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• Sheila C. Bair
  Sheila C. Bair
  Sheila Colleen Bair was the 19th Chairperson of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation . She was appointed to the post for a five-year term on June 26, 2006 by George W. Bush. Bair served as a member of the FDIC Board of Directors through July 8, 2011.-Early life:Bair is a native of...
  
  , Chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Robert Ballard
  Robert Ballard
  Robert Duane Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology. He is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989,...
  
  , Oceanographer, Discoverer of the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
• Tony Barker
  Tony Barker
  Anthony Ray Barker is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He played college football at Rice University.-High school career:...
  
  , Former NFL football player
• Walter Herschel Beech
  Walter Herschel Beech
  Walter Herschel Beech was an American pioneer aviator.-Biography:He was born in Pulaski, Tennessee on January 30, 1891. Beech started flying in 1905, at age 14, when he built a glider of his own design. Then, after flying for the United States Army during World War I, he joined the Swallow...
  
  , Industrialist, Beechcraft
• Judy Bell
  Judy Bell
  Judy Bell is an American amateur golfer and golf administrator. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001 in the Lifetime Achievement category, which honors people who have made an exceptional contribution to the sport in areas outside of tournament wins.Bell was born in Wichita,...
  
  , Golfer
• Mark Bell
  Mark Bell (American football)
  Mark E. Bell is a former American football defensive end and tight end who played six seasons in the National Football League. His twin brother Mike Bell, also played in the NFL and at Colorado State. His son, Blake Bell, is currently a quarterback for the University of Oklahoma Sooners.-...
  
   Professional Football Player, Seattle Seahawks, Baltimore Colts and Indianapolis Colts
• Mike Bell
  Mike Bell (defensive lineman)
  Mike J. Bell is a former American football defensive end who played twelve seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs in the National Football League. His twin brother Mark Bell, also played in the NFL and at Colorado State, where he was a consensus All-American in 1978.- External links :*...
  
  , Professional Football Player, Kansas City Chiefs
• Freedie Brooks, Blues Musician
• Louise Brooks
  Louise Brooks
  Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...
  
  , Silent Film Actress
• Caroline Bruce
  Caroline Bruce
  Caroline Bruce McAndrew is a former Olympic swimmer from the United States at the 2004 Olympic Games.Since the Olympics, McAndrew has been a member of the Stanford University women's swim team, specializing in the breaststroke and individual medley events...
  
  , Olympic Swimmer
• Jay Bentley
  Jay Bentley
  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.-Bad Religion:...
  
  , Musician, Bad Religion
  Bad Religion
  Bad Religion is a punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1979. Their current line-up consists of Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz , Jay Bentley , Greg Hetson , Brian Baker and Brooks Wackerman . Gurewitz is also the founder of the label Epitaph Records, which has released almost all of the...
  
  
• Darren E. Burrows
  Darren E. Burrows
  Darren E. Burrows is an American Actor / Director.Burrows was born in Winfield, Kansas, the son of actor Billy Drago. Burrows is best known for playing Ed Chigliak in the television series Northern Exposure...
  
  , Actor, Director, Northern Exposure
  Northern Exposure
  Northern Exposure is an American television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes.-Overview:The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991–92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a...
  
  

C

• Don Calhoun
  Don Calhoun
  Donald Clevester Calhoun is a former professional American football running back who played for nine seasons in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills, the New England Patriots, and the Philadelphia Eagles...
  
  , former NFL running back
  Running back
  A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...
  
  
• Dan and Frank Carney
  Dan and Frank Carney
  Dan and Frank Carney are the original founders of Pizza Hut.-External links:* - Interview with Dan Carney from 2002*...
  
  , founders of Pizza Hut
  Pizza Hut
  Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes including pasta, buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread....
  
  
• Antoine Carr
  Antoine Carr
  Antoine Labotte Carr is a retired American basketball player. A 16-year NBA journeyman, he was known for the goggles he wore onto the court.-Early life:Antoine Carr was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
  
  , basketball star
• Clyde Cessna, industrialist
• Jonathan Coachman
  Jonathan Coachman
  Jonathan William Coachman , also known as "The Coach", is a former professional wrestling color commentator and authority figure. He is also a former college basketball player, and football play-by-play announcer...
  
