List of people from Missouri

• Robert Altman, film director
• Maya Angelou, author
• Henry Armstrong, (1912-1988), boxer
• Scott Bakula, actor
• Yogi Berra, baseball player and aphorist
• Chuck Berry, rock musician
• Linda Blair, actor
• Omar Bradley, (1893-1981), World War II general
• William S. Burroughs, author
• Harry Caray, baseball broadcaster
• George Washington Carver, (1860 - 1943), American botanist
• Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), "Mark Twain", author
• Walter Cronkite, television journalist
• Don S. Davis, actor
• Budd Dwyer, politician
• T. S. Eliot, poet
• Eminem, musician
• Max Factor, cosmetologist
• Redd Foxx, comedian
• John Goodman, actor
• Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author
• Langston Hughes, African American poet
• Jesse James, American outlaw
• Andreas Katsulas, actor
• Kevin Kline, actor
• William Least Heat Moon, author
• Rush Limbaugh, political commentator
• Dennis L. McKiernan, author
• Pat Metheny, musician
• John Milius, film director
• Dan O'Bannon, film director
• Charlie "Bird" Parker, jazz musician
• Basil Poledouris, composer
• Vincent Price, actor
• Phyllis Schlafly, activist
• Harry S. Truman, (1884 - 1972), 33rd President of the United States
• Kathleen Turner, actor
• Jane Wyman, actor