- Sam Brownback
Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12 1956) is the senior United States senator from the U.S. state of Kansas. On January 20 2007, he announced his intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President in the 2008 Presidential election.
- Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius (born May 15 1948 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American Democratic politician who currently serves as the 44th Governor of Kansas. She is the second female governor of the state of Kansas. She is currently chairwoman of the Democratic Governors Association.
- Pat Roberts
Charles Patrick "Pat" Roberts (born April 20, 1936) is the junior United States Senator from Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he was formerly the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
- Bob Dole
Robert Joseph Dole was a United States Senator from Kansas from 1969–1996, serving part of that time as United States Senate Majority Leader. He was the Republican candidate in the 1996 U.S. Presidential election and the Republican vice presidential candidate in the 1976 Presidential election. In 2007, President George W. Bush appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with Donna Shalala.
- Todd Tiahrt
Todd Tiahrt (born June 15, 1951), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing (map), which is based in Wichita
- Nancy Boyda
Nancy Boyda is the Democratic congresswoman representing. The district takes in most of the eastern third of the state, including the state capital, Topeka On November 7, 2006, she defeated the incumbent representative, Republican Jim Ryun, 51% to 47%. She had campaigned on creating jobs, health care, and public education. Ryun had previously held the seat for five terms.
- Dennis Moore
Dennis Moore (born November 8, 1945), is an American politician, and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing
- John Adams
John Adams (born September 1, 1915 in Iola, Kansas) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1965. John Adams, nicknamed the "Iola Mite" for his boyhood home in Kansas, got his first ride at a county fair where his father was delivering feed for the horses and other livestock. His parents didn't want him to become a jockey and refused to sign the necessary papers for an apprenticeship, …
- Jim Ryun
James Ronald ("Jim") Ryun (born April 29, 1947) is an American former track athlete and politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas. In the 2006 election, Ryun was defeated by Democratic challenger Nancy Boyda. Years prior to his political career Jim Ryun had an athletic career that saw him become one of the greatest runners of all time, …
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.
- Jerry Moran
Jerry Moran has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing Kansas's 1st District (map). The district, popularly known as "the Big 1st," takes up 69 counties — nearly two-thirds of the state — due to its largely rural character.
- Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961, in Leavenworth, Kansas) is an Academy Award-winning and two-time Grammy Award-winning American rock musician and singer.
- Arlen Specter
Arlen J. Specter (born February 12 1930) is a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Republican Party.
- Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21 1904-May 19 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz tenor saxophonist. He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to use the instrument: Joachim E. Berendt wrote, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". Coleman is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, …
- Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson (August 15, 1916) was an American football player. He was blind in one eye, from a childhood incident. He was the Philadelphia Eagles starting quarterback in their 1948 and 1949 NFL championship teams.
- Martina McBride
Martina McBride (born Martina Mariea Schiff, July 29, 1966 in Sharon, Kansas) is an American Grammy nominated country music singer-songwriter.
- William Allen White
William Allen White (Born February 10, 1868 in Emporia, Kansas - died January 31, 1944) was a renowned American newspaper editor. He attended the University of Kansas and worked at the Kansas City Star. White purchased his hometown newspaper, "The Emporia Gazette" for $3,000 in 1895. He rocketed to national fame and influence in the Republican party with an August 16, 1896 editorial entitled What's the Matter With Kansas?.
- Jim Slattery
James Charles Slattery (born Atchison, Kansas, 1948) is an American politician. Slattery earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Washburn University School of Law in 1974. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 in the Kansas delegation. Prior to his election to the Congress, Slattery served in the Kansas House of Representatives, as a reserve Army officer and founded a successful real estate company.
- Dan Glickman
Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He is currently the president of the Motion Picture Association of America; he is the first non-Christian to hold the post. He also serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
- Johnny Damon
Johnny David Damon (born November 5, 1973 in Fort Riley, Kansas) is a Major League Baseball outfielder who plays center field for the New York Yankees. Since the 2000 season, he is 3rd among active major leaguers in runs (589), and 7th in hits (912) and stolen bases (153).
- Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank (born 1965) is an American author who writes about what he calls "cultural politics". He is the founder and editor of "The Baffler" and the author of several books, most recently "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Other writings include essays for "Harper's Magazine", "Le Monde diplomatique", and the "Financial Times". Frank was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1965. He grew up in a local suburb, Mission Hills, Kansas.
- Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was a noted American aviation pioneer and women's rights advocate. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, which she was awarded as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, a women's pilots' organization.
