List of University of Missouri–Kansas City people
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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, US Senator
- 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
- Sharice Davids, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Kansas' 3rd District
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
- Hazel Volkart, composer
- J. Michael Yates, poet and dramatist
- Nick Gehlfuss, actor
Science and technology[]
- John D. Carmack, video game programmer
- Juris Hartmanis, computer scientist, Turing Award by ACM (considered the Nobel Prize of Computing)
Business[]
- Thomas D. Barr (1931–2008), prominent lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- 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); current commissioner for the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (2017 - present)
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-Keynesian 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
- Noliwe Rooks, one of the first Black professors in the College of Arts and Sciences,[2] associate director of the African-American program at Princeton University, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature at Cornell University, chair of and professor in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University, founding director of the Segrenomics Lab at Brown University
- 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.
- ^ Ness, Carol (February 25, 1996). "For these black women, gains outnumber pains". SFGate. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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