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Graduate Schools /
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Distinguished alumni |
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- William H. Avery, Governor, State of Kansas in the 1960s.
- Brian Barker, Judge and
Queen's Counsel in England
- Etta Moten Barnett, Actress and singer
- Linda Z. Cook, CEO of Shell Gas and Power, part of Royal Dutch/Shell, named the 11th most powerful businesswoman in the
world by Fortune magazine in 2002.
- Richard Davis, Chairman and Founder of K.C. Masterpiece Barbecue
Products Inc
- Bob Dole, US Senator from Kansas and Republican nominee for President in the
1996 election. Attended KU from 1941-1943. World War II Hero.
- Bob Dotson, NBC TV features
reporter
- Robert Eaton, Former Chrysler CEO
- Joe Engle, (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut
- Kevin Helliker, 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner for explanatory
journalism and Chicago bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal
- William Inge, Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning
author/playwright
- Don Johnson, Actor, Attended KU from 1968-1970
- Nancy Kassebaum Baker, US Senator from Kansas
- Robert Kleist, CEO and
Founder of a global company, Printronix that has developed printers that offer languages to support its worldwide user base.
- Neil LaBute, Film director, screenwriter and playwright
- Billy Mills, First American to win Gold medal in the 10,000 m run at the
1964 Tokyo Olympic Games
- Sara Paretsky, Writer
- Paul Rudd, Actor
- Jim Ryun, US athlete and politician
- Gale Sayers, NFL Hall of Famer 1977
- Vernon L. Smith, Winner of Nobel Prize for Economics, 2002
- William Stafford, Poet and pacifist
- Dee Wallace Stone, Actress
- Clyde Tombaugh, Astronomer, Discoverer of Planet Pluto
(1906-1997)
- Danny Manning, Basketball player and coach
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| In the 1905 college football season, 18 men were killed and 159 more permanently injured during regular U.S. collegiate football games. The NCAA was subsequently formed to establish rules and require protective equipment. |
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