- Chuck Graham
Chuck Graham (born February 24, 1965) is a Democratic politician currently representing the 19th Senate District in the Missouri General Assembly, which includes the city of Columbia, Missouri, where he lives. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 with a B.S. in journalism. He was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1996, and served there through 2002. He was first elected to the Missouri State Senate in 2004, … - 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. - Carl Edwards
Carl Michael Edwards, II (born August 15, 1979) is a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series and Busch Series driver for Roush Fenway Racing. In the NEXTEL Cup Series, Edwards drives the #99 Ford Fusion that is primarily sponsored by Office Depot. Other one-race primary sponsors have included Pennzoil, Stonebridge Life Insurance, and the American Automobile Association. His #60 Busch Series car, also a Ford Fusion, … - Darwin Hindman
Darwin Hindman is the current mayor of Columbia, Missouri. He is a strong advocate of building a pedestrian-based transportation system in Columbia and is active in political groups and committees across the state of Missouri. He is a strong supporter of many of Columbia's progressive policies such as recycling programs, and smoking-bans. He was elected mayor in 1995 and is currently serving his four elected term (12th year). His term expires in April 2007. - Tyler Hansbrough
Andrew Tyler Hansbrough (born November 3 1985 in Columbia, Missouri), nicknamed "Psycho T", is an American collegiate basketball player for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men's basketball team. Hansbrough was a member of the 2006 and 2007 Atlantic Coast Conference All Conference Team and the 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year. - 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. - Sam Walton
Samuel Moore Walton (March 29 1918 - April 6 1992), born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma was the founder of two American retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. He was the patriarch of the Walton family, one of the richest families in the world. - Ed Robb
Ed Robb (born July 1, 1942) is former member of the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the president of a consulting firm, and a Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He resides in Columbia, Missouri, with his wife, Rosa. They have five children: Shawn, Melissa, Tom, David, and Adam. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, graduating from Elmwood Park High School in Chicago in 1960. - Judy Baker
Judy Baker (born April 10, 1960) is a college professor, a small businessperson and a member of the Missouri House of Representatives. She lives in Columbia, Missouri with her husband John and their three children, Sarah, Lauren and David. She graduated from Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, Virginia, in 1978, and went on to obtain a B.S. in Educational Psychology from University of Missouri-Columbia in 1981, … - 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. - Sara Evans
Sara Lynn Evans (born February 5, 1971) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Since emerging from the late-90s, Evans has become one of country music's most popular female vocalists, acquiring a few No. 1 country hits and Gold and Platinum-certified albums by the RIAA, like 2004's Restless and 2005's Real Fine Place, which are her biggest selling albums to date. - William Jewell
William Jewell (1789-1852) was an politician, physician, and educator from Columbia, Missouri and namesake of William Jewell College Jewell, who was also once mayor of Columbia, initially wanted the Baptist school to be in Boonville, Missouri. However after Alexander William Doniphan argued that the offer of a larger parcel of undeveloped land in Liberty, Missouri was worth more than the developed land in Boonville, … - Ann Walton Kroenke
Ann Walton Kroenke is, indirectly, an heir to part of the Wal-Mart fortune. Along with her sister, Nancy Walton Laurie, Kroenke inherited stock from father, Bud Walton (d. 1995), who was an early business partner and brother of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. Her husband, Stan Kroenke, is a real estate developer and a billionaire in his own right; he is a part-owner of the St. Louis Rams (NFL) and majority owner of the Denver Nuggets (NBA) and Colorado Avalanche (NHL). - Nancy Walton Laurie
Nancy Walton Laurie is the daughter of the late Bud Walton, the brother and business partner of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. At Bud's death, she and her sister Ann Walton Kroenke inherited a stake in Wal-Mart now worth over USD$6 billion. She is president and founder of a New York City dance company called Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. She and her husband Bill, major contributors to the University of Missouri–Columbia despite neither having attended the school, … - Sarah French
Sarah Sutton French is a beauty queen who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss America pageants. She was born in Dallas, Texas but grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas and is currently living in Columbia, Missouri. French won the Miss Arkansas Teen USA 2004 title in a state pageant held in late 2003. It was her first attempt at the title. She went on to represent Arkansas in the Miss Teen USA 2004 pageant held in Palm Springs, California in August 2004. - Brett James
Brett James is an American country music singer-songwriter. He began his musical career as a recording artist on Arista Nashville in 1995. Eventually, he gained fame as a songwriter, and has written several No. 1 singles for other artists, including "Who I Am" by Jessica Andrews; "Blessed" by Martina McBride; "When the Sun Goes Down" by Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker; and "Jesus, Take the Wheel" by Carrie Underwood. In addition, he has co-written songs for, Sara Evans, … - Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener was an American theoretical and applied mathematician. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is perhaps best known as the founder of cybernetics, a field that formalizes the notion of feedback and has implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society. - William Smith
William Smith (born March 24, 1934 in Columbia, Missouri, USA) is an American actor. He worked as a child actor, but is best known for his numerous roles in low-budget action films playing bikers, cowboys, tough-guys, and villains. He is possibly best-known for playing Falconetti on the TV mini-series "Rich Man, Poor Man". - Jeff Harris
Jeff Harris (born October 7, 1964 is an attorney and a Missouri Democratic politician. He currently serves as Minority Floor Leader. He is married to Katherine Harris, and resides in Columbia, Missouri. He was born in Columbia, and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1987, and from Cornell University with a J.D. in 1991. He was on the board of editors of the "Cornell Law Review" while at that school. - Russ Carnahan