- Dean Smith
Dean Edwards Smith is a retired head coach of men’s college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (“UNC”) for 36 years. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and finished his career with a record of 879 wins, …
- Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis was a Representative and a Senator from Kansas as well as the thirty-first Vice President of the United States. Nearly half of Curtis' background was made up of American Indian stock. His mother was one-fourth Kaw, one-fourth Osage, and one-fourth Pottawatomie (as well as one-fourth French). Curtis spent part of his early life on a Kaw reservation, …
- Tom Tomorrow
Dan Perkins, better known by the pen name “Tom Tomorrow”, is an editorial cartoonist. His weekly cartoon, "This Modern World", a comic strip that comments on current events from a strong liberal populist perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the USA and the online magazines Salon.com and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in "SF Weekly". Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, …
- Gary Hart
Gary Warren Hart (born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936) is a politician and lawyer from the state of Colorado. He formerly served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Colorado (1975–1987), and ran in the U.S. presidential elections in 1984 and again in 1988, when he was considered a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination until withdrawing from the race because of a scandal.
- Kerry Livgren
Kerry Livgren (born September 18, 1949) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as one of the founding members and primary writers for the 1970s progressive rock band, Kansas.
- John Martin
John Martin (November 12, 1833 - September 13, 1913) was an American lawyer and politician from Techumseh in Shawnee County, Kansas. He represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1893 until 1895.
- Bill Graves
William Preston Graves, commonly known as Bill Graves (born January 9, 1953), was governor of Kansas from 1995 until 2003. Graves was born in Salina, Kansas in 1953 to parents who owned a trucking firm. After graduating from Kansas Wesleyan University with a business degree, he worked in human resources. He was elected Secretary of State in 1990. In 1991, he was appointed as a representative of state governments to the Competitiveness Policy Council.
- Clint Bowyer
Clint Bowyer (born May 30, 1979, in Emporia, Kansas) is a NASCAR driver. He currently pilots the #07 Jack Daniel's Chevrolet Monte Carlo in the NEXTEL Cup Series,the #2 BB&T Chevrolet Monte Carlo in the Busch Series, both for Richard Childress Racing, and the #2 Chevrolet Silverado for Kevin Harvick Incorporated in the Craftsman Truck Series.
- John Davis
John Davis (August 9, 1826 - August 1, 1901) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. Born near Springfield, Illinois, Davis moved with his parents to Macon County in 1830. He attended the country schools, Springfield Academy, and Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois. He engaged in agricultural and horticultural pursuits near Decatur, Illinois. He moved to Kansas in 1872 and located on a farm near Junction City.
- Lynn Jenkins
Lynn Jenkins, CPA (b June 10, 1963) is a Kansas Republican politician and currently the 37th State Treasurer of Kansas. She was elected to the office in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. Prior to holding her current position, she served in the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas Senate. On April 4, 2007 she announced that she has filed papers with the Federal Election Commission as a first step of running for. Her primary opponent will be former Congressman Jim Ryun, …
- Shaun Hill
Shaun Hill (born on January 20 1980 in Parsons, Kansas) is an NFL quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. He was signed by the Minnesota Vikings in 2002 as an undrafted free agent. He played his entire career with the Vikings up until 2006. He attended the University of Maryland. He took his first career snaps on the final two plays of the 2005 NFL season, taking a knee both times. He took over for third string quarterback Spergon Wynn, …
- Bill Russell
William Ellis Russell (born October 21, 1948, in Pittsburg, Kansas) is a former shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. Russell played his entire 18-year, 2,181-game career with the Los Angeles Dodgers as the starting shortstop for four National League pennant winners and one World Series champion.
- James H. Lane
James Henry Lane also known as Jim Lane (June 22, 1814 - July 11, 1866) was a United States Senator,a Union general in the American Civil War, and Union partisan. Lane was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, where he practiced law when he was admitted to the bar in 1840. He moved to the Kansas Territory in 1855. He immediately became involved in the abolitionist movement in Kansas. He was often called the leader of "Jayhawkers" abolitionist movement in Kansas.
- Bill James
George William “Bill” James is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose.
- Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for "Life" magazine and as the director of the 1971 film "Shaft".
- Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper is born ( 1936 ). This Hollywood survivor has lent his eccentric persona to a number of genre Movies , including Space Truckers ( 1997 ), Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), Waterworld ( 1995 ), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ( 1986 ) and My Science Project ( 1985 ). He was born in Dodge City, Kansas, USA.
- Max Yoho
Max Yoho (born 1934 in Colony, Kansas) began writing humorous books and poetry in 1988 after becoming a widower. Max has written several books including "The Revival" and "Tales from Comanche County".
- Alf Landon
Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon (September 9, 1887 - October 12, 1987) was an American Republican politician from Kansas, who was defeated in a landslide by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election.