The Missouri Wall of Fame is a 500-foot span of flood wall in downtown Cape Girardeau, Missouri, covered with a mural depicting 45 famous people who were born in the state or achieved fame while living there.

Those depicted on the wall include:

• Burt Bacharach
• Josephine Baker
• Thomas Hart Benton The painter.
• Senator Thomas Hart Benton U.S. Senator from Missouri 1821-1851. Served 5 terms.
• Yogi Berra
• George Caleb Bingham
• Susan Elizabeth Blow, founder of first public kindergarten
• Omar Bradley
• George Brett
• Lou Brock
• Jack Buck
• August Busch, of Anheuser-Busch
• Calamity Jane
• Dale Carnegie
• George Washington Carver
• Kate Chopin
• Walter Cronkite
• T. S. Eliot
• Don Faurot, University of Missouri football coach
• Eugene Field
• Redd Foxx
• Joe Garagiola, baseball player and sportscaster
• Linda M. Godwin
• Betty Grable
• Jean Harlow
• Langston Hughes
• John Huston
• Jesse and Frank James
• Scott Joplin
• Rush Limbaugh
• Stan Musial
• Marie Elizabeth Oliver, creator of the state flag of Missouri
• Rose O'Neill
• James Cash Penney
• Marlin Perkins, host of Wild Kingdom
• John J. Pershing
• Vincent Price
• Joseph Pulitzer
• Ginger Rogers
• Tom Sawyer
• Dred Scott
• Jess Stacy, swing pianist
• Harry S. Truman
• Porter Wagoner, country musician
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Tennessee Williams

External link

• Missouri Wall of Fame

History of Missouri | Lists of people | Paintings