List of Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference people

The following is a list of notable people associated with the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.

Men's basketball

 * Gene Johnson, assistant coach for USA Basketball in the 1936 Olympic Games
 * Art Kahler, only person to coach at two different major colleges at the same time – head basketball coach at Brown University and football coach at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
 * Brad Long, actor who portrayed team captain "Buddy Walker" in the 1986 film Hoosiers
 * Arthur Schabinger, enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1961.

Football

 * Willis Bates, former KCAC football coach who also coached the Auburn Tigers
 * Vic Baltzell, linebacker for the Boston Redskins in 1935
 * Harold Elliott, head coach with over 200 career wins
 * Dennis Franchione, former head coach of Alabama and Texas A&M
 * Mike Gardner, current coach at Tabor, achieved post-season play in each of his first five years as a head coach
 * Clarence Gilyard, actor
 * Homer Woodson Hargiss, inventor of the huddle
 * Lem Harkey, San Francisco 49ers
 * Harold S. Herd, (also track & field) Kansas Supreme Court Justice
 * Ed Hiemstra, offensive lineman for the New York Giants
 * Ted Kessinger 2010 inductee in College Football Hall of Fame
 * Jerry Kill, former head coach for the University of Minnesota
 * Rolland Lawrence, cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons from 1973 to 1980.
 * Jay Mack Love member of the National Champion 1904 Michigan Wolverines football team
 * Alexander Brown Mackie, founder of Brown Mackie College
 * Michael P. McCarthy, youngest General Manager ever to win a Canadian Football League championship with the Toronto Argonauts
 * John H. Outland, namesake of the Outland Trophy awarded annually to the best college interior lineman
 * Ernie Quigley, umpire of six World Series
 * Bill Schnebel, named the 1960 "Little All-American Coach of the Year" and NAIA coach of the year.

Men's track and field

 * Jim Helmer, elected to the NAIA Coach's Hall of Fame in 2001.

Women's track and field

 * Mike Kirkland, Women's coach. Undefeated at the conference level since named head coach in 1992.

Other

 * John Salavantis, broadcaster and former coach at Ottawa University