- Les Miles
Les Miles (born November 10, 1953) is an American college football coach and the current head coach of the LSU Tigers. Prior to holding that position, he was head coach at Oklahoma State. He was formerly an assistant at Oklahoma State University as well as with the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado and the Dallas Cowboys.
- John Smith
John W. Smith (born August 9, 1965) was a successful amateur wrestler and is currently the head coach of wrestling at Oklahoma State University.
- John Edwards
John Edwards (born July 31 1981 in Warren, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player, currently positioned at center for the NBA's Indiana Pacers. He stands 7'0" tall and weighs 275lbs.
- Doug Gottlieb
Doug Gottlieb (born January 15 1976) is a former NCAA collegiate basketball player for Oklahoma State and current ESPN analyst and host of the ESPN Radio show "The Pulse".
- Gary Darnell
Gary Darnell (born October 15, 1948) is currently the defensive coordinator of the Texas A&M Aggies football team. A long-time defensive coordinator, Darnell was previously the head coach at Western Michigan University and Tennessee Technological University, and interim head coach at the University of Florida. Gary Darnell attended Oklahoma State University as a personal management major and linebacker for the Cowboys football team.
- Kurt Budke
Kurt Budke is the head women's basketball coach at Oklahoma State. He has also coached at Allen County Community College, Trinity Valley Community College, and Louisiana Tech. His teams have reached 20 wins in each of his years, and have had double digit losses in only one of his years, prior to his first year at Oklahoma State. At the junior college level, his record stands at 273-31(.898), which is the highest winning percentage in NJCAA.
- John Pelphrey
John Pelphrey is the 14th head men's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas (hired April 2007). After being named Kentucky's "Mr. Basketball" in 1987, he became a star college player at the University of Kentucky. Prior to coaching the Razorbacks, he served as head basketball coach for South Alabama. Pelphrey served as an assistant coach under Eddie Sutton at Oklahoma State and Billy Donovan at Marshall and Florida. He and his wife Tracy have two children, …
- Phil Martelli
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- Frank Anderson
Frank Anderson is the current head baseball coach at Oklahoma State. His team won the 2004 Big 12 Tournament. In 2005, his team went 34-25, including a major upset over the top ranked Texas Longhorns. In 2006, OSU went 41-20, and earned a number 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. His program reached a national ranking of 12th during a season where they were supposed to struggle. He is a pitching coach, who previously coached at Texas.
- Ryan McBean
Ryan McBean is an American football Defensive Tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football for Oklahoma State.
- Will Bynum
Will Bynum (born January 4 1983 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel. He previously played for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. Prior to that, he played for the Roanoke Dazzle of the NBA Development League. After signing a contract with the Boston Celtics in the off-season of 2005, he participated in NBA preseason play and was subsequently waived before the start of the 2005-06 regular season.
- Pat Jones
Pat Jones b. November 4, 1947 in Memphis, Tennessee is a former football coach. Pat grew up in Little Rock and played linebacker/ nose guard at Arkansas Tech in 1965 and Arkansas from 1966 to 1967. Jones' coaching stops include Arkansas from 1974-75, SMU from 1976-77, Pittsburgh in 1978, and Oklahoma State from 1979-1994. Jones served as head coach of the OSU Cowboys from 1984 to 1994.
- Billy Bajema
Billy Bajema (born October 31, 1982 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an NFL player who plays tight end for the San Francisco 49ers. He was drafted by the 49ers in the 7th round (249th overall) in the 2005 NFL Draft after attending Oklahoma State University. While not viewed as a great receiving tight end, he has earned his playing time through his blocking skills.
- Charlie Weatherbie
Charlie Weatherbie (Born January 17, 1955) is the head football coach at Louisiana Monroe. He had a troubled coaching stretch from 2000 to 2004, when he went 2-26 in his last 28 games, due to the previous poor recruiting of former coaches. In 2005, he led the then ULM Indians to a co-championship in the Sun Belt Conference, and has been able to sustain a near .500 record since. From 1992 to 1994, he was the head football coach at Utah State, where he went 15-19.
- Pat Smith
Pat Smith (born on September 21, 1970) is a former collegiate wrestler at Oklahoma State University and a former assistant coach at OSU. During his collegiate wrestling career, he became the first four-time NCAA wrestling champion in the sports history. Internationally, he won the gold medal World Junior Freestyle Championship in 1990 at 163 pounds. He resigned as Oklahoma State's assistant coach on May 1, 2006.
