Amelia Earhart
1897–1939 American aviation pioneer and author
Mary Peters Fieser
1909–1997 American chemist
Jesse Stone
1901–1999 American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter
Charles Lester Marlatt
1863–1954 American entomologist
Chester L. Mize
1917–1994 American politician
Georgia Caldwell Smith
1909–1961 One of the first African-American women to gain a bachelor's degree in mathematics
James Bennett Griffin
1905–1997 American archaeologist
Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf
1899–1989 American botanist
Laura M. Cobb
1892–1981 Chief Nurse United States Navy Nurse Corps
Rory Feek
born 1965 American musician
Carter Elliott
1893–1959 Major League Baseball shortstop
Ernie Jennings
born 1949 American football player
James Carroll Fox
1928–2019 United States federal judge
John L. Pollock
1940–2009 American philosopher
Ward Lockwood
1894–1963 American painter
Clark Stith
born 1961 American politician
Dolores Bacon
1870–1934 American writer and journalist
Edward K. Gaylord
1873–1974 Centenarian plus newspaper owner and publisher
William Benton Overstreet
1888–1935 American songwriter and pianist
Eugene S. Pulliam
1914–1999 American newspaper publisher
Jeff George
born 1957 American football defensive back
Mateel Howe Farnham
1883–1957 American novelist
Mike Haverty
born 1944 American railroad executive
Anna C. Goodheart Whittleton Howland
1871–1943 American artist
Bob Cunningham
born 1917 American actor and screenwriter
Edwin Stanton Earhart
1867–1930 28 May 1867 Atchison, Kansas - 23 Sep 1930 Los Angeles, California
Eldon Elder
1921–2000 American set designer
James D. Gwartney
1940–2024 Ph.D. University of Washington 1969
James F. Scott
1934–2019 American filmmaker and professor
James Milbank Challiss
1870–1937 American lawyer
Katy Yocom
American author
Marian Manley Winser
1892–1977 American librarian
Marlow C. Sholander
1915–1995 Ph.D. Brown University 1949
Mary Elizabeth Collett
1888–1969 American physiologist and university teacher
Ralph W. Pfouts
1920–2014 American economist
William Peyton Waggener
1870–1943 American lawyer
Also called Atchison home
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield
1843–1921 American theologian, minister and writer