John D. Carmack|video game programmer；
Juris Hartmanis|computer scientist, ACM Turing Award winner (considered the Nobel Prize of Computing)；
Business[edit]；
Jay B. Dillingham|President of the Kansas City Stockyards；
Clarence Ollson Senior|Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America and academic；
Tony Dumas|basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks;

the only player from UMKC to be drafted in the NBA (1994)；
Donald Fehr|Executive Director, National Hockey League Players Association；
Mike Racy | former NCAA vice president (1993–2013);

incoming commissioner for the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Thomas D. Bar|lawyer at the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore；
Brian Birdwell|Texas State Senator；
Hilary A. Bush| Missouri lieutenant governor；