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Senin, 18 Desember 2017

This is a list of notable people who were born or lived in Kansas City, Missouri.

  • Aaron D. Yates -Tech N9Ne - Rapper
  • Bud Abell â€" linebacker in the American Football League; born in Kansas City
  • Oleta Adams â€" singer
  • Amy Alcott â€" professional golfer; born in Kansas City
  • M.A. Alford â€" multimedia artist
  • Henry Wilson Allen â€" Western author and screenwriter
  • Robert Altman â€" film director
  • Raleigh DeGeer Amyx â€" collector of Olympic and Presidential memorabilia
  • Stewart Ashby, Jr. â€" rapper
  • Edward Asner â€" actor, born in Kansas City
  • Ashley Aull â€" 2006 Miss Kansas USA
  • Burt Bacharach â€" pianist and composer
  • Parrish Baker â€" cartoonist
  • Joy Bang - actress born in Kansas City.
  • Kay Barnes â€" mayor of Kansas City 1999â€"2007
  • H. Roe Bartle â€" mayor of Kansas City and namesake of Kansas City Chiefs
  • Count Basie â€" jazz musician and bandleader
  • Noah Beery â€" actor
  • Wallace Beery â€" Oscar-winning actor
  • Thomas Hart Benton â€" artist
  • Richard L. Berkley â€" politician, former mayor
  • Ken Berry â€" baseball player
  • Danni Boatwright â€" Survivor: Guatemala winner; Miss Kansas
  • Johnny Yong Bosch â€" actor, martial artist, voice actor, and musician
  • Connee Boswell - singer
  • Diane Brewster â€" actress
  • Walter Brown â€" blues musician
  • Sylvia Browne â€" psychic and medium
  • Melvin Calhoun â€" rapper
  • Danny Carey â€" drummer for rock band TOOL
  • John D. Carmack â€" game programmer
  • Joe Carter â€" baseball player with Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays, lives in the city
  • Don Cheadle â€" actor, Hotel Rwanda, Ocean's Eleven, Crash
  • Anthony Civella â€" mobster
  • Emanuel Cleaver â€" politician, U.S. Representative for Fifth District in Missouri
  • Gene Clark â€" singer/songwriter with The Byrds
  • Jonathan Coachman â€" ESPN sportscaster, wrestling commentator, college basketball player
  • Jennifer Jo Cobb â€" NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver
  • Robert Coldsnow â€" Kansas legislator and lawyer
  • Evan S. Connell â€" author
  • Chris Cooper â€" Oscar-winning actor
  • John Coughlin â€" figure skater, 2011 U.S. pairs champion
  • Joan Crawford â€" Oscar-winning actress
  • Walter Cronkite â€" CBS television journalist, news anchor
  • Marcus Denmon â€" NBA player
  • Bob Dernier â€" MLB outfielder
  • Walt Disney â€" film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator
  • James T. Draper, Jr. â€" president of Southern Baptist Convention 1982-1984; pastor of Red Bridge Baptist Church in Kansas City 1965-1970
  • Carol Duboc â€" singer, composer, arranger, and actress
  • Amelia Earhart â€" iconic aviator
  • James E. Edmondson â€" Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice
  • Melissa Etheridge â€" singer
  • Harris Faulkner â€" newscaster
  • Samantha Fish â€" Musician
  • Scott Foley â€" actor
  • Lisa Forbes â€" Miss Kansas and Miss Earth USA 2007
  • William P. Foster â€" band director
  • Thomas Frank â€" writer, editor
  • Josh Freeman â€" NFL quarterback
  • Matt Freije â€" NBA player
  • Friz Freleng â€" film producer, director, animator, and cartoonist
  • Caroline Glaser â€" The Voice contestant
  • Maurice Greene â€" sprinter, gold-medalist Olympian in track and field
  • Masten Gregory â€" auto racing
  • Eddie Griffin â€" comedian and actor, Deuce Bigalow, Undercover Brother
  • Karolyn Grimes â€" actress, Zu-Zu in the Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life, lived in town for many years
  • Donald J. Hall, Sr. â€" businessman
  • Joyce Hall â€" businessman, founder of Hallmark Cards
  • Leon Harden â€" football player for Green Bay Packers
  • Jean Harlow â€" actress
  • Jessica Harp â€" country music singer-songwriter, former member of The Wreckers with Michelle Branch
  • Thomas Hayward â€" leading tenor of Metropolitan Opera
  • Robert A. Heinlein â€" science fiction author; his stories are frequently set in or reference Kansas City
  • Ernest Hemingway â€" iconic novelist and short story author
  • Shauntay Henderson â€" FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive, convicted criminal
