List of people from Kansas City, Kansas

The list of people from Kansas City, Kansas includes those who were born in or have lived in the city. People from the Missouri side should not be included and should be instead listed at List of people from Kansas City, Missouri unless they've lived on both sides of the state line.

Academia June Helm (1924–2004), anthropologist John E. Hodge (1914–1996), chemist Bart Kosko (1960– ), engineering professor, writer Richard Rhodes (1937– ), historian Frederic Wakeman (1937–2006), historian, China scholar

Arts and entertainment Film, television, and theater

S. Torriano Berry (1958– ), film director Trai Byers (1983– ), actor Webster Campbell (1893–1972), actor, director, screenwriter Al Christy (1918–1995), actor, TV announcer Earl Cole (1971– ), TV show host, media personality, winner of Survivor: Fiji Daniel L. Fapp (1904–1986), cinematographer (West Side Story) Scott Foley (1972– ), actor (Scrubs, Dawson's Creek, House, and Grey's Anatomy) Everett McGill (1945– ), actor Marcy McGuire (1926–2021), actress Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, actress (Prison Break and Marvel Heroes) Brendon Miller (1976– ), pornographic actor John Quade (1938–2009), actor Shanna Reed (1955– ), actress, dancer Angus Scrimm (1926–2016), actor, author Columbus Short (1982– ), actor Eric Stonestreet (1971– ), actor (Modern Family) Jason Sudeikis (1975– ), actor Terri Treas (1957– ), actress, screenwriter Vicki Trickett (1938–2021), actress Matt Vogel (1970– ), puppeteer (The Muppets and Kermit the Frog) Lyle Waggoner (1935–2020), actor, sculptor Dee Wallace (1948– ), actress Tuc Watkins (1966– ), actor (One Life to Live and Desperate Housewives)

Journalism Audrey Cooper (1977– ), journalist Bill Downs (1914–1978), broadcast journalist, war correspondent Mark Pittman (1957–2009), financial journalist

Literature Jason Aaron (1973– ), Marvel Comics writer (Thor, Ghost Rider, Wolverine, and Punisher Max) Julius Lester (1939–2018), writer, professor, photographer

Music

William Adam (1917–2013), trumpeter, professor James Bracken (1909–1972), songwriter, producer Ada Brown (1890–1950), singer Eladio Carrión (1994– ), singer, rapper, songwriter Earl Carruthers (1910–1971), saxophonist Danny Cox (1942– ), singer-songwriter Dan Crary (1939– ), flatpick guitarist Nathan Davis (1937–2018), saxophonist Herschel Evans (1909–1939), saxophonist William P. Foster (1919–2010), marching band director Piney Gir (1974– ), singer Nora Holt (1895–1974), singer, composer, critic Charles L. Johnson (1876–1950), ragtime composer Carmell Jones (1936–1996), trumpet player Ron Jones (1954– ), composer Gene McDaniels (1935–2011), singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe (1985– ), singer-songwriter, composer, actress ("We Are Young" and Hidden Figures) Charlie Parker (1920–1955), jazz saxophonist and composer James Scott (1885–1938), ragtime composer Vigalantee, rapper and activist Jack Washington (1910–1964), saxophonist Bobby Watson (1953– ), saxophonist J. White Did It (1984– ), record producer Marva Whitney (1944–2012), singer

Other visual arts Grant Bond (1974– ), cartoonist, writer Ed Dwight (1933– ), sculptor

Business Paul Revere Braniff (1897–1954), airline entrepreneur Jack Gentry (1923–2006), engineer, manufacturing entrepreneur Lewis Hill (1919–1957), public radio entrepreneur Eldridge Lovelace (1913–2008), urban planner Kevin Warren Sloan (1957– ), landscape architect, urban planner and writer“Bush Library Architect Selection Begins.” (August 1, 2007). Architectural Record, p.42 Charles E. Spahr (1913–2009), oil company executive Cheryl Womack (1950– ), trucking insurance executive

Crime Richard Hickock (1931–1965), mass murderer James Hogue (1959– ), con artist Marc Sappington (1978– ), spree killer

Medicine Paul Randall Harrington (1911–1980), orthopedic surgeon, designer of the Harrington Rod

Military William N. Alsbrook Sr. (1916–1998), inventor and member of the Tuskegee AirmenCAF Rise Above. “William Noel Alsbrook.” https://cafriseabove.org/william-noel-alsbrook/ Roscoe Cartwright, first African-American field artilleryman promoted to brigadier general Donald C. Cubbison (1882–1968), US Army major general, raised in Kansas City Roy M. Davenport (1909–1987), U.S. Navy rear admiral Charles Arthur Tabberer (1915–1942), U.S. Navy lieutenant junior grade, Distinguished Flying Cross recipient

Politics National

Monti Belot (1943– ), U.S. federal judge George H. Clay (1911–1995), president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City William Hinson Cole (1837–1886), U.S. representative from Maryland Harry Darby (1895–1987), U.S. senator from Kansas Ben Fernandez (1925–2000), U.S. ambassador to Paraguay Fernando J. Gaitan Jr. (1948– ), U.S. federal judge Newell A. George (1904–1992), U.S. representative from Kansas John R. Goodin (1836–1885), U.S. representative from Kansas Ulysses Samuel Guyer (1868–1943), U.S. representative from Kansas Julie Johnson (1966– ), U.S. representative from Texas Edward C. Little (1858–1924), U.S. representative from Kansas Arthur Johnson Mellott (1888–1957), U.S. federal judge Orrin Larrabee Miller (1856–1926), U.S. representative from Kansas Carlos Murguia (1957– ), U.S. federal judge Mary H. Murguia (1960– ), U.S. federal judge Mason S. Peters (1844–1914), U.S. representative from Kansas Errett P. Scrivner (1898–1978), U.S. representative from Kansas Wint Smith (1892–1976), U.S. representative from Kansas Joseph Taggart (1867–1938), U.S. representative from Kansas Kathryn Hoefer Vratil (1949– ), U.S. federal judge

