Betty Grable actress, Saint Louis
Bill Bradley basketball player, Crystal City
Burt Bacharach songwriter, Kansas City
Casey Stengel baseball player, Kansas City
Charles M. Russell painter, artist St. Louis
Charles Stark Draper inventor, Windsor
Dale Carnegie teacher of public speaking, Maryville
Dennis Weaver actor, Joplin
Dick Gregory comic, activist, Saint Louis
Dick Van Dyke actor, West Plains
Edwin Hubble astronomer, Marshfield
George Washington Carver educator, agricultural chemist, Diamond Grove
Geraldine Page actress, Kirksville
Ginger Rogers dancer, actress, Independence
Harry S. Truman U.S. president, Lamar
Jack S. Kilby inventor, Jefferson City
James C. Penney merchant, Hamilton
James W. Fulbright senator, Sumner
Jane Darwell actress, Palmyra
Jean Harlow actress, Kansas City
Jesse James outlaw, Centerville
John Goodman actor, Affton
John Huston film director, Nevada
John J. Pershing army leader, pershing rifles, Linn County
Josephine Baker singer, dancer, Saint Louis
Mark Twain author, Florida
Marlin Perkins TV host, zoo director, Carthage
Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane) frontierswoman, Princeton
Nellie Tayloe Ross first woman elected governor of a state, Saint Joseph
Omar Nelson Bradley five-star general, Clark
Pearl White actress, Greenridge
Redd Foxx actor, comedian, Saint Louis
Robert Cummings actor, Joplin
Roy Wilkins civil rights leader, Saint Louis
Rush Limbaugh communicator, Cape Girardeau
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) author, Florida
T. S. Eliot poet, Saint Louis
Vincent Price actor, Saint Louis
Wallace Beery actor, Kansas City
Walter Cronkite TV newscaster, Saint Joseph
William Burroughs writer, Saint Louis
William Lear aviation inventor, Hannibal
Yogi Berra baseball player, Saint Louis