List of Famous people born in Missouri, United States of America

William Blaine Luetkemeyer is an American politician currently serving as the incumbent U.S. Representative for Missouri's 3rd congressional district, a seat he has held since 2009. The district, numbered as the 9th Congressional District from 2009 to 2013, contains most of east-central Missouri, including the state capital of Jefferson City and some of the southern and northern St. Louis suburbs and exurbs. Luetkemeyer is a member of the Republican Party.

Edna Cecil Cunningham was an American film and stage actress, singer, and comedienne.

Eugene Field Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood".

Donald Dines Wall was an American mathematician working primarily on number theory. He obtained his Ph.D. on normal numbers from University of California, Berkeley in 1949, where his adviser was Derrick Henry Lehmer. His better known papers include the first modern analysis of Fibonacci sequence modulo a positive integer.

Edwin Milton Royle was an American playwright. He was born in Lexington, Missouri, and died in New York City. Over 30 of his plays were performed. His best-known play is The Squaw Man (1905), which became the first Hollywood film directed by Cecil B. DeMille in 1914.

James Thomas Kevin Byrnes OBC is an American actor and musician of blues.

Charles Ray Hatcher was an American serial killer who confessed to having murdered 16 people between 1969 and 1982.

Clarence Harmon was the 44th Mayor of St. Louis, and the city's second African-American mayor.

Frank Richard Jones was an American director, screenwriter, and producer.

Christopher Lee Yost is an American film, animation, and comic book writer best known as the head writer of the animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes on Disney XD and co-writer of the comic book series X-23: Innocence Lost, X-23: Target X, New X-Men, X-Force, and Scarlet Spider. Yost was a member of the Marvel Writers Program and has worked as a screenwriter for Marvel Studios' Marvel Cinematic Universe with Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017).