Basketball players

• Blake Griffin
  Blake Griffin
  Blake Austin Griffin is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association . Griffin had a renowned high school career at Oklahoma Christian School, winning state titles each of his four years under his father, Tommy Griffin, who was the...
  
  
• Alvan Adams
  Alvan Adams
  Alvan Leigh Adams is a retired American professional basketball player. After starring at the University of Oklahoma, the 6'9" power forward/center was selected by the Phoenix Suns with the 4th pick of the 1975 NBA Draft...
  
  
• Xavier Henry
  Xavier Henry
  Xavier Henry is an American professional basketball shooting guard with the Memphis Grizzlies of the Xavier Henry is an American professional [[basketball]] [[shooting guard]] with the [[Memphis Grizzlies]] of the Xavier Henry is an American professional [[basketball]] [[shooting guard]] with...
  
  
• Sheldon Williams

Baseball players

• Johnny Bench
  Johnny Bench
  Johnny Lee Bench is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame...
  
  , Cincinnati Reds catcher, Baseball Hall of Fame
• Bobby Murcer
  Bobby Murcer
  Bobby Ray Murcer was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played for 17 seasons between 1965 and 1983, mostly with the New York Yankees, whom he later rejoined as a longtime broadcaster...
  
  , New York Yankees outfielder, five-time All Star
• Joe Carter
  Joe Carter
  Joseph Christopher Carter is a former right fielder in Major League Baseball who played from to . Carter is most famous for hitting a walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays....
  
  , major-league outfielder, five-time All Star
• Mickey Mantle
  Mickey Mantle
  Mickey Charles Mantle was an American professional baseball player. Mantle is regarded by many to be the greatest switch hitter of all time, and one of the greatest players in baseball history. Mantle was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.Mantle was noted for his hitting...
  
  , New York Yankees, Baseball Hall of Fame
• Matt Kemp
  Matt Kemp
  Matthew Ryan "Matt" Kemp is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers.Kemp was drafted by the Dodgers in the 6th round of the 2003 draft and made his major league debut in 2006...
  
  , Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder

Hockey players

• Tyler Arnason
  Tyler Arnason
  Tyler Arnason is an American professional ice hockey center who is currently a Free Agent. He most recently played with the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League. He has previously played in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Blackhawks, Ottawa Senators and the Colorado...
  
  , hockey player, Colorado Avalanche
  Colorado Avalanche
  The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver, Colorado, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Avalanche have won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1995–96 and 2000–01. The franchise...
  
  
• Dan Woodley
  Dan Woodley
  Dan Woodley is a retired professional ice hockey player who played briefly in the National Hockey League for the Vancouver Canucks during the 1987–88 NHL season.-Playing career:...
  
  , retired hockey player, drafted 7th overall in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks
  Vancouver Canucks
  The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...
  
  

Gymnasts

• Bart Conner
  Bart Conner
  Bart Wayne Conner is a former American gymnast who, as a member of the gold medal-winning men's gymnastics team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games won an individual gold on the parallel bars...
  
  , 1984 Olympic Gold Medal winner
• Shannon Miller
  Shannon Miller
  Shannon Lee Miller is a former artistic gymnast from Edmond, Oklahoma. She is the most decorated gymnast in U.S. History, and considered one of the greatest gymnasts the United States has ever produced...
  
  , 1996 Olympic Gold Medal winner
• Nadia Comăneci
  Nadia Comaneci
  Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer...
  
  , Five time Olympic Gold Medal winner and first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. Married to Bart Conner.

Football players

• Wes Welker
  Wes Welker
  -San Diego Chargers :Welker, who was not drafted during the 2004 NFL Draft, signed as an undrafted free agent with the San Diego Chargers. Welker made the Chargers out of training camp, but was released after the first game of the season.-2004 season:...
  
  , New England Patriots
  New England Patriots
  The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National...
  
   wide receiver
• Steve Largent
  Steve Largent
  Steven Michael "Steve" Largent is a retired American football player, enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a former U.S. Congressman, having served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Oklahoma from 1994 until 2002...
  
