List of people from St. Joseph, Missouri

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

• Kay Barnes, mayor of Kansas City
• Dwayne Blakley, football player, born in St.Joseph.^[1]
• Ryan Bradley, figure skater
• Jerry Brady
• Norbert Brodine, cinematographer
• Jacob Brooke, Political Science student
• Byron Browne, baseball player
• Charles Francis Buddy, bishop, attended Christian Brothers School
• Rob Calloway, boxer
• Harold F. Cherniss, historian of ancient Greece and Plato scholar at Princeton
• Walter Cronkite, iconic television journalist, born in St. Joseph and 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 recording artist, 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
• Ralph D. Foster, broadcasting pioneer
• Betty Garrett, actress, 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^[2]
• Shere Hite, sex educator
• Edie Huggins, television journalist^[3]
• Jesse James, iconic outlaw, murdered in St. Joseph
• Kagney Linn Karter, porn actress
• Brian McDonald, writer^[4]
• Jeff Morris, actor
• Timothy Omundson, actor
• Issac Parker, judge
• Travis Partridge, football player
• Forrest E. Peden, decorated World War II soldier
• Tom Pendergast, political boss
• Arthur Pryor, trombonist
• Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman elected governor of a U.S. state; governor of Wyoming from 1925-1927^[5]
• Martin Rucker, football player
• Martin T. Rucker, politician
• Mike Rucker, football player
• Jay Sarno, hotel mogul, founder of Caesar's Palace
• Bill Snyder, Kansas State football coach
• Steve Walsh, musician of band Kansas
• Ruth Warrick, actress
• James H. Webb, U.S. Senator of Virginia, born in St. Joseph
• Huston Wyeth, industrialist
• Jane Wyman, Oscar-winning actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan, born in St. Joseph
• Delmer J. Yoakum, artist

References

1. "Dwayne Blakley". databaseFootball.com. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
2. Coleman Hawkins Biography, biography.com Retrieved October 27, 2012
3. Dribben, Melissa (2008-07-30). "Edie Huggins 1935-2008: A versatile, dogged, endearing NBC10 face". Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
4. "Interview with Brian McDonald, part 1". Adelaide Screenwriter. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
5. "Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 2013.