List of people from Leavenworth County, Kansas

The following is a list of people from Leavenworth County, Kansas. The area includes Leavenworth, Kansas, Fort Leavenworth, Lansing, and rural areas in the county. Inclusion on the list should be reserved for notable people past and present who have resided in the county, either in cities or rural areas.

As a young boy, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his family moved to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas Territory.^[1]

Academia

Donn B. Murphy, instructor of theatre and speech courses at Georgetown University from 1954 to 2000. At the invitation of Jacqueline Kennedy and Letitia Baldrige, he became a theatrical advisor to the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations for White House dramatic and music presentations in the East Room
Ernest Fox Nichols, physicist awarded the Rumford Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1905 for his proof that light exerts pressure

Arts and entertainment

Ashley Aull, competitor in the Miss USA pageant
Danni Boatwright, sole survivor of the CBS series Survivor: Guatemala; Miss Kansas USA 1996
Hilda Clark, actress and model
Buffalo Bill Cody, soldier, buffalo hunter and wild west showman^[1]
Harold Coyle, author
Charles N. Daniels
Melissa Etheridge, musician
Adam Gnade, "talking songs" artist
Fred Meyers, actor
Brock Pemberton, theatrical producer, director and founder of the Tony Awards^[2]
N. Clark Smith, music educator and composer
Randy Sparks, musician, entertainer (New Christy Minstrels)

Aviation

Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association

Business

Joseph W. Bettendorf, businessman
Fred Harvey, prolific restaurateur
Ron Logan, former Executive Vice President of Walt Disney Entertainment

Crime and law enforcement

Wild Bill Hickok, soldier, lawman, gunfighter

Journalism

Elizabeth Vargas, television journalist (ABC)

Military

Robert Arter, retired United States Army Lieutenant General and former commanding general of the Sixth United States Army.
Joseph Henderson, United States Army Sergeant, recipient of Medal of Honor
David G. Perkins, current Commander of the United States Army Combined Arms Center
Russell Reeder, United States Army officer
David C. Schilling, U.S. Air Force officer, fighter ace, and leading advocate of long-range jet fighter operations
John A. Seitz, commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division and the XVIII Airborne Corps^[3]
Richard J. Seitz, Army officer and Paratrooper who commanded the 2nd Battalion, 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, the 82nd Airborne Division and the XVIII Airborne Corps^[4]

Politics and government

Daniel Read Anthony, abolitionist, newspaper publisher, mayor in 1863, brother of suffragist Susan B. Anthony
Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., American Republican politician and a nephew of suffragist and political leader Susan B. Anthony^[5]
Lucien Baker, United States Senator
Lloyd Llewellyn Black, United States Federal Judge
William Patterson Borland, United States Representative from Missouri
William M. Boyle, Democratic political activist
Thomas Carney, second Governor of Kansas
Marti Crow, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
Robert Crozier, United States Senator for Kansas
Robert E. Davis, Kansas Supreme Court Justice
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, served at Fort Leavenworth
Thomas Ewing III, 33rd Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office
Thomas Ewing, Jr., attorney, the first chief justice of Kansas and leading free state advocate, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and two-term United States Congressman from Ohio
Henry W. Green, judge on the Kansas Court of Appeals since 1993^[6]
Paul Ranous Greever, United States Representative from Wyoming
Doug Lamborn, United States Representative from Colorado
Walter Nelles, co-founder and first chief legal counsel of the National Civil Liberties Bureau and its successor, the American Civil Liberties Union; achieved public notice for his legal work on behalf of pacifists charged with violating the Espionage Act during World War I and in other politically charged civil rights and constitutional law cases in later years
Andrew Nisbet, Jr., member of the Washington House of Representatives and United States Army officer
Edward Stillings, lawyer and member of the Kansas Legislature
Samuel Hanson Stone, politician
Edward T. Taylor, United States Representative from Colorado
Van H. Wanggaard, member of the Wisconsin State Senate

Religion

Sherwood Eddy, Protestant missionary
William Merrell Vories, educator and missionary

Sports

Chet Brewer, pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues; played for the Kansas City Monarchs; from 1957 to 1974 he scouted for the Pittsburgh Pirates^[7]
Bill Burwell, relief pitcher in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Browns and Pittsburgh Pirates
Duff Cooley, professional baseball player for St. Louis Browns and Detroit Tigers
Neil Dougherty, basketball coach
Amy Hastings, track and field long distance running athlete, 2012 American champion in the 10,000 metres, a qualifier for the 2012 Summer Olympics
Johnny Hetki, Major League baseball player
Lance Hinson, head coach Saint Mary Spires football team^[8]
Jack Killilay, Major League Baseball player
Sean Malto, professional skateboarder
Fred Raymer, major league baseball player
John Shirreffs, Thoroughbred racehorse trainer
Wayne Simien, basketball player
Roy Zimmerman

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