Category
page 1Military personnel from Kansas

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A General of the Army, Eisenhower was the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. His successful leadership in Operation Torch (1942–1943) and Operation Overlord was pivotal to the Allied victory in World War II.
Buster Keaton
American actor, comedian, and director (1895–1966)
Mike Pompeo
American politician (born 1963) and former United States Secretary of State (2018–2021)
Bob Dole
American politician (1923–2021)
Robert Gates
CIA director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and university president
R. Lee Ermey
American actor and soldier (1944–2018)

Ronald Evans
NASA astronaut (1933-1990)

Delbert Mann
American television and film director (1920–2007)

Joe Engle
American astronaut (1932-2024)
Arlen Specter
American politician (1930–2012)

Dennis Rader
Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often attacked in their homes and then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature.

Pat Roberts
United States Senator from Kansas
Nick Hague
American astronaut and space force officer
Charles Rogers
American actor and jazz musician (1904-1999)

Dean Smith
American basketball coach (1931–2015)
Alf Landon
American politician (1887–1987)
Hugh Samuel Johnson
American administrator (1882–1942)
Wally Hickel
Governor of Alaska, United States Secretary of the Interior (1919-2010)
Clark Clifford
American secretary of defense (1906-1998)
John C. Woods
American executioner (1911-1950)
Mort Walker
American comic strip cartoonist (1923–2018)
Harry Hines Woodring
American politician (1890-1967)
Lyle Waggoner
American actor (1935-2020)
George Tiller
American physician from Wichita, Kansas murdered by anti-abortion extremist (1941-2009)
Max Showalter
American actor (1917-2000)
Adna R. Chaffee Jr.
United States Army general (1884–1941)
Clarence R. Huebner
United States Army general (1888-1972)
Roy Romer
American politician (born 1928)
Dennis Moore
American politician (1945–2021)
Ed Dwight
American sculptor and former test pilot
Tod D. Wolters
American Air Force general
Bill Kurtis
American television journalist (born 1940)
Dick Nichols
American politician (1926-2019)
Russell L. Rogers
American astronaut

John Jacob Rhodes
American politician (1916–2003)

Walter D. Ehlers
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1921–2014)
Frank E. Petersen
U.S. Marine Corps general; First African-American Marine Corps general; First African-American Marine Corps aviator
Milburn G. Apt
American test pilot
Charles W. Ryder
American military officer, recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1892–1960)
Robert Frederick Bennett
Governor of Kansas (1927-2000)
Robert Ellsworth
American politician (1926–2011)
Léo Richer Laflèche
Canadian politician (1888-1956)
Leon W. Johnson
United States Army Air Forces Medal of Honor recipient (1904–1997)
Jack B. Weinstein
United States federal judge
Keith Sebelius
American politician (1916-1982)
Marlin Fitzwater
White House Press Secretary
Charles T. Payne
soldier from America who fought in World War II
Myron V. George
American politician (1900-1972)
Earl Winfield Spencer
United States naval offocer (1888-1950)
Harry D. Felt
United States admiral (1902-1992)

John Carroll
American politician (1929–2021)
Donald K. Ross
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1910-1992)
Stephen J. Chamberlin
United States general (1889-1971)

Horace Ladd Moore
American politician (1837-1914)
Harold I. Johnston
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1892-1949)
John C. H. Lee
United States Army general (1887-1958)

Stanley T. Adams
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1922–1999)