  , anchor for ESPN News
  ESPNEWS
  ESPNEWS , launched on November 1, 1996, is a 24-hour-a-day sports news television channel...
  
  
• Laura M. Cobb
  Laura M. Cobb
  Laura Mae Cobb was a member of the United States Navy Nurse Corps who served during World War II. She received numerous decorations for her actions during the defense of Manila and her 37 months as a POW of the Japanese, during which she continued to serve as Chief Nurse for ten other imprisoned...
  
  , United States Navy nurse during World War II
• Richard Cowan, Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
  The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
  
   recipient
• C.J. Bruton
  CJ Bruton
  Calvin Thomas Bruton Jr., commonly known by the name C. J. Bruton , is an American-Australian professional basketball player in the National Basketball League. Bruton moved to Australia at the age of three when his father Calvin Bruton, Sr...
  
  , Professional basketball player

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• Wendell Davis, former Dallas Cowboys
  Dallas Cowboys
  The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
  
   defensive back
  Defensive back
  In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...
  
  
• Darren Dreifort
  Darren Dreifort
  Darren James Dreifort is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers whose career was cut short by numerous injuries.-Early career:...
  
  , pitcher
  Pitcher
  In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...
  
  
• Betty Dodson
  Betty Dodson
  Betty Dodson is an American sex educator, author, and artist. Dodson held the first one-woman show of erotic art at the Wickersham Gallery in New York City in 1968. She left the art world to teach sex to women...
  
   
• Ann Dunham
  Ann Dunham
  Stanley Ann Dunham , the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was an American anthropologist who specialized in economic anthropology and rural development. Dunham was nicknamed Anna, later known as Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, and finally Ann Dunham Sutoro...
  
  , mother of President
  President
  A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
  
   Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
  
  
• Donovan Johnson
  XV (rapper)
  Donavan Johnson better known by his stage name XV is an American rapper, singer and songwriter from Wichita, Kansas. He first gained major attention after the release of his twelfth mixtape Everybody's Nobody. In which he received two awards from DJBooth.net.His name, XV, refers to the age at...
  
  , rapper XV
  XV (rapper)
  Donavan Johnson better known by his stage name XV is an American rapper, singer and songwriter from Wichita, Kansas. He first gained major attention after the release of his twelfth mixtape Everybody's Nobody. In which he received two awards from DJBooth.net.His name, XV, refers to the age at...
  
  

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• Thomas E. Everhart, President of the California Institute of Technology
• Maurice Evans
  Maurice Evans (basketball)
  Maurice Eugene Evans is an American professional basketball player who most recently played with the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association. A 6 ft 5 in guard/forward, Evans weighs 220 lb...
  
  , basketball star

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• Kyle Farnsworth
  Kyle Farnsworth
  Kyle Lynn Farnsworth is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently the closer for the Tampa Bay Rays.-High school and college:...
  
  , Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
  Kansas City Royals
  The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...
  
  
• Tamara Feldman
  Tamara Feldman
  Tamara Feldman is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Mary Beth in Hatchet and in The CW television series Smallville, Supernatural and Gossip Girl.- Personal life :...
  
  , Actress
• DJ Fisher, retired basketball player for Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez
  Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez
  The Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez is a French professional basketball club that is based in Pau. They play their home games at the Palais des Sports de Pau.- History :...
  
  

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• Robert M. Gates, former Director U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
  Central Intelligence Agency
  The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
  
   and former Secretary of Defense
• Ted Gilmore
  Ted Gilmore
  Ted Gilmore is the current Wide Receivers Coach for USC. He is a former Assistant Head Coach , Wide Receivers Coach, and Recruiting Coordinator for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers football team.-Early life:...
  
  , Assistant Head Coach, Wide Receivers Coach and Recruiting Coordinator, Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
  Nebraska Cornhuskers football
  The Nebraska Cornhuskers represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in college football. The program has established itself as a traditional powerhouse, and has the fourth-most all-time victories of any NCAA Division I-A team. Nebraska is one of only six football programs in NCAA Division I-A...
  
  
• Dan Glickman
  Dan Glickman
  Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman is an American businessman and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He was Chairman and CEO of the...
  
