This is a list of people from Ellis County, Kansas, United States. 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
Rob Beckley, musician
Robert Bogue, actor
Rebecca Staab, actress
Michael Wittig, member of the Dove Award-winning and Grammy-nominated Christian hard rock band Pillar
See also List of Fort Hays State Tigers head football coaches
Greg Anderson, personal trainer of Barry Bonds
Monty Basgall, coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers
Ken Crandall, head football coach for the Southwestern Moundbuilders
Steve Crosby, National Football League player and coach
Chief Hogsett, baseball player
Tony Leiker, NFL defensive end
Tom Matukewicz, head football coach of the Northern Illinois Huskies
Tim McCarty, college football coach
Les Miller, National Football League player
Frankie Neal, player for the Green Bay Packers
Willard Schmidt, baseball player
Philip Anschutz, business magnate
Walter Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation
Robert Courtney, pharmacist convicted for pharmaceutical fraud
Elizabeth Polly, the so-called "Blue Light Lady"
John L. Allen, Jr., journalist
Melissa McDermott, news anchor
Jeff Colyer, Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
Sheila Frahm, United States Senator
Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy, U.S. Representative from Kansas
Jerry Moran, U.S. Senator from Kansas
Andrew Frank Schoeppel, 29th Governor of Kansas
Frances Tilton Weaver, feminist legal pioneer
Virgil C. Dechant, twelfth Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
Firmin Martin Schmidt, Roman Catholic bishop
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