This is a list of famous people from Missouri.

• Robert Altman, film director
• Maya Angelou, author
• Henry Armstrong (1912-1988), boxer
• Scott Bakula, actor
• Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858), US Senator
• Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), painter
• Yogi Berra (1925-), baseball player and aphorist
• Chuck Berry, rock musician
• Linda Blair, actor
• George A. Borgman, journalist
• Omar Bradley (1893-1981), World War II general
• William S. Burroughs, author
• Harry Caray (1917-1998), baseball broadcaster
• George Washington Carver (1860-1943), botanist
• Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), "Mark Twain", author
• Walter Cronkite (1916-), television journalist
• Sheryl Crow (1962-), singer/songwriter
• Don S. Davis, actor
• Walt Disney, animator
• Budd Dwyer, politician
• T. S. Eliot, poet
• Eminem (1972-), musician
• Max Factor, cosmetologist
• Redd Foxx, comedian
• John Goodman, actor
• Ulysses S. Grant, general, president
• William Least Heat-Moon, author
• Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author
• Edwin Hubble, astronomer
• Langston Hughes, African American poet
• John Huston - film director
• Jesse James, outlaw
• Scott Joplin, ragtime composer
• Andreas Katsulas, actor
• Kevin Kline, actor
• Rush Limbaugh (1951-), political commentator
• Charles Lindbergh, aviator
• Michael McDonald (1952-), singer, former Doobie Brothers frontman
• Dennis L. McKiernan , author
• Pat Metheny, musician
• John Milius, film director
• Dan O'Bannon, film director
• Charlie "Bird" Parker, jazz musician
• Brad Pitt (1963-), actor (born in Oklahoma, but raised in Missouri)
• James Cash Penney, businessman
• Joseph Pulitzer, journalist (from Hungary), known for creating St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Basil Poledouris, composer
• Vincent Price (1911-1993), actor
• Phyllis Schlafly (1924-), activist
• Harry S. Truman, (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United States
• Kathleen Turner, actor
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer
• Tennessee Williams, writer
• Jane Wyman, actor

Related topics

• Missouri Wall of Fame
• List of people by U.S. state