  , former US Congressman, Secretary of Agriculture, and current President of the Motion Picture Association of America
• Gordon Goodwin
  Gordon Goodwin
  Gordon L. Goodwin is a Grammy award-winning American studio pianist, saxophonist, composer, arranger and conductor. He now lives in Southern California with his wife Lisa, daughter Madison and two sons, Trevor and Garrison.- Early years :...
  
  , the pianist, saxophonist, composer, and big band leader of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
  Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
  Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, or simply The Big Phat Band, is an 18-piece jazz ensemble based in California and led by Gordon Goodwin. Goodwin composes most, and arranges all, of the group's performance pieces, as well as playing piano and occasionally tenor saxophone...
  
  .
• Laurel Goodwin
  Laurel Goodwin
  Laurel Goodwin is a former American actress.A child model, Goodwin made her screen debut as the love interest of Elvis Presley in the 1962 film, Girls! Girls! Girls!. Between then and 1969, she appeared in three more films and as a guest actor on several television series, including the role of...
  
   actress who played J. M. Colt in the Star Trek
  Star Trek
  Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
  
   pilot The Cage.
• Taj Gray
  Taj Gray
  Taj Gray was a basketball player for the University of Oklahoma.-High school career:Gray attended Wichita High School East and as a senior led his team to the Kansas Class 6A state title, earning tournament MVP honors...
  
  , basketball player
• Adrian Griffin
  Adrian Griffin
  Adrian Darnell Griffin is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the NBA from 1999 to 2008.-College career:Griffin attended Seton Hall University and was a three-year starter...
  
  , Professional Basketball player

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• Eric Harris
  Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
  Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold were American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre. They killed 13 people—including teacher Dave Sanders—and injured 24 others, three of whom were injured as they escaped the attack...
  
  , Columbine High School massacre
  Columbine High School massacre
  The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and Littleton. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12...
  
   co-perpetrator

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• Stan Kenton
  Stan Kenton
  Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....
  
  , jazz musician
• Bill Koch
  Bill Koch (businessman)
  William Ingraham "Bill" Koch is an American businessman, sailor, and collector. His boat was the winner of the America's Cup in 1992. His last name is pronounced "coke." Per Forbes William Koch's net worth was $3.4 billion in 2010 on oil and other investments-Early life and business...
  
  , America's Cup
  America's Cup
  The America’s Cup is a trophy awarded to the winner of the America's Cup match races between two yachts. One yacht, known as the defender, represents the yacht club that currently holds the America's Cup and the second yacht, known as the challenger, represents the yacht club that is challenging...
  
   winner
• David H. Koch
  David H. Koch
  David Hamilton Koch is an American businessman, philanthropist, political activist, and chemical engineer. He is a co-owner and an executive vice president of Koch Industries, a conglomerate that is the second-largest privately held company in the U.S...
  
   , executive vice president of Koch Industries
  Koch Industries
  Koch Industries, Inc. , is an American private energy conglomerate based in Wichita, Kansas, with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments. Koch also owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals and Matador Cattle Company...
  
  
• Charles G. Koch
  Charles G. Koch
  Charles de Ganahl Koch is co-owner, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries Inc., the second-largest privately held company by revenue in the United States according to a 2010 Forbes survey...
  
  , chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries
  Koch Industries
  Koch Industries, Inc. , is an American private energy conglomerate based in Wichita, Kansas, with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments. Koch also owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals and Matador Cattle Company...
  
  

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• William Lear, aerospace inventor & industrialist, Learjet
• Jim Lehrer
  Jim Lehrer
  James Charles "Jim" Lehrer is an American journalist and the executive editor and former news anchor for PBS NewsHour on PBS, known for his role as a frequent debate moderator during elections...
  
  , PBS network news anchor

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• Michael McClure
  Michael McClure
  Michael McClure is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums...
  
  , beat poet, attended Wichita East High School and the University of Wichita
• Judith Ann Mayotte (Humanitarian), Peabody and Emmy award winning producer, author and refugee expert.
• Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
  
  , Academy award winning actress
• Rick Mears
  Rick Mears
  Rick Ravon Mears is a retired American race car driver. He is one of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times , and the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six...
  
