David Cone – Major League Baseball pitcher Evan S. Connell – author Chris Cooper – Oscar-winning actor John Coughlin – figure skater, 2011 U.S. pairs champion Joan Crawford – Oscar-winning actor Walter Cronkite – CBS television journalist, news anchor D Marcus Denmon – NBA player Bob Dernier – MLB outfielder DeLos F. DeTar - scientist Walt Disney – film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff – model and Miss Teen USA 2017 James T. Draper Jr. – president of the Southern Baptist Convention 1982–1984; pastor of Red Bridge Baptist Church in Kansas City 1965–1970 Carol Duboc – singer, composer, arranger, and actress E James E. Edmondson – Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice F Harris Faulkner – newscaster Samantha Fish – musician Scott Foley – actor Lisa Forbes – Miss Kansas and Miss Earth USA 2007 William P. Foster – band director Thomas Frank – writer, editor Josh Freeman – NFL quarterback Matt Freije – NBA player Friz Freleng – film producer, director, animator, and cartoonist G Caroline Glaser – The Voice contestant Maurice Greene – sprinter, gold-medalist Olympian in track and field Masten Gregory – auto racing Eddie Griffin – comedian and actor, Deuce Bigalow, Undercover Brother Karolyn Grimes – actress, Zu-Zu in the Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life, lived in town for many years H Donald J. Hall, Sr. – businessman Joyce Hall – businessman, founder of Hallmark Cards Leon Harden – football player for Green Bay Packers Jean Harlow – actress Jessica Harp – country music singer-songwriter, former member of The Wreckers with Michelle Branch Thomas Hayward – leading tenor of Metropolitan Opera Robert A. Heinlein – science fiction author; his stories are frequently set in or reference Kansas City Ernest Hemingway – iconic novelist and short story author Shauntay Henderson – FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive, convicted criminal Paul Henning – writer, producer of The Beverly Hillbillies TV series Opal Hill – golfer and LPGA co-founder Jerry Hines – Emmy Award-winning photographer, voted cutest baby of Kansas City 1975 Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009) – biochemist who led synthesis of first enzyme Mabel Hite – vaudeville and musical comedy performer, father worked at Owl Drug Store Clara Cleghorn Hoffman (1831–1908) – temperance activist Bob Holden – 53rd Governor of Missouri Dorothy B. Hughes – novelist Jane Dee Hull – 20th Governor of Arizona Jim Humphreys – prominent Texas rancher I Sean Ingram – musician