Previous Distinguished Kansans
(Names in Blue, link to additional content)
2019 - Nicolle Galyon - Nashville, TN
2016 - No Award Given
2015 - Dr. Jerry Farley, Topeka
2014 - Harry Walter Colmery, Braddock, PA
2014 - Juan Sepulveda, Topeka
2013 - Steve Doocy, New York
2012 - No Award Given
2011 - No Award Given
2010 - Shelia C. Bair, Potamac, MD
2009 - No Award Given
2007 - Marc Addason Asher, M.D., Leawood
2006 - Dr. Richard Bergen, Salina
2005 - Marci Penner, Inman
2004 - Emery E. Fager, Topeka
2003 - Ruth Garvey Fink, Topeka
2002 - General Richard Myers, Arlington, VA
2001 - George Brett, Mission Hills
2000 - Jon Wefald, Manhattan
1999 - Pat Roberts, Dodge City
1998 - Bill Snyder, Manhattan
1997 - Elizabeth Farnsworth, Berkeley, CA
1997 - Roy Williams, Lawrence
1993 - Donald C. Coldsmith, Emporia
1992 - Patricia Brooks Carey, Hutchinson
1991 - Ewing Kauffman, Shawnee Mission
1990 - Jim Lehrer, Washington D.C.
1989 - Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton, Wellsville
1988 - General Larry D. Welch, Liberal
1987 - Wayne D. Angell, Ottawa
1985 - Richard D. Rogers, Topeka
1983 - Zula Bennington Greene, Topeka
1983 - Bil Curtis, Chicago, IL
1982 - Bradbury Thompson, Riverside, CT
1981 - Georgia Neese Gray, Topeka
1980 - Robert B. Docking, Arkansas City
1979 - George M. Stafford, Valley Falls
1978 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Maize
1977 - James A. McCain, Topeka
1972 - Henry A. Bubb, Topeka
1971 - Ronald E. Evans, Topeka
1969 - Alfred M. Landon, Topeka