  , race car driver, four-time Indianapolis 500
  Indianapolis 500
  The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, also known as the Indianapolis 500, the 500 Miles at Indianapolis, the Indy 500 or The 500, is an American automobile race, held annually, typically on the last weekend in May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana...
  
   champion
• Roger Mears
  Roger Mears
  Roger Mears , is a former off-road driver who also drove in the USAC and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1978-1984 seasons, with 31 combined career starts, and started in the 1982 and 1983 Indianapolis 500...
  
  , race car driver
• Vera Miles
  Vera Miles
  Vera Miles is an American film actress who gained popularity for starring in films such as The Searchers, The Wrong Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Psycho and Psycho II.-Early life:...
  
  , actress, attended North High School
• Rich Mullins
  Rich Mullins
  Richard Wayne "Rich" Mullins was an American Contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter born in Richmond, Indiana. He had two sisters and two brothers....
  
  , Christian Pop/Folk Musician

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• Antonya Nelson
  Antonya Nelson
  Antonya Nelson is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.-Life and education:Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961 in Wichita, Kansas....
  
  , author
• Roger Noriega
  Roger Noriega
  Roger Francisco Noriega is currently a visiting fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. He has previously served as a U.S...
  
  , Ambassador to the Organization of American States
  Organization of American States
  The Organization of American States is a regional international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States...
  
  
• Gale Norton
  Gale Norton
  Gale Ann Norton served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush...
  
  , former Secretary of the Interior
  United States Secretary of the Interior
  The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.The US Department of the Interior should not be confused with the concept of Ministries of the Interior as used in other countries...
  
  

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• Susan Page
  Susan Page
  Susan Page is an American journalist and the current Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today. She has won several awards for her work, including the Merriman Smith Memorial Award, the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, the Gerald R...
  
  , journalist
• Janet Peery
  Janet Peery
  Janet Peery is an American short story writer and novelist.-Life:Daughter of a teacher and a judge, the eldest of six children, Peery grew up in Kansas and Wisconsin. She held a series of odd jobs, waiting tables, working as a lifeguard and swimming instructor and as a hospital respiratory...
  
  , author
• Mike Pelfrey, Professional Baseball player
• Lawrence Pete
  Lawrence Pete
  Lawrence Pete is a former American football nose tackle. He played five in the NFL for the Detroit Lions who selected him with the 115th pick in the 1989 NFL Draft...
  
  , former NFL football player
• Scott Phillips
  Scott Phillips
  Scott Phillips may refer to:*Scott Phillips of Alter Bridge and Creed*Scott Phillips , novelist...
  
  , writer (novelist)
• Jeff Probst
  Jeff Probst
  Jeffrey Lee "Jeff" Probst is an American game show host, executive producer and a reporter. He is best known as the host of the U.S. version of the reality show Survivor.-Biography:...
  
  , TV host, currently of Survivor

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• Dennis Rader
  Dennis Rader
  Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County , between 1974 and 1991....
  
  , the "BTK" serial killer
  Serial killer
  A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
  
   convicted in 2005 for the deaths of 10 Wichita area residents between 1974 and 1991
• Sean Rash
  Sean Rash
  Sean Rash is a right-handed ten-pin bowler from Anchorage, AK, and is considered one of the brightest young players on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour. He now resides in Montgomery, Illinois.Rash joined the PBA in 2005...
  
  , Professional ten-pin bowler
  Ten-pin bowling
  Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.-Summary:The lane is bordered along its length by semicylindrical channels Ten-pin bowling (commonly just...
  
   and former two-time All-American at Wichita State University
  Wichita State University
  Wichita State University is a NCAA Division I public university in Wichita, Kansas with selective admissions. WSU is one of six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The current president is Dr. Donald Beggs....
  
  
• Nate Robertson
  Nate Robertson
  Nathan Daniel "Nate" Robertson, is a Major League Baseball pitcher who currently pitches in the Seattle Mariners organization.-Florida Marlins:...
  
  , Pitcher, Detroit Tigers
  Detroit Tigers
  The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
  
  , pitched in 2006 World Series
• Danny Roew
  Danny Roew
  -Music videos:* "Destiny," Chakra * "Happy," Ryan Oliver * "It Isn't Me," Society 1 * "Where Will You Go," Detroit Mutant Radio * "The Abrasive," Twin Method * "This Is The End," Society 1...
  
