Top 10 most important and famous people from Missouri

Writer, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Poet, author of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948

President who decided to use the Atomic Bombs

Director of Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad

Actor famous for his roles in Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Actress, dancer and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for her role in Kitty Foyle

Actress who was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and famous for her roles in Red-Headed Woman and Red Dust

Dancer, singer and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture: Siren of the Tropics

Singer, Johnny B Good named the Father of Rock and Roll

Rapper, Lose Yourself, Rap God