- Gary Ward
Gary Ward was the head baseball coach at Oklahoma State from 1978 to 1996. He compiled an impressive 953-313-1 record. He had won 17 Big Eight championships at OSU, including an impressive 16 in a row at one point. He led his team to 18 40 win seasons, and his teams have finished in the top 10 12 times. He later became the head baseball coach at New Mexico State. During his tenure, he became only the 24th coach in college baseball history to gain 1,000 career wins.
- Speedy Claxton
Craig "Speedy" Claxton (born May 8 1978, in Hempstead, New York) is an American professional basketball player with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. Prior to the NBA, Claxton played at Hofstra University, where he played under current Villanova University coach Jay Wright. At Hofstra, Claxton led the Pride to the America East Championship defeating the University of Delaware in the championship game at Hofstra Arena.
- Brian Watts
Brian Peter Watts (born March 18 1966) is an American professional golfer. Watts was born in Montreal, Canada to European parents, but is now a U.S. citizen who lives in Oklahoma.. He played collegiately at Oklahoma State and won the NCAA Division I Championship in 1987. Watts turned professional in 1988. He played mainly on the Japan Golf Tour in the 1990s, where he had 12 victories. However he is best known for his performance at The Open at Royal Birkdale in 1998, …
- John McDonnell
John McDonnell (born July 2, 1938) is the current head coach for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks track team. He began as the cross country track coach for the University in 1972 and became head track coach in 1978.
- Terry Miller
Terry Miller (born January 7 1956 in Columbus, Georgia) was a National Football League running back with the Buffalo Bills from 1978 through 1980. He was an All-American at Oklahoma State in 1976 and 1977 and finished second in the 1977 Heisman Trophy voting.
- Gene Stephenson
Gene Stephenson is a legendary baseball coach at Wichita State. Through 28 seasons, he has compiled a 1552-511-3(.752) record. He has the second most wins among active coaches, and ranks second all time in career victories. Only Augie Garrido has had more wins. He reached 1200 career wins in 22 seasons, which is faster than any coach in history. On May 21, 2003, he became only the third head coach in NCAA history to win 1400 games, and on May 21, 2005, …
- John Ward
John Henry Ward (born May 27, 1948 in Enid, Oklahoma) is a former National Football League lineman who played from 1970 to 1976 for the Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He attended Oklahoma State and was the Vikings first round draft pick in 1970.
- Keith Burns
Keith Bernard Burns (born May 16, 1972 in Greeleyville, South Carolina) is a former professional football player. The Denver Broncos drafted Burns out of Oklahoma State in the 7th round (#210 overall) of the 1994 NFL Draft. A Bronco for most of his twelve-year career, Burns saw playing time as a reserve linebacker and a prominent special teams player. He spent the 1999 season with Chicago Bears, and the 2004 season with Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- Brent Guy
Brent Guy is the head football coach at Utah State. From 1986 to 1991, he served as a defensive coach at Oklahoma State. Guy previously coached at Utah State from 1992-94, working with the linebackers under then head coach Charlie Weatherbie. In that time, the Aggies won a Big West Conference Championship and posted the only bowl victory in school history, winning the 1993 Las Vegas Bowl 42-33 against Ball State.
- Tim Jankovich
Tim Jankovich is the head basketball coach at Illinois State University. He was an assistant basketball coach at Kansas for four years, and has also served under current Kansas head coach Bill Self at Illinois. He's also served as an assistant coach at Colorado State, Oklahoma State, Texas, and Vanderbilt. He played college basketball at Kansas State.
- Jon Adkins
Jonathan Scott Adkins (born August 30, 1977 in Huntington, West Virginia) is a Major League Baseball pitcher. A graduate of Oklahoma State, the right-hander was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 9th round of the 1998 amateur draft, and has played in parts of three seasons with the Chicago White Sox. (2003-2005) In April of 2006, he pitched in three games for the San Diego Padres, and was then optioned to the Padres' Triple-A affiliate, the Portland Beavers.
- Dickey Nutt
Dickey Nutt (born June 6, 1959 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is the head men's basketball coach at Arkansas State University. Nutt has held the same position since 1995. He has led the Indians to the NCAA Tournament once, winning the Sun Belt Conference tournament to secure the conference's automatic bid in 1999. Arkansas State received a 15 seed, and was eliminated by Utah in the first round. Nutt has been coaching at Arkansas State University since 1987, …
- Bowden Wyatt
Bowden Wyatt (born October 4, 1917 in Kingston, Tennessee, died January 21, 1969 in Kingston, Tennessee) was the head football coach at the University of Tennessee from 1955-1962. He compiled a 49-29-4 record during his tenure. He served as the head coach at the University of Arkansas and the University of Wyoming prior to coming to Tennessee. He compiled a 39-17-1 record at Wyoming, and an 11-10 record at Arkansas.
