- Chase Daniel
Chase Daniel is an American football quarterback. He is currently in his sophomore year at the University of Missouri, where he is starting at quarterback for the Missouri Tigers. Daniel prepped at newly famed Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas, where the team won a 5A Division II state title in 2004 and runner up in 2003. After playing his sophomore year at wideout, Daniel was a two-year starter at QB, leading his team to a 31-1 record.
- Mike Anderson
Mike Anderson is an American college basketball coach, who was appointed as the head men's coach at the University of Missouri on March 26, 2006. As of the end of the 2005-2006 season, Anderson had finished his fourth year as the head coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. At UAB, Anderson coached the Blazers three appearances in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament over four years, and one appearance in the National Invitation Tournament.
- Dennis Crouch
Dennis D. Crouch (born April 30, 1975 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American patent attorney who worked for McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP (MBHB) in Chicago, Illinois, until 2007. He recently accepted a position as an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia, Missouri. In 1997, he received his B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.
- Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill (born July 24, 1953) is an American Democratic politician, currently the junior United States Senator from the state of Missouri and former State Auditor of Missouri. She defeated Republican Senator Jim Talent in 2006 by a margin of 50% to 47%. Along with Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, she is one of two female senators in the 110th United States Congress freshman class. She is the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri in her own right.
- Gary Pinkel
Gary Pinkel (born April 27, 1952) is the head football coach at the University of Missouri. Pinkel, who has been coaching at Missouri since the 2001 football season, previously coached at the University of Toledo, where he experienced success in the Mid-American Conference, winning a conference championship with the Rockets in 1995. Pinkel's record at Mizzou is 37-34, and his conference record is 20-28. Gary Pinkel graduated from Kenmore High School in Akron, Ohio, …
- Kenny Hulshof
Kenneth C. "Kenny" Hulshof is a politician from the U.S. state of Missouri, currently representing (map) in the United States House of Representatives. Hulshof was born in Sikeston, Missouri and attended the University of Missouri. Hulshof earned his J.D. from the University of Mississippi Law School. Prior to serving in Congress, Hulshof worked in the public defender's office and as a special prosecutor for the Missouri attorney general's office.
- Brian Smith
Brian Smith is an American photographer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games in the "Orange County Register". In 1988, he was again a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil for the "Miami Herald". His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games won top awards from World Press Photo, …
- Walter Williams
Walter Williams (July 2, 1864 - July 29, 1935) was the founder of the Missouri School of Journalism and a former president of the University of Missouri. Williams was born in Boonville, Missouri. After graduating Boonville High School he served as an apprentice at the Boonville Topic where he made 75 cents a week and then moved to the Boonville Advertiser. In 1888 he worked doing press releases for the Missouri State Penitentiary.
- Sarah Steelman
Sarah Steelman (born May 3, 1958) is an American politician from Missouri. She was born in Jefferson City and educated in the Jefferson City public schools. In 2004 she was elected State Treasurer. She is a member of the Republican Party. Steelman's political career began with her election to the Missouri State Senate in 1998, representing Rolla, Missouri and surrounding counties.
- Quin Snyder
Quin Snyder is the current head coach of the NBDL's Austin Toros. He is also the former head men's basketball coach of the University of Missouri. He is also a former assistant coach at his alma mater of Duke University. Snyder was also the son-in-law of legendary coach Larry Brown. He resigned during the 2006 season, although some believe he was forced out by athletic director Mike Alden.
- Justin Smith
Justin Smith is an American football player who plays defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals. He played high school football for Jefferson City High School and college football at the University of Missouri and was selected fourth overall in the 2001 NFL Draft by the Bengals. In his first five seasons, he has totalled 312 tackles and 37 sacks. He started his 2006 season on a big note, by sacking Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback Trent Green three times in the season opener.
- Kellen Winslow
Kellen Boswell Winslow (born 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in East St. Louis, Illinois) is a former professional American football tight end with the University of Missouri and the San Diego Chargers.
- Brad Smith
Bradley Alexander Smith, son of Phillip and Sherri Smith, is a former American college football player for the University of Missouri and currently plays for the New York Jets.
