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{{Refimprove|date=September 2012}}This is a list of notable people born in, residents of, 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 S.L. Baker (1859-?), African American businessman and inventor, lived in St. Joseph.
- Kay Barnes (b. 1938), mayor of Kansas City 1999-2007
- Dwayne Blakley (b. 1979), football player, born in St. Joseph.[2]
- Ryan Bradley (b. 1983), figure skater
- Norbert Brodine, cinematographer
- Byron Browne, baseball player
- Charles Francis Buddy, bishop, attended Christian Brothers School
- Rob Calloway, boxer
- Harold F. Cherniss, historian of ancient Greece and Plato scholar at Princeton
- Walter Cronkite, iconic television journalist, born in St. Joseph; his father was a dentist there
- Paul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network
- Katherine Kennicott Davis, composer of "The Little Drummer Boy"
- Eminem, rapper and recording artist, born in St. Joseph
- Eugene Field, popular poet in his day, worked for the St. Joseph Gazette and wrote a famous poem about Lover's Lane, St. Joseph
- Ralph D. Foster, broadcasting pioneer
- Betty Garrett, actress, known for On the Town and Laverne & Shirley, born in St. Joseph
- Elijah Gates, State Treasurer of Missouri
- Anthony Glise, guitarist
- Jody Hamilton, wrestler
- Larry Hamilton, wrestler
- Fred Harman, artist, drew the Red Ryder cartoons and worked with Walt Disney, born in St. Joseph and worked at Artcrafts Engraving Company in St. Joseph
- Coleman Hawkins, jazz saxophonist[3]
- Shere Hite, sex educator
- Edie Huggins, television journalist[4]
- Jesse James, iconic outlaw, murdered in St. Joseph
- Kagney Linn Karter, porn actress
- Brian McDonald, writer[5]
- Jeff Morris, actor, known for The Blues Brothers, born in St. Joseph
- Timothy Omundson, actor
- Isaac Parker, judge
- Travis Partridge, football player
- Forrest E. Peden, decorated World War II soldier
- Tom Pendergast, political boss
- Seraphine Eppstein Pisko, executive secretary of the Denver Jewish Hospital
- Frank Posegate, mayor of St. Joseph
- LeRoy Prinz, choreographer and film director
- Arthur Pryor, trombonist
- Sid Rogell, Hollywood producer
- Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman elected governor of a U.S. state; governor of Wyoming from 1925-1927[6]
- Martin Rucker, football player
- Martin T. Rucker, politician
- Mike Rucker, football player
- Jay Sarno, hotel mogul, founder of Caesars Palace
- Bill Snyder, Kansas State football coach
- Eddie Timanus, Jeopardy! champion, won five times in 1999 despite being blind
- Steve Walsh, musician of band Kansas
- Ruth Warrick, actress, known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, born in St. Joseph
- James H. Webb, U.S. Senator of Virginia, born in St. Joseph
- Huston Wyeth, industrialist
- Jane Wyman, Oscar-winning actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan, born in St. Joseph
- Delmer J. Yoakum (1915-1996), artist
- Olive Young born in St. Joseph. Actress and blues singer, was silent-films movie star in China but typecasting hurt her in Hollywood.
References1. ^'Don D. Alt,' The Des Moines Register, August 31, 1988, pg.7M 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BLAKLDWA01 |title=Dwayne Blakley |publisher=databaseFootball.com |accessdate=September 29, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530083954/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BLAKLDWA01 |archivedate=May 30, 2012 |df= }} 3. ^Coleman Hawkins Biography, biography.com Retrieved October 27, 2012 4. ^{{cite news|first=Melissa |last=Dribben |title=Edie Huggins 1935-2008: A versatile, dogged, endearing NBC10 face |url=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/obituaries/20080730_A_versatile__dogged__endearing_NBC10_face.html |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |publisher= |date=2008-07-30 |accessdate=2008-08-18 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801223548/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/obituaries/20080730_A_versatile__dogged__endearing_NBC10_face.html |archivedate=2008-08-01 |deadurl=yes |df= }} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://adelaidescreenwriter.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/interview-with-brian-mcdonald-part-1.html|title=Interview with Brian McDonald, part 1 |publisher=Adelaide Screenwriter|accessdate=31 January 2014}} 6. ^{{cite web | title = Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross | publisher = National Governors Association | url = http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_wyoming/col2-content/main-content-list/title_ross_nellie.html | accessdate = October 2013}}
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