title: List of people from Tulsa, Oklahoma
text: This is a list of well-known persons who were either born in, or lived in, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  
  Arts
   Joe Brainard, (1942 - 1994) painter
   Charles Bell (1935–1995), artist
   Ted Berrigan, (1934 - 1983) poet
   James Pepper Henry, artist and Gilcrease Museum director (2015-2017)
   Roman Jasinski, (1907- 1991) ballet dancer and teacher
   Ron Padgett, (b. 1942) poet
  
  Business
  Frank Abagnale, fraud expert, former con man, subject of Catch Me If You Can
  Cyrus Avery (1870–1963), businessman and "father of Route 66"
  Bill Bartmann, businessman, named as "One of the Top 100 Entrepreneurs of the Last 100 Years"
  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
  Thomas Gilcrease (1890–1962), oilman, founder of Gilcrease Museum
  J. M. Hall (1851–1935), pioneer merchant in Tulsa, organized First Presbyterian Church
  George Kaiser, chairman of BOK Financial Corporation
  Henry Kravis, co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
  Joseph A LaFortune, (1894–1975), oilman and philanthropist
  James H. McBirney (1870–1944), co-founder and president National Bank of Commerce in Tulsa
  Sam P. McBirney (1877–1936), football coach and co-founder National Bank of Commerce in Tulsa
  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
  William G. Skelly (1877–1957), founder of Skelly Oil Company, Spartan Aircraft Company and Spartan School of Aeronautics, philanthropist
  William K. Warren Sr. (1897–1990), founder of Warren Petroleum Corporation; philanthropist
  John Smith Zink (1928–2005), engineer, owner of John Zink Industries, 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-songwriter, guitarist and bandleader
  Garth Brooks, country music singer
  Broncho, punk rock band with Ryan Lindsey, Johnathon Ford of Roadside Monument, and Nathan Price
  Anita Bryant, singer
  J. J. Cale, songwriter and musician, an originator of The Tulsa Sound
  Capital Lights, pop rock band
  Rodney Carrington country music singer and comedian
  Jeff Carson, country musician
  Chuck Cissel, 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, country musician
  Phil Driscoll, trumpet player and singer, Christian and jazz musician
  Ronnie Dunn (Brooks and Dunn)
   Annie Ellicott, jazz, swing singer
  Scott Ellison, electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
  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, pop rock musician (Bread)
  Hanson, Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson, Pop rock band
  Gus Hardin, female country musician
  Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, jazz band
  William Johns, opera singer
  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, 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
  Clyde Stacy, rockabilly musician
  Ryan Tedder, producer, songwriter, lead singer of OneRepublic
  David Teegarden, rock drummer with Teegarden & Van Winkle and with Bob Seger
  Flash Terry, blues musician
  Neal Tiemann, lead guitarist in David Cook's band
  Wayman Tisdale (1964–2009), jazz musician and former professional basketball player
  Dwight Twilley, poper pop, rock musician
  Jared Tyler, singer-songwriter and producer
  Unwed Sailor, instrumental indie rock
  David T. Walker, session guitarist, famous for his work with Jackson 5, Bobby Womack, Levert and Stevie Wonder among others
  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 Idol
  
  Politics
  Tom Adelson, member of the Oklahoma State Senate
  Bob Ballinger, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, reared in Tulsa
  Dewey F. Bartlett, former Governor of the state of Oklahoma and U.S. Senator
  Dewey F. Bartlett Jr., former Mayor of Tulsa (2009–2016)
  G. T. Bynum, Mayor of Tulsa (2016–present)
  Jim R. Caldwell, retired Church of Christ minister and former member of the Arkansas State Senate
  David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 
  David Hall, former Governor of the state of Oklahoma
  James Inhofe, U.S. Senator 
  James R. Jones, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, chairman of the American Stock Exchange
  Frank Keating, former Governor of the state of Oklahoma
  John Albert Knebel, Secretary of Agriculture in the Carter Administration
  Sheila Kuehl, former actress, now California State Senator
  Steve Largent, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  Willian F. Martin, United States Deputy Secretary of Energy
  Jim McConn, former Mayor of Houston, Texas, 1979–1981
  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Democratic U.S. Senator representing New York was born in Tulsa.
  George E. Nowotny, retired Tulsa businessman and former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Fort Smith
  John A. Sullivan, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  Kathy Taylor, Mayor of Tulsa (2006–2009)
  John Volz, attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, died in Tulsa in 2011
  R. James Woolsey Jr., former director, Central Intelligence Agency
  Terry Young, former Mayor of the City of Tulsa
  
  Print
  Mildred Grosberg Bellin, Jewish cookbook author
  William Bernhardt, mystery/suspense fiction author
  Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004), historian and writer; former Librarian of Congress
  Cleora Butler (1901–1985), chef, caterer and cookbook writer
  Dorothy Carnegie  (1912–1998), author
  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)
  Joy Harjo, poet, musician, and author. First Native American Poet Laureate, and first Poet Laureate from Oklahoma.
  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
  Denver Nicks, journalist
  Dan Piraro, cartoonist of the Bizarro comic strip
  Nancy Speir, children's book illustrator
  Grace Steele Woodward, writer and historian
  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
  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
  
  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
  Josh Henderson, actor
  John Ingle, 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
  
