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More joy from Indianapolis: This is a list of famous people from Indianapolis, Indiana. * John Andretti, NASCAR driver * Allan Bloom, philosopher and essayist * Monte Blue, actor * Steve Burton, actor * Jim Davis, cartoonist, creator of Garfield * Joyce DeWitt, actress in the T.V. show Threes Company * John Dillinger, bank robber * Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, R&B music producer and performer * Mike Epps, actor * Charles W. Fairbanks, twenty-sixth Vice President of the United States (born in Union Center, Ohio) * Francis Farmer, actress (born in Seattle, Washington) * Jared Fogle, Subway restaurant endorser * Vivica A. Fox, actress * Brendan Fraser, actor * Jeff George, former NFL Quarterback * Greg Graham, former NBA player * Sid Grauman, founder of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, home of the Academy Awards. * Michael Graves, architect * Benjamin Harrison, U.S. president (born in North Bend, Ohio) * Alan Henderson, NBA player (born in West Virginia, but grew up in Indianapolis) * Billy Henderson, singer * Thomas A. Hendricks, twenty-first Vice President of the United States (born in Fultonham, Ohio) * John F. Hennessey, 1920s tennis star * Todd David Hess, Military Commander & first AF member to receive Army Legion of Merit. * Ken Hixon, screenwriter * Freddie Hubbard, jazz trumpeter * Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver * J. J. Johnson, jazz trombonist * Doug Jones, actor * Brook Kerr, actress who plays Whitney Russell on NBC soap opera Passions * Kyle Krisiloff, an ARCA driver * Ted Leo, musician (born in South Bend, Indiana, spent first few years of life in Indianapolis) * Charles Scott Leonard, current member of the a cappella group Rockapella * David Letterman, talk show host * Richard Lugar, U.S Senator from Indiana * Charles Major, author * Julie McWhirter, actress * Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist * Eric Montross, former NBA player * Greg Oden, NBA player * Jane Pauley, news anchor and journalist * Dan Quayle, forty-fourth Vice President of the United States * Oscar Robertson, hall of fame basketball player * Noble Sissle, composer * Ted Stevens, Senior U.S. Senator from Alaska * Marc Summers, game show host, television personality * Timothy L. Swiss, Credit Analyst Extraordinaire, Goodwill Ambassador * Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author * Albert Von Tilzer, composer - most notably "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" * Kurt Vonnegut, author * Dan Wakefield, author * Madame C.J. Walker, African American Business Woman * Johnny Weaver, pro-wrestler, first to use the sleeper hold, "Weaver Lock" * Clifton Webb, Stage and film actor
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