Arbuckle, Fatty (Smith Center)
The rotund silent film comedian
Famous People from Kansas
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Asner, Ed (Kansas City)
Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show -
Bening, Annette (Topeka)
The star of American Beauty -
Brooks, Gwendolyn (Topeka)
The first African American to win a Pulitzer for poetry -
Dole, Bob (Russell)
The 1996 Republican candidate for president -
Douglas, Aaron (Topeka)
The Harlem Renaissance muralist who did 'Aspects of Negro Life' -
Earhart, Amelia (Atchison)
The pioneering female pilot who disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937 -
Elvira (Manhattan)
Vampy TV host of late-night horror movies -
Etheridge, Melissa (Leavenworth)
Singer of "Come to My Window" -
Gates, Robert M. (Wichita)
U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2006-2011 -
Hopper, Dennis (Dodge City)
The good guy in Easy Rider and the bad guy in Speed -
Keaton, Buster (Piqua)
The silent film comedy great known as "The Great Stone Face" -
Kelly, Emmett, Sr. (Sedan)
The melancholy tramp clown Weary Willie -
McDaniel, Hattie (Wichita)
The first black actor to win an Oscar, in 1940 -
Parker, Charlie (Kansas City)
Influential alto saxophone player -
Pitts, Zasu (Parsons)
Big-eyed actress of early Hollywood -
Smith, Dean (Emporia)
The basketball coach at UNC, 1961-97 -
Specter, Arlen (Wichita)
The Democrat-Republican-Democrat senator from Pennsylvania -
Stafford, William (Hutchinson)
The poet who wrote "Traveling Through the Dark" -
Stiles, Jackie (Kansas City)
Southwest Missouri State star and WNBA 2001 Rookie of the Year