List of University of Missouri–Kansas City people

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

Harry S. Truman

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

Bob Stein

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

Business

Thomas D. Barr (1931–2008), prominent lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Henry W. Bloch (1922–2019), businessman and philanthropist, co-founded tax-preparation company H&R Block
Jay B. Dillingham, president of the Kansas City Stockyards

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

John D. Carmack, video game programmer
Juris Hartmanis, computer scientist, Turing Award by ACM (considered the Nobel Prize of Computing)
Jonathan Metzl (born 1964), psychiatrist and author, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, and the author of multiple books, including The Protest Psychosis and Dying of Whiteness

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

References

^ "Harry S. Truman – Life Facts". American Presidents: Life Portraits. C-SPAN. Archived from the original on 4 November 1999. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
^ "Ryan Pore to Lead Kansas City Men's Soccer Program" (Press release). University of Missouri Kansas City & CBS Sports Digital. January 14, 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
^ Ness, Carol (February 25, 1996). "For these black women, gains outnumber pains". SFGate. Retrieved 24 August 2021.

[1] "Harry S. Truman – Life Facts". American Presidents: Life Portraits. C-SPAN. Archived from the original on 4 November 1999. Retrieved 18 September 2016.

[2] "Ryan Pore to Lead Kansas City Men's Soccer Program" (Press release). University of Missouri Kansas City & CBS Sports Digital. January 14, 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

[Ness_1996-3] Ness, Carol (February 25, 1996). "For these black women, gains outnumber pains". SFGate. Retrieved 24 August 2021.

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