- 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. - Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell (born 9 December 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist. - Ernie Pyle
Ernest Taylor "Ernie" Pyle (August 3, 1900 - April 18, 1945), was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in 1945. His articles, about the out-of-the-way places he visited and the people who lived there, were told in a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend. He enjoyed a loyal following in as many as 200 newspapers. - Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama . He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago . - Isiah Thomas
Isiah Lord Thomas III (born April 30 1961, in Chicago, Illinois) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA, and is currently the head coach and president of basketball operations for the NBA's New York Knicks. He was also referred to by the nicknames "Zeke", "Cuts" (for the numerous cuts over his eyelids), "The Baby-faced Assassin", "The Smiling Assassin", and "Tuss". - Jane Pauley
Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American television journalist, and has been involved in news reporting since 1975. She is most known for her 13 year tenure on NBC's "Today" program and later 12 years of "Dateline NBC," and has acknowledged publicly her struggle with mental health and bipolar disorder. - 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. - Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor. - James D. Watson
James Dewey Watson born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material". - 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). - Sylvia McNair
Sylvia McNair (born June 23, 1956) is an American opera singer and classical recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway and cabaret genres. McNair, a soprano, has made several critically acclaimed recordings and has won two Grammy Awards. - Will Shortz
Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is a U.S. puzzle creator and editor. - Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (February 18, 1892 - October 8, 1944) was a lawyer in the United States and the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election. He lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt and never held any political office. Born in Elwood, Indiana, the son of Herman Willkie, he remains the only native of Indiana to be nominated as the presidential candidate for a national party. He was also a named partner at the now New York-based law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. - Joe Buck
Joseph Francis Buck (born April 25, 1969) is an American sportscaster, and the son of the late Hall of Fame sportscaster Jack Buck. He has won numerous Sports Emmy Awards for his play-by-play work with Fox Sports television. - Edgar Meyer
Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary bassist. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger. - Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley (born September 13, 1964) is an author, journalist, liberal political commentator, and talk show host. - Michael Uslan
Michael Uslan is the originator of the Batman movies and was the first professor to teach "Comic Book Folklore" at an accredited university. - 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. - Paul V. McNutt
Paul Vories McNutt (July 19, 1891 - March 24, 1955) was an American politician who served as governor of Indiana, high commissioner to the Philippines, administrator of the Federal Security Agency, chairman of the War Manpower Commission and ambassador to the Philippines. - Otis R. Bowen
Dr. Otis Ray Bowen (February 26, 1918) is a retired U.S. politician and physician. He served as Governor of Indiana and later as Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is a distant relative of George W. Bush through two brothers who immigrated to New England from Somerset, England. - Jared Fogle
Jared S. Fogle (born December 1, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana), more commonly known as The Subway Guy, is a spokesman employed by Subway Restaurants in its television advertising campaign. He is noted for his significant weight loss, attributed to eating Subway sandwiches (prior to his hiring by Subway). - 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). - 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", … - 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. - 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, … - 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), … - Scott A. Jones
Scott A. Jones (born in 1960) is an American inventor, serial entrepreneur and pioneer. For more than two decades, Jones has created companies that have produced over a dozen award-winning industry firsts. He revolutionized the modern workplace in the mid-1980s, when at 25 years old, after forming his first company, Boston Technology, he invented the voicemail system that is now used by nearly all telephone companies around the globe. - 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. - 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. - C. Vernon Mason
C. Vernon Mason was born in Tucker, Arkansas. He was a lawyer who was disbarred following his involvement in the Tawana Brawley alleged hoax. - Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot is an American author of romantic comedies for teens and adults. She has also written under the pseudonyms Patricia Cabot and Jenny Carroll. She has written and published almost 40 books, and is best known for "The Princess Diaries", later made by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films of the same name. Cabot has more than 15 million copies of her books — children's, young adult, and adult — in print worldwide. - 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. - Steven H Silver
Steven H Silver is "an accomplished sci-fi fan and bibliographer", publisher, and editor. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer seven times. - Larry R. Ellis
General Larry R. Ellis (1946-) was Commander, U.S. Army Forces Command from November 19, 2001 until 2004, following his assignment as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Department of the Army. During his career, Ellis had assignments in the United States, Vietnam, Germany, the Republic of Korea, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. His command assignments include 1st Armored Division, Germany; Multinational Division (North), …
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