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Notable People Born In Or Otherwise Closely Associated With The City Of St. Joseph, Missouri. – St. Joseph Mo and Life in the Midwest

This is a non-exhaustive list of notable people born, resident, or otherwise closely associated with the city of St. Joseph, Missouri.
- Don Alt (1916–1988), Iowa State Representative and businessman; born in St. Joseph.[1]
- Charles SL Baker (1859–1926), African American businessman and inventor, lived in St. Joseph.
- Kay Barnes (born 1938), Mayor of Kansas City 1999–2007
- Dwayne Blakley (born 1979), footballer born in St. Joseph.[2]
- Ryan Bradley (born 1983), figure skater
- Norbert Brodine, cameraman
- Byron Browne, baseball player
- Charles Francis Buddy, Bishop, attended the Christian Brothers School
- Rob Galloway, boxer
- Harold F. Cherniss, historian of ancient Greece and Plato scholar at Princeton
- Walter Cronkite, famous television journalist, born in St. Joseph; his father was a dentist there
- Paul Crouch, Founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network
- Katherine Kennicott Davis, composer of “The Little Drummer Boy”
- Eminem, rapper and songwriter, born in St. Joseph
- A popular poet in his day, Eugene Field worked for the St Joseph Gazette and wrote a famous poem about Lover’s Lane, St Joseph
- Harold K. Forsen, nuclear physicist
- Ralph D. Foster, broadcast pioneer
- Betty Garrett, actress, known for On the Town and Laverne & Shirley, was born in St Joseph
- Elijah Gates, Missouri State Treasurer
- Jody Hamilton, wrestler
- Larry Hamilton, wrestler
- Fred Harman, artist, drew the Red Ryder cartoons and worked with Walt Disney, who was born in St Joseph and worked at Artcrafts Engraving Company in St Joseph
- Coleman Hawkins, jazz saxophonist[3]
- Shere Hite, sex educator
- Edie Huggins, TV journalist[4]
- Bela M. Hughes (1817–1903), pioneer born in Kentucky, was a prominent St. Joseph attorney in the 1850s and 1860s[5]
- William Hyde (1836–1898), journalist
- Lucie Fulton Isaacs, writer, philanthropist, suffragette
- Jesse James, legendary outlaw, murdered in St. Joseph
- Kagney Linn Karter, porn actress
- Brian McDonald, writer[6]
- Jeff Morris, actor, known from The Blues Brothers, born in St. Joseph
- Timothy Omundson, actor
- Mary Alicia Owen, Missouri folklorist
- Isaac Parker, Judge
- Travis Partridge, football player
- Forrest E. Peden, decorated soldier of World War II
- Tom Pendergast, Political Chief
- Seraphine Eppstein Pisko, executive director of the Denver Jewish Hospital
- Frank Posegate, Mayor of St Joseph
- LeRoy Prince, choreographer and film director
- Arthur Pryor, trombonist
- Randy Railsback, Member of the Missouri House of Representatives
- Sid Rogell, Hollywood producer
- Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman elected governor of a US state; Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927[7]
- Martin Rucker, soccer player
- Martin T. Rucker, politician
- Mike Rucker, soccer player
- Jay Sarno, hotel mogul, founder of Caesars Palace
- Bill Snyder, Kansas State Soccer Coach
- Eddie Timanus, Jeopardy! Champion, won five times in 1999 despite being blind
- Steve Walsh, musician of the band Kansas
- Ruth Warrick, actress, known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, was born in St. Joseph
- James H. Webb, US Senator from Virginia, born in St. Joseph
- Silas Woodson (1819–1896), 21st Governor of Missouri, born in Kentucky, was a prominent 19th-century St. Joseph attorney[5]
- Houston Wyeth, industrialist
- Jane Wyman, Oscar winner and first wife of Ronald Reagan, born in St. Joseph
- Delmer J. Yoakum (1915-1996), artist
- Olive Young, born at St. Joseph; actress and blues singer; was a silent movie star in China, but typecasting hurt her in Hollywood.
- Orson L. Crandall, Naval Officer, Navy Master Diver, Medal of Honor recipient[8]