FAMOUS OKLAHOMANS

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FAMOUS OKLAHOMANS*:

imposter FRANK ABAGNALE ("Catch me if you can" was based on his life)
musician BRIAN ABRAMS (Color me badd)
actor ART ACORD (silent film star of ninety films between 1910 and 1929)
football player TROY AIKMAN
U.S. Speaker of the House CARL ALBERT
actress SUZY AMIS
country singer KEITH ANDERSON
geologist MAXINE ANDERSON
football player JOE ASKA
politician REUBIN O'DONOVAN ASKEW
song writer MAY AXTON
singing cowboy GENE AUTRY
folk singer/songwriter HOYT AXTON
football player BILLY BAJEMA
jazz musician CHET BAKER
composer LOU BALLARD
author RUSSELL BATES
Ponca Chief STANDING BEAR
Pulitzer prize winning poet JOHN BERRYMAN
Indian scout BLACK BEAVER
artist JOE BEELER
baseball player JOHNNY BENCH
Miss America 2006 JENNIFER BERRY
Cheyenne Chief BLACK KETTLE
composer/lyricist RALPH BLANE ("Have yourself a merry little Christmas" & "Meet me in St. Louis")
football player/actor BRIAN BOSWORTH
former US Senator, DAVID L. BOREN
DANIEL BORSTEIN, former Librarian of Congress
casino/hotel owner SAM BOYD
actor WILLIAM BOYD ("Hopalong Cassidy")
aviation pioneers PAUL BRANIFF and THOMAS BRANIFF (Braniff Airlines)
GRADY BREWER - 2006 Contender Boxing Champ
Dr. WILLIAM R. "BILL" BRIGHT founder of Campus Crusade for Christ International
country singer GARTH BROOKS
country singer JUNIOR BROWN
Miss Teen USA ALLISON BROWN
song writer ALBERT BRUMLEY ("Turn your radio on")
entertainer ANITA BRYANT
artist GREG BURNS
actor GARY BUSEY
singer/songwriter J.J. CALE ("After Midnight", "Guitar Man")
musician MARK CALDERON (Color me badd)
guitarist JERRY CANTRELL (Alice in Chains)
country singer/songwriter JEFF CARSON ("Not on your love")
baseball player JOE CARTER
country singer JEREMY CASTLE
football player TONY CASILLAS
football player JOHN CHANDLER
actor LON CHANEY
actor LON CHANEY JR.
singer/actress KRISTIN CHENOWETH
producer/writer MARC CHERRY (creator of "Desperate Housewives")
author C.J. CHERRYH
pioneer trader JESSIE CHISHOLM
ballerina YVONNE CHOUTEAU
CINDY CHUPACK Executive Producer/writer of "Sex and the City"
musician CHARLES CHRISTIAN
actress CANDY CLARK
US Admiral JOSEPH "JOCKO" CLARK
country musician/comedian ROY CLARK
author BILL CLEAVER
aviator, astronaut JERRIE COBB
child actor JOE COBB (Our Gang comedies)
actor IRON EYES CODY
Olympic Gold Medalist, gymnist NADIA COMANECI
Olympic Gold Medalist, gymnist BART CONNER
actor ANCEL COOK
singer DAVID COOK
country singers GREG COOK (RICOCHET)
actor DANNY COOKSEY
country singer KELLIE COFFEY
singer/song writer LARRY COLLINS ("Delta Dawn"& "You're the Reason God made Oklahoma")
astronaut GORDON COOPER
actress JOAN CRAWFORD
broadcast reporter WALTER CRONKITE
Olympic Gold Medalist, wrestler KENDALL CROSS
Admiral WILLIAM CROWE
baseball player DIZZY DEAN
baseball player PAUL DEAN
singer JOHN DENVER
country singer JOE DIFFIE
actor LARRY DRAKE
country singer RONNIE DUNN (BROOKS & DUNN)
actress CANDICE EARLY
director/writer/producer BLAKE EDWARDS ("The Pink Panther")
reporter DOUGLAS EDWARDS
songwriter VESPHEW "VEP" BENTON ELLIS (one of the premier songwriters in Southern Gospel Music.
