List of Famous people born in Kansas, United States of America

George Murdock was an American character actor, especially prolific on television.

Vivian Schilling is an American novelist, screenwriter, actress and independent filmmaker.

John Balthasar Brungardt is the sixth Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dodge City, Kansas.

Eugene John Gerber was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Dodge City from 1976 to 1982, and Bishop of Wichita from 1982 to 2001.

Garner E. Shriver was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Norman Gary Foster is an American musician who plays saxophone, clarinet, and flute. He is considered a crossover artist, performing jazz, pop, and classical music. He has been prominent in the film, television, and music industries for five decades, having performed on over 500 movie scores and with over 200 orchestras.

Gordon L. Goodwin is an American pianist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He is the leader of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. He has won four Grammy Awards and two Daytime Emmy Awards, and has received over twenty Grammy nominations for his compositions and arrangements.

Max Falkenstien was an American radio sports announcer. In his 60-year career at the University of Kansas (1946-2006), Falkenstien covered more than 1,750 men's basketball games and 650 football games, a span that included every game played in Allen Fieldhouse until his retirement, and was one of the longest announcing tenures in sports. By comparison, Vin Scully's 67 seasons with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers is the record for longest broadcasting tenure with a single franchise in all of professional sports.

Michael Jarboe Sheehan is a retired American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the eleventh Archbishop of Santa Fe. He was the Bishop of Lubbock from 1983 to 1993.