List of people from Manhattan, Kansas

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[]

John Byers Anderson, military officer, businessman, president of the First National Bank of Manhattan
Frank Coe, major general in United States Army
James Harbord, military officer, businessman
Richard Jaccard, United States Navy pilot
Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods

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