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

Elmer Dyer, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer, the first film cameraman to specialize in aerial photography.

Lincoln LaPaz was an American astronomer from the University of New Mexico and a pioneer in the study of meteors.

Tenney Frank was a prominent ancient historian and classical scholar.

Phyllis Maude Haver was an American actress of the silent film era.

Martin Edwin Trapp was an American state auditor, governor and lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma's third lieutenant governor, he was the first to become governor not through an election but instead due to the previous governor's impeachment and removal from office.

Jay Dee Bentley is the bassist and co-founding member of the punk rock group Bad Religion. He has played with the band through its whole existence with a small break between 1983 and 1985. Along with vocalist Greg Graffin, Bentley has appeared on nearly all of Bad Religion's studio albums, with the sole exception being their second album Into the Unknown (1983).

Herbert Spencer Hadley was an American lawyer and a Republican Party politician from St. Louis, Missouri. Born in Olathe, Kansas, he was Missouri Attorney General from 1905 to 1909 and in 1908 was elected the 32nd Governor of Missouri, serving one term from 1909 to 1913. As Attorney General, he successfully prosecuted Standard Oil Company for violating Missouri antitrust law. Entering the 1912 Republican convention, the Roosevelt and Taft forces seemed evenly matched, and a compromise candidate seemed possible. President Taft was willing to compromise with Hadley as presidential nominee; TR said no.

Harry Hines Woodring was an American politician. A Democrat, he was the 25th Governor of Kansas and was Secretary of War in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration from 1936 to 1940. He was previously the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936.

Albert Edward Mead was the fifth Governor of Washington, serving in that position from 1905 to 1909.