List of people from Kansas City, Missouri
This is a list of famous residents, who were either born, or lived a significant part of their lives, in Kansas City, Missouri (or nearby suburbs):
- Robert Altman – film director
- Ed Asner – actor
- H. Roe Bartle – former mayor of Kansas City and namesake of the Kansas City Chiefs
- Count Basie – jazz musician
- Wallace Beery – actor
- Burt Bacharach – pianist and composer
- George Brett – professional baseball player
- Don Cheadle – actor
- Evan S. Connell – author
- Chris Cooper – actor
- Michael J. Cox – author, pharmacist
- Walter Cronkite – journalist, television news anchor
- Emanuel Cleaver – politician, current member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the Fifth District in the state of Missouri
- Walt Disney – film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator
- Melissa Etheridge – singer
- Friz Freleng – film producer, director, animator, and cartoonist
- Masten Gregory – auto racing
- Eddie Griffin – comedian
- Bill Grigsby – sportscaster, author
- Joyce Hall – businessman, founder of Hallmark Cards
- Jean Harlow – actress
- Robert A. Heinlein – science fiction author
- Ernest Hemingway – novelist and short story author
- Priest Holmes – professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs
- 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.
- Suzanne Lieurance – freelance writer
- Rush Limbaugh – conservative radio talk show host
- Michael T. Lynch – author, freelance witer
- Denny Matthews – sportscaster, author
- Pat Metheny – jazz guitarist
- Richard B. Myers – United States Air Force General and current 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
- Charlie Parker – jazz saxophonist
- Casey Stengel – professional baseball player
- Derrick Thomas – professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs
- Peter "Pookie" Thornhill – author
- Calvin Trillin – journalist, humorist, and novelist
- 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)
- Smokey Joe Wood – professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians