André Zahn [CC BY-SA 2.0 de (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/de/deed.en)]
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-?), 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.
- 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
- Shere Hite, sex educator
- Edie Huggins, television journalist
- Jesse James, iconic outlaw, murdered in St. Joseph
- Kagney Linn Karter, porn actress
- Brian McDonald, writer
- 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
- 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.
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