List of Famous people born in Indiana, United States of America
Miles Taylor
Miles Taylor is an American former government official in the George W. Bush and Trump administrations, best known for his previously anonymous criticisms of Donald Trump. He was a Trump administration appointee who served in the United States Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, including as chief of staff to former Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and acting secretary Kevin McAleenan.
Heather Penney
Heather Renee Penney is the director of United States Air Force Air Superiority at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company. She is best known for her role as a USAF lieutenant who was one of two F-16 pilots who flew their unarmed planes in an attempt to ram and down United Airlines Flight 93 before it reached Washington, D.C., during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Kyle Guy
Kyle Joseph Guy is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers for three years.
Terry McLaurin
Terry McLaurin is an American football wide receiver for the Washington Football Team of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Ohio State and was drafted by Washington, then known as the Redskins, in the third round of the 2019 NFL Draft. He was named to the 2019 PFWA All-Rookie Team after recording over 900 receiving yards with seven touchdowns.
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Craig Counsell
Craig John Counsell is an American former professional baseball player who is the manager for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was an infielder who played sixteen seasons for five teams. Counsell has been the Brewers' manager since May 2015.
Keke Wyatt
Ke'Tara Shavon "Keke" Wyatt is an American singer-songwriter, actress and television personality. After performing in a number of girl bands and working as a songwriter during her teenage years, in 2000 she garnered national attention after her successful collaboration with fellow R&B singer Avant, In 2001 her rendition of "Nothing in This World" led to a nomination for the Best New R&B/Soul/Rap Artist award at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. After a number of charting collaborations and solo releases, in 2017 she starred as a cast member in TV One's R&B Divas: Atlanta, which featured the lives of five 1990s chart-topping R&B singers. She was featured in all 3 seasons of the show. She also performed with the group at events such as Essence Music Festival.
Lilly King
Lilly King is an American swimmer who specializes in breaststroke. She currently represents the Cali Condors, a team that is part of the International Swimming League. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke competition and also won a gold medal in the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay, in which she swam the breaststroke leg. She is the current world record holder in 100-metre and 50-metre breaststroke.
Ward Cunningham
Howard G. Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki and was a co-author of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. A pioneer in both design patterns and extreme programming, he started coding the WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on c2.com on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository. He co-authored a book about wikis, entitled The Wiki Way, and invented the Framework for Integrated Tests.
Benjaman Kyle
"Benjaman Kyle" was the alias chosen by an American man who has severe amnesia. On August 31, 2004, he was found, naked and injured, without any possessions or identification, next to a dumpster behind a Burger King restaurant in Richmond Hill, Georgia. Between 2004 and 2015, neither he nor the authorities had determined his real identity or background, despite searches that had included television publicity and various other methods.