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This article is a list of notable people who were born in and/or have lived in
Manhattan, Kansas . Alumni of local universities, including athletes and coaches, that are not originally from Manhattan should not be included in this list; instead, they should be listed in the alumni list article for each university.
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
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz , cell biologist and neuroscientist
Abby Lillian Marlatt , noted educator
George A. Milliken , statistician
Benjamin Franklin Mudge , geologist
Merrill D. Peterson , historian
Luraine Tansey , librarian who developed a universal slide classification scheme
Virginia Trotter , education administrator
Samuel Wendell Williston , scientist
Robert A. Woodruff , space instrumentation scientist
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
Charles Melton , actor and model
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
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 , 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
Jackie Carmichael (born 1990), basketball player
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
Scott Liebler , former
Atlantic Championship racing driver
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
Ann Roniger , American athlete, high jumper,
pentathlete
Bill Snyder ,
NCAA football head football coach at
Kansas State University
Gary Spani ,
Kansas City Chiefs franchise Hall of Fame
Military
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
Walter C. Dunton , member of the Kansas Territorial Legislature, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
[5]
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
See also
References
^
"University Archives: Kenneth S. Davis Papers" (English) . Retrieved November 21, 2008 .
^
"Bill Murray Coming to Manhattan (Kansas)" . Archived from
the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2008 .
^ Schulman, Michael (September 29, 2014),
"Sweet and Vicious" , The New Yorker
^
"In Their Cups" . The Harvard Common Press . Retrieved December 6, 2010 .
^ Harman, Henry H. (1901).
Proceedings of the Vermont Bar Association: Memorial Paper on Walter C. Dunton . Montpelier, VT: Argus and Patriot Printing House. pp. 84–90.
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