Editing Lyon County, Kansas (section)

==Notable people==
{{See also|List of people from Lyon County, Kansas}}

[[R. Lee Ermey]] was born in Emporia on March 24, 1944, and died on April 15, 2018. He was a retired [[United States Marine Corps]] [[Gunnery Sergeant]], [[Drill Instructor]] and actor. Ermey was often best known for his roles of authority figures, such as his breakout performance as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', Mayor Tilman in the [[Alan Parker]] film ''[[Mississippi Burning]]'', [[Bill Bowerman]] in ''[[Prefontaine (film)|Prefontaine]]'', [[Sheriff Hoyt]] in ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film)|The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' remake, and [[Army men|plastic army men]] leader [[List of Toy Story characters|Sarge]] in the ''[[Toy Story]]'' films.

[[Homer Woodson Hargiss]] was an innovative [[college football]] coach who regularly used the [[forward pass]] and records show that it was used as early as 1910, three years before [[Knute Rockne]] began to call the play. He was head coach at both the [[College of Emporia Presbies|College of Emporia]] and [[Emporia State Hornets football|Emporia State]].<ref>[http://www.oberheide.org/hargiss/Forward%20Pass/547/Emporia%20Gazette.htm Emporia Gazette, 1910 Forward Pass]</ref><ref>[http://www.oberheide.org/hargiss/Forward%20Pass/First%20use%20forward%20pass.htm Definitive use of forward pass and the option pass in 1910 by Bill Hargiss<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>  He is also credited with inventing the [[huddle]].<ref>http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv11/CFHSNv11n2c.pdf#2 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506071710/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv11/CFHSNv11n2c.pdf#2 |date=May 6, 2011 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

[[Jerry Kill]] was the head football coach for the [[Minnesota Golden Gophers football|Minnesota Golden Gophers]]. He has over 100 wins in his career as a head coach, having worked as a head coach through several institutions at the college level.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=2781|publisher=[[College Football Data Warehouse]]|title=Jerry Kill Records by Year (Jerry Kill)|access-date=March 30, 2012|first=David|last=DeLassus|archive-date=September 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929082417/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=2781|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Dean Smith]] is a retired American [[Coach (basketball)|head coach]] of men's [[college basketball]]. Originally from [[Emporia, Kansas|Emporia]], [[Kansas]], Smith has been called a “coaching legend” by the [[Basketball Hall of Fame]]. Smith is best known for his successful 36-year coaching tenure at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired as the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Division I (NCAA)|Division I]] men's basketball record-holder for victories (879), a record which was surpassed by [[Bob Knight]] in 2007, [[Mike Krzyzewski]] in 2011, and [[Jim Boeheim]] in 2012.<ref name="ncaastats">{{cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.org/stats/m_basketball/coaching/index.html |title=NCAA stats |work=NCAA |publisher=NCAA |access-date=February 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008164146/http://www.ncaa.org/stats/m_basketball/coaching/index.html |archive-date=October 8, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> During his tenure as head coach of North Carolina, the team won two national titles and appeared in 11 [[Final Four]]s.<ref name="DSbio">{{cite web|url=http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-dean-smith.html|title=Dean Smith Biography|work=Hall of Famers|publisher=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Inc.|access-date=October 29, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070505133017/http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-dean-smith.html |archive-date = May 5, 2007}}</ref>

[[William Allen White]] was a renowned American [[newspaper editor]], politician, author, and leader of the [[Progressive movement]]. Between 1896 and his death White became the iconic spokesman for [[Middle America (United States)|middle America]]. He won a [[1923 Pulitzer Prize]] for his editorial "To an Anxious Friend," published July 27, 1922, after being arrested in a dispute over free speech following objections to the way the state of Kansas handled the men who participated in the [[Great Railroad Strike of 1922]].

[[Maud Wagner]] was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States. She was a circus performer and traveled with her husband as both tattoo artists and as "tattooed attractions."