This is a list of the notable faculty of the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

: professors, lecturers and researchers.

Arts, film, music and literature

* Omowale Akintunde filmmaker * William Berry emeritus professor, former chair of art department *

George Caleb Bingham George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist, soldier and politician known in his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist". Initially a Whig Party (United States), Whig, he was elected as a delegate to the Missouri legisl ...

American artist *

Michael J. Budds Michael Joseph Budds (June 11, 1947 – November 19, 2020) was an American musicologist, and longtime professor, at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. In addition to teaching, he wrote and edited a number of works, including a wid ...

, musicologist * Melissa Click mass communications educator * Julia Gaines, percussionist *

Albert Lewin Albert Lewin (September 23, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Personal life Lewin was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a master's degree at Harvard and taught ...

film director and producer * Lily Mabura, Kenyan writer

Athletics

Chester Brewer Chester Leland Brewer (November 26, 1875 – April 16, 1953) was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach and athletic director. He served as the head football coach at Albion College (1899–1902), Michigan Agri ...

, MU football coach

Education

James Thomas Quarles James Thomas Quarles (November 7, 1877 in St. Louis, Missouri – March 4, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) was a 20th-century American organist, educator, and academic. He was National President of both the Music Teachers National Association ...

, organist and educator

History

* Lewis Eldon Atherton, historian, Guggenheim fellow * Susan Porter Benson (1943–2005), labor historian * Kerby A. Miller, historian of Ireland and Irish immigration, currently teaching at the University of Missouri.

Journalism

* Judy Bolch,

Houston Harte Houston Harriman Harte was a newspaperman who co-founded Harte-Hanks Communications. Harte was born January 12, 1893 in Knob Noster, Missouri. After a year at the University of California, Harte returned to the University of Missouri, where he rec ...

Chair in Journalism *

Roy M. Fisher Roy M. Fisher (September 5, 1918 – March 25, 1999) was a journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the ''Chicago Daily News''. Fisher was born in Stockton, Kansas. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Kansas State University in ...

, Dean of School of Journalism (1971–1982)

Government and Law

Duane Benton William Duane Benton (born September 8, 1950), known professionally as Duane Benton, is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Education Benton graduated from Northwestern University with a ...

federal judge *

Philemon Bliss Philemon Bliss (July 28, 1813 – August 25, 1889) was an Ohio Congressman, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory, and a Missouri Supreme Court justice. Early life and education Bliss was born in Canton, Connecticut in ...

Ohio congressman *

Dennis Crouch Dennis David Crouch (born April 30, 1975 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American patent attorney who worked for McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP (MBHB) in Chicago, Illinois, until 2007.Dennis Crouch''Thank you MBHB, Hello Missouri! ...

, author of the widely read "Patently-O" blog on

United States patent law Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, (2) that is new, useful, and non-obvious. A patent is the right to exclude others, for a limited ...

* Chuck Gross, former Missouri senator *

Ed Robb Ed Robb (July 1, 1942 – September 24, 2011) was a member of the faculty at the University of Missouri, the president of a consulting firm, and a Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He resided in Columbia, Missouri, wit ...

, former Director of the College of Business and Public Administration Research Center, the Economic Policy and Analysis Research Center, and the State and Fiscal Studies Unit.

Science and technology

James William Abert James William Abert (November 18, 1820 – August 10, 1897) was an American soldier, explorer, bird collector and topographical artist. Early life Abert, the son of John James Abert,Edgar Allen Edgar Allen (May 2, 1892 – February 3, 1943) was an American anatomist and physiologist. He is known for the discovery of estrogen and his role in creating the field of endocrinology. Born on Cañon (Canyon) City, Colorado, Allen was educate ...

discovered

estrogen Estrogen or oestrogen is a category of sex hormone responsible for the development and regulation of the female reproductive system and secondary sex characteristics. There are three major endogenous estrogens that have estrogenic hormonal acti ...

Leonard Blumenthal Leonard Mascot Blumenthal (February 27, 1901 – August 1984) was a Jewish American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in 1927 from Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Frank Morley; his dissertation was titled ''Lagrange Res ...

mathematician * Rick Brandenburg etymologist *

Max Mapes Ellis Max Mapes Ellis, (December 3, 1887 - August 26, 1953) was an American physiologist. He was married to the American ichthyologist Marion Durbin Ellis (1887-1972) in 1909. Early life and career Ellis was the son of Horace and Grace V. Ellis. He w ...

, physiologist and explorer *

David C. Geary David Cyril Geary (born June 7, 1957, in Providence, Rhode Island) is a United States cognitive developmental and evolutionary psychologist with interests in mathematical learning and Sex differences in humans, sex differences. He is currently a C ...

, developmental psychologist *

Linda M. Godwin Linda Maxine Godwin Ph.D. (born July 2, 1952) is an American scientist and retired NASA astronaut. Godwin joined NASA in 1980 and became an astronaut in July 1986. She retired in 2010. During her career, Godwin completed four space flights and ...

, former astronaut, astronomy and physics professor * Mary Jane Guthrie, zoologist and cancer researcher * Eliot S. Hearst, psychologist and professional chess player * Steve Hofmann, mathematician * Bahram Mashhoon, General Relativity physicist *

Maurice Mehl Maurice Goldsmith Mehl (1887 - 1966) was an American paleontologist and professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Missouri. Life and career Mehl was born on December 25, 1887, to Frank and Rebecca Goldsmith Mehl. After gradu ...

, paleontologist and geologist * George Rédei plant biologist * George P. Smith, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry * Zbylut Twardowski nephrologist

Social sciences

* Joseph Haslag Kenneth Lay Chair in Economics *

Thorstein Veblen Thorstein Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. In his best-known book, ''The Theory of the Leisure Class'' ...

economist * Winifred Smeaton Thomas, anthropologist

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