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