writer RALPH ELLISON
meteorologist GARY ENGLAND ('94 Emmy for best weather anchor. Initiated development of Doppler radar)
country singer TY ENGLAND
author JANE FANCHER
actress GLENDA FARRELL
song writer DALLAS FAZIER ("Alley Oop", "Elvira", "There goes my everything")
rodeo TOM FERGUSON
director JAY FOX
actress KAY FRANCIS
black historian JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
U.S. General TOMMY FRANKS
producer GRAY FREDERICKSON
bull rider LANE FROST
actor CLARK GABLE
Manager of the Minnesota Twins RONNIE GARDENHIRE
actor JAMES GARNER
astronaut OWEN K. GARRIOTT
musician DAVID GATES
publisher EDWARD L. GAYLORD (owner of Grand Ol' Opry, and the cog railroad up Pikes Peak)
Apache warrior GERONIMO
artist FATHER GREGORY GERRER
oil man, financier J. PAUL GETTY
actress ALICE GHOSTLEY
country singer VINCE GILL
actor JACK GING
pro wrestler/actor WILLIAM "BILL" GOLDBERG"
S.N. GOLDMAN (inventor of the shopping cart)
cartoonist CHESTER GOULD (creator of Dick Tracy)
actress MILENA GOVICH ("Law & Order")
sports reporter CURT GOWDY
country singer PAUL GREGG (RESTLESS HEART)
financier ALAN GREENBURG
newspaper editor FRANK GREER
author TERRY L. GRIFFITH
green beret JAMES "BO" GRITZ
author JANE A. KNIPE GUBELIN
actor CLU GULAGER
folk singer WOODY GUTHRIE
comedian BILL HADER (Saturday Night Live)
advertising ROSA LEE HALL ("Aunt Jemima")
comedian/ columnist ARGUS HAMILTON
artist ENOCH KELLY HANEY
musicians ISAAC, TAYLOR and ZACH HANSON
actor ED HARRIS
singer/writer SAM HARRIS
author CAROLYN HART
television anchor MARY HART
television news reporter JIM HARTZ
radio commentator PAUL HARVEY
country singer WADE HAYES
actor VAN HEFLIN
astronaut JOHN HERRINGTON (first Native American in space)
S.E. HINTON, author ("The Outsiders", "Rumble Fish")
country singer BECKY HOBBS
pro BMX/actor MATT HOFFMAN
child actress DARLA HOOD ("The Little Rascals")
fisherman JIMMY HOUSTON
attorney TEMPLE HOUSTON
actor CLINT HOWARD
actor/director RON HOWARD
baseball CARL HUBBELL
Secretary of War PATRICK J. HURLEY
basketball HENRY P. IBA
actor JOHN INGLE ("Edward Quartermaine" on General Hospital)
country singer DAVID INNIS (RESTLESS HEART)
country singer WANDA JACKSON ("In the middle of a heartache")
author MARQUIS JAMES
scientist KARL JANSKY (father of radio astronomy)
Miss America 1967 JANE JAYROE
baseball FERGUSON JENKINS
country singer GREG JENNINGS (RESTLESS HEART)
rodeo star/western actor BEN JOHNSON
actress JENNIFER JONES
evangelist LARRY JONES (founder, Feed the Children)
country singer TOBY KEITH
author HAROLD KIETH
US Treasurer MAYBELLE KENNEDY
oilman ROBERT S. KERR
musician BARNEY KESSEL
United Nations Ambassador JEAN KIRKPATRICK
financier HENRY KRAVIS
actress SHEILA JAMES KUEHL ("Zelda Gilroy" on "The many loves of Dobey Gillis")
author MERCEDES LACKEY
author LOUIS L'AMOUR
author NANCY LAMB
make-up artist STEPHEN LAPORTE
football player/US Senator STEVE LARGENT
showman GORDON WILLIAM LILLIE "PAWNEE BILL" (Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show)
actor REX LINN ("CSI Miami")
actor CLEAVON LITTLE ("Blazing Saddles", Once Bitten")
