List of people from St. Joseph, Missouri facts for kids

This is a list of notable people born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of St. Joseph, Missouri.

• Don Alt (1916–1988), Iowa state representative and businessman; born in St. Joseph.
• Charles S. L. Baker (1859–1926), African American businessman and inventor, lived in St. Joseph.
• Kay Barnes (b. 1938), mayor of Kansas City 1999–2007
• Dwayne Blakley (b. 1979), football player, born in St. Joseph.
• Ryan Bradley (b. 1983), figure skater
• Norbert Brodine, cinematographer
• Byron Browne, baseball player
• Charles Francis Buddy, bishop, attended Christian Brothers School (now George Bode Middle School)
• Rob Calloway, boxer
• Harold F. Cherniss, historian of ancient Greece and Plato scholar at Princeton
• Orson L. Crandall, Naval Officer, Navy Master Diver, Medal of Honor recipient
• Walter Cronkite, iconic television journalist, born in St. Joseph; his father was a dentist there
• Paul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network
• Katherine Kennicott Davis, composer of "The Little Drummer Boy"
• Eminem, rapper and songwriter, born in St. Joseph
• Eugene Field, popular poet in his day, worked for the St. Joseph Gazette and wrote a famous poem about Lover's Lane, St. Joseph
• Harold K. Forsen, Nuclear physicist
• Ralph D. Foster, broadcasting pioneer
• Betty Garrett, actress, known for On the Town and Laverne & Shirley, born in St. Joseph
• Elijah Gates, State Treasurer of Missouri
• Anthony Glise, guitarist
• Jody Hamilton, wrestler
• Larry Hamilton, wrestler
• Fred Harman, artist, drew the Red Ryder cartoons and worked with Walt Disney, born in St. Joseph and worked at Artcrafts Engraving Company in St. Joseph
• Coleman Hawkins, jazz saxophonist
• Shere Hite, sex educator
• Edie Huggins, television journalist
• Bela M. Hughes (1817–1903), pioneer, born in Kentucky, was in the 1850s and 1860s a prominent St. Joseph lawyer
• William Hyde (1836–1898), journalist
• Lucie Fulton Isaacs, writer, philanthropist, suffragist
• Jesse James, iconic outlaw, murdered in St. Joseph
• Henry Krug, founded Krug Packing Company, the Saint Joseph Stockyards, the German-American Bank, The Hotel Robidoux, gave Krug Park to the City
• Brian McDonald, writer
• Jeff Morris, actor, known for The Blues Brothers, born in St. Joseph
• Timothy Omundson, actor
• Mary Alicia Owen, Missouri folklorist
• Isaac Parker, judge
• Travis Partridge, football player
• Forrest E. Peden, decorated World War II soldier
• Benjamin F. Peery, physicist, astronomer and professor, and the second African American person to earn a doctorate in astronomy
• Tom Pendergast, political boss
• Seraphine Eppstein Pisko, executive secretary of the Denver Jewish Hospital
• Frank Posegate, mayor of St. Joseph
• LeRoy Prinz, choreographer and film director
• Arthur Pryor, trombonist
• Randy Railsback, member of the Missouri House of Representatives
• Sid Rogell, Hollywood producer
• Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman elected governor of a U.S. state; governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927
• Martin Rucker, football player
• Martin T. Rucker, politician
• Mike Rucker, football player
• Jay Sarno, hotel mogul, founder of Caesars Palace
• Bill Snyder, Kansas State football coach
• Eddie Timanus, Jeopardy! champion, won five times in 1999 despite being blind
• Steve Walsh, musician of band Kansas
• Ruth Warrick, actress, known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, born in St. Joseph
• James H. Webb, U.S. Senator from Virginia, born in St. Joseph
• Silas Woodson (1819–1896), 21st Governor of Missouri, born in Kentucky, was in the 19th century a prominent St. Joseph lawyer
• Huston Wyeth, industrialist
• Jane Wyman, Oscar–winning actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan, born in St. Joseph
• Delmer J. Yoakum (1915–1996), artist
• Olive Young, born in St. Joseph; actress and blues singer; was silent–films movie star in China but typecasting hurt her in Hollywood.