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List of people from Topeka, Kansas

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This is a list of people from Topeka, Kansas.

Contents

Academia

  • Warren Faidley (1957- ), meteorologist, storm chaser
  • Riley Gardner (1921-2007), psychologist
  • Wes Jackson (1936- ), environmentalist, The Land Institute
  • Sokoni Karanja (1940- ), child development expert
  • G. Warren Nutter (1923-1979), economist
  • Ruth Patrick (1907-2013), botanist, limnologist
  • Julius Rebek (1944- ), chemist
  • David Curtis Skaggs, Jr. (1937- ), historian
  • John Brooks Slaughter (1934- ), electrical engineer, National Science Foundation director

    • Journalism

  • Elizabeth Farnsworth (1943- ), broadcaster, filmmaker
  • Bill Kurtis (1940- ), news anchor, producer

    • Other visual arts

  • Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), Harlem Renaissance artist
  • Georgia Louise Harris Brown (1918-1999), architect
  • Peter Max Lawrence (1977- ), contemporary media artist

    • Business

  • Brad Garlinghouse (1971- ), business executive, investor
  • Cyrus K. Holliday (1826-1900), first president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, founder of Topeka township
  • John F. Kilmartin (1921-2004), retail executive

    • Crime

  • Alvin Karpis (1907-1979), kidnapper, murderer, robber
  • Amy Watkins (1973-1999), murder victim

    • Medicine

  • Karl Bowman (1888-1973), psychiatrist
  • Harriet Lerner (1944- ), clinical psychologist and author
  • Karl Menninger (1893-1990), psychiatrist
  • Roy W. Menninger (1926- ), psychiatrist
  • William C. Menninger (1899-1966), psychiatrist
  • W. Walter Menninger (1931- ), psychiatrist
  • Ella Schuler (1897-2011), supercentenarian
  • Karl Targownik (1915-1996), psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor

    • Military

  • Wilder D. Baker (1890-1975), U.S. Navy Vice Admiral during World War II
  • Ronald Evans (1933-1990), astronaut
  • Harry D. Felt (1902-1992), U.S. Navy Admiral
  • Donald Hudson (1895-1967), World War I flying ace
  • Philip Johnston (1892-1978), U.S. Marine Corps code-talker
  • Frank E. Petersen (1932-2015), U.S. Marine Corps Lt. General

    • Local

  • Jacob Alan Dickinson (1911-1971), Topeka Board of Education president, desegregation supporter

    • Religion

  • Fred Phelps (1929-2014), leader of the Westboro Baptist Church
  • Charles Sheldon (1857-1946), minister, author

    • Basketball

  • Chris Babb (1990– ), shooting guard
  • Leo Lyons (1987- ), power forward
  • Fred Slaughter (1941- ), center, sports agent
  • Dean Smith (1931-2015), former University of North Carolina basketball coach
  • Mark Turgeon (1965- ), head basketball coach at University of Maryland; formerly coach at Texas A&M University
  • Kyle Weems (1989- ), small forward

    • Golf

  • Marilynn Smith (1929- ), pro golfer and LPGA co-founder, member of World Golf Hall of Fame
  • Gary Woodland (1984- ), golfer

    • Racing

  • Fred Comer (1893-1928), race car driver
  • Louis Durant (1910-1972), race car driver
  • Bruce Hill (1949- ), race car driver

    • References

    List of people from Topeka, Kansas Wikipedia
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