Will Cuppy (1884-1949), humorist and journalist, spent summers when he was a boy at the farm of his grandmother, Sarah Collins Cuppy, near South Whitley.
Albert Fredrick Ottomar Germann (February 18, 1886 - December 22, 1976), scientist, university professor, founder and President of Nutritional Research Associates, Inc. (incorporated in 1935) in South Whitley.