Infamous people and Fictional People from Kansas

Infamous persons

• Edward J. Adams, (1887-1921), bank robber and murderer, Hutchinson, Kansas.
• Mark Essex, (1949-1973), mass murderer, Emporia, Kansas.
• Jake and Ralph Fleagle, bank robbers and murderers, Marienthal, Kansas
• George Newcomb, (1866-1895), member of Bill Doolin's Wild Bunch, Fort Scott, Kansas.
• Dennis Rader, (born 1945), serial killer known as "BTK", Wichita, Kansas.

Fictional Persons

• Gray Anderson, mayor, Jericho, Kansas
• Dennis the Menace, (1951), neighborhood terror, Wichita, Kansas.
• Matt Dillon, (1949), Fictional marshall, Dodge City, Kansas.
• Samuel Dullard, character on Rocket Power, Hutchinson, Kansas
• Dorothy Gale, (1900), fictional Little Girl from Kansas who is transported to the Land of Oz by a tornado, with her dog Toto.
• Gil Hamilton, (c.2083), futuristic detective, Topeka, Kansas.
• Johnny Kaw, (1955), mythical Kansas settler, Manhattan, Kansas.
• Clark Kent, (1938), adopted child of Jonathan and Martha Kent of Smallville, Kansas, better known as Superman, born on Krypton.
• Colleen McMurphy, lead character from China Beach, from a "small town" in Kansas
• Jack B. Quick, (1999), boy genious, Queerwater Creek, Kansas.
• Amanda Rogers, (born 2351), fictional character on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Topeka, Kansas.

Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Kansas