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Bryant & Associates´ Guide to
Famous Oklahomans
 

 

Art Acord
Silent film star, 90 films between 1910 and 1929, Stillwater
 

Carl Albert
McAlester, Former Speaker, US House

 

Erica Anderson
Actor, (Quake, Zandalee) Tulsa
 

Gene Autry
Sapulpa, Actor, musician

 

Lou Antonio
Director/Actor (Chicago Hope), Oklahoma City
 

Hoyt Axton
Folksinger, songwriter, Duncan

 

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 sonwriter form Blanchard, OK

 

Lon Chaney
Okla. City, Actor

 

Roy Clark
Tulsa, Musician

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

John Smith
Great wrestler and athlete.

 

Thomas P Stafford
Of Weatherford, US astronaut who commanded the joint United States-Soviet mission launched in July, 1975.

 

Belle Starr
Outlaw 1846-1889, was called the "Queen of the Outlaws" , "a female Jesse James", and the "Bandit Queen"

 

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

 

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.

 

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 Wilkerson
Norman, Football

 

This obviously is not a complete list of famous Oklahomans.  If you have others you would like to see included, please submit his/her name on the feedback form.

 

 
 
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