  • Paul Henning â€" writer, producer of The Beverly Hillbillies TV series
  • Opal Hill â€" golfer and LPGA co-founder
  • Jerry Hines â€" Emmy Award-winning photographer, voted cutest baby of Kansas City 1975
  • Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922â€"2009) â€" biochemist who led synthesis of first enzyme
  • Mabel Hite â€" vaudeville and musical comedy performer, father worked at Owl Drug Store
  • Bob Holden â€" 53rd Governor of Missouri*Dorothy B. Hughes - novelist
  • Jane Dee Hull - 20th Governor of Arizona
  • Jim Humphreys â€" prominent Texas rancher
  • Ub Iwerks â€" animator and cartoonist
  • Pete Johnson â€" blues and jazz pianist
  • Elaine Joyce â€" actress
  • Tim Kaine â€" former Governor and current U.S. Senator from Virginia; 2016 Democratic nominee for Vice president under Hillary Clinton
  • John Kander â€" composer
  • Ewing Kauffman â€" pharmaceutical magnate, philanthropist, and Major League Baseball owner
  • Ellie Kemper â€" actress, The Office, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
  • Vern Kennedy â€" baseball pitcher
  • Bill Kenney â€" politician, ex-Chiefs player
  • Edward Kerr â€" actor, Above Suspicion, Confessions of a Sexist Pig, The Astronaut's Wife
  • Craig Kilborn â€" actor, sportscaster, talk show host
  • Philip Klutznick â€" U.S. Secretary of Commerce to President Jimmy Carter
  • Evalyn Knapp â€" actress
  • Krizz Kaliko (born Samuel Watson, Jr.) â€" rapper
  • Sarah Lancaster â€" actress
  • Frank Sherman Land â€" Freemason and founder of Order of DeMolay, international organization for young men
  • Barbara Lawrence â€" actress
  • William Least Heat-Moon â€" author
  • Muna Lee â€" three-time track and field Olympic finalist
  • Jeff Leiding â€" football player
  • Lesa Lewis â€" IFBB professional bodybuilder
  • Ryan Lilja â€" NFL player for Indianapolis Colts and Kansas City Chiefs, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School graduate
  • Tyronn Lue â€" NBA player and current head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Raytown Senior High School
  • Betty Lynn - actress best known for playing Thelma Lou on The Andy Griffith Show
  • Bill Maas â€" NFL player
  • Arthur Mag â€" lawyer, legal counsel to Harry S. Truman
  • Sean Malto â€" professional skateboarder
  • Amanda Marsh â€" first winner of The Bachelor
  • Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) â€" rapper and actor
  • Denny Matthews â€" sportscaster, author
  • John Mayberry, Jr. â€" baseball outfielder with Philadelphia Phillies
  • Claire McCaskill â€" politician and senator
  • Edie McClurg â€" actress
  • Courtney McCool â€" athlete and Olympian
  • Glenn McGee â€" bioethicist and philosopher
  • Phil McGraw â€" psychologist and talk show host, lived in the area as a teen
  • Katherine McNamara - actress on the TV Show, Shadowhunters on Freeform as Clary Fray
  • Jay McShann â€" blues musician
  • Pat Metheny â€" jazz guitarist
  • Frederick H. Michaelis â€" U.S. Navy Admiral
  • Janelle Monáe â€" singer
  • Wendy Moniz â€" actress
  • Julia Montgomery â€" actress in Revenge of the Nerds and One Life to Live
  • Dennis Moore â€" Congressman, politician
  • Logan Morrison â€" baseball player
  • Paul Morrison â€" politician
  • Tommy Morrison â€" heavyweight boxer
  • Bennie Moten â€" pianist, bandleader
  • Mancow Muller â€" radio personality
  • Richard B. Myers â€" U.S. Air Force General and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Jesse Clyde Nichols â€" developer of commercial and residential real estate
  • William F. Nolan â€" author
  • Satchel Paige â€" baseball pitcher
  • Charlie Parker â€" jazz saxophonist and composer
  • Gordon Parks â€" screenwriter, director, actor, photographer
  • Jamie Paulin-Ramirez â€" American Muslim convert arrested in Jihad Jane plot to kill a Danish artist
  • Rodney Peete â€" NFL quarterback, Fox Sports TV host
  • Tom Pendergast - political boss
  • Tom Pernice, Jr. â€" professional golfer
  • Darrell Porter â€" professional baseball player, author
  • Joe Posnanski â€" sports writer, author
  • William Powell â€" actor
  • Joe Randa â€" baseball player
