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Contemporary Notables of the name Killian (post 1700) +

  • Kevin Killian (1952-2019), American poet, author, and playwright, winner of the American Book Award for poetry in 2009
  • Albert H. "Al" Killian (1916-1950), American jazz trumpet player and bandleader during the big band era
  • Dan Arnold Killian (1880-1953), American head football coach at Louisiana State University from 1904 to 1906
  • Robert K. Killian (1919-2005), American politician from the state of Connecticut
  • George E. Killian (b. 1924), American sports administrator, president of the International University Sports Federation (FISU)
  • Edwin Henry "Ed" Killian (1876-1928), American Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1903 to 1910
  • John Killian, American politician, Member of North Carolina House of Commons from Lincoln County, 1838-41 2
  • J. Yates Killian, American Republican politician, Member of North Carolina State House of Representatives from Catawba County, 1915-16; alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, 1916 3
  • Frederick Killian, American politician, Member of New York State Assembly from New York County 15th District, 1872 3
  • ... (Another 12 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 6) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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