Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Boone County, Missouri
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Notable people== {{Div col|colwidth=40em|rules=no}} *[[James William Abert]] β soldier and explorer *[[David W. Alexander]], 19th century Los Angeles, California politician and sheriff *[[Thomas M. Allen (Missouri clergyman)|Thomas M. Allen]] β clergyman *[[Benjamin Anderson]] β economist *[[Gary Anderson (running back)|Gary Anderson]] β football player *[[Simon Barrett (filmmaker)|Simon Barrett]] β filmmaker *[[Rob Benedict]] β actor *[[Duane Benton]] β judge *[[Rebecca Blank]] β educator; acting [[U.S. Secretary of Commerce]] (2011-2011; 2012β2013) *[[Philemon Bliss]] β [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Ohio]] (1855β1859), 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Dakota Territory]], and Associate Justice of [[Missouri Supreme Court]] (1868β1872) *[[John William Boone]] β musician *[[Stratton D. Brooks]] β college president *[[Fleda Brown]] β poet *[[Jessica Capshaw]] β actress *[[Russ Carnahan]] β [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Missouri]] (2005β2013) *[[Albert Bishop Chance]], inventor of the [[earth anchor]], mayor of [[Centralia, Missouri|Centralia]], and founder of the A.B. Chance Company *[[J'den Cox]] β wrestler, Olympic medalist *[[Kevin Croom]] β UFC [[Mixed Martial Artist]] *[[Jack D. Crouch]] β hotelier *[[Deke Dickerson|Derek "Deke" Dickerson]] β musician *[[Carl Edwards]] β retired [[NASCAR]] driver *[[Jane Froman]] β singer; actress *[[Nicole Galloway]] β [[State Auditor of Missouri|Missouri State Auditor]] (2015-2023), Democratic nominee for [[Governor of Missouri]] ([[2020 Missouri gubernatorial election|2020]]) *[[Chuck Graham]] β politician *[[Kenneth W. Griffin|Ken Griffin]] β organist *[[Eugene Jerome Hainer]] β [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Nebraska]] (1893β1897) *[[William Least Heat-Moon]] β writer *[[Martin Heinrich]] β [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[New Mexico]] (2013βpresent), [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[New Mexico]] (2009β2013) *[[Peter Hessler]] β journalist *[[Darwin Hindman]] β mayor of Columbia (1995β2010) *[[Brett James]] β singer *[[William Jewell (educator)|William Jewell]] β educator, second mayor of Columbia *[[Leon W. Johnson]] β Air Force General *[[Tyler Johnson (baseball, born 1981)|Tyler Johnson]] β baseball pitcher *[[Daniel Webster Jones (Mormon)|Daniel Webster Jones]] β [[Mormon]] pioneer *[[John Carleton Jones]] β president of the [[University of Missouri]] *[[Lloyd E. Jones]] β [[United States Army]] [[Major general (United States)|major general]] *[[Kraig Kann]] β golf commentator *[[Henry Kirklin]], horticulturalist, first black instructor at the University of Missouri *[[E. Stanley Kroenke]] β sports mogul *[[Sergei Kopeikin]] β astrophysicist *[[Ken Lay]] β chief executive, [[Enron]] *[[Grace Lee (director)|Grace Lee]] β radio and television personality *[[Guy Sumner Lowman, Jr.]] β [[linguist]] *[[Jeff Maggert]] β professional golfer *[[William Rainey Marshall]] β 5th [[Governor of Minnesota]] (1866β1870) *[[William L. Nelson (politician)|William L. Nelson]] β [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Missouri]] (1861β1865) *[[John Neihardt]] β poet *[[Don Nardo]] β author *[[Korla Pandit]] β musician *[[Carlos Pena Jr.]] β singer *[[Michael Porter Jr.]] β basketball player for [[Denver Nuggets]] *[[William Rainey Marshall]] β Minnesota Governor *[[James S. Rollins]] β 19th-century politician *[[James S. Rollins (20th-century politician)]] *[[Jesse M. Roper]] β 19th-century naval officer *[[Charles Griffith Ross]] β press secretary for [[U.S. President]] [[Harry S. Truman]] *[[Felix Sabates]] β [[philanthropist]] *[[Max Schwabe]] β [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Missouri]] (1943β1949) *[[Jon Scott]] β television journalist *[[John F. Shafroth]] β [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Colorado]] (1913β1919), [[Governor of Colorado]] (1909β1913), [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Colorado]] (1895β1904) *[[Clay Shirky]] β writer *[[Apollo M. O. Smith]] β aviation executive *[[William Smith (actor)|William Smith]] β actor *[[William J. Stone]] β [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Missouri]] (1903β1918), [[Governor of Missouri]] (1893β1897), [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Missouri]] (1885β1891) *[[Blake Tekotte]] β baseball player *[[Malcolm Thomas (basketball, born 1988)|Malcolm Thomas]] β professional basketball player *[[Nischelle Turner]] β television personality *[[Zbylut Twardowski]] β [[nephrologist]] *[[Charlie Van Dyke]] β radio personality *[[Andrew VanWyngarden]] β musician *[[James "Bud" Walton]] β co-founder, [[Wal-Mart]] *[[Sam Walton]] β co-founder, [[Wal-Mart]] *[[Edwin Moss Watson]] β editor; publisher *[[Norbert Wiener]] β mathematician *[[Lisa Wilcox]] β actress *[[Roger B. Wilson]] β 52nd [[Governor of Missouri]] (2000β2001) {{div col end}}
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Boone County, Missouri
(section)
Add topic