|
Name |
Occupation |
Hometown |
|
Robert Altman |
film director |
Kansas City |
|
Maya Angelou |
poet |
St. Louis |
|
Arthur Ashe |
tennis professional |
St. Louis |
|
Burt Bacharach |
songwriter |
Kansas City |
|
Josephine Baker |
singer, dancer |
St. Louis |
|
Scott
Bakula |
actor |
St. Louis |
|
Tom Bass |
horse trainer |
Boone County |
|
Wallace Beery |
actor |
Kansas City |
|
James "Cool Papa" Bell |
baseball player |
St. Louis |
|
William Bent |
fur trader, pioneer |
St. Louis |
|
Robert Russell Bennett |
composer |
Kansas City |
|
Thomas Hart Benton |
painter |
Neosho |
|
Yogi Berra |
baseball player |
St. Louis |
|
Chuck Berry |
musician |
St. Louis |
|
George Caleb Bingham |
painter |
Arrow Rock |
|
Susan Elizabeth Blow |
teacher (first kindergarten) |
St. Louis |
|
Linda Blair |
actor |
St. Louis |
|
Daniel Boone |
explorer |
|
|
Bill Bradley |
basketball player |
Crystal City |
|
Omar Nelson Bradley |
five-star general |
Clark |
|
Molly Brown |
survivor of Titanic |
Hannibal |
|
Grace Bumbry |
soprano, opera singer |
St. Louis |
|
William Burroughs |
writer |
St. Louis |
|
Sarah Caldwell |
opera director, conductor |
Maryville |
Martha Jane Canary
(Calamity
Jane) |
frontierswoman |
Princeton |
|
Dale Carnegie |
teacher of public speaking |
Maryville |
|
George Washington Carver |
educator, agricultural chemist |
Diamond Grove |
|
Cedric, The Entertainer |
actor, comedian |
Jefferson City |
|
Don Cheadle |
actor |
Kansas City |
|
Chingy |
musician |
St. Louis |
|
Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
author |
Florida |
|
Walter Cronkite |
television newscaster |
St. Joseph |
|
Sheryl Crow |
singer |
Kennett |
|
Robert Cummings |
actor |
Joplin |
|
Jane Darwell |
actor |
Palmyra |
|
Miles Davis |
musician |
St. Louis |
|
Walter Elias Disney |
film and animation pioneer |
Marceline |
|
Charles Stark Draper |
inventor |
Windsor |
|
Jeanne Eagels |
actor |
Kansas City |
|
Mary Engelbreit |
artist, entrepreneur |
St. Louis |
|
T.S. Eliot |
poet |
St. Louis |
|
Narvel Felts |
singer |
Malden |
|
James Fergason |
inventor |
Wakenda |
|
Eugene Field |
author, poet |
St. Louis |
|
Redd Foxx |
actor, comedian |
St. Louis |
|
James W. Fulbright |
senator |
Sumner |
|
Joseph Henry Garagiola |
baseball player, announcer |
St. Louis |
|
John Goodman |
actor |
Affton |
|
Betty Grable |
actor |
St. Louis |
|
Dick Gregory |
comic, activist |
St. Louis |
|
Joyce E. Hall |
businessman |
Nebraska |
|
W. C. Handy |
composer |
St. Louis |
|
Jean Harlow |
actor |
Kansas City |
|
Coleman Hawkins |
jazz musician |
Kansas City |
|
George Hearn |
actor |
St. Louis |
|
Al Hirschfeld |
cartoonist |
St. Louis |
|
Edwin Hubble |
astronomer |
Marshfield |
|
Langston Hughes |
poet |
Joplin |
|
John Huston |
director |
Nevada |
|
Jesse James |
outlaw |
Kearney |
|
Marguerite Johnson (see Angelou) |
|
|
|
Scott Joplin |
composer |
Sedalia |
|
Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
Olympic athlete |
St. Louis |
|
Ewing Marion Kauffman |
entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder of KC Royals baseball |
Garden City |
|
Emmett Kelly |
clown |
Houston |
|
Jack S. Kilby |
inventor |
Jefferson City |
|
James Langston Hughes |
poet |
Joplin |
|
Murphy Lee |
musician |
St. Louis |
|
William Lear |
aviation inventor |
Hannibal |
|
Rush Limbaugh |
communicator |
Cape Girardeau |
|
Elijah Parrish Lovejoy |
newspaper editor |
St. Louis |
|
Bernarr MacFadden |
physical culturist |
Mill Springs |
|
Mary Margaret McBride |
television host |
Paris |
|
Robert McFerrin |
opera singer |
St. Louis |
|
John Sappington Marmaduke |
Confederate general, governor |
Arrow Rock |
|
Robert D. Maurer |
inventor |
St. Louis |
|
Marianne Moore |
poet |
St. Louis |
|
Nelly |
musician |
St. Louis |
|
Reinhold Niebuhr |
pastor, teacher, political leader |
Wright City |
|
Geraldine Page |
actor |
Kirksville |
|
Charlie Parker |
musician |
Kansas City |
|
James Cash Penney |
merchant |
Hamilton |
|
Marlin Perkins |
television host, zoo director |
Carthage |
|
John Joseph Pershing |
army leader, Pershing rifles |
Linn County |
|
George Poage |
Olympic athlete |
St. Louis |
|
Brad Pitt |
actor |
Springfield |
|
Vincent Price |
actor |
St. Louis |
|
Joseph Pulitzer |
newspaper |
St. Louis |
|
Doris Roberts |
actor |
St. Louis |
|
Ginger Rogers |
dancer, actor |
Independence |
|
Charles M. Russell |
painter, artist |
St. Louis |
|
Nellie Tayloe Ross |
first woman elected state governor |
St. Joseph |
|
Ted Shawn |
dancer, choreographer |
Kansas City |
|
Casey Stengel |
baseball player |
Kansas City |
|
Gladys Swarthout |
soprano, singer |
Deepwater |
|
Sara Teasdale |
poet |
St. Louis |
|
Betty Thomas |
actor, director |
Union |
|
Virgil Thomson |
composer |
Kansas City |
|
Harry S Truman |
U.S. president |
Lamar |
|
Ike Turner |
musician |
St. Louis |
|
Tina Turner |
musician, actor |
St. Louis |
|
Dick Van Dyke |
actor |
West Plains |
|
Leroy Van Dyke |
singer, actor |
Sedalia |
|
Jack Wagner |
actor, singer |
Washington |
|
Ruth Warrick |
actor |
St. Joseph |
|
Dennis Weaver |
actor |
Joplin |
|
Pearl White |
actor |
Green Ridge |
|
Mary Wickes |
actor |
St. Louis |
|
Roy Wilkins |
civil rights leader |
St. Louis |
|
