List of people from Manhattan, Kansas
The following is a list of people from Manhattan, Kansas. Inclusion on the list should be reserved for notable people who have lived in the city.
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Academics
- Helen Brockman, fashion design professor
- Stephen S. Chang, food scientist
- May Louise Cowles, early advocate of teaching home economics
- Kenneth S. Davis, historian and university professor, most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[1]
- Milton S. Eisenhower, former president of Kansas State University and brother to Dwight D. Eisenhower
- David Fairchild, botanist, explorer
- Philip Fox, astronomer
- Solon Toothaker Kimball, educator and anthropologist
- Abby Lillian Marlatt, noted educator
- George A. Milliken, statistician
- Benjamin Franklin Mudge, geologist
- Merrill D. Peterson, historian
- Luraine Tansey, librarian who developed a universal slide classification scheme
- Virginia Trotter, education administrator
- Samuel Wendell Williston, scientist
- Robert A. Woodruff, space instrumentation scientist
Arts and entertainment
Cassandra Peterson, dressed as Elvira at the 2006 San Francisco Gay Pride parade
- Dawayne Bailey, composer, guitarist, and vocalist; formerly of Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band and Chicago
- Bill Buzenberg, journalist, executive director of Center for Public Integrity, former vice-president of news at NPR
- Elizabeth Williams Champney, author
- Louis Chaudet, film director, writer
- Del Close, comedian
- Brian Doyle-Murray, actor, scriptwriter[2]
- Bridget Everett, cabaret artist, comedian[3]
- Jonathan Holden, first Poet Laureate of Kansas
- Lee Killough, author
- Tom Oberheim, inventor of Oberheim synthesizer and DMX drum machine
- Mitsugi Ohno, glassblower
- Clementine Paddleford, food critic
- Cassandra Peterson, actress and model, best known as "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark"
- A.J. Rathbun, renowned mixologist[4]
- Damon Runyon, author
- Inger Stevens, Swedish-American movie and TV actress
- Eric Stonestreet, actor, notable for his Emmy-winning role on the ABC comedy Modern Family
- Laura Zabel, arts advocate
Athletics
Bill Snyder, head football coach at Kansas State University
- See also List of Kansas State Wildcats head football coaches and List of Kansas State Wildcats in the NFL Draft
- Bob Anderson, founder of Runner's World
- Jeremy Bates, quarterback coach for the Chicago Bears
- Tom Brosius, track and field athlete
- Jim Colbert, professional golfer
- Bobby Douglass, former National Football League player
- Brian Giles, former Major League Baseball player
- Larry Hartshorn, NFL player for the Chicago Cardinals
- Tim Jankovich, college basketball coach
- Lon Kruger, college and professional basketball coach
- Jon McGraw, NFL player for the New York Jets
- Travis Metcalf, professional baseball player
- Jordy Nelson, NFL player for the Green Bay Packers
- Tim Norris, golf coach and former professional golfer
- Bert Pearson, NFL player for the Chicago Bears
- Vince Rafferty, NFL player
- Thomas Randolph, All-American football player
- Deb Richard, professional golfer
- Bill Snyder, NCAA football head football coach at Kansas State University
- Gary Spani, NFL Hall of Famer
- Scott Liebler, a former Atlantic Championship racing driver
Military
- John Byers Anderson, military officer, businessman
- James Harbord, military officer, businessman
- Richard Alonzo Jaccard, United States Navy pilot
- James H. Kyle, commander in Operation Eagle Claw
- Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods
Politics
Nehemiah Green, fourth governor of Kansas
- John Alexander Anderson, U.S. Congressman
- John W. Carlin, 40th governor of Kansas
- Sydney Carlin, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
- Joan Finney, 42nd governor of Kansas
- Nehemiah Green, 4th governor of Kansas
- Tom Hawk, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
- Martha Keys, U.S. Congressperson
- Albert E. Mead, 5th governor of Washington
- Jerry Moran, member of the United States Senate
- Frank B. Morrison, 34th governor of Nebraska
- Susan Mosier, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
- Tom Phillips, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
- Roger Reitz, member of the Kansas Senate
- Fred Andrew Seaton, Senator for Nebraska and Secretary of the Interior
- Walter J. Stoessel, diplomat
Other
- Amanda Carraway, Miss Kansas USA 1999 and Miss Kansas Teen USA 1996[5][6]
- Alice Stebbins Wells, first American-born policewoman in the US
See also
References
- ↑ "University Archives: Kenneth S. Davis Papers" (English). Retrieved 2008-11-21.
- ↑ "Bill Murray Coming to Manhattan (Kansas)". Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ↑ Schulman, Michael (September 29, 2014), "Sweet and Vicious", The New Yorker
- ↑ "In Their Cups". The Harvard Common Press. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- ↑ Standing Strong profile at the Pageant News Bureau
- ↑ Miss Kansas USA Hall of Fame official website
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