- 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. - 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. - Joan Wagnon
Joan Wagnon is an American politician. She was mayor of Topeka, Kansas from 1997–2001. She has served as the Secretary of Revenue for the state of Kansas since January 13, 2003. - Annette Bening
Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. - Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson (born Lawrence Paul Johnson, Topeka, Kansas, 1966) is a Chicago-based musician and songwriter. He is currently guitarist and vocalist with The Clerics. His previous projects have included Sheepish Grin, New Rob Robbies and Caboose. The Clerics will release Magnae Quassationes, their first full-length CD, in October of 2007. In 2003, he married Lisa McComb. They have a son, Andrew, who was born on September 26, 2005. - Andy McKee
Andy McKee (1979, in Topeka, Kansas) is an American acoustic guitarist currently signed to CANdYRAT Records. His rarely-seen style of playing and compositional talent has earned him a large fanbase; in late 2006, a live performance of his flagship song, "Drifting" became a Featured Video on YouTube, achieving nearly 5,000,000 views and peaking as the highest rated music clip on the site. In April of '07, another of McKee's songs, "Rylynn", … - Agnes Ozman
Agnes Ozman was a female student at Charles Fox Parham's Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas. Ozman was considered by many as "“the first to speak in tongues,”" and her experience which sparked the modern Pentecostal-Holiness movement, which began in the early 20th century. *Her parents were farmers, and since childhood, Agnes and her six siblings attended the Methodist Episcopal Church in Nebraska, Wisconsin. - 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. - John Ritchie
John Ritchie (July 17, 1817 - August 31, 1887) was an abolitionist who moved from Franklin, Indiana to Topeka, Kansas Territory, in early spring of 1855 in search of cheap land and to help Kansas enter the country as a "free" state. His wife, Mary Jane Shelledy Ritchie, was the fifth woman to settle in Topeka and their young son, Hale was the third child. - Eli Thayer
Eli Thayer (1819-1899) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861. Thayer was born in Mendon, Massachusetts. He graduated from Worcester Academy in 1840, from Brown University in 1845, and in 1848 founded Oread Institute, a school for young women in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is chiefly remembered for his connection with the "Kansas Crusade," the purpose of which was to secure the admission of Kansas to the Union as a free State. - Corey Clark
Corey Delaney Clark (born July 13 1980 in San Bernardino, California) is an American singer who was a disqualified finalist in the second season of "American Idol" in 2003. - Fred Waldron Phelps Sr.
Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. (born November 13 1929) is the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an independent Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas. Phelps is also a disbarred lawyer and founder of the Phelps Chartered law firm. WBC is listed as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is known for preaching with slogans and banners denoting phrases such as "Thank God for 9/11", "God hates fags," "AIDS cures fags," and "Fags die, … - Steve Doocy
Steve Doocy is an American television personality and "New York Times" bestselling author. He was born in Algona, Iowa, and raised in Kansas. He is best known as a co-host of Fox News Channel’s (FNC) "Fox & Friends" morning news show, which has been the number one morning cable news show in America since 2000. During that time CNN has used a variety of high profile hosts in the morning, … - Eddie Brown
"Downtown" Eddie Brown (born May 8, 1966 in Topeka, Kansas) was a slotback in the Canadian Football League between 1990 & 2002. In all, Brown played with eight CFL teams, and appeared in two Grey Cup championships with the Edmonton Eskimos, winning one in 1993. In 1995 he played for the Memphis Mad Dogs. In 1996, after the demise of the Memphis Mad Dogs, he re-signed with the Edmonton Eskimos. In 1999 he played for the BC Lions. - Sheila Ryan
Sheila Ryan, (8 June 1921-4 November 1975) was an American film actress. Born Katherine Elizabeth McLaughlin in Topeka, Kansas, Ryan was signed by 20th Century Fox in 1940, and starred in "Dressed to Kill" in 1941. She appeared in a number of 1940s films including two Laurel and Hardy movies and the Busby Berkeley musical "The Gang's All Here" (1943). By the late 1940s her career waned and she began appearing in B-movies. - George Washington Glick
