Biographical Records
Notable People from Missouri
2,622 notable figures born in Missouri, showing page 10 of 53, ranked by historical prominence.
Edgar Lewis
1875 – 1938
film actorfilm producerfilm director
William Stickney
1879 – 1944
golfer
Harry Holman
1872 – 1947
film actorstage actoractor
Joseph Jackson
1880 – 1960
sport shooter
John E. Miller
1888 – 1981
prosecutorjuristpolitician
Henry F. Phillips
1889 – 1958
business executiveinventorbusinessperson
William T. Passmore
1882 – 1955
lacrosse player
George Passmore
1889 – 1952
lacrosse player
Breckinridge Long
1881 – 1958
diplomatpoliticianlawyer
James O. McKinsey
1889 – 1937
manageruniversity teachercertified public accountant
Lester R. Ford
1886 – 1967
university teachermathematician
Vester Pegg
1889 – 1951
circus performercowboyactor
Wilbur Sweatman
1882 – 1961
saxophonistjazz musicianbandleader
Phog Allen
1885 – 1974
American football coachbaseball playerbasketball player
Benjamin Anderson
1886 – 1949
university teacherbankereconomist
Laura Sawyer
1885 – 1970
film actoractor
Elmer Holt
1884 – 1945
politician
Forrest C. Donnell
1884 – 1980
juristgovernorpolitician
Carl Edward Bailey
1894 – 1948
prosecutorjuristgovernor
Jane Grant
1892 – 1972
journalist
James P. Kem
1890 – 1965
politicianlawyer
Ben Hardaway
1895 – 1957
film actorstory artistvoice actor
F. Richard Jones
1893 – 1930
directorfilm producerfilm director
Del Andrews
1894 – 1942
film producerfilm directorcinematographer
Slim Whitaker
1893 – 1960
actor
Howard Kinsey
1899 – 1966
tennis player
Carl Hubbell
1903 – 1988
baseball player
Pee Wee Russell
1906 – 1969
recording artistjazz musicianmusician
Mildred Esther Mathias
1906 – 1995
scientific collectorbotanisthorticulturist
Philip Klutznick
1907 – 1999
real estate developerphilanthropistinvestor
Edward Pawley
1901 – 1988
film actorstage actoractor
Frank Sully
1908 – 1975
television actoractor
Henry Iba
1904 – 1993
basketball coachbasketball player
William C. Mellor
1903 – 1963
cinematographer
Julia Lee
1902 – 1958
musicianpianistsinger
James Brooks
1906 – 1992
lithographerpainterteacher
Oliver Horn
1901 – 1960
water polo player
Derelys Perdue
1902 – 1989
danceractor
Velma Middleton
1917 – 1961
jazz singerjazz musicianmusician
Otto Schmitt
1913 – 1998
biophysicistuniversity teacherbiologist
Melvin Kranzberg
1917 – 1995
historian of technologyuniversity teacherhistorian
Henderson Forsythe
1917 – 2006
film actortelevision actorstage actor
Jane Hadley Barkley
1911 – 1964
politician
Constance Reid
1918 – 2010
historian of mathematicsbiographerauthor
William Ching
1913 – 1989
television actorsingeractor
David Sharpe
1910 – 1980
film actorstunt performeractor
Winston Miller
1910 – 1994
film produceractorscreenwriter
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
1925 – 2016
visiting docentnon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
Betsy Ancker-Johnson
1927 – 2020
inventorphysicist
Dale Dehaven Myers
1922 – 2015
military flight engineerengineer