List of people from Missouri

The following are people who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in Missouri.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Art and literature

  • Helen Andelin (born 1920), author of Fascinating Womanhood
  • Maya Angelou (1928–2014), author and poet
  • Thomas P. Barnett (1870–1929), architect and impressionist painter
  • Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), painter
  • George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), artist (born in Virginia but moved to central Missouri)
  • Edward McKendree Bounds (1835–1913), author and theologian
  • Mark Bowden (born 1951), author, journalist
  • William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), author
  • Kate Chopin (1851–1904), author (The Awakening) and early feminist
  • Lester Dent (1904–1959), author of Doc Savage novels
  • Suzette Haden Elgin (1936–2015), science-fiction author and linguist
  • T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), poet, dramatist and literary critic
  • Mary Engelbreit (born 1952), graphic artist, children's book illustrator
  • Michael Evans (1944–2005), photographer
  • Eugene Field (1850–1895), writer and poet
  • Gillian Flynn (born 1971), novelist, television critic
  • Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998), novelist, travel writer and journalist
  • William Least Heat-Moon (born 1939), author
  • Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), science fiction author
  • Frederick Hibbard (1881–1950), sculptor known for his works of famous 19th century figures
  • Langston Hughes (1902–1967), African-American poet, novelist and playwright
  • William W. Johnstone (1938–2004), author of western, horror and survivalist novels
  • Donald Judd (1928–1994), artist
  • Jim Lee (born 1964), comic book artist and writer
  • David Limbaugh (born 1952), columnist, author, political commentator
  • Bernarr Macfadden (1868–1955), founder of Macfadden Publications, bodybuilding advocate
  • Dennis L. McKiernan (born 1932), author
  • Marianne Moore (1887–1972), poet and writer
  • Archie Musick (1902–1978), painter and illustrator, associated with the Regionalist movement
  • John R. Musick (1849–1901), author and poet, known for the Columbian Historical novels
  • Ruth Ann Musick (1897–1974), author and folklorist
  • H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962), author, theologian
  • Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971), author, theologian, political commentator
  • John Ross (born 1957), author
  • Charles Marion Russell (1864–1926), artist
  • Clay Shirky (born 1964), writer, consultant, lecturer, author of Here Comes Everybody
  • Kimora Lee Simmons, fashion model, author, actress
  • Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), poet
  • Kay Thompson (1909–1998), creator of Eloise children's books
  • Mark Twain (1835–1910), born Samuel Clemens, humorist, writer and lecturer
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), writer and author of the Little House series
  • Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), playwright (born in Mississippi, grew up in St. Louis)
  • Daniel Woodrell (born 1953), author of crime fiction

Athletics

Auto racing

Baseball

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Basketball

Football

Golf

  • Amy Alcott (born 1956), professional golfer, member of World Golf Hall of Fame
  • Brandel Chamblee (born 1962), golfer
  • Tom Pernice, Jr. (born 1959), PGA Tour member
  • Judy Rankin (born 1945), professional golfer, member of World Golf Hall of Fame
  • Payne Stewart (1957–1999), golfer
  • Tom Watson (born 1949), Hall of Fame golfer, 8-time PGA Tour major champion

Ice hockey

Professional wrestling

  • Freddie Blassie (1918–2003), wrestler and manager
  • "Bulldog" Bob Brown (1938–1997), wrestler and booker
  • Bob Geigel (born 1924), retired wrestler, promoter, and former NWA President
  • Glenn Jacobs (born 1967), ring name "Kane"; also an actor
  • Rufus R. Jones (1933–1993), NWA wrestler and businessman
  • Matthew Korklan (born 1983), ring names "Matt Sydal" and "Evan Bourne"
  • Sam Muchnick (1905–1998), founder of St. Louis Wrestling Club and co-founder of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
  • Trevor Murdoch (born 1978), WWE tag team champion
  • Matt Murphy (born 1979), wrestler and author
  • Barry Orton, wrestler
  • "Cowboy" Bob Orton (born 1950), wrestler and member of WWE Hall of Fame; father of Randy Orton
  • Randy Orton (born 1980), third-generation pro wrestler
  • Harley Race (born 1943), 8-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion; member of the WWE Hall of Fame, Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Lou Thesz (1916–2002), superstar of professional wrestling's "Golden Age"

