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.

Kay Barnes, mayor of Kansas City
Dwayne Blakley, football player, born in St.Joseph.
Ryan Bradley, figure skater
Jerry Brady
Norbert Brodine, cinematographer
Charles Francis Buddy, bishop, attended Christian Brothers School
Rob Calloway, boxer
Walter Cronkite, iconic television journalist, born in St. Joseph and his father was a dentist there
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
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
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
Coleman Hawkins, jazz saxophonistColeman Hawkins Biography, biography.com Retrieved October 27, 2012
Shere Hite, sex educator
Edie Huggins, television journalist
Jesse James, iconic outlaw, murdered in St. Joseph
Kagney Linn Karter, porn actress
Brian McDonald, writer 
Timothy Omundson, actor
Issac Parker, judge
Travis Partridge, football player
Forrest E. Peden, decorated World War II soldier
Tom Pendergast, political boss
Arthur Pryor, trombonist
Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman elected governor of a U.S. state; governor of Wyoming from 1925-1927
Martin Rucker, football player
Martin T. Rucker, politician
Mike Rucker, football player
Jay Sarno, hotel mogul, founder of Caesar's Palace
Bill Snyder, Kansas State football coach
Steve Walsh, musician of band Kansas
Ruth Warrick, actress
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
Eugene Field, popular poet in his day, worked for the St. Joseph Gazette and wrote a famous poem about Lover's Lane, St. Joseph
Delmer J. Yoakum, artist

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