List of University of Missouri faculty

This is a list of the notable faculty of the University of Missouri: professors, lecturers and researchers.

Arts, film, music and literature

 * Omowale Akintunde, filmmaker
 * William Berry, emeritus professor, former chair of art department
 * George Caleb Bingham, artist
 * Michael J. Budds, musicologist
 * Melissa Click, mass communications educator
 * Julia Gaines, percussionist
 * Albert Lewin, film director and producer
 * Lily Mabura, Kenyan writer
 * Howard Wight Marshall, fiddler, historian, and folk expert

Athletics

 * Chester Brewer, MU football coach

Education

 * James Thomas Quarles, 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 Chair in Journalism
 * Roy M. Fisher, dean of School of Journalism (1971–1982)

Government and law

 * Duane Benton, federal judge
 * Philemon Bliss, Ohio congressman
 * Dennis Crouch, author of the widely read "Patently-O" blog on United States patent law
 * Chuck Gross, former Missouri senator
 * Ed Robb, 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, explorer
 * Edgar Allen, discovered estrogen
 * Leonard Blumenthal, mathematician
 * Rick Brandenburg, etymologist
 * Max Mapes Ellis, physiologist and explorer
 * David C. Geary, developmental psychologist
 * Linda M. Godwin, 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, 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
 * Winifred Smeaton Thomas, anthropologist
 * Thorstein Veblen, economist