List of people from Columbia, Missouri

This is a list of the people born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the American city of Columbia, Missouri, and its surrounding metropolitan area.

Many people have lived in Columbia temporarily, while attending one of the city's institutions of higher education; such people are not included in this list.

For lists of people who attended college in Columbia see:

Henry Kirklin with a child in his garden
Sam Walton in the David H. Hickman High School yearbook