  , NFL wide receiver
• Jason White
  Jason White (American football)
  Jason White is a former American football quarterback who played for the University of Oklahoma from 1999 to 2004, during which he won the 2003 Heisman Trophy...
  
  , 2003 Heisman Trophy winner
• Steve Owens, 1969 Heisman Trophy winner
• Sam Bradford
  Sam Bradford
  Samuel Jacob "Sam" Bradford is an American football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was the first overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, and played college football at Oklahoma. In 2008, as a redshirt sophomore, Bradford became the second sophomore to win a...
  
  , 2008 Heisman Trophy
  Heisman Trophy
  The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...
  
   winner. St. Louis Rams
  St. Louis Rams
  The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...
  
   Quarterback.
• Brian Bosworth
  Brian Bosworth
  Brian Keith "The Boz" Bosworth, is a former American football linebacker. He played college football for the University of Oklahoma...
  
  , linebacker for the University of Oklahoma (1984–1986) and the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (1987–1989)
• Mark J. Clayton, Baltimore Ravens
  Baltimore Ravens
  The Baltimore Ravens are a professional football franchise based in Baltimore, Maryland.The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1995 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his...
  
   wide receiver
• Lee Morris
  Lee Morris (American football)
  Lee Morris is a former wide receiver in the National Football League. He played for the Green Bay Packers during the 1987 NFL season.-References:...
  
  , Green Bay Packers
  Green Bay Packers
  The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
  
   wide receiver

Boxers

• Sean O'Grady, World Boxing Association Lightweight Champion

Other fields

• Mat Hoffman
  Mat Hoffman
  Mat Hoffman is an American BMX rider considered one of the best vert-ramp riders in the history of the sport. He is nicknamed "The Condor" and owns the BMX Freestyle brand Hoffman BMX Bikes, based out of Oklahoma City, OK.-Bio:...
  
  , BMX
  BMX
  Bicycle motocross or BMX refers to the sport in which the main goal is extreme racing on bicycles in motocross style on tracks with inline start and expressive obstacles, and it is also the term that refers to the bicycle itself that is designed for dirt and motocross cycling.- History :BMX started...
  
   star
• Barry Switzer
  Barry Switzer
  Barry Switzer is a former football coach, active in the college and professional ranks between 1962 and 1997. He has one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history, and is one of only two head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a...
  
  , OU football coach, Dallas Cowboys coach
• Jim Ross
  Jim Ross
  James William "Jim" Ross is a professional wrestling commentator, former professional wrestling referee, restaurateur, occasional wrestler, and former company executive of WWE, where he currently works as a commentator on the WWE Raw brand...
  
  , professional wrestling commentator
• Jon-Paul Pittman
  Jon-Paul Pittman
  Jon-Paul Pittman is an American-born footballer, who plays as a forward for Oxford United but is currently on loan to Crawley Town.- Early career :...
  
  , Professional Association Football player for Wycombe Wanderers
• Shane Hamman
  Shane Hamman
  Shane Hamman , is an American Olympic weightlifter.-Early years:Shane Hamman began to play soccer at the age of 6 until he was 12 years old. In his freshman year of high school, Hamman began football and was a standout for two years on the freshman and varsity squads...
  
  , Olympic Weightlifter 2000,2004 teams

Business people

• Clayton Bennett
  Clayton Bennett
  Clayton "Clay" Ike' Bennett is an American businessman and chairman of the Professional Basketball Club LLC, the ownership group of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA franchise that was formerly the Seattle SuperSonics...
  
  , Oklahoma City Thunder
  Oklahoma City Thunder
  The Oklahoma City Thunder are a professional basketball franchise based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ; their home court is at Chesapeake Energy Arena....
  
   owner
• Edward L. Gaylord, Grand Ole Opry
  Grand Ole Opry
  The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...
  
