This is a list of the notable faculty of the University of Missouri: professors, lecturers and researchers.
Arts, film, music and literature edit
- Omowale Akintunde filmmaker
- William Berry emeritus professor, former chair of art department
- George Caleb Bingham American 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 edit
- Chester Brewer, MU football coach
Education edit
- James Thomas Quarles, organist and educator
History edit
- 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 edit
- Judy Bolch, Houston Harte Chair in Journalism
- Roy M. Fisher, Dean of School of Journalism (1971–1982)
Government and Law edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- Joseph Haslag Kenneth Lay Chair in Economics
- Thorstein Veblen economist
- Winifred Smeaton Thomas, anthropologist