- Ben Askren
Ben Askren is an American amateur wrestler for the University of Missouri. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, his family moved to Wisconsin, where he won two state championships. In college, he wrestled in the 174 lb. weight class. He lost the NCAA championship match to Chris Pendleton in both 2004 and 2005 before winning it in 2006. He is known for his incredible pinning ability (he holds the single-season NCAA pin record and is on track to achieve the career record, …
- Norm Stewart
Norm Stewart was an American college basketball coach. He coached at the University of Northern Iowa (then known as State College of Iowa) from 1961 to 1967, but is best known for his career with the University of Missouri from 1967 until 1999. He retired with an overall coaching record of 731-375 in 38 seasons. The court at Mizzou Arena (and previously at the Hearnes Center) is named in his honor.
- Ike Skelton
Isaac Newton "Ike" Skelton IV (born December 20 1931) has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1977. A Democrat, he represents. The district includes most of the west-central part of the state, including the state capital, Jefferson City. Skelton is currently the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, being selected at the start of the 110th Congress. He had previously served as has the ranking Democrat on the Committee since 1998.
- Sam Graves
Samuel "Sam" Graves is a politician from the U.S. state of Missouri, currently representing (map) in the United States House of Representatives. Graves was born in Tarkio, Missouri and he graduated from the University of Missouri. Graves was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1992 as a Republican and he was then elected to the Missouri State Senate in 1994. In 2000, Congresswoman Pat Danner suddenly retired due to breast cancer.
- John Kelly
John Kelly (born November 1, 1984) is an amateur golfer who plays for the University of Missouri and was runner-up in the 2006 U.S. Amateur Championship. Kelly was born in St. Louis, Missouri and graduated from Christian Brothers College High School. During his run to the U.S. Amateur final Kelly beat several nationally ranked players, including Trip Kuehne (who was runner-up to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur).
- Larry Smith
Larry Smith (born September 12 1939) is a former college football head coach at Tulane University (1976-79), the University of Arizona (1980-86), the University of Southern California (1987-1992), and the University of Missouri (1994-2000). At USC, his teams won three consecutive Pacific Ten Conference titles from 1987-89, and won the 1990 Rose Bowl over Michigan. During his tenure at Missouri, the team compiled a 33-46-1 record.
- Eugene Field
Eugene Field (September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for poetry for children and for humorous essays. Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After the death of his mother he was raised by a cousin in Amherst, Massachusetts. Field attended Williams College in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, his father, Roswell Field, died when he was nineteen and he dropped out after eight months.
- Neal Smith
Neal Edward Smith was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa from 1959 until 1995 — the longest period of time any Iowa Representative has ever served in the United States House of Representatives. He served in the United States Army Air Force during the Second World War as a bomber pilot. His plane was shot down and he received a Purple Heart, nine Battle Stars, and the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters.
- Mike Jones
Michael Anthony Jones is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. During his NFL career, which started in 1991 and ended after 2002, Jones played on three teams: the Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, the St. Louis Rams, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jones attended college at the University of Missouri, where he originally played as a running back. He was converted to the linebacker position when he signed with the Raiders as a rookie free agent.
- Doug Smith
Douglas ("Doug") Smith is an American former basketball player who was selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1st round (6th overall) of the 1991 NBA Draft. Smith played in five NBA seasons, for the Mavericks and the Boston Celtics and averaged 8.8 ppg in his career. He played collegiately at the University of Missouri, where his number 34 is retired.
- Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel is a professor of Journalism Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), a research organization that specializes in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press. PEJ is non partisan, non ideological, and non political. Formerly affiliated with the Columbia School of Journalism, it separated from Columbia University in 2006 and joined the Pew Research Center, …
- Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize.
- Edgar Allen
Edgar Allen was an American anatomist and physiologist. He is known for the discovery of estrogen and his role in creating the field of endocrinology. Born on Cañon (Canyon) City, Colorado, Allen was educated at Brown University. After serving in World War I he worked at Washington University, until he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at the University of Missouri in 1923. Ten years later he was appointed to the chair at Yale University.
- David Limbaugh
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His book "Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party" (Regnery) was recently released in paperback. To find out more about David Limbaugh , please visit his website, www.davidlimbaugh.com . And to read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website .
- John McLean
John F. McLean (born June 12, 1878) was the head football coach at Missouri from 1903 to 1905. His record at Missouri stands at 9-17-1. He had better success at Knox College, where he compiled a 15-5-3 record from 1901 to 1903. He played college football at Michigan.
