Manhattan High School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• 19th century: Samuel Wendell Williston, paleontologist (pre-1873)
• 19th century: Philip Fox, astronomer
• 1916: Clementine Paddleford, food critic
• 1918: Dewey Huston, 3-time all-conference football player at Kansas State
• 1923: Frank B. Morrison, 34th Governor of Nebraska
• 1926: Solon Toothaker Kimball, anthropologist
• 1927: Fred Andrew Seaton, U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Interior
• 1930: Kenneth S. Davis, historian, winner of Francis Parkman Prize
• 1930: Joan Finney, 42nd Governor of Kansas
• 1948: Harold Robinson, broke "color barrier" in Big Seven Conference, all-conference football player at Kansas State
• 1949: Earl Woods, late father of Tiger Woods
• 1951: Del Close, actor, comedian, one of the premier influences on modern improvisational theater
• 1952: David Dary, journalist, author
• 1952: Inger Stevens, actress
• 1954: Tom Oberheim, inventor of Oberheim synthesizer and DMX drum machine, which defined early hip-hop production
• 1964: Bill Buzenberg, journalist, executive director of Center for Public Integrity, former vice-president of news at NPR
• 1966: Thomas Romig, Army's top-ranking Judge Advocate General, Dean of Washburn University School of Law
• 1972: Dawayne Bailey, musician
• 1974: Gary Spani, member of College Football Hall of Fame and Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame
• 1977: Tim Jankovich, college basketball coach
• 1981: Deb Richard, former professional golfer
• 1983: Craig Colbert, professional baseball player
• 1982: Anna Seaton Huntington, won bronze medal at 1992 Summer Olympics, member of America's Cup crew on the America3
• 1989: Thomas Randolph, All-American football player at Kansas State
• 1992: Will Tiao, actor
• 1993: Steve Balderson, filmmaker
• 1997: Jared Hess, filmmaker