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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“The [Loyal] legion has taken the place of the club—the famous Cincinnati Literary Club—in my affections.... The military circles are interested in the same things with myself, and so we endure, if not enjoy, each other.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)