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List of people from Evansville, Indiana

Last updated March 03, 2026

This is a list of people from Evansville, Indiana. This list includes people who were born in Evansville or lived in or around the city for a period of time.

Government, law and activism

Bess Abell, American presidential aide and White House Social Secretary
Anne S. Andrew, American environmental attorney and United States Ambassador to Costa Rica
Albion Fellows Bacon, reformer and writer
Conrad Baker, 15th governor of Indiana (1867–1873) and 15th lieutenant governor (1861–1867)
Allen Buchanan (Medal of Honor), was an officer in the United States Navy and a Medal of Honor recipient for his role in the United States occupation of Veracruz.
George Washington Buckner, physician, U.S. minister to Liberia
Larry Bucshon, U.S. Representative (2011–2023)
John B. Conaway, retired United States Air Force officer who served as Chief of the National Guard Bureau from 1990 to 1993
Suzanne Crouch, former lieutenant governor of Indiana and former Indiana State Auditor
Roger O. DeBruler, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1968–1996)
Charles Denby Jr., U.S. diplomat in China and later in Vienna, Austria
Charles Harvey Denby, U.S. Union officer in the Civil War; diplomat
Edwin C. Denby, Secretary of the Navy (1921–1924) and notable figure in the Teapot Dome scandal
Winfield K. Denton, U.S. Representative (1949–1953, 1955–1966)
Brad Ellsworth, U.S. Representative (2007–2011), 2010 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate
John H. Foster, U.S. Representative (1905–1909)
John W. Foster, U.S. Secretary of State (1892–1893)
James S. Harlan, lawyer and commerce specialist
John Hostettler, U.S. Representative (1995–2007)
Henry S. Johnston, 7th governor of Oklahoma
Joseph Lane, general, first governor of Oregon Territory, one of Oregon's first two U.S. senators, and 1860 candidate for vice president on the Democratic Party ticket
Robert D. Orr, 45th governor of Indiana (1981–1989)
Gary R. Pfingston, 10th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (1990–1994)
Randall Shepard, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
Sallie Wyatt Stewart, former president of the National Association of Colored Women
Barbara Underwood, Attorney General of New York

Marty Amsler, NFL defensive end^[1]
Chic Anderson, sportscaster
Aaron Barrett, MLB pitcher
Alan Benes, MLB pitcher
Andy Benes, MLB pitcher, member of US Olympic team, #1 draft pick
Sean Bennett, NFL player, New York Giants
McKinley Brewer, Negro League baseball player
Bob Buck, American sportscaster and sports director for WIKY AM/FM radio
Drew Butera, MLB catcher
Scott Cannon, soccer player^[2]
Ray Cariens, racing driver
Jamey Carroll, MLB infielder
Rudy Charles, WWE & former Total Nonstop Action Wrestling referee
Calbert Cheaney, Harrison High School, Indiana and NBA player
DeLisa Chinn-Tyler, softball outfielder
Deke Cooper, North High School, University of Notre Dame, NFL player
Jerry Dale, MLB umpire
Phelps Darby, coach of Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
Luke Drone, NFL and AF2 player
Todd Duffee, UFC fighter, actor
Jerad Eickhoff, MLB pitcher for Philadelphia Phillies
Bob Ford, North High School, Purdue basketball player, sportscaster
Bob Griese, Rex Mundi High School, Purdue and NFL quarterback, All-Pro, Hall of Famer, Super Bowl champion, sportscaster
Harley Grossman, MLB pitcher
Bob Hamilton, professional golfer, winner of 1944 PGA Championship
Kevin Hardy, Harrison High School, University of Illinois, NFL linebacker
Lilly King, swimmer, gold medalist at 2016 Summer Olympics ^[3]
Michael Klueh, swimmer, world champion
Luke Kruytbosch, sportscaster
Kyle Kuric, Memorial High School, University of Louisville basketball player, professional basketball player in Spain
Khristian Lander, Reitz High School, Indiana University and Western Kentucky University
Don Mattingly, MLB player for New York Yankees, former manager of Los Angeles Dodgers and Miami Marlins
Walter McCarty, NBA player, assistant coach for Indiana Pacers and Boston Celtics, former head coach for University of Evansville
Arad McCutchan, basketball coach
Dorothy Montgomery, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player; cytologist at Welborn Clinic
Jerry Nemer (1912–1980), basketball player and attorney
Ray Newman, MLB player for Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers
Jeff Overton, professional golfer
Tubby Rohsenberger, NFL player
Scott Rolen, MLB Hall of Fame third baseman
Vince Russo, former WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling writer; podcaster for Podcast One
Dave Schellhase, basketball player, Purdue University
Dru Smith, Reitz High School, NBA Player
Paul Splittorff, MLB pitcher, Kansas City Royals
Larry Stallings, NFL linebacker, St Louis Cardinals
Scott Studwell, NFL player, Minnesota Vikings

