- Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt was a promoter of American football, soccer, tennis, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee of the first three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders of the American Football League (AFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS), as well as MLS predecessor the North American Soccer League (NASL). He was also the founder and owner of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs, and at his death owned two MLS teams, … - Jason Whitlock
Jason Lee Whitlock (b. 27 April 1967 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an African-American sportswriter for "The Kansas City Star" and for AOL Sports, a former contibutor to ESPN and a former radio personality for WHB and KCSP sports stations in the Kansas City area. - Joe Posnanski
Joe Posnanski (nicknamed "Poz") is a U.S. journalist and columnist for "The Kansas City Star." He has worked at the "Star" since October 1996. A selection of his columns about the magic of sports is compiled in the book, "The Good Stuff". His newest book, "The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America" was published by William Morrow & Company in February, 2007. - Dayton Moore
Dayton Moore is the general manager of the Kansas City Royals. He succeeded Allard Baird. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Moore grew up a Royals fan. He claims to have watched the 1985 World Series in Kansas City from I-70. He played baseball at Garden City Community College before graduating from George Mason University in 1989, with an undergraduate degree in Physical Education and Health. Dayton served as an assistant baseball coach at George Mason from 1990 to 1994. - Mike Jones
Michael Anthony Jones is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. During his NFL career, which started in 1991 and ended after 2002, Jones played on three teams: the Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, the St. Louis Rams, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jones attended college at the University of Missouri, where he originally played as a running back. He was converted to the linebacker position when he signed with the Raiders as a rookie free agent. - Darren Oliver
Darren Christopher Oliver (born October 6, 1970 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Oliver is the son of former infielder Bob Oliver. Oliver played baseball and basketball at Rio Linda High School in Rio Linda, California. Oliver was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the third round of the 1988 amateur draft. - Casey Stengel
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (July 30, 1890 - September 29, 1975), nicknamed The Old Professor, was an American baseball player and manager from the early 1910s into the 1960s. He was born in Kansas City, and was originally nicknamed "Dutch", a common nickname at that time for Americans of German ancestry. After his major league career started, he acquired the nickname "Casey", which originally came from the initials of his hometown ("K. - Scott Feldman
Scott Feldman is a news anchor for News 12 Long Island Feldman began his radio and television journalism career circa 1970. He is currently the evening co-anchor and political correspondent for News 12 Long Island. Scott is also the host of the popular "Long Island Challenge" - a high school scholastic quiz show for Long Island high school students. Feldman has been honored with many awards for outstanding news and sports reporting, including three New York Emmys, … - Bobby Bell
Robert Lee Bell, Jr (born June 17, 1940, in Shelby, North Carolina, USA, is a former collegiate and professional American football linebacker/defensive end. He excelled in several sports at a then-segregated Cleveland High School. At the University of Minnesota, he was named an All-American and the winner of the 1962 Outland Trophy and the nation's outstanding interior lineman. - Emanuel Cleaver
The Reverend Emanuel Cleaver II (born October 26, 1944) is a United Methodist pastor and a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2004 to represent (map), which primarily consists of the Kansas City-Jackson County metro area. Cleaver took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 109th Congress on January 4, 2005. - Ben Johnson
Benjamin Joseph Johnson (born June 18, 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a baseball outfielder for the New York Mets. Johnson was named the Memphis area High School Player of the Year in baseball at Germantown High School in 1999. He was also recruited to play football at Mississippi State University, but opted for baseball instead. He was a 4th round draft pick in 1999 by the St. Louis Cardinals, and was traded the following year to the San Diego Padres, … - Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 - November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. - Kate Spade
Kate Spade (born Katherine Noel Brosnahan in Kansas City, Missouri in 1962) is the co-founder and namesake of the designer brand Kate Spade New York. - Wilbert Harrison
