From Wikipedia

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 & Actresses

• Wally Bruner (actor, television personality)
• Bubba the Love Sponge (born Todd Clem) (radio personality and "shock jock")
• Steven Caldwell (musician, folk singer)
• Scatman Crothers (musician, movies, television)
• Johnnie Davis also known as Johnnie "Scat" Davis (musician, band leader, movies)
• Ross Ford (theater, movies)
• Jess Hahn (French movies)
• Burl Ives (musician, actor, movies)
• Chubby Johnson (movies, television)
• Joe Keaton (vaudeville, movies, father of actor Buster Keaton)
• Dave Madden (movies, television - The Partridge Family)
• Alvy Moore (movies, television - Green Acres)
• Edward Roseman (vaudeville, movies)
• Valeska Suratt (theater, silent movies, vaudeville)
• Sean Michael Thomas (Television News Reporter - NBC KSEE^[1], freelance writer, children's book author/illustrator)^[2]
• Bill Thompson (voice actor, Fibber McGee and Molly)
• Jerry Van Dyke (television, movies)
• Stuart Vaughn more correctly known as Stuart Vaughan (actor, award-winning director, Obie Award, Drama Desk Award)
• Sarah Blake (Pornstar)

Artists

• Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (sculptor)
• John Hager also known as "Dok" Hager (cartoonist)
• Janet Scudder (sculptor)

Athletes

• Vic Aldridge (baseball)
• Clint Barmes (baseball)
• Bruce Baumgartner (wrestling, James E. Sullivan Award winner, U.S. Olympic gold medalist)
• Greg Bell (track and field; U.S. Olympic gold medalist)
• Larry Bird (basketball, U.S. Olympic gold medalist, Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Mordecai Three Finger Brown (baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame)
• Bill Butland (baseball)
• Cam Cameron (football, college and NFL football coach)
• Max Carey (baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame)
• Josh Devore (baseball)
• Terry Dischinger (basketball, U.S. Olympic gold medalist)
• Brian Dorsett (baseball)
• Tiger Jack Fox (boxing)
• Vencie Glenn (football)
• Frank Hamblen (basketball, NBA coach)
• Eddie Hickey (basketball coach, Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Tunch Ilkin (NFL football)
• Mark Jackson (football)
• Tommy John (baseball)
• Wally Johnson (baseball)
• Neil Johnston (baseball, basketball, Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Danny Lazar (baseball)
• Bob Slick Leonard (basketball, ABA and NBA coach)
• Bryan Leturgez (track and field, Olympic bobsled)
• Clyde Lovellette (basketball, U.S. Olympic gold medalist, Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Johnny Mann (baseball)
• Tony McGee (tight end) (football)
• Dave McGinnis (football, college and NFL coach)
• Al Myers a/k/a as Albert "Cod" Myers (baseball)
• Art Nehf (baseball)
• Carl Nicks (basketball)
• Greg Oden (basketball)
• Sean Payton (football, college and NFL football coach)
• Jamie Petrowski (football)
• Ed Seward, known as "Kid" Seward (baseball)
• Zane Smith (baseball)
• Mitch Stetter (baseball)
• Jerry Sturm (football)
• Charles Bernard Bud Taylor (boxer, bantamweight champion, International Boxing Hall of Fame)
• Harry Taylor (baseball)
• Joe Thatcher (baseball)
• Kurt Thomas (gymnastics, James E. Sullivan Award winner)
• Anthony Thompson (football)
• Lyle Bud Tinning (baseball)
• Paul Dizzy Trout (baseball)
• Steve Weatherford (football)
• Mike Westhoff (college and NFL football coach)
• John Wooden (basketball, Basketball Hall of Fame)

Musicians

• Johnnie Davis also known as Johnnie "Scat" Davis (singer, bandleader)
• Paul Dresser (composer, "On The Banks of the Wabash, Far Away," "My Gal Sal,")
• Edwin Franko Goldman (bandleader, composer)
• Mick Mars - born Robert Alan Deal (Mötley Crüe guitarist)
• Hank Roberts (jazz cellist, vocalist)
• Claude Thornhill (pianist, arranger, bandleader, composer)
• Indiana Gregg (singer/songwriter)