   & The Oklahoman
  The Oklahoman
  The Oklahoman is the largest daily newspaper in Oklahoma and is the only daily newspaper that covers the entire Oklahoma City area.-Ownership:...
  
   owner
• Aubrey McClendon
  Aubrey McClendon
  Aubrey Kerr McClendon is the chief executive officer, chairman, and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy Corporation . He is an outspoken advocate for natural gas as a cleaner and safer alternative to oil and coal fuels...
  
   chairman, and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy
  Chesapeake Energy
  Chesapeake Energy is the second largest producer of natural gas in the United States, a top 15 producer of U.S. liquids and the most active driller of new wells, according to an November 2011 investor presentation. It recorded 3Q 2011 natural gas production of an average of approximately of...
  
  
• Tom L. Ward
  Tom L. Ward
  Tom L. Ward is a prominent Oklahoma City businessman. He is the chairman and CEO at SandRidge Energy and is the former President, COO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy...
  
   current chairman and CEO at SandRidge Energy
  SandRidge Energy
  SandRidge Energy is an oil and natural gas exploration company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.SandRidge was founded in 1984 as Riata Energy, Inc. In 2006, the company changed its name to SandRidge Energy. The company concentrates its exploration efforts in the West Texas Permian Basin...
  
   and former co-founder of Chesapeake Energy
  Chesapeake Energy
  Chesapeake Energy is the second largest producer of natural gas in the United States, a top 15 producer of U.S. liquids and the most active driller of new wells, according to an November 2011 investor presentation. It recorded 3Q 2011 natural gas production of an average of approximately of...
  
  
• H.E. "Gene" Rainbolt founder BancFirst
  BancFirst
  BancFirst Corporation is a state chartered bank in Oklahoma, United States. In 2008, it was in 46 Oklahoma communities, and was the largest state chartered bank in Oklahoma. - History :...
  
  
• Bill Cameron CE0 American Fidelity Assurance
  American Fidelity Assurance
  American Fidelity Assurance is an American private, family-owned life insurance company. It provides voluntary life, supplemental health insurance products and tax deferred annuity...
  
  
• Sam Walton
  Sam Walton
  Samuel Moore "Sam" Wallballs was a businessman, entrepreneur, and Eagle Scout born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.-Early life:...
  
  , founder of Walmart

Directors/Filmmakers

• Ron Howard
  Ron Howard
  Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
  
  , actor-director
• Gray Frederickson, Academy Award winning producer

Actors

• Brad Pitt
  Brad Pitt
  William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one...
  
  , film actor
• Lon Chaney, Jr.
  Lon Chaney, Jr.
  Lon Chaney, Jr. , born Creighton Tull Chaney, was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles in monster movies and as the son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney...
  
  , film actor
• Megan Mullally
  Megan Mullally
  Megan Mullally is an American actress and singer.After working in the theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway...
  
  , theatre and television actress
• Kay Francis
  Kay Francis
  Kay Francis was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest paid American film actress...
  
  , film actress
• James Garner
  James Garner
  James Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...
  
  , film & television actor
• James Marsden
  James Marsden
  James Paul Marsden is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. He is known for playing the superhero Cyclops in the first three X-Men films and for his roles in other commercially successful films such as Hop, Superman Returns, Hairspray, Enchanted, The Box, and 27 Dresses.-Early life...
  
  , film actor
• Ryan Merriman
  Ryan Merriman
  Ryan Earl Merriman is an American actor. He began his acting career as a child actor during the mid-1990s and has appeared in several feature films and television shows.-Background:...
  
  , film & television actor
• Stacey (Loach) Logan
  Stacey (Loach) Logan
  Stacey Logan graduated from Oklahoma City University 1985 and has been in several Broadway shows, including Sweet Smell, Crazy for You, Beauty and the Beast, Hal Prince's revival of Candide, Big, and High Society. She also has been seen in shows at the famous Paper Mill Playhouse and on...
  
