Academics and Nobel Prize Laureates
- Milton S. Eisenhower, (1899–1985), university president, Abilene, Kansas.
- Wendell Johnson, (1906–1965), psychologist and speech pathologist, author of The Monster Study, Roxbury, Kansas.
- Jack S. Kilby, (1923–2005), Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Great Bend, Kansas.
- Solon Toothaker Kimball, (1909–1982), anthropologist, Manhattan, Kansas.
- Stanford Lehmberg, (born 1931), historian, McPherson, Kansas.
- Deane Waldo Malott, (1898–1996), president Cornell University, Abilene, Kansas.
- Abby Lillian Marlatt, (1869–1943), home economics, Manhattan, Kansas.
- Eric K. Meyer, (born 1953), journalism professor and Pulitzer Prize nominee, Marion, Kansas.
- M. Lee Pelton, (born 1950), president Willamette University, Wichita, Kansas.
- John Brooks Slaughter, (born 1934), college president and first African-American director of the National Science Foundation, Topeka, Kansas.
- Vernon L. Smith, (born 1927), Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economics, Wichita, Kansas.
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., (1915–1974), 1971 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine, Burlingame, Kansas.
- Donald Worster, (born 1941), historian, Lawrence, Kansas.
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