The list of notable Kansans is growing. KLWN’S Jill Nado reports.

As part of the state’s 150th birthday celebration, historians and Governor Sam Brownback have developed the top 25 list of the most influential and popular Kansans ever. That list being released in groups of five….this week, it’s abolitionist John Brown, former U.S. Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, who served from 1978 to 1997; Fred Harvey, whose dining room at the Santa Fe Railway's Topeka depot grew into the Harvey House restaurant chain, Cyrus Holliday, an organizer of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and the man who invented basketball—James Naismith.