ERIC LOGAN (XM Satellite Radio)
golfer NANCY LOPEZ-KNIGHT
astronaut SHANNON LUCID
actor THAD LUCKINBILL ("J.T. Hellstrom on CBS' The Young and the Restless")
film director TERRENCE MALICK ("Days of Heaven", "The Thin Red Line", "Badlands", "The New World")
baseball player MICKEY MANTLE
oilman E. W. MARLAND
musician LEON McAULIFFE
actress RUE McCLANAHAN ("Golden Girls", "Maude")
statesman DAVID McCURDY
country musician MEL McDANIEL ("Baby's got her blue jeans on")
child actor SPANKY McFARLAND ("The Little Rascals")
country singer REBA McINTIRE
newsman CARL McGEE (inventor of the parking meter)
PHILLIP McGRAW "Dr. Phil"
comedian STEVE McGREW
musician BARRY McGUIRE ("Eve of Destruction")
author MIKE McQUAY
rodeo announcer CLEM McSPADDEN
rock musician TYSON MEADE
actor RYAN MERRIMAN
Washington D.C. hostess PERLE MESTA
artist AUGUSTA METCALFE
cartoonist RUSSELL MYERS (creator of "Broomhilda")
actress VERA MILES
rancher GEORGE W. MILLER (founder of Miller Brothers famous 101 Ranch)
singer JODY MILLER
JOE MILLER (101 Wild West Show)
country singer ROGER MILLER ("King of the Road")
Olympic gymnast SHANNON MILLER
baseball DALE MITCHELL
singer LEONA MITCHELL
cowboy actor TOM MIX
Indian artist AL MOMADAY
author M. SCOTT MOMADAY
actor/stuntman BOYD "RED" MORGAN (in over 1,000 movies and television shows including "Blazing Saddles")
golfer GIL MORGAN
boxer/actor TOMMY MORRISON
actor JOSHUA MORROW ("Nick Newman" on CBS' The Young and the Restless")
journalist/statesman BILL MOYERS
U.S. senator for New York DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN
LUCILLE MULHALL first show cowgirl
ZACK MULHALL wild west show
actress MEG MULLALLY
baseball player BOBBY MURCER
politician WILLIAM "ALFALFA BILL" MURRAY
cartoonist RUSSELL MYERS
Prohibitionist CARRY NATION
Miss America 2007 LAUREN NELSON
actor JUSTIN NEMO
martial artist/actor CHUCK NORRIS
actor/filmmaker TIM BLAKE NELSON
song writer KENNY O'DELL ("Mama he's crazy")
author MEL ODOM
boxer SEAN O'GRADY (World Association Lightweight Boxing Champion)
WWI hero JOSEPH OKLAHOMBI
philanthropist HENRY OVERHOLSER
football player STEVE OWENS
aviator CLARENCE PAGE
country singer PATTI PAGE
pioneer aviator BILLY PARKER
Comanche Chief QUANNAH PARKER
gospel singer SANDI PATTY (sometimes spelled "SANDI PATTI")
JOHN L. PETERS (founder of World Neighbors)
film producer DOROTHEA PETRIE
oilman FRANK PHILLIPS
oilman WAITE PHILLIPS
oilman T. BOONE PICKENS
cowboy BILL PICKETT (invented "Bulldogging")
cartoonist DAN PIRARO ("Bizarro")
actor BRAD PITT
actress MARY K. PLACE
astronaut WILLIAM POGUE
baseball player DARRELL PORTER
aviator WILEY POST
Miss America 1981 SUSAN POWELL
entertainer PAULA PRENTISS
Movie producer MARK RADCLIFFE (Harry Potter, Home Alone, Rent)
actor TONY RANDALL
author WILSON RAWLS
Indian artist/champion weight lifter JOE RECTOR
actress DONNA REED
baseball player ALLIE REYNOLDS
author LYNN RIGGS
evangelist ORAL ROBERTS
ALICE MARY ROBERTSON (1st US congresswoman)
actor DALE ROBERTSON
basketball player DENNIS RODMAN
humorist WILL ROGERS
