Editing Boonville, Missouri (section)

==Notable people==
* [[George Ainslie (delegate)|George Ainslie]], Congressional delegate from [[Idaho Territory]].
* [[Nathaniel Albertson]], U.S. Congressman from [[Indiana]]
* [[Cathy Barton]], [[folk music]] singer and musician
* [[Henry S. Benedict]], U.S. Congressman from [[California]]
* [[Bill Corum]], New York sportswriter and sportscaster and [[Churchill Downs]] racetrack president, attended school in Boonville
* [[John Cosgrove (Missouri politician)|John Cosgrove]], U.S. Congressman from Missouri
* [[Don Dee]], basketball player
* [[Sara Evans]], [[country music]] singer and songwriter
* Colonel [[Arthur M. Hitch]], Superintendent of [[Kemper Military School]], 1928–1948
* Colonel [[Thomas A. Johnston]], Builder of [[Kemper Military School]], Superintendent and President from 1881 to 1928
* [[Frederick T. Kemper]], founder of school later known as [[Kemper Military School]]
* [[Carl Lachmund]], classical pianist
* [[Julia Lee (musician)|Julia Lee]], blues singer and pianist
* Julius and William Manger, founders of [[Manger Hotels]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=William Foreman |title=History of Cooper County |date=1919 |page=917 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ChEAQAAMAAJ |access-date=7 October 2021}}</ref>
* Bob and [[Bill Meistrell]], inventors of the [[Body Glove]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bob-meistrell-20130618-story.html | title=Bob Meistrell dies at 84; co-founder of surfwear firm Body Glove | work=Los Angeles Times | date=17 June 2013 | access-date=20 April 2015 | author=Chawkins, Steve}}</ref>
* [[John Gaines Miller]], U.S. Congressman from Missouri
* [[Henry L. Myers]], U.S. Senator from Montana
* [[Theron Moses Rice]], U.S. Congressman from [[Missouri]]
* [[Joseph Franklin Rutherford]] (Founder of [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] and 2nd President of the [[Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania|Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society]]) Other references list his birthplace as [[Versailles, Missouri]]
* [[Doc Quigg]], journalist
* [[Lon Vest Stephens]], Governor of Missouri and State Treasurer
* [[Minus Story]] (band)
* [[James Milton Turner]], educator and diplomat who helped establish Sumner School
* [[George Graham Vest]], U.S. Senator from Missouri
* [[C. T. Vivian|C.T. Vivian]], American writer and civil rights activist
* [[Florence Warfield Sillers]], historian and socialite
* [[Walter Williams (journalist)|Walter Williams]], founder of the [[Missouri School of Journalism]] and former president of the [[University of Missouri]]
* [[Robert Patterson Clark Wilson]], U.S. Congressman from [[Missouri]]