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.

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A

• 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.

B

• 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.
• Neal Boyd singer
• 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

C

• 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

D

• Jane Darwell actress
• Charles Stark Draper inventor

E

• Jeanne Eagels actress
• T. S. Eliot poet
• Sara Evans singer

F

• James Fergason inventor
• Eugene Field author, poet
• Redd Foxx actor, comedian
• James W. Fulbright senator

G

• Joe Garagiola baseball player, television host
• John Goodman actor
• Betty Grable actress
• Julia Grant first lady
• Dick Gregory comedian, activist

H

• 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

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