List of Famous people born in Kansas, United States of America
Jeff Yagher
Jeffrey Brian Yagher is an American actor.
Donald Graham Burt
Donald Graham Burt is a film production designer. He has worked on multiple films including The Joy Luck Club, Dangerous Minds, and Donnie Brasco, as well as with David Fincher on Zodiac in 2007. In 2008, he designed the sets for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 2009, an Art Directors Guild Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction, and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design, along with a nomination for a Satellite Award for Best Art Direction & Production Design.
Samuel Jackson Barnett
Samuel Jackson Barnett was an American physicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Allison Dean
Harry Beaumont
Harry Beaumont was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Lionel Hollins
Lionel Eugene Hollins is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the Portland Trail Blazers, winning an NBA championship in 1977 and named an NBA All-Star in 1978. The Trail Blazers retired his No. 14.
Jack M. Campbell
John "Jack" Moren Campbell was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of New Mexico from January 1, 1963 until January 1, 1967.
William Shockley
William Shockley is an American actor and musician.
Kyle Weems
Kyle Jordan Weems is an American professional basketball player for Virtus Bologna of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played collegiately for Missouri State University and was named Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year and an All-American in 2011.
Kenyon Hopkins
Kenyon Hopkins was an American composer who composed many film scores in a jazz idiom. He was once called "one of jazz's great composers and arrangers."