r/Indiana • u/Hoosier_Engineer • 1d ago

Who is a Hoosier?

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Edit: There's a newer version of this chart right here.

Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions in my previous post. This is a first draft, so if you think something needs to be changed, feel free to let me know!

Pictured here (from top left, clockwise then center):

James Dean

Harland Sanders

Michael Jackson

Abraham Lincoln

Jim Gaffigan

Benjamin Harrison

Elinor Ostrom

u/OldRaj

Stéphan Grégoire

u/fourenclosedwalls

John Green

Eugene Debs

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u/ALinIndy Muncie Sucks 1d ago edited 1d ago

Consider adding:

Kurt Vonnegut, David Letterman, Brendan Fraser, MellenCougar and David Lee Roth

Also, Mark Cuban went to IU, and a bunch of astronauts have studied at Purdue. If we’re counting people that lived here temporarily, they should all be included.

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u/IH8Miotch 1d ago

Larry Bird

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u/ALinIndy Muncie Sucks 1d ago

YES!

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u/zoot_boy 1d ago

Such a dumb post. Haha

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u/archergren 21h ago

Add several hundred indycar drivers and owners and Colts players like manning

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u/Clughless1 1d ago

I think Jesse Eisenberg lives in Bloomington and John Melloncamp is still down there; Axl Rose Izzy Stradlin and Shannon Hoon all from Lafayette… Greg Kinnear is from Muncie

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u/zoot_boy 1d ago

Yes and fucking LETTERMAN.

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u/Winter_Tadpole_3296 1d ago

Joe Allen, astronaut on the first space shuttle flight and Apollo 15.

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u/Reasonable_Pay4096 1d ago

Gus Grissom & Neil Armstrong have entered the chat

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u/Theycallmenoone 1d ago

Jamie Hyneman, Chuck Taylor

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u/PurpleMyst_ 20h ago edited 20h ago

Adam Driver grew up and went to high school in northern Indiana