Emporia State University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Frank Anderson, head baseball coach for the Oklahoma State Cowboys
• William J. Durham, African-American attorney and leader in the civil rights movement
• Al Feuerbach, former Olympian and world record holder in the shot put
• L. M. Gensman, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
• Homer Woodson Hargiss former head football coach for ESU and University of Kansas
• Hall Hibbard, former chief design engineer for Lockheed Corporation
• Brad Hill, current head baseball coach at Kansas State University
• Leon Lett, pro football player (attended but did not graduate. Later completed studies at UNLV)
• Bill Martin, Jr., children's book author
• John Conover Nichols, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
• Kathy Patrick, author, founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club (attended, did not graduate)
• Deborah Raney, women's fiction author
• W. Ann Reynolds, chancellor of the California State University and City University of New York
• Dale Emerson Saffels, former federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas
• Harold See, Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
• Jack Sinagra, New Jersey State Senator
• Randall J. Stephens, author and historian
• Sam V. Stewart, Montana Supreme Court Justice and the sixth Governor of Montana.
• Grant F. Timmerman. Awarded Medal of Honor postumously for heroism during Battle of Saipan.
• Bob Whittaker, U.S. Representative from Kansas