Norbert Wiener
1894–1964 American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence
Jessica Capshaw
born 1976 American actress
Carlos PenaVega
born 1989 American film and TV actor, singer-songwriter, dancer and television show host
Michael Porter Jr.
born 1998 American basketball player
Rob Benedict
born 1970 American actor
Stan Kroenke
born 1947 American businessman
William Smith
1933–2021 American actor
Tyler Hansbrough
born 1985 American basketball player
Ko Sung-hee
born 1990 South Korean actress
Nick Jameson
born 1950 American actor
Bud Walton
1921–1995 American businessman
Jontay Porter
born 1999 American basketball player
Amy Benedict
born 1964 American actress
Michelle Hendley
born 1991 Actor
Jeff Maggert
born 1964 Professional golfer
Josh Kroenke
born 1980 American heir, businessman
Rachel Rockwell
1969–2018 American theater director
Apollo M. O. Smith
1911–1997 American aerospace engineer
Cecil Williams
born 1995 American basketball player
Chuck Graham
1965–2020 American politician
Gerry Ellis
born 1957 American football player
Grace Lee
American film director
J. Michael McGinnis
born 1944 American physician
James S. Rollins
1887–1972 American politician in Missouri
Katherine Hanley
born 1943 American politician
Kevin Croom
born 1987 American mixed martial arts fighter
Megan Bradley
born 1983 American tennis player
Nancy Dye
1947–2015 American academic administrator and historian
Scott Ourth
born 1959 American politician
Stevie Stone
born 1981 American rapper
Taylor Marsh
born 1954 American writer and political analyst
Walt Koken
born 1946 American musician
Arthur Diggs
1888–1967 American landscape painter
Bob Musgrave
1934–2012 American football and baseball player
Caroline Shevlin
born 1989 Peruvian-American soccer player
Carolyn Shuster Fournier
born 1956 American organist
Christy G. Turner II
1933–2013 American anthropologist
Daniel A. Wren
born 1932 American business theorist
Dugan Ashley
born 1985 American actor and musician
Gary Leach
born 1957 American writer
Grace Shevlin
born 1989 Peruvian-American soccer player
Howard Rusk Long
1906–1988 American journalist
John Mistler
born 1958 American football player
Kevin Whitesides
born 1964 American racing driver
Stephen E. Atkins
1941–2010 American librarian and historian
Trey Millard
born 1991 American football player
Vicky Riback-Wilson
born 1946 Missouri politician
Whitney Wegman-Wood
American actress
Bayard T. Hainer
1860–1933 American jurist
Bret Burchard
American basketball player and coach
David Tyson Smith
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Margaret Towner
born 1925 American religious leader
Mike Cunningham
born 1947 American politician
Norman Ajari
born 1987 American-French philosopher
Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
1937–2025 American historian
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Frederick Chapman Robbins
1916–2003 American doctor
George Smith
born 1941 Nobel prize winning US chemist
Peter Hessler
born 1969 American writer and journalist
Ann Walton Kroenke
born 1948 American businesswoman, heiress to the Walmart fortune
M. Frederick Hawthorne
1928–2021 American chemist
Sarah French
born 1985 American beauty pageant contestant
Ashley Litton
born 1983 Succeeded Miss USA 2004, Shandi Finnessey, as Miss Missouri USA 2004
Rebecca Dunn
born 1992 Miss Missouri USA 2015
Susan Wilson Solovic
born 1958 American business woman
Connor Murphy
1994–2026 American YouTuber, model, "looksmaxer"
Lisa Logan
born 1966 Miss Missouri Teen USA 1983
Matthew Bennett
American runner
Micah Stevens
American meteorologist
Scott McMahon
American photographer and college faculty member
Simone Esters
born 1999 Miss Missouri 2019-20
Veer Sangha
American Rhodes Scholar