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^[1]
• 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^[2]
• 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^[3]
• 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^[4]
• Shere Hite, sex educator
• Edie Huggins, television journalist^[5]
• Bela M. Hughes (1817–1903), pioneer, prominent St. Joseph lawyer^[6]
• 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^[7]
• Louise Davis McMahon (1873–1966), philanthropist^[8]
• 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^[9]
• 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^[6]
• 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