Dodge City, Secretary of the State Board of Health, led public health campaign against the use of common drinking cups. He invented the roller towel and the fly swatter.
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Abilene, five-star U.S. Army General, Supreme Allied Commander of European theater during World War II and 34th President of the United States
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Medicine Lodge, temperance advocate. The Ablah Library at Wichita State University maintains a website for their Carry A. Nation Collection.
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Russell, Served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, vice presidential candidate in 1976, sought Republican presidential nomination in 1980 and 1988, and 1996 GOP presidential nominee
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Ness County, agricultural scientist, mortgaged his Kansas homestead to go to college. Studied the peanut and invented many ways to use them.
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Topeka, served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and as Vice President of the United States
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Atchison, the first woman granted a pilot's license by the National Aeronautics Association and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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Lawrence, the first fully trained woman dentist in the world
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Elkhart, held the world record in the mile run in the 1930s
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Topeka, famous poet, winner of Pulitzer Prize
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Sedgwick county, Indian trader and scout
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Chanute, photographers and explorers. The Axe Library at Pittsburg State University maintains a website of their Martin & Osa Johnson collection.
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Wichita, film actress, Academy Award winner
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Wamego and Ellis, established the Chrysler Corporation
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Alton, candymaker and famous businessman
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Newton, first female U.S. Army General
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Wichita, billionaire head of Koch industries
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Leavenworth, founder of Harvey House restaurants
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Topeka, Maize and Council Grove, first female U.S. senator from Kansas
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Wichita, the famous Coleman Company founder
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Jefferson County, artist, he has murals in the Kansas State Capital
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Wichita, artist, he made the Keeper of the Plains sculpture in Wichita
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Topeka, first woman in Kansas to serve as a District Judge and as State Supreme Court Justice
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Topeka and Lawrence, poet and author
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Fort Scott, photographer, writer, and motion picture director. First African American to direct a studio project - The Learning Tree -shot in Fort Scott. The Axe Library at Pittsburg State University maintains a website of their Gordon Parks collection.
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Lawrence, inventor of the game of basketball and the first basketball coach at the University of Kansas
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Sedan, circus clown
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Salina, Civil War nurse and veterans' supporter
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Emporia, editor and publisher, Pulitzer Prize recipient for "What's the Matter With Kansas?"
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Wichita, basketball standout at University of Kansas, captain of U.S. women's basketball team that won gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics, first woman on the Harlem Globetrotters
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Kansas Territory, first woman sculptor chosen to sculpt an official sculpture of a president when she sculpted a statue of President Lincoln.
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Born in Newton, Kansas Brad Sneed is an author and illustrator of children's books.
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