List of people from Tulsa, Oklahoma

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This is a list of well-known persons who were either born in, or lived in, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Arts[]

Business[]

  • Frank Abagnale,[1] fraud expert, former con man, subject of Catch Me If You Can
  • Cyrus Avery (1870–1963), businessman and "father of Route 66"
  • Bill Bartmann,[2] businessman, named as "One of the Top 100 Entrepreneurs of the Last 100 Years"[3]
  • W. Tate Brady (1870–1925), businessman, owner of the Brady Hotel
  • James A. Chapman (1881–1966), oilman and philanthropist
  • Robert Galbreath Jr. (1863–1955), oilman who moved to Tulsa after he drilled the first oil well in Glenn Pool Field
  • J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), oilman founder of Getty Oil Company, who made his first million in Tulsa between 1914 and 1916[4]
  • Thomas Gilcrease (1890–1962),[5] oilman, founder of Gilcrease Museum
  • J. M. Hall (1851–1935), pioneer merchant in Tulsa, organized First Presbyterian Church
  • George Kaiser,[6] chairman of BOK Financial Corporation
  • Henry Kravis,[7] co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
  • James H. McBirney (1870–1944), co-founder and president National Bank of Commerce in Tulsa[8]
  • Sam P. McBirney (1877–1936), football coach and co-founder in Tulsa[8]
  • Robert M. McFarlin (1866–1942), oilman and philanthropist
  • Waite Phillips (1883–1964), oilman and philanthropist
  • Harry Ford Sinclair (1876–1956), founder of Sinclair Oil, co-founder of Exchange National Bank (later part of National Bank of Tulsa and Bank of Oklahoma; convicted of jury tampering during Teapot Dome scandal trial
  • Carolyn Mary Skelly (1905–1996), eccentric daughter of William Grove Skelly; oil heiress; dubbed the most robbed woman in the U.S. by the Boston Globe; socialite; hosted fundraisers for President George H.W. Bush, and Texas Governor John Connally[9][10]
  • William G. Skelly (1877–1957), founder of Skelly Oil Company, Spartan Aircraft Company and Spartan School of Aeronautics
  • William K. Warren Sr. (1897–1990), founder of Warren Petroleum Corporation; philanthropist
  • John Smith Zink (1928–2005), engineer, owner of , automobile racer

Music[]

