List of people from Manhattan, Kansas

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This article is a list of notable people who were born in and/or have lived in Manhattan, Kansas . Alumni of local universities, including athletes and coaches, that are not originally from Manhattan should not be included in this list; instead, they should be listed in the alumni list article for each university.

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
• Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, cell biologist and neuroscientist
• 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
• Charles Melton, actor and model
• 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
• Jackie Carmichael (born 1990), basketball player
• 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
• Scott Liebler, former Atlantic Championship racing driver
• 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
• Ann Roniger, American athlete, high jumper, pentathlete
• Bill Snyder, NCAA football head football coach at Kansas State University
• Gary Spani, Kansas City Chiefs franchise Hall of Fame

Military

• John Byers Anderson, military officer, businessman, president of the First National Bank of Manhattan
• Frank Coe, major general in United States Army
• James Harbord, military officer, businessman
• Richard Jaccard, United States Navy pilot
• 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
• Walter C. Dunton, member of the Kansas Territorial Legislature, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court ^[5]
• 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

• Alice Stebbins Wells, first American-born policewoman in the U.S.

See also

• Biography portal
• Kansas portal
• Lists portal

• List of Kansas State University people
• Lists of people from Kansas

References

1. "University Archives: Kenneth S. Davis Papers" (English). Retrieved November 21, 2008.
2. "Bill Murray Coming to Manhattan (Kansas)". Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2008.
3. Schulman, Michael (September 29, 2014), "Sweet and Vicious", The New Yorker
4. "In Their Cups". The Harvard Common Press. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
5. Harman, Henry H. (1901). Proceedings of the Vermont Bar Association: Memorial Paper on Walter C. Dunton. Montpelier, VT: Argus and Patriot Printing House. pp. 84–90.

Further reading

See also: List of books about Kansas, including historical information about its counties and cities

See also: List of books about Riley County, Kansas