Born in Kansas

Kansas

State of the United States of America

Kansas as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. American musical theatre composer, American author and adventurer (1894-1953), American actress): John Kander, Osa Johnson, Emily Wickersham and some more.

Celebrities from Kansas

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John Kander

American musical theatre composer

*March 18th, 1927

58

Osa Johnson

American author and adventurer (1894-1953)

*March 14th, 1894 †January 7th, 1953, Hernani

40

Emily Wickersham

American actress

*April 26th, 1984

86

Jess Willard

American boxer

*December 29th, 1881 †December 15th, 1968, Los Angeles

45

Trip Ross

American actor

*March 14th, 1979

44

Dwight Frye

Actor (1899-1943)

*February 22nd, 1899 †November 7th, 1943, Hollywood

82

Samuel Ramey

American operatic bass

*March 28th, 1942

74

Leonard Lehrman

American composer

*August 20th, 1949

56

Bruce Branit

American filmmaker

*July 10th, 1967

63

Nick Wooster

Fashion icon

*July 2nd, 1960

69

Beulah Armstrong

American mathematician

*November 18th, 1895 †February 22nd, 1965, Urbana

60

Jerome Brown

Effects animator (1906–1966)

*January 7th, 1906 †December 24th, 1966, Los Angeles

57

Jack Christiansen

American football player and coach (1928–1986)

*December 20th, 1928 †June 29th, 1986, Stanford

54

Fiddlin’ Sam Long

American musician (1876-1931)

*October 22nd, 1876 †May 6th, 1931

63

Tiny Feather

American football player (1902-1965)

*February 23rd, 1902 †July 15th, 1965

64

James Still

American playwright

*May 31st, 1959

85

Dean Hargrove

American television director, producer and writer

*July 27th, 1938

74

David Davenport

American academic administrator

*November 30th, 1949

64

Eric Darnell

American animator, director, screenwriter, songwriter, and occasional voice actor

*March 28th, 1960

66

Lynn Stucky

Texas state legislator

*February 20th, 1958

72

Roger Lee Berger

American statistician

*August 21st, 1951

89

Dolan Ellis

American singer-songwriter, balladeer

*March 1st, 1935

58

Phil Tucker

American film director

*May 22nd, 1927 †November 30th, 1985, Los Angeles

53

Jack Kirk

American film actor (1895-1948)

*February 19th, 1895 †September 13th, 1948, Ketchikan

96

Harry Perry

American cinematographer (1888-1985)

*May 2nd, 1888 †February 9th, 1985, Woodland Hills

81

Rudy Bowman

Actor

*December 15th, 1890 †October 29th, 1972, Los Angeles County

62

Stanley Price

American actor (1892-1955)

*December 31st, 1892 †July 13th, 1955, Garden Grove

92

M. Frederick Hawthorne

American chemist

*August 24th, 1928 †July 8th, 2021

Birthdays of famous people