# List of people from Hammond, Indiana

The following is a list of notable people who were born, grew up, and spent a portion of life and or career in Hammond, Indiana.
* Kathleen BurkeRobert K. Abbett - artist, illustrator
* R.J.Q. Adams - historian
* Norman C. Anderson - Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Michael Badnarik - Libertarian Party 2004 presidential candidate
* Gerald R. Beaman - U.S. Navy admiral
* Dodie Bellamy - author
* Stephan Bonnar - UFC fighter
* Kathleen Burke - actress
* Darrel Chaney - baseball player
* Bob Chapek - Former CEO of The Walt Disney Company
* Jack Chevigny - football player, coach, lawyer, and United States Marine Corps officer
* Denny Clanton - soccer player
* Bartlett Cormack - playwright and screenwriter
* Irv Cross, NFL player and commentator
* Alberta Darling - Wisconsin politician
* Jon Deak - contrabassist
* John H. Eastwood - US Army Air Corps chaplain, World War II
* Hal Faverty - NFL player
* Maxx Frank - gospel singer
* DJ Rashad - notable footwork DJ/producer
* Dory Funk - professional wrestler fighting under both his real name and as "The Outlaw"
* Dory Funk Jr. - professional wrestler and wrestling trainer
* Terry Funk - professional wrestler and actor
* Neil Goodman - sculptor and educator
* George Groves - professional football player
* Bob Haak - football player
* Wally Hess - football player
* Mitchell F. Jayne, musician and author
* Khari Jones - player in Canadian Football League, television commentator
* Jeremy Jordan - actor, singer
* Bruce Konopka - baseball player
* Ken Kremer - football player
* Jim Lewis - Disney and Wal-Mart executive
* Bob Livingstone - football player
* Thomas McDermott, Jr. - mayor
* Monica Maxwell - basketball player, played in Women's National Basketball Association
* Roy McPipe - basketball player, drafted by NBA in '73 and '74, played with ABA's Utah Stars in 1975
* Carl Frederick Mengeling - Bishop of Lansing 1996-2008
* Joseph F. Meyer - horticulturist, herbalist, founder of the Indiana Botanic Gardens
* Phil Montgomery - Wisconsin politician
* Frank J. Mrvan - U.S. Representative from Indiana's 1st Congressional District, elected in 2020
* Billy Muffett - baseball player
* Art Murakowski - football player
* Larry E. Overman - organic chemist
* Samuel Panayotovich - Illinois politician
* Merle Pertile - model, Playboy Playmate, January 1962
* Charles B. Pierce - filmmaker
* Fritz Pollard - first black NFL head coach for now-defunct Hammond Pros, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
* Alvah Curtis Roebuck - founded Sears, Roebuck and Company
* Mike D. Rogers - Alabama politician
* Aaron Rosand - violin soloist
* Jordan Schafer - baseball player
* Ryan Schau - football player
* Mike Sember - baseball player
* Scott Sheldon - baseball player
* Jean Shepherd - born in Chicago, raised in Hammond, TV and radio personality, best known as writer and narrator of film A Christmas Story (1983)
* Bobby Skafish - Chicago radio personality
* Chips Sobek - basketball player, coach and official
* Glenn Michael Souther - US Navy defector to Soviet Union
* Miguel Torres - UFC fighter
* Jimmy Valiant - professional wrestler
* Lois V. Vierk - music composer of post-minimalist and totalist schools
* David Wilkerson - minister, evangelist and writer
* Joe Winkler - football player
* Doc Young - Hammond physician, one of the founders of the National Football League
* Harry Yourell - Illinois state representative and businessman