton *

Billy Lee Billy Lee is a former Gaelic footballer and former manager of the Limerick county football team. He is from Newcastle West. Player Lee played for Limerick. He became a selector when Liam Kearns managed the team between 1999 and 2005, and t ...

– child film star * Dave Madden – movies, television; ''

The Partridge Family ''The Partridge Family'' is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children, in a family who embarks on a music career. It ran from S ...

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Rose Melville Rose Melville (January 30, 1867 – October 8, 1946) born Rosa Smock, was an American stage actress famous for playing one character her whole career, "Sis Hopkins". Rosa Smock was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the youngest of four daughter of ...

– actor, vaudeville, movies * Alvy Moore – movies, television – '' Green Acres'' * Maurice Ransford – motion pictures art director * Ron Burgundy – anchorman * Edward Roseman – vaudeville, movies *

Valeska Suratt Valeska Suratt (June 28, 1882 – July 2, 1962) was an American stage and silent film actress. Over the course of her career, Suratt appeared in 11 silent films, all of which are now lost, mainly due to the 1937 Fox vault fire. Early life and ...

– theater, silent movies, vaudeville * Bill Thompson – voice actor, ''

Fibber McGee and Molly ''Fibber McGee and Molly'' (1935–1959) was a longtime highly popular husband-and-wife team radio comedy program. The situation comedy was a staple of the NBC Red Network from 1936 on, after originating on NBC Blue in 1935. One of the most p ...

'' * Jerry Van Dyke – television, movies * Stuart Vaughn – actor, award-winning director, Obie Award, Drama Desk Award * Hunter von Leer – movies

Artists

* Mick Mars - Motley Crew * Amalia Küssner Coudert – miniaturist * John Rogers Cox – painter * Ray H. French – printmaker * John "Dok" Hager – cartoonist * Harriet Goodhue Hosmer – sculptor * Bryan Hunt – sculptor * Edith Pfau – painter, sculptor, art educator *

Janet Scudder Janet Scudder (October 27, 1869 – June 9, 1940), born Netta Deweze Frazee Scudder, was an American sculptor and painter from Terre Haute, Indiana, who is best known for her memorial sculptures, bas-relief portraiture, and portrait medallions, ...

– sculptor * D. Omer Seamon – painter *

Gilbert Brown Wilson Gilbert Brown Wilson (1907–1991), best known as "Gil Wilson," was an American painter known for his large-scale murals, including his 1935 murals in Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. Much of his later life was dedicate ...

– artist, muralist, motion pictures

Athletes

Vic Aldridge Victor Aldridge (October 25, 1893 – April 17, 1973), nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants, and was known to be ...

– baseball * Ray Arcel – boxing trainer,

International Boxing Hall of Fame The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF), located in Canastota, New York, honors boxers, trainers and other contributors to the sport worldwide. Inductees are selected by members of the Boxing Writers Association of America. The I ...

* Clint Barmes – baseball * Armon Bassett – basketball player with Ironi Ramat Gan of Israel *

Bruce Baumgartner Bruce Robert Baumgartner (born November 2, 1960) is a retired American freestyle wrestler. He is the current assistant vice president for university advancement and former athletic director at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania near Erie, Pe ...

– wrestling,

James E. Sullivan Award The AAU James E. Sullivan Award, presented by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), is awarded annually in April to "the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States". Representatives from the AAU created the AAU Sullivan Award with the int ...

winner, U.S. Olympic gold medalist * Greg Bell – track and field; U.S. Olympic gold medalist * Shakir Bell – college and CFL football * Junius Bibbs – African-American college football and baseball player; professional baseball player in the Negro leagues *

Larry Bird Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Hick from French Lick" and "Larry Legend", Bird is widely regarded a ...

– basketball player, coach, NBA executive *

Mordecai Brown Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown (October 19, 1876 – February 14, 1948), nicknamed Three Finger Brown or Miner, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and manager during the first two decades of the 20th century (known as the " dead-ball e ...

– baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame * Cheryl Bridges – cross country and track; held the World Record in the marathon and US records in 3 mile and 5,000 meter * Bill Butland – baseball *

Cam Cameron Malcolm "Cam" Cameron (born February 6, 1961) is an American football coach. He is the former offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach of the LSU Tigers football program. Cameron attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and playe ...

– football, college and NFL football coach * Max Carey – baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame * Barry Collier – basketball coach, athletic administrator *

Bruce Connatser Broadus Milburn "Bruce" Connatser (September 19, 1902 – January 27, 1971) was an American Major League Baseball first baseman who played in 35 MLB games over two seasons for the Cleveland Indians (–). A right-handed batting and throwing first ...

– professional baseball * Roger Counsil – swimmer, gymnastics coach * Glenn M. Curtis – high school, college and pro basketball coach * Josh Devore – baseball *

Terry Dischinger Terry Gilbert Dischinger (born November 21, 1940) is an American former basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Dischinger was a three-time NBA All-Star and the 1963 NBA Rookie of the Year, after averaging 28 points per gam ...

– basketball, U.S. Olympic gold medalist *

Brian Dorsett Brian Richard Dorsett (born April 9, 1961) is an American former professional baseball player who played eight seasons for the Cleveland Indians, California Angels, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, and Chicago Cubs of Major ...

– baseball * Jim Jumbo Elliott – baseball *

Danny Etling Daniel Patrick Etling (born July 22, 1994) is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Purdue and LSU, and was drafted by the New England Patriots in the ...

– football * Brian Evans – basketball *

Bud Fowler Bud Fowler (March 16, 1858 – February 26, 1913), born "John W. Jackson", was an American baseball player, manager, and club organizer. He is the earliest known African-American player in organized professional baseball. He was elected to the ...

– baseball *

Tiger Jack Fox John Linwood Fox (April 2, 1907 – April 6, 1954), or Tiger Jack Fox as he was better known, was a colorful, hard punching, American light heavyweight boxer. Fox fought from 1928 to 1950. Boxing career Fox claimed he got his start in boxi ...

– boxing *

Rufus Gilbert Rufus W. Gilbert (December 8, 1884 – 1962) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kalamazoo College (1905, 1907–1908), Bradley Polytechnic Institute—now known as Bradley ...

– baseball, coach * Vencie Glenn – football *

Alex Graman Alex Joseph Graman (born November 17, 1977) is former Major League Baseball pitcher. He bats and throws left-handed. He retired (as a player) in 2014. College career Graman was a three-time letterman for coach Bob Warn at Indiana State Universi ...

– baseball * Scott Haffner – basketball *

Frank Hamblen Frank Alan Hamblen II (April 16, 1947 – September 30, 2017) was an American basketball coach and scout. He played college basketball at Syracuse. He died in San Diego on September 30, 2017. Early life Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1947, Hamble ...

– basketball, NBA coach * Russ Hathaway – football * John Hazen – basketball *

Rick Heller Rick Heller is an American baseball coach and former shortstop, who is the current head baseball coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes. Heller played college baseball at Upper Iowa for head coach Bill Prochaska from 1982 to 1986. He then served as the head ...

– college baseball coach * Aubrey Herring – track, hurdles, NCAA champion * Eddie Hickey – basketball coach, Basketball Hall of Fame *

Bill Hodges William Oscar Hodges (born March 9, 1943) is an American basketball coach. He was the head basketball coach at Indiana State University from 1978 to 1982, at Georgia College and State University from 1986 to 1991 and at Mercer University from 199 ...

– basketball coach *

Paul Humphrey Paul Nelson Humphrey (October 12, 1935 – January 31, 2014) was an American jazz and R&B drummer. Biography Humphrey was born in Detroit and began playing drums at age 8, taking private lessons in Detroit. In high school he played baritone hor ...

– football * Tunch Ilkin – college and NFL football * Mark Jackson – football *

Tommy John Thomas Edward John Jr. (born May 22, 1943), nicknamed "The Bionic Man," is an American retired professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 26 seasons between 1963 and 1989. He played for the Cleveland Indians, ...

– baseball * Neil Johnston – baseball, basketball, Basketball Hall of Fame * Doug Kay – football coach * Bob King – basketball coach, administrator *

Duane Klueh Duane M. Klueh (born January 6, 1926) is an American retired basketball player and coach. Born in Bottineau, North Dakota, he was raised in Terre Haute, Indiana and still lives there today; he was the head men's basketball coach at Indiana State ...

