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.

This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

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
• Benjamin Franklin Mudge, geologist
• George A. Milliken, statistician
• Merrill D. Peterson, historian
• Virginia Trotter, education administrator
• Samuel Wendell Williston, scientist
• Robert A. Woodruff, space instrumentation scientist
• Luraine Tansey, librarian who developed a universal slide classification scheme

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
• Thomas Steinbeck, author and screenwriter
• 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 is the 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

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 U.S.

See also

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

References