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Famous Natives
People listed are almost always native to the state. We do (on occasion) include those that have either lived within a state for most of their adult life, or have made a significant contribution to the state in their personal endeavors. Robert Altman film director Maya Angelou author David Rice Atchison senator, held the office of president of the United States for one day in 1849. Burt Bacharach songwriter Josephine Baker singer, dancer Scott Bakula television actor Wallace Beery actor Robert Russell Bennett composer Thomas Hart Benton artist Yogi Berra baseball player Chuck Berry singer Linda Blair actress Susan Elizabeth Blow educator, founder first kindergarten in U.S. Bill Bradley basketball player Omar Nelson Bradley five-star general Molly Brown (Unsinkable Molly Brown) Titanic survivor, political activist Sylvia Browne psychic Grace Bumbry soprano William Burroughs writer Norbert Leo Butz actor Sarah Caldwell opera director, conductor Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane) frontierswoman Dale Carnegie author, educator George Washington Carver educator Don Cheadle actor Kate Chopin author William Clark explorer, governor of Missouri Territory Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) author Hannah Cole pioneer woman, Boonville's first settler David Cook singer (born in TX) Walter Cronkite TV newscaster Sheryl Crow singer, songwriter Robert Cummings actor Jane Darwell actress Charles Stark Draper inventor Jeanne Eagels actress T. S. Eliot poet Sara Evans singer James Fergason inventor Eugene Field author, poet Redd Foxx actor, comedian James W. Fulbright senator John Goodman actor Betty Grable actress Julia Grant first lady, married to Ulysses S. Grant Dick Gregory comedian, activist Jean Harlow actress Cornell Haynes Jr. "Nelly" rapper Robert A. Heinlein author Al Hirschfield artist Jan Howard singer Edwin Hubble astronomer James Langston Hughes poet John Huston film director Claiborne Fox Jackson state governor Jesse James famous outlaw Don Johnson actor Ewing Marion Kauffman founder Kansas City Royals Jack S. Kilby inventor Kevin Delaney Kline actor Cedric Antonio Kyles "cedric the entertainer" William Lear aviation inventor Rush Limbaugh radio host Bernarr MacFadden physical culturist John Sappington Marmaduke confederate general Robert D. Maurer inventor Mary Margaret McBride radio personality Marianne Moore poet Stan Musial baseball player Reinhold Niebuhr pastor, teacher, author, activist Naomi Shihab Nye poet Geraldine Page actress Satchel Paige baseball player James C. Penney founder J. C. Penney stores Marlin Perkins TV host John J. Pershing army leader Brad Pitt actor (born in OK) Vincent Price actor Joseph Pulitzer founder Pulitzer prize Ginger Rogers dancer, actress Nellie Tayloe Ross the first woman elected governor of a U.S. State Charles M. Russell artist Ted Shawn dancer, choreographer Mary Easton Sibley educator Billy Sims Heisman Award winner, football player Casey Stengel baseball player Dee Wallace Stone actress Gladys Swarthout soprano Sara Teasdale poet Virgil Thomson composer Sidney Toler actor Harry S. Truman U.S. president Kathleen Turneractress Dick Van Dyke actor Porter Wagoner singer Dennis Weaver actor Pearl White actress Laura Ingalls Wilder author Roy Wilkins civil rights leader Tennessee Williams author, playwright Is someone missing from this list?
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