Missouri Wall of Fame
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The Missouri Wall of Fame is a 500-foot span of flood wall in downtown Cape Girardeau, Missouri, covered with a mural depicting 45 famous people who were born in the state or achieved fame while living there.
Those depicted on the wall include:
- Burt Bacharach
- Josephine Baker
- Thomas Hart Benton The painter.
- Senator Thomas Hart Benton U.S. Senator from Missouri 1821-1851. Served 5 terms.
- Yogi Berra
- George Caleb Bingham
- Susan Elizabeth Blow, founder of first public kindergarten
- Omar Bradley
- George Brett
- Lou Brock
- Jack Buck
- August Busch, of Anheuser-Busch
- Calamity Jane
- Dale Carnegie
- George Washington Carver
- Kate Chopin
- Walter Cronkite
- T. S. Eliot
- Don Faurot, University of Missouri football coach
- Eugene Field
- Redd Foxx
- Joe Garagiola, baseball player and sportscaster
- Linda M. Godwin
- Betty Grable
- Jean Harlow
- Langston Hughes
- John Huston
- Jesse and Frank James
- Scott Joplin
- Rush Limbaugh
- Stan Musial
- Marie Elizabeth Oliver, creator of the state flag of Missouri
- Rose O'Neill
- James Cash Penney
- Marlin Perkins, host of Wild Kingdom
- John J. Pershing
- Vincent Price
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Ginger Rogers
- Tom Sawyer
- Dred Scott
- Jess Stacy, swing pianist
- Harry S. Truman
- Porter Wagoner, country musician
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Tennessee Williams
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