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]

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