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.
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Phog Allen, basketball coach SS
The Appleseed Cast, band
Karole Armitage, choreographer SS
Nachman Aronszajn, mathematician SS (see also Aronszajn tree)
William H. Avery, politician SS
Yda Addis writer
B
Martha Bablitch, judge
Nancy Baker, politician SS
Thomas Barber, pioneer SS
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 SS
R. C. Buford, basketball general manager
William Burroughs, author SS
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 SS
Cattle Annie, bandit born in Lawrence in 1882
Wilt Chamberlain, Hall of Fame basketball player SS
Paul Coker Jr., illustrator, Mad Magazine and Rankin-Bass
D
George Docking, politician SS
Robert Docking, politician SS
Bob Dole, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate SS
E
Bart D. Ehrman, scholar, author
Loren Eiseley, anthropologist, author SS
Paul Endacott, Hall of Fame basketball player
Michael S. Engel, scholar, paleontologist, entomologist SS
Ronald Evans, NASA astronaut (Pathfinder to the Stars) SS
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Mike Finnigan, musician SS
Thomas Frank, author SS
G
Robert L. Gernon, jurist SS
The Get Up Kids, rock band
James Grauerholz, author, bibliographer and literary executor of the estate of William S. Burroughs SS
James Gunn, author SS
H
John Hadl, NCAA and NFL football quarterback, College Football Hall of Fame
Kevin Harlan, NFL and NCAA college basketball television announcer SS
Frank Harris, author SS
William A. Harris, U.S. Senator
Herk Harvey, actor, director, producer, writer SS
John G. Haskell, architect of numerous Lawrence buildings as well as the Kansas State Capitol SS
Bobby Henrich, Major League Baseball player
Stan Herd, crop artist SS
Kirk Hinrich, professional basketball player (Chicago Bulls) SS
Ralph Houk, MLB pitcher and manager
Isaac F. Hughes, City Council member in Lawrence and in Los Angeles, California SS
Langston Hughes, poet and author SS
Jane Dee (Bowersock) Hull, politician SS
Kelley Hunt, blues singer, pianist, songwriter
J
Bill James, baseball statistician and author SS
Steve Jeltz, professional baseball player SS
Patty Jenkins, film writer and director
Kij Johnson, author SS
K
Tom Keegan, sportswriter SS
Kenton Keith, diplomat SS
George Edward Kimball III, poet (Beat), editor, sports writer SS
Phill Kline, politician SS
Maggie Koerth-Baker, science journalist and blogger SS
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Alf Landon, politician SS
James Henry Lane, politician and Union general, leader of the Jayhawkers SS
Jon Lemmon, footballer
Stanley Lombardo, professor, translator SS
M
Deane Waldo Malott, university president SS
Danny Manning, professional basketball player SS
Mates of State, rock band
Mark Maxey, filmmaker SS
David McClain, university president
Elmer McCollum, scientist
Charles D. Michener, scientist SS
Minus Story, band SS
Dennis Moore, politician SS
Laura Moriarty, novelist SS
Jason Moss, musician
Alan Mulally, business executive, CEO of Ford Motor Corporation SS
Franklin David Murphy, university president SS
N
James Naismith, inventor of basketball SS
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 SS
Paw, rock band
Paul Pierce, professional basketball player SS
Scot Pollard, professional basketball player SS
Ryan Pope, musician (The Get Up Kids)
Maurice Prather, motion picture and still photographer and film director SS
Matthew Pryor, musician (The Get Up Kids)
R
Rob Riggle, actor, comedian SS
Charles L. Robinson, first governor of Kansas SS
Sara Tappan Doolittle Robinson, writer, historian, First Lady of Kansas SS
Aaron Rosenberg, writer SS
Frank Sherwood Rowland, co-winner, 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry SS
Lois Ruby, author SS
Paul Rudd, actor SS
Jim Ryun, athlete, politician SS
S
Gale Sayers, NFL running back, Hall of Famer SS
Kliph Scurlock, drummer of The Flaming Lips SS
Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services SS
Bill Self, basketball coach of KU SS
Simran Sethi, journalist SS
Stanley Sheldon, bass player for Peter Frampton SS
Roger Shimomura, artist SS
Wayne Simien, professional basketball player SS
Stephen Six, Attorney General of Kansas
Gary Mark Smith, artist, author SS
Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist SS
Split Lip Rayfield, band SS
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 SS
Jason Sudeikis, actor
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Deanell Reece Tacha, jurist SS
Solon O. Thacher, judge and politician SS
Mimi Thebo, Carnegie-nominated children's author SS
Jim Thorpe, athlete SS
Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the dwarf planet Pluto SS
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John Allen Wakefield, political and military leader SS
George Walker, African-American vaudeville actor
Charlie Weis, football coach at the University of Kansas SS
David Wetzel, musician SS
Lance Williams, computer graphics researcher
Roy Williams, basketball coach SS
Kevin Willmott, filmmaker SS
Donald Worster, environmental historian, author
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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
Lawrence