Famous People from Kansas City, Missouri

• Altman, Robert

  The director of M*A*S*H and The Player

• Bacharach, Burt

  The pianist who co-wrote "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" and "Walk On By"

• Browne, Sylvia

  The popular TV psychic with a 'spirit guide' known as Francine

• Cheadle, Don

  Star of the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda

• Flynn, Gillian

  The author of Gone Girl

• Freleng, Friz

  The animator who did The Pink Panther cartoons

• Jones, James L.

  Barack Obama's National Security Advisor, 2009-10

• Watson, Tom

  The golfer who beat Jack Nicklaus in the 1977 British Open

See also: Born in Missouri