Performing and visual arts

Actors, actresses and directors

Anne Barton (actress), an American stage, film and television actress
Tom Armstrong, cartoonist creator of Marvin
Billie Bennett, silent-film actress
Budd Boetticher, film director
Avery Brooks, actor, known for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Spenser: For Hire
Joe Cook, actor, entertainer, and comedian
Louise Dresser, Academy Award-nominated actress
David Emge, actor, known for Dawn of the Dead
Ron Glass, actor, known for Barney Miller and Firefly
Phil Goss, actor and TV personality in Poland, voice-over professional for MTV and VH1 in Europe
Rami Malek, actor, known for Bohemian Rhapsody , attended University of Evansville
Michael Michele, actress, best known for ER
Marilyn Miller, singer and dancer of 1920s and 1930s
Dylan Minnette, actor, known for his roles in 13 Reasons Why , Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Goosebumps
Roger Mobley, child actor of 1960s, later a Christian pastor in Texas
Venus Raj, actress, model, beauty queen crowned Miss Indiana Teen USA 2006, Miss Indiana USA 2009, Binibining Pilipinas Universe 2010, and 4th runner-up at the Miss Universe 2010
Jama Williamson, actress, known for playing Principal Mullins in the Nickelodeon series School of Rock and Wendy Haverford in Parks and Recreation

Music

Kyle Burns, musician, member of Forever the Sickest Kids
Sid Catlett, musician, jazz drummer
John Cowan, singer, bassist John Cowan Band
Neal Doughty, keyboard player, REO Speedwagon's only remaining founding member
Jace Everett, country music singer
Richard Faith, American composer,concert pianist, professor of piano, and a published composer of piano pedagogy literature, orchestral and chamber works, opera and most prolifically, song
Josh Gard, electronic music producer, DJ
Ernie Haase, Southern gospel tenor vocalist for the Cathedral Quartet and Ernie Haase & Signature Sound
Joe Hinton, R&B singer; biggest hit "Funny", 1964
Philip Martin Lawrence II, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and voice actor; best known for his work with The Smeezingtons and teaming with Bruno Mars
Mock Orange, indie-rock band
Noncompliant, DJ and record producer
Dax Riggs, musician
Fred Rose, musician, Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive
Ryan Seaton, gospel solo artist formerly of Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (2003–2009)
Timmy Thomas, singer-songwriter, musician, record producer
Andy Timmons, guitarist, musical director, and solo artist
Geno Washington, soul singer

Raymond E. Cooksey. Musician, Producer, and Songwriter. He wrote and co-wrote for Barry White and was a member of his band. Raymond was also a member of The Legandary Platters. https://www.discogs.com/artist/2337674-Raymond-Cooksey?srsltid=AfmBOorKhEdhFSb8Pznw_WiXzSSXhYkzF59ArvgatKaKVyFPOE3IqHpH

Media and artists

Martha Susan Baker, American painter, muralist and teacher
Bruce Blackburn, American graphic designer, who was a designer of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) logotype
Gary Hugh Brown, American artist, painter, draftsman, and professor emeritus of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Mark Cooper (artist), American multimedia artist
Halston, graduated from Benjamin Bosse High School in 1950, an American fashion designer
David Horsey, cartoonist for Los Angeles Times
Edward McKnight Kauffer, artist and graphic designer, grew up in Evansville^[4]
Barbara Kinney, photojournalist and White House photographer during Clinton administration
Karl Kae Knecht, cartoonist for Evansville Courier
William Snyder, four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
Casey Stegall, national correspondent for Fox News Channel
Aaron Tanner, graphic designer and author^[5]
Ansel E. Wallace, photographer and film correspondent for the International News Service in World War I
Marcia Yockey, Impressionist painter, an American meteorologist
Louise Zaring, Impressionist painter, noted particularly for her vivid use of color.