  , theater singer/actor
• Dale Robertson
  Dale Robertson
  Dayle Lymoine "Dale" Robertson is an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the role of Jim Hardie in the TV series, Tales of Wells Fargo, and the owner of an incomplete railroad line in ABC's The Iron Horse, often appearing as the deceptively thoughtful but...
  
  , television actor
• Lauren Lane
  Lauren Lane
  Lauren Lane is a television and stage actress. She is best known for her role as C. C. Babcock on The Nanny.-Biography:Lane was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and raised in Texas....
  
  , television actress, best known for her role as C.C. Babcock in The Nanny
  The Nanny
  Nanny may refer to:* Nanny, a child's caregiver* A grandmother * A Cajun word for godmother * A female goat* Nanny , a 1981–83 British drama series starring Wendy Craig* Nanny of the Maroons...
  
  .
• Tisha Campbell Martin, television actress
• Olivia Munn
  Olivia Munn
  Lisa Olivia Munn is an American comedic actress, model, television personality and author. She began her career being credited as Lisa Munn. Since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn personally and professionally....
  
  , model & television personality
• Mark Holton
  Mark Holton
  Mark Holton is an American actor.-Career:Holton's most famous roles may be that of Francis Buxton, Pee-Wee Herman's nemesis, in the 1985 blockbuster Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and Joe Charbonic in Bille August's Convicted, starring Connie Nielsen and Aidan Quinn. Other notable 1980s roles were as...
  
  , film actor
• Suzy Amis
  Suzy Amis
  Susan Elizabeth "Suzy" Amis is an American former film actress and former model.-Career:Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Amis first worked as a Ford model before she began acting in the 1980s. She made her feature film debut in the 1985 comedy film Fandango, opposite Kevin Costner...
  
  , film actress
• Rex Linn
  Rex Linn
  Rex Maynard Linn is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Frank Tripp in the television series CSI: Miami.-Early life:...
  
  , television actor

Musicians

• Bonnie Owens
  Bonnie Owens
  Bonnie Owens , born Bonnie Campbell, was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later Merle Haggard.-Biography:...
  
  
• Roger Miller
  Roger Miller
  Roger Dean Miller was an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs...
  
  
• Garth Brooks
  Garth Brooks
  Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...
  
  , country superstar
• Don Cherry
  Don Cherry (jazz)
  Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...
  
  , innovative Jazz
  Jazz
  Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
  
   trumpeter
• Toby Keith
  Toby Keith
  Toby Keith Covel , best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of...
  
  , country singer
• Vince Gill
  Vince Gill
  Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
  
  , country singer
• Wayne Coyne
  Wayne Coyne
  Wayne Michael Coyne is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips.-Early life:...
  
  , Flaming Lips lead singer
• The Flaming Lips
  The Flaming Lips
  The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983.Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What...
  
  , alternative rock band
• Stardeath and White Dwarfs
  Stardeath and White Dwarfs
  Stardeath and White Dwarfs is an experimental rock band from Norman, Oklahoma, formed in late 2004. The band has released one album, one single and an EP, as well as contributing to The Flaming Lips' 2009 remake of The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.The band consists of Dennis Coyne, Casey...
  
  , alternative rock band
• Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...
  
  , "Queen of Rockabilly"
• Graham Colton
  Graham Colton
  Graham Colton is an American singer-songwriter from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma most widely known for his hit song "Best Days", featured on the television series American Idol and Kyle XY...
  
  , rock singer-songwriter
• Hinder
  Hinder
  Hinder is an American rock band from Oklahoma that was formed in 2001 by drummer Cody Hanson, guitarist Joe Garvey, and singer Austin Winkler. The band was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2007.-Formation and early history:...
  
  , alternative rock band
• Charlie Christian
  Charlie Christian
  Charles Henry "Charlie" Christian was an American swing and jazz guitarist.Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar, and is cited as a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra...
  
  , jazz musician
• Jeff Wood
  Jeff Wood (singer)
  -Track listing:#"You Call That a Mountain" - 3:26#"Too Late to Turn It Around" - 3:52#"There's No Place Like You" - 4:11...
  