country singer JOE DON ROONEY (RASCAL FLATTS)
astronaut STEWART ROOSA
comedian DAN ROWEN ("Laugh in")
football player DARRELL ROYAL
gospel singer ROLAND D. "ROSIE" ROZELL (sang with the Statesmen Quartet)
country singer LEON RUSSELL
race car driver TROY RUTTMAN
actor WILL SAMPSON
gospel singer PATTY SANDI
actor GAYLORD SARTAIN
author BILL SCOTT (WELDON HILL)
artist BERT SEABOURN
playwright/actor JOE SEARS
SEQUOYAH Cherokee language inventor
actor TED SHACKELFORD ("Knot's Landing", "Dallas")
country singer BLAKE SHELTON
football player JACKIE SHIPP
world champian cowboy JIM SHOULDERS
football player BILLY SIMS
oilman WILLIAM SKELLY
Miss America 1926 NORMA SMALLWOOD
Miss America 1996 SHAWNTEL SMITH
baseball player WARREN SPAHN
actor G.D. SPRADLIN
astronaut THOMAS STAFFORD
musician KAY STARR
professional whistler ROBERT STEMMONS
sculptor WILLARD STONE
jurist JUANITA KIDD STOUT (first black woman in America elected to the bench)
actor WES STUDI ("Last of the Mohicans", "Dances with wolves", "Geronimo")
artist GEORGE M. SUTTON
statesman ROSS SWIMMER
football coach BARRY SWITZER
ballerina MARIA TALLCHIEF (founded Chicago City Ballet)
ballerina MARJORIE TALLCHIEF
basketball coach BERTHA FRANK TEAGUE (1st woman in National Basketball Hall of Fame)
pioneer peace officer HENRY "HECK" THOMAS
author JOYCE CAROL THOMAS
musician HANK THOMPSON
musician KEVIN THORNTON (Color me badd)
"world's greatest athlete" JIM THORPE
Indian artist JEROME TIGER
Indian artist JOHNNY TIGER
pioneer peace officer BILL TILGHMAN
US Army General/aviator CLARENCE TINKER
athlete/ musician WAYMAN TISDALE
poet MELVIN B. TOLSON
country singer MERLE TRAVIS
actor/musician TRUMAN "PINKY" TOMLIN
actress JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN
country singer DWIGHT TWILLEY
country musician CONWY TWITTY
country singer CARRIE UNDERWOOD
football BILLY VESSELS
football UWE VON SCHAMANN
cartoonist MICHAEL VANCE
Supermodel/Actress AMBER VALETTA
musician JIMMY WAKELY
philanthropist SAMUEL MOORE WALTON
CSA General STAND WAITE (last Confederate General to surrender)
author MICHAEL WALLACE
SAM WALTON creator of Wal-Mart
baseball LLOYD WANER
baseball Hall of Famer PAUL WANER
musician SAM WATTERS (Color me badd)
football player/U.S. Congressman J.C. WATTS
actor DENNIS WEAVER
song writer JIMMY WEBB ("McArthur Park")
football player WES WELKER
country singer BRYAN WHITE
football BUD WILKINSON
country musician BOB WILLS
country musician JOHNNIE LEE WILLS
producer ELMO WILLIAMS ("Tora! Tora! Tora!", "The blue max", "The longest day", "Ernest goes to camp")
musician MASON WILLIAMS
author G. CLIFTON WILSER
artist CHARLES BANKS WILSON
actress ALFRE WOODARD
singer/ actor SHELBY "SHEB" WOOLEY ("Purple People Eater" / "Pete Nolan" on "Rawhide")
country singer HEATH WRIGHT (RICOCHET)
actress GRETCHEN WYLER
country musician TRISHA YEARWOOD

INFAMOUS OKLAHOMA OUTLAWS:

BELLE STARR
EMMETT DALTON
BILL DOOLIN
HENRY WELLS
HENRY STARR
CHARLES ("PRETTY BOY") FLOYD
ELMER McCURDY

*Either born in Oklahoma or lived in Oklahoma

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