People
Category · 140 pages in the KS.City civic encyclopedia
The Kansas Citians who shaped the place.
- Alexander Majors — freighting / overland transportation / Pony Express
- Alice Kitchen — modern
- Alvin Brooks — civil-rights / modern
- Andrew "Rube" Foster — baseball / league founder
- Andy Kirk — pendergast / jazz-era
- Andy Rieger & Ryan Maybee — modern
- Anita Dixon-Brown — modern
- Anita Easterwood — modern
- Arthur Bryant — wwii / postwar
- Arthur Edward Stilwell — railroads / promotion / author
- Arthur Pinkard — pendergast
- August R. Meyer — industry (smelting) / civic leadership / parks system
- AY Young — modern
- Bennie Moten — pendergast / jazz-era
- Big Joe Turner — pendergast / jazz-era / postwar
- Bill Rauschelbach — modern
- Bo Nelson — modern
- Brent Hoad — modern
- Bruce R. Watkins — civil-rights / modern
- Buck O'Neil — jazz-era / civil-rights / modern
- Buster Smith — jazz / alto saxophone
- Carolyn Mitchell — modern
- Casey Stengel — baseball / MLB player + manager
- Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd — crime / Depression-era bank robber
- Charles Binaggio — organized crime / political boss
- Charles Lindbergh — modern
- Charlie Parker — pendergast / jazz-era
- Christopher Elbow — modern
- Colby & Megan Garrelts — modern
- Colonel Thomas Swope — gilded-age
- Cool Papa Bell — pendergast / civil-rights
- Count Basie — pendergast / jazz-era
- Cynthia Leitich Smith — modern
- Cyrus Dallin — gilded-age
- Dan Quisenberry — postwar / modern
- Danny O'Neill — modern
- Doug Worgul — modern
- Eddie Durham — pendergast / jazz-era
- Edward Asner — postwar / modern
- Edward Buehler Delk — pendergast
- Edward Wade Wilson Jr. — civil-rights / modern
- Ernest Hemingway at the Kansas City Star — literature / journalism
- Ewing Marion Kauffman — postwar / modern
- François Chouteau — fur trade / founding settler
- Fred Wolferman — pendergast
- Freedom Inc. — Black political organization
- Gary Berbiglia — modern
- George Kessler — gilded-age
- Ginger Rogers — film / acting + dance
- Guy & Helen Stroud — postwar
- Hall Family Foundation
- Hank Stram — football / head coach
- Harold D. Rice — modern
- Harold Van Buren Magonigle — architecture / memorial design
- Harry S. Truman — pendergast / WWII / postwar
- Hayward Spears — modern
- Henry Bloch — postwar / modern
- Henry F. Hoit — architecture
- Henry F. McElroy — government / Kansas City city manager
- Henry Perry — pendergast
- Howard Hughes — pendergast / postwar
- J. L. Wilkinson — jazz-era
- J.C. Nichols — gilded-age / pendergast
- Jackie Robinson — wwii / civil-rights
- James Gadson — modern
- Jarvis Hunt — architecture
- Jasper Mirabile Jr. — modern
- Jass R. Couch — modern
- Jay McShann — pendergast / jazz-era
- Jean Harlow — film / Hollywood actress
- Jeff & Joy Stehney — modern
- Jerry Hooper — modern
- Jesse James — outlaw (regional figure)
- Jimmy Rushing — pendergast / jazz-era / postwar
- Joan Crawford — film / Hollywood actress
- Joey Earl Shelton — modern
- John Calvin McCoy — pre-statehood / 1850s-1880s
- John McDonald — modern
- John Wornall — 1850s-1880s
- Johnny Lazia — pendergast
- Jonathan Brandon — modern
- Jonathan Justus — modern
- Joyce Hall — pendergast / postwar
- Julia Lee — jazz-era
- Kadesh Flow — modern
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Kansas City Royals
- Ken & Cindy McClain — modern
- Kersey Coates — real-estate development / law / civic founding
- L.C. Richardson — modern
- Lamar Hunt — postwar / modern
- Len Dawson — football (QB) / sportscasting
- Leon Jordan — civil rights / politics / Freedom Inc.
- LeRoy Walters & the Heart of America DanceSport Championships — ballroom dance / competition organizing
- Lester Young — pendergast / jazz-era
- Lloyd DeGraffenreid — civil-rights
- Louis Curtiss — gilded-age
- Lucile Bluford — journalism (The Call) / civil rights
- Luis Padilla — modern
- Mark & Marissa Gencarelli — modern
- Mary Atkins — gilded-age
- Mary Lou Williams — pendergast / jazz-era
- Maurice M. Milligan — law / U.S. Attorney / machine prosecutor
- Miller Nichols — postwar / modern
- Nate Evans — modern
- Nell Donnelly Reed — pendergast / postwar / modern
- Nick & Leslie Goellner — modern
- Nick Civella — organized crime / Kansas City crime family boss
- Octave Chanute — gilded-age
- Ollie Gates — modern
- Otis Boyd — modern
- Pat Holmes — modern
- Pete Johnson — pendergast / jazz-era / postwar
- Queen Bey — jazz-era/modern
- R. Crosby Kemper Jr. — banking (UMB) / arts patronage / civic leadership
- Ray Lamar — modern
- Richard Bloch — business (H&R Block) / cancer philanthropy
- Richard L. Berkley — modern
- Robert A. Heinlein — literature / science fiction
- Robert A. Long — gilded-age / pendergast
- Robert Altman — postwar / modern
- Roy Wilkins — civil rights / journalism (The Call) / NAACP
- Sara Greenwood — modern
- Satchel Paige — pendergast / postwar
- Skip Schrock — modern
- Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff — modern
- The Bichelmeyer Family — modern
- The Carollo Family — modern
- Thomas Hart Benton — art / Regionalist painting / muralism
- Tom Pendergast — pendergast / gilded-age
- Wallace Beery — film / Hollywood actor
- Walt Bodine — postwar / modern
- Walt Disney — pendergast
- Walter Cronkite — journalism / broadcast news
- Walter Page — pendergast / jazz-era
- William F. Davis — gilded-age
- William Powell — film / Hollywood actor
- William Rockhill Nelson — gilded-age
- William Volker — gilded-age / pendergast
- Yordano Ventura — modern