John Russell "Russ" Carnahan (born July 10, 1958) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic party from the state of Missouri. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2004 to represent (map) which is part of the greater St. Louis area. He took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 109th United States Congress on January 4, 2005. He is a member of the New Democrat Coalition. - Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. He was an impassioned critic of the performance of the American economy, and is most famous for his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899). - George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 - July 7, 1879) was an American realist artist, whose work depicts American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River. Left to languish in obscurity, George's work was rediscovered in the 1930s and he is now widely considered one of the greatest American painters of the 1800s. Born in Augusta County, Virginia, George was the second of seven children born to Henry Vest Bingham and Mary Amend. - 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. - E. Stanley Kroenke
Enos Stanley "Stan" Kroenke is an American business entrepreneur who is listed in the Forbes 400 as one of the richest people in the world. His wealth is estimated to be about $2.1 billion and based primarily on real estate. His wife, Anne Walton, is a Wal-Mart heir. Kroenke obtained a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Missouri. - Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson (born October 10, 1948) is an American politician who was Governor of Missouri from October 17, 2000 to January 8, 2001. He is a Democrat, and in August, 2004, became Chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party after endorsing Claire McCaskill in her ultimately successful bid to unseat incumbent Governor Bob Holden in the Democratic Primary. In January, 2007, after previously indicating he was interested in serving another two years, … - John William Boone
John William 'Blind' Boone (May 17, 1864 - October 4, 1927) was an American pianist and composer of ragtime music. - Rob Benedict
Rob Benedict also Robert Patrick Benedict is an American stage and screen actor born in Columbia, Missouri. He is best known for his work on the television science-fiction series "Threshold" and the college drama "Felicity". Rob Benedict graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's degree in Performance Studies. On CBS's "Threshold" Rob played physicist Lucas Pegg, … - Willard Duncan Vandiver
Willard Duncan Vandiver (1854-1932) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the US state of Missouri. He is widely credited with the authorship of the famous expression: "I'm from Missouri, you've got to show me" leading the state's famous nickname, "The Show Me State". Born near Moorefield, Virginia now a part of West Virginia, he moved to Missouri with his parents, who settled on a farm in Boone County in 1857, and to Fayette in 1872. - Tyler Johnson
Tyler Johnson (born June 7, 1981) is an American Major League Baseball player born in Columbia, MO. The left-handed pitcher made his MLB debut on Sept. 6, 2005, for the St. Louis Cardinals. He appeared in five games for the Cardinals in his first season, with a 0.00 earned run average in 2.7 innings pitched. He is mainly a left handed specialist and his devastating slider is his best pitch. Johnson spent most of the 2006 season with the Cardinals, … - William Duane Benton
William Duane Benton (born September 8, 1950 in Springfield, Missouri) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. - Juliet Huddy
Juliet AnnMarie Huddy (born September 27 1969), is an American television news reporter, currently co-hosting the morning talk show, "The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet". - Matt Bartle
Matt Bartle (born February 20, 1965) is a Republican politician from Missouri. He was born in Columbia, Missouri. He graduated from David H. Hickman High School, and went on to get a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a J.D. degree from Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, he was the editor of law review. He is currently a practicing attorney. He is married, and has had two children, Mack and Betsy, … - Jane Froman
Jane Froman (November 10 1907, in University City, Missouri - April 22 1980, in Columbia, Missouri) was an American actress and singer. - Frank P. Briggs
Frank Parks Briggs was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Armstrong, Missouri, he attended Armstrong and Fayette schools and Central College at Fayette from 1911-1914. He graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1915, engaged in the newspaper business that year, and in the publishing business at Macon, Missouri in 1925. He was mayor of Macon from 1930 to 1932 and a member of the Missouri Senate from 1933 to 1944. - John Hiram Lathrop
John Hiram Lathrop was a well-known American educator during the early 19th century. He served as the first President of both The University of Missouri and the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as president of Indiana University. - Dennis R. Heldman
Dennis R. Heldman (born 1938) is an American food scientist who is best known for his work in food engineering. For 2006-7, he is president of the Institute of Food Technologists. - Jon Scott
Jon Scott is an American television news anchor, hosting "Fox News Live" from 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel. Scott began his career as a correspondent for KOMU-TV (NBC) in Columbia, Missouri. Later, he was the weekday evening news anchor, weekend co-anchor and reporter for WPLG-TV (ABC) in Miami. He also worked as a reporter and bureau chief for KUSA-TV (NBC) in Denver. - Kraig Kann
Kraig Kann (born on May 3, 1966 in LaGrange, Illinois) is a personality on The Golf Channel. He is one of three on-air personalities, the others being Brian Hammons and Mike Ritz, to be with The Golf Channel since its launch in 1995. Kann (pronounced as "can") is an anchor of The Golf Channel's "Golf Central", and "Sprint Pre-Game" and "Spring Post-Game" and once served as a play-by-play announcer for the network's PGA TOUR, LPGA, … - Jessica Capshaw
Jessica Capshaw (born August 9 1976 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American actress best known for her role as attorney Jamie Stringer on the ABC legal drama "The Practice". Capshaw is the daughter of Robert Capshaw and actress Kate Capshaw, and step-daughter of director Steven Spielberg. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1994 and Brown University in 1998 with an English degree. - Daniel Webster Jones
Daniel Webster Jones (August 26, 1830 - April 20, 1915) was an American and Mormon pioneer. He was the leader of the group that colonized what eventually became Mesa, Arizona, made the first translation of selections of The Book of Mormon into Spanish, led the first Mormon missionary expedition into Mexico, dealt frequently with the American Indians, …
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