The following is a list of people who were born in and/or have lived in the American city of

Olathe Olathe ( ) is the county seat of Johnson County, Kansas, United States. It is the fourth-most populous city in both the Kansas City metropolitan area and the state of Kansas, with a 2020 population of 141,290. History 19th century Olathe was ...

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...

Academia

George Washington Carver George Washington Carver ( 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the ea ...

(1860–1943), botanist, prominent

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

leader * J. Wayne Reitz (1908–1993), President of the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

(1955–1967) *

Charles H. Zimmerman Charles Horton Zimmerman (1908 – May 5, 1996), was an aeronautical engineer, whose work on novel airfoil configurations led to several notable experimental aircraft programs. Early work Zimmerman worked at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laborat ...

(1908–1996), aeronautical engineer

Arts and entertainment

Film, television, and theatre

* Willie Aames (1960– ), actor *

Jennifer Bertrand Jennifer Bertrand is the host of Home & Garden Television's ''Paint-Over! with Jennifer Bertrand'' and the season three champion of ''HGTV Design Star ''HGTV Star'', named ''HGTV Design Star'' for the first seven seasons, is an American reality ...

, interior designer, television show host *

Adam Jamal Craig Adam Jamal Craig (born April 17, 1978) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Special Agent Dominic Vail in '' NCIS: Los Angeles'', a spin-off of '' NCIS''. He owns a small IT company nameHyperNerd Inc. Filmography External li ...

(1981– ), actor * Ashley Litton (1983– ), beauty queen *

Michael McMillian Michael McMillian (born October 21, 1978) is an American actor and writer, known for his roles as Henry Gibson on '' What I Like About You'', Steve Newlin on the HBO series ''True Blood'', Owen on ''Hot in Cleveland'' and Tim in ''Crazy Ex-Girlf ...

(1978– ), actor * Larry Parks (1914–1975), actor * Chris Porter (1979– ), comedian * Charles "Buddy" Rogers (1904–1999), actor

Journalism

C. L. Edson Charles Leroy Edson (September 6 or December 6, 1881 – December 4, 1975) was an American newspaper columnist, humorist, and poet whose work appeared in New York papers in the first decades of the 20th century. He wrote a guide to writing newspa ...

(1881–1975), newspaper columnist, humorist, and poet *

Dan Ryckert Dan Ryckert is an American Games Entertainer, producer. Previously in a writer and former video game journalist role, now a Twitch streamer and podcaster. In 2011, ''Complex'' magazine named Ryckert one of the twenty-five "raddest" game jour ...

(1984– ), journalist and author.

Music

Johnny Dare Johnny Dare (born John William Caprefoli) is an American radio personality. He is host of ''The Johnny Dare Morning Show'' the morning show for 98.9 The Rock in Mission, Kansas. He is one of the station's more prominent figures, and hosts the st ...

(1968– ),

Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more ...

radio personality * Charles Miller (1939–1980), musician * Rob Pope, member of

emo Emo is a rock music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of and hardcore punk from the Washington D.C. hardcore punk scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore and pioneered b ...

band

The Get Up Kids The Get Up Kids are an American rock band from Olathe, Kansas. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-1990s Midwest emo scene, otherwise known as the " second wave" of emo music. Their second album ''Something to Write Home About' ...

Ryan Pope Ryan Pope is an American musician who lives in Lawrence, Kansas. History Ryan Pope grew up in Olathe, Kansas. In the summer of 1994, he was in a band called "Kingpin" with his brother Rob and future The Get Up Kids bandmate Jim Suptic. After t ...

(1978– ), member of emo band The Get Up Kids *

Richie Pratt Richie Pratt (born Richard Dean Tyree; March 11, 1943 – February 12, 2015) was an American jazz drummer. He embarked upon a career as a professional musician on the New York scene in the early 1970s, it was as much due to an unanticipated sporti ...

(1943–2015), jazz drummer, professional football player * Jim Suptic (1977– ), member of emo band The Get Up Kids

Other visual arts

Grace Bilger Grace Olive Reeve-Bilger (June 25, 1907 – October 1, 2000) was an American painter. Often signing the name of ''g.Bilger'' (and later ''g.Stansbury'') to her work. Bilger is mainly noted for her watercolor paintings of buildings, landscapes a ...

(1907–2000), painter

Business

Jesse Clyde Nichols Jesse Clyde "J. C." Nichols (August 23, 1880 - February 16, 1950) was an American developer of commercial and residential real estate in Kansas City, Missouri. Born in Olathe, Kansas, and a student at the University of Kansas and Harvard Unive ...

(1880–1950), real estate developer *

Donald J. Tyson Donald John Tyson (April 21, 1930 – January 6, 2011) was an American businessman who was the President and CEO of Tyson Foods during its rise to the top of the food business. Early life Donald J. Tyson was born in Olathe, Kansas. He attended the ...

(1930–2011), food industry executive

Politics

National

* Chauncey B. Little (1877–1952),

U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...

from Kansas * Edward C. Little (1858–1924),

from Kansas *

James Kenneth Logan James Kenneth Logan (August 21, 1929 – September 8, 2018) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Education and career Born in Quenemo, Kansas, Logan was a Corporal in the United States A ...