Miscellaneous sports

  • Virgil Akins (1928–2011), welterweight boxing champion
  • Devon Alexander (born 1987), boxer, WBC and IBF Light Welterweight champion
  • Henry Armstrong (1912–1988), boxer, (born in Mississippi but grew up in St. Louis)
  • Butch Buchholz (born 1940), Hall of Fame tennis player
  • Christian Cantwell (born 1980), Olympian, world champion shot putter
  • Kim Chizevsky-Nicholls (born 1968), IFBB pro bodybuilder
  • Dwight F. Davis (1879–1945), tennis player, founder of the Davis Cup
  • Doris Hart (born 1925), Hall of Fame tennis player, winner of six Grand Slam singles titles
  • Bud Houser (1901–1994), three-time Olympic gold medalist in shotput and discus
  • Jack Jewsbury (born 1981), Major League Soccer player (Portland Timbers)
  • Ben A. Jones (1882–1961), Thoroughbred horse trainer
  • Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones (1906–2001), Thoroughbred horse trainer
  • Lesa Lewis (born 1967), IFBB professional bodybuilder
  • Conn McCreary (1921–1979), Hall of Fame jockey, winner of 1944 and 1951 Kentucky Derby
  • Chuck McKinley (1941–1986), Hall of Fame tennis player, 1963 Wimbledon champion
  • Helen Stephens (1918–1994), two-time gold medalist in track and field at 1936 Summer Olympics
  • Alex White (born 1988), mixed martial artist

Aviation and aerospace

  • Thomas Akers (born 1953), retired NASA astronaut; made four space shuttle flights
  • Jimmie Angel (1899–1956), discoverer and namesake of Angel Falls in Venezuela, the world's tallest waterfall
  • Melville W. Beardsley (1913–1998), aeronautical engineer who helped create the Hovercraft
  • Janet Kavandi (born 1959), scientist and NASA astronaut on three Space Shuttle missions
  • Bill Lear (1902–1978), founder of Lear Jet
  • Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), aviator first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, (born in Detroit, Michigan but lived in St. Louis)
  • James Smith McDonnell (1899–1980), founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (later McDonnell Douglas), philanthropist

Business

  • Roger E. Billings (born 1948), businessman and scientist; known for his pioneering work on hydrogen energy technologies
  • William Henry Ashley (1778–1838), founder of Rocky Mountain Fur Company, politician
  • Henry W. Bloch (born 1922), co-founder of H&R Block tax services
  • Richard Bloch (1926–2004), co-founder of H&R Block tax services
  • Adolphus Busch (1839–1913), founder of Anheuser-Busch (the world's largest brewer)
  • William H. Danforth (1870–1955), founder of Ralston Purina Company
  • John Doerr (born 1951), venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  • James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887), civil engineer and inventor
  • Charles Eames (1907–1978), designer and architect
  • David Glass (born 1935), former President and CEO of Wal-Mart, owner of Kansas City Royals baseball team
  • Joyce Hall (1891–1982), founder of Hallmark Cards
  • William Preston Hall (1864–1932), circus empresario and animal broker
  • Howard R. Hughes, Sr. (1869–1924), oil drill bit and tool inventor; father of Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire
  • George M. Keller (1923–2008), chairman of Standard Oil Company of California in the 1980s
  • R. Crosby Kemper Jr. (born 1927), chairman emeritus UMB Financial Corporation, philanthropist
  • William Thornton Kemper, Sr. (1866–1938), patriarch of Kemper family railroad and banking empire which included Commerce Bancshares and United Missouri Bank
  • Ewing Kauffman (1916–1993), pharmaceutical magnate, philanthropist and founder of the Kansas City Royals baseball team
  • Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche (born 1954), former head of Enron International
  • N. O. Nelson (1844–1922), founder of the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company
  • Thomas F. O'Neil, chairman of RKO General studios, brought movies to television
  • J. C. Penney (1875–1971), businessman and entrepreneur
  • Rex Sinquefield (born 1944), financial executive who created Standard & Poor's first index fund, supporter of conservative political causes
  • John Sperling (1921–2014), businessman and founder of the University of Phoenix
  • Gerard Swope (1872–1957), president of General Electric
  • Jack C. Taylor (born 1923), founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, billionaire philanthropist
  • Sam Walton (1918–1992), founder of Wal-Mart
  • Robert E. Wood (1879–1969), vice-president of Sears Roebuck
  • Peter Youree (1843–1914), businessman in Shreveport, Louisiana; built first skyscraper there

