Champion Kaitlyn Christopher, Miss Indiana USA 2005 Dave Darland, auto racer Rowdy Elliott, baseball player Elwood Haynes, inventor, automotive pioneer Bud Hillis, U.S. Representative Margaret Hillis, pianist, founder of Chicago Symphony Chorus Nellie Keeler, child circus performer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis Don Johnson, professional bowler, PBA Hall of Fame member Opha May Johnson, United States Marine Corps first female Marine Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes correspondent Jim "Goose" Ligon, former ABA basketball player Strother Martin, actor Clay Myers, photographer, animal welfare advocate Kent C. Nelson, past CEO of United Parcel Service John O'Banion, singer Jack Purvis, jazz musician Jane Randolph, actress, grew up in Kokomo Jimmy Rayl, "Splendid Splinter," Indiana Pacers 1967–1969, two-time All-American Indiana University Robert S. Richardson, astronomer Tod Sloan, jockey Tavis Smiley, PBS presenter "Sylvia" (Sylvia Jane Kirby), country music singer Joe Thatcher, pitcher for MLB Chicago Cubs Pat Underwood, former MLB pitcher, Detroit Tigers Tom Underwood, former MLB pitcher, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Oakland A's and Baltimore Orioles William N. Vaile, Congressman Gertrude Vaile (1878-1954), social worker Ryan White, AIDS activist Anna Mae Winburn, African American vocalist and jazz bandleader best known for having directed the International Sweethearts of Rhythm In popular culture The Man from Home (1908), a play by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson, involves a lawyer from Kokomo who travels to Europe but returns to the city in the end. A Romance of Kokomo was a silent film made in 1917, which was also filmed in Kokomo, and made its opening premiere at the Isis Theater on South Main Street. The Kid from Kokomo (1939; also sometimes called Broadway Cavalier) is a comedy film about an orphan from Kokomo who refuses to box until his mother is found. The film was based on a story by Dalton Trumbo. Kokomo is mentioned in the 1943 song Hot Time in the Town of Berlin first recorded by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1944. In the 1947 film Mother Wore Tights, Betty Grable and Dan Dailey sing a song entitled "Kokomo, Indiana". Kokomo is the setting of Allan Dwan's nostalgic 1953 musical Sweethearts on Parade. "First Snow in Kokomo" is a track on Aretha Franklin's album Young, Gifted and Black. Franklin's domestic partner Ken Cunningham was born and raised in Kokomo and they still