  , country singer
• C.B. Hudson
  C.B. Hudson
  Charles Britton "C.B." Hudson III is an American musician best known as the being the lead guitarist of the rock band Blue October from 2000 to 2010....
  
  , rock guitarist
• Mason Williams
  Mason Williams
  Mason Williams is an American guitarist and composer, best known for his guitar instrumental "Classical Gas". He is also a comedy writer, known for his writing on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and Saturday Night Live...
  
  , Recording Artist
• Bryan Abrams, Recording Artist (member of Color Me Badd
  Color Me Badd
  Color Me Badd was an R&B vocal group that was formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. The original members of the group were Bryan Abrams ; Mark Calderon ; Sam Watters and Kevin Thornton...
  
  )
• Mark Calderon, Recording Artist (member of Color Me Badd
  Color Me Badd
  Color Me Badd was an R&B vocal group that was formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. The original members of the group were Bryan Abrams ; Mark Calderon ; Sam Watters and Kevin Thornton...
  
  )
• Kevin Thornton
  Kevin Thornton
  Kevin Anthony Thornton is an Irish footballer who was released by former club Northampton Town on the 31st August-Career:...
  
  , Recording Artist (member of Color Me Badd
  Color Me Badd
  Color Me Badd was an R&B vocal group that was formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. The original members of the group were Bryan Abrams ; Mark Calderon ; Sam Watters and Kevin Thornton...
  
  )
• Sam Watters
  Sam Watters
  Sam Watters is a Grammy nominated American songwriter, record producer, singer, and record executive. Watters was a member of the multi-platinum selling 1990’s R&B group Color Me Badd and co-authored many of their hits including “I Wanna Sex You Up”, “I Adore Mi Amor”, and “All 4 Love”...
  
  , Recording Artist (member of Color Me Badd
  Color Me Badd
  Color Me Badd was an R&B vocal group that was formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. The original members of the group were Bryan Abrams ; Mark Calderon ; Sam Watters and Kevin Thornton...
  
  )
• Henson Cargill
  Henson Cargill
  Henson Cargill was an American country music singer best known for the 1968 No. 1 hit, "Skip a Rope". His music career began in Oklahoma in clubs around Oklahoma City and Tulsa...
  
  , country singer
• Neal Schon
  Neal Schon
  Neal George Joseph Schon is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist best known for his work with the band Journey. He is the only member to have recorded on all of Journey's albums...
  
  , guitarist of Journey
  Journey (band)
  Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...
  
  

News/Commentary

• Gary England
  Gary England
  -External links:* *...
  
  , meteorologist
• Charles E. Maple
  Charles E. Maple
  Charles Edward Maple, known as Charlie Maple , was a journalist, chamber of commerce official, and state parks executive during the second half of the 20th century in the four-state region of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.-Early years, education, military:Maple was born in Oklahoma City...
  
  , journalist
• Anthony Shadid
  Anthony Shadid
  Anthony Shadid is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010.-Career:...
  
  , Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
  -winning correspondent for the New York Times

Political figures

• David Boren, former governor and U.S. Senator
• Robert S. Kerr
  Robert S. Kerr
  Robert Samuel Kerr was an American businessman from Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before turning to politics. He served as the 12th Governor of Oklahoma and was elected three times to the United States Senate...
  
  , former governor and U.S. Senator
• J.C. Watts
  J.C. Watts
  Julius Caesar "J. C." Watts, Jr. is an American politician from Oklahoma who was a college football quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners and professionally in the Canadian Football League. Watts served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 as a Republican, representing the 4th...
  
  , former congressman & OU football player
• Frank Keating
  Frank Keating
  Francis Anthony "Frank" Keating is an American politician from Oklahoma. Keating served as the 25th Governor of Oklahoma. His first term began in 1995 and ended in 1999...
  
