Langston Hughes
1901–1967 American writer and social activist
Robert Cummings
1910–1990 American actor
Dennis Weaver
1924–2006 American actor
Pauline Starke
1901–1977 American actress
Carl Pomerance
born 1944 American mathematician
Hale Irwin
born 1945 American golfer
Jamie McMurray
born 1976 American racing driver
John Beal
1909–1997 American actor
Travis Webb
1910–1990 American racing driver
Charles McPherson
born 1939 American jazz alto saxophonist
Roger Garrison
born 1944 American economist
Glen Glenn
1934–2022 American musician
John Edwards Conway
1934–2014 United States federal judge
Grant Wistrom
born 1976 American football player
Art Staed
born 1949 American politician
Asia'h Epperson
born 1988 American singer and actress
Charles Plumb
1899–1982 Cartoonist
George T. Clemens
1902–1992 American cinematographer
John Whitby Allen
1913–1973 American model railroader
Ross Thompson Roberts
1938–1987 United States federal judge
Wayne Shanklin
1916–1970 American composer
Aaron Lesué
born 1982 American football player
Ann Kelley
US Republican Party politician, from 2019 member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 127th district
Cliff Berry
born 1962 American jockey
Joe Beeler
1931–2006 American artist
Mike Loyd
born 1956 American football player
Perry Watkins
1948–1996 American soldier known for challenging the military's ban on homosexual service members
Rolland Haggart Bushner
1920–2011 American air force officer and diplomat
William H. Perry III
1940–2024 American politician
Frederic Doss
born 1977 American actor
Gene Iba
1940–2025 American basketball player-coach
Lisa Myers
born 1901 American journalist
Louise Jordan
1908–1966 Geologist
Mickey Muennig
1935–2021 American architect
Pattiann Rogers
born 1940 American poet
Victor H. Matthews
born 1950 Biblical scholar
Chet Douthit
born 1949 American football player and sport fisher
Edythe Jean Hathaway
1923–2012 Retired U.S. Army Nurse Corps colonel and Korean War veteran
Eli Yokley
born 1992 American political journalist and analyst
Gary Cat Johnson
1960–2019 College basketball player (1979–1982) Oral Roberts
John William Bishir
1933–2021 Ph.D. North Carolina State University 1961
Kathryn P. Meadow-Orlans
1929–2022 Academic and researcher
Lukas Stone
born 1996 American Pornographic actor, born 1996
Marion Isabel Barnhart
1921–1985 American hematologist
Myles Aaronson
1927–2010 American businessman
Stanley E. Lea
born 1930 American artist
Stella Langford Meienberg
1892–1980 American poet and clergy
Wheaton Galentine
1914–2011 American film director and cinematographer
William Michael Regan
1884–1962 Professor of dairying
Also called Joplin home
FS Fred E. Saalfeld
1935–2020 American chemist
Lloyd Clyde Strickland
1942–2022 American minister of the Christian religion