- Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and actor. He has been named Oklahoma's favorite son. - Brad Pitt
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He became famous during the mid 1990s, after having starring roles in several major Hollywood films, including "Interview with the Vampire" in 1994 and the thriller "Se7en" in 1995. Pitt has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won a Golden Globe Award, both for his role in "Twelve Monkeys" (1996). - Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and one of the best-selling country music performers of all time. She was known for her lively stage-shows and pop-tinged ballads. She has issued 29 albums, with more than 60 million records sold as of 2006. - Chuck Norris
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born 10 March 1940) is an American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is known for playing Cordell Walker on "Walker, Texas Ranger". In 2006, he became the subject of an internet phenomenon known as Chuck Norris Facts. - Dr. Phil
Phillip Calvin "Phil" McGraw, (born September 1, 1950), best known as Dr. Phil, is a four-time Emmy Award-nominated television personality who is the host of the popular American psychology TV show "Dr. Phil", who gained celebrity status following appearances on "The Oprah Winfrey Show". McGraw is noted for his Texas accent and for his one-finger wave to his wife Robin, in the audiences at the beginning of every show. - Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is a American actor, film director, and producer, primarily for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television, who came to prominence in the 1960s as Andy Griffith's son, Opie Taylor, on "The Andy Griffith Show", and later as Tom Bosley's son & Henry Winkler's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on "Happy Days" (a role he played from 1974 to 1980). - Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. Chenoweth is a person of small stature (four feet, eleven inches tall and 95 pounds) and has a distinctive speaking voice; in "FHM's" March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a coloratura soprano. - James Garner
James Garner (born April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades, including his roles as Bret Maverick in the popular 1950s western-comedy series, "Maverick", Jim Rockford in the popular 1970s detective drama, "The Rockford Files" and the father of Katey Sagal's character on "8 Simple Rules" following the death of John Ritter. - Gary Busey
William Gareth Jacob Busey, Sr. (born June 29, 1944) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and stage actor. He has appeared in a number of films, including "The Buddy Holly Story", "Big Wednesday", "Lethal Weapon", "Point Break", "Valley of the Wolves Iraq" and "Under Siege". - Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - Johnny Bench
John Lee Bench (born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), is a former baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in Major League Baseball history. He is also currently on the Board of Directors for the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. Bench was a key member of the Reds' 1975 and 1976 World Series championship teams known as "The Big Red Machine"'. - Alfre Woodard
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an acclaimed Academy Award-nominated, Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe-winning American actress. - Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards (born July 26, 1922) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director. He began his career as an actor and script-writer, including seven screenplays for Richard Quine. His early career as a script-writer was for radio. His hard-boiled private detective scripts for Richard Diamond, Private Detective became NBCs answer to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, … - William Boyd
William Boyd (June 5, 1895 - September 12, 1972) was an American actor. Born William Lawrence Boyd in Cambridge, Ohio, he was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He became famous as a Hollywood leading man in silent film romances with a yearly salary of $100,000, but by the end of the 1920s his career had begun to deteriorate, Boyd was without a contract and going broke. - Mickey Tettleton
Mickey Lee Tettleton (born September 16, 1960 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), was a Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, and Texas Rangers. Tettleton played at catcher, designated hitter, first base, and outfield. In fourteen major league seasons, Tettleton played 1485 games and hit at a .241 average, hit 245 home runs, had 732 RBI, and scored 711 runs. - Lee Pace
Lee Pace (birthdate unknown) is an American actor. Pace has been featured in film, stage and television. He is best known for his role as Calpernia Addams/Scottie in the 2003 Showtime movie "Soldier's Girl." - Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman (born May 27 1925) is an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works. His mystery novels are set in the Four Corners area of New Mexico and Arizona. The protagonists are Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the Navajo tribal police. Lt. Leaphorn was introduced in Hillerman's first novel, "The Blessing Way" (1970). The second book in the series, "Dance Hall of the Dead" (1973), … - Lee Hazlewood
Lee Hazlewood (born Barton Lee Hazelwood, 9 July 1929, Mannford, Oklahoma) is an American country singer, songwriter, and record producer. - Rue McClanahan
Rue McClanahan (born Eddi Rue McClanahan on February 21, 1934 in Healdton, Oklahoma) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for her roles acting alongside Bea Arthur on the television sitcoms "Maude" and "The Golden Girls". - Jeanne Tripplehorn
Jeanne Tripplehorn (born June 10, 1963) is an American film actress. Tripplehorn was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Tom Tripplehorn (known as "Tommy Tripplehorn"), who was once a guitarist with Gary Lewis & the Playboys. After graduating high school (during high school), Tripplehorn became a D.J. at Tulsa radio station KMOD, using the air name "Jeanie Summers". She was stage-trained as an actress (at Juilliard) and also served as a TV host. - Stacy Valentine