Wilbert Harrison was an American singer. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Harrison had a Billboard No.1 record in 1959 with the song "Kansas City". The song was written in 1951 and was one of the first credited collaborations by the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. He recorded it for Bobby Robinson. Harrison recorded for the Fire and Fury record labels, which were owned and operated by Bobby Robinson at his Harlem record shop. - Andy Ashby
Andrew Jason (Andy) Ashby (born July 11, 1967 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a former starting pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies (1991-1992, 2000), Colorado Rockies (1993), San Diego Padres (1993-1999, 2004), Atlanta Braves (2000) and Los Angeles Dodgers (2001-2003). He batted and threw right-handed. Ashby attended Crowder College and played baseball there. - Jamie Gold
Jamie M. Gold (born August 25 1969 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American television producer, poker tournament player, and formerly a talent agent, based in Malibu, California. He was the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion. - Amy Adams
Amy Christina Adams (born July 25, 1979 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American singer who is best known as the tenth-place finalist on the third season of the television series "American Idol". Adams was born in Kansas City and presently lives and works in Bakersfield, California as a professional makeup artist. Adams auditioned for "American Idol" in Atlanta, Georgia and was a member of the third group of semifinalists. - Chad Ford
Chad Ford is an American sports journalist who has worked for ESPN Insider since 2001. He is currently a professor of conflict resolution in Hawaii. Ford grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He has a bachelor's degree in history from Brigham Young University-Hawaii, a master's degree in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University, and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University. - Jolie Justus
Jolie Justus (born February 24 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American lawyer and politician from Missouri. A Democrat, she is a member of the Missouri State Senate, representing the state's 10th District in Kansas City. A lawyer by trade, she was raised in Branson, Missouri where she attended Branson High School. She then went on to earn degrees at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield and the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law. - Dale Watson
Dale Watson ... Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, FBI, 2001-2002 - Michael Stern
Michael Stern (born 1959) is a noted American symphony conductor. Currently, he serves as the music director and lead conductor of the Kansas City Symphony, a symphony orchestra in Kansas City, Missouri. - Patrick Ianni
Patrick Ianni (born April 15, 1985 in Lodi, California) is an American soccer defender / defensive midfielder, who currently plays for the Houston Dynamo of the Major League Soccer. After completing his junior season at UCLA and playing in the USL Premier Development League with the Southern California Seahorses, Ianni entered the 2006 MLS SuperDraft he was chosen by Houston as the 8th overall pick. Patrick's performance with the Bruins led to his Hermann Award nomination. - Kris Kobach
Kris W. Kobach is an American law professor, and currently holds the Daniel L. Brenner Professorship at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law (UMKC) in Kansas City, Missouri. He currently serves as the chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, and in the 2004 election, he ran as the Republican Party candidate for Congress in the 3rd Congressional District of Kansas. - George Wendt
George Robert Wendt (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor perhaps best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show "Cheers". - Hank Bauer
Henry Albert "Hank" Bauer (July 31 1922 - February 9,2007) was an American right fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He played with the New York Yankees (1948-1959) and Kansas City Athletics (1960-1961); he batted and threw right-handed. He served as manager of the Athletics in both Kansas City (1961-62) and Oakland (1969), as well as of the Baltimore Orioles (1964-68), winning the 1966 World Series championship. - Ken Johnson
Kenneth "Ken" Johnson, better known to wrestling fans as "Slick", is a former WWF manager of such wrestlers as the Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, Butch Reed, Big Boss Man, Akeem, The Warlord, Paul Roma, and others. At the start of his career, Johnson did a stint in Texas All-Star Wrestling, managing Madd Maxx and Lord Humongus. He left TASW for Kansas City's Central States Wrestling to become "The Doctor of Style", Slick, characterized by his smooth attitude, … - Andy Kirk
Andrew Dewey Kirk (born May 28, 1898 in Newport, Kentucky; died December 11, 1992 in New York City) was a jazz bass saxophonist and tubist best known as a bandleader. He started his musical career playing with George Morrison's band, but then went on to join Terrence Holder's "Dark Clouds of Joy". In 1929 he was elected leader after Holder departed. - Richard Myers
