- Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885) was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War, capturing Vicksburg in 1863 and Richmond in 1865. He accepted the surrender of his Confederate opponent Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. - John Goodman
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is a Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor, perhaps best known for his roles on the television series "Roseanne", and in several Hollywood films. - Jim Talent
James Matthes "Jim" Talent (born October 18, 1956) is an American politician and former Senator from Missouri. He is a Republican and resided in the St. Louis area while serving in elected office. He identifies with the conservative wing of the Republican party, being particularly outspoken on judicial appointments, abortion and flag burning. After serving for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives and then working as a lobbyist, … - Rusty Wallace
Russell William "Rusty" Wallace (born August 14, 1956 in Fenton, Missouri) is a former NASCAR champion, NASCAR Busch Series car owner, and television broadcaster with ESPN and ESPN on ABC. Wallace had his first live broadcast of the Indy 500 on May 28, 2006. Wallace appeared in the 1990 film Days of Thunder. - Joe Smith
Joe Smith is a Missouri politician. He resides in St. Charles, Missouri, with his wife Kimberley, and their child, Benjamin. He was born in St. Louis County, Missouri, and graduated from Francis Howell High School in 1991. He later received an A.A. degree from St. Charles Community College in 1998, and a degree cum laude in corporate communications from Lindenwood University in 2000. He is also currently a candidate for a master's degree in Service Agency Management. - B. Gratz Brown
Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 - December 13, 1885) was a Senator, Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican Vice presidential candidate in the election of 1872. - Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith (born December 9, 1973) is an American politician and academic from Missouri. He is currently the Senator from Missouri's 4th District, representing the western portion of the City of St. Louis. Smith was raised in the St. Louis suburb of Olivette, Missouri and graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School. - Todd Akin
W. Todd Akin (born July 5 1947), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing (map). Born in New York City, he later moved to St. Louis, and attended John Burroughs School. After graduating, he attended the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he earned a degree in Management Engineering. He also served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers. - Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore was a Modernist American poet and writer. - Ken Schrader
Kenneth Schrader (born May 29, 1955 in Fenton, Missouri) is a second-generation race car driver. He currently drives the #21 Little Debbie Ford Fusion for Wood Brothers in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series. He appears as a television analyst on Inside Nextel Cup on the Speed Channel. He is also the owner of Ken Schrader Racing, which fields entries for himself in the Craftsman Truck Series and the Dodge Weekly Series for Chris Bristol. - John Miller
John Miller (November 25, 1781- March 18, 1846) was an American publisher and politician from St. Louis, Missouri. He was Governor of Missouri and represented Missouri in the U.S. House. He was born in 1781 in what was then Virginia in present day Martinsburg, West Virginia, and died in 1846 in Florissant, Missouri. He is buried at the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St Louis, Missouri. - Pat Noonan
Pat Noonan (born August 2, 1980 in Ballwin, Missouri) is an American soccer player, who currently plays striker for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. Noonan played college soccer at Indiana University from 1999 to 2002. He was named an NSCAA first-team All-American his senior and junior seasons, and second-team All-American his sophomore year. His senior year, he also finished as runner-up to Alecko Eskandarian for the Hermann Trophy. - William H. Gass
William H. Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. - Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an award-winning American novelist and essayist. Franzen was born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Swarthmore College. He lives on Upper East Side of New York City, and writes for "The New Yorker" magazine. - Pete Weber
Pete David Weber, nicknamed “PDW”, (born July 8, 1962 in St. Ann, Missouri), is a famous bowling professional on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. Weber is one of the sport's most popular active players and is well-known for his maverick, rebellious personality. Weber also starred in the ten-pin bowling sports documentary "A League of Ordinary Gentlemen". - Bob Gale
Michael Robert "Bob" Gale (May 25, 1951, University City, Missouri, United States), is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter who co-wrote the science fiction film "Back to the Future" with writing partner Robert Zemeckis, and the screen plays for the film's two sequels. Gale also coproduced all three films. He is married and although he considers himself a St. Louisan at heart, he currently lives in the Los Angeles area. - Phyllis Smith
Phyllis Smith is an American film and television actress who plays Phyllis Vance on "The Office". She was born in Lemay, MO, which is just outside of St. Louis. In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked as a dancer, a cheerleader for the old St. Louis football Cardinals, and a burlesque performer ("No stripping, but I did wear feathers," says Smith). She had to quit dancing after suffering a knee injury. Smith worked in Hollywood in casting, and occasionally as an actress, … - Charlie Dooley
Charlie A. Dooley is an American politician. He currently serves as the County Executive of St. Louis County, Missouri. Dooley is the first African-American to hold this position. He is a Democrat. Dooley grew up in St. Louis, attending the St. Louis Public Schools and graduated from Wellston High School. He served in the army during the Vietnam War and was honorably discharged in 1968. - Jenna Fischer
Jenna Fischer (born March 7, 1974) is an actress best known for her role as Pam Beesly in the U.S. adaptation of "The Office". For 2006, she and the rest of the cast from "The Office" received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. She most recently starred in the movie "Blades of Glory". - Dick Weber
Dick Weber (December 23 1929 - February 13 2005) was a famous bowling professional and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). Weber was known not only as a bowling superstar, but was also a bowling pioneer and one of the sport's most popular players. Weber moved to Florissant, Missouri in 1955 to form a soon-to-be legendary bowling team called the Budweisers (after the popular American beer brand). - David Hager
W. David Hager is an American physician with a medical board certification in obstetrics and gynecology. In the fall of 2002, Hager, a leading conservative Christian voice on women's health and sexuality, was appointed to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by U.S. President George W. Bush. - Clay Felker
Clay Schuette Felker is a magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968. Born on October 2, 1925, in Webster Groves, Felker went on to attend Duke University, where he edited the student newspaper, "The Chronicle". After graduating in 1951, Felker went on to work as a sportswriter for "Life Magazine". He later worked for "TIME", "Esquire", and the "New York Herald Tribune". - Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin (May 11, 1930 - May 31, 1995) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships. - Lloyd C. Stark
Lloyd Crow Stark (November 23, 1886 - September 17, 1972) was a Governor of the U.S. state of Missouri. He was a Democrat. Stark was born near Louisiana, Missouri. He was a major in the U.S. Army during World War I. He served as the Governor of Missouri from 1937 to 1941 and was a delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri in 1940. Lloyd Stark had a fierce political rivalry with Harry S. Truman, … - Harriett Woods
Harriett Woods (June 2 1927 - February 8 2007) was an American politician and activist, a two-time Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Missouri, and a former Lieutenant Governor of the state of Missouri. Born Ruth Harriett Friedman in Cleveland, Ohio, she received her BA degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. She married Jim Woods on January 2 1953. - Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 - July 5, 1991) was United States Poet Laureate on two separate occasions: from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to 1990. "The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov" won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus. - Bob Orton Jr.
