List of people from South Bend, Indiana

The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of South Bend, Indiana.

Government and Politics[]

John Brademas, former House Majority Whip
Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend (2012–2020) and candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. First openly gay man to win delegates in a presidential primary and the first openly gay Cabinet member in history. Current Secretary of Transportation.
Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice President of the United States
Alexis Coquillard, founder of South Bend
Noma Gurich, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Timothy Howard, 43rd Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice, Indiana State Senator
Larry J. McKinney, United States District Court judge
James Mueller, mayor of South Bend since 2020
Tim Roemer, former U.S. Ambassador to India and U.S. congressman
Joe Kernan, politician and Governor of Indiana (2003-2005)
Clarence Long, U.S. Congressman of Maryland
Jake Teshka, member of the Indiana House of Representatives

Brendan Bayliss and Jake Cinninger, guitarists, Umphrey's McGee (a progressive rock and jam band from South Bend)
John Bromfield, actor
Dick Durock, stuntman and actor
Chad Everett, actor
Vivica Fox, actress
Dean Norris, actor
Michael Warren, actor
Daniel Waters, screenwriter
John Clarke, actor
Chad Everett, actor
Lloyd Haynes, actor
Catherine Hicks, actress; attended Saint Mary's College
Larry Karaszewski, film and TV screenwriter / producer
Jeremy Leven, writer, director
Keith Alan Morris, filmmaker
Sydney Pollack, film director and actor
Dan Resin, actor
George Seaton, film director
Ansel Wallace, newsreel cameraman and photographer in World War I
Daniel Waters, film director and screenwriter
Mark Waters, film director and producer
Chuck Zink TV personality
Charles Butterworth, actor

Anthony Barr, NFL linebacker playing for the Minnesota Vikings
Frank Bykowski, NFL player
Jon Gruden, former ESPN broadcaster and NFL coach
Lee Nailon, NBA basketball player and 2007 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
Ernie Zalejski, American football player
Bill Doba, football coach
Kent Gaydos, football player
Jon Gruden, football coach

Ollie Bejma, baseball player
Nancy DeShone, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) player for the South Bend Blue Sox
Dorothea Downs, AAGPBL player, South Bend Blue Sox
Mary Lou Graham, AAGPBL player, South Bend Blue Sox
Frances Janssen, AAGPBL player and Northern Indiana Historical Society researcher
Glenna Sue Kidd, AAGPBL player, South Bend Blue Sox
Marie Kruckel, AAGPBL player for the South Bend Blue Sox and a 38-year teacher at Clay High School
Betty Wagoner, AAGPBL player, South Bend Blue Sox
Janet Wiley, AAGPBL player for the South Bend Blue Sox
Craig Counsell, baseball player
Andy Replogle, baseball pitcher

Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue, pioneering rock and roll radio disc jockey, record producer and concert promoter^[1]
Marcie Free, singer, King Kobra, Unruly Child, Signal
Josh Garrels, musician
Nathan Gunn, operatic baritone
Sneaky Pete Kleinow, musician
The Rivieras, 1960s garage rock and surf rock band
Jules C. Stein, music industry executive
Student Rick, early 2000s pop punk and emo band
Alexander Toradze, pianist
Junior Walker, 1960s soul singer and saxophonist signed to Motown (with the All Stars)
Beatrice Carmichael, opera singer and director
Ted Leo, musician
Nathan Gunn, opera singer and professor
Traci Paige Johnson, co-creator, Blues Clues TV show
Junior Walker, Motown saxophonist and vocalist

Elijah Anderson, sociologist and author of Code of the Street^[2]
Phillip Hoose, author
Kenn Kaufman, naturalist and author
Bernard Kilgore, journalist, Wall Street Journal
Dylan Krieger, poet
Kenneth Rexroth, poet, translator of the classical Chinese poets, essayist, intellectual, anarchist.

James Oliver, inventor and industrialist best known for creating South Bend Iron Works, which was reincorporated as Oliver Farm Equipment Company after his death
Studebaker Brothers, founders of Studebaker Corporation

Jeremy Michael Boorda, Navy admiral
James H. Kasler, Korean War and Vietnam War fighter pilot and POW; only recipient of three Air Force Crosses^[3]
Joseph A. Nolan Medal of Honor Recipient, Philippine Insurrection
Howard G. Bunker, Air Force general
Edward Hale Campbell, Navy admiral

Debra Elmegreen, astronomer
Maclyn McCarty, physician and biochemistry researcher who helped identify DNA as the genetic material, ushering in the era of molecular biology
Robert Fassnacht, researcher killed in bombing
Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr., mammalogist, pathologist

Ivan Meštrović, sculptor, professor at the University of Notre Dame, died in South Bend
Duncan G. Stroik, architect, sacred architecture professor, and founder of Duncan G. Stroik Architect LLC

Michael Alig, co-founder of the Club Kids and convicted murderer
Paul Smith, first African American minister at historic First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, New York; multicultural consultant, civil rights activist, university administrator, teacher, author
Emerson Spartz, media mogul
William Albert Wack, CSC, Bishop of Diocese of Pensacola–Tallahassee

v t South Bend, Indiana
Neighborhoods	West Washington Historic District
Education	South Bend Community School Corporation John Adams HS Clay HS James Whitcomb Riley HS Washington HS St. Joseph HS Trinity School at Greenlawn Stanley Clark School Indiana University South Bend
Landmarks	Ballpark Synagogue Civil Rights Heritage Center (former Engman Public Natatorium) First Presbyterian Church Four Winds Field at Coveleski Stadium Ignition Park Morris Performing Arts Center The Museums at Washington and Chapin Studebaker National Museum North Pumping Station Joseph D. Oliver House South Bend Civic Theatre Tippecanoe Place
Transportation	South Bend International Airport South Bend station (Amtrak) South Bend Airport station (NICTD) South Bend Transpo Union Station (former)
Media	South Bend Tribune
Culture	Flag of South Bend South Bend Cubs
People	Mayors