List of people from Oklahoma City

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The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised or lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This list should not include professional and college athletes who played in Oklahoma City unless they are originally from there.

Notable people from the state of Oklahoma, but not Oklahoma City or its suburbs, should go in the page titled "List of people from Oklahoma."

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

People by field[]

Athletics[]

Basketball[]

Baseball[]

Hockey[]

Football[]

Golf[]

Boxing[]

Other sports[]

Business people[]

Humanities[]

Dance[]

Directors and filmmakers[]

  • Gray Frederickson, Academy Award-winning producer[36]
  • Ron Howard, actor and director
  • Ray William Johnson, vlogger known for the popular Equals Three videos[37]
  • Carol Littleton, film editor

Actors and musicians[]

Writers[]

  • Ralph Ellison, novelist[66]
  • Louis L'Amour, western author
  • Jim Thompson, noir novelist and screenwriter
  • Jason Nelson, pioneering digital poet and writer

Visual artists[]

News, commentary[]

  • Skip Bayless, author, sports journalist and TV personality, ESPN First Take[70]
  • Gary England, former chief meteorologist of KWTV-DT 1972-2013.
  • Mike Morgan, chief meteorologist of KFOR-TV since 1993.
  • Dan Fagin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist[71]
  • James J. Kilpatrick, journalist most famous for his regular segment on 60 Minutes
  • Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times

Political figures[]

  • David Boren, former Governor and U.S. Senator
  • Michael D. Brown, FEMA head during Hurricane Katrina
  • David Dank, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives 2007–2015
  • Odilia Dank, former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, 1995–2006
  • Mickey Edwards, former Congressman
  • Bryce Harlow, lobbyist and Eisenhower advisor
  • Ernest Istook, former Congressman
  • Frank Keating, former Governor
  • Robert S. Kerr, former Governor and U.S. Senator
  • Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ambassador to the United Nations
  • Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate 2020
  • J.C. Watts, University of Oklahoma football player and former Congressman
  • Mac Q. Williamson, former Attorney General of Oklahoma

Other[]

Non-native Oklahoma City residents[]

U.S. service members[]

  • Admiral William J. Crowe (USN), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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