Andy Benes
Andrew Charles Benes (born August 20, 1967 in Evansville, Indiana) is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four teams: the San Diego Padres, the Seattle Mariners, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks, in a fourteen-year career from 1989 to 2002. His brother Alan also pitched in the […]
Brent Beeler
Brent Beeler Harrison High School alumnus who later graduated from Indiana State University with a B.S. degree in Marketing and Management. Brent is the Chief Operating Officer of Berry Plastics Corporation, recognized as a world leader in plastic packaging and tapes and coating materials. He dedicated his career to building Berry Plastics into a $4.1 […]
Bibbles Bawel
Edward Raymond “Bibbles” Bawel (born November 21, 1930) was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at Evansville College. He also helped the Hamilton Tiger-Cats win the Grey Cup in 1957. College careerInitially enrolling at the University of Evansville on a basketball scholarship; Bawel […]
Michael Barber
Michael Barber is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and writer from Evansville, Indiana. Barber has been recognized as one of the highest-selling independent hip-hop artists from the state of Indiana and is best known for being one of the final artists associated with the original incarnation of Death Row Records. During his music career, Barber […]
Conrad Baker
Conrad Baker (February 12, 1817 – April 28, 1885) was a state representative, 15th Lieutenant Governor, and the 15th Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1867 to 1873. Baker had served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of colonel but resigned following his election as lieutenant governor, […]
Charles Graham Baker
Charles Graham Baker (16 July 1883 – 15 May 1950) was an American screenwriter and director. He wrote for over 170 films between 1915 and 1948. He and his father invented the game of Gin rummy in 1909. He was born in Evansville, Indiana. He and his father, Elwood T. Baker, invented the game of Gin Rummy […]
Albion Fellows Bacon
Albion Fellows Bacon (April 8, 1865 – December 10, 1933) was an American reformer and writer from Evansville, Indiana. Bacon became Indiana’s foremost “municipal housekeeper,” a Progressive Era term for women who applied their domestic skills to social problems plaguing their communities. She is remembered most for her efforts to improve public housing standards. Biography Fellows was […]
Henry Babcock Veatch, Jr.
Henry Babcock Veatch, Jr. (September 26, 1911 – July 9, 1999) was a twentieth-century American philosopher. Life and career Veatch was born in Evansville, Indiana. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1937 and spent his career at Indiana University (1937–1965), Northwestern University (1965–1973), and Georgetown University (1973–1983) where he was Philosophy Department Chair from 1973 […]
Tom Armstrong
Tom Armstrong is an American cartoonist and a graduate of the University of Evansville. He was the original artist on the newspaper comic strip John Darling, which he drew from 1980 through 1984. He also created the daily newspaper comic strip Marvin in 1982, and has worked on it continuously since then. He received the […]
Chic Anderson
Charles David (Chic) Anderson “Chic Anderson” (December 17, 1931 – March 24, 1979) was an American sportscaster and public address announcer specializing in Thoroughbred horse racing. He was one of American sports’ most famous PA voices, and remains among its most revered race callers. Racing Background A native of Evansville, Indiana Anderson got his start […]