Editing Crawfordsville, Indiana (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Wallace Ben-Hur cover.jpg|150px|right|thumb|''[[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ]]'' by [[Lew Wallace]]]]
* [[Joseph P. Allen]] – mission specialist on the first fully operational flight of the [[Shuttle Transportation System|Space Shuttle]] in 1982
* [[Albert B. Anderson]] – Judge for U.S. District Court 1902 to 1925 and U.S. Court of Appeals from 1925 to 1938
* [[Richard Elwell Banta|Richard Elwell (R.E.) Banta]] - writer, rare book dealer, publisher and humorist
* [[William Brocius|"Curly Bill" Brocius]] – [[American Old West|Old West]] outlaw, evidence stating his birthplace as Crawfordsville is tenuous
* [[Edward Richard Sprigg Canby]] – Union general in the [[American Civil War]]; attended local [[Wabash College]] as a student.
* [[Henry Beebee Carrington]] – Union general during the Civil War
* [[Joseph Stephen Crane]] – restaurateur of Luau and Kon Tiki restaurants; actor; husband to actresses [[Lana Turner]] (1942–1944) and [[Martine Carol]] (1948–1953)
* [[Sidney de Paris|Sidney]] and [[Wilbur de Paris]] – brothers, jazz musicians
* [[Beatrice Schenk de Regniers]] – children's books author
* [[Dick Dietz]] – professional baseball player
* [[Leroy Edwards]] – 1940s University of Kentucky and professional basketball player
* [[Col. Isaac C. Elston House|Isaac Compton Elston Sr.]] – land speculator, banker, patriarch of Crawfordsville's pre-eminent family
* [[Larry Eyler]] – Serial killer and abductor
* [[Dave Gerard (cartoonist)|Dave Gerard]] – cartoonist created "Will-Yum" and "Citizen Smith", also served as Crawfordsville mayor
* [[Bayless W. Hanna]] – Indiana Attorney General (1870–1872), U.S. Minister to Argentina (1885–1889), publisher of the ''Crawfordsville Review'' (1883–1885)
* [[Elizabeth Boynton Harbert]] – 19th-century American author, lecturer, reformer, and philanthropist, born and grew up in Crawfordsville.
* [[John Parker Hawkins]] – lived in Crawfordsville as a boy, career Army officer, became a Union brigadier general during the Civil War
* [[Bill Holman (cartoonist)|Bill Holman]] – cartoonist, creator of ''[[Smokey Stover]]''
* [[The Ultimate Warrior|James Brian Hellwig]] (1959–2014) – professional wrestler, best known as ''[[The Ultimate Warrior]]''
* [[Kent Kessler]] – avant-garde jazz bassist
* [[Caroline Virginia Krout]] – author
* [[Mary Hannah Krout]] – journalist and author
* [[Eleanor Lambert]] – head of NYC Fashion Institute, sister of [[Ward Lambert]]
* [[Janet Lambert]] – author of young adult fiction
* [[Ward Lambert]] – [[Purdue University]]'s basketball coach from 1916 to 1917, 1918–1946, National Basketball League Commissioner, Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame member, brother of [[Eleanor Lambert]]
* [[Henry S. Lane]] – [[United States Senator]], [[Governor of Indiana]], and pallbearer for [[Abraham Lincoln]]
* [[Stephen A. Love]] – musician
* [[Mahlon D. Manson]] – [[Union Army]] brigadier general, Indiana Lieutenant Governor (1885–1886), U.S. Representative (1871–1873), resident of Crawfordsville
* [[James W. Marshall]] – gold miner who set off the [[California Gold Rush]].
* [[Joseph E. McDonald]] – lawyer, U.S. Representative (1849–1850), U.S. Senator (1875–1881)
* [[Caleb Mills]] – author of the free school bill of Indiana, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, first professor at Wabash College
* [[James Atwell Mount]] – [[Governor of Indiana]] from 1897 to 1901
* [[Kenyon Nicholson]] – playwright and screenwriter
* [[Meredith Nicholson]] – author (''[[The House of a Thousand Candles]]'', ''A Hoosier Chronicle''), politician, diplomat
* [[Robert B. F. Peirce]] – U.S. Representative (1881–83)
* [[Allen Saunders]] – cartoonist, wrote ''Steve Roper'', and ''Mary Worth''
* [[Ferdinand Louis Schlemmer]] – artist
* [[Will Shortz]] – ''[[The New York Times]]'' puzzle writer
* [[Lee Orean Smith]] (1874–1942) –  composer, arranger, music editor, publisher, music teacher, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor<ref>{{cite book|title=The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and Their Music, Volume II|first1=William H.|last1=Rehrig|first2=Paul E.|last2=Bierley|year=1991|publisher=Integrity Press|isbn=9780918048080|chapter=Lee Orean Smith}}</ref>
* [[Maurice Thompson]] – author, poet, naturalist, State Geologist, popularized archery as a sport
* [[William Wheeler Thornton]] – author, State Supreme Court librarian, Indiana Deputy Attorney General, Crawfordsville City Attorney
* [[Randal Turner]] – opera singer; baritone
* [[Dick Van Dyke]] – actor, briefly attended Tuttle Middle School in Crawfordsville
* [[Lew Wallace]] – Union general in the Civil War and author of ''[[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ|Ben-Hur]]''; Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1878 to 1881; served as U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire from 1881 to 1885; resided in Crawfordsville; attended [[Wabash College]].
* [[Susan Wallace]] – author and poet, wife of Lew Wallace
* [[Maurine Dallas Watkins]] – author of ''Chicago''; Hollywood screenwriter
* [[Howdy Wilcox]] – [[Indianapolis 500]] racing pioneer, winner of the 1919 Indy 500
* [[Mary Holloway Wilhite]] (1831–1892) – physician and philanthropist
* [[Henry Lane Wilson]] – U.S. diplomat and Ambassador to [[Mexico]], son of James Wilson
* [[Jacob Wilson (racing driver)|Jacob Wilson]] – racing driver
* [[James Wilson (Indiana)|James Wilson]] – politician, [[United States Representative]] from Indiana and United States Ambassador to [[Venezuela]]
* [[John L. Wilson]] – politician, [[United States Representative]] and [[United States Senator|Senator]] from [[Washington (state)|Washington]], son of James Wilson

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