# List of people from St. Joseph, Missouri

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.
* Charles S. L. Baker (1859–1926), African American businessman and inventor, lived in St. Joseph.
* Kay Barnes (b. 1938), mayor of Kansas City 1999–2007
* Stephen Nikola Bartulica (b. 1970), Croatian politician, MEP for Croatia (since 2024)
* Dwayne Blakley (b. 1979), football player, born in St. Joseph.
* 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
* Orson L. Crandall, Naval Officer, Navy Master Diver, Medal of Honor recipient
* Walter Cronkite, iconic television journalist, born in St. Joseph
* Paul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network
* Katherine Kennicott Davis, composer of "The Little Drummer Boy"
* Eminem, rapper and songwriter, born in St. Joseph
* Eugene Field, popular poet in his day, worked for the St. Joseph Gazette
* Harold K. Forsen, Nuclear physicist
* Ralph D. Foster, broadcasting pioneer
* Betty Garrett, actress, born in St. Joseph
* Elijah Gates, State Treasurer of Missouri
* Anthony Glise, guitarist
* Jody Hamilton, wrestler
* Larry Hamilton, wrestler
* Fred Harman, artist, born in St. Joseph
* Coleman Hawkins, jazz saxophonist
* Shere Hite, sex educator
* Edie Huggins, television journalist
* Bela M. Hughes (1817–1903), pioneer, prominent St. Joseph lawyer
* William Hyde (1836–1898), journalist
* Lucie Fulton Isaacs, writer, philanthropist, suffragist
* Jesse James, iconic outlaw, murdered in St. Joseph
* Kagney Linn Karter, porn actress
* Henry Krug, founded Krug Packing Company, gave Krug Park to the City
* Brian McDonald, writer
* Louise Davis McMahon (1873–1966), philanthropist
* Jeff Morris, actor, born in St. Joseph
* Timothy Omundson, actor
* Mary Alicia Owen, Missouri folklorist
* Isaac Parker, judge
* Travis Partridge, football player
* Forrest E. Peden, decorated World War II soldier
* Benjamin F. Peery, physicist, astronomer and professor
* 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
* Randy Railsback, member of the Missouri House of Representatives
* Sid Rogell, Hollywood producer
* Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman elected governor of a U.S. state - Wyoming
* 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
* James H. Webb, U.S. Senator from Virginia, born in St. Joseph
* Silas Woodson (1819–1896), 21st Governor of Missouri, prominent St. Joseph lawyer
* 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