– basketball, tennis, player, coach * Greg Lansing – basketball coach * Don Lash – Olympic track, Sullivan Award winner * Danny Lazar – baseball * Bob Slick Leonard – basketball, ABA and NBA coach, Basketball Hall of Fame *

Bryan Leturgez Bryan Robert Leturgez (born August 3, 1962) is an American football player, track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from 1988 to 1998. Biography A native of Indiana, he was born in Terre Haute. His mother and father were in the educa ...

– track and field, Olympic bobsled *

Clyde Lovellette Clyde Edward Lovellette ( ; September 7, 1929 – March 9, 2016) was an American professional basketball player. Lovellette was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988. He was the first basketball player in history to ...

– basketball, U.S. Olympic gold medalist, Basketball Hall of Fame *

Curt Mallory Curtiss Sweeney Mallory (born May 9, 1969) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the head coach at Indiana State Sycamores football, Indiana State. He has been a college football coach since 1995 and has held defensive ...

– football, college coach *

Johnny Mann John Russell Mann (August 30, 1928June 18, 2014) was an American arranger, composer, conductor, entertainer, singer, and recording artist. Career Johnny Mann's began his music career in the late 1940s in his hometown of Baltimore before serving ...

– baseball * Walter E. Marks – athlete, athletic administrator

Indiana State University Indiana State University (ISU) is a public university in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was founded in 1865 and offers over 100 undergraduate majors and more than 75 graduate and professional programs. Indiana State is classified among "D/PU: Doctor ...

Thad Matta Thad Michael Matta (born July 11, 1967) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team. From 2004 to 2017, Matta led the Ohio State Buckeyes to five Big Ten Conference regular seas ...

– college basketball coach * Tony McGee – football tight end * Dave McGinnis – football, college and NFL coach * Kevin McKenna – basketball, player, coach * Trent Miles – football coach * Rick Minter – football coach * Erica Moore – track & field * Paul Moss – two-time college All-American, NFL * Albert "Cod" Myers – baseball * Nancy Hanks – harness racing * Art Nehf – baseball, pitched in four World Series *

Bill Nelson Clarence William Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician and attorney serving as the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Nelson previously served as a United States Senator from Flo ...

– baseball * Steve Newton – basketball, player, coach * Carl Nicks – basketball *

Greg Oden Gregory Wayne Oden Jr. (born January 22, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player. Oden, a 7'0" (2.13m) center, played college basketball at Ohio State University for one season, during which the team was the Big Ten Champion ...

– basketball *

Jake Odum Jacob Andrew "Jake" Odum (born February 11, 1991) is an Assistant basketball coach for Indiana State. He's also a former American professional basketball player who last played for Pistoia Basket 2000 of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). H ...

– basketball * Brian Omogrosso – baseball * Jake Petricka – baseball * Jamie Petrowski – football *

Josh Phegley Joshua Aaron Phegley (born February 12, 1988) is an American former professional baseball catcher and current director of player development for Michigan. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, and ...

– baseball *

Dennis Raetz Dennis Raetz (born May 20, 1946) is former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Indiana State University from 1980 to 1997 and returned as interim head coach for part of the 2007 season. Raetz was the defensive coord ...

– football, player, coach * Kurt Rambis – basketball, player, coach * Rick Ray (basketball) – coach * Colin Rea – baseball * A. J. Reed – baseball player * Cheryl Reeve – basketball coach, WNBA * Mike Sanford – college football coach * Dave Schellhase – basketball, player, coach * Ed Seward – "Kid" Seward, baseball * Dexter Shouse – basketball * Zane Smith – baseball * Gordon B. Stauffer – basketball coach * Mitch Stetter – baseball * Ace Stewart – baseball * Ryan Strausborger – baseball * Jerry Sturm – football * Charles Bernard Bud Taylor – boxer, bantamweight champion,

* Harry Taylor – baseball *

Joe Thatcher Joseph Andrew Thatcher (born October 4, 1981) is an American college baseball coach and former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim an ...