George Washington Glick (July 4, 1827 - April 13, 1911) was the ninth Governor of Kansas. George Washington Glick was raised on his father's farm near Greencastle, Ohio. At age 21 he entered the law offices of Buckland and Hayes (later President Rutherford B. Hayes); he was admitted to the bar two years later and established a moderate law practice, earning a reputation as a hard-working lawyer. - Joseph L. Galloway
Joseph Lee "Joe" Galloway (born November 13, 1941), an American newspaper corresondent and columnist. He is the former Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers and is presently a columnist with McClatchy Newspapers. - Ana Montes
Ana Belen Montes is a former senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States. On September 21 2001, she was arrested and subsequently charged with Conspiracy to Commit Espionage for the government of Cuba. Montes eventually pleaded guilty to spying, and in October, 2002 she was sentenced to a 25-year prison term followed by 5 years of probation - Peter Max Lawrence
Peter Max Lawrence (born March 19, 1977 in Topeka, Kansas) is a contemporary media artist working within painting, video installation, sculpture, photography and drawing. Big Mag Magazine's art critic Roberta Soltea called Lawrence "the most relevant American artist of his emerging generation." Lawrence directed and starred his first feature-length film, Queer in Kansas (2007). Other artists Lawrence has collaborated with over the years include Krystle Warren, … - Linda Spalding
Linda Spalding (née Dickinson is a Canadian writer and editor. Born in Topeka, Kansas, she lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1982. She has one daughter, Esta, from her first marriage to photographer Philip Spalding. Linda Spalding is currently married to Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje; Linda, Esta and Michael are also on the editorial board of the literary magazine "Brick". - Alfred W. Benson
Alfred Washburn Benson (July 15 1843 - January 1 1916) was a United States Senator from Kansas. Born in Poland, New York, he moved to Jamestown, New York in 1860, and attended Jamestown and Randolph Academies. During the Civil War, he enlisted in 1862 as a private in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and at the close of the war held a commission as major. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Buffalo, … - Homer Hoch
Homer Hoch (July 4, 1879 - January 30, 1949) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. Born in Marion, Kansas, Hoch graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, in 1902. He attended George Washington Law School, Washington, D.C., and Washburn Law School, Topeka, Kansas, from which he graduated in 1909. He served as clerk and chief of the Appointment Division in the United States Post Office Department, Washington, D.C. from 1903 to 1905. - Morris Wilson
Morris Wilson is a former Kansas resident whose photograph was entered into evidence in the federal murder trial of convicted Oklahoma City Bombing accomplice Terry Nichols. A witness, Charles Farley, of Wakefield, Kansas, who worked at Fort Riley as a mechanic, testified that Wilson was among a group of men present at Geary State Lake around 6 p.m. on April 18, 1995, the day before the bombing. - Carlos Alazraki
Carlos Alazraki Grossmann is one of the most prominent publicists of Mexico. He is the founder, president and CEO of the award-winning Alazraki & Asociados Publicidad agency and the president of the Asociación Mexicana de Agencias de Publicidad (AMAP, Mexican Association of Publicity Agencies).. He is also the son of film director Benito Alazraki and son-in-law of the late Samy Yeroham (owner of Topeka). - William Saunders Crowdy
William Saunders Crowdy (August 11, 1847 - August 4, 1908) was an American soldier, preacher, entrepreneur, theologian, and pastor. As one of the earliest Black Hebrew Israelites in the United States, he re-established the "Church of God and Saints of Christ" in 1896. - N. B. Willey
Norman Bushnell Willey (born March 25, 1838 in Guilford, New York - died October 20, 1921 in Topeka, Kansas) was Governor of Idaho from 1890 until 1893. Willey moved to California at the age of 20 where he began his career in the mining industry. He followed the Gold rush to Idaho in 1864; after working some time there, he was promoted to the position of superintendent of a lode mine. During his lengthy tenure in that position, he began a political career. - George Breeman
