- Herman B Wells
Herman B Wells (June 7, 1902 - March 18, 2000) was the 11th president of Indiana University. He served the university in a variety of capacities, most notably as president and as chancellor. He was pivotal in the development of Indiana University into a world class institution of higher learning. His achievements and leadership permeate the university to this day. - Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader. He is best known for writing the melody to "Stardust" (1927), one of the most-recorded American songs of all time. Alec Wilder, in his study of the American popular song, concluded that Hoagy Carmichael was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century. - Dick Enberg
Dick Enberg is his ninth year calling play-by-play for CBS Sports' coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Enberg joined CBS Sports in January 2000 as play-by-play announcer for THE NFL ON CBS, college basketball and the U.S. Open Tennis Championships. He also contributes to the Masters and PGA Championship broadcasts. For the second straight year, Enberg also will call Thursday night NFL games on Westwood One and CBS Radio Sports. - George Taliaferro
George Taliaferro is a former professional American football player. He was the first African-American drafted by a National Football League team. As the leading rusher and an All-American at Indiana University, he led the Hoosiers to their only undefeated Big Ten Conference championship. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981. - E. W. Kelley
E.W. "Ed" Kelley is considered the "modern day" founder of Steak n Shake, a chain of sit-down, old-fashioned style restaurants known for their Steakburgers and hand-dipped milkshakes. In 1981, E.W. Kelley & Associates, a group led by E.W. Kelley, bought controlling interest in Steak n Shake, and grew the company from a small chain to the more than 450 location chain it is today (2006). - Will Shortz
Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is a U.S. puzzle creator and editor. - Bienvenido Lumbera
Bienvenido Lumbera is a prizewinning poet, critic and dramatist from the Philippines. He is a National Artist of the Philippines and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications. He won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Awards from the National Book Foundation, and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. - Hilton Kramer
Hilton Kramer (born 1928, Gloucester, Massachusetts) is a U.S. art critic and cultural commentator. Kramer was educated at Syracuse University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Indiana University and the New School for Social Research. He worked as the editor of "Arts Magazine", art critic for "The Nation", and from 1965 to 1982, as an art critic for "The New York Times". - Anthony Decurtis
Anthony DeCurtis is an American author and music critic, who has written for "Rolling Stone," "The New York Times", Relix and other publications. He is the author of "In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work" (Hal Leonard Publishing Co, 2005) and "Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters "(Duke University Press, 1998), and editor of "Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture" (Duke University Press, 1992). - Bill Garrett
William Leon Garrett (April 4, 1929 - August 7, 1974), was the first African American basketball player in the Big Ten athletic conference. Born in Shelbyville, Indiana, he was Indiana Mr. Basketball in 1947, the year he graduated from Shelbyville High School. At Indiana University, he became the first African American to play on the school's varsity men's basketball team and also the first African American to play on any basketball team in the Big Ten. - Jeri Taylor
Jeri Taylor (born June 30, 1946) is a television scriptwriter and producer who is known for her contributions to the "Star Trek" series. She is an alumna of Indiana University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Having previously written scripts for television series like "Little House on the Prairie" and "The Incredible Hulk", and served as a producer and director on "Quincy, M.E." and "Jake and the Fatman", … - Herb Vigran
Herbert "Herb" Vigran (June 5, 1910, Cincinnati, Ohio - November 29, 1986, Los Angeles, California) was a well known character actor in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1980s. Vigran's family moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where he grew up. He graduated with a law degree from Indiana University Law School but later chose to pursue acting. After starting out on Broadway, he soon moved to Hollywood and performed in radio shows with the likes of Jack Benny, … - David Effron