Robert Keith Orton, Jr. (born November 10, 1950 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Cowboy" Bob Orton. Orton is a WWE Hall of Famer and is the father of Randy Orton, currently a prominent wrestler with World Wrestling Entertainment. His father, Bob Orton, Sr., and brother, Barry O, were also professional wrestlers. - George Sisler
George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 - March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George," was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for 15 seasons, primarily as a first Baseman with the St. Louis Browns. Although his career ended in 1930, from 1920 until 2004, Sisler held the MLB record for most hits in a single season. The Baseball Hall of Fame elected Sisler in 1939. - Fred Blassie
Fred Blassie (February 8, 1918 - June 2, 2003), better known as "Classy" Freddie Blassie, was an American professional wrestler and manager born in St. Louis, Missouri who was a popular wrestling villain. He was a master at antagonizing the crowd, and inspired legendary animosity. - Jack Buechner
John W. "Jack" Buechner (born June 4, 1940) is a politician from the U.S. state of Missouri. He is a Republican. Buechner was raised in Kirkwood, Missouri and attended parochial schools. He graduated from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas and graduated with an BA in political science. He received his JD from Saint Louis University School of Law. He was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1972 and was re-elected five times. - Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr.
Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr. (8 August 1919 - 1 February 2006) was an American politician and the 12<sup>th</sup> Governor of Arizona, serving from January 1965 till January 1967. He also remained active in politics following his term in office, serving on the Democratic National Committee and as chairman of the Arizona Democratic State Committee. - William Hedgcock Webster
William Hedgcock Webster (born March 6, 1924) was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence from 1987 to 1991. He was a former federal judge who ascended to the CIA after his successful coups against the New York mafia families while director of the FBI under President Jimmy Carter. - Bruce Alger
Bruce Reynolds Alger (born June 12, 1918) is a former Republican congressman from Texas, the first to have represented a Dallas district since Reconstruction. He served from 1955 until 1965. He was born in Dallas but was reared in Webster Groves, Missouri, a small St. Louis suburb. - Forrest C. Donnell
Forrest C. Donnell (August 20, 1884 - March 3, 1980) was a United States Senator and a Governor of Missouri. He was a Republican - Joe Buck
Joseph Francis Buck (born April 25, 1969) is an American sportscaster, and the son of the late Hall of Fame sportscaster Jack Buck. He has won numerous Sports Emmy Awards for his play-by-play work with Fox Sports television. - Bill Mueller
William Richard Mueller [MILL-er] (born March 17, 1971) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman who currently serves as the hitting coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Mueller's playing career was spent with the San Francisco Giants (1996-2000, 2002), Chicago Cubs (2001-02), Boston Red Sox (2003-2005), and Los Angeles Dodgers (2006). He won the American League batting title in 2003, and helped the Red Sox win the 2004 World Series. - Ken Rothman
Kenneth J. Rothman (born October 11, 1935) is an American lawyer and politician from Missouri. He served as Lieutenant Governor of the state from 1981 to 1985. Rothman was born and raised in St. Louis and attended public schools. He graduated from Washington University with a A.B. in history and political science and also received his law degree from Washington University. - Richard Rosenberg
Richard Rosenberg (1951-1992) (born Michael Knight in Chicago, Illinois, name changed after adoption as an infant) was an amateur filmmaker and science fiction & comic book fan in University City, Missouri who made films with Bob Gale prior to Gale's beginning his professional career. Rosenberg took over the "Commando Cus" parody film series from Gale and wrote and directed the third film in the series, "Commando Cus vs. Kung Fu Killers" in 1973. - Joseph Paul Franklin
Joseph Paul Franklin(born April 13, 1950) is an American serial killer who may have killed as many as 20 people between 1977 and 1980. He has been convicted of several murders, and has confessed to the attempted assassinations of two prominent people: the 1978 shooting of magazine publisher Larry Flynt and Flynt's attorney, and the 1980 shooting of Vernon Jordan. Franklin has not been convicted in either of those cases. - Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained a A.B. at Vassar College, then earned a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar.
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