Rush Limbaugh
1951–2021 American political commentator
Linda M. Godwin
born 1952 American astronaut
Terry Jones
born 1951 American anti-Islamic right wing activist and the pastor of Dove World Outreach Center
BS Billy Swan
born 1942 American musician and songwriter
Chic Hecht
1928–2006 American politician
A. J. Ellis
born 1981 American baseball player
Tony Spinner
born 1963 American musician
Hali Long
born 1995 Filipino footballer
Peter Kinder
born 1954 American lawyer and politician
Terry Teachout
1956–2022 American writer
Richard Kinder
born 1944 American businessman
John Locke Scripps
1818–1866 American lawyer and journalist
John Watkins Oliver
1914–1990 United States federal judge
Keith Waleskowski
born 1980 American basketball player
Todd Richardson
born 1976 American politician
William Thornton Blue
1902–1968 American musician
Don Rone, Jr.
born 1944 American politician
Elam Vangilder
1896–1977 American baseball player
Elizabeth Buehrmann
1886–1965 American photographer
Jason Crowell
born 1972 American politician
Joseph Cable
1848–1877 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Karilyn Brown
born 1947 American technical writer and politician
Leon Brinkopf
1926–1998 American baseball player
Steve Hodges
1949–2024 American politician
Harl H. Haas, Jr.
1932–2013 American lawyer and politician
Jeanie Lauer
born 1954 American politician
John Thomson Faris
1871–1949 American travel writer
Linda Smyth
born 1949 American politician
Mary Hagan-Harrell
American politician
Albert Spradling, Jr.
1920–2004 American politician in Missouri
Allene Wilson Groves
1896–1986 23rd president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Jeff Shawan
born 1955 American politician
Johnny Pott
born 1935 Professional golfer
Mike Henderson
born 1955 American politician from Missouri
Rick Francis
born 1955 American politician
C. Michael Hawn
born 1948 Baptist minister and professor of church music
Charles Norval Cofer
1916–1998
LeRoy Carr Barret
1877–1960 American scholar of India
Philip Hoehn
1941–2023 American map librarian
Ronald R. Feuerhahn
1937–2015 Lutheran Pastor, Missionary, Professor of Historical Theology
Walter H. Kaiser
1910–1971 American librarian
William Henry Luckmann
1926–2021 Entomologist
Also called Cape Girardeau home
GH Gayle Hendrix
1944–2024 American woman died by euthanasia
Jean Baptiste de Girardot
1700–1750 French soldier, established a trading post near today's Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1733
Matt Miller
American sculptor