List of people from St. Joseph, Missouri
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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[change | change source]
- ↑ "Dwayne Blakley". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- ↑ Coleman Hawkins Biography, biography.com Retrieved October 27, 2012
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Interview with Brian McDonald, part 1". Adelaide Screenwriter. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ↑ "Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on 2018-02-14. Retrieved 1 October 2013.