List of notable 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

Norbert Brodine, cinematographer

Byron Browne, baseball player

Charles Francis Buddy, bishop, attended Christian Brothers School

Rob Calloway, boxer

Harold F. Cherniss, historian of ancient Greece and Plato scholar at Princeton

Walter Cronkite, iconic television journalist, born in St. Joseph, his father was a dentist there

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

Eugene Field, popular poet in his day, worked for the St. Joseph Gazette and wrote a famous poem about Lover’s Lane, 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

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

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]

Jeff Morris, actor

Timothy Omundson, actor

Issac Parker, judge

Travis Partridge, football player

Forrest E. Peden, decorated World War II soldier

Tom Pendergast, political boss

Frank Posegate, mayor of St. Joseph

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 Caesars 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

Delmer J. Yoakum, artist

List of notable people from St. Joseph, Missouri