Stacy Valentine (born Stacy Baker on August 9, 1970 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American porn star, now retired from the pornographic business. She is sometimes credited as "Stacy Valentine", "Stacey Valentin", "Stacey Valentine" or "Staci Valentine". Married at a young age, Valentine was pressured by her husband to get breast implants and pose for an amateur photo contest run by "Hustler" magazine. - Ty England
Ty England, born December 5 1963, is a country music singer and guitarist from Oklahoma. England began playing guitar during his youth, and country stars such as Roy Acuff and Hank Williams. He sang with various bands in high school, and performed in his school chorus. While working at a coffee shop during his time as a student at Oklahoma State University, fellow student Garth Brooks met him and soon the two were roommates. - Vera Miles
Vera Miles (born August 23, 1929 or 1930) is an American actress. - Beverlee McKinsey
Beverlee McKinsey (born August 9, 1940 in McAlester, Oklahoma) is an American actress. - Erik Rhodes
Erik Rhodes (February 10, 1906-February 17, 1990) born Ernest Sharpe at El Reno, in the Indian Territory, in what was to become the state of Oklahoma. He was an American film and Broadway singer and actor. He is most well known today for two Hollywood films he made with stars Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, "The Gay Divorcee" (1934) and in "Top Hat" (1935). - Tommy Morrison
Tommy David Morrison (January 2, 1969, Jay, Oklahoma) is a heavyweight boxer, and the former World Boxing Organization champion. Dubbed "The Duke", he is a grandnephew of Hollywood star John Wayne. - Tim Blake Nelson
Tim Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American character actor, film director, and singer. - Olivia Munn
Olivia Munn (born July 2 1982) is an actress and one of the faces of the cable network G4. She hosts a number of shows for the network, the most prominent being the network's flagship show "Attack of the Show!" with co-host Kevin Pereira. - Rance Howard
Rance Howard (born Harold Rance Beckenholdt) (born November 17, 1928 in Oklahoma) is an American actor who has starred in film and on television. He has made appearances in over 100 films. Howard married actress Jean Speegle Howard (b. January 31 1927 in Duncan, Oklahoma, d. September 2 2000 in Burbank, California) in 1949. They were the parents of director Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard. He is also the grandfather of actress Bryce Dallas Howard. - Bill Hader
Bill Hader (born June 7, 1978) is a comedian and repertory player on "Saturday Night Live". Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hader's comedic skills eventually led him to the Los Angeles chapter of the famed Second City, a comedy troupe that has been a training ground for many "SNL" cast members since the 1970s. - Susan Watson
Susan Watson (born December 17, 1938) is an American actress and singer. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Watson was one of five children of a geologist/geophysicist and a dance instructor. From an early age her life was filled with the music of Gilbert and Sullivan and Rodgers and Hammerstein. As a teenager she performed in summer stock before being accepted at the Juilliard School in Manhattan. - Ryan Merriman
Ryan Earl Merriman (born April 10, 1983) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor during the mid 1990s, appearing a number of television and films roles, including several films made in Disney Channel and Hollywood. - William Witney
William Nuelsen Witney (15 May, 1915 - 17 March, 2002) was a Film Director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as "Zorro's Fighting Legion" and "Drums of Fu Manchu". He directed a large number of Western films over his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, … - Jack Hoxie
Jack Hoxie (January 11, 1885 - March 28, 1965) was an American rodeo performer and motion picture actor whose career was most prominent in the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1930s. Hoxie is best recalled for his roles in Westerns and never strayed from the genre. - Jenteal
Jenteal (born June 26 1976) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. She is sometimes credited as Jen, Jen Teal, or Reanna (Lynn) Rossi. Born Reanna Lynn Rossi in Oklahoma and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jenteal went to Southern California in 1994 to pursue a career in adult films. Her enthusiasm gained her immediate recognition, appearing in many hardcore films. - Litefoot
Litefoot (born on August 5, 1972; also goes by the name G. Paul Davis) is a Native American rapper and the founder of the Red Vinyl record label. - Cleavon Little
Cleavon Jake Little was an American film and theatre actor, best known for his lead role as Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles" and as the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland in the early seventies series "Temperatures Rising". Little was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He grew up in California and attended college at San Diego State University. - Ted Shackelford
Ted Shackelford, born June 23, 1946 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is an American actor. Shackelford is best known for his role as Gary Ewing on the TV Series "Knots Landing", which he starred in from 1979 until 1993. He also appeared as Gary Ewing on several episodes of TV's "Dallas"; this role had originally been played by actor David Ackroyd who was unable to return for future appearances. - Clarence Nash
Clarence "Ducky" Nash (December 7, 1904-February 20, 1985) was an American voice actor, best known for providing the voice of Donald Duck for Walt Disney Studios. He was born in the rural community of Watonga, Oklahoma, and a street in that town is named in his honor. - Dan Rowan
Daniel Hale (Dan) Rowan (July 22, 1922 - September 22, 1987) was an American comedian. He was featured in the television show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", where he played straight man to Dick Martin. Born in the small town of Beggs, Oklahoma, Rowan toured with his parents in a carnival in a singing and dancing act. He was orphaned at age 11 and adopted in Denver, Colorado. After graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles, …
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