Criminals and outlaws

  • Anthony Brancato (1913–1951), freelance mafia gunman, half of "The Two Tonys" portrayed in the movie LA Confidential
  • Ray and Faye Copeland (1914–1993, 1921–2003), serial killers, oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States
  • Egan's Rats, early crime family in St. Louis
    • Leo Vincent Brothers (1899–1950), low-level member; later moved to Chicago and became part of Al Capone's organization
    • Fred Burke (1893–1940), gunman for Egan's Rats; suspected of participating in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
    • William "Dint" Colbeck (1890–1943), assumed leadership of Egan's Rats after the assassination of Willie Egan
    • Walter Costello (1889–1917), bodyguard to Willie Egan, killer of Harry Dunn
    • Harry "Cherries" Dunn (1892–1916)
    • Thomas Egan (1874–1919), organizer of Egan's Rats
    • Willie Egan (1884–1921), brother and right-hand man of gang founder Tom Egan; led the gang after Tom's death
    • Max Greenberg (1883–1933), one of the few Jewish members of the mostly Irish Egan gang; associate/friend of Meyer Lansky
    • Frank Hackethal (1891–1954), robber and resort owner/money launderer for Egan's Rats
    • Thomas "Snake" Kinney (1868–1912), Missouri State Senator and co-founder of Egan's Rats
    • David "Chippy" Robinson (1897–1967), bank robber and enforcer for Egan's Rats
    • William "Skippy" Rohan (1871–1916)
  • Roy Gardner (1884–1940), arms smuggler and notorious 1920s bank robber
  • Tom Horn (1860–1903), Old West lawman, army scout, outlaw and assassin
  • Kansas City crime family
    • Charles Binaggio (1909–1950), killed along with Charles Gargotta at the First Ward Democratic Club in downtown Kansas City
    • Anthony Brancato (1913–1951)
    • William "Willie Rat" Cammisano (1914–1995), enforcer for the K.C. mob
    • Charles Carrollo (1902–1979), led the Kansas City mob after Johnny Lazia's assassination
    • Anthony Civella (1930–2006), led the K.C. crime family in the 1980s and 1990s; son of Carl Civella and nephew of Nicholas Civella
    • Carl "Cork" Civella (1910–1994), brother of Nicholas Civella and a top lieutenant in the crime family; father of Anthony Civella
    • Nicholas Civella (1912–1983), led the Kansas City crime family from the 1950s through the 1970s
    • Carl "Tuffy" DeLuna (1927–2008), underboss of the Kansas City crime family; brother-in-law of Anthony Civella
    • Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd (1904–1934), took part in the Union Station Massacre
    • Charles "Mad Dog" Gargotta (1900–1950), top enforcer of the KC crime family
    • Anthony Gizzo (1902–1953), led Kansas City crime family in the early 1950s
    • John Lazia (1896–1934), leader of the Kansas City crime family in the 1920s and early 1930s
  • Kenneth Lay (1942–2006), chairman and CEO of Enron, convicted of securities fraud
  • Little Britches (1879 – year of death unknown), female bandit associated with Cattle Annie and the Doolin gang
  • James Earl Ray (1928–1998), assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King; escapee from the Missouri State Penitentiary
  • James-Younger Gang:
    • Frank James (1843–1915), outlaw
    • Jesse James (1847–1882), outlaw
    • Cole Younger (1844–1916), outlaw
    • John Younger, outlaw
    • Bob Younger, outlaw
    • Jim Younger, outlaw
    • Bob Ford, outlaw who gunned down Jesse James
  • Tom Pendergast (1873–1945), long-time political boss of Kansas City and western Missouri; responsible for the political rise of Harry S. Truman Imprisoned for tax evasion
  • St. Louis crime family
    • Anthony Giordano (1914–1980), leader of the St. Louis crime family in the 1960s and 1970s
    • Matthew Trupiano (1938–1997), nephew of Anthony Giordano, crime family boss in the 1980s
    • John Vitale (1909–1982), crime family boss in the early 1980s
  • Belle Starr (1848–1889), female outlaw of the Old West