– baseball *

Debi Thomas Debra Janine Thomas (born March 25, 1967) is an American former figure skater and physician. She is the 1986 World champion, the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, and a two-time U.S. national champion. Her rivalry with East Germany's Katarina Witt ...

– world champion figure skater * Kurt Thomas – gymnast,

winner * Anthony Thompson – football player * Lyle Bud Tinning – baseball * Paul Dizzy Trout – baseball * Robert Bobby Turner – college and NFL player and coach * Royce Waltman – college basketball coach * Bob Warn – college baseball coach * Steve Weatherford – football * Mike Westhoff – college and NFL football coach * John Wooden – basketball, Basketball Hall of Fame

Military

* Charles G. Abrell –

Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valo ...

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* George W. Biegler – Medal of Honor, Philippine–American War * Charles Cruft – teacher, newspaper publisher, lawyer, Union Civil War general *

William Henry Harrison William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, and had the shortest pres ...

– Governor

Indiana Territory The Indiana Territory, officially the Territory of Indiana, was created by a congressional act that President John Adams signed into law on May 7, 1800, to form an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, ...

, commander of Fort Harrison,

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States ...

* Nick Popaditch – Gunnery Sergeant,

USMC The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through co ...

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a Coalition of the Gulf War, 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Ba'athist Iraq, ...

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* Peter J. Ryan – Medal of Honor,

Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...

Josiah Snelling Colonel Josiah Snelling (1782 – 20 August 1828) was the first commander of Fort Snelling, a fort located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers in Minnesota. He was responsible for the initial design and construction of the fo ...

– military leader, commander of Fort Harrison * John T. Sterling – Medal of Honor, Civil War *

William Maxwell Wood William Maxwell Wood (May 27, 1809 – March 1, 1880) was an officer and surgeon in the United States Navy in the middle 19th century. He became the First Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy in 1871, with the equivalent rank of Commodore (USN), commod ...

–

naval surgeon A naval surgeon, or less commonly ship's doctor, is the person responsible for the health of the ship's company aboard a warship. The term appears often in reference to Royal Navy's medical personnel during the Age of Sail. Ancient uses Speciali ...

, first Surgeon General

Musicians

* Leo Baxter – musician, composer, band director * Steven Caldwell – musician, folk singer * Johnnie "Scat" Davis – singer, bandleader *

Paul Dresser Paul Dresser (born Johann Paul Dreiser Jr.; April 22, 1857 – January 30, 1906) was an American singer, songwriter, and comedic actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dresser performed in traveling minstrel and medicine-wa ...

– vaudeville actor, composer, " On The Banks of the Wabash, Far Away," "My Gal Sal" *

Edwin Franko Goldman Edwin Franko Goldman (January 1, 1878 – February 21, 1956) was an American composer and conductor. One of the most significant American band composers of the early 20th century, Goldman composed over 150 works, but is best known for his marches. ...

– bandleader, composer * Indiana Gregg – singer, songwriter * Mick Mars – born Robert Alan Deal; Mötley Crüe guitarist *

Hank Roberts Hank Roberts (born March 24, 1954, Terre Haute, Indiana) is an American jazz cellist and vocalist. He plays the electric cello, and his style is a mixture of rock, jazz, avant-garde, folk, and classical influences. He emerged with the downtown N ...

– jazz cellist, vocalist *

Claude Thornhill Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standards "Snowfall" and "I Wish I Had You". Early years Thornhill was the son of J. Chester Thornhill ...

– pianist, arranger, bandleader, composer

Politicians

Simon Bamberger Simon Bamberger (February 27, 1845October 6, 1926) was the fourth Governor of Utah (1917–1921) after it achieved statehood from territorial status in 1896. Bamberger retains the distinction of being the first non-Mormon, the first Democrat, ...

– governor of Utah *

Birch Bayh Birch Evans Bayh Jr. (; January 22, 1928 – March 14, 2019) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981. He was first elected to office in 1954, when he won election to the India ...

– U.S. Senator *

Evan Bayh Birch Evans Bayh III ( ; born December 26, 1955) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011 and the 46th governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997. Bayh ...

–

governor of Indiana The governor of Indiana is the head of government of the State of Indiana. The governor is elected to a four-year term and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of the functions of many agencies of the Indiana state governmen ...

and U.S. Senator * Thomas H. Blake – U.S. Congressman, Commissioner of the U.S. Land Office, resident trustee of Wabash and Erie Canal * Newton Booth – governor of California, U.S. Senator *

James Bopp James Bopp Jr. (born February 8, 1948) is an American conservative lawyer. He is most known for his work associated with election laws, anti-abortion model legislation, and campaign finance. Bopp served as deputy attorney general of Indiana from ...

– conservative attorney known for ''Citizens United v. FEC''; Republican National Committeeman *

Joseph Gurney Cannon Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was an American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and many consid ...

– Speaker of the United States House of Representatives * P. Pete Chalos – four-term mayor of Terre Haute * John G. Davis – U.S. Congressman *

John Wesley Davis John Wesley Davis (April 16, 1799 – August 22, 1859) was an American physician and Democratic politician, active in the mid-1800s. He is best known for serving as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Governor of the Oregon ...

– physician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, governor of the

Oregon Territory The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. O ...

* Eugene Victor Debs (1855–1926) – Socialist candidate for president *

Joseph V. Graff Joseph Verdi Graff (July 1, 1854 – November 10, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Graff was graduated from the Terre Haute High School, and attended Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, one yea ...

– U.S. Congressman * Abram A. Hammond – lieutenant governor of Indiana,

Edward A. Hannegan Edward Allen "Ned" Hannegan (June 25, 1807February 25, 1859) was an American lawyer and politician from Indiana, serving two terms as a United States representative from 1833 to 1837, and one term as a U.S. Senator from 1843 to 1849. Early life ...

– U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, diplomat * Russell Benjamin Harrison – son of President Benjamin Harrison * William H. Harrison – five-term U.S. Congressman * Nicholas Hood – Detroit City Council member and Congregationalist minister * Elisha Mills Huntington – attorney, federal judge, Commissioner of U.S. Land Office * Virginia E. Jenckes – first U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana *

Brian Kerns Brian Douglas Kerns (born May 22, 1957) is an American politician. He served as a Republican Representative from Indiana's 7th Congressional District from January 3, 2001 to January 3, 2003. Kerns was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He has bot ...

– Republican Congressman *

John Edward Lamb John Edward Lamb (December 26, 1852 – August 23, 1914) was an American lawyer who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1883 to 1885. Biography Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Lamb attended the common schools and was grad ...

– Congressman, political leader * William Carr Lane – military surgeon, mayor

St. Louis St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...

, governor New Mexico Territory * Dick Thompson Morgan – author, U.S. Congressman * John H. O'Neall – U.S. Congressman * P.B.S. Pinchback – politician, governor of Louisiana * Edward James Roye – merchant, president of Liberia * Everett Sanders – U.S. Congressman, secretary to President Calvin Coolidge, chairman of the

Republican National Committee The Republican National Committee (RNC) is a U.S. Political action committee, political committee that assists the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republi ...

* John Gould Stephenson – fifth Librarian of Congress * Richard Wigginton Thompson – U.S. Congressman and

Secretary of the Navy The secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer () and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the United States Department of Defense. By law, the se ...

under President

Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Birchard Hayes (; October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governo ...

* Ralph Tucker – five-term mayor of Terre Haute * John Palmer Usher – Indiana Attorney General, Secretary of Interior under President

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

* Daniel Wolsey Voorhees – U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator * Fred Wampler – U.S. Congressman * James Whitcomb – Commissioner of U.S. Land Office, governor of Indiana, U.S. Senator

Scientists and engineers

Willis Blatchley Willis Stanley Blatchley (October 6, 1859, North Madison, Connecticut - May 28, 1940, Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American entomologist, malacologist, geologist, and author. His studies included Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and the fre ...

– scientist, naturalist * H. R. Cox (Herald Rea Cox) – bacteriologist * Ernest R. Davidson – chemist, educator,

National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...

recipient * David Deming – scientist, author, professor at the

University of Oklahoma , mottoeng = "For the benefit of the Citizen and the State" , type = Public research university , established = , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.7billion (2021) , pr ...