State

Edward F. Arn (1906–1998), 32nd governor of Kansas Carol A. Beier (1958– ), Kansas Supreme Court justice Tom Burroughs (1954– ), Kansas state legislator James H. DeCoursey, Jr. (1932– ), 36th lieutenant governor of Kansas David Haley (1958– ), Kansas state legislator Broderick Henderson (1957– ), Kansas state legislator Wilkins P. Horton (1889–1950), lieutenant governor of North Carolina Phill Kline (1959– ), Kansas state legislator, former attorney general of Kansas Mark Martin (1968– ), Arkansas state legislator, Secretary of State of Arkansas Joseph Pierron (1947– ), Kansas Court of Appeals judge Mary Rogeness (1941– ), Massachusetts state legislator Robert Eldridge Seiler (1912–1998), Missouri Supreme Court chief justice Chris Steineger (1964– ), Kansas state legislator John Strick (1921–2009), Kansas state legislator Charles Warren (1927–2019), California state legislatorSarah Sharp (1986), Charles H. Warren, From the California Assembly to the Council on Environmental Quality, 1962-1979: The Evolution of an Environmentalist.. Oral history interviews conducted in July 1983 and January 1984. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1986. Valdenia Winn (1950– ), Kansas state legislator

Local

Charles Dail (1909–1968), 27th mayor of San Diego Theresa Sparks (1949– ), San Francisco politician

Religion James P. deWolfe (1896–1966), fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island Joseph Patrick Dougherty (1905–1970), Roman Catholic clergyman

Sports American football

Jackie Cline (1960– ), defensive lineman Lyron Cobbins (1974– ), linebacker Maliek Collins (1995– ), defensive tackle Harry Colon (1969– ), cornerback, safety Ray Evans (1922–1999), halfback Eric Guliford (1969– ), wide receiver Floyd Harrawood (1929–2003), tackle Mark Haynes (1958– ), cornerback David Jaynes (1952– ), quarterback Reggie Jones (1971– ), wide receiver Zvonimir Kvaternik (1918–1994), guard Bill Olds (1951– ), running back Darrell Stuckey (1987– ), safety Justin Swift (1975– ), tight end Spencer Thomas (1951– ), safety Steve Towle (1953– ), linebacker David Verser (1958– ), wide receiver Cooper Beebe (2001– ), offensive tackle Jaylin Noel (2003- ), wide receiver

Baseball

Neil Allen (1958– ), pitcher, pitching coach Joe Bowman (1910–1990), pitcher Gilly Campbell (1908–1973), catcher Jim Clark (1947–2019), outfielder David Clyde (1955– ), pitcher Alan Cockrell (1962– ), outfielder, hitting coach Pat Collins (1896–1960), catcher Robert Dodd (1973– ), pitcher Mike Dupree (1953– ), pitcher Paul Edmondson (1943–1970), pitcher Seth Greisinger (1975– ), starting pitcher Sherman Jones (1935–2007), pitcher, Kansas state legislator Bob Kammeyer (1950–2003), pitcher Paul Penson (1931–2006), pitcher John Peters (1893–1932), catcher Steve Renko (1944– ), pitcher Bullet Rogan (1893–1967), outfielder, pitcher Ray Sadecki (1940–2014), pitcher David Segui (1966– ), 1st baseman Kite Thomas (1923–1995), outfielder Cotton Tierney (1894–1953), 2nd baseman Leo Wells (1917–2006), shortstop, 3rd baseman Jimmy Whelan (1890–1929), pinch hitter

Basketball

Lucius Allen (1947– ), point guard Tamar Bates (2003– ), guard Nate Bowie (1986– ), point guard Larry Comley (1939–2006), guard Larry Drew (1958– ), guard Rich Dumas (1945–1991), guard Ron Franz (1945–2022), small forward Paul Graham (1951– ), coach Leonard Gray (1951–2006), power forward Harold Hunter (1926–2013), coach Warren Jabali (1946–2012), point guard, shooting guard Leo Lyons (1987– ), power forward John McLendon (1915–1999), coach Mark Mitchell (basketball) (2003– ), guard, forward Pierre Russell (1949–1995), shooting guard Jackie Stiles (1978– ), shooting guard Earl Watson (1979– ), point guard and NBA coach Bus Whitehead (1928–2010), center, power forward

Golf Bruce Lietzke (1951–2018), golfer Jug McSpaden (1908–1996), golfer

Pro wrestling Bob Orton (1929–2006), pro wrestler Bob Orton, Jr. (1950– ), pro wrestler Baron Corbin (1984- ), pro wrestler

Racing Jennifer Jo Cobb (1973– ), race car driver Jeff Emig (1970– ), motocross racer Eddie Hearne (1887–1955), race car driver Billy Winn (1905–1938), race car driver

Track and field Maurice Greene (1974– ), U.S. Olympic track and field athlete Cliff Wiley (1955– ), track and field athlete

Other Bryan Goebel (1961– ), pro bowler LeBaron Hollimon (1969– ), soccer forward Nick Plott (1983– ), eSports commentator Matt Stutzman (1982– ), archer Kelvin Tiller (1990– ), mixed martial artist

See also Lists of people from Kansas

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