Entertainment

Film, television and theater

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Comedians

  • Cedric The Entertainer (born 1964), actor, comedian
  • Redd Foxx (1922–1991), comedian, starred in Sanford and Son
  • Dick Gregory (born 1932), comedian, social activist
  • Craig Kilborn (born 1962), comedian, actor, former talk show host
  • Kathleen Madigan (born 1965), comedienne
  • Kevin Nealon (born 1953), actor, comedian
  • Randy and Jason Sklar (born 1972), identical twin comedians, hosts of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats
  • Guy Torry (born 1969), actor, comedian
  • Joe Torry (born 1965), actor, comedian

Cartoonists

  • Ralph Barton (1891–1931), cartoonist
  • George Booth (born 1926), cartoonist for The New Yorker
  • Teresa Burritt (born 1916), cartoonist, Frog Applause, Shoecabbage
  • Lee Falk (1911–1999), cartoonist, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician
  • Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003), caricaturist and cartoonist known for drawing celebrities
  • Fred Lasswell (1916–2001), cartoonist, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
  • Glenn McCoy (born 1965), cartoonist, The Duplex, The Flying McCoys
  • George McManus (1884–1954), cartoonist, Maggie and Jiggs
  • Mike Peters (born 1943), cartoonist, Mother Goose & Grimm
  • Dan Piraro (born 1958), cartoonist, Bizarro
  • Mort Walker (born 1923-2018), cartoonist, Beetle Bailey

Magicians and mentalists

  • Morgan Strebler (born 1976), magician and mentalist; Las Vegas award-winning performer

Music

Bluegrass and country

  • Lennie Aleshire (1890–1987), country-bluegrass pioneer and vaudeville act
  • Helen Cornelius (born 1941), country singer best known for duets with Jim Ed Brown
  • Rusty Draper (1923–2003), country and rockabilly singer/guitarist
  • Sara Evans (born 1971), country music star
  • Tyler Farr, country music singer and songwriter
  • Bob Ferguson (music) (1927–2001), country music songwriter and producer
  • John Hartford (1937–2001), country and bluegrass music composer and performer
  • Ferlin Husky (1925–2011), singer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame
  • Brett James, country music singer-songwriter and record producer
  • The Kendalls, Grammy-winning country duo from the 1970s and 1980s
  • Tom Shapiro, country music songwriter and record producer
  • Tate Stevens, country music singer and 2012 winner of The X Factor
  • Wynn Stewart (1934–1985), country music singer, progenitor of the Bakersfield sound
  • Jamie Teachenor (born 1980), country and rock singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
  • Trent Tomlinson (born 1975), country singer-songwriter
  • Leroy Van Dyke (born 1929), country singer best known for "The Auctioneer" and "Walk on By"
  • Darrin Vincent (born 1970), half of the Grammy-nominated bluegrass group Dailey & Vincent; record producer
  • Rhonda Vincent (born 1962), bluegrass singer and musician, seven-time IMBA Female Vocalist of the Year
  • Porter Wagoner (1927–2007), Grand Ole Opry member and Country Music Hall of Famer

