FAMOUS ALUMNI Harold Arlin First play-by-play man for a MLB game on radio
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K.S. “Bud” Adams Owner, Tennessee Titans Stuart Bailey Producer of “The Daily Show” Nancy Kassebaum Baker U.S. Senator Scott Bakula Actor (TV’s “Quantum Leap,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”)
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Kay Waldo Barnes First female mayor of Kansas City, Mo. Etta Moten Barnett Actress and singer - First African-American woman to entertain at the White House
BOB DOLE
KATHLEEN SEBELIUS WILT CHAMBERLAIN
Joe Engle NASA astronaut on first shuttle flight
Al Oerter Four-time Olympic gold medalist
Ron Evans NASA astronaut on Apollo 17
Sara Paretsky Best-selling mystery writer (V.I. Warshawski series)
Alex Graves Executive producer (“West Wing”)
Mandy Patinkin Actor (“Yentl,” “The Princess Bride”; TV’s “Chicago Hope” and “Criminal Minds”)
Linda Zarda Cook Executive Director of Shell Gas & Power and former CEO of Shell Canada. Named one of the most successful businesswomen in Europe.
Moses Gunn Actor (“Heartbreak Ridge” and “Roots”) Steve Hawley NASA astronaut
Paul Rudd Actor (“Clueless,” “Cider House Rules,” “I Love You, Man”)
Wilt Chamberlain Basketball Hall of Famer
David Hillis Evolutionary biologist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow
Jim Ryun Three-time U.S. track Olympian and world-record miler, U.S. House of Representatives
William Inge Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (“The Dark at the Top of the Stairs,” “Come Back, Little Sheba,” “Picnic,” “Splendor in the Grass”)
Gale Sayers Chicago Bears football star
Bob Dole Former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Bob Eaton Chair of Chrysler Corp. Paul Ehrlich Environmental scientist, population expert and author (“The Population Bomb”). Also a MacArthur Fellow recipient.
Clarence Kelly Former head of the FBI Rebecca Kolls Gardening expert (HGTV’s “Rebecca’s Garden,” ABC’s “Good Morning America”)
Kathleen Sebelius U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Douglas Shane Director of Flight Operations for SpaceShipOne, first private manned space program
Bill Kurtis Dean Smith Journalist and producer (A&E’s “Investigative College basketball’s third-winningest coach Reports,” “American Justice”) Deanell Reece Tacha Delano Lewis Chief judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals Former National Public Radio CEO and for the Tenth Circuit Ambassador to South Africa Clyde Tombaugh Elmer V. McCollum Scientist (discovered the dwarfed planet Scientist (discovered vitamins A, B and D) Pluto) GALE SAYERS
Billy Mills Olympic gold medalist in track (only American to win the 10,000-meters medal)
Kent Whealy Founder of the Seed Savers Exchange, MacArthur Fellow
Lou Montulli Co-founder of Netscape
Lynette Woodard First female Harlem Globetrotter. All-time leading scorer in college women’s basketball history.
Alan Mulally President and CEO of Ford Motor Company
Sir Robert Worcester Market research pioneer and top British political commentator and pollster
26 OLYMPIANS | 35 WORLD RECORDS | 69 INDIVIDUAL NCAA TITLES | 409 ALL-AMERICANS | 679 INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE TITLES
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