Famous People from St. Louis, Missouri

• Angelou, Maya

  The author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

• Baker, Josephine

  The Black American singer/dancer famous in 1920s Paris

• Bakula, Scott

  Star of TV's Quantum Leap and Enterprise

• Berra, Yogi

  The Yankee catcher who said "It ain't over 'til it's over"

• Berry, Chuck

  Early rock legend who did "Johnny B. Goode"

• Blair, Linda

  The demon-possessed girl in the 1972 film The Exorcist

• Brown, Sterling K.

  Chris Darden in 'The People vs. O.J.: American Crime Story'

• Burnett, T Bone

  Oscar-winning producer/songwriter for Crazy Heart

• Burroughs, William S.

  The author of Naked Lunch

• Chingy

  Rapper of the 2003 hit "Right Thurr"

• Chopin, Kate

  Author of The Awakening

• Chu, Steven

  Secretary of Energy under Barack Obama

• Eliot, T.S.

  Author of The Waste Land

• Goodman, John

  The husband on TV's Roseanne

• Grable, Betty

  Pinup queen of World War II

• Grant, Julia Dent

  The wife of President U.S. Grant

• Gunn, James

  The filmmaker who did 'Guardians of the Galaxy'

• Hamm, Jon

  The actor who played Don Draper on TV's Mad Men

• Hirschfeld, Al

  The longtime humorous caricaturist of Broadway stars

• Hotchner, A.E.

  The writer who befriended Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman

• Momsen, Taylor

  Aspirational teen Jenny Humphrey on TV's Gossip Girl

• Phyllis McAlpin Stewart

  The Republican woman who helped defeat the ERA in the 1970s

• Price, Vincent

  The gentleman horror star who did House of Wax and The Fly

• Roberts, Doris

  Raymond's mom on the sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond'

• Russell, Charles M.

  American cowboy artist

• Simmons, Kimora Lee

  Russell Simmons's ex-wife and director of Baby Phat fashions

• Thiam, Aliaune "Akon"

  Senegalese-American singer of "Smack That"

See also: Born in Missouri