The following is a list of people from Cloud County,

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. Inclusion on the list should be reserved for notable people past and present who have lived in the county, either in cities or rural areas.

Academics

* May Louise Cowles, early advocate of teaching home economics * George Norlin, former president of the

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Arts

Jim Garver James Garver (born September 8, 1957) is a country music guitarist. Garver is credited with referencing the bar "The Oasis" (after a closed establishment in his hometown of Concordia, Kansas) in the song '' Friends in Low Places'' made famous by ...

, country music guitarist * Robert E. Pearson, filmmaker *

Helen Talbot Helen Talbot (April 7, 1924 January 29, 2010) was a motion picture actor, actress and pin-up girl in the United States. She was born Helen Darling in Concordia, Kansas and lived there until 1941 when she moved to live with her brother in Wes ...

, film actress and pin-up girl * Patrice Wymore, film and stage actress

Athletes

* Tom Brosius, track and field athlete * Keith Christensen, professional football player * George Dockins, major league baseball player *

Bill Dotson William Robert Dotson (December 27, 1940 – June 16, 2021) was a track and field athlete from the University of Kansas. He was the seventh person in the United States to break the four-minute mile barrier, with a time of 3:59.0 on June 23, 1962. ...

, track and field athlete * Mike Gardner, college football coach * Larry Hartshorn, professional football player * Mike Kirkland, women's track & field coach *

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, college football coach * Ernest C. Quigley, college football coach and major league baseball umpire * Harry Short, baseball player * Shanele Stires, professional basketball player *

Elmer Stricklett Elmer Griffin Stricklett (August 29, 1876 – June 7, 1964) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox and Brooklyn Superbas from 1904 through 1907. Including his time in mi ...

, major league baseball player * Kaye Vaughan, professional football player

Clergy

* Orval Butcher, founding pastor of

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* Most Reverend Charles Joseph Chaput, OFM Cap, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of

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* Right Rev. John Francis Cunningham, Bishop of Concordia *

Jim Garlow Jim Garlow is the former Senior Pastor of Skyline Church located in La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego. Garlow is often cited as an evangelical leader in the political arena, quoted on issues such as the 2012 Republican presidential prima ...

, pastor of

Constantine Scollen Father Con Scollen OMI. (4 April 1841 – 8 November 1902) was an Irish Catholic, Missionary priest who lived among and evangelized the Blackfoot, Cree and Métis peoples on the Canadian Prairies and in northern Montana in the United States. H ...

, missionary priest, resident 1896-1898

Journalists

* Henry Buckingham, newspaper publisher *

Avis Tucker Avis Green Tucker (July 30, 1915 – December 17, 2010) owned ''The Daily Star-Journal'' in Warrensburg, Missouri from 1947 to 2007. She was born Avis Green in Concordia, Kansas. When she was 18 months her parents moved to Pleasant Hill, Missouri ...

, publisher

Politicians

* Charles H. Blosser, namesake of Blosser Municipal Airport * Elaine Bowers, member of the Kansas Legislature * Napoleon Bonaparte Brown, politician and businessman *

Frank Carlson Frank Carlson (January 23, 1893May 30, 1987) was an American politician who served as the 30th governor of Kansas, Kansas State representative, United States representative, and United States senator from Kansas. Carlson is the only Kansan to ...

, United States Senator, Representative, and Governor of Kansas * James Manney Hagaman, founder of

Concordia, Kansas Concordia is a city in and the county seat of Cloud County, Kansas, United States. It is located along the Republican River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains in North Central Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the ...

Deanell Reece Tacha Deanell Reece Tacha (born January 26, 1946) is a retired United States Circuit Judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She was the Dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law from 2011 to 2016. Education ...

, retired

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* W. O. Woods, former

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Others

Boston Corbett Thomas H. "Boston" Corbett (January 29, 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894) was an American Union Army soldier who shot and killed U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Corbett was initially arrested for disob ...

, known as the man who shot

John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent 19th-century Booth ...

Pop Hollinger Harvey T. "Pop" Hollinger (October 13, 1886 – March 6, 1977) was one of the first comic book collectors. He set up his retail and mail order shop for new and used comics in Concordia, Kansas, in the late 1930s. Biography Early life Hollinge ...

, one of the first to begin collecting comic books for resale

References

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