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Ginger Rogers
1911–1995 American actress and dancer
Bess Truman
1885–1982 First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953
AH Arliss Howard
born 1954 American actor, screenwriter and film director
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Margaret Weis
born 1948 American fantasy novelist
Jim Butcher
born 1971 American author
Margaret Truman
1924–2008 American author of murder mysteries; daughter of 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman
Jared Huffman
born 1964 American politician
Chris Pitman
born 1976 American musician
CW Cathay Williams
1844–1892 American slave, chef, Buffalo soldier and Female wartime crossdresser
MH Mike Henderson
1953–2023 American singer-songwriter
JB Jon Barwise
1942–2000 American logician
PH Paul Henning
1911–2005 American producer and writer
WD William C. Davis
born 1946 American historian
AB Andy Bryant
born 1950 American businessman
TK Thomas H. Kunz
1938–2020 American zoologist
AP Andrew Probert
born 1946 American artist
CH Christy Henrich
1972–1994 American gymnast
PN Paul C. Nagel
1925–2011 Historian
EH Elizabeth Hilden
born 1973 American model
ES Ellis Short
born 1960 American businessman
GB George A. Bartholomew
1919–2006 American biologist
MH Marla Hanson
born 1961 American model
TC Teresa Carpenter
born 1948 Author, writer
WS William Mark Simmons
born 1953 American humorous fantasy and horror writer
DH Daniel G. Hill
1923–2003 Canadian academic
DS David Stover
born 1979 Former NASCAR driver
DE Don Ettinger
1921–1992 American football player
GH Geraldine M. Hoch
1924–1973 US chemical engineer invented new ways to prevent corrosion on aircraft, key player in SM-62 Snark intercontinental cruise missile program at Northrop Grumman
JA Jim Abel
born 1947 American singer-songwriter
LH Larry Hooper
1917–1983 American singer
MT Mac Tonnies
1975–2009 American writer
PP Paige Parker
born 1996 American softball player and coach
AM Arch Martin
1931–2009 American jazz trombonist
DB Don Buschhorn
born 1946 American baseball player
HW Harlene Wood
1913–1995 American actor
HS Harry Suter
1887–1971 Major League Baseball pitcher
LJ Larry C. Johnson
American political pundit
MC Margery L. Cook
1925–2001 American virologist
PN Peggy Noland
born 2000 American fashion designer
RW Ron Wallace
American singer
SK Sale' Key
born 1981 American football player
SH Sam Hildreth
1866–1929 American horse trainer
AC Aaron Crossley
American politician
AR Adolphus Roffe
1890–1968 American equestrian
DR David Ross
born 1959 American football player and coach
DW Dean Webb
1937–2018 American musician
EW Egan Walker
born 1961 American judge
HR Helen Ross
1890–1978 American psychoanalyst
JC Jeff Coleman
born 1963 American politician from Missouri
JS John Sellars
American academic
JT Josh Tonsfeldt
born 1979 American installation artist (b. 1979, Independence, MO)
LB Linda L. Booth
Former apostle in Community of Christ
RS R. R. Sermon
1893–1965 American football and basketball player and coach
RB Rudy Bears
born 1978 American mixed martial arts fighter
TS Taylor Starck
1889–1974 American philologist and germanist
CD Cherry Davis
American actor
JR James Bruce Ross
1902–1995 American medievalist
JA John A. S. Adams
1926–1992 University teacher and researcher of geochemistry
JT Joseph Arthur Taylor
born 1929 American journalist
LK Lucy Whitney Kerr
1883–1976 American artist
MB Mae Lacy Baggs
1875–1922 1865-1922
MM Matthew Montelongo
born 1973 American actor
MD Michelle DeCina
born 1975 American nude model
WG William L. Garver
1911–1996 American artist
Also called Independence home
Olive Oatman
1837–1903 American living in Mormon, Tolkepaya, and Mohave societies after childhood kidnapping
SP Sally Waterman Phelps
1797–1874
KA Katie Ameku
American Rhodes Scholar
LW Lindsay Whorton
American college basketball player and education non-profit executive
