More Famous Missourians!

• Robert Altman film director;

• Burt Bacharach songwriter;

• Josephine Baker singer and dancer;

• Wallace Beery actor;

• Robert Russell Bennett composer;

• Yogi Berra baseball player;

• Thomas Hart Benton painter;

• Susan Elizabeth Blow educator;

• Bill Bradley basketball player and former N.J. senator;

• Omar N. Bradley five-star general;

• Grace Bumbry soprano;

• William Burroughs writer;

• Sarah Caldwell opera director and conductor;

• Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane) frontierswoman;

• George Washington Carver scientist;

• Walter Cronkite TV newscaster;

• Robert Cummings actor;

• Jane Darwell actress;

• Walt Disney artist;

• Jeanne Eagels actress;

• T. S. Eliot poet;

• Eugene Field poet;

• Redd Foxx actor and comedian;

• Betty Grable actress;

• Dick Gregory comic and activist;

• Jean Harlow actress;

• George Hearn actor;

• Al Hirschfeld artist;

• Edwin Hubble astronomer;

• Langston Hughes poet;

• John Huston film director;

• Jesse James outlaw;

• Scott Joplin composer;

• Bernarr MacFadden physical culturist;

• Mary Margaret McBride TV hostess;

• Marianne Moore poet;

• Geraldine Page actress;

• James C. Penney merchant;

• Marlin Perkins TV host, zoo director;

• John Joseph Pershing general;

• Vincent Price actor;

• Joseph Pulitzer journalist;

• Doris Roberts actress;

• Ginger Rogers dancer and actress;

• Sacajawea Indian guide for Lewis and Clark;

• Ted Shawn dancer and choreographer;

• Casey Stengel baseball player;

• Gladys Swarthout soprano;

• Sara Teasdale poet;

• Virgil Thomson composer;

• Harry S Truman former president;

• Mark Twain author;

• Dick Van Dyke actor;

• Ruth Warrick actress;

• Dennis Weaver actor;

• Pearl White actress;

• Mary Wickes actress;

• Laura Ingalls Wilder author;

• Roy Wilkins civil rights leader.