List of personalities of the city of Oklahoma City
This article is a chronological list of Oklahoma City personalities .
Oklahoma City Born Personalities
20th century
- Bill Maxwell (* 20th century), drummer and music producer
- Maurice Spears (* 20th century), trombonist, music teacher and copyist
1901-1920
- AS Mike Monroney (1902–1980), politician
- Jimmy Rushing (1903–1972), blues and jazz singer and songwriter
- Richard Gaines (1904–1975), actor
- Kay Francis (1905–1968), actress
- Gladys McConnell (1905–1979), actress and pilot
- Lon Chaney junior (1906–1973), theater, film and television actor
- Henry Bridges (1908–1986), jazz musician
- Lem Johnson (1909-1989), musician
- Joseph Patterson (1912–1939), hurdler
- Louise Currie (1913–2013), actress
- Ralph Ellison (1914-1994), author
- Eugene Nida (1914–2011), linguist and Bible translation theorist
- Billy Tipton (1914-1989), jazz pianist and saxophonist; was born as Dorothy Lucille Tipton
- Merl Lindsay (1915-1965), country musician
- Rochelle Hudson (1916–1972), actress
- Billy Wallace (1917–1978), country and rockabilly musician and composer
- Jack Coe (1918–1956), Pentecostal pastor and healing evangelist
- Bernard Anderson (1919–1997), jazz trumpeter
- Leon O. Morgan (1919–2002), chemist and co-discoverer of americium
- James J. Kilpatrick (1920–2010), journalist, columnist and linguist on syntax theory
- Don Lamond (1920–2003), jazz drummer
1921-1930
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- Wardell Gray (1921–1955), tenor saxophonist
- Wann Langston, Jr. (1921-2013), vertebrate paleontologist
- Basil Spears (1921-2004), musician
- Louise Brough (1923-2014), tennis player
- Ozzie Cadena (1924-2008), music producer
- Robert Glasgow (1925–2008), organist and music teacher
- James Vernon Smith (1926–1973), politician
- Ross Thomas (1926-1995), writer
- Dupree Bolton (1929-1993), trumpeter
- Jimmy Reece (1929–1958), racing car driver
- David Hall (1930-2016), politician
1931-1950
- Kenneth H. Cooper (* 1931), sports medicine specialist, developer of the Cooper test
- Ronnie Claire Edwards (1933-2016), actress
- Earl Grant (1933–1970), singer, pianist and organist
- Lou Antonio (* 1934), actor and director
- Jimmy Nolen (1934–1983), blues guitarist
- Dick Howard (1935-1967), hurdler
- Barry McGuire (born 1935), folk rock singer and guitarist
- Louie Spears (* 1935), jazz bassist
- Don Cherry (1936-1995), musician
- Mike Farmer (born 1936), basketball player
- James Hampton (born 1936), actor, television director and screenwriter
- Robert Stong (1936–2008), mathematician
- Gray Frederickson (born 1937), film producer
- JJ Cale (1938–2013), musician and composer
- Molly Bee (1939-2009), country singer
- Sperry Rademaker (1939-2005), canoeist
- Cornell Green (born 1940), American football player
- Henson Cargill (1941-2007), country singer
- Jackson DeGovia (born 1941), film architect
- Marcia Jones-Smoke (* 1941), canoeist
- Chelcie Ross (born 1942), actor
- Pamela Tiffin (born 1942), actress
- Joe Haldeman (born 1943), science fiction writer
- John Langley (* 1943), film and television director and producer
- Jim Guy Tucker (born 1943), politician
- Ed Caruthers (* 1945), high jumper
- Ronald Fagin (* 1945), computer scientist
- Karen Wynn Fonstad (1945–2005), writer and cartographer
- John P. Dulaney (born 1946), actor
- Ted Shackelford (born 1946), actor
- Johnny Bench (born 1947), baseball player
- Stephen Harrigan (* 1948), writer, journalist and screenwriter
- Elizabeth Warren (* 1949), lawyer and politician
- Ken Wilber (born 1949), author
- Michael Been (1950–2010), rock musician, singer, songwriter, bassist, record producer and actor
1951-1970
- James Herndon (* 1952), media psychologist
- Kent Massey (born 1952), sailor
- Chris Merritt (* 1952), opera singer
- Chuck Dunlap (* 1954 or 1955), country and folk musician
- Greg Jacobs (* 1954), country and folk musician
- Neal Schon (* 1954), guitarist
- John Michael Talbot (* 1954), Roman Catholic monk, songwriter and guitarist
- Thomas K. Hubbard (* 1956), philologist
- Bradley J. Anderson (1957-2000), costume designer
- Dan Hampton (born 1957), American football player
- Mark Holton (born 1958), actor
- Bob Tway (born 1959), professional golfer
- Randall Stephenson (born 1960), entrepreneur
- Mickey Lee Tettleton (born 1960), MLB baseball player
- Antoine Carr (born 1961), basketball player
- Lauren Lane (born 1961), television and stage actress
- Suzy Amis (* 1962), film actress and photo model
- Dan Fagin (* 1963), journalist, writer and journalism lecturer
- Steve Russell (* 1963), Oklahoma politician and representative in the US House of Representatives
- Brian Bosworth (born 1965), American football player and actor
- Brandt Jobe (* 1965), professional golfer
- John Smith (born 1965), wrestler
- Tisha Campbell (born 1968), actress
- Anthony Shadid (1968-2012), journalist
1971-2000
- Lutricia McNeal (* 1973), singer
- CB Hudson (born 1974), musician
- Betty Lennox (* 1976), basketball player
- Jerry Azumah (born 1977), American football player
- Lindsay Lee-Waters (* 1977), tennis player
- Heather Wahlquist (born 1977), actress
- Tyler Arnason (* 1979), Canadian-American ice hockey player
- Jimmy Walker (* 1979), professional golfer
- Olivia Munn (* 1980), TV presenter and actress
- Philip Salyer (* 1981), football player
- Wes Welker (born 1981), American football player
- Nicholas Monroe (* 1982), tennis player
- Matt Brewer (born 1983), jazz musician
- Shelden Williams (born 1983), basketball player
- Candice Dupree (* 1984), basketball player
- Audra Mae (* 1984), singer-songwriter
- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (* 1985), painter, street artist and illustrator
- JR Giddens (* 1985), basketball player
- David Godbold (born 1985), basketball player
- Anthony Smith (born 1986), basketball player
- Laura Spencer (* 1986), actress
- Sam Bradford (born 1987), American football player
- Chelsea Manning (* 1987), whistleblower
- Dan Bailey (born 1988), American football player
- Gerald McCoy (born 1988), American football player
- Blake Griffin (born 1989), basketball player
- Gil Roberts (* 1989), sprinter
- BiBi Jones (* 1991), porn actress
- Lexi Ainsworth (born 1992), actress
- Jon Merrill (born 1992), ice hockey player
- Sterling Shepard (born 1993), American football player
- Noah Crawford (* 1994), actor and singer
- CJ Valleroy (born 1999), actor
- Mason Cook (* 2000), actor
21st century
- Darci Lynne Farmer (* 2004), ventriloquist and singer
Famous Oklahoma City residents
19th century
- Jack C. Walton (1881-1949), politician; Mayor of Oklahoma City from 1919 to 1923
- Cattle Annie or Anna Emmaline McDoulet Roach (1882–1978), bandit
- Thomas Braniff (1883–1954), co-founder of the Braniff airline
- Paul Braniff (1897–1954), co-founder of the Braniff airline
20th century
- Walter Cronkite (1916–2009), CBS chief news anchor
- Charles Salatka (1918–2003), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Oklahoma City
- William J. Crowe, Jr. (1925-2007), Admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Gordon Cooper (1927-2004), astronaut
- Miguel Terekhov (1928–2012), ballet dancer
- Yvonne Chouteau (1929-2016), ballerina
- Owen K. Garriott (1930-2019), astronaut
- William R. Pogue (1930-2014), astronaut
- Tom Stafford (* 1930), astronaut
- Eusebius Joseph Beltran (born 1934), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Oklahoma City
- Frank Keating (* 1944), politician, former governor of Oklahoma
- Ed Harris (born 1950), actor
- Alvan Adams (born 1954), basketball player
- Mary Fallin (born 1954), Oklahoma Governor and former congresswoman
- Paul Stagg Coakley (born 1955), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Oklahoma City
- John Bennett Herrington (born 1958), astronaut
- "Dr. Death "Steve Williams (1960-2009), wrestler
Web links
Commons : People of Oklahoma City - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Lou Antonio , imdb.com
- ^ Mike Farmer , basketball-reference.com
- ↑ Sperry Rademaker in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Marcia Jones Smoke in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Mickey Tettleton , baseball-reference.com
- ^ Bibi Jones , imdb.com