The following is a list of people from Atchison County, Kansas. The area includes the cities of Atchison, Effingham, Huron, Lancaster, Muscotah, 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.
Arts and entertainment
Carl Blair, artist
Rory Lee Feek, country music singer
Milo Hastings, writer
Jesse Stone, rhythm and blues musician and songwriter whose influence spanned a wide range of genres and is credited to have done "more to develop the basic rock 'n' roll sound than anybody else"
John Cameron Swayze, popular news commentator and game show panelist during the 1950s
Frank Wilcox, character actor
Max Yoho, humorist
Carter Elliott, shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs
Leslie Geary, designed and raced numerous competitive sailing vessels, and also designed commuter yachts, fishing boats, tugboats, and wooden hulled freighters
Oscar Johnson, baseball player in the Negro Leagues
Joe Tinker, Major league baseball player for the Chicago Cubs
Larry Wilcox, head college football coach for the Benedictine Ravens
Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer
C. I. Scofield, theologian, minister, and writer whose best-selling annotated Bible popularized futurism and dispensationalism among fundamentalist Christians
E. W. Howe, newspaper editor and novelist
Roy A. Roberts, managing editor, president, editor and general manager of The Kansas City Star; guided the paper during its influential period during the presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower
Laura M. Cobb, former Chief Nurse of the United States Navy
Politics and government
Willis J. Bailey, 16th Governor of Kansas
William Thomas Bland, United States Representative from Missouri
Charles F. Cochran, United States Representative from Missouri
George Washington Glick, ninth Governor of Kansas
Jerry Henry, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
John James Ingalls, politician
Sheffield Ingalls, politician and former Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
James Edmund Jeffries, United States Representative from Kansas
Victor Linley, member of the Wisconsin State Senate
John Martin
Chester L. Mize, United States Representative from Kansas
Samuel C. Pomeroy, United States Senator from Kansas
Jim Slattery, United States Representative from Kansas
Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, Missouri Attorney General, high-ranking border ruffian, one of the organizers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Bangs Sisters, mediums who made a career out of painting the dead, or "spirit portraits"
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