Famous people born in Hammond
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Jay Dobyns
Jay Anthony Jaybird Dobyns , is a retired Special Agent and veteran undercover operative with the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives , New York Times BestSelling author, and public speaker.....
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Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. In 1908 Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association , a pioneering research group, founded by Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia to build flying machines.....
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Dory Funk Jr
Dory Funk Jr. is an American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer. He is the son of Dory Funk and brother of Terry Funk. He is credited with the invention of the Texas cloverleaf submission hold and runs the Funking Conservatory, a professional wrestling school.....
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Bob Wilkins
Bob Wilkins was a television personality born as Robert Gene Wilkins in the town of Hammond, Indiana. Wilkins was best known as the creator and host of a popular television show named Creature Features that ran on KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1971 to 1984, and which premiered with Del Tenneys infamous The Horror of Party Beach. The programming on Creature Features featured science fiction and horror film everything from the classics, such as Bride of Frankenstein to turgid turkeys li....
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Nick Popaditch
Nicholas Allen Popaditch is a medically retired United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who gained fame as the Cigar Marine, recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart. He ran unsuccessfully as the 2010 Republican candidate for Californias 51st congressional district, losing to incumbent Democrat Bob Filner. He ran again in 2012 in the 53rd congressional district, losing to incumbent Democrat Susan Davis.....
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Dory Funk
Dorrance Wilhelm Dory Funk was an American professional wrestler. He is the father of wrestlers Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk.....
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Cindy Robbins
Cynthia Chenault is an American television actress and producerwriter active from the mid1950s to the present. She used the screen name Cindy Robbins in her acting credits.....
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Hodding Carter
William Hodding Carter, II , was a Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author.....
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Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling is a Republican member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 8th District since 1993. She previously served in the Wisconsin Assembly, representing the 10th district from 1990 through 1993. In August 2011, opponents forced a recall election against Darling, but Darling defeated the Democratic challenger, Sandy Pasch, fiftyfour percent to fortysix percent.....
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David Wilkerson
David Ray Wilkerson was an American Christian evangelist, best known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade. He was the founder of the addiction recovery program Teen Challenge, and founding pastor of the nondenominational Times Square Church in New York.....
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Ham Avery
Charles Hammond Ham Avery was an American lawyer, in his youth a college baseball pitcher and a professional baseball umpire.....
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Bartlett Cormack
Edward Bartlett Cormack was an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and producer best known for his 1927 Broadway play The Racket, and for working with Howard Hughes and Cecil B. DeMille on several films.....
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