List of Famous people born in Kansas, United States of America
Jack Colvin
Jack Colvin was an American character actor of theatre, film and TV. He is best known for the role of the tabloid reporter Jack McGee in The Incredible Hulk television franchise (1977–88).
Heriberto Hermes
Heriberto Hermes was an American-born Roman Catholic bishop.
Mark Parkinson
Mark Vincent Parkinson is an American businessman and former politician serving as head of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL). He served as the 47th Lieutenant Governor of Kansas from 2007 to 2009 and the 45th Governor of Kansas from 2009 until 2011. He was also a state legislator.
Tom Oberheim
Thomas Elroy Oberheim, known as Tom Oberheim, is an American audio engineer and electronics engineer best known for designing effects processors, analog synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. He has been the founder of four audio electronics companies, most notably Oberheim Electronics. He was also a key figure in the development and adoption of the MIDI standard. He is also a trained Physicist.
Ernest Fox Nichols
Ernest Fox Nichols was an American educator and physicist. He served as the 10th President of Dartmouth College.
Thomas Olmsted
Thomas James Olmsted is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fourth and current Bishop of Phoenix. He was Bishop of Wichita from 2001 to 2003.
Eric Harris
Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold were an American mass murder duo who perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999. Harris and Klebold killed 13 people and wounded 24 others, at Columbine High School, where they were seniors, in Columbine, Colorado. After killing most of their victims in the school's library, they later committed suicide. At the time, it was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, with the ensuing media frenzy and moral panic leading it to becoming one of the most infamous mass shootings ever perpetrated.
Gordon Stout
Gordon Stout is an American percussionist, composer, and educator specializing in the marimba.
Randall Duell
Randall Duell was an American architect and motion picture art director. He designed Magic Mountain theme park in Santa Clarita, California, the original Universal Studio Tours in California, Six Flags Over Texas, Marriott's Great America theme parks, as well as Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee.
Richard Thorpe
Richard Thorpe was an American film director best known for his long career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.