List of people from Columbia, Missouri
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Many people have lived in Columbia temporarily, while attending one of the city's institutions of higher education; such people are not included in this list. For lists of people who attended college in Columbia see:
A–D
- James William Abert – soldier and explorer
- Thomas M. Allen – clergyman
- Benjamin Anderson – economist
- Gary Anderson – football player
- Judy Baker – politician
- Simon Barrett – filmmaker
- Matt Bartle – politician
- Rob Benedict – actor
- Duane Benton – judge
- Rebecca Blank – educator; U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Philemon Bliss – judge
- John William Boone – musician
- Stratton D. Brooks – college president
- Fleda Brown – poet
- Jessica Capshaw – actress
- Russ Carnahan – politician
- J'den Cox – Olympic freestyle wrestler
- Kevin Croom – UFC mixed martial artist
- Jack D. Crouch – hotelier
- Derek "Deke" Dickerson – musician
E–L
- Carl Edwards – retired NASCAR driver
- Jane Froman – singer; actress
- Nicole Galloway – politician
- Chuck Graham – politician
- Ken Griffin – organist
- Eugene Jerome Hainer – Nebraska politician
- Jeff Harris – politician
- William Least Heat-Moon – writer
- Martin Heinrich – U.S. senator from New Mexico
- Peter Hessler – journalist
- Darwin Hindman – mayor of Columbia (1995–2010)
- Brett James – singer
- William Jewell – educator, second mayor of Columbia
- Leon W. Johnson – Air Force general
- Tyler Johnson – baseball pitcher
- Daniel Webster Jones – Mormon pioneer
- John Carleton Jones – president of the University of Missouri
- Lloyd E. Jones – United States Army major general
- Kraig Kann – golf commentator
- Henry Kirklin – horticulturalist, first black instructor at the University of Missouri
- Walt Koken (born 1946) – claw-hammer banjo player, fiddler, and singer
- Sergei Kopeikin – astrophysicist
- E. Stanley Kroenke – sports mogul
- Ken Lay – chief executive, Enron
- Grace Lee – radio and television personality
- Drew Lock - American football quarterback for Seattle Seahawks
- Guy Sumner Lowman, Jr. – linguist
M–S
- Jeff Maggert – golfer
- Howard Wight Marshall – professor, folk historian, fiddler
- William Rainey Marshall – fifth governor of Minnesota
- Don Nardo – author
- John Neihardt – poet
- William L. Nelson – politician
- Korla Pandit – musician
- Carlos Pena Jr. – singer
- Jontay Porter – basketball player
- Michael Porter Jr. – basketball player for Denver Nuggets
- James S. Rollins – 19th-century politician
- Jesse M. Roper – 19th-century naval officer
- Charles Griffith Ross – press secretary for U.S. President Harry S. Truman
- Felix Sabates – philanthropist
- Therese Sander – farmer; politician
- Max Schwabe – politician
- Jon Scott – television journalist
- John F. Shafroth – Colorado politician
- Clay Shirky – writer
- Apollo M. O. Smith – aviation executive
- William Smith – actor
- William J. Stone – 28th governor of Missouri
