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Robert Altman film director, Kansas City Burt Bacharach songwriter, Kansas City Josephine Baker singer, dancer, Saint Louis Wallace Beery actor, Kansas City William Bent fur trader, pioneer, Saint Louis Robert Russell Bennett composer, Kansas City Yogi Berra baseball player, Saint Louis Thomas Hart Benton painter, Neosho Bill Bradley basketball player, Crystal City Omar Nelson Bradley five-star general, Clark Grace Bumbry soprano, Saint Louis William Burroughs writer, Saint Louis Sarah Caldwell opera director, conductor, Maryville Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane) frontierswoman, Princeton Dale Carnegie teacher of public speaking, Maryville George Washington Carver educator, agricultural chemist, Diamond Grove Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) author, Florida Walter Cronkite TV newscaster, Saint Joseph Robert Cummings actor, Joplin Jane Darwell actress, Palmyra Charles Stark Draper inventor, Windsor Jeanne Eagels actress, Kansas City T. S. Eliot poet, Saint Louis James Fergason inventor, Wakenda Eugene Field author, poet, Saint Louis Redd Foxx actor, comedian, Saint Louis James W. Fulbright senator, Sumner John Goodman actor, Affton Betty Grable actress, Saint Louis Dick Gregory comic, activist, Saint Louis Jean Harlow actress, Kansas City Edwin Hubble astronomer, Marshfield Jack S. Kilby inventor, Jefferson City James Langston Hughes poet, Joplin William Lear aviation inventor, Hannibal Rush Limbaugh communicator, Cape Girardeau John Huston film director, Nevada Jesse James outlaw, Centerville Bernarr MacFadden physical culturist, Mill Springs Mary Margaret McBride TV hostess, Paris Robert D. Maurer inventor, St. Louis Marianne Moore poet, Saint Louis Geraldine Page actress, Kirksville James C. Penney merchant, Hamilton Marlin Perkins TV host, zoo director, Carthage John J. Pershing army leader, pershing rifles, Linn County Vincent Price actor, Saint Louis Ginger Rogers dancer, actress, Independence Charles M. Russell painter, artist St. Louis Nellie Tayloe Ross first woman elected governor of a state, Saint Joseph Ted Shawn dancer, choreographer, Kansas City Casey Stengel baseball player, Kansas City Gladys Swarthout soprano, Deepwater Sara Teasdale poet, Saint Louis Virgil Thomson composer, Kansas City Harry S. Truman U.S. president, Lamar Mark Twain author, Florida Dick Van Dyke actor, West Plains Dennis Weaver actor, Joplin Pearl White actress, Greenridge Roy Wilkins civil rights leader, Saint Louis

Also: Walt Disney, Marceline Nelly,Rapper, St. Louis Harry Truman, Lamar Brad Pitt,actor, Springfield Sheryl Crow, singer/songwriter, Kennett "The Unsinkable" Molly Brown,Titanic Passenger,Hannibal Ulysses S. Grant, Union Army General (Civil War) Scott Bakula, actor, St. Louis Jenna Fischer,actress, St. Louis Kevin Kline, actor, St. Louis Cedric the Entertainer, actor, Jefferson City Eminem,rapper, St. Joseph Charlie "Bird" Parker, jazz musician and composer, KC Sara Evans, country singer, Booneville Porter Wagoner,country music legend ,West Plains David Cook, American Idol 2008, Blue Springs Shandi Finnessey, Miss USA 2004, Florissant Harry Caray, baseball broadcaster, St. Louis Jamie McMurray, NASCAR driver, Joplin Kenny Schrader, NASCARdriver, Fenton Rusty Wallace, NASCAR driver, Fenton Kenny Wallace, NASCAR driver, Fenton Mike Wallace, NASCAR driver, Fenton Maya Angelou, author/civil rights activist, St.Louis Kimora Lee Simmons,model/author/entrep., St.Louis Carl Edwards, Nascar driver, Columbia I'm sure that there are many more which we have missed. Thank you for posting this question. This really got me thinking about Missouri and some of the great people who have come from here. Great Question!

I'd say either Harry Truman or Walt Disney.

I'd say Harry S. Truman left a pretty big mark on the world.

That is a tough one. It basically boils down to 3 people. Jesse James is still constantly talked about in books, tv shows and his life and death continues to be researched well over 100 yrs. after his death. Harry Truman will always be known as the President who ordered the dropping of the Atom Bombs on Japan. He will also be known for his comback in the 1948 election to win reelection. Rush Limbaugh will be written about by historians for the next 100 yrs. or more about his remarkable influence over politics in the U.S.. Starting in 1988 when his radio show went National he single handedly convinced conservatives it was OKAY to come out of the closet and proudly proclaim their CONSERVATISM. Because of this, Newt Gingrich was able to use the CONTRACT WITH AMERICA that allowed Republicans to gain control of the House of Representatives for the first time in almost 40 yrs.