Altman, Robert (Kansas City)
The director of M*A*S*H and The Player
Famous People from Missouri
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Angelou, Maya (St. Louis)
The author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings -
Bacharach, Burt (Kansas City)
The pianist who co-wrote "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" and "Walk On By" -
Baker, Josephine (St. Louis)
The Black American singer/dancer famous in 1920s Paris -
Bakula, Scott (St. Louis)
Star of TV's Quantum Leap and Enterprise -
Berra, Yogi (St. Louis)
The Yankee catcher who said "It ain't over 'til it's over" -
Berry, Chuck (St. Louis)
Early rock legend who did "Johnny B. Goode" -
Blair, Linda (St. Louis)
The demon-possessed girl in the 1972 film The Exorcist -
Bradley, Bill (Crystal City)
Democratic senator from New Jersey -
Bradley, Omar (Clark)
American general during World War II -
Browne, Sylvia (Kansas City)
The popular TV psychic with a 'spirit guide' known as Francine -
Brown, Sterling K. (St. Louis)
Chris Darden in 'The People vs. O.J.: American Crime Story' -
Burnett, T Bone (St. Louis)
Oscar-winning producer/songwriter for Crazy Heart -
Burroughs, William S. (St. Louis)
The author of Naked Lunch -
Carver, George Washington (Diamond Grove)
America's great peanut innovator -
Cedric The Entertainer (Jefferson City)
Eddie in the Barbershop movies -
Cheadle, Don (Kansas City)
Star of the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda -
Chingy (St. Louis)
Rapper of the 2003 hit "Right Thurr" -
Chopin, Kate (St. Louis)
Author of The Awakening -
Chu, Steven (St. Louis)
Secretary of Energy under Barack Obama -
Comanche
The famous horse who survived Custer's Last Stand -
Cronkite, Walter (St. Joseph)
CBS TV's news anchor, 1962-81 -
Crow, Sheryl (Kennett)
Singer of "All I Wanna Do" -
Cruzan, Nancy (Carterville)
The subject of Cruzan v. Missouri -
Eliot, T.S. (St. Louis)
Author of The Waste Land -
Eminem (St. Joseph)
Rapper of the hit "The Slim Shady LP" -
Flynn, Gillian (Kansas City)
The author of Gone Girl -
Freleng, Friz (Kansas City)
The animator who did The Pink Panther cartoons -
Goodman, John (St. Louis)
The husband on TV's Roseanne -
Grable, Betty (St. Louis)
Pinup queen of World War II -
Grant, Julia Dent (St. Louis)
The wife of President U.S. Grant -
Gunn, James (St. Louis)
The filmmaker who did 'Guardians of the Galaxy' -
Hamm, Jon (St. Louis)
The actor who played Don Draper on TV's Mad Men -
Hawkins, Coleman (St. Joseph)
Tenor sax player who had the hit "Body and Soul" -
Hearst, George (Franklin County)
19th century American mining and publishing tycoon -
Heinlein, Robert A. (Butler)
The author of Stranger in a Strange Land -
Hirschfeld, Al (St. Louis)
The longtime humorous caricaturist of Broadway stars -
Hotchner, A.E. (St. Louis)
The writer who befriended Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman -
Hubble, Edwin (Marshfield)
The astronomer the Hubble space telescope is named after -
Hughes, Langston (Joplin)
Author of The Weary Blues (1926) -
Huston, John (Nevada)
Director of The Man Who Would Be King -
James, Jesse (outlaw) (Centraville (now Kearney))
Famous desperado of the old American west -
Johnson, Don (Flat Creek)
The star of TV's Miami Vice and Nash Bridges -
Jones, James L. (Kansas City)
Barack Obama's National Security Advisor, 2009-10 -
Limbaugh, Rush (Cape Girardeau)
The host of radio's Rush Limbaugh Show -
Momsen, Taylor (St. Louis)
Aspirational teen Jenny Humphrey on TV's Gossip Girl -
Moore, Marianne (Kirkwood)
Tricorn hat-wearing modernist poet -
Niebuhr, Reinhold (Wright City)
Christian intellectual who wrote Moral Man and Immoral Society -
Pershing, John J. (Laclede)
Commander of American armies in Europe during World War I -
Phyllis McAlpin Stewart (St. Louis)
The Republican woman who helped defeat the ERA in the 1970s -
Price, Vincent (St. Louis)
The gentleman horror star who did House of Wax and The Fly -
Roberts, Doris (St. Louis)
Raymond's mom on the sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond' -
Russell, Charles M. (St. Louis)
American cowboy artist -
Simmons, Kimora Lee (St. Louis)
Russell Simmons's ex-wife and director of Baby Phat fashions -
Thiam, Aliaune "Akon" (St. Louis)
Senegalese-American singer of "Smack That" -
Truman, Bess (Independence)
President Harry S. Truman's wife -
Truman, Harry S. (Lamar)
President of the United States, 1945-53 -
Twain, Mark (Florida)
The author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -
Van Dyke, Dick (West Plains)
Star of TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show -
Watson, Tom (Kansas City)
The golfer who beat Jack Nicklaus in the 1977 British Open -
Webb, Jim (Saint Joseph)
The Marine and Senate veteran who wrote Fields of Fire -
Williams, Maria P.
The first black woman to write and produce a movie, in 1923