Jazz

  • Oleta Adams (born 1953), soul, jazz and gospel singer
  • Ahmad Alaadeen (born 1934), jazz saxophonist and composer
  • Norman Brown (born 1970), smooth jazz musician
  • Jimmy Forrest (1920–1980), jazz tenor saxophonist
  • Coleman Hawkins (1904–1969), jazz tenor saxophonist
  • Bob James (born 1939), smooth jazz musician
  • Scott Joplin (1867–1917), ragtime musician and composer
  • Pat Metheny (born 1954), jazz guitarist and musician
  • Lennie Niehaus (born 1929), alto saxophonist, arranger, and composer
  • Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920–1955), jazz saxophonist and composer
  • David Sanborn (born 1945), smooth jazz musician
  • Wilbur Sweatman (1882–1961), Dixieland jazz and ragtime composer and bandleader
  • Clark Terry (1920–2015), swing and bebop trumpet and flugelhorn player

Rhythm & blues, pop, rap and hip-hop

Rock & roll

  • Chuck Berry (born 1926), musician in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
  • The Bottle Rockets (formed 1992), rock, alt-country, roots rock
  • T Bone Burnett (born 1948), musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer
  • Cavo, hard rock band (formed in St. Louis)
  • David Cook (born 1982), 2008 American Idol winner from Blue Springs
  • Sheryl Crow (born 1962), Grammy-winning singer-songwriter
  • Gravity Kills, industrial rock band, formed in Jefferson City
  • Johnnie Johnson (1924–2005), early rock & roll and blues piano player; member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
  • King's X, hard rock, progressive metal band, formed in Springfield
  • Michael McDonald (born 1952), singer, former Doobie Brothers frontman
  • Missouri, band known for classic rock song "Movin' On", formed in Kansas City
  • Ozark Mountain Daredevils, rock band known for hits "Jackie Blue" and "If You Wanna Get To Heaven", formed in Springfield
  • Louise Post, founder, lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band Veruca Salt
  • Puddle of Mudd, rock band, formed in Kansas City
  • The Rainmakers, rock band, formed in Kansas City
  • Jay Reatard (1980–2010), garage punk musician, born in Lilbourn
  • Wes Scantlin (born 1972), lead singer and guitarist of post-grunge band Puddle of Mudd
  • Shooting Star, 1970s and 1980s rock band, from Kansas City
  • Story of the Year, emo rock band, formed in St. Louis
  • The Urge, rock band, formed in St. Louis
  • Bob Walkenhorst, founder and lead singer of alternative rock band The Rainmakers
  • Steve Walsh (born 1951), lead vocalist, songwriter and keyboardist for the progressive rock group Kansas and Streets

Miscellaneous other music

  • Doris Akers (1923–1995), gospel music singer and composer
  • Martha Bass (1921–1998), gospel singer with the Clara Ward Singers and solo career
  • Burt Bacharach (born 1928), pianist, composer
  • Neal E. Boyd (born 1975), opera vocalist, winner of 2008 America's Got Talent competition
  • Grace Bumbry (born 1937), opera soprano
  • Sarah Caldwell (1924–2006), opera conductor
  • Sara Groves (born 1972), Contemporary Christian singer, record producer, and author
  • Dan Landrum (born 1961), hammer dulcimer player, featured instrumentalist with Yanni
  • Basil Poledouris (1945–2006), film soundtrack composer
  • H. Owen Reed (born 1910), composer and conductor
  • Willie Mae Ford Smith (1904–1994), Gospel singer