  , former governor
• Jeane Kirkpatrick
  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick was an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican was nominated as the U.S...
  
  , ambassador to the United Nations
• Michael D. Brown
  Michael D. Brown
  Michael DeWayne Brown was the first Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response , a division of the Department of Homeland Security . This position is generally referred to as the director or administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency . He was appointed in January 2003 by...
  
  , FEMA head during Hurricane Katrina
• Bryce Harlow
  Bryce Harlow
  Bryce Harlow was a congressional staff member, army officer, and businessman.He was born in 1916 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Harlow graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1938. Harlow then went to Washington, D.C., where he served on Capitol Hill as assistant librarian of the U.S. House of...
  
  , Washington lobbyist and Eisenhower advisor
• Ernest Istook
  Ernest Istook
  Ernest James Istook Jr. is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 5th congressional district. He held his congressional seat for 14 years, completing seven terms in the House...
  
  , former U.S. Congressman
• Mickey Edwards
  Mickey Edwards
  Marvin Henry "Mickey" Edwards is a former Republican congressman who served Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 1977 to 1993.-Education and early career:...
  
  , former U.S. Congressman

Other

• Shawntel Smith
  Shawntel Smith
  Shawntel Smith is an American beauty pageant contestant, who was Miss America in 1996. She was born in Muldrow, Oklahoma.-External links:*...
  
  , Miss America 1996
• Lauren Nelson
  Lauren Nelson
  Lauren Paige Nelson is a beauty queen from Lawton, Oklahoma who holds the Miss America 2007 title. Nelson is the second consecutive Miss America and sixth in the history of Miss America to hail from this state....
  
  , Miss America 2007
• Jennifer Berry
  Jennifer Berry
  Jennifer Berry-Gooden was crowned Miss America on January 21, 2006. A resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, she was the fifth Miss America from Oklahoma to hold the title....
  
  , Miss America 2006
• Susan Powell, Miss America 1981, opera singer
• Jane Anne Jayroe
  Jane Anne Jayroe
  Jayne Anne Jayroe-Gamble is an American beauty queen from Laverne, Oklahoma, who was Miss America 1967 and Miss Oklahoma in 1966. Jayroe worked in the news industry for many years until Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating appointed her to serve as his Secretary of Tourism and Recreation in his...
  
  , Miss America 1967, TV personality
• Norma Smallwood
  Norma Smallwood
  Norma Descygne Smallwood captured first place in both the bather's review and the evening gown contest and the following evening was crowned Miss America 1926....
  
  , Miss America 1926
• Gordon Cooper
  Gordon Cooper
  Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. , also known as Gordon Cooper, was an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and NASA astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space effort by the United States...
  
  , astronaut
• Shannon Lucid
  Shannon Lucid
  Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid is an American biochemist and a NASA astronaut. At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American, as well as by a woman...
  
  , astronaut
• Wiley Post
  Wiley Post
  Wiley Hardeman Post was a famed American aviator, the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits. His Lockheed Vega aircraft, the Winnie Mae, was on display at the National Air and Space Museum's...
  
  , aviator
• Clara Luper
  Clara Luper
  Clara Shepard Luper was a civic leader, retired schoolteacher, and a pioneering leader in the American Civil Rights Movement...
  
  , civil rights activist
• Antwone Taulton
  Antwone Taulton
  -Early life and, Education:Born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Waco, Texas, Taulton graduated from the A.J. Moore Academy in 2004. Taulton attended the McLennan Community College and the University of Central Oklahoma, and is currently pursuing a Masters of Divinity from George W...
  
  , Homeless Advocate and Creator of "A Day in Our Shoes" Documentary
• Tom Stafford
  Thomas Patten Stafford
  Thomas Patten Stafford is a retired American Air Force lieutenant general and former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard two Gemini space flights; and in 1969 was the commander of Apollo 10, the second manned mission to orbit the Moon and the first to fly a lunar module there.In 1975, Stafford was...
  
