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Art Acord Silent film star, 90 films between 1910 and 1929, Stillwater |
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Carl Albert McAlester, Former Speaker, US House |
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Erica Anderson Actor, (Quake, Zandalee) Tulsa |
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Gene Autry Sapulpa, Actor, musician |
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Lou Antonio Director/Actor (Chicago Hope), Oklahoma City |
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Hoyt Axton Folksinger, songwriter, Duncan |
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Johnny Bench Baseball great |
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Black Kettle Cheyenne, Cheyenne Chief |
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William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd Tulsa, Actor |
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Garth Brooks Of Yukon, country and western music entertainer |
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Paul and Thomas Braniff Okla. City, Aviation pioneers |
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Anita Bryant Tulsa, Entertainer |
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Jeremy Castle Oklahoma country music singer and sonwriter form Blanchard, OK |
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Lon Chaney Okla. City, Actor |
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Roy Clark Tulsa, Musician |
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Charles Coe National Amateur Golfing Champion in 1949 and 1958. |
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Bart Conner Olympic gold medal winner, gymnastics |
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Leroy Gordon Cooper Of Shawnee, was among the original seven US astronauts. He orbited the earth 22 times in 1963. |
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Joan Crawford Lawton, Actress |
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Admiral William Crowe Former Head of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff. |
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Dizzy Dean Baseball great |
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John Denver Corn, Clinton, Musician |
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Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd Akins, Sallisaw, Outlaw |
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Owen K. Gariott Of Enid, US astronaut |
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James Garner Actor |
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Geronimo Fort Sill, Apache Warrior |
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Vince Gill Country singer |
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Woody Guthrie Considered by most to be the father of American Folk music, was born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in Okemah, OK, July 14, 1912. |
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Mary Hart Okla. City, TV anchorwoman |
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Paul Harvey Tulsa, Broadcast journalist |
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Ron Howard Duncan, Actor/Director |
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Toby Keith Moore, Musician |
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Jean Kirkpatrick Ambassador to the United Nations |
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Gordon William "Pawnee Bill" Lillie Pawnee, Wild West Show |
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Dr. Shannon Lucid Of Oklahoma City, a US astronaut. She was on board the space shuttle Atlantis during its flight in October of 1989. |
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Reba McEntire Country and western music entertainer |
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Phillip C McGraw "Dr. Phil" Okla. City, TV Host |
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Mickey Mantle, Baseball great. |
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Pepper Martin Baseball great |
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Shannon Miller Edmond, Gymnast |
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Kenny Monday Great wrestler and athlete. |
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Bobby Murcer Okla. City, Baseball great. |
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Carry Nation Of Guthrie, led the fight for prohibition |
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Bill Pickett Ponca City, Invented bulldogging |
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Brad Pitt Shawnee, Actor |
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William R. Pogue Of Okemah, among the original seven US astronauts. He returned to earth on February 8, 1974 after 84 days in space. |
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Darrell Porter Baseball great |
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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. |
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Lynn Riggs Author, writer "Green Grow The Lilacs" from which script Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the Broadway musical hit "Oklahoma!" |
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Will Rogers Humorist, entertainer, ambassador-at-large. |
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Stuart A Roosa Of Claremore, a US astronaut |
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John Smith Great wrestler and athlete. |
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Thomas P Stafford Of Weatherford, US astronaut who commanded the joint United States-Soviet mission launched in July, 1975. |
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Belle Starr Outlaw 1846-1889, was called the "Queen of the Outlaws" , "a female Jesse James", and the "Bandit Queen" |
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Willie Stargell Baseball great |
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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 |
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Bob Tway Of Edmond, he won the PGA Championship in 1986 |
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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." |
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Wayman Tisdale Great basketball player and athlete. |
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Paul and Lloyd Waner Outfielders from Harrah, OK. The only brothers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame |
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JC Watts Sooner quarterback, U.S. congressman |
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Bud Wilkerson Norman, Football |
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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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