List of people from Lawrence, Kansas

Presidential candidate Bob Dole earned varsity letters while he played for the Kansas Jayhawks basketball team, track team, and football team.

This is a list of notable natives and residents who were born or spent important time in the American city of Lawrence, Kansas. Persons not born in Lawrence are marked with §.

A

• Phog Allen, basketball coach §
• The Appleseed Cast, band
• Karole Armitage, choreographer §
• Nachman Aronszajn, mathematician § (see also Aronszajn tree)
• William H. Avery, politician §

B

• Martha Bablitch, judge
• Nancy Kassebaum Baker, politician §
• Thomas Barber, pioneer §
• Hugh Beaumont, actor
• David G. Booth, entrepreneur
• Corinne Brinkerhoff, television producer and writer
• Erin Brockovich, environmental activist
• George L. Brown, politician
• Larry Brown, basketball coach §
• William S. Burroughs, author §
• 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 §
• Cattle Annie, bandit born in Lawrence in 1882^[1]
• Wilt Chamberlain, Hall of Fame basketball player §
• Paul Coker Jr., illustrator, Mad Magazine and Rankin-Bass

D

• George Docking, politician §
• Robert Docking, politician §
• Bob Dole, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate §

E

• Bart D. Ehrman, scholar, author
• Loren Eiseley, anthropologist, author §
• Paul Endacott, Hall of Fame basketball player
• Michael S. Engel, scholar, paleontologist, entomologist §
• Ronald Evans, NASA astronaut (Pathfinder to the Stars) §

F

• Thomas Frank, author §

G

• Robert L. Gernon, jurist §
• The Get Up Kids, rock band
• James Grauerholz, author, bibliographer and literary executor of the estate of William S. Burroughs §
• James Gunn, author §

H

• John Hadl, NCAA and NFL football quarterback, College Football Hall of Fame
• Kevin Harlan, NFL and NCAA college basketball television announcer §
• Frank Harris, author §
• William A. Harris, U.S. Senator
• Herk Harvey, actor, director, producer, writer §
• John G. Haskell, architect of numerous Lawrence buildings as well as the Kansas State Capitol §
• Bobby Henrich, Major League Baseball player
• Stan Herd, crop artist §
• Kirk Hinrich, professional basketball player (Chicago Bulls) §
• Ralph Houk, MLB pitcher and manager
• Isaac F. Hughes, City Council member in Lawrence and in Los Angeles, California §
• Langston Hughes, poet and author §
• Jane Dee (Bowersock) Hull, politician §

J

• Bill James, baseball statistician and author §
• Steve Jeltz, professional baseball player §
• Patty Jenkins, film writer and director (Monster)
• Kij Johnson, author §

K

• Tom Keegan, sportswriter §
• Kenton Keith, diplomat §
• George Edward Kimball III, poet (Beat), editor, sports writer §
• Phill Kline, politician §
• Maggie Koerth-Baker, science journalist and blogger §

L

• Alf Landon, politician §
• James Henry Lane, politician and Union general, leader of the Jayhawkers §
• Stanley Lombardo, professor, translator §

M

• Deane Waldo Malott, university president §
• Danny Manning, professional basketball player §
• Mates of State, rock band
• David McClain, university president
• Elmer McCollum, scientist
• Chuck Mead, musician and songwriter (BR5-49)
• Charles D. Michener, scientist §
• Minus Story, band §
• Paul Mirecki, educator and scholar §
• Dennis Moore, politician §
• Laura Moriarty, novelist §
• Jason Moss, musician
• Alan Mulally, business executive, CEO of Ford Motor Corporation §
• Franklin David Murphy, university president §

N

• James Naismith, inventor of basketball §
• 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 §
• Paw, rock band
• Paul Pierce, professional basketball player §
• Scot Pollard, professional basketball player §
• Ryan Pope, musician (The Get Up Kids)
• Maurice Prather, motion picture and still photographer and film director §
• Matthew Pryor, musician (The Get Up Kids)

R

• Rob Riggle, actor, comedian §
• Charles L. Robinson, first governor of Kansas §
• Sara Tappan Doolittle Robinson, writer, historian, First Lady of Kansas §
• Aaron Rosenberg, writer §
• Frank Sherwood Rowland, co-winner, 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry §
• Lois Ruby, author §
• Paul Rudd, actor §
• Jim Ryun, athlete, politician §

S

• Gale Sayers, NFL running back, Hall of Famer §
• Kliph Scurlock, drummer of The Flaming Lips §
• Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services §
• Bill Self, basketball coach of KU §
• Simran Sethi, journalist §
• Stanley Sheldon, bass player for Peter Frampton §
• Roger Shimomura, artist §
• Wayne Simien, professional basketball player §
• Stephen Six, Attorney General of Kansas
• Gary Mark Smith, artist, author §
• Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize–winning economist §
• Split Lip Rayfield, band §
• Robby Steinhardt, violinist, vocalist with band Kansas
• Walter R. Stubbs, 18th governor of Kansas §^[2]

T

• Deanell Reece Tacha, jurist §
• Jim Thorpe, athlete §
• Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the dwarf planet Pluto §

W

• John Allen Wakefield, political and military leader §
• George Walker, African-American vaudeville actor
• Charlie Weis, football coach of KU §
• David Wetzel, musician §
• Lance Williams, computer graphics researcher
• Roy Williams, basketball coach §
• Kevin Willmott, filmmaker §
• Donald Worster, environmental historian, author

Y

• Jeff Yagher, actor

See also

• 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