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
  • Charles Francis Buddy, bishop, attended Christian Brothers School
  • Rob Calloway, boxer
  • Walter Cronkite, iconic television journalist, born in St. Joseph and his father was a dentist there
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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]
  • 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
  • Eugene Field, popular poet in his day, worked for the St. Joseph Gazette and wrote a famous poem about Lover's Lane, St. Joseph
  • Delmer J. Yoakum, artist

References

  1. ↑ "Dwayne Blakley". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012. 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. Archived from the original on 2018-02-14. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
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