David Effron is an American conductor and educator. After earning a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from the University of Michigan and a Master of Music degree in piano from Indiana University, he worked as an assistant to Wolfgang Sawallisch at the Cologne Opera. Upon returning to the United States he served as a member of the conducting staff at the New York City Opera for eighteen years. - Andreas Katsulas
Andrew C. "Andreas" Katsulas was a Greek-American actor best known for his roles as Ambassador G'Kar in the science fiction television series "Babylon 5", as the one-armed villain Sykes in the film "The Fugitive" (1993), and as the Romulan Commander Tomalak on "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Katsulas guest starred on many television shows, including "Alien Nation", "The Equalizer", "Murder, She Wrote", "NYPD Blue", … - Barton Warren Evermann
Barton Warren Evermann (October 24, 1853-September 27, 1932) was an American ichthyologist. He was born in Monroe County, Iowa, and graduated from Indiana University in 1886. For 10 years, he served as teacher and superintendent of schools in Indiana and California. He was professor of biology at the Indiana State Normal School in 1886-91. In 1888 he entered the service of the United States Bureau of Fisheries (originally the United States Fish Commission), … - Robert Coover
Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University in 1955, then served in the United States Navy. - John Crowley
John Crowley (born December 1, 1942 in Presque Isle, Maine) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. He is best known as the author of "Little, Big" (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. - Wiley Blount Rutledge
Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr. (July 20, 1894 - September 10, 1949) was a U.S. educator and jurist. Rutledge was born in Cloverport, Kentucky (more specifically, at nearby Tar Springs) to Wiley Blount Rutledge, Sr., a Southern Baptist minister, and Mary Lou Wigginton Rutledge (d. 1903). Another son died in infancy, and then his sister Margaret was born in 1897. His family moved about while he was young, … - David Wolf
David Alexander Wolf (born 23 August 1956) is an American astronaut and a veteran of four space shuttle missions and an extended stay aboard the Mir space station. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he graduated from North Central High School, Wolf earned a degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and, in 1982, a medical degree from Indiana University. He subsequently trained as a flight surgeon with the United States Air Force. - Jerome Conley
Jerome Conley (born 1966, Muncie, Indiana) is the current Mayor of Oxford, Ohio. He is an interim Assistant Dean and coordinating head of special libraries at Miami University of Ohio. Conley is serving his second term on the Oxford City Council and has been Mayor since November 2003. He is a graduate of Indiana University. - Carl H. Eigenmann
Carl H. Eigenmann (March 9, 1863 - April 24, 1927) was an ichthyologist who, along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann, described many of the fishes of North America and South America for the first time. Born in Flehingen, Germany, at age 14 he moved to Rockport, Indiana. Within a couple of years he had enrolled at the Indiana University, where he studied under David Starr Jordan. Eigenmann received a bachelor's degree in 1886, and soon after went to California, … - Frank K. Edmondson
Frank K. Edmondson (born August 1, 1912) is an American astronomer. - Jason Beduhn
Jason David BeDuhn, Ph.D. is an historian of religion and culture, currently Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University. He first gained brief national attention at the age of 18 when remarks he made in a speech to the high school graduating class of Rock Island, Illinois, sharply critical of oppressive attitudes towards youth by older generations of Americans, were widely reported in the American press. - John Bitove
John I. Bitove, (Jr.) (born 1960, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian businessman and noted sportsman. He is the Chairman and CEO, (chief executive officer), and controlling shareholder through Obelysk Funds, of the Priszm Canadian Income Fund, Scott's Real Estate Investment Trust and Canadian Satellite Radio (which owns XM Satellite Radio in Canada). He is also the founder and driving force behind the S'Cool Life Fund a charitable entity for public schools across Canada. - Don Lash
Donald Ray Lash (August 15, 1912 - September 19, 1994) was an American long-distance runner who won 12 national titles from 1934 to 1940, including seven consecutive men's national cross-country championships, and who set a world's record for the two-mile run in 1936. Born in Bluffton, Indiana, Lash grew up in Auburn, Indiana, where he graduated from high school in 1933 after setting a new Indiana state record of 4:30.5 for the indoor mile. - Ross Lockridge Jr.
