People of Richmond making the difference. A celebration of ordinary people doing extraordinary things…
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May Aufderheide, ragtime composer
Baby Huey (singer), popular music artist
James H. Bailey
Polly Bergen (Nellie Paulina Burgin), actress
Landrum Bolling
Clark R. Bradley, rodeo professional
Timmy Brown, former NFL running back and actor
James D Cain, Internationally known amateur radio writer and editor.
Janet Bolle Carl, head golf coach, University of Cincinnati, 2006 LPGA Coach of the Year
John Wilbur Chapman, Evangelist
Randolph Coats
Al Cobine, jazz musician
Vice Admiral Terry Cross, Vice Commandant, United States Coast Guard
Nathan Davis
David W. Dennis, U.S. Congressman
George Duning, Oscar-nominated composer
Weeb Ewbank, coach of the 1958 and 1959 NFL champion Baltimore Colts and the Super Bowl III champion New York Jets
Jack Everly, Pops orchestra conductor, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Vagas Ferguson, NFL player
Paul Flatley, former NFL Rookie-of-the-Year (Minnesota Vikings)
William Dudley Foulke, lawyer, author
Norman Foster actor, director
Harry “Singin’ Sam” Frankel, radio star, minstrel
Richard T. Ginman, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
Mary Haas, linguist
Jeff Hamilton, jazz drummer
Del Harris, professional basketball coach
Micajah C. Henley, roller skate maker
Charles A. Hufnagel, M.D. artificial heart valve inventor
Joseph Iutzi, physician and author of medical journal articles, including “Heredity and Its Relations to the Causation of Disease.”
Steven C. Jackson, Guitarist
Dominic James, basketball player at Marquette University, 2006 Big East Rookie of the Year
C. Francis Jenkins, television pioneer
Harold Jones, jazz drummer
Jim Jones, founder-leader of Peoples Temple
Melvin “Deacon” Jones, blues organist
Harry Keenan actor
Esther Kellner, author
Daniel Kinsey, Olympic gold medalist
Margaret Landon, author of The King and I
Johnny Logan (basketball), professional basketball player
Joe Longstreth, harpist, actor
Mike Lopresti, award-winning sports reporter for Gannett Company.
Lamar Lundy, football player, one of the L.A. Rams Fearsome Foursome
Kenneth MacDonald, actor
Daniel W. Marmon, industrialist
Ann Martin
Dan Mitrione, counterinsurgency specialist for U.S. government
Oliver P. Morton, Indiana’s Civil War Governor
Rich Mullins, Christian musician
Addison H. Nordyke, industrialist
Mary Wright Plummer
William Paul Quinn, African American minister
Daniel G. Reid, industrialist/philanthropist
Jonathan Clark Rogers, president of the University of Georgia
Ned Rorem, Pulitzer prize-winning composer
L. Lena Sawner, educator
Chris Schenkel, sports broadcaster, ABC Sports
Wendell Stanley, Nobel Prize winner
D. Elton Trueblood, Quaker theologian
Jon Jennings, NBA basketball coach (Boston Celtics)
Bo Van Pelt, professional golfer
Mike Cruze, Indiana State, National and International martial arts champion
Darrell M. West, author and Brookings Institution political scientist
Burton J. Westcott, automobile manufacturer
Gaar Williams, cartoonist
Carol Lou Woodward, jazz pianist, former leader of the Carol Lou Trio
Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer