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Norman is the largest city in and the county seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Cleveland County
Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Cleveland County is a county in the Central Oklahoma part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 208,016 at the United States Census, 2000....
 in the U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Oklahoma
Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Norman is situated approximately 20 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, the city ranks List of United States cities by population among United States cities in population....
 and is the third largest city in the state. As of 2006, the city was estimated to have 102,827 full-time residents. It is the business and employment center of Cleveland County.

an is best known as the location of the University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public university research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma....
 (with about 35,000 full-time students), making it a center of culture, technology, and scientific research.






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Norman is the largest city in and the county seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Cleveland County
Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Cleveland County is a county in the Central Oklahoma part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 208,016 at the United States Census, 2000....
 in the U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Oklahoma
Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Norman is situated approximately 20 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, the city ranks List of United States cities by population among United States cities in population....
 and is the third largest city in the state. As of 2006, the city was estimated to have 102,827 full-time residents. It is the business and employment center of Cleveland County.

Overview

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Norman is best known as the location of the University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public university research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma....
 (with about 35,000 full-time students), making it a center of culture, technology, and scientific research. OU is home to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in Norman, Oklahoma, operated by the University of Oklahoma. It is currently housed in a building on Chautauqua Avenue that opened on May 1, 2000....
, one of the largest of its kind, and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is an art museum on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, Oklahoma....
. The Jones Museum made news in 2000 when it was given the Weitzenhoffer Collection, one of the most important collections of impressionist art ever given to an American university, including works by Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an United States painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists....
, Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch people Post-Impressionism artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art....
, Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin

Eug?ne Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading Post-Impressionism Painting. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetism style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral...
, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist Painting. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul C?zanne and Paul Gauguin....
, among others.

Norman's picture-book Main Street is a great source of pride for Normanites, as are the many shady, tree-lined housing areas that surround the OU campus. The west side of town has seen the most development in recent years, including affluent areas like Brookhaven, a sprawling neighborhood of townhomes, apartments, large estates and upscale retail and dining. Growth in Norman is also occurring close to campus, where there are infill developments underway that are making Norman a denser, and more chic college town. The central and eastern sections of town are older and include the areas around the OU campus and downtown. Both areas retain their historic appearance and resemble what most people would think of as the core area of a college town. In 2008, Money Magazine ranked Norman as the 6th best place to live in the United States, the highest of any city in Oklahoma.

The city itself actually pulls from a shopping base and a workforce outside of its own city, with major new shopping developments, and major employers like OU and the USPS.

Meteorology

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Norman is a prominent center of meteorological research
Meteorology

Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting . Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the eighteenth century....
, specifically severe weather
Severe weather terminology (United States)

This article describes the United States National Weather Service . The NWS defines precise meanings for nearly all its weather terms. This article describes NWS terminology and related NWS weather scales....
. The National Weather Center, located on OU's Research Campus near State Highway 9 and Jenkins Avenue, houses several NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the Earth's atmosphere....
 organizations, including the Storm Prediction Center
Storm Prediction Center

The Storm Prediction Center , located in Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, is part of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction , operating under the control of the National Weather Service , which in turn is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States United States Department of Commerce ....
 and the National Severe Storms Laboratory
National Severe Storms Laboratory

The National Severe Storms Laboratory is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather research laboratory located at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma....
, along with the University's weather-related units including the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences
University of Oklahoma College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences

The College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma consists of the School of Meteorology and Department of Geography....
 and the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms

The Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms was established at the University of Oklahoma in 1989 as one of the first eleven National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers....
. Private sector meteorological companies are located alongside the 2006 facility at "Partners Place".

Geography

Norman is located at (35.221617, -97.418236).

The city has a total area of , of which is land and or 6.60% is water. Approximately are developed.

Elevation at the Max Westheimer Airport
University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport

University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport , also known as Max Westheimer Airport, is a public general aviation airport located three miles northwest of the city of Norman, Oklahoma in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States....
 is above mean sea level
Above mean sea level

The term above mean sea level refers to the elevation or altitude of any object, relative to the average sea level datum . AMSL is used extensively in radio by engineers to determine the coverage area a station will be able to reach....
. The lowest point within city limits is the Little River
Little River (Oklahoma)

The Little River is a tributary of the Canadian River, 90 mi long, in central Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Canadian and Arkansas River Rivers, it is part of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River....
, a tributary of the Canadian River
Canadian River

The Canadian River is the largest tributary of the Arkansas River. It is about long, starting in Colorado and traveling through New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and most of Oklahoma....
, just after it exits the Lake Thunderbird Dam.

The terrain in the undeveloped western parts of Norman is prairie
Prairie

Prairie refers to temperate grasslands of North America. These are areas of low topographic relief that historically supported grasses and herbs, with few or no trees, having a generally mesic habitat climate....
 and the eastern section, including the area surrounding Lake Thunderbird
Lake Thunderbird

Lake Thunderbird is an artificial lake within the city limits of Norman, Oklahoma, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Formed by a dam on the Little River ....
, is cross timbers
Cross Timbers

The term Cross Timbers is used to describe a fairly narrow strip of land in the United States that runs from southeastern Kansas across Central Oklahoma to Central Texas....
 forest.

Demographics

As of the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 95,694 people, 38,834 households, and 22,562 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 was 540.6 people per square mile (208.7/km²). There were 41,547 housing units at an average density of 234.7/sq mi (90.6/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 82.36% White, 4.26% African American, 4.45% Native American, 3.49% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.37% from other races
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 4.01% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.89% of the population.

There were 38,834 households out of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.1% were married couples
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.9% were non-families. 30.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.93.

In the city the population was spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 21.4% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females there were 101.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.7 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $36,713, and the median income for a family was $51,189. Males had a median income of $35,896 versus $26,394 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
 for the city was $20,630. About 7.8% of families and 15.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.4% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.

History

In 1870, the United States Land Office contracted with a professional engineer to survey much of Oklahoma territory. Abner E. Norman, a young surveyor, became chairman and leader of the central survey area in Indian Territory. The surveyor’s crew burned the words “NORMAN’S CAMP” into an elm tree near a watering hole to taunt their younger supervisor. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway planned Norman as a station site in Indian Territory
Indian Territory

The Indian Territory, also known as The Indian Country, The Indian territory or the Indian territories, was land set aside within the United States for the use of Native Americans in the United States....
 in 1886-87. The town itself, while platted by the railroad, wasn't settled until the Great Land Run of 1889
Land Run of 1889

The Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands and included all or part of the modern day Canadian County, Oklahoma, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, Logan County, Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, and Payne County, Oklahoma counties of the U.S....
. When the “SOONERS” (those who headed west before the official Land Run date of April 22, 1889) and the other settlers arrived in the heart of Oklahoma, they kept the name “NORMAN.”

By nightfall on April 22, 1889, Norman probably had several hundred residents, camped in tents and covered wagons on town lots that wouldn't remain vacant for long. Almost overnight, the settlement developed into a thriving town. It was near Norman, in 1895, that Doolin Gang
Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin–Dalton Gang, was one of the names of a group of outlaws based in the Indian Territory, that terrorized Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory during the 1890s—robbing banks and stores, holding up trains, and killing lawmen....
 members George "Bittercreek" Newcomb
George Newcomb (Outlaw)

George "Bittercreek" Newcomb was an outlaw of the Old West, and member of the Wild Bunch gang led by Bill Doolin.Early life, outlaw life...
 and Charlie Pierce were killed by the "Dunn Brothers"
Rose Dunn

Rose Dunn , also known as Rose of the Cimarron, was a woman best known for her beauty and good looks, and for her romantic involvement with outlaw George Newcomb in her youth, during the closing years of the Old West....
, who were bounty hunter
Bounty hunter

A bounty hunter captures fugitives for a money . Other names, mainly used in the United States, include, bail enforcement agent, fugitive recovery agent, and bail fugitive investigator....
s from Ingalls, Oklahoma
Ingalls, Oklahoma

Ingalls is a small community in Payne County, Oklahoma about 10 miles east of Stillwater, Oklahoma. The town was settled out of the "Unassigned Lands" in 1889, and had a post office from January 22 1890, until October 31 1907....
.

Through the middle of the twentieth century, Norman was a sundown town
Sundown town

The term sundown town refers to a Local government in the United States in the United States where non-white people ? especially African Americans ? were systematically excluded from living in or passing through after the sun went down....
, from which African Americans were systematically excluded from living. The city is also the original hometown of actor James Garner
James Garner

James Garner is an United States film and television actor.He has starred in several television program spanning a career of more than five decades....
. On April 21, 2006, a ten-foot bronze statue of Garner as his 1957 television character
Bret Maverick

For a more comprehensive article about the character named Bret Maverick, created by Roy Huggins and portrayed by James Garner, see Maverick .Bret Maverick is a 1981 in television television series featuring James Garner in the role that made him famous in the 1957 in television series Maverick : a professional poker player trav...
 Bret Maverick
Maverick (TV series)

Maverick is a comedy-western movie television series created by Roy Huggins that ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on American Broadcasting Company and featured James Garner, Jack Kelly , Roger Moore, and Robert Colbert as the poker-playing traveling Mavericks ....
 was unveiled near the center of town, with Garner present at the ceremony.

Business

Norman is the nation's center for the study of severe weather and is home of the National Storm Prediction Center, National Severe Storms Laboratory, the National Weather Center (a cooperative between the University of Oklahoma and the National Weather Service), and is the proposed location of a future National Weather Museum. Because of this strong foundation in weather research, Norman is now home to many weather-related private businesses including Weathernews Americas, Inc., Vieux and Associates, Inc., Weather Decision Technologies, WeatherBank, Inc., and Computational Geosciences, Inc. In addition, the state's center of geology-related study, the Oklahoma Geological Survey, is located in Norman.

High-tech business is not limited to the weather-related in Norman. A recent promising addition to the local business landscape is SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT). SWeNT is a producer of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotube

Carbon nanotubes are allotropes of carbon with a nanostructure that can have a length-to-diameter ratio of up to 28,000,000:1, which is significantly larger than any other material....
, which are tiny hollow cylinders of carbon that exhibit extraordinary properties. Applications include new thermal-optical coatings on aircraft, bullet-proof armor, lighter and more efficient wind turbine blades, touch-screen coatings, solar cells, next-generation flat-panel displays, and non-invasive cancer treatments. With so many of these possible markets involving green technology, perhaps it is no coincidence that Norman is home to the Oklahoma Renewable Energy Council.

In addition to the above, the local business community boasts many major employers, such as: York International/Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls, Inc. is a company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It was founded in 1885 by professor Warren S. Johnson, inventor of the first electric room thermostat....
, Hitachi
Hitachi, Ltd.

is a multinational corporation specializing in high-technology and services headquartered in Marunouchi Itchome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies....
, Astellas Pharma
Astellas Pharma

is a Japanese pharmaceutical company, formed on 1 April, 2005 from the merger of and .Astellas' franchise areas are urology, immunology , dermatology, cardiology, and infectious disease....
, Albon Engineering, Xyant Technology, Office Max, Sitel
Sitel

Sitel is a US company headquartered in Nashville, TN, which describes itself as "a leading global provider of outsourcing customer contact center services"....
 (formerly ClientLogic), the USPS National Center for Employee Development, Sysco Foods, AT&T, and several research companies and smaller firms that take advantage of Norman's business climate.

The nation's fourth-largest retail site, University North Park, is currently under construction in Norman along the I-35 corridor between Robinson Street and Tecumseh Road. When completed the project will feature a two mile stretch of parks, offices, and high-end retail. Recently completed projects include anchor tenants such as Super Target, Petco, Kohl's, Office Depot, and a ten story Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center.

Community events

  • Mardi Gras
    Mardi Gras

    The terms "Mardi Gras" and "Mardi Gras season", in English language, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, ending on the day before Ash Wednesday....
     parade
    Parade

    A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, float or sometimes large balloons....
     (downtown
    Downtown

    File:Chicago_skyline_march2006c.jpgDowntown is a term primarily used in North America to refer to a city's core or central business district, usually in a geographical, commercial, and community sense....
     Norman)
  • (Lion's Park)


Transportation


Air

Norman is served locally by Max Westheimer Airport
University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport

University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport , also known as Max Westheimer Airport, is a public general aviation airport located three miles northwest of the city of Norman, Oklahoma in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States....
, a general aviation
General aviation

General aviation is one of two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military aviation and scheduled air transport flights, both private aviation and commercial aviation....
 airport run by the University of Oklahoma. Major commercial air transportation is available at Will Rogers World Airport
Will Rogers World Airport

Will Rogers World Airport is located in southwestern Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Will Rogers airport is located 6 statute miles from downtown Oklahoma City and is the principal commercial airport of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area....
 in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma city

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area...
, approximately 20 miles north of Norman.

Public Transit

provides bus service to the Norman area on weekdays with some routes also running on Saturdays. A route also runs to Oklahoma City and connects with OKC's Metro Transit. The service is operated by the University of Oklahoma and is free to faculty, staff, and students. The regular fare for all other riders is 50 cents.

Rail

Norman's Depot
Norman (Amtrak station)

The Norman Depot serves a dual function in the Norman, Oklahoma, community. As a passenger rail station it is served by Amtrak Heartland Flyer and as a community center it houses a local non-profit arts association....
 is served by Amtrak's
Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 to provide Inter-city rail train#Passenger trains service in the United States....
 Heartland Flyer
Heartland Flyer

The Heartland Flyer is a daily passenger train that follows a 206-mile route between Fort Worth, Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Amtrak serves as contractor, initially only for the Government of Oklahoma, but now also to the Government of Texas....
 providing daily round trip service to downtown Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, Texas.

Road

Norman is served by several major roadways.

  • Interstate 35
  • Oklahoma State Highway 9
    State Highway 9
    State Highway 9 (Oklahoma)

    State Highway 9, abbreviated as SH-9, OK-9, or simply Highway 9, is a major east?west highway in the United States state of Oklahoma....
  • Us 77
    U.S. Highway 77
  • State Highway 77H
    State Highway 77H (Oklahoma)

    State Highway 77H is a spur that runs from U.S. Highway 77 in Norman, Oklahoma, north through a small piece of unincorporated Cleveland County, Oklahoma and Moore, Oklahoma, to Oklahoma City....
  • State Highway 74A


Education


Colleges and universities

  • University of Oklahoma
    University of Oklahoma

    University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public university research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma....


Career and Technical Education

  • Moore Norman Technology Center
    Moore Norman Technology Center

    Moore Norman Technology Center is a public career and technology education center located in Norman, Oklahoma and is part of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education system....


Public primary and secondary schools

  • Norman Public Schools (or Independent School District Number 29 of Cleveland County, Oklahoma), which includes:
    • Norman High School
      Norman High School

      Norman High School is a four-year Comprehensive school Public school high school in Norman, Oklahoma with a steady enrollment of 1,835 students....
      ,
    • Norman North High School
      Norman North High School

      Norman North High School is a Public school, Coeducation secondary school in Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. It was established on August 21, 1997, on the grounds of what had been Longfellow Middle School since 1973....
      ,
    • 4 Middle Schools named after famous American writers (Whittier
      Whittier

      Whittier may refer to:*Whittier, Alaska*Whittier, California**Whittier College*Whittier, Minneapolis, Minnesota, neighborhood*Whittier, North Carolina...
      , Longfellow
      Longfellow

      Longfellow may refer to:* Longfellow, Minneapolis, United States** Longfellow , Minneapolis, United States* Longfellow, Oakland, California, United States...
      , Alcott
      Alcott

      Alcott is a surname of English people origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881 , its relative frequency was highest in Herefordshire , followed by Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Sussex, Worcestershire, Hampshire, London and Kent....
      , and Irving
      Irving

      Irving may refer to:...
      )
    • 15 Elementary Schools. 14 of which named after presidents of the United States and 1 (Lakeview) named so due to its close proximity to Lake Thunderbird.


Private primary and secondary schools

  • Community Christian School - kindergarten through 12th grade
  • Robinson Street Christian School - kindergarten through 12th grade
  • Blue Eagle Christian Academy - kindergarten through 11th grade
  • All Saints Catholic School - pre-kindergarten through 8th grade
  • Norman Christian Academy - pre-kindergarten through 7th grade
  • Trinity Lutheran School - pre-kindergarten through 6th grade
  • Veritas Classical Christian Academy - kindergarten through 8th grade


Misc. Schools

  • Hollywood Cosmetology Center


Notable residents and natives


Actors

Candy Clark
Candy Clark

Candace June Clark is an Academy Award-nominated United States film and television actress. She is well known for her role as Debbie Dunham in the 1973 hit film American Graffiti, a role which garnered her an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, a role which she reprised in 1979 for the sequel More American Graffiti....
, Darryl Cox
Darryl Cox

Darryl Cox is an American film and television actor.Cox was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was an officer in the United States Navy who served on the USS Forrest Sherman from 1977 until 1981....
, James Garner
James Garner

James Garner is an United States film and television actor.He has starred in several television program spanning a career of more than five decades....
 (a statue of Garner as Bret Maverick
Maverick (TV series)

Maverick is a comedy-western movie television series created by Roy Huggins that ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on American Broadcasting Company and featured James Garner, Jack Kelly , Roger Moore, and Robert Colbert as the poker-playing traveling Mavericks ....
 was unveiled in Norman on April 21, 2006, with Garner present at the ceremony), Alice Ghostley
Alice Ghostley

Alice Margaret Ghostley was a Tony Award-winning United States actor. She was best known for her roles as Esmeralda on Bewitched , as Cousin Alice on Mayberry R.F.D. and...
, Milena Govich
Milena Govich

Milena Govich is an United States actress. She was born in Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, both of her parents, Bruce and Marilyn Govich,are professors of music, Bruce worked at University of Oklahoma and Marilyn currently works at The University of Central Oklahoma....
, Christian Kane
Christian Kane

'Christian Kane' is an United States actor and singer/songwriter and actor, best known for his role as the morally ambiguous Attorney at law Lindsey McDonald on the show Angel , as lead singer for the country rock band Kane , and for his role on the TNT series Leverage ....
, Doris Eaton Travis
Doris Eaton Travis

Doris Eaton Travis is a retired Broadway theatre and film performer, dance instructor and author. She is also the last surviving Ziegfeld girl....
, Ed Harris
Ed Harris

'Edward Allen "Ed" Harris' is an United States actor, film writer and film director, known for his performances in Appaloosa , Radio , The Rock , The Right Stuff , Enemy at the Gates, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross , Apollo 13 , Pollock , A Beautiful Mind, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Th...


Musicians and bands

Jesse Ed Davis
Jesse Ed Davis

Jesse Edwin Davis was an United States guitarist....
, Chainsaw Kittens
Chainsaw Kittens

The Chainsaw Kittens were a part of the American alternative rock scene, drawing from pop music, glam rock, Punk rock, New Wave music and British Invasion music....
, Vince Gill
Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an United States 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 vocalist and musician have placed him in hig...
, Toby Keith
Toby Keith

Toby Keith Covel 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 "Noogies for Liberals" for various divisions of Mercury Records before ex...
, Reba McEntire, Eli Wilson, Wayne Coyne
Wayne Coyne

Wayne Michael Coyne is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips....
, Yolanda Kondonassis
Yolanda Kondonassis

Yolanda Kondonassis is an United States classical Pedal harpist. She is one of the world's foremost classical harpists.She first began playing the piano, then switched to harp at age nine....
, Starlight Mints
Starlight Mints

Starlight Mints are an indie pop band from Norman, Oklahoma. The band was formed in the '90s and has varied in size between four and seven members....
, Evangelicals

Athletics

Dean Blevins
Dean Blevins

Dean Blevins is an United States sportscaster. He is the main sportscaster for KWTV, the CBS affiliate in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He also co-hosts a radio show on WKY 930AM with former Oklahoma State Cowboys football coach Pat Jones....
, Dominic Cervi
Dominic Cervi

Dominic Cervi is an United States of Italian-American, association football Goalkeeper who recently trialled with Celtic F.C., after which Setanta Sports reported that the Scotland side were interested in signing him....
, Sherri Coale
Sherri Coale

Sherri Kay Coale is the current head coach of the University of Oklahoma Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team.....
, Nadia Comaneci
Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Elena Comaneci is a Romanian gymnastics, winner of five Olympic Games gold medals, and the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event....
, Bart Conner
Bart Conner

Bart Wayne Conner is a former American gymnast who, as a member of the gold medal-winning men's artistic gymnastics team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games won an individual gold on the parallel bars....
, Tommie Harris
Tommie Harris

Tommie Harris, Jr. is an American football defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bears 14th overall in the 2004 NFL Draft....
, Cedric Jones
Cedric Jones

Cedric Jones may refer to two American football players:* Cedric Jones , a former wide receiver for the New England Patriots* Cedric Jones , a former defensive end for the New York Giants...
, Jimmy McNatt
Jimmy McNatt

James Carlos ?Jimmy? McNatt was an All-American basketball player for the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the AAU?s Phillips 66 Oilers. At Oklahoma, McNatt led his team to the first-ever NCAA Final Four in 1939, and at Phillips 66, McNatt guided his team to four consecutive AAU national championships ....
, Steve Owens
Steve Owens (football)

Steve Everett Owens , raised in Miami, Oklahoma, was the 1969 Heisman Trophy winner. Owens was the second Oklahoma Sooners player to win the Heisman Trophy, after Billy Vessels, and preceding Sam Bradford, Jason White and Billy Sims....
, Adrian Peterson
Adrian L. Peterson

Adrian Lewis Peterson , nicknamed "A.D." and "Purple Jesus" , is a professional American football running back for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League ....
, Jim Ross
Jim Ross

James William "Jim" Ross is a professional wrestling sports commentator. Ross is a restaurateur, professional wrestling commentator and former company executive currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working on its WWE Friday Night SmackDown WWE brand extension as the play-by-play announcer....
, Bob Stoops
Bob Stoops

Robert Anthony Stoops is the head coach of the University of Oklahoma Oklahoma Sooners football. During the 2000 season, Stoops led the Sooners to an Orange Bowl victory and a NCAA Division I-A national football championship....
, Barry Switzer
Barry Switzer

Barry Switzer is a former American football coach, in the college football and NFL 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 NCAA Division I-A national football champions and a Super Bowl ...
, Zac Taylor
Zac Taylor

Zac Taylor was the Starting lineup quarterback for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers from 2005 to 2006. He was recruited late in the 2004-2005 off-season by the Huskers, being a described "lucky break" due to the Huskers lack of quarterbacks at the time....
, Ron Tripp
Ron Tripp

Ron Tripp Battle Creek, Michigan, is a World sambo and Judo champion and is the current president of USA Judo. He is also a member of the board of directors of the United States Olympic Committee....
, J. C. Watts, Jason White
Jason White (American football)

Jason White is a former quarterback for the University of Oklahoma American football team from 1999 to 2004 . White was raised in Tuttle, Oklahoma playing high-school football there with the Tuttle Tigers ....
, Roy Williams
Roy Williams (safety)

Roy Lee Williams is an American football Safety who is currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Dallas Cowboys eighth overall in the 2002 NFL Draft....
, Steve Williams, Mickey Tettleton
Mickey Tettleton

Mickey Lee Tettleton , is a former Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, and Texas Rangers ....


Writers

Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing magic , pseudoscience, literature , philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion....
, Harold Keith
Harold Keith

Harold Keith the Newbery Medal winning author Born and raised, lived and died in Oklahoma, the state was his abiding passion. He used Oklahoma as the settings for most of his books, though Rifles for Waite takes place elsewhere....


Politicians

Carl Albert
Carl Albert

Carl Bert Albert was a lawyer and a United States Democratic Party United States politician from Oklahoma.Albert represented the southeastern portion of Oklahoma as a Democrat for 30 years, starting in 1947....
, David L. Boren
David L. Boren

David Lyle Boren is an Politics of the United States from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. A Democratic Party , he served as governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994....
, Jack Mildren
Jack Mildren

Larry Jack Mildren a native Texan, was a popular All-American quarterback at The University of Oklahoma in his college years, and professional American football with the Baltimore Colts and New England Patriots, an oil company owner, was elected as the Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, and enjoyed a career as a successful bank executive in O...
, J. C. Watts

Scientists

Karl Guthe Jansky
Karl Guthe Jansky

Karl Guthe Jansky was an United States physicist and radio engineer who in August 1931 first discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way....

David Deming
David Deming

David Deming is an associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. He graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1972....

Daniel Resasco

Designers

Kayne Gillaspie
Kayne Gillaspie

Johnathan Kayne Gillaspie is an United States fashion designer, specializing in beauty pageant gowns. He was a contestant on the third season of the Bravo reality series Project Runway Season 3 after being rejected during second-season auditions....


Sister cities

  • Clermont-Ferrand
    Clermont-Ferrand

    Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune in France of France, in the Auvergne regions of France, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census....
    , France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Colima, Col.
    Colima, Colima

    Colima is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. This article is about the city. For the state, see: Colima. There is also the Colima ....
    , Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Seika, Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....


See also

  • 2005 University of Oklahoma bombing
    2005 University of Oklahoma bombing

    The 2005 University of Oklahoma bombing occurred on October 1, 2005 at approximately 7:30 p.m. Central Time Zone , when a bomb went off near the George Lynn Cross on Van Vleet Oval on the University of Oklahoma main campus....


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