List of people from Lawrence, Kansas

For people who were born/raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and for people who lived in Lawrence for a long time.

## A
*Phog Allen, basketball coach **§**
*The Appleseed Cast, band
*Karole Armitage, choreographer **§**
*Nachman Aronszajn, mathematician **§** (see also Aronszajn tree)
*William H. Avery, politician **§**
*Yda Addis writer

## B
*Martha Bablitch, judge
*Nancy Baker, politician **§**
*Thomas Barber, pioneer **§**
*Hugh Beaumont, actor
*Leo Beuerman, pencil salesman, subject of a 1969 short film nominated for an Academy Award
*David Booth, entrepreneur
*Corinne Brinkerhoff, television producer and writer
*Erin Brockovich, environmental activist
*George Brown, politician
*Larry Brown, basketball coach **§**
*R. C. Buford, basketball general manager
*William Burroughs, author **§**
*Sarah Buxton, singer

## C
*Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author
*Danny Carey, musician, drummer for Tool
*Judge Louis Carpenter, judge and lawyer, murdered in Lawrence Massacre on August 21, 1863 **§**
*Cattle Annie, bandit born in Lawrence in 1882
*Wilt Chamberlain, Hall of Fame basketball player **§**
*Paul Coker Jr., illustrator, *Mad Magazine* and Rankin-Bass

## D
*George Docking, politician **§**
*Robert Docking, politician **§**
*Bob Dole, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate **§**

## E
*Bart D. Ehrman, scholar, author
*Loren Eiseley, anthropologist, author **§**
*Paul Endacott, Hall of Fame basketball player
*Michael S. Engel, scholar, paleontologist, entomologist **§**
*Ronald Evans, NASA astronaut (*Pathfinder to the Stars*) **§**

## F
* Mike Finnigan, musician **§**
* Thomas Frank, author **§**

## G
*Robert L. Gernon, jurist **§**
*The Get Up Kids, rock band
*James Grauerholz, author, bibliographer and literary executor of the estate of William S. Burroughs **§**
*James Gunn, author **§**

## H
*John Hadl, NCAA and NFL football quarterback, College Football Hall of Fame
*Kevin Harlan, NFL and NCAA college basketball television announcer **§**
*Frank Harris, author **§**
*William A. Harris, U.S. Senator
*Herk Harvey, actor, director, producer, writer **§**
*John G. Haskell, architect of numerous Lawrence buildings as well as the Kansas State Capitol **§**
*Bobby Henrich, Major League Baseball player
*Stan Herd, crop artist **§**
*Kirk Hinrich, professional basketball player (Chicago Bulls) **§**
*Ralph Houk, MLB pitcher and manager
*Isaac F. Hughes, City Council member in Lawrence and in Los Angeles, California **§**
*Langston Hughes, poet and author **§**
*Jane Dee (Bowersock) Hull, politician **§**
*Kelley Hunt, blues singer, pianist, songwriter

## J
*Bill James, baseball statistician and author **§**
*Steve Jeltz, professional baseball player **§**
*Patty Jenkins, film writer and director
*Kij Johnson, author **§**

## K
*Tom Keegan, sportswriter **§**
*Kenton Keith, diplomat **§**
*George Edward Kimball III, poet (Beat), editor, sports writer **§**
*Phill Kline, politician **§**
*Maggie Koerth-Baker, science journalist and blogger **§**

## L
*Alf Landon, politician **§**
*James Henry Lane, politician and Union general, leader of the Jayhawkers **§**
*Jon Lemmon, footballer 
*Stanley Lombardo, professor, translator **§**

## M
*Deane Waldo Malott, university president **§**
*Danny Manning, professional basketball player **§**
*Mates of State, rock band
*Mark Maxey, filmmaker **§**
*David McClain, university president
*Elmer McCollum, scientist
*Charles D. Michener, scientist **§**
*Minus Story, band **§**
*Dennis Moore, politician **§**
*Laura Moriarty, novelist **§**
*Jason Moss, musician
*Alan Mulally, business executive, CEO of Ford Motor Corporation **§**
*Franklin David Murphy, university president **§**

## N
* James Naismith, inventor of basketball **§**
* Bill Nieder, track and field athlete (shot put), won silver medal at 1956 Summer Olympics and gold in 1960 Summer Olympics, set three shot put world records

## P
*Sara Paretsky, novelist **§**
*Paw, rock band
*Paul Pierce, professional basketball player  **§**
*Scot Pollard, professional basketball player **§**
*Ryan Pope, musician (The Get Up Kids)
*Maurice Prather, motion picture and still photographer and film director **§**
*Matthew Pryor, musician (The Get Up Kids)

## R
* Rob Riggle, actor, comedian **§**
* Charles L. Robinson, first governor of Kansas **§**
* Sara Tappan Doolittle Robinson, writer, historian, First Lady of Kansas **§**
*Aaron Rosenberg, writer **§**
*Frank Sherwood Rowland, co-winner, 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry **§**
*Lois Ruby, author **§**
*Paul Rudd, actor **§**
*Jim Ryun, athlete, politician **§**

## S
*Gale Sayers, NFL running back, Hall of Famer **§**
*Kliph Scurlock, drummer of The Flaming Lips **§**
*Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services **§**
*Bill Self, basketball coach of KU **§**
*Simran Sethi, journalist **§**
*Stanley Sheldon, bass player for Peter Frampton **§**
*Roger Shimomura, artist **§**
*Wayne Simien, professional basketball player **§**
*Stephen Six, Attorney General of Kansas
*Gary Mark Smith, artist, author **§**
*Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize–winning economist **§**
*Split Lip Rayfield, band **§**
*William A. Starrett, builder and architect of skyscrapers, notably the Empire State Building.
*Robby Steinhardt, violinist, vocalist with band Kansas
*Walter R. Stubbs, 18th governor of Kansas **§**
*Jason Sudeikis, actor

## T
*Deanell Reece Tacha, jurist **§**
*Solon O. Thacher, judge and politician **§**
*Mimi Thebo, Carnegie-nominated children's author **§**
*Jim Thorpe, athlete **§**
*Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the dwarf planet Pluto **§**

## W
*John Allen Wakefield, political and military leader **§**
*George Walker, African-American vaudeville actor
*Charlie Weis, football coach at the University of Kansas **§**
*David Wetzel, musician **§**
*Lance Williams, computer graphics researcher
*Roy Williams, basketball coach **§**
*Kevin Willmott, filmmaker **§**
*Donald Worster, environmental historian, author

## Y
*Jeff Yagher, actor

## Fiction
* Dean Winchester, character on *Supernatural* TV series
* Sam Winchester, character on *Supernatural* TV series

## Related pages
* List of lists of people from Kansas
* List of University of Kansas people
* List of Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians head football coaches
* List of Kansas Jayhawks head football coaches

## References