Radio and television

  • Bob Barker (born 1923), television game show host
  • Jim Bohannon (born 1944), radio talk show host
  • Rush Limbaugh (born 1951), political commentator
  • Dana Loesch (born 1978), radio talk show host and editor-in-chief of Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism
  • Melanie Morgan (born 1956), radio personality with KSFO in San Francisco
  • "Mancow" Muller (born 1966), radio and TV personality, Mancow's Morning Madhouse
  • Marlin Perkins (1905–1986), zoologist and host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
  • April Scott (born 1979), model, Deal or No Deal and SOAPnet's Soap Talk

Beauty pageant titleholders

Journalism

  • Jabari Asim (born 1962), author, journalist
  • Joe Buck (born 1969), sportscaster for Fox Sports
  • Harry Caray (1914–1998), Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster
  • Walter Cronkite (1916–2009), television journalist
  • Walker Evans (1903–1975), photojournalist best known for photos taken during the Great Depression
  • Joe Garagiola, Sr. (born 1926), MLB catcher, baseball broadcaster, and television host (The Today Show)
  • Dave Garroway (1913–1982), first host of NBC's Today show
  • Michael Kim (born 1964), sports broadcaster for ESPN
  • Carol Platt Liebau, attorney, political analyst and social conservative commentator
  • Mary Margaret McBride (1899–1976), female radio pioneer
  • Dan McLaughlin (born 1974), sportscaster for Fox Sports Midwest
  • Russ Mitchell (born 1960), TV journalist, CBS Evening News
  • Lisa Myers (born 1951), TV journalist, NBC Nightly News
  • Stone Phillips (born 1954), TV journalist, Dateline NBC
  • Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), Hungarian journalist, creator of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Pulitzer Prize
  • Howard Rushmore (1913–1958), journalist for The Daily Worker, New York Journal-American and Confidential magazine

Military

  • William T. Anderson (1838–1864), a.k.a. "Bloody Bill" Anderson; Confederate guerrilla leader in the Civil War
  • Charles D. Barger (1892–1936), earned the Medal of Honor in World War I
  • John L. Barkley (1895–1966), earned the Medal of Honor in World War I
  • Frederick Benteen (1834–1898), best known for role under George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
  • Omar Bradley (1893–1981), World War II general, from Clark, Missouri
  • Robert Coontz (1864–1935), US Navy Admiral, former Chief of Naval Operations
  • John V. Cox (born 1930), United States Marine Corps Major General; flew over 200 combat missions during the Vietnam War
  • Enoch Crowder (1859–1932), US Army General and reformer of military justice system
  • Randall "Duke" Cunningham, only U.S. Navy Ace in the Vietnam War; later a U.S. Congressman from California
  • James Phillip Fleming (born 1943), USAF pilot; awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Vietnam War
  • John C. Fremont (1813–1890), Western explorer; Union Civil War general; first Republican candidate for U.S. President
  • Frederick Dent Grant (1850–1912), U.S. Army Major General and diplomat; son of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant
  • Martin E. Green (1815–1863), Confederate Army Brigadier General; killed at Siege of Vicksburg
  • John McNeil (1813–1891), Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War; known as "The Butcher of Palmyra"
  • Wayne E. Meyer (1926–2009), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral; "father of the Aegis weapons system"
  • David Moore (1817–1893), Mexican–American War officer and Union Civil War Brigadier General
  • John Henry Parker (1866–1942), "Gatling Gun Parker"; hero in the Spanish–American War; only U.S. soldier to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross four times in World War I
  • Floyd B. Parks (1911–1942), U.S. Marine aviator who earned the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions leading Marine fighter squadron VMF-221 during the Battle of Midway
  • John J. Pershing (1860–1948), soldier, General of the Armies; born in Laclede, Missouri
  • Sterling Price, Confederate States Army, General of the Missouri State Guard during the Civil War
  • William Quantrill (1837–1865), Confederate guerrilla leader (Quantrill's Raiders) in the Civil War
  • John H. Quick (1870–1922), U.S. Marine awarded the Medal of Honor in the Spanish–American War, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross in World War I
  • James E. Rieger (1874–1951), Colonel Mo. National Guard; awarded Distinguished Service Cross and Croix de guerre in World War I
  • Roscoe Robinson, U.S. Army General
  • Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), U.S. Army General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Stephen W. Thompson (1894–1977), first U.S. military pilot to ever shoot down an enemy in aerial combat (1918)
  • George Allison Whiteman (1919–1941), the first United States Army Air Corps pilot killed in World War II; awarded the Silver Star posthumously for after being shot down in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Arthur L. Willard (1870–1935), United States Navy Vice Admiral, winner of Navy Cross, French Legion of Honor, and Belgian Order of Leopold; first man to plant American flag on Cuban soil in the Spanish–American War

