- Robert Altman, film director
- Maya Angelou, author
- Henry Armstrong, (1912-1988), boxer
- Scott Bakula, actor
- Yogi Berra, baseball player and aphorist
- Chuck Berry, rock musician
- Linda Blair, actor
- Omar Bradley, (1893-1981), World War II general
- William S. Burroughs, author
- Harry Caray, baseball broadcaster
- George Washington Carver, (1860 - 1943), American botanist
- Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), "Mark Twain", author
- Walter Cronkite, television journalist
- Don S. Davis, actor
- Budd Dwyer, politician
- T. S. Eliot, poet
- Eminem, musician
- Max Factor, cosmetologist
- Redd Foxx, comedian
- John Goodman, actor
- Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author
- Langston Hughes, African American poet
- Jesse James, American outlaw
- Andreas Katsulas, actor
- Kevin Kline, actor
- William Least Heat Moon, author
- Rush Limbaugh, political commentator
- Dennis L. McKiernan, author
- Pat Metheny, musician
- John Milius, film director
- Dan O'Bannon, film director
- Charlie "Bird" Parker, jazz musician
- Basil Poledouris, composer
- Vincent Price, actor
- Phyllis Schlafly, activist
- Harry S. Truman, (1884 - 1972), 33rd President of the United States
- Kathleen Turner, actor
- Jane Wyman, actor