Notable Alumni
- Andrew Jacobs, Jr. - U.S. House of Representatives, Class of 1949
- Booth Tarkington - author (attended but did not graduate from Shortridge)
- Claude G. Bowers - newspaperman, historian, author, and US ambassador, Class of 1896
- Clay Trusty, Jr. - newspaperman, city editor and assistant managing editor of The Indianapolis News, chairman of Indiana Personnel Committee (The Indiana Plan) for development of young journalists, 2011 inductee into Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, Class of 1933
- Dan Burton - United States House of Representatives, Class of 1956
- Dan Wakefield - Author, Class of 1950
- Don Mellett - Journalist, editor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Class of 1909
- Easley Blackwood - internationally acclaimed composer, pianist and professor of music at the University of Chicago, Class of 1950
- Edward H. Ziegner - celebrated newspaperman, political editor of the Indianapolis News, 1985 inductee into Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, Class of 1938
- Frank J. Anderson - first African-American Sheriff of Marion County, Indiana, IHSWCA Hall of Fame wrestler, Class of 1959
- Honor Moore - Poet and non-fiction writer, whose works include The Bishop's Daughter, a memoir of her relationship with her father, Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore, Class of 1963
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Author, Class of 1940
- Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. - architect of Vonnegut & Bohn and Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager, Class of 1902
- Lebbeus Woods - experimental architect and artist, Class of 1959
- Madelyn Pugh - writer for I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show, Class of 1938
- Marguerite Young - a much published English teacher at Shortridge who received international recognition for her 1965 epic novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling, Class of 1926
- Mary Fink, Class of 1934
- Mary Ritter Beard - Historian and feminist scholar
- Maurice E. Shearer - Brigadier General United States Marine Corps, Led Marines in the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood France, Awarded Navy Cross, Army Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, French Legion of Honor, Aide to Secretary of the Navy Fleet, used USS Indianapolis as his normal flagship, US Ambassador
- Max B. Schumacher - President & Chairman of the Board, Indianapolis Indians
- Noble Sissle - Musician/composer
- Paul Harmon, management consultant and business author
- Raymond A. Spruance - Admiral - commander of Task Force 16 at Midway; as Commander of Central Pacific Force, later 5th
- Richard Lugar - United States Senator, Class of 1950
- Wallace Terry - Journalist and oral historian, Class of 1956
- William Afflis - Professional player (Green Bay Packers) and professional wrestler under the name of Dick the Bruiser, Class of 1947
- Clinton L. Hare, manager, organizer, and coach of American football, attorney, grocer, Class of 1883
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