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.


 * Robert 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 - local politician and 2020 congressional candidate
 * Billy Muffett - baseball player
 * Art Murakowski - football player
 * 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