  , film director
  Film director
  A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
  
  
• Jim Ryun
  Jim Ryun
  James Ronald Ryun is an American former track athlete and politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas. In the 2006 election, Ryun was defeated by Democratic challenger Nancy Boyda...
  
  , Olympic medalist and former U.S. Representative
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
   from Kansas

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• Barry Sanders
  Barry Sanders
  Barry Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record...
  
  , Pro Football Hall of Fame, played for the Detroit Lions
  Detroit Lions
  The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...
  
  
• Gale Sayers
  Gale Sayers
  Gale Eugene Sayers also known as "The Kansas Comet", is a former professional football player in the National Football League who spent his entire career with the Chicago Bears....
  
  , Pro Football Hall of Fame
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
  
  r; born in Wichita, but raised in Omaha, Nebraska
  Omaha, Nebraska
  Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...
  
  
• Vernon L. Smith
  Vernon L. Smith
  Vernon Lomax Smith is professor of economics at Chapman University's Argyros School of Business and Economics and School of Law in Orange, California, a research scholar at George Mason University Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center, all in Arlington,...
  
  , Nobel Memorial Prize winner in economics
• W. Eugene Smith
  W. Eugene Smith
  William Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.- Life and work :...
  
  , photojournalist
• Daryl Spencer
  Daryl Spencer
  Daryl Dean Spencer , is a former professional baseball player. He was a utility infielder, playing shortstop, second base, and third base in the major leagues from 1952-1963. He played for the New York Giants, San Francisco Giants, St...
  
  , major league baseball player, 1952-1963
• Arlen Specter
  Arlen Specter
  Arlen Specter is a former United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter is a Democrat, but was a Republican from 1965 until switching to the Democratic Party in 2009...
  
   Republican-turned-Democratic Senator (PA)
• Phil Stacey
  Phil Stacey
  Joel Philip "Phil" Stacey is an American singer who first gained national attention on season 6 of the television talent show American Idol. After being eliminated from the competition on May 2, 2007, he was signed to a recording contract with Lyric Street Records...
  
  , CCM recording artist, American Idol Season 6 finalist, Northwest High School alumni
• Lloyd Stearman, industrialist
• Chief Rick Stone - Chief of Police. United States Department of Justice "Law Enforcement Officer of the Year" and the most highly decorated officer in Dallas Police Department history with multiple awards including the Medal of Valor
  Medal of Valor
  The Medal of Valor is the highest Israeli military decoration.The medal was established in 1970 by the Knesset in an act of law as a replacement for the Hero of Israel military decoration that was awarded during the War of Independence...
  
  , was the Wichita Police Chief from 1989 to 1995.
• John Cameron Swayze
  John Cameron Swayze
  John Cameron Swayze was a popular news commentator and game show panelist in the United States during the 1950s.- Early life :...
  
  , news commentator and game show panelist

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• George Tiller
  George Tiller
  George Richard Tiller, MD was an American physician from Wichita, Kansas. He was the medical director of a clinic in Wichita, Women's Health Care Services, one of only three nationwide which provided abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy .Pro-life group Operation Rescue kept a daily vigil...
  
  , abortion provider
• Earl Thompson, writer, A Garden of Sand was nominated for a National Book Award

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• Joe Walsh
  Joe Walsh
  Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...
  
  , musician, The James Gang and The Eagles
• Kamerion Wimbley
  Kamerion Wimbley
  -Cleveland Browns:On July 22, 2006, he signed a six-year deal with the Browns and includes $9.3 million in guaranteed money and $23.7 million total. After being converted to outside linebacker from his college position of defensive end, he played the entire season as the starting linebacker playing...
  
  , professional football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   player for the Oakland Raiders
  Oakland Raiders
  The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Lindsey Wixson
  Lindsey Wixson
  Lindsey Wixson is an American fashion model. She is known for her unique looks, defined in part by her "bee-stung lips", "rosebud pout" and gapped front teeth...
  
  , fashion model
• Lynette Woodard, Basketball Hall of Fame, Olympic Medalist