List of University of Missouri faculty explained

This is a list of the notable faculty of the University of Missouri: professors, lecturers and researchers.

Arts, film, music and literature

• Omowale Akintunde, filmmaker
• William Berry, emeritus professor, former chair of art department
• George Caleb Bingham, artist
• Michael J. Budds, musicologist
• Melissa Click, mass communications educator
• Julia Gaines, percussionist
• Albert Lewin, film director and producer
• Lily Mabura, Kenyan writer
• Howard Wight Marshall, fiddler, historian, and folk expert

Athletics

• Chester Brewer, MU football coach

Education

• James Thomas Quarles, organist and educator

History

• Lewis Eldon Atherton, historian, Guggenheim fellow
• Susan Porter Benson (1943–2005), labor historian
• Kerby A. Miller, historian of Ireland and Irish immigration, currently teaching at the University of Missouri.

Journalism

• Judy Bolch, Houston Harte Chair in Journalism
• Roy M. Fisher, dean of School of Journalism (1971–1982)

Government and law

• Duane Benton, federal judge
• Philemon Bliss, Ohio congressman
• Dennis Crouch, author of the widely read "Patently-O" blog on United States patent law
• Chuck Gross, former Missouri senator
• Ed Robb, former director of the College of Business and Public Administration Research Center, the Economic Policy and Analysis Research Center, and the State and Fiscal Studies Unit.

Science and technology

• James William Abert, explorer
• Edgar Allen, discovered estrogen
• Leonard Blumenthal, mathematician
• Rick Brandenburg, etymologist
• Max Mapes Ellis, physiologist and explorer
• David C. Geary, developmental psychologist
• Linda M. Godwin, former astronaut, astronomy and physics professor
• Mary Jane Guthrie, zoologist and cancer researcher
• Eliot S. Hearst, psychologist and professional chess player
• Steve Hofmann, mathematician
• Bahram Mashhoon, general relativity physicist
• Maurice Mehl, paleontologist and geologist
• George Rédei, plant biologist
• George P. Smith, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Zbylut Twardowski, nephrologist

Social sciences

• Joseph Haslag, Kenneth Lay Chair in Economics
• Winifred Smeaton Thomas, anthropologist
• Thorstein Veblen, economist