  • Admiral Twin (Mark Carr, Jarrod Gollihare, John Russell, Brad Becker), rock band
  • The Agony Scene, metalcore band
  • Elvin Bishop, blues and rock music singer, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter.
  • Garth Brooks,[11] country music singer
  • Broncho, punk rock band with Ryan Lindsey, Johnathon Ford of Roadside Monument, and Nathan Price
  • Anita Bryant, singer
  • J. J. Cale,[12] songwriter and musician, an originator of The Tulsa Sound
  • Capital Lights, pop rock band
  • Rodney Carrington[13] country music singer and comedian
  • Chuck Cissel,[14] singer and dancer
  • Annie Clark (St. Vincent)
  • Roy Clark, country musician
  • David Cook, 2008 American Idol winner
  • Denny Cordell, record producer, signed Tom Petty as part of Mudcrutch
  • Ester Dean, singer, songwriter
  • Joe Diffie,[15] country musician
  • Phil Driscoll, trumpet player and singer, Christian and jazz musician
  • Ronnie Dunn[16] (Brooks and Dunn)
  • Annie Ellicott, jazz, swing singer[17][18]
  • Ester Drang, indie band
  • Rocky Frisco, pianist for J.J. Cale; 2008 inductee into Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame
  • The Gap Band, Charlie, Ronnie and Robert Wilson, R&B, funk, and soul band
  • David Gates, musician (Bread)
  • Hanson, Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson, Pop rock band
  • Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, jazz band
  • William Johns, opera singer[19]
  • Jim Keltner, drummer for the Traveling Wilburys
  • Tosca Kramer (1903–1976), violinist, violist, and music educator
  • Fredell Lack (1922–2017), violinist
  • Lega-C, rapper
  • Leon McAuliffe, steel guitarist Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
  • Little Joe McLerran, singer, guitarist, recording artist and winner of 2009 International Blues Challenge
  • John Moreland, singer, songwriter
  • Jamie Oldaker, drummer, Eric Clapton, Bob Seger
  • Patti Page, singer
  • PDA, rapper
  • Pillar, band
  • Johnny Polygon, rapper
  • Carl Radle, musician, bassist for Derek and the Dominos
  • Ben Rector, singer-songwriter
  • Steve Ripley, engineer, producer, singer, songwriter and guitarist for The Tractors and Bob Dylan
  • Leon Russell, singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, an originator of The Tulsa Sound and founder of The Church Studio
  • SafetySuit, pop rock band
  • Jacob Sartorius was born in Tulsa but adopted and moved to upstate Virginia shortly after his birth
  • Natalie Sims, musician, songwriter and music executive
  • Andy Skib, guitarist, keyboardist in David Cook's band
  • Ryan Tedder, producer, songwriter, lead singer of OneRepublic
  • David Teegarden, rock drummer with Teegarden & Van Winkle and with Bob Seger
  • Hank Thompson, musician
  • Neal Tiemann, lead guitarist in David Cook's band
  • Wayman Tisdale (1964–2009), jazz musician and former professional basketball player
  • Dwight Twilley, musician
  • Jared Tyler, singer-songwriter and producer
  • Unwed Sailor, instrumental indie rock
  • David T. Walker, session guitarist, famous for his work with Jackson 5 and Stevie Wonder among others
  • Bob Wills, western swing bandleader for the Texas Playboys
  • Johnnie Lee Wills, western music band leader, brother of Bob Wills
  • Charlie Wilson, R&B singer and lead singer of The Gap Band
  • Bob Wootton, lead guitarist for the Tennessee Three
  • Tuck Andress, guitarist
  • Kristin Chenoweth, actress, singer and author
  • Dara Tucker, singer, songwriter and documentary filmmaker
  • AleXa, K-pop soloist

Politics[]

Print[]

  • Mildred Grosberg Bellin, Jewish cookbook author
  • Denver Nicks, journalist
  • William Bernhardt, mystery/suspense fiction author
  • Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004), historian and writer; former Librarian of Congress
  • P.C. Cast, author
  • John Hope Franklin, African American historian; namesake of John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in Tulsa
  • Martin Gardner, author of works on philosophy, mathematics and literature
  • Sterling Gates, comic book writer (Supergirl, Action Comics)
  • S.E. Hinton, author (The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now, Tex)
  • Mercedes Lackey, science-fiction author
  • R.A. Lafferty, science-fiction author
  • Billie Letts, author, Where the Heart Is
  • Tracy Letts, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor (August: Osage County)
  • Joe McGuff, journalist and newspaper editor
  • Russell Myers, cartoonist, Broom-Hilda comic strip
  • Dan Piraro, cartoonist of the Bizarro comic strip
  • William P. Steven, journalist and newspaper editor
  • Clifton Taulbert, author, Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored
  • Will Thomas, mystery fiction author
  • Mildred Ladner Thompson, reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Tulsa World[21]
  • Michael Wallis, author, Route 66, Pretty Boy Floyd, Mankiller, Billy the Kid Voice Of Sheriff in The Cars Series
  • K. D. Wentworth, science-fiction author
  • Cornel West, theologian, author
  • Joy Harjo, poet, musician, and author. First Native American Poet Laureate, and first Poet Laureate from Oklahoma.

Radio[]

  • Paul Harvey (1918-2009), radio personality
  • Roy D. Mercer, fictional radio character

Screen and stage[]

