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.
 * 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

 * 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
 * Bridget Everett, cabaret artist, comedian
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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

 * 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
 * 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

 * Alice Stebbins Wells, first American-born policewoman in the U.S.