List of people from Indiana
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This is a list of notable people born in, or notabe for their relations with the U.S. state of Indiana.
Creators and explorers
change- 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
Military
change- 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)