List of Kansas State University people
The following is a list of notable people associated with Kansas State University, whose main campus is located in the American city of Manhattan, Kansas. University presidents The following men have served as President of Kansas State University: Joseph Denison, 1863–1873 John Anderson, 1873–1879 George Fairchild, 1879–1897 Thomas Elmer Will, 1897–1899 Ernest Reuben Nichols, 1899–1909 Henry J. Waters, 1909–1917 William Jardine, 1918–1925 Francis D. Farrell, 1925–1943 Milton Eisenhower, 1943–1950+ James A. McCain, 1950–1975 Duane C. Acker, 1975–1986 Jon Wefald, 1986–2009 Kirk Schulz, 2009–2016 Richard Myers, 2016–2022+ Richard Linton, 2022–Present +Kansas State alumnus Alumni Academia Anna Estelle Arnold (1879–1942) – school teacher, administrator, textbook publisher Erle Bartley – professor (1949–1983); developed widely used preventative for ruminal tympany (ruminant bloat) May Louise Cowles – researcher and nationwide advocate of home economics study Kenneth S. Davis – historian, professor, nominated for National Book Award Milton S. Eisenhower – former president of Kansas State, Penn State, and Johns Hopkins universities; brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower Louis Edwin Fry Sr. (1903–2000) (B.S. 1927, M.S. 1929), American architect, professor; former chair of the department of architecture at Howard University Leon Quincy Jackson (1926/1927–1995) (M.S. 1954), American architect, professor at Tennessee State University, and an early African