INDY 500 QUEENS
500 Festival Parade
GRAND MARSHALS
The 500 Festival Organization promotes the Indy 500 through many varied events including
the popular Mini-Marathon and the 500 Festival Parade - one of the largest in the nation!

Below is a list of all the Grand Marshals who have led the 500 Festival Parade.
YEAR
GRAND MARSHAL
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Gen. David Shoup USMC
Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Kelly USAF
Gen. Herbert B. Powell
Lt. Gen. Charles G. Dodge
Lt. Gen. David Burchinal
Jimmy Stewart
Walter Cronkite
Lorne Green, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Ambassadors from Peru, Boliva and Equador
Manueal Fraga Irlbarne
Edie Adams
Hon. George W. Romney, John A. Love, Carl B. Stokes
Phil Harris
Col. James H. Kasler
Mickey Mouse
Peter DePaolo
Tony Hulman (speedway owner) and Bob Hope
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Roy Clark
President Gerald R. Ford
Mike Douglas
Joyce Dewitt
Merlin Olsen
Joseph Allen
David Hasselhoff
Mickey Mouse
Lt. Col. Jerry L. Ross
Mario Vasquez Rana
Garfield & Jim Davis
Gene Autry
Vice President Dan Quayle
A.J. Foyt and Mary Fendrich Hulman
Mickey and Minnie Mouse
Larry Bird
Mario Andretti and Bonnie Blair
A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser
Garfield and Jim Davis
Cam Cameron, Joe Tiller (football coaches) and Bob Davie (basketball coach)
Dr. David Wolf
Medal of Honor recipients
Jim Nabors
Public Safety Officers (IFD, IPD, ISP, MCSD)
Jim Caviezel
Wynonna Judd
Jane Pauley
Reggie Miller
Rachael Ray
Peyton Manning
Patricia Heaton
Dick Vitale
Butler Bulldogs Men's Basketball Team
Anderson Cooper
Olivia Newton John
Indiana Fever
Josh Kauffman
1955 Crispus Attucks State Champion Basketball Team
Emma Stumpf
Eva Moses Kor
Abby Abel and Mitch Bonar
Sam Schmidt
no parade due to pandemic
no parade due to pandemic
August A. Ebeling
Frank Shorter
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President Gerald Ford - Grand Marshall of 1979 '500' Festival Parade
- Hoosier who earned Medal of Honor during WWII
- Hoosier 4-star general and pilot
- Army general and diplomat
- Commanded the Armys First Cavalry Division in Korea
- USAF 4-star general
- actor
- National broadcast journalist
- Bonanza TV show actors

- Politican under Spanish dictator Franco
- Comedian, actress, singer
- Politicians
- Actor, comedian, singer
- Hoosier USAF ace WWII-Korea-Vietnam

- 1925 Indy 500 Winner
- Comedian actor
- Cartoonists
- Country music musician
- POTUS 1974-1977
- TV talk show host
- Hoosier actress, star of Three's Company
- NFL player turn actor
- Hoosier astronaut on first 4-man Space Shuttle flight
- Acting star of TV show Knight Rider

- Hoosier USAF pilot and NASA astronaut
- Mexican businessman who owned UPI
- Cartoon cat and the Hoosier cartoonist who created him
- Actor known as The Singing Cowboy
- Hoosier VP under G.H.W. Bush 1989-1993
- Owner of speedway

- Hoosier NBA player
- Speed Skater Olympic gold-medalist
- Indy 500 winners


- Hoosier doctor, electrical engineer and NASA astronaut

- Actor, singer

- Actor
- Country music singer
- Hoosier TV news reporter
- NBA Indiana Pacer player
- TV chef
- NFL Indiana Colts player
- Actress
- College Basketball Announcer
- an Indianapolis University
- Broadcast journalist and political commentator
- Singer, actress
- 2012 WNBA Champions
- Musician
- Indianapolis High School
- 14 y/o Hoosier cancer patient and philanthropist
- She and her twin sister were Holocaust survivors
- Hoosier collegiates working to eliminate stigma
- IndyCar driver who became team owner


- 500 Festival Volunteer of the Year
- Long distance Olympic gold medalist