List of University of Missouri–Kansas City people explained
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
- Brian Birdwell, Texas State Senator
- Hilary A. Bush, Missouri lieutenant governor
- Sharice Davids, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Kansas' 3rd District
- David F. Duncan, drug policy consultant to President Bill Clinton
- Zel Fischer, Missouri Supreme Court Judge
- Jeffrey Friedman, mayor of Austin, Texas
- Allan J. Katz, City Commissioner of Tallahassee and Ambassador to Portugal
- Clarence M. Kelley, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1973–78
- Melissa Oropeza, current member of the Kansas House of Representatives
- Sam Page, Missouri State Representative for six years, and 2008 candidate for Missouri's lieutenant governor
- Bill Reardon, Kansas politician
- Rick Scott, US Senator
- Clarence Senior, Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America and academic
- 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
Athletics
- Roberto Albuquerque, soccer defender, USL Championship (USL)
- Coady Andrews, soccer defender, Major Indoor Soccer League and USL
- Manny Catano, soccer midfielder, USISL, Eastern Indoor Soccer League, and the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL)
- Levi Coleman, soccer forward, USL and NPSL
- Kevin Corby, soccer goalkeeper, Major Arena Soccer League and USL
- 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
- Eric McWoods, soccer forward, League of Ireland Premier Division
- Jony Muñoz, soccer midfielder, 2020 Gatorade Boys' Soccer Player of the Year
- Bryan Pérez, soccer midfielder, United States Soccer Federation and USL
- Mike Racy (J.D., 1992), former NCAA vice president (1993–2013); current commissioner for the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (2017–present)
- Jordan Rideout, soccer forward, USL
- Connor Sparrow, soccer goalkeeper, Major League Soccer and USL
- Bob Stein (born 1948), football linebacker; College Football Hall of Fame, Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Super Bowl champion; played for the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams, Minnesota Vikings, and San Diego Chargers; graduated in the top 10% of the UMKC Law School
- Deshon Taylor (born 1996), basketball player for Hapoel Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Business
Media and arts
- Ike Amadi, voice actor
- Rita Blitt (born Rita Copaken; 1931), painter, sculptor, and filmmaker
- 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, opera tenor
- Nick Gehlfuss, actor
- Tara Dawn Holland, Miss America 1997
- Mark Katzman, writer and musician
- Mike Keefe, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
- Suzanne Klotz (born 1944), painter and sculptor
- 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
Science, technology, and medicine
Notable faculty
- William K. Black, lawyer, author, former bank regulator, and developer of the concept of "control fraud"
- Moissaye Boguslawski (1887–1944), pianist, composer, editor and teacher
- John Ciardi (1916–1986), 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
- J. Camille Hall, vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion
- Michael Hudson, research professor of economics and former Wall Street analyst
- Jason Kander (born 1981), attorney, author, veteran, former Missouri Secretary of State
- 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-Keynesian economist, professor of economics
- John D. Lantos (born 1954), pediatrician, expert in medical ethics, Professor of Pediatrics
- 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
- Yudell Luke (1918–1983), mathematician, awarded the N. T. Veatch award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity, Curator's Professor
- Ernest Manheim, sociologist, namesake of Manheim Hall
- Tom Mardikes, sound designer, music producer, Chair of UMKC Theatre
- Hans Morgenthau (1904–1980), political scientist and founder of classical realism in international relations
- Ryan Pore (born 1983), former professional soccer player, and head coach of the Roos men's soccer team since January 2020[2]
- Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Noliwe Rooks, one of the first Black professors in the College of Arts and Sciences,[3] associate director of African-American program at Princeton University, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature at Cornell University, chair of/professor in Africana Studies Department at (and founding director of Segrenomics Lab at) Brown University
- Mei-Ling Shyu, professor of electrical and computer engineering
- 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
Notes and References
- News: Harry S. Truman – Life Facts. 18 September 2016. . C-SPAN. https://web.archive.org/web/19991104004512/http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp?PresidentNumber=32. 4 November 1999.
- Ryan Pore to Lead Kansas City Men's Soccer Program . University of Missouri Kansas City & CBS Sports Digital . January 14, 2020 . 14 January 2020 .
- News: Ness . Carol . For these black women, gains outnumber pains . 24 August 2021 . SFGate . February 25, 1996.
