List of Famous people born in Missouri, United States of America
Mary Treen
Mary Treen was an American film and television actress. A minor actress for much of her career, she managed to secure a plain, unassuming niche for herself in the Hollywood of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Alice Kelley
Robert C. Tucker
Robert Charles Tucker was an American political scientist and historian. Tucker is best remembered as a biographer of Joseph Stalin and as an analyst of the Soviet political system, which he saw as dynamic rather than unchanging.
John R. Opel
John Roberts Opel was a U.S. computer businessman. He served eleven years as the President of IBM between 1974 and 1985. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of IBM from 1981 to 1985, and the Chairman of the board of directors from 1983 to 1986.
Tex Rickard
George Lewis "Tex" Rickard was an American boxing promoter, founder of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and builder of the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden in New York City. During the 1920s, Tex Rickard was the leading promoter of the day, and he has been compared to P. T. Barnum and Don King. Sports journalist Frank Deford has written that Rickard "first recognized the potential of the star system." Rickard also operated several saloons, hotels, and casinos, all named Northern and located in Alaska, Nevada, and Canada.
Paul Murry
Paul Murry was an American cartoonist and comics artist. He is best known for his Disney comics, which appeared in Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics from 1946 to 1984, particularly the Mickey Mouse and Goofy three-part adventure stories in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.
George Boemler
George Boemler was an American film editor. He edited many films in the 1930s-1960s like Hollywood Party, The Bride Goes Wild, The Power and the Prize, Run Silent, Run Deep, and Five Weeks in a Balloon. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1963 for his work on Ben Casey.
Brandon Mroz
Brandon Mroz is an American figure skater. He is the 2009 U.S. silver medalist and the 2006 & 2007 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist. He is the first skater to have completed a quadruple Lutz jump in a sanctioned competition.
Michael Evans
Michael Arthur Worden "Mike" Evans was an American newspaper, magazine, and presidential photographer. He was Ronald Reagan's personal photographer during his first term as president from 1981 through 1985. Evans is best remembered for his 1976 iconic photo of Ronald Reagan wearing a cowboy hat taken while Evans was working for Equus Magazine, that made the covers of many magazines in the week after Reagan's death in 2004. He was nominated for Pulitzer Prize while shooting for The New York Times.
Ernest Palmer
Ernest George Palmer was a Hollywood cinematographer for more than 160 films. His earliest known credit was for a 1912 adaptation of Ivanhoe.