Ross F. Lockridge, Jr. was an American novelist of the middle of the twentieth century. He is most noted for his expansive novel, "Raintree County", often considered to be one of the "Great American Novels." Lockridge was born in Bloomington, Indiana, USA and grew up there. Lockridge attended Indiana University in 1931, later graduating. Lockridge married and had four children. His novel "Raintree County" was published in early 1948, to great critical acclaim. - Leroy Edgar Burney
Leroy Edgar Burney (1906-1998) was the Surgeon General of the United States from 1956 to 1961. - David Hayes
David Hayes (born 1931) is an American sculptor. David Hayes was born in Hartford, Connecticut and received an A.B. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1953 and a M.F.A. degree from Indiana University in 1955 where he studied with David Smith. He has received a post-doctoral Fulbright Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a recipient of the Logan Prize for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. - Glen Grunwald
Glen Grunwald is the current senior vice president, basketball operations for the NBA's New York Knickerbockers. From January 2005 until September 2006, Grunwald was the president & CEO of the Toronto Board of Trade. As head of the city's leading business organization, Mr. Grunwald was heavily involved in both the business and social communities of Toronto. - Georgette Mosbacher
Georgette Mosbacher is President and CEO of Borghese, a global cosmetic, skincare and fragrance company. Ms. Mosbacher is well known for her expertise in the beauty area and for her ability in redirecting the efforts of challenged companies. Innovative and goal-oriented, her creative marketing strategies are legendary in the cosmetics industry. - Mike Barz
Mike Barz (b. 1970) is currently a morning news anchor at WFLD-TV, the Fox affiliate in Chicago. He began there on March 12, 2007. He most recently was the features correspondent for ABC News in the United States and anchored the television network's "Good Morning America" weather segment after Tony Perkins's departure from the show in 2005 until September 5, 2006 when he was succeeded by Sam Champion. - Clark Wissler
Clark Wissler (September 18, 1870 - August 25, 1947) was an American anthropologist. He was born near Hagerstown, Indiana and graduated from Indiana University in 1897. He received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University in 1901. Subsequently, Wissler became interested in the new field of anthropology and associated himself with Franz Boas. Wissler obtained a position at the American Museum of Natural History, … - Tobias Dantzig
Tobias Dantzig was a Russian American mathematician, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of "NUMBER: The Language of Science". Born in Latvia, Dantzig studied mathematics with Henri Poincaré in Paris. Tobias married a fellow Sorbonne University student, Anja Ourisson, and the couple emigrated to the United States in 1910. Working for a time as a lumberjack in Oregon, Dantzig received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Indiana University in 1916. - Nancy Andrew
Linda Nancy Andrew, was the English-language translator of Japanese author Ryū Murakami's highly-acclaimed novel, "Almost Transparent Blue", which won the Akutagawa Prize in 1976. Born in Dallas, Texas, Andrew was the only child of Dr. Warren Andrew (1910 - 1982), who chaired the Department of Anatomy at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and Nancy Valerie Miellmier Andrew (1914 - 1993), a secretary with the Indiana State Anatomical Board. - Fernandus Payne
Fernandus Payne (February 13 1881 - October 13 1977) was an American zoologist, geneticist and educator. Panye was born in Shelbyville, Indiana. He received a B.Sc. from Valparaiso University in 1901 and a B.A. from Indiana University in 1905, and a M.A. in 1906. He undertook graduate studies at Columbia University with Thomas Hunt Morgan, his research took place when the use of fruit fly "Drosophila melanogaster" was being established in Morgan's lab. - Israel Nathan Herstein
Israel Nathan Herstein (March 28, 1923, Lublin, Poland - February 9, 1988, Chicago, Illinois) was a mathematician, appointed as professor at the University of Chicago in 1951. He worked on a variety of areas of algebra, including ring theory, with over 100 research papers and over a dozen books. He grew up in a harsh and underprivileged environment where, according to him, you either became a gangster or a college professor. - Bob Mann
Bob Mann (born November 22, 1951) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour from 1977-1980. Mann was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the 1969-1970 Wisconsin Junior Amateur Champion and earned a scholarship to Indiana University where he was co-captain of the 1973 Big Ten Championship golf team. He majored in marketing and advertising and was graduated with a batchelor's degree. He turned pro in 1974. - Stephen Bowen
Stephen Bowen is the current Dean and CEO of Oxford College of Emory University. Bowen received his bachelor's degree in 1971 from Depauw University, followed two years later by an M.A. from Indiana University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1976 from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Bowen's academic specialty is in the ecology of fisheries, having published widely on diet and digestion in a number of aquatic species, … - Vesto Slipher
Vesto Melvin Slipher (November 11, 1875 - November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer. His brother Earl C. Slipher was also an astronomer. Slipher was born in Mulberry, Indiana, and completed his education at Indiana University. He spent his entire career at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he was director from 1916 to 1952. He used spectroscopy to investigate the rotation periods of planets, the composition of planetary atmospheres. - Irv Maze
Irv Maze is currently serving his third term as Jefferson County Attorney in Kentucky. He graduated from Indiana University in 1972 and University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law in 1975. He and his wife Peggy have 5 children. Prior to being elected Jefferson County Attorney, Maze was elected to multiple terms to the Jefferson County Fiscal Court before Louisville and Jefferson County were merged in 2002. In winning his first term as Jefferson County Attorney, …
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