List of people from Indiana

This is a list of notable people born in, or notabe for their relations with the U.S. state of Indiana.

• Squire Boone, frontiersman (Laconia)
• Jonathan Jennings, first Governor of Indiana
• Dennis Pennington, first speaker of the house in Indiana, also built the first capitol building (Corydon)
• Spier Spencer, militia leader who died in the Battle of Tippecanoe

• Jeremy Michael Boorda, Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (South Bend)
• Ambrose Burnside, General in the Civil War, sideburns are named after him (Liberty)
• John Howard Cassady U.S. Navy Admiral, Commander in Chief Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (Spencer)
• George Rogers Clark, man who conquered Indiana for the United States (Clarksville)
• Sammy L. Davis, Medal of Honor recipient (receiver) from the Vietnam War, U.S. Army (Freedom)
• Jonathan D. George, retired Air Force brigadier general. 9th District congressional candidate (Bedford)
• William Grose, Civil War General (New Castle)
• Scott S. Haraburda, Colonel, U.S. Army. President of the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers (Spencer)
• Horace Meek Hickam, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Air Corps. Aviation pioneer. The Hickam AFB was named in his honor (Spencer)
• Jonas Ingram, Medal of Honor recipient, Atlantic Fleet commander in World War II (Jeffersonville)
• Henry Maston Mullinnix, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy. USS Mullinnix was named in his honor (Spencer)
• John Poindexter, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy. National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, figure in the Iran-Contra affair (Odon)
• David M. Shoup, Medal of Honor recipient, 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps (Battle Ground)
• Walter Bedell Smith, General, U.S. Army, chief of staff to General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Indianapolis)
• Raymond Ames Spruance, Admiral, U.S. Navy, Flagship Commander USS Indianapolis (Indianapolis)
• Lew Wallace, General in the Civil War (Crawfordsville)
• Anthony Wayne, known for being mad and overrunning Chief Little Turtle (Fort Wayne)
• Samuel Woodfill, most decorated American soldier in World War I (Jefferson County)