George Breeman (September 15, 1880 - April 10, 1937) was a United States Navy sailor who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism following a turret explosion in 1906 on board the battleship USS "Kearsarge" (BB-5). Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Breeman enlisted in the United States Navy in 1902 and was rated as a landsman for training. He served briefly in the receiving ships "Columbia" (Cruiser No. - Christopher Winship
Christopher Winship (born Topeka, Kansas) is Diker-Tishman Professor of sociology at Harvard University. He grew up in New Britain, Connecticut and earned his bachelor degree in mathematics and sociology from Dartmouth College in 1977. He holds a Ph.D in sociology from Harvard. - William Cyrus Pollard
William Cyrus Pollard, Jr. (born December 10, 1953 in Topeka) is a historian. Education: AS, BA from Washburn University, Topeka, KS; MS from University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; Ph.D. from Faith Baptist College and Seminary, Anderson, SC. Specializing in American Civil War History. Author of "Dark Friday: The Story of Quantrill's Lawrence Raid" (1990); "A Short History of the Methodist Movement" (1992), … - Harry L. Aldrich
Dr. Harry L. Aldrich and his wife, Dr. Hattie B. Aldrich (of Caney, Kansas) were both medical doctors who achieved success in their special lines of practice. Dr. Harry Aldrich's specialty was women's and childrens' diseases. Dr. Hattie Aldrich's specialty was that of chronic diseases. Dr. Harry L. Aldrich was born at Newport, Vermont, March 29 1869, son of Albert H. and Ruia R. (Tucker) Aldrich, … - Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks was an award-winning African American woman poet. - Ronald Ellwin Evans
Ronald Ellwin Evans, Jr. (November 10, 1933 - April 7, 1990) (Captain, USN Ret.) was a NASA astronaut and (ad astera per aspera) "Pathfinder to the Stars". Evans was born in St. Francis, Kansas. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He graduated from Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas, … - Helen Chenoweth-Hage
Helen Chenoweth-Hage was a conservative Republican politician from the U.S. state of Idaho. - Kelie McIver
Kelie McIver is a Topeka, Kansas-born actress and singer who has played such classical stage roles as Viola in "Twelfth Night" for both Nevada Shakespeare in the Park and Shakespeare at Play, Kate in "Taming of the Shrew", Rosalind in "As You Like It", Angelique in "The Imaginary Invalid", Doll Common in Mark Ringer's production of "The Alchemist" and as both Puck and Titania in separate productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". - 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". - 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, … - Susan Ford
Susan Elizabeth Ford Vance Bales (born July 6,1957, in Washington, D.C.) is an American author, photojournalist, and the chairman of the board of the Betty Ford Center for alcohol and drug abuse. Ford Bales is the youngest child and only daughter of the late U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and his wife Betty. She was one of three people targeted for violence by the Symbionese Liberation Army and had Secret Service protection well before her father became president. - Horace Austin Warner Tabor
Horace Austin Warner Tabor (November 26, 1830 - April 10, 1899), also known as Silver Dollar Tabor and The Bonanza King of Leadville, was an American prospector, businessman, and politician born in Holland, Vermont to Cornelius Dunham Tabor and Sarah Ferrin. His life is the subject of Douglas Moore's opera, The Ballad of Baby Doe. After training as a stone mason, Tabor left home at age 19 to work the quarries of Maine and Massachusetts. - Fred Harvey
Frederick Henry Harvey (June 27 1835-February 9 1901) was an entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the Gulf Coast and Santa Fe Railway, the Kansas Pacific Railway, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. His partnership with the Santa Fe began in 1876. At its peak, there were 84 Harvey Houses. - Albert Alonzo Robinson
Albert Alonzo Robinson (October 21 1844 - 1918), sometimes referred to as Albert A. Robinson or A. A. Robinson, was a civil engineer who rose through the ranks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to eventually become the railroad's vice president and general manager. After resigning from the Santa Fe, Robinson became president of the Mexican Central Railway.
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