Indiana Actor James Dean



Songwriter Cole Porter



Journalist Ernie Pyle



Journalist Jane Pauley



Director Sydney Pollack



Writer Jean Shephard



Musician Wes Montgomery



Actress Carole Lombard



Musician John Mellencamp



Actor Steve McQueen



Astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom



Choreographer Twyla Tharp



Businessman Orville Redenbacher



Director Robert Wise



Cartoonist Jim Davis



Musician/Actor Scatman Crothers



Poet James Whitcomb Riley



Inventor Wilbur Wright



Novelist Theodore Dreiser



Actress Florence Henderson



Athlete Larry Bird



Designer Bill Blass



Entertainer David Letterman



Composer Hoagy Carmichael



Actress Anne Baxter



Entertainer Red Skelton Statehood:  December 11, 1816

Please forgive us for Michael Jackson and Dan Quayle.  We’ve given the world so much else.
Seventh Grade Building, New Castle
Office building, Indianapolis
Henry County Courthouse, New Castle
Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Indianapolis
Flower, New Castle
Statehouse, Indianapolis
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