Authors, producers, playwrights, writers, and poets

Marilyn Durham, author of The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Bettiola Heloise Fortson, poet and author
Annie Fellows Johnston, author of The Little Colonel series
Edward J. Meeman, journalist and environmental crusader, born in Evansville in 1889^[6]
Molly Newman, playwright and television producer
Paul Osborn, playwright, screenwriter of East of Eden
Steven Sater, Broadway lyricist, playwright and poet
Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., prolific child author and poet
Matt Williams, producer of The Cosby Show , Home Improvement , and Roseanne

Academics

Margaret K. Butler, mathematician
James C. Coomer, American political scientist and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Mercer University, and its former Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Elbert Frank Cox, mathematician
Linda Donley-Reid, born in Evansville, Indiana, graduated from Evansville Central High School in 1963, an American museum curator, archaeologist and clinical psychologist
Stephen A. Fulling, an American mathematician and mathematical physicist, specializing in the mathematics of quantum theory, general relativity, and the spectral and asymptotic theory of differential operators.
Thomas K. Gaisser, a particle physicist, cosmic ray researcher, and a pioneer of astroparticle physics
Raymond Geuss, philosopher and university professor
Clark Kimberling, mathematician
Paul Musgrave, professor and expert in American foreign policy matters
John Roger Tooley, American engineer and former dean of college of engineering at University of Evansville
Henry Babcock Veatch, philosopher and writer
Talitha Washington, mathematician
John D. Wiley, educator
Lester M. Wolfson, founding chancellor of Indiana University South Bend

Business

E. S. Babcock, industrialist, tycoon, businessman, and entrepreneur; founder of the Hotel del Coronado
Chuck Bundrant, American billionaire businessman and the co-founder, chairman, and majority owner of Trident Seafoods
Wallace A. Gaines, businessman, funeral home director^[7]
Charles T. Hinde, businessman, riverboat captain, and original investor of the Hotel del Coronado
Mary Fendrich Hulman, wife of industrialist Tony Hulman and matriarch of the Hulman-George family
Edward Mead Johnson, businessman, co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, and founder of Mead Johnson & Co.
Aaron Patzer, entrepreneur and founder of Mint.com, a personal financial management service
Francis Joseph Reitz, banker, civic leader, and philanthropist
John Augustus Reitz, lumber magnate, civic leader, and philanthropist
Ray Ryan, gambler, oilman, promoter, developer
Ruth Siems, Stove Top Stuffing creator
Harry J. Sonneborn, first president and CEO of McDonald's (played by actor B.J. Novak in the film The Founder )
Cari Tuna, philanthropist

Religion

Anthony Deydier, was a French priest, missionary and teacher sent to Evansville, Indiana in 1837
Diane Drufenbrock, attended Reitz Memorial High School, and was an American religious sister as a member of the Catholic School Sisters of St. Francis
Mary Simpson, one of the first women ordained a priest by the American Episcopal Church
John Roach Straton, minister
Paul E. Waldschmidt, Roman Catholic bishop
Mike Warnke, Christian comedian, discredited "expert" on Satanism

Other Notables

Pearl Berg, was an American supercentenarian

References

↑ "Marty Amsler NFL & AFL Football Statistics". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on August 20, 2010. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
↑ "Scott Cannon". Major League Soccer . Retrieved March 7, 2025.
↑ "Lilly King - Bio". SwimSwam . Retrieved July 23, 2021.
↑ "Edward McKnight Kauffer". Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. September 10, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
↑ ARedenbaugh (November 9, 2017). "Music Notes". Evansville Living Magazine. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
↑ "Edward John Meeman". Tennessee Encyclopedia. January 1, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
↑ "Gaines, Wallace Arkansas". Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA). Retrieved October 17, 2025.

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[ProFootRef-1] "Marty Amsler NFL & AFL Football Statistics". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on August 20, 2010. Retrieved September 22, 2010.

[2] "Scott Cannon". Major League Soccer . Retrieved March 7, 2025.

[3] "Lilly King - Bio". SwimSwam . Retrieved July 23, 2021.

[CH-4] "Edward McKnight Kauffer". Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. September 10, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2022.

[5] ARedenbaugh (November 9, 2017). "Music Notes". Evansville Living Magazine. Retrieved February 6, 2024.

[6] "Edward John Meeman". Tennessee Encyclopedia. January 1, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2015.

[NKAA-7] "Gaines, Wallace Arkansas". Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA). Retrieved October 17, 2025.

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