List of Famous people born in Missouri, United States of America
George Joseph Lucas
George Joseph Lucas is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fifth and current Archbishop of Omaha, having previously served as Bishop of Springfield in Illinois from 1999 to 2009.
Leo F. Forbstein
Leo Frank Forbstein was an American film musical director and orchestra conductor who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period.
Joe Egender
Joe Egender, is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with The Butcher Brothers, Holy Ghost People, and his television roles.
Herbert Blumer
Herbert George Blumer was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methods of social research. Believing that individuals create social reality through collective and individual action, he was an avid interpreter and proponent of George Herbert Mead's social psychology, which he labelled symbolic interactionism. Blumer elaborated and developed this line of thought in a series of articles, many of which were brought together in the book Symbolic Interactionism. An ongoing theme throughout his work, he argued that the creation of social reality is a continuous process. Blumer was also a vociferous critic of positivistic methodological ideas in sociology.
John Lott
John William Lott is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for contributions to differential geometry.
Bob Gale
Michael Robert Gale is an American screenwriter, producer and film director. He co-wrote the science fiction comedy film Back to the Future with writing partner Robert Zemeckis, and the screenplays for the film's two sequels. Gale also co-produced all three films and served as associate producer on the subsequent animated TV series. Michael J. Fox noted that Back to the Future co-creator Bob Gale is "the gatekeeper" for the franchise.
Mike W. Barr
Mike W. Barr is an American writer of comic books, mystery novels, and science fiction novels.
Joseph Fred Naumann
Joseph Fred Naumann is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He serves as the fourth and current Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas.
Joseph Hubert Hart
Joseph Hubert Hart is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Cheyenne from 1978 to 2001.
John Cody
John Patrick Cardinal Cody was an American bishop and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. A native of St. Louis, he served as Bishop of Kansas City–Saint Joseph (1956–1961), Archbishop of New Orleans (1964–1965), and Archbishop of Chicago (1965–1982). He was named a cardinal in 1967.