- Clarence Cannon
Clarence Andrew Cannon (April 11 1879 - May 12 1964) was a Democratic Congressmember from Missouri. He was a notable parliamentarian and chaired the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations. Born in Elsberry, Missouri, Cannon graduated from La Grange Junior College in Hannibal, Missouri in 1901, from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri in 1903, and from the law school of the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1908.
- Cindy Stein
Cindy Stein is the head women's basketball coach for the University of Missouri. She graduated in 1984 from the University of Illinois. She has compiled a 112-97 career mark at Missouri as well as a 177-122 overall mark. She has led the Tigers to 2 NCAA tournament berths, including a 2001 Sweet Sixteen appearance. She has had 29 selections to the Academic All Big 12 teams.
- Rickey Paulding
Rickey Paulding is a former college basketball player for the University of Missouri. He entered the 2004 NBA Draft, and was selected by the Detroit Pistons. In his collegiate career he scored 1,200 points and grabbed 300 rebounds. Remembered by his fans for scoring 37 points and making an astounding nine threes against Dwyane Wade, Travis Diener and the Marquette Golden Eagles in the Elite 8 his junior year, he opted to return for his senior season.
- Kyle Hawkins
Kyle Hawkins is the former head coach of the University of Missouri–Columbia men's lacrosse team, a non-varsity club sport. In May 2006, he discussed his sexual orientation with several media outlets, including the "New York Daily News" and MSNBC.com after having revealed to his university and team that he was gay. In April of 2007, the story again hit the national airwaves with an Associated Press story featured on MSNBC.com.
- Martin Frost
Jonas Martin Frost III (born January 1, 1942) is an American politician, who was the Democratic representative to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Texas 24th Congressional District from 1979 to 2005. He was married to U.S. Army Major General (Retired) Kathryn Frost until her death in 2006. Born in Glendale, California, Frost grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1964 with bachelor's degrees in journalism and history, …
- Scott Cairns
Scott Cairns is an American poet, memoirist and essayist. Born in Tacoma, Washington, he was educated at Western Washington University, Hollins College, Bowling Green State University, and the University of Utah. He is currently Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Missouri. Cairns is the author of six collections of poetry, one collection of translations of Christian mystics, one spiritual memoir, …
- Linas Kleiza
Linas Kleiza (pronounced as) (born January 3, 1985 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player in the NBA for the Denver Nuggets. Kleiza, a 6'8", 245 lb (2.03 m, 111 kg) small forward-power forward, graduated from Montrose Christian School, in Rockville, Maryland, in 2003. He played two seasons under coach Stu Vetter and was named the Gatorade High School Player of the Year for the state of Maryland in 2003.
- Joe Maxwell
Joe Maxwell is an American politician. He served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995, in the Missouri State Senate from 1995 to 2000 and as Missouri's Lieutenant Governor from 2000 to 2005. He is a Democrat and is from Audrain County. He graduated from the University of Missouri.
- Pat Forde
Pat Forde is a senior sports columnist for ESPN.com who specializes in the coverage of horse racing and college sports, mainly NCAA Division I Football and Men's Basketball. Besides his column's on ESPN's front page, Forde also writes a weekly "Forde Yard Dash" during the NCAA football regular season, featuring 40 mentions of college football from the previous week, as well as a weekly "Dashette", a female model or celebrity that has a name ending with a vowel.
- Charles Stark Draper
Charles Stark Draper, Sc.D. is often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." Born in Windsor, Missouri, he attended the University of Missouri in 1917, Stanford University, California in 1919, and MIT in 1922. While at MIT, he earned an S.B. in electrochemical engineering in 1926, and an S.M. and Sc.D. in physics in 1928 and 1938 respectively. While at MIT, he founded the Instrumentation Laboratory in the 1930s, …
- Frank Stack
Frank Huntington Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon) (b. 1937) is an American underground cartoonist. Working under the name Foolbert Sturgeon to avoid persecution for his work while living in the bible belt, Stack published what is considered by many to be the first underground comic book, "The Adventures of Jesus", in 1962. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BFA in 1959.
- James S. Rollins
James Sidney Rollins was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Missouri. Born in Richmond, Kentucky, Rollins completed preparatory studies, attended Centre College and graduated from the Indiana University in 1830. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834, commencing practice in Columbia, Missouri.