  • Pamela Bach, actress; ex-wife of David Hasselhoff
  • Marshall Bell, actor
  • William Boyd, aka Hopalong Cassidy, western actor (born in Hendrysburg, Belmont County, Ohio)
  • Max Burnett, TV writer, screenwriter and director
  • Gary Busey, actor
  • Cindy Chupack, screenwriter for Sex and the City
  • Larry Clark, film director and photographer
  • Iron Eyes Cody, actor
  • Jay Dee, comedian
  • Larry Drake, actor
  • Blake Edwards, film director›
  • Sue England, actress
  • Bill Hader, actor, writer and comedian
  • Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker[22]
  • Josh Henderson, actor
  • Eva Jinek, news anchor
  • Jennifer Jones (1919-2009), actress
  • Heather Langenkamp, actress
  • Tommy Morrison, boxer and actor
  • Jerry Nelson, actor, puppeteer
  • Tim Blake Nelson, actor and director
  • Mary Kay Place, actress
  • Tony Randall, actor
  • Julián Rebolledo, actor and voice talent
  • Jack Roberts, actor
  • Gailard Sartain, actor
  • Mary Stuart, actress
  • Wes Studi, actor
  • Paula Trickey, actress
  • Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress
  • Stacy Valentine, porn star
  • Amber Valletta, actress and supermodel
  • Susan Watson, Broadway actress
  • Alfre Woodard, actress
  • Judy Woodruff, television journalist
  • Don Woods, meteorologist

Sports[]

Bill Goldberg
John Starks
James Tillis

Religion[]

  • Finis Alonzo Crutchfield, Jr., (1916–1986), United Methodist Church bishop, minister of Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, died in Tulsa[26]
  • Paul Vernon Galloway (1904–1990), Minister of Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, later Methodist bishop
  • Charles William Kerr (1875–1951), first permanent Protestant minister in Tulsa
  • Carlton Pearson (born 1953), evangelist
  • Oral Roberts (1918–2009), pioneer televangelist, founder of Oral Roberts University, affiliated with United Methodist church
  • John B. Wolf (1925–2017), minister of All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church

Other[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of". Retrieved September 16, 2007.
  3. ^ "About Bill Bartmann". Archived from the original on September 10, 2007. Retrieved September 16, 2007.
  4. ^ Whitman, Alden (June 6, 1976). "J. Paul Getty dead at 83; amassed billions from oil". New York Times. Retrieved September 6, 2008.
  5. ^ "Gilcrease Museum History". Archived from the original on December 16, 2007. Retrieved September 16, 2007.
  6. ^ "Forbes's The World's Richest People". Forbes. Retrieved September 16, 2007.
  7. ^ "Academy of Achievement Biography". Archived from the original on February 13, 1997. Retrieved September 16, 2007.
  8. ^ a b "fwix.com".
  9. ^ http://articles.philly.com/1986-08-21/news/26062433_1_bois-dore-costume-jewelry-carolyn-skelly
  10. ^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times.
  11. ^ "Life and Times of Garth Brooks". Retrieved September 17, 2007.
  12. ^ "JJ Cale Biography on Yahoo! Music". Retrieved September 17, 2007.
  13. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 18, 2007. Retrieved April 20, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. ^ "Chuck Cissel Biography on Soul Tracks". May 5, 2007. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
  15. ^ "Joe Diffie Biography on Star Pulse". Retrieved September 17, 2007.
  16. ^ "Brooks & Dunn Bio on TV.com". Retrieved September 17, 2007.
  17. ^ Karen Shade, "Finding Annie", Tulsa World, August 13, 2009 (pay site).
  18. ^ Gary Hizer, "Big New Voice", , May 9, 2007.
  19. ^ Forbes, Elizabeth (2001). "Johns, William". Grove Music Online. Retrieved 26 October 2015 (subscription required for full access).
  20. ^ Barone, Michael; Ujifusa, Grant (1987). The Almanac of American Politics 1988. National Journal. p. 794.
  21. ^ Stanley, Tim. "Mildred Ladner Thompson 1918–2013: Former Tulsa World columnist witnessed history". Tulsa World. 2013-07-07. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  22. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 28, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  23. ^ "Team USA: Patrick Callan". TeamUSA.org. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  24. ^ "Tommy Hanson Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  25. ^ "Globetrotting tales," Tulsa World, June 25, 2008. (Haynes grew up in Sand Springs.)
  26. ^ "A Faithful Secret". tribunedigital-chicagotribune.
  27. ^ "KRMG Event Guide for 2006 Miss America". Archived from the original on November 13, 2006. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
  28. ^ Jim Gabbert, "5 Buildings by John Duncan Forsyth", Preservation Oklahoma News, July 2006, p.5.
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