List of people from Kansas City, Missouri
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This is a list of people who were born or lived a significant part of their lives in Kansas City, Missouri or the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.
- Oleta Adams – singer
- Ashley Aull – 2006 Miss Kansas USA
- Robert Altman – film director
- Nate Archibald– basketball player with the Kansas City Kings
- Brooke Ashley – adult actress and a former Miss Teen Kansas City runner up
- Ed Asner – actor
- Burt Bacharach – pianist and composer
- H. Roe Bartle – former mayor of Kansas City and namesake of the Kansas City Chiefs
- Count Basie – jazz musician
- Kay Barnes– former mayor of Kansas City 1999-2007
- Richard L. Berkley – politician, former mayor
- Noah Beery – actor
- Wallace Beery – actor
- Thomas Hart Benton – artist
- Danni Boatwright– ESPN host, Survivor: Guatemala winner, and former Miss Kansas USA
- George Brett – professional baseball player
- Walter Brown– Blues Musician
- Sylvia Browne – psychic and medium
- Joe Carter – famous Baseball player with the Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays, lives in town
- Don Cheadle – actor Hotel Rwanda, Ocean's Eleven, Crash
- Eminem – rapper
- Emanuel Cleaver – politician, current member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the Fifth District in the state of Missouri
- Andrea Ciliberti – 2005 Miss Missouri USA
- Earl Cole – Survivor: Fiji winner
- Evan S. Connell – author
- Chris Cooper – actor
- Jennifer Jo Cobb– Nascar Bush series driver
- Michael J. Cox – author
- Walter Cronkite – journalist, television news anchor
- Joan Crawford – actress
- Len Dawson– Kansas City Chiefs pro football hall of fame Quarterback and announcer and KMBC sports director
- Marisol Deluna – fashion designer, received a BFA degree from the Kansas City Art Institute
- Walt Disney – film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator
- Melissa Etheridge – singer
- Scott Foley – actor
- Lisa Forbes – ex Miss Kansas USA and was in The Bachelor in Paris -- eliminated in the first round
- Thomas Frank – writer, editor
- Friz Freleng – film producer, director, animator, and cartoonist
- Matt Freije – NBA player
- Mark Funkhouser – mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
- Trent Green – Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback
- Maurice Greene – Olympic athlete
- Masten Gregory – auto racing
- Eddie Griffin – comedian and Actor Deuce Bigalow Undercover Brother
- Karolyn Grimes –actress, Zu-Zu in the Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life, lived in town for many years
- Donald J. Hall, Sr. – businessman
- Joyce Hall – businessman, founder of Hallmark Cards
- Jean Harlow – actress
- Jessica Harp– Country Music Singer and now member of the The Wreckers with Michelle Branch
- Jim Humphreys – prominent Texas rancher
- William Least Heat-Moon– author
- Robert A. Heinlein – science fiction author
- Paul Henning – writer of The Beverly Hillbillies TV series, producer
- Ernest Hemingway – novelist and short story author
- Priest Holmes – professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs
- Dick Howser– former manager of the Kansas City Royals
- Lamar Hunt – college football player and sports promoter; owner of the Kansas City Chiefs
- Ub Iwerks – animator and cartoonist
- Pete Johnson – jazz pianist
- Ewing Kauffman – American pharmaceutical magnate, philanthropist, and Major League Baseball owner.
- Bill Kenney– politician ex-Kansas City Chiefs player
- Craig Kilborn– actor Talk Show host
- Phill Kline – politician
- Tara Knott – Olympian
- Sarah Lancaster – actress
- Suzanne Lieurance – freelance writer
- Rush Limbaugh – conservative radio talk show host
- Michael T. Lynch – author, freelance writer
- Bill Maas – ex NFL player
- Amanda Marsh– first winner of The Bachelor
- Claire McCaskill– politician senator
- Edie McClurg– actress
- Hal McRae– baseball player and manager with Kansas City Royals
- Courtney McCool – olympian
- Phil McGraw – psychologist and talk show host, lived in area as teen
- Jay McShann – Blues musician
- Denny Matthews – sportscaster, author
- Pat Metheny – jazz guitarist
- Dennis Moore– Senator politician
- Paul Morrison – politician
- Tommy Morrison – Boxer
- Mancow Muller – radio host
- Mike Murphy – radio talk show host
- Richard B. Myers – United States Air Force General and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil – professional baseball player for the Negro American League with the Kansas City Monarchs
- Jesse Clyde Nichols – businessman, developer of commercial and residential real estate
- William F. Nolan – author
- Gordon Parks– writer director actor photographer
- Satchel Paige – Legendary baseball player
- Charlie Parker – jazz saxophonist
- H.O. Peet – industrialist founder of Colgate-Palmolive
- Rodney Peete – ex-NFL player and now Fox Sports tv host
- Darrell Porter – professional baseball player, author
- Albert Pujols – baseball player who lives in Kansas City and plays for St. Louis Cardinals
- Joe Randa – professional Baseball player
- Bullet Rogan – professional baseball player
- Paul Rudd – actor in such films as Clueless, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Kareem Rush – NBA player
- Rachel Saunders – 2005 Miss Kansas USA
- Melana Scantlin– former Miss Missouri USA and Average Joe star and also cohost of the World Series of Blackjack
- Crystal Smith – former playmate
- Sam Simmons– NFL player with Steelers
- Kate Spade – Fashion designer
- Casey Stengel – professional baseball player
- Dee Wallace-Stone – actress, mother in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Mike Sweeney – baseball player with Kansas City Royals
- Justin Swift– Detroit Lions NFL Football player
- Tony Temple– Cleveland Browns football player, leading rusher (281 yards) in Cotton Bowl while playing for the Missouri Tigers.
- Virgil Thomson– Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
- Lisa Tucker (author) – writer
- Derrick Thomas – professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs
- Bobb'e J. Thompson – American child actor
- Calvin Trillin – journalist, humorist, and novelist
- Marion A. Trozzolo – businessman, River Quay
- Harry S. Truman – 33rd President of the United States (Independence, Missouri)
- Big Joe Turner – blues singer
- Henry Clay Van Noy – businessman, owner of the Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company (today known as HMSHost)
- Matt Vogel – Muppets Performer and Sesame Street Muppeteer
- Amy Wagstaff – 1992 olympic swimmer
- Earl Watson– Basketball player
- Tom Watson – professional golfer
- Dianne Wiest – actress
- Jason Whitlock – sports journalist for the The Kansas City Star and former Espn Contributor
- Charles Wheeler (politician) Former Kansas City Mayor
- Frank White – professional baseball player
- Chely Wright – Country Music singer
- Katie Wright – actress
- Smokey Joe Wood – professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians
- Jonathan Coachman – wrestling commentator & former college basketball player