Famous Hannibal Residents
- Jake Beckley, major league baseball player
- James Carroll Beckwith
- Margaret Brown, passenger on the RMS Titanic, the unsinkable Molly Brown.
- Robert Coontz
- Cliff Edwards, the voice of Disney’s Jiminy Cricket
- Harry Richard Landis, one of the last surviving World War I veterans was born near Hannibal.
- John Wingate Broadcaster, writer, and communications consultant.
- George Poage
- Clarence Earl Gideon
- Benjamin Prentiss
- Scott Sanders, baseball player
- Larry Thompson was born and raised in Hannibal, Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George W Bush
- Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), author
- William P Lear inventor of car radio and manufacturer of the Learjet
- Blanche Bruce, politician
- Lester Gaba, Sculptor, writer and retail display designer.
- Ron Powers, author
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