This article is a list of notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Leavenworth, Kansas. For people whose only connection with the city is being incarcerated at one of the prisons in the city see List of inmates of United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, United States Disciplinary Barracks#Notable inmates or Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility#Notable inmates, and for people whose only connection to the city is through the University of Saint Mary, see University of Saint Mary#Notable people.

Academia

R. H. Barlow (1918-1951), anthropologist, writer Francis Samuel Drake (1828-1885), historian. Malcolm MacVicar (1829-1904), educator Ernest Fox Nichols (1869-1924), physicist, president of Dartmouth College Robert A. Scalapino (1919-2011), political scientist Joseph Stayman (1817-1903), horticulturalist

Arts and entertainment Film, television, and theatre Hilda Clark (1872-1932), operetta soprano and model Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917), showman, frontiersman, scout Pat McMahon (born 1933), actor, disc jockey Fred Meyers (born 1983), actor Donn B. Murphy (1930–2022), president of the National Theatre, theatrical advisor to the President of the United States Brock Pemberton (1885-1950), theatrical director, producer, founder of the Tony Awards Theresa Vail (born 1990), television host, Miss Kansas 2013 Richard Sanders actor, WKRP in Cincinnati

Journalism Fred Lockley (1871-1958), columnist James R. O'Neill (1833-1863), American Civil War correspondent and sketch artist Elizabeth Vargas (born 1962), television news anchor

Literature Yda Hillis Addis (born 1857), writer Harold Coyle (born 1952), novelist Bryan Penberthy (born 1976), poet

Music Charles N. Daniels (1878-1943), composer, music executive Melissa Etheridge (born 1961), singer-songwriter, guitarist Gary Foster (born 1936), multi-instrumentalist Randy Sparks (1933–2024), singer-songwriter J. White Did It (born 1984), record producer, songwriter, and DJ

Other visual arts Alfred Shea Addis (1832-1886), photographer William Pratt Feth (1866-1959), architect William Merrell Vories (1880-1964), architect, missionary

Business Joseph W. Bettendorf (1864-1933), manufacturing executive Marie Guiraud (1830-1909), rancher Fred Harvey (1835–1901), restaurant entrepreneur Ron Logan (born 1938), business executive William Waddell (1807-1872), mail service entrepreneur, co-founder of the Pony Express Herbert M. Woolf (1880-1964), department store executive, racehorse owner

Crime and law enforcement

Thomas A. Cullinan (1838-1904), lawman Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876), lawman, gunfighter George Henry Hoyt (1837-1877), lawman, Kansas Attorney General

Military Donald Prentice Booth (1902-1993), U.S. Army Lieutenant General George P. Buell (1833-1883), U.S. Army Brevet Brigadier General, civil engineer Herbert B. Crosby (1871-1936), U.S. Army major general who served as the Chief of Cavalry John J. Davis (1909-1997), U.S. Army Lieutenant General Billy Dixon (1850-1913), scout, buffalo hunter Joseph K. Hudson (1840–1907), US Army brigadier general Charles R. Jennison (1834-1884), U.S. Army Colonel, abolitionist, Kansas state legislator Joseph E. Kuhn, commander of the 79th Division in World War I Daniel McCook, Jr. (1834-1864), U.S. Army Brigadier General David P. Muzzey (1838-1910), U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, lawyer Herman Poggemeyer Jr. (1919-2007), U.S. Marine Corps Major General David C. Schilling (1918-1956), U.S. Air Force Colonel, fighter ace Richard J. Seitz (1918-2013), U.S. Army Lieutenant General Persifor Frazer Smith (1798-1858), U.S. Army Brevet Brigadier General, Military Governor of California

Politics National

Daniel Read Anthony (1824–1904), abolitionist, publisher Lucien Baker (1846–1907), U.S. Senator from Kansas Lloyd Llewellyn Black (1889–1950), U.S. federal judge William Patterson Borland (1867–1919), U.S. Representative from Missouri William M. Boyle (1902–1961), Democratic Party activist David Josiah Brewer (1837–1910), U.S. Supreme Court justice Alexander Caldwell (1830–1917), U.S. Senator from Kansas Robert Crozier (1827–1895), U.S. Senator from Kansas Mark W. Delahay (1828–1879), U.S. federal judge Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), 34th President of the United States, General of the Army Hugh Boyle Ewing (1826–1905), U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, U.S. Army Brevet Major General Thomas Ewing, Jr. (1829–1896), U.S. Representative from Ohio Thomas Ewing III (1862–1942), Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office Benjamin Joseph Franklin (1839–1898), U.S. Representative from Missouri William Cather Hook (1857–1921), U.S. federal judge Edward Jacobson (1891–1955), business associate of Harry Truman, advocate for the creation of Israel Doug Lamborn (born 1954), U.S. Representative from Colorado Charles Henry Langston (1817–1892), abolitionist, political activist Cornelius Ambrose Logan (1832–1899), U.S. Ambassador to Chile, physician, writer Walter Nelles (1883–1937), lawyer, pacifist, co-founder of National Civil Liberties Bureau Marcus Junius Parrott (1828–1879), Kansas Territory delegate to U.S. Congress Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827–1901), U.S. Senator from Mississippi James B. Rhoads (1928–2015), 5th Archivist of the United States Edward T. Taylor (1858–1941), U.S. Representative from Colorado Donald S. Voorhees (1916–1989), U.S. federal judge Lewis Ledyard Weld (1833–1865), Colorado politician Abel Carter Wilder (1828–1875), U.S. Representative from Kansas Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (1834–1916), U.S. Representative from Missouri

State

George T. Anthony (1824–1896), 7th Governor of Kansas Cassius McDonald Barnes (1845–1925), 4th Governor of Oklahoma Territory William A. Barstow (1813–1865), 3rd Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Army Brigadier General H.S. Broiles (1845–1913), 6th Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas John A. Burns (1909–1975), 2nd Governor of Hawaii Thomas Carney (1824–1888), 2nd Governor of Kansas Powell Clayton (1833–1914), 9th Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Senator from Arkansas Robert E. Davis (1939–2010), Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Hiram Griswold (1807–1881), member of the Ohio Senate and defense lawyer of John Brown William Larimer, Jr. (1809–1875), Kansas state legislator, founder of Denver, Colorado Andrew Nisbet, Jr. (1921–2013), Washington state legislator Edward Stillings (1823–1890), Kansas state legislator, judge Samuel Hanson Stone (1849–1909), Kentucky politician

Religion Sherwood Eddy (1871–1963), evangelist, missionary Louis Mary Fink (1834–1904), Roman Catholic Church prelate Isidor Kalisch (1816–1886), rabbi, writer. Michaelis Machol (1845–1912), rabbi John Baptist Miège (1815–1884), Roman Catholic Church missionary Paul Clarence Schulte (1890–1984), Roman Catholic Church prelate Winfield Scott (1837–1910), Baptist minister John Ward (1857–1929), Roman Catholic Church prelate

Sports Baseball Jake Beckley (1867–1918), baseball player Chet Brewer (1907–1990), baseball player, scout, manager Duff Cooley (1873–1937), outfielder Johnny Hetki (born 1922), baseball player Jack Killilay (1887–1968), baseball player Walter McCoy (1923–2015), Negro leagues and Minor League Baseball player Fred Raymer (1875–1957), baseball player

Basketball Neil Dougherty (1961–2011), coach Wayne Simien (born 1983), power forward

Other sports Amy Hastings (born 1984), track and field athlete Sean Malto (born 1989), skateboarder

See also List of lists of people from Kansas List of people from Leavenworth County, Kansas

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