Arts, Film, and Literature
- Stephen Morehouse Avery, Hollywood screenwriter
- Tom Berenger, Journalism School. His portrait hung in the Arts & Science Office in Jesse Hall during the '80s and '90s.
- Neal E. Boyd (BA 2001), musician, Winner 2008 America's Got Talent
- Brent Briscoe MU 1984 actor
- Kate Capshaw (BS 1975, MEd 1977, ΑΔΠ), actress
- Chris Cooper (BGS 1976), actor
- Candice Crawford, (BJ 2009, ΠΒΦ), Miss Missouri and Miss USA finalist, TV news reporter
- Sheryl Crow (BS Ed 1984, ΚΑΘ, ΟΔΚ, SAI), musician
- Jon Hamm, actor
- William Least Heat-Moon (BA 1961, MA 1962, PhD 1973, BJ 1978, ΤΚΕ), author
- Robert Loggia (BJ 1951 ΑΣΦ), actor
- David Koechner, actor
- Blake Kuhre (BJ 2003), host, "Wakey Blakey" on Radio Disney and Disney Channel
- Harris Merton Lyon, short story writer
- Richard Matheson (BJ 1949, ΦΜΑ), author and screenwriter
- Marijane Meaker (BA 1949 ΑΔΠ) novelist
- Pamela Morsi, USA Today bestselling author
- Suniti Namjoshi, writer.
- Brad Pitt (ΣΧ), actor (Journalism School, remains 1 credit short of graduation)
- SallyAnn Salsano, producer and creator of reality television shows for MTV including Jersey Shore
- Ed Sanders (dropout 1958), poet, lead singer of the Fugs, social activist, author
- George C. Scott, actor
- Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican telenovela producer/director noted for her work on Televisa.
- Mort Walker (BA 1948, ΚΣ), cartoonist (A life size bronze statue of his creation Beetle Bailey sits in front of alumni center.)
- George Woodward Warder (BA about 1866), eccentric lawyer, real estate speculator, poet, philosopher, cosmologist
- Kurt Williams (BA 1986 ΛΧΑ) visual effects producer, The Incredible Hulk and Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Tennessee Williams (ΑΤΩ), playwright (attended)
Read more about this topic: List Of University Of Missouri Alumni
Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)