(1929– ), U.S. federal judge *

Walter Lewis McVey Jr. Walter Lewis McVey Jr. (February 19, 1922 – September 10, 2014) was a United States Representative from Kansas. Born in Independence, Kansas, McVey was educated in the public schools and graduated from high school in 1940. He attended Indepe ...

(1922–2014),

from Kansas *

Vince Snowbarger Vincent K. Snowbarger (born September 16, 1949) is an American lawyer and politician from Kansas. He is a former Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. Early life Vincent K. Snowbarger ...

(1949– ),

from Kansas (1997–1999)

State

John Anderson Jr. John Anderson Jr. (May 8, 1917 – September 15, 2014) was an American politician who served as the 36th governor of Kansas, from 1961 until 1965. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 33rd attorney general of Kansas from 195 ...

(1917–2014), 36th

Governor of Kansas A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political r ...

(1961–1965) *

Keith Esau Keith Esau (born June 10, 1960) is an American politician who served as the Kansas State Representative for the 14th district from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, his district covers the northern part of Olathe in Johnson Count ...

, Kansas state legislator *

Herbert S. Hadley Herbert Spencer Hadley (February 20, 1872 – December 1, 1927) was an American lawyer and a Republican Party politician from St. Louis, Missouri. Born in Olathe, Kansas, he was Missouri Attorney General from 1905 to 1909 and in 1908 was elec ...

(1872–1927), 32nd Governor of Missouri, chancellor of

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...

George H. Hodges George Hartshorn Hodges (February 6, 1866 – October 7, 1947) was an American politician and the 19th Governor of Kansas (1913–1915). Biography Hodges was born in Orion, Wisconsin, in Richland County. His family moved to Olathe, Kansas, w ...

(1866–1947), 19th

* Julia Lynn (1957– ), Kansas state legislator * Robert Montgomery, Kansas state legislator * Robert Olson (1969– ), Kansas state legislator * Mark Parkinson (1957– ), 45th

(2009–2011) * Ron Ryckman Jr., Kansas state legislator * John St. John (1833–1916), 8th

(1879–1883),

Prohibition Party The Prohibition Party (PRO) is a political party in the United States known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages and as an integral part of the temperance movement. It is the oldest existing third party ...

Presidential candidate (1884) *

Harold Sebring Harold Leon Sebring (March 9, 1898 – July 26, 1968), nicknamed Tom Sebring, was a Florida Supreme Court justice, and an American judge at one of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials of German war criminals after World War II. Sebring was a native ...

(1898–1968),

Florida Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest court in the U.S. state of Florida. It consists of seven members: the chief justice and six justices. Six members are chosen from six districts around the state to foster geographic diversity, and one ...

justice

Local

* Albert I. Beach (1883–1939), 42nd

Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri The Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri is the highest official in the Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Government. Since the 1920s the city has had a council-manager government in which a city manager runs most of the day-to-day operations of ...

Sports

American football

Arland Bruce III Arland Richard Bruce III (born November 23, 1977) is a former Canadian football wide receiver. He is a two-time Grey Cup champion, having won in 2004 with the Toronto Argonauts and in 2011 with the Lions. He has played 10 seasons in the CFL wi ...

(1977– ), wide receiver for the BC Lions * Don Davis (1972– ), linebacker, coach * Bryan Shepherd (1991– ), cornerback *

Isaiah Simmons Isaiah Simmons (born July 26, 1998) is an American football inside linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Clemson and was drafted by the Cardinals eighth overall in the 2020 NFL ...

(1998– ), linebacker * Darren Sproles (1983– ), running back

Baseball

Dan Glass Dan Glass (born 1959) is the former president of the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball team. Glass is the son of former Royals owner David Glass who acquired the team in 2000 and immediately installed his son to succeed Mike E. Herman who ...

(1959– ),

Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expans ...

president *

Claude Hendrix Claude Raymond Hendrix (April 13, 1889 – March 22, 1944) was a professional baseball pitcher who played in the National League for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1911–13) and Chicago Cubs (1916–20) and in the Federal League with the Chicago Whales ...

(1889–1944), pitcher *

Dummy Taylor Luther Haden "Dummy" Taylor (February 21, 1875 – August 22, 1958) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1900 to 1908 who was deaf. He played for the History of the New York Giants (NL), New York Giants and Clevela ...

(1875–1958), pitcher

Basketball

* Manute Bol (1962–2010),

NBA The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...

center (1985–1994) * Willie Cauley-Stein (1993– ), center * Danielle McCray (1987– ), forward

Other

* Johnny Carver (1995– ), sports author * Stevana Case (1976– ), professional video gamer * Steve Fisher (1982– ), snowboarder *

Eric Lynch Eric Lynch (born October 20, 1978, in St. Louis, Missouri) is a professional poker player. Lynch resides in Olathe, Kansas. In 2006, he won a PokerStars $1 million guaranteed tournament and finished 24th at the 2006 World Series of Poker Mai ...

(1978– ), poker player *

Michael Thomas Michael or Mike Thomas may refer to: Entertainment * Michael M. Thomas (born 1936), American novelist of financial thrillers * Michael Tilson Thomas (born 1944), American conductor, pianist, and composer * Michael Thomas (actor) (1952–2019), Bri ...

(1988– ), soccer midfielder

References

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