2023 Historical Award for
Charles W. "Charlie" Walker
Kansas Business Hall of Fame - Historical List
2023 Charles W. "Charlie" Walker, Entrepreneur, Conservationist and Philanthropist
2022 Joseph and Louis Wenger, Innovators and Industrialists
2021 Junius George Groves, Agriculturalist, Community Builder
2020 Walter H. Beech, Industrialist, Aviation Pioneer
2019 Henry David Lee, Businessman, Entrepreneur, Innovator, Lee Jeans
2018 Robert M. Wright, Farmer, Stockman, Merchant and Public Servant
2017 A.B. 'Bob' Hudson, Businessman, Entrepreneur
2016 Georgia Neese Gray, Banking, Agriculture, and Public Service
2015 Jess Cornejo, Construction and Infrastructure
2014 William B. Strang, Railroad Builder
2013 Mark L. Morris Sr., Sr. Pioneer, Business Leader, and Philanthropist
2012 Dwane Wallace, Aviation Pioneer
2011 Joseph G. McCoy, Kansas Cattle Trade Pioneer
2010 George E. Powell, Sr., Business Innovator, Civic Leader and Philanthropist
2009 W. Frank Barton, Businessman and Philanthropist
2008 Fred Harvey, Restaurant Owner & Entrepreneur
2007 Walter Anderson and Edgar Waldo (E.W.) "Billy" Ingram, Businessmen, Restaurant Owners
2006 William Allen White, Businessman, Country Editor, and Author
2005 John J. Vanier, Grain and Milling, Cattleman, Rancher
2004 William Powell Lear, Aviation Pioneer and Inventor
2003 Clara and Russell Stover, Candy-Making and Sales
2002 Charles Quarles Chandler II, Banker, Philanthropist
2001 Cleyson L. "C. L." Brown, Utility and Telecommunications Pioneer
2000 Alva Lease Duckwall, Entrepreneur, Business Builder, and Civic Leader
1999 Lloyd Stearman, Aviation Pioneer, Aircraft Designer and Manufacturer
1998 Albert A. Hyde, Mentholatum Entrepreneur, Business Leader and Philanthropist
1997 Warren Bechtel, Construction Engineer and International Contractor
1996 Charles H. Hyer, Bootmaker Extraordinary and Civic Leader
1995 Kenneth A. Spencer, Innovator, Industrial Developer Philanthropist
1994 Thomas McNally, International Pioneer in Coal Processing Midwest Industrialist and Community Leader
1993 Ray Hugh Garvey, Entrepreneur Extraordinary, Agribusiness, Oil, Real Estate
1992 Fred C. Koch, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, World-renowned Chemical Engineer
1992 Clyde Cessna, Aviation Pioneer, Aircraft Designer, and Manufacturer
1991 Arthur Capper, Statesman, Publisher, and Benefactor of Handicapped Children
1991 Walter Chrysler, Automotive Genius, Business Strategist, Financier
1990 Dane G. Hansen, Entrepreneur, Business Leader, and Philanthropist
1990 William Coffin Coleman, Civic Leader, Industrialist, and Manufacturing Pioneer
1989 Bernhard Warkentin, Miller, Banker, and Importer and Promoter of Turkey Red Wheat
1989 Cyrus K. Holliday, Railroader and Promoter of Great Enterprises