Born in Missouri

From The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the United States , available online in Kids InfoBits.

• Maya Angelou, poet
• Burt Bacharach, songwriter
• Josephine Baker, singer and dancer
• Yogi Berra, baseball player
• William S. Burroughs, author
• Sarah Caldwell, opera director and conductor
• Martha Jane Canary ("Calamity Jane"), frontierswoman
• George Washington Carver, scientist
• Walter Cronkite, television newscaster
• T.S. Eliot, poet
• Eugene Field, poet
• John Goodman, actor
• Betty Grable, actress
• Jean Harlow, actress
• Coleman Hawkins, jazz musician
• Al Hirschfeld, artist
• Edwin Hubble, astronomer
• Langston Hughes, poet
• Frank James and Jesse James, outlaws
• James C. Penney, merchant and founder of J.C. Penney Co.
• John Joseph Pershing, general, U.S. Army
• Vincent Price, actor
• Ginger Rogers, dancer and actress
• Sara Teasdale, poet
• Harry S. Truman, U.S. president
• Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), author
• Dick Van Dyke, actor