Famous Oklahomans

A list of the famous (or infamous) persons who were born or lived in the Great State of Oklahoma

Art Acord - Silent film star, 90 films between 1910 and 1929, Stillwater
Troy Aikman - Dallas Cowboys Quarterback, Henrietta

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
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 - Great Horror Movie Actor, Ok
Roy Clark - Tulsa, Musician/Actor
Charles Coe - National Amateur Golfing Champion in 1949 and 1958.
Bart Conner - Olympic gold medal winner, gymnastics

Dale "Apollo" Cook - 5 time world Champion Kickboxer, Tulsa, Ok

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 - Clinton, Musician
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd - Akins, Sallisaw, Outlaw
Owen K. Gariott - Of Enid, US astronaut
James Garner - Actor
Geronimo - Fort Sill, Apache Warrior
Vince Gill - Country singer
Woody Guthrie - Considered by most to be the father of American Folk music, was born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in Okemah, OK, July 14, 1912
Mary Hart - Okla. City, TV anchorwoman
Paul Harvey - Tulsa, Broadcast journalist
Ron Howard - Duncan, Actor/Director
Iron Eyes Cody - Actor

Ben Johnson - Actor/ 1955 World Champion All Around Cowboy

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 - Former Chief of the Cherokees
Mickey Mantle - Baseball great.
Pepper Martin - Baseball great
Shannon Miller - Edmond, Gymnast
Kenny Monday - Great wrestler and athlete
Bobby Murcer - Okla. City, Baseball great.
Carry Nation - Of Guthrie, led the fight for prohibition (we're sorry)
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
Lynn Riggs - Author, writer "Green Grow The Lilacs" from which script Rodgers and Hammerstein - wrote the Broadway musical hit "Oklahoma!"
Will Rogers - Humorist, entertainer, ambassador-at-large
Stuart A Roosa - Of Claremore, a US astronaut
Will Sampson - Actor, Okmulgee

C. E. Shoemake - Jeti-Ninja-Cowboy, Muskogee, Ok

Jim Shoulders - Henryetta, Ok. World Champion Bull Rider, Bareback Rider, Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame.

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
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
Rip Torn - Actor

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
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
Todd Whatley - Hugo Ok. 1947 World Champion All Around Cowboy

Bud Wilkerson - Norman, Football

Trisha Yearwood - Country Singer

This obviously is not a complete list of famous people who were born or who have lived in Oklahoma. If you can think of anyone I missed let me know.