Miscellaneous famous Missourians

  • William Becknell (1787–1856), soldier, businessman, founder of the Santa Fe Trail
  • Johnny Behan (1844–1912), sheriff of Tombstone, Arizona, during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
  • Susan Blow (1843–1916), educator, "the mother of kindergarten"
  • Calamity Jane (c. 1852–1903), Indian fighter and frontierswoman
  • Dale Carnegie (1888–1955), public and motivational speaker
  • Timothy M. Dolan (born 1950), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of New York
  • Ella Ewing (1872–1913), "The Missouri Giantess", world's tallest woman (of her era)
  • Bobby Greenlease (1947–1953), kidnap-murder victim in case that drew national attention
  • Raelynn Hillhouse, national security and intelligence community analyst, Cold War smuggler, spy novelist
  • Mary Ranken Jordan (1869–1962), philanthropist and community advocate
  • Emmett Kelly (1898–1979), circus clown
  • Karlie Kloss (born 1992), model and ballet dancer
  • Carrie Nation (1846–1911), advocate for the temperance movement
  • Rose O'Neill (1874–1944), author, illustrator and creator of the Kewpie doll
  • Phyllis Schlafly (born 1924), conservative political activist and author
  • Dred Scott, slave and litigant in U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott Decision
  • George Thampy (born 1987), Scripps National Spelling Bee champion 2000, staff member 2006
  • Faye Wattleton (born 1943), feminist activist
  • Roy Wilkins (1901–1981), civil rights activist

Public office

See also: List of Governors of Missouri; List of judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri; List of lieutenant governors of Missouri; List of mayors of Kansas City, Missouri; List of mayors of St. Joseph, Missouri; List of United States Representatives from Missouri; and List of United States Senators from Missouri
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Science and medicine

  • William F. Baker (born 1953), structural engineer
  • Jean Bartik (1924–2011), early computer programmer and designer
  • Gordon Bell (born 1934), computer engineer and microcomputer pioneer
  • Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), sociologist, developer of symbolic interactionism
  • Martin Stanislaus Brennan (1845–1927), scientist and priest
  • George Washington Carver (c. 1864–1943), botanist
  • Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987), inventor
  • David F. Duncan (born 1947), psychologist and epidemiologist
  • Meta Given (1888–1981), home economist scientist, dietician, author
  • Edward T. Hall (1914–2009), anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher
  • Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), astronomer
  • Harry Laughlin (1880–1943), eugenicist
  • Mark Johnson (born 1949), philosopher
  • Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born 1925), psychology researcher
  • Jack Kilby (1923–2005), inventor of the integrated circuit
  • Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891–1974), chemist
  • Ernest Manheim (1900–2002), sociologist
  • William Howell Masters (1915–2001), gynecologist
  • Richard Smalley (1943–2005), Nobel Prize-winning chemist, discovered buckminsterfullerene
  • Harlow Shapley (1885–1972), astronomer
  • William Jasper Spillman (1863–1931), plant geneticist, a founder of agricultural economics
  • Lewis Stadler (1896–1954), aka L.J. Stadler, maize geneticist
  • Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917), physician and founder of osteopathic medicine
  • Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), mathematician

References

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