# 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.