- Johnny Bright
Johnny D. Bright (June 11, 1930 - December 14, 1983) was a professional football player in the Canadian Football League (primarily with the Edmonton Eskimos) and an outstanding American college football player at Drake University. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Bright is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame, the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame, the Edmonton Eskimos Wall of Honour, …
- Jim Lookabaugh
Edwin M. "Jim" Lookabaugh (June 16, 1902 to May 13, 1982) was the college football coach at Oklahoma State from 1939 to 1949. His career record stands at 58-41-6. His teams won bowl games in 1945, 1946, and 1948. The 1945 team was the only undefeated team in school history. He was an OSU alumni himself, lettering in baseball, basketball, and football. From 1925 to 1929, he coached at Jett High School, and from 1930 to 1938, …
- Ted Cox
Ted Cox was a college football coach at Tulane, and Oklahoma State. He served as an assistant coach at Tulane starting in 1927. In 1932, he was promoted to head coach. He compiled a 28-10-2 record as head coach of the Green Wave. This included the 1934 team which went 10-1, the best season in school history to that point. In 1935, despite posting a winning record at 6-4, he was fired. From 1936 to 1937, he coached at Oklahoma State, and compiled a 5-15 record.
- Jay Canizaro
Jay Canizaro (born July 4, 1973 in Beaumont, Texas is a former major league second baseman who spent parts of four seasons in the majors with the San Francisco Giants and the Minnesota Twins. Canizaro was drafted by the Giants in 1993 in the fourth round of the draft after playing at Oklahoma State. He made his major league debut in 1996 with the team, but returned to the minors until 1999, when he was again called up. Following the 1999 season, …
- Clarence Iba
Clarence Iba (1909 - April 21, 1997) is the former head basketball coach at the University of Tulsa. Iba coached the Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team for eleven seasons, from 1949 to 1960. He is the brother of former Oklahoma State coach Henry Iba. When Iba was hired in 1949, he became Tulsa's first full-time basketball coach. Iba led the team to a NIT appearance in 1953, the first postseason appearance for Tulsa in the modern era.
- Dale Meinert
Dale Meinert (born December 18, 1933 in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, died May 10, 2004 in Clinton, Oklahoma) is a former professional American Football player: He played ten seasons in the NFL for the Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals. Previously he played three seasons with the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL. He died after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
- John Lucas II
John Lucas (born John Harding Lucas II on October 31, 1953 in Durham, North Carolina) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. Lucas attended the University of Maryland where he was an all-American in basketball as well as tennis. He played in the NBA for fourteen years and was a member of the 1986 Houston Rockets team that made the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Boston Celtics.
- Cliff Speegle
Cliff Speegle (born November 4, 1917) was the head football coach at Oklahoma State from from 1955 to 1962. His record at OSU was 36-42-3(.462). He was ultimately fired in 1962. During his tenure, he was 0-8 in the Bedlam Series, against Oklahoma. He played college football at Oklahoma from 1938 to 1940.
- Phil Cutchin
Phil Cutchin (died January 7, 1999) was the head football coach at Oklahoma State from 1963 to 1968. Although he never had a winning season at OSU, he led the team to their first win over Oklahoma in 20 years. He played college football at Kentucky. He later served as an assistant coach there, under legendary coach Paul Bear Bryant. He later followed him to coach at Texas A&M and Alabama.
- Floyd Gass
Floyd Gass was the head football coach at Oklahoma State from 1969 to 1971. He compiled a 13-18-1 record in his three seasons at OSU. He was an alumni of OSU himself, and played football and basketball there. After retiring from coaching he served as the school's athletic director.
- Albert Exendine
Albert A. "Al" Exendine (January 7, 1884 - January 4, 1973) was a football head coach at Georgetown, Washington State, and Oklahoma State. From 1914 to 1922, he coached at Georgetown, and compiled a 55-21-3 record there. This included a 9-1 season in 1916, as well as an 8-1 season in 1921. From 1923 to 1925, he coached at Washington State, and compiled a 6-13-4 record there. From 1934 to 1935, he coached at Oklahoma State, where he compiled a 7-12-1 record.
- Paul J. Davis
Paul J. Davis was an American college football coach at Mississippi State, North Dakota State, and Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State). From 1909 to 1914, he coached at Oklahoma A&M, and compiled a 29-16-1 record. From 1915 to 1917, he coached at North Dakota State, where he compiled a 10-7-1 record. From 1962 to 1966, he coached at Mississippi State, where he compiled a 20-28-4 record.