Maya Angelou (1928 - ) Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; born in St. Louis.
	Scott Bakula (1955 - ) Actor of television’s “Quantum Leap”; born in St. Louis.
	Chuck Berry (1926 - ) Singer known for “Johnny B. Goode”; born in Wentzville.
	Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835 - 1910) Author made famous with Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; born in Florida, MO.
	T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) Nobel Prize winning author of The Wasteland; born in St. Louis.
	Kathleen Turner (1954 - ) Actress starring in Romancing the Stone; born in Springfield.

More Famous Entertainers of Missouri

	Robert Altman film director, Kansas City
	Burt Bacharach songwriter, Kansas City
	Josephine Baker singer, dancer, Saint Louis
	Wallace Beery actor, Kansas City
	Robert Russell Bennett composer, Kansas City
	Grace Bumbry soprano, Saint Louis
	William Burroughs writer, Saint Louis
	Sarah CaldWell opera director, conductor, Maryville
	Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) author, Florida
	Robert Cummings actor, Joplin
	Jane DarWell actress, Palmyra
	Jeanne Eagels actress, Kansas City
	James Fergason inventor, Wakenda
	Eugene Field author, poet, Saint Louis
	Redd Foxx actor, comedian, Saint Louis
	John Goodman actor, Affton
	Betty Grable actress, Saint Louis
	Dick Gregory comic, activist, Saint Louis
	Jean Harlow actress, Kansas City
	James Langston Hughes poet, Joplin
	John Huston film director, Nevada
	Mary Margaret McBride TV hostess, Paris
	Marianne Moore poet, Saint Louis
	Geraldine Page actress, Kirksville
	Marlin Perkins TV host, zoo director, Carthage
	Vincent Price actor, Saint Louis
	Ginger Rogers dancer, actress, Independence
	Ted Shawn dancer, choreographer, Kansas City
	Gladys Swarthout soprano, Deepwater
	Sara Teasdale poet, Saint Louis
	Virgil Thomson composer, Kansas City
	Dick Van Dyke actor, West Plains
	Dennis Weaver actor, Joplin
	Pearl White actress, Greenridge