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Art Acord
Silent film star, 90 films between 1910 and 1929, Stillwater
Carl Albert
McAlester, Former Speaker, US House
Tommy Allsup
Country and Western Music Entertainer. Claremore, Miami, Tulsa
Erica Anderson
Actor, (Quake, Zandalee) Tulsa
Gene Autry
Sapulpa, Actor, musician
Lou Antonio
Director/Actor (Chicago Hope), Oklahoma City
Johnny Bench
Baseball great
John Berryman
Poet, McAlester
Black Kettle
Cheyenne, Cheyenne Chief
William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd
Tulsa, Actor
Garth Brooks
Of Yukon, country and western music entertainer
Paul and Thomas Braniff
Okla. City, Aviation pioneers
Anita Bryant
Tulsa, Entertainer
Jeremy Castle
Oklahoma country music singer and songwriter form Blanchard, OK
Lon Chaney
Ok
Roy Clark
Tulsa, Musicianla. City, Actor
Iron Eyes Cody
Cherokee actor
Charles Coe
National Amateur Golfing Champion in 1949 and 1958.
Bart Conner
Olympic gold medal winner, gymnastics
Leroy Gordon Cooper
Of Shawnee, was among the original seven US astronauts. He orbited the earth 22 times in 1963
Joan Crawford
Lawton, Actress
Admiral William Crowe
Former Head of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff.
Dizzy Dean
Baseball great
John Denver
Corn, Clinton, Musician
Ralph Ellison
Writer, Oklahoma City
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd
Akins, Sallisaw, Outlaw
Owen K. Gariott
Of Enid, US astronaut
James Garner
Actor, Norman
Geronimo
Fort Sill, Apache Warrior
Vince Gill
Country singer
Chester Gould
Cartoonist, Pawnee
Woody Guthrie
Considered by most to be the father of American Folk music, was born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in Okemah, OK, July 14, 1912
Roy Harris
Composer, Lincoln City
Mary Hart
Okla. City, TV anchorwoman
Paul Harvey
Tulsa, Broadcast journalist
Van Heflin
Actor, Walters
Tony Hillerman
Actor, Sacred Heart
Ron Howard
Duncan, Actor/Director
Karl Guthe Jansky
Engineer, Norman
Ben Johnson
Actor, Pawhuska
Jennifer Jones
Actress, Tulsa
Toby Keith
Moore, Musician
Jean Kirkpatrick
Ambassador to the United Nations
Gordon William "Pawnee Bill" Lillie
Pawnee, Wild West Show
Dr. Shannon Lucid
Of Oklahoma City, a US astronaut. She was on board the space shuttle Atlantis during its flight in October of 1989
Reba McEntire
Country and western music entertainer
Phillip C McGraw "Dr. Phil"
Okla. City, TV Host
Wilma Mankiller
Cherokee Chief, Tahlequah
Mickey Mantle,
Baseball great.
Pepper Martin
Baseball great
Shannon Miller
Edmond, Gymnast
Kenny Monday
Great wrestler and athlete
Bill Moyers
Journalist, Hugo
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
N.Y. Senator, Tulsa
Bobby Murcer
Okla. City, Baseball great.
Carry Nation
Of Guthrie, led the fight for prohibition
Patti Page
Singer, Clarence
Bill Pickett
Ponca City, Invented bulldogging
Brad Pitt
Shawnee, Actor
William R. Pogue
Of Okemah, among the original seven US astronauts. He returned to earth on February 8, 1974 after 84 days in space.
Darrell Porter
Baseball great
Wiley Post
A Native Oklahoman and a pioneer in the field of aviation. He was the first to discover the jet stream and the first ever to design and wear a space suit
Tony Randall
Actor, Tulsa
Lynn Riggs
Author, writer "Green Grow The Lilacs" from which script Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the Broadway musical hit "Oklahoma!"
Oral Roberts
Evangelist, Ada
Dale Robertson
Actor, Oklahoma City
Will Rogers
Humorist, entertainer, ambassador-at-large
Stuart A Roosa
Of Claremore, a US astronaut
Dan Rowan
Comedian, Beggs
Ted Shackleford
Actor, Tulsa
John Smith
Great wrestler and athlete
Thomas P Stafford
Of Weatherford, US astronaut who commanded the joint United States-Soviet
Belle Starr
Outlaw 1846-1889, was called the "Queen of the Outlaws" , "a female Jesse James"
Willie Stargell
Baseball great
Robert Stemmons
Whistler, Tulsa
Barry Switzer
OU Football Coach
Maria Tallchief
Ballerina, Fairfax
Bill Tilghman
Bat Masterson called him "The greatest of us all." Bill Tilghman was a fearless gunfighter who rode with a badge throughout Indian Territory in the 1890's as one of the "Three Guardsmen." He was responsible of arresting dozens of hardened outlaws and criminals during his life and participated in many gunfights. After retiring from law enforcement, he was coaxed into wearing his badge one more time in 1924 at the age of 70 in a wild and woolly oil boom town of Cromwell, Oklahoma where a young drunk shot and killed him without provocation
Bob Tway
Of Edmond, he won the PGA Championship in 1986
Jim Thorpe
One of Oklahoma's greatest athletes. At the 1912 Olympics, the King of Sweden declared that Thorpe was "the greatest athlete in the world."
Wayman Tisdale
Great basketball player and athlete
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Actress, Tulsa
Carrie Underwood
Of Checotah. American Idol winner 2005.
Paul and Lloyd Waner
Outfielders from Harrah, OK. The only brothers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame
JC Watts
Sooner quarterback, U.S. congressman
Bud Wilkinson
Norman, Football
This obviously is not a complete list of famous people who were born or who have lived in Oklahoma. If you have others you would like to see included, please Contact Us.
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