List of University of Missouri–Kansas City people
The following is a list of notable people associated with the University of Missouri–Kansas City, located in the American city of Kansas City, Missouri.
Notable alumni
Politics and government
- Thomas D. Barr, lawyer at the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- Brian Birdwell, Texas State Senator
- Hilary A. Bush, Missouri lieutenant governor
- David F. Duncan, drug policy consultant to President Bill Clinton
- Zel Fischer, Judge for the Missouri Supreme Court
- Clarence M. Kelley, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1973–1978
- Sam Page, Missouri State Representative for 6 years and 2008 Candidate for Missouri State Lieutenant Governor
- Bill Reardon, Kansas politician
- Rick Scott, Governor of Florida
- Katheryn Shields, Jackson County executive
- Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (attended night classes at the Law School but never graduated from any college)[1]
- William L. Webster, Missouri politician
- Charles Evans Whittaker, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
- Michael D. Sanders, Jackson County Executive
- Michael J. Stephens, Missouri State Representative
Media and arts
- Robert Brookmeyer, jazz trombonist
- Danny Carey, drummer for the band Tool
- Rajiv Chilaka, Creator of Cartoon TV programs, most notable for Chhota Bheem
- Vinson Cole, international opera star, tenor
- Mike Keefe, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
- Edie McClurg, actress
- James Mobberley, composer and musician
- Mikel Rouse, music composer
- Craig Stevens, actor
- Leith Stevens, film composer
- Shelby Storck, television producer
- Connor Trinneer, actor
- J. Michael Yates, poet and dramatist
- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, dancer, Founder of New York-based, Urban Bush Women, concert dance company and choreography center
Science and technology
- John D. Carmack, video game programmer
- Juris Hartmanis, computer scientist, Turing Award by ACM (considered the Nobel Prize of Computing)
Business
- Jay B. Dillingham, President of the Kansas City Stockyards
- Clarence Ollson Senior, Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America and academic
Athletics
- Tony Dumas, basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks; the only player from UMKC to be drafted in the NBA (1994)
- Donald Fehr, Executive Director, National Hockey League Players Association
- Mike Racy (J.D., 1992), former NCAA vice president (1993–2013); incoming commissioner for the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (February 2017)
Notable faculty
- William K. Black, lawyer, author, former bank regulator, and developer of the concept of "control fraud"
- John Ciardi, poet, translator of Dante
- Louis Colaianni, author, voice and speech coach
- Vinson Cole, voice teacher, international opera singer (tenor)
- Horace B. Davis, Marxian economist, fired in 1954 after refusing to testify before HUAC
- John Ezell, award-winning scenic designer, Hall Family Foundation Professor of Design
- Mark Funkhouser, former Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
- Michael Hudson, research professor of economics and a former Wall Street analyst
- Jason Kander, former Missouri Secretary of State
- Benny Kim, Associate Professor of Violin
- Kris Kobach, current Kansas Secretary of State, on leave as Daniel L. Brenner Professor of Law, former White House fellow
- Jan Kregel, post-Keynsian economist, professor of economics
- Felicia Hardison Londré, theatre historian and dramaturg, Dean of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre
- Zhou Long, contemporary classical composer, professor of musical composition, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
- Ernest Manheim, sociologist, namesake of Manheim Hall
- Tom Mardikes, sound designer, music producer, Chair of UMKC Theatre
- Hans Morgenthau, political scientist and founder of classical realism in international relations
- Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Theodore Swetz, actor, stage director, and professor
- Whitney Terrell, author, journalist, and professor
- Bobby Watson, Jazz saxophonist
- Chen Yi, contemporary classical composer, professor of musical composition
- Rich Zvosec, former basketball coach
References
- ↑ "Harry S. Truman – Life Facts". American Presidents: Life Portraits. C-SPAN. Archived from the original on 4 November 1999. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
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