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

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
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

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
Zel Fischer, Judge for the Missouri Supreme Court
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

John D. Carmack, video game programmer
Juris Hartmanis, computer scientist, Turing Award by ACM (considered the Nobel Prize of Computing)

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)

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)
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
Benny Kim, Associate Professor of Violin
Kris Kobach, 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

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