  , astronaut
• John Herrington
  John Herrington
  John Bennett Herrington is an American business executive, former US Navy officer and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of one Space Shuttle mission. He is the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space....
  
  , astronaut
• Owen Garriott, astronaut
• William A. Martin
  William A. Martin
  William A. Martin was a computer scientist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.After graduating from Northwest Classen High School, where he was a state wrestling champion, he attended MIT where he received a bachelor's degree , master's and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering...
  
  , Computer Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
• William Reid Pogue, astronaut
• Shibani Joshi
  Shibani Joshi
  Shibani Sona Joshi is a reporter for the Fox Business Network. Joshi holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and completed the investment banking analyst program at Morgan Stanley. She also earned a bachelor's degree in finance and accounting at the University of Oklahoma. Joshi is a native of...
  
  , national television reporter
• Jack Wyatt
  Jack Wyatt
  John Francis Minford "Jack" Wyatt was an advertising executive and television host from New York City and Dallas, Texas, who, during his early fifties, was ordained as an Episcopalian priest...
  
  , host of ABC
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
  's Confession
  Confession (TV series)
  Confession is a short-lived ABC crime/police reality show which aired from June 19, 1958, to January 13, 1959, with interviewer Jack Wyatt questioning criminals from assorted backgrounds. The program was carried by videotape from WFAA-TV, the network affiliate in Dallas, Texas, the first station to...
  
  ; later Episcopal
  Episcopal Church (United States)
  The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...
  
   priest in Oklahoma City

Non-native Oklahoma City residents

• Amy Grant
  Amy Grant
  Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...
  
  , Contemporary Christian artist
• Walter Cronkite
  Walter Cronkite
  Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
  
  , CBS Evening News anchor
• Kayne Gillespie, clothing designer, "Project Runway" finalist
• Bud Wilkinson
  Bud Wilkinson
  Charles Burnham "Bud" Wilkinson was an American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician. He served as the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1947 to 1963, compiling a record of 145–29–4. His Oklahoma Sooners won three national championships and 14...
  
  , OU football coach, College Football Hall of Fame
• Billy Sims
  Billy Sims
  Billy Sims is a former college football and NFL running back. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1978.-Early years:...
  
  , 1978 Heisman Trophy winner
• Chris Harrison
  Chris Harrison
  Christopher Bryan "Chris" Harrison is an American television host, perhaps best known for his role as host of the ABC reality television dating show The Bachelor since 2002 and its spin-offs The Bachelorette since 2003 and Bachelor Pad in 2010...
  
  , host of ABC's The Bachelor
• Paul & Thomas Braniff, Braniff Airlines co-founders
• Mary Hart, TV personality
• Kristin Chenoweth
  Kristin Chenoweth
  Kristin Chenoweth is an American singer and actress, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. She is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown , for which she won a Tony Award, and for originating the role of Glinda in the musical...
  
  , actress and singer
• Hobart Johnstone Whitley
  Hobart Johnstone Whitley
  Hobart Johnstone Whitley , also known as H.J. Whitley is the "Father of Hollywood", was a real estate developer who helped create the Hollywood subdivision in Los Angeles, Southern California. He and his wife, Margaret Virginia Whitley named the town while on their honeymoon in 1886...
  
   Banker, Treasurer-Chicago Rock Island & Texas Railroad 1892-1894
• Marian P. Opala
  Marian P. Opala
  Marian Peter Opala was a Polish-American lawyer and jurist who served as a Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court for thirty-two years. Opala was appointed to the State's highest court in 1978 by Governor of Oklahoma David L. Boren...
  
  , Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court and member of the Polish Underground in World War II

U.S. Service Members

• Petty Officer Austin R. Russell (USN), Joint Service Achievement Medal Recipient
• Admiral William J. Crowe
  William J. Crowe
  Admiral William James Crowe, Jr. was a United States Navy Admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and as the ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Bill Clinton.-Biography:Crowe was born in La Grange, Kentucky...
  
  (USN), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff