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==Notable people== * [[Barbara Babcock]], actress born in Fort Riley<ref name="TCM Babcock ">{{cite web |title=Barbara Babcock |website=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/7608 |access-date=September 14, 2024}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> * [[Frank Buckles]], last surviving American World War One veteran that was stationed at Fort Riley before getting deployed to Europe<ref name="Sommers 2011">{{cite web |last1=Sommers |first1=Richard |last2=Hyatt |first2=Clifton |title=The Last Soldiers -- The Lasting Soldiers |website=US Army|date=March 14, 2011 |url=https://www.army.mil/article/53210/the_last_soldiers_the_lasting_soldiers |access-date=September 16, 2024}}</ref> * [[Enos Cabell]], former [[third baseman]] and [[first baseman]] in [[Major League Baseball]], played for the [[Baltimore Orioles]], [[Houston Astros]], [[San Francisco Giants]], [[Detroit Tigers]], and the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] was born in Fort Riley<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=cabelen01|title=Enos Cabel Stats|publisher=Baseball Almanac|access-date=December 3, 2012|archive-date=May 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509224245/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=cabelen01|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[George Armstrong Custer|George A. Custer]], Army General that was once stationed at Fort Riley<ref name="History" /> * [[Johnny Damon]], professional baseball player born in Fort Riley<ref name="Damon MLB">{{cite web |title=Johnny Damon |website=MLB |url=https://www.milb.com/player/johnny-damon-113028 |access-date=September 16, 2024}}</ref> * [[Chris Faust]], landscape photographer<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.chrisfaustphoto.com/about/resume.html|title= Resumé - Christopher C. Faust|author= Chris Faust|publisher= chrisfaustphoto.com|access-date= September 11, 2013|archive-date= August 27, 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130827153758/http://chrisfaustphoto.com/about/resume.html|url-status= live}}</ref> * [[Wallace Ford]], Hollywood actor, was stationed at the Fort during World War I<ref name="Magers">{{cite web|url=http://www.westernclippings.com/heavies/wallaceford_charactersheavies.shtml|title=Characters and Heavies: Wallace Ford|author=Boyd Magers|access-date=April 6, 2017}}</ref> * [[Clara Lanza]], author born in Fort Riley<ref name="Willard">{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances E. |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary A. |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred Women in All Walks of Life |date=1893 |publisher=Charles Wells Moulton |page=531 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Marquise_Clara_Lanza}}</ref> * [[Timothy McVeigh]], perpetrator of the 1995 [[Oklahoma City bombing]] was once stationed at Fort Riley<ref name="CNN 2001">{{cite web |title=Timothy McVeigh |url=https://www.cnn.com/2001/US/03/29/profile.mcveigh/ |website=CNN |access-date=September 16, 2024 |date=March 29, 2001 |archive-date=September 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916102425/https://www.cnn.com/2001/US/03/29/profile.mcveigh/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[1974 White House helicopter incident|Robert K. Preston]], stole a helicopter and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House in 1974 and was once stationed at Fort Riley<ref>{{cite news|date=October 24, 1974|title=Robert Preston|page=26|newspaper=[[Kentucky New Era]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19741023&id=V_ErAAAAIBAJ&pg=5713,5801865|access-date=March 1, 2014|via=[[Google News]]|archive-date=May 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528084234/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19741023&id=V_ErAAAAIBAJ&pg=5713,5801865|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[Daisy Maude Orleman Robinson]], World War I doctor, first woman dermatologist in the United States was born in Fort Riley<ref name="Pariser">{{cite journal |vauthors=Pariser DM |title=Daisy Maude Orleman Robinson: the first American woman dermatologist |journal=[[Clinics in Dermatology]] |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=396–406 |date=2015 |pmid=25889142 |doi=10.1016/j.clindermatol.2014.10.018 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738081X14002466 |access-date=September 18, 2024 |archive-date=September 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240918165611/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738081X14002466 |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Jackie Robinson]], first African-American to play in Major League Baseball, former [[second baseman]] for the [[History of the Brooklyn Dodgers|Brooklyn Dodgers]] was once stationed at the Fort<ref name="2LT">{{cite web|title=United States v. 2LT Jack R. Robinson|publisher=The National WWII Museum|date=February 5, 2021|url=https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/united-states-v-jack-r-robinson|access-date=July 29, 2021|archive-date=November 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114041016/https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/united-states-v-jack-r-robinson|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[John A. Seitz]], U.S. Army general is buried in the Fort Riley Cemetery<ref name="Stairrett 2013">{{cite web |last=Stairrett |first=Amanda |title='Soldier for life' laid to rest on Fort Riley |website=US Army |date=July 30, 2013 |url=https://www.army.mil/article/108073/soldier_for_life_laid_to_rest_on_fort_riley |access-date=September 16, 2024 |archive-date=September 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916103819/https://www.army.mil/article/108073/soldier_for_life_laid_to_rest_on_fort_riley |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Dave Wallace (Arkansas politician)|Dave Wallace]], member of the [[Arkansas House of Representatives]] for [[Mississippi County, Arkansas|Mississippi County]]; decorated Army veteran of the [[Vietnam War]]; formerly stationed at Fort Riley<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/150294/dave-wallace#.VSQTcfnF-S8|title=Dave Wallace's Biography|publisher=[[Vote Smart|Project Vote Smart]]|access-date=April 7, 2015|archive-date=April 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413125649/http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/150294/dave-wallace#.VSQTcfnF-S8|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[Pi'erre Bourne]], rapper, singer and record producer born in Fort Riley<ref name="Shaughnessy 2022">{{cite web |last=Shaughnessy |first=Cate |title=Atlanta Made: Pi'erre Bourne's Rise to Popularity |website=The Warrior Wire |date=September 3, 2022 |url=https://www.thewarriorwire.org/10950/ae/atlanta-made-pierre-bournes-rise-to-popularity/ |access-date=September 21, 2024 |archive-date=September 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921024414/https://www.thewarriorwire.org/10950/ae/atlanta-made-pierre-bournes-rise-to-popularity/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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