Heath Phillips
Heath Michael Phillips (born March 24, 1982) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher from Evansville, Indiana who played for the Chicago White Sox. Central High School Phillips was born and raised in Evansville and attended Central High School, graduating in 2000. A left-handed pitcher, Phillips attracted the attention of professional scouts while at Central. […]
Bruce Pearl
Bruce Pearl Bruce Pearl (born March 18, 1960) is an American former college basketball coach and television analyst who began his head-coaching career at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. Pearl transformed USI into one of the nation’s premier NCAA Division II basketball programs, winning the 1995 NCAA Division II National Championship. Pearl later […]
William Fletcher Parrett
William Fletcher Parrett (August 10, 1825 – June 30, 1895) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana. Born near Blairsville, Indiana, Parrett attended the public schools and the Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University at Greencastle. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Evansville, Indiana, until 1852. He moved to Oregon, where […]
Archie Owen
Archie Owen Archie Owen was an American football player, coach and educator who became one of the most successful high school football coaches in Evansville, Indiana history. He is best known for his 23 seasons as head football coach at Benjamin Bosse High School, where he established a school record with 111 victories. Reitz High […]
Jeff Overton
Jeffrey Laurence Overton (born May 28, 1983) is an American professional golfer. Early Life Jeff Overton was born in Evansville, Indiana. High School Overton attended North High School and led the Huskies to two State Golf Finals. Overton finished his sophomore year as the State Runner-Up (1999). In 2000 as a Junior, Overton led the North […]
Paul Osborn
Paul Osborn (September 4, 1901 – May 12, 1988) was an American playwright and screenwriter who was born in Evansville, Indiana. His family later moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he was raised. Osborn became a successful Broadway playwright, best known for Morning’s at Seven, which has been repeatedly revived and became a classic of American […]
Ray Newman
Raymond Francis “Ray” Newman (June 20, 1945 – May 20, 2023) was an American professional baseball pitcher who was born in Evansville, Indiana. Newman pitched in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers between 1971 and 1972. He later returned to his birthplace and pitched for the Evansville Triplets, spending several seasons […]
Roger Mobley
Roger Lance Mobley (born January 16, 1949) is an American former actor who was born in Evansville, Indiana, and became one of the better-known child actors of the late 1950s and 1960s. Mobley appeared in more than 100 television episodes and several feature films during his childhood career. He became known for playing Packy Lambert […]
Marilyn Miller
Marilyn Miller (September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936), born Mary Ellen Reynolds in Evansville, Indiana, was an American actress, singer and dancer who became one of Broadway’s biggest stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. Miller began performing in vaudeville as a child before becoming a star of the Ziegfeld Follies. She achieved major […]
Gene Miller
Gene Miller Gene Edward Miller (September 16, 1928 – June 17, 2005) was an American investigative journalist from Evansville, Indiana, best known for his work with The Miami Herald. Miller won two Pulitzer Prizes for investigations that helped overturn wrongful murder convictions and free innocent people from prison. Evansville and Bosse High School Miller was […]