  • Rob Riggle â€" actor and comedian
  • Bullet Rogan â€" baseball player
  • Ginger Rogers â€" dancer, Academy Award-winning actress, Broadway performer
  • Paul Rudd â€" actor, Ant Man, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
  • Karl L. Rundberg (1899â€"1969) â€" Los Angeles City Council member
  • Brandon Rush â€" NBA player
  • Kareem Rush â€" NBA player
  • Pierre Russell â€" basketball player
  • Ray Sadecki â€" Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Lori Saunders â€" actress, Petticoat Junction
  • Rachel Saunders â€" 2005 Miss Kansas USA
  • Melana Scantlin â€" Miss Missouri USA and Average Joe star, co-host of World Series of Blackjack
  • Wes Scantlin â€" lead singer and rhythm guitarist of rock band Puddle of Mudd, cousin of Melana Scantlin
  • Ted Shawn â€" modern dance pioneer
  • Columbus Short â€" choreographer, actor, singer
  • Sam Simmons â€" former NFL and Arena Football League player
  • Crystal Smith â€" model
  • Jack Sock â€" professional tennis player
  • Alberto Sordi - Italian actor (Honorary citizen)
  • Kate Spade â€" fashion designer
  • Alexis Spight â€" gospel musician
  • Darren Sproles- NFL running back
  • Casey Stengel â€" baseball player and Hall of Fame manager
  • Eric Stonestreet â€" actor, Modern Family
  • George Strohmeyer â€" football player
  • Darrell Stuckey â€" NFL player with the San Diego Chargers
  • Jason Sudeikis â€" actor, Saturday Night Live
  • Justin Swift â€" football player with NFL's Detroit Lions
  • Myra Taylor â€" blues singer, solo career and member of The Wild Women of Kansas
  • Bobb'e J. Thompson â€" child actor
  • Virgil Thomson â€" Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
  • Calvin Trillin â€" food writer, journalist, humorist
  • Marion A. Trozzolo â€" businessman, River Quay
  • Harry S. Truman â€" 33rd President of the United States (from Independence, Missouri)
  • Lisa Tucker â€" writer
  • Big Joe Turner â€" blues singer
  • Henry Clay Van Noy â€" owner of Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company (today known as HMSHost)
  • Grace VanderWaal â€" singer-songwriter, ukuleleist, and season 11 winner of NBC's America's Got Talent
  • Janie Wagstaff â€" 1992 olympic swimmer
  • Dee Wallace â€" actress, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  • Earl Watson â€" basketball player
  • Orla Watson â€" inventor
  • Tom Watson â€" professional golfer, twice Masters champion, five-time British Open winner, World Golf Hall of Fame
  • Ben Webster â€" jazz saxophonist
  • Jason Whitlock â€" sports journalist
  • Charles Wheeler â€" Kansas City Mayor
  • Frank White â€" professional baseball player
  • Dianne Wiest â€" two-time Oscar-winning actress
  • Chuck Wild â€" recording artist, songwriter and composer
  • Jason Wiles â€" actor, played Maurice 'Bosco' Boscorelli in TV series Third Watch
  • Barry Winchell â€" Private First Class, murdered by a fellow soldier for his sexual orientation
  • Smoky Joe Wood â€" a.k.a. The Kansas Cyclone; professional baseball player for Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians
  • Doug Worgul â€" journalist and author of the novel Thin Blue Smoke
  • Chely Wright â€" country music singer
  • Katie Wright â€" actress married to Hank Azaria
  • Jack Wyatt â€" host of ABC's Confession (1958â€"1959); Episcopalian priest
  • Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff â€" model and Miss Teen USA 2017
  • Vanessa Jo Merrell- Youtuber, Singer, Model, Actress, Songwriter,
  • Veronica Jo Merrell- Youtuber, Singer, Model, Actress, Songwriter

See also


Best 25+ Kansas city ideas on Pinterest | Kansas city missouri ...
Best 25+ Kansas city ideas on Pinterest | Kansas city missouri .... Source : www.pinterest.com

  • List of people from Missouri

References


Kansas City, Missouri | Familypedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia
Kansas City, Missouri | Familypedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia. Source : familypedia.wikia.com


Municipal Auditorium (Kansas City, Missouri) - Wikipedia
Municipal Auditorium (Kansas City, Missouri) - Wikipedia. Source : en.wikipedia.org

 
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