Public Figures- Military, National Security and Religion from Kansas

Military and national security

• Stanley T. Adams, (1922-1999), Korean War Medal of Honor winner, DeSoto, Kansas.
• Wilbur Bestwick, (1911-1972), first Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sabetha, Kansas
• Richard Cowan, (1922-1944), WWII Medal of Honor winner, Wichita, Kansas.
• Rebecca L. Ediger, (born 1952), agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division of U.S. Secret Service, born in Newton, Kansas and raised in Peabody, Kansas.
• Frederick N. Funston, (1865-1917), Major General, Medal of Honor-winner, Iola, Kansas.
• Duane D. Thiessen, (born 1951), Major General, USMC, Goessel, Kansas.

Religion

• Ron Kenoly, (born 1944), musical worship leader, Coffeyville, Kansas.
• Fred Phelps, (born 1929), Westboro Baptist Church, Topeka, Kansas.
• James Reeb, (1927-1965), Unitarian minister beaten to death by segregationists in Selma, Alabama, during the Civil Rights Movement, Wichita, Kansas.
• Michael Jarboe Sheehan, (born 1939), Archbishop of Santa Fe, Wichita, Kansas.
• Gerald B. Winrod, (1900-1957), evangelical Christian and Nazi sympathizer, Wichita, Kansas.

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