Business
- Henry W. Bloch (born 1922), co-founder of H&R Block tax services
- Richard Bloch (1926–2004), co-founder of H&R Block tax services
- Adolphus Busch (1839–1913) Founder of Anheuser-Busch (the world's largest brewer)
- William H. Danforth (1870–1955), Founder of Ralston Purina Company
- John Doerr (born 1951), venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887), Civil engineer and inventor
- Charles Eames (1907–1978), designer and architect
- David Glass (born 1935), former President and CEO of Wal-Mart, owner of the Kansas City Royals baseball team.
- Joyce Hall, (1891–1982), founder of Hallmark Cards.
- William Preston Hall (1864–1932), Circus empresario and animal broker.
- John Q. Hammons, hotel enterprizer
- Howard R. Hughes, Sr., (1869–1924), Oil drill bit and tool inventor, father of Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire.
- George M. Keller (1923–2008), chairman of Standard Oil Company of California in the 1980s
- R. Crosby Kemper Jr. (born 1927), Chairman emeritus UMB Financial Corporation, philanthopist
- William Thornton Kemper, Sr. (1866–1938), patriarch of Kemper family railroad and banking empire which included Commerce Bancshares and United Missouri Bank
- Ewing Kauffman, (1916–1993), Pharmaceutical magnate, philanthropist and founder of the Kansas City Royals baseball team.
- Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche (born 1954), former head of Enron International
- N. O. Nelson (1844–1922), founder of the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company.
- Thomas F. O'Neil, former chairman of RKO General studios who brought movies to television
- J. C. Penney (1875–1971), businessman and entrepreneur
- John Sperling (born 1921), businessman and founder of the University of Phoenix
- Gerard Swope (1872–1957), president of General Electric
- Jack C. Taylor (born 1923), founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, billionaire philanthropist
- Sam Walton (1918–1992), founder of Wal-Mart
- Peter Youree (1843–1914), businessman in Shreveport, Louisiana; built first skyscraper there.
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