Military
- Jeremy Michael Boorda, Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations, (South Bend)
- Ambrose Burnside, General in the Civil War, sideburns are named after him (Liberty)
- George Rogers Clark, man who conquered Indiana for the United States, (Clarksville)
- Jonathan D. George, retired Air Force brigadier general, 9th District congressional candidate (Bedford)
- William Grose, Civil War General, (New Castle)
- Jonas Ingram, Medal of Honor recipient, Atlantic Fleet commander in World War II (Jeffersonville)
- John Poindexter, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy, National Security Adviser to President Ronald Reagan, figure in the Iran-Contra affair, (Odon)
- David M. Shoup, Medal of Honor recipient, 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps (Battle Ground, Indiana)
- Walter Bedell Smith, General, U.S. Army, chief of staff to General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Indianapolis)
- Raymond Ames Spruance, Admiral, U.S. Navy, Flagship Commander USS Indianapolis (Indianapolis)
- Lew Wallace, General in the Civil War (Crawfordsville)
- Samuel Woodfill, most decorated American soldier in World War I, (Jefferson County)
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.”
—Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)