Politicians

• Simon Bamberger (governor of Utah)
• Birch Bayh (U.S. Senator)
• Evan Bayh (governor of Indiana and U.S. Senator)
• Thomas H. Blake (U.S. Congressman, Commissioner of the U.S. Land Office, resident trustee of Wabash & Erie Canal)
• Newton Booth (governor of California, U.S. Senator)
• Joseph Gurney Cannon (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 (physician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, governor of the Oregon Territory)
• Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist candidate for President)
• Joseph V. Graff (U.S. Congressman)
• Abram A. Hammond (lieutenant governor of Indiana, governor of Indiana)
• Edward A. Hannegan (U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, diplomat)
• Russell Benjamin Harrison (son of President Benjamin Harrison)
• William H. Harrison (Wyoming Congressman) (five-term U.S. Congressman)
• Elisha Mills Huntington (attorney, federal judge, Commissionar of U.S. Land Office)
• Virginia E. Jenckes (first U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana)
• William Carr Lane (military surgeon, mayor St. Louis, 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)
• John Gould Stephenson (fifth Librarian of Congress)
• Richard Wigginton Thompson (U.S. Congressman and Secretary of the Navy under President Rutherford B. Hayes)
• Ralph Tucker (five-term mayor of Terre Haute)
• John Palmer Usher (Indiana Attorney General, Secretary of Interior under President Abraham Lincoln)
• Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator)
• James Whitcomb (Commissioner of U.S. Land Office, governor of Indiana, U.S. Senator)

Writers

• Lyman Abbott (minister, magazine publisher and editor)
• Claude Bowers (journalist, author, diplomat)
• Winnifred Harper Cooley (author, journalist)
• George W. Cutter (The Song of Steam, Buena Vista)
• Theodore Dreiser (author An American Tragedy)
• Max Ehrmann (A Prayer, Desiderata)
• Philip Jose Farmer (science fiction author)
• Ida Husted Harper (suffragist, newspaper editor, History of Woman Suffrage, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony)
• John Jakes (author, Kent Family Chronicles)
• Ray Neff (educator, author, Dark Union)
• Virginia Sorensen, also known as Virginia Sorenson (winner of 1957 Newbery Medal)
• Will Weng (author, crossword puzzles editor New York Times)
• Ernie Pyle (journalist)

Others

• Charles G. Abrell (Medal of Honor, Korean War)
• Ray Arcel (boxing trainer, International Boxing Hall of Fame)

• George W. Biegler (Medal of Honor, Philippine-American War)
• Willis Blatchley (scientist, naturalist)
• Horace G. Burt (president Union Pacific Railroad)
• Ellen Church Marshall (first airline stewardess)
• Lotus Coffman (educator, college administrator)
• W.C. Coup (circus magnate)
• H. R. Cox, also known as Herald Rea Cox (bacteriologist)
• Charles Cruft (general) (teacher, newspaper publisher, lawyer, Union Civil War general)
• Ernest R. Davidson (chemist, educator, National Medal of Science recipient)
• David Deming (scientist, author, professor at the University of Oklahoma)
• Hubert L. Dreyfus (philosopher, educator, author)
• Stuart Dreyfus (educator, author]
• Lee Alvin DuBridge (educator, physicist, college administrator)
• Barton Warren Evermann (biologist)
• Mari Hulman George (philanthropist)
• Tony George (business executive, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway)
• Robert Hayes Gore (newspaper executive, author, Governor of Puerto Rico)
• Thomas Lomar Gray (educator, engineer, college administrator)
• Robert K. Greenleaf (business executive, author, educator)
• Saint Mother Theodore Guerin (educator, religious leader)
• William King Harvey (CIA, "America's James Bond")
• Sam Hulbert (educator, scientist, inventor)
• Tony Hulman (industrialist, philanthropist. Indianapolis Motor Speedway)
• Mary Fendrich Hulman (philanthropist)
• Wiles Robert Hunter (social reformer, author, golf course architect)
• Martin David Jenkins (educator, college administrator)
• Louis Johnson (designer of early American monoplane, founder of Johnson Bros. Motor Company, later Johnson Motor Company maker of Johnson Outboards)
• Samantha Johnson (humanitarian)
• Eva Mozes Kor (founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum)
• Frank Kramer (radio host, Frosty, Heidi & Frank show)
• 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)
• Abraham Markle (miller, Canadian Legislator, soldier, village proprietor)
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (American physicist)
• William A. Noyes (chemist, educator, recipient of Priestley Medal and Gibbs Medal)
• John Adelbert Parkhurst (astronomer)
• Frank Popoff (business executive, president of Dow Chemical and Chemical Financial Corp.))
• Wanda Ramey (pioneer broadcast journalist)
• Orville Redenbacher (popcorn entrepreneur, born in Brazil, Indiana, Vigo County farm agent)
• Peter Riedel (pilot, gliding champion)
• Chauncey Rose (railroad baron, philanthropist)
• Abe Silverstein (engineer, space aerodynamcist)
• Jill Bolte Taylor ("The Singing Scientist," neuroanatomist, author)
• Edward Tryon (astrophysicist, cosmologist)
• Leroy A. Wilson (business executive, president of A T & T)
• William Maxwell Wood (naval surgeon, first Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy)

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