Famous Kansans Trading Cards
Explore the Real People and Real Stories of Kansas
From abolitionists to zany actresses, browse basic facts on more than 150 people who have called Kansas home. Funding for these cards came from the Kansas Historical Foundation. Teachers and parents can contact education@kshs.org for information on how to receive a free set of cards.
How to use the cards:
- Create your own famous Kansan trivia game and challenge your friends or family
- Make name poems (acrostic poems) which identify famous Kansans
- Select one or two cards to help get you started on your history project (you can also browse cards by category or by image)
- Be sure to send your work to us through Write on our wall. We will post several of these.
Featured Kansans:
- Samuel and Florella Adair
- Allegawaho
- Forrest Allen
- Henry Allen
- Walter Anderson
- Charlie Angell, Sr.
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Walter and Olive Beech - Mary Ann Bickerdyke
- Sallie Bluejacket
- Blackbear Bosin
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Louise Brooks
- Esther Brown
- John Brown*
- Oliver Brown
- Abram Burnett
- McKinley Burnett
- Arthur Capper*
- Frank Carlson
- George Washington Carver
- Clyde Cessna*
- Wilt Chamberlain
- Mabel Chase
- Jesse Chisholm
- Walter Chrysler*
- William Cody
- William Coleman
- Harry Colmery
- Thomas Corbett
- Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
- Samuel Crumbine*
- Teresa Cuevas
- Glenn Cunningham
- John Steuart Curry*
- Charles Curtis*
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George and Elizabeth Custer - John Denny
- Peggy Hull Deuell
- Annie Diggs
- John Dillon
- Samuel Dinsmoor
- Bob Dole*
- Aaron Douglas
- Alva Duckwall
- Amelia Earhart*
- Wyatt Earp
- Dwight Eisenhower*
- Milton Eisenhower
- Ron Evans
- Alfred Fairfax
- Joan Finney
- Frederick Funston
- Dionicio Campos Garcia
- Olive and Ray Garvey
- Isaac and Ellen Goodnow
- Georgia Neese Gray
- Minnie Grinstead
- Annie and Moses Grinter
- Junius Groves
- Emanuel and Marcet Haldeman-Julius
- Fred Harvey*
- Coleman Hawkins
- Takeru Higuchi
- Gerat and Sophia Hollenberg
- Cyrus Holliday*
- Dennis Hopper
- Langston Hughes
- Alexander Hyde
- John Ingalls
- William Inge
- Eva Jessye
- Martin and Osa Johnson
- Walter Johnson
- Lucy and William Johnston
- Charles Jones
- Gordon Jump
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum*
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Buster Keaton - Emmett Kelly
- Kennekuk
- Stan Kenton
- Jack Kilby*
- Alfred Landon*
- James Lane
- William Lear, Sr.
- Mary Elizabeth Lease
- H. D. Lee
- Lorenzo Lewelling
- Chester Lewis
- Charles Lindbergh
- Albin Longren
- Rafael and Concepción Lopez
- Julia Louisia Lovejoy
- Lutie Lytle
- Edward McCabe
- Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy
- Joseph McCoy*
- Hattie McDaniel
- William Masterson
- William Mathewson
- William Matthews
- Karl Menninger*
- Oscar Micheaux
- Mokohoko
- James Naismith*
- Carry Nation*
- Clarina Nichols
- Corinthian Nutter
- Kate Richards O'Hare
- Mitsugi Ohno
- Clementine Paddleford
- Charlie Parker
- Gordon Parks*
- William Peffer
-
ZaSu Pitts - John Fenton Pratt
- Samuel Reader
- Andrew Reeder
- Charles and Sara Robinson
- Charles Rogers
- Damon Runyon
- Susanna Salter
- Birger Sandzén
- Wes Santee
- Satanta*
- C. B. Schmidt*
- Elisha Scott
- Charles Sheldon*
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Jerry Simpson
- Harry Sinclair
- Benjamin Singleton
- William Stafford
- Lloyd Stearman
- George F. Sternberg*
- Milburn Stone
- Rex Stout
- Russell and Clara Stover
- Earl Sutherland, Jr.
- Lucy Hobbs Taylor
- Ten Bears
- Jim Thorpe
- Lucinda Todd
-
Clyde Tombaugh
- Vivian Vance
- Reuben Waller
- May Williams Ward
- Eugene Ware
- Berhard Warkentin
- Waldo Wedel
- Mary White
- William Allen White*
- William Allen and Sallie White
- William Lindsay and Kathrine White
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Jess Willard
- Mamie Williams
- Elizabeth Wooster
* One of the 25 Notable Kansans selected by Governor Brownback's Blue Ribbon Panel for Kansas History in 2011.