* Lee Alvin DuBridge – educator, physicist, college administrator * Barton Warren Evermann – biologist * Thomas Lomar Gray – educator, engineer, college administrator * Sam Hulbert – educator, scientist, inventor * James Arthur Lovell, Jr. – astronaut * William R. McKeen, Jr. – engineer, inventor of the McKeen railmotor and McKeen Car; founder of the

McKeen Motor Car Company The McKeen Motor Car Company of Omaha, Nebraska, was a builder of internal combustion-engined railroad motor cars (railcars), constructing 152 between 1905 and 1917. Founded by William McKeen, the Union Pacific Railroad's Superintendent of Motiv ...

* Thomas Corwin Mendenhall – physicist * William A. Noyes – chemist, educator, recipient of Priestley Medal and Gibbs Medal *

John Adelbert Parkhurst John Adelbert Parkhurst (September 24, 1861 – March 1, 1925) was an American astronomer. He was born in Dixon, Illinois, and attended the public schools in Marengo, IL and Wheaton College. He then attended Rose Polytechnic Institute in Ter ...

– astronomer *

William Wesley Peters William Wesley Peters (June 12, 1912 – July 17, 1991) was an American architect and engineer, apprentice to and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright. Early life Wes, as he was known to friends and associates, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on Jun ...

– architect, structural engineer * Abe Silverstein – engineer, space aerodynamicist * Jill Bolte Taylor – "The Singing Scientist," neuroanatomist, author *

Edward Tryon Edward P. Tryon (September 4, 1940 – December 11, 2019) was an American scientist and a professor emeritus of physics at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was the first physicist to propose that our universe originated ...

– astrophysicist, cosmologist *

Robert Tryon Robert Choate Tryon (September 4, 1901 – September 27, 1967) was an American behavioral psychologist, who pioneered the study of hereditary trait inheritance and learning in animals. His series of experiments with laboratory rats showed th ...

– engineering fatigue analyst

Writers

Lyman Abbott Lyman J. Abbott (December 18, 1835 – October 22, 1922) was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. Biography Early years Lyman J. Abbott was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts on December 18, 1835, the son of the prolific ...

– minister, magazine publisher and editor * Claude Bowers – journalist, author, diplomat * Troy Brownfield – journalist, comic book writer, author, ''Prince Dracula'' *

Winnifred Harper Cooley Winnifred Harper Cooley (October 2, 1874 – October 20, 1967) was an American author and lecturer. Early life Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, she was the daughter of Ida Husted Harper. Cooley graduated in 1896 with an A.B. in Ethics from S ...

– author, journalist * Helen Corey – Syrian-American cookbook author, ''The Art of Syrian Cookery'' (1962) and ''Food from Biblical Lands'' (1989) * George W. Cutter – ''The Song of Steam'', ''Buena Vista'' *

Theodore Dreiser Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (; August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm mora ...

– ''

An American Tragedy ''An American Tragedy'' is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser. He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of ...

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Max Ehrmann Max Ehrmann (September 26, 1872 – September 9, 1945) was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired"). He often wrote on spiritual themes. Educa ...

– ''A Prayer'', '' Desiderata'' *

Philip Jose Farmer Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularize ...

– science fiction author * Robert Greenleaf – author *

Ida Husted Harper Ida Husted Harper (February 18, 1851 – March 14, 1931) was an American author, journalist, columnist, and suffragist, as well as the author of a three-volume biography of suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony at Anthony's request. Harper also c ...

– suffragist, newspaper editor, ''History of Woman Suffrage'', ''The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony'' *

John Jakes John William Jakes (born March 31, 1932) is an American writer, best known for American historical and speculative fiction. His Civil War trilogy, ''North and South'', has sold millions of copies worldwide. He is also the author of The Kent Fam ...

– ''Kent Family Chronicles'' *

Howard Andrew Jones Howard Andrew Jones is an American speculative fiction and fantasy author and editor, known for ''The Chronicles of Sword and Sand'' series and ''The Ring-Sworn'' trilogy. He has also written ''Pathfinder Tales'', tie-in fiction novels in the wo ...