  Brent Albright, professional wrestler
  Kelenna Azubuike, professional basketball player
  Randy Blake, kickboxer
  Bill Blankenship, football coach, head coach at University of Tulsa
  Anthony Bowie, basketball player
  Michael Bowie, former Seattle Seahawks offensive tackle
  Jordan Brailford, defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons
  Dylan Bundy, baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins
  Mikey Burnett, mixed martial artist
  Patrick Callan, competitive swimmer
  Dale Cook, kickboxer and actor
  Bobby Cox (born 1941), player, manager and Baseball Hall of Famer
  Richard Dumas, professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns
  Ebi Ere, basketball player for Melbourne Tigers
  Terrance Ferguson, basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers
  Justin Fuente, head football coach, Virginia Tech
  Reuben Gant, football player for Buffalo Bills 
  Matt Gogel, professional golfer
  Bill Goldberg (born 1966), professional NFL football player and undefeated wrestler
  Todd Graham, head coach of Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team (2007–2010)
  Matt Grice, mixed martial arts fighter
  Tommy Hanson, baseball pitcher
  Chris Harris Jr., NFL, Cornerback
  Gerald Harris, mixed martial artist
  Thomas Hatch, pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays
  Marques Haynes, Harlem Globetrotters player, Basketball Hall of Famer
  David Heath, mixed martial artist
  Randy Heckenkemper, golf course designer
  Daxton Hill, NFL, Safety
  Justice Hill, NFL, Running back
  Koyie Hill, Major League Baseball catcher
  Josh Jacobs, NFL, Running back
  Zach Jackson (pitcher, born 1994), Major League Baseball, pitcher for the Oakland Athletics
  Felix Jones, Dallas Cowboys Running back
  Dallas Keuchel, pitcher for the Chicago White Sox
  Jim King, NBA player and Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball coach
  Jeff Krosnoff, Championship Auto Racing Teams driver
  Steve Largent, Seattle Seahawks wide receiver, Pro Football Hall of Famer, politician
  Kevin Lilly, NFL player
  Kevin Lockett, NFL player
  Tyler Lockett, NFL player
  Zach Loyd,  soccer player
  Lee Mayberry, professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks
  Sam P. McBirney, coach of Tulsa Golden Hurricane football (1914–1916)
  R. W. McQuarters, professional football cornerback
  Robert Meachem, New Orleans Saints wide receiver
  Kenny Monday, Olympic gold medalist and World Champion in freestyle wrestling
  Joe-Max Moore, soccer forward, U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame 2013
  Reece Morrison, NFL player
  Tommy Morrison (1969-2013), boxer, heavyweight contender and actor, Rocky V
  Ray Murphy, Jr., collegiate wrestler and 1989 Handicapped Person of the Year
  Charlie O'Brien, professional baseball catcher
  Janice O'Hara, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
  Peter Ramondetta, professional skateboarder
  Nolan Richardson (born 1941), basketball coach for University of Tulsa and University of Arkansas, coach and general manager WNBA's Tulsa Shock
   Henry Schichtle, football player
   Tubby Smith (born 1951), basketball coach
   John Starks, basketball player
   Ricky Stromberg (born 2000), American football player
   Iciss Tillis, professional basketball player for WNBA's Washington Mystics
   James "Quick" Tillis, boxer, heavyweight contender and actor
   Wayman Tisdale (1964–2009), professional basketball player and musician
   Matt Wiman, mixed martial arts fighter
   Darryl Wren, gridiron football player
   John Smith Zink, automobile racing
  
  Religion
   Finis Alonzo Crutchfield, Jr., (1916–1986), United Methodist Church bishop, minister of Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, died in Tulsa
   Paul Vernon Galloway (1904–1990), Minister of Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, later Methodist bishop
   Willie George, children's show actor and pastor
   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
   Mother Grace Tucker (1919-2012), Evangelical Christian pastor and philanthropist
   John B. Wolf (1925–2017), minister of All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
  
  Other
   Bobby Baldwin, professional poker player (1978 world champion) and casino executive; born in Tulsa
   Deborah Barnes, judge of the Oklahoma Appellate Court (1987-present); daughter in law of the late Justice Don Barnes 
   Don Barnes (judge), born in Tulsa, Justice of the Oklahoma State Supreme Court (1972-1985)
   Jennifer Berry, Miss America 2006
   Butler, Phillip N., the eighth longest-held US prisoner of war in North Vietnam, president of Veterans for Peace
   Roscoe Cartwright, first black Field Artilleryman promoted to Brigadier General.
   Mike Doonesbury, main character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury
   Viola Fletcher, survivor of the Tulsa race massacre
   John Duncan Forsyth (1887–1963), architect
   W. R. Holway (1893–1981), engineer, designer of Spavinaw water project
   Robert Lawton Jones (1925–2018), architect noted for his contributions to modern architecture
   Olivia Jordan, Miss World America 2013, Miss Oklahoma USA 2015, Miss USA 2015
   Joseph R. Koberling, Jr. (1900–1990), architect
   Charles Page (1860–1926), philanthropist and founder of Sand Springs
   Leon B. Senter (1889-1965), architect
   William Angie Smith (1894–1974), Methodist Bishop of Oklahoma
   Mother Grace Tucker, pastor and philanthropist
  
  References
  
   
  Tulsa
  Tulsa, Oklahoma