General Richard Bowman Myers USAF (Ret.) (born March 1, 1942) is a former general of the United States Air Force and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; as such, he was the United States military's highest ranking officer. General Myers became the fifteenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on October 1, 2001. In this capacity, he served as the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, … - Tom Pendergast
Thomas Joseph Pendergast (July 22, 1873 - January 26, 1945) controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri as a political boss. "Boss Tom" Pendergast gave workers jobs and helped elect politicians during the Great Depression, becoming wealthy in the process. - Ken Lewis
Ken Lewis, born Kenneth Brian Lewis in 1970, is a versatile and accomplished session Drummer / Percussionist in Nashville, TN Ken, who is a Pisces, is married to Melissa and has two children: Abi and Simon, and resides in Franklin, TN. The first professional music group Ken played with was "20/20". Before his first professional gig, Ken also played with "Gorman & April Stanley", … - Mark Schultz
Mark Schultz (born September 16, 1970, Kansas City, Kansas) is a popular Contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter. He grew up in Colby, Kansas and graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in marketing. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he became at youth group leader at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville. He has released 4 albums and has been nominated for numerous Dove Awards, … - Kevin Harlan
Kevin Harlan (born June 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American television sports announcer. The son of retiring Green Bay Packers executive Bob Harlan, he currently broadcasts NFL and college basketball games on CBS. Harlan is also a play-by-play announcer for the NBA on TNT, and co-hosts Kansas City radio station WHB-AM's "Crunch Time" with local broadcast veterans Dave Stewart and Frank Boal. - Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy, born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York, was a jazz soprano saxophonist. Lacy began his career playing dixieland music with much older musicians such as Henry "Red" Allen, Pee Wee Russell, George "Pops" Foster and Zutty Singleton and then with Kansas City jazz players like Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, and Jimmy Rushing. - Gene Tenace
Fury Gene Tenace (pronounced "tennis") (born Fiore Gino Tennaci on October 10, 1946 in Russellton, Pennsylvania), is a former catcher and first baseman in professional baseball who played in the 1970s. He was a key part of the Oakland Athletics powerhouse that won 3 consecutive World Series rings from 1972 to 1974. Tenace was selected in baseball's first entry draft in 1965, being taken in the 20th round by the then Kansas City Athletics. - Larry Stewart
Larry Stewart (April 1, 1948 - January 12, 2007) was an American philanthropist from Kansas City better known as "Kansas City's Secret Santa". After poor beginnings, Stewart had-from 1979 through 2006-made a practice of anonymously handing out small amounts of cash, typically in the form of hundred dollar bills, to needy people. The total amount he gave away is estimated to be 1.3 million dollars. - Denny Matthews
Denny Matthews (born November 14 1942) is an American sportscaster, best known as the radio play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals since their inception in 1969. He currently shares those radio duties with Ryan Lefebvre, among others. - Mark Lowrey
Mark Lowrey (b. July 24 1980) Kansas City based jazz pianist. Lowrey began playing professionally soon after graduating from Oak Park High School. He studied under various pianists and bandleaders, perhaps most notably at UMKC with jazz legend Bobby Watson. In May 2004, with Tango Lorca, Mark competed and won New York City's International Tango Music competition. In February 2005, at the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival, … - Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton (born September 26, 1973) is a Neo-bop jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton, he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father. Encouraged by Wynton Marsalis, who was himself involved in New Orleans' jazz and brass band music in his youth, … - Frank Wess
Frank Foster-saxophonist and musical director of the Count Basie orchestra-is an interviewer's dream. Candid and articulate, he doesn't even need an opening question. Just push the record button and ... "I was born," he begins, in his deep, resonant voice, "in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1928-they tell me-September 23." A good day for tenor saxophonists, it's also John Coltrane 's birthday. "That's the only thing in life I brag about-sharing a birthday with John Coltrane . - John Paul Jackson
John Paul Jackson is the founder of Streams Ministries International, a ministry that deals especially with prophecy. A popular Christian teacher and conference speaker, John Paul travels around the world teaching on dreams, visions, and on the supernatural. He has authored many books, developed numerous training courses and has appeared on The 700 Club, Benny Hinn's "This Is Your Day" program, and many other television broadcasts.
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