- American speculative fiction and

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author and editor * William Harrison Mace – educator, historian, author, ''Lincoln, The Man of the People'' * Edward J. Meeman – journalist and environmentalist * Terry Pettus – journalist * Susie Lankford Shorter – wrote ''Heroines of African Methodism'' (1891) *

Virginia Sorensen Virginia Louise Sorensen (née Eggertsen; February 17, 1912 – December 24, 1991), also credited as Virginia Sorenson, was an American literary regionalism, American regionalist writer. Her role in Utah and Mormon literature places her within th ...

– winner of 1957

Newbery Medal The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished cont ...

* William Strunk, Jr. – educator, author, "The Elements of Style" *

Martina Swafford Martina Swafford (, Funkhouser; pen name, Belle Bremer; July 26, 1845 – June 29, 1913) was an American poet of the long nineteenth century. Widely known by her pen-name, "Belle Bremer", her vision was greatly impaired, so much so that much of ...

— poet * Agness Underwood – first female city editor of a metropolitan daily * Will Weng – author, crossword puzzles editor ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

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* Saint Mother Theodore Guerin – educator, religious leader * Eva Mozes Kor – Holocaust survivor, founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum * Robert Hayes Gore – newspaper executive, author, former Governor of Puerto Rico * Matt Branam – late college president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology * Ellen Church Marshall – first airline stewardess * Horace G. Burt – president,

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

Ray S. Cline Ray Steiner Cline (June 4, 1918 – March 16, 1996) was an official at the United States Central Intelligence Agency and is best known for being the chief CIA analyst during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Early life and family Ray S. Cline was born i ...

– CIA, author * Lotus Coffman – educator, college administrator * W.C. Coup – circus magnate * Hubert L. Dreyfus – philosopher, educator, author *

Stuart Dreyfus A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Stuart E. Dreyfus is professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. While at the Rand Corporation he was a programmer of the JOHNNIAC com ...

– educator, author *

Mari Hulman George Mary Antonia "Mari" Hulman George (December 26, 1934 – November 3, 2018) was the daughter of Tony Hulman, Anton "Tony" Hulman and Mary Fendrich Hulman, prominent Indiana philanthropists and business owners. She was the chairperson of the Indian ...

– philanthropist *

Tony George Anton Hulman "Tony" George (born December 30, 1959) is the former Chairman, President, and CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Hulman & Company, serving from 1989 to 2009. He was also formerly on the Board of Directors of both entities ...

– business executive, former president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway * Robert K. Greenleaf – business executive, author, educator *

William King Harvey William King Harvey (September 13, 1915 – June 9, 1976) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, best known for his role in the terrorism and sabotage campaign known as Operation Mongoose. He was known as "America's James ...

– CIA, "America's James Bond" * Anton Tony Hulman – industrialist, philanthropist; Indianapolis Motor Speedway * Mary Fendrich Hulman – business executive, philanthropist * Robert Hunter – social reformer, author, golf course architect * Martin David Jenkins – educator, late college president of

Morgan State University Morgan State University (Morgan State or MSU) is a public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the largest of Maryland's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 1867, the university, then known a ...

* Robert Jerry – dean, University of Florida Levin College of Law * William G. Kerckhoff – business executive, developer of Beverly Hills, California * Abraham Markle – miller, Canadian legislator, soldier, village proprietor *

Edison E. Oberholtzer Edison Ellsworth Oberholtzer (May 6, 1880 – June 18, 1954) was the first president of the University of Houston. Oberholtzer obtained his undergraduate education at Westfield College in Westfield, Illinois and Indiana State Normal School (now ...

– educator, founder of the

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– business executive, current president of Dow Chemical and Chemical Financial Corp. * Wanda Ramey – pioneer broadcast journalist * Orville Redenbacher – popcorn entrepreneur; born in

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; Vigo County farm agent * Peter Riedel – pilot, gliding champion * Chauncey Rose – railroad baron, philanthropist * Lou Anna Simon – current college president Michigan State University * William Truesdale – railroad executive * Clarence Abiathar Waldo – educator, author * Leroy A. Wilson – business executive, former president of AT&T * William Winter – explorer, author

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Terre Haute Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a ...