CU Carrie Underwood
born 1983 American singer and actor
Barney Kessel
1923–2004 American jazz guitarist
Ester Dean
born 1982 American singer and songwriter
Reubin Askew
1928–2014 American politician
Francis Rooney
born 1953 American politician and diplomat
Jay McShann
1909–2006 American blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer
Roberta McCain
1912–2020 Mother of John McCain
Sarah Vowell
born 1969 American author, journalist, singing songs and social commentator
Don Byas
1912–1972 American jazz saxophonist
Gene Conley
1930–2017 American baseball player
James Mace
1952–2004 American historian of Ukraine
J. Howard Edmondson
1925–1971 American politician
Sid Jordan
1889–1970 Actor
Claude Williams
1908–2004 American musician
James Robert Jones
born 1939 American politician
Olivia Hooker
1915–2018 Psychologist and professor
Leonard L. Thomas
born 1961 American actor
Xernona Clayton
born 1930 American activist and executive
Aaliyah Wilson
born 1998 American basketball player
Charles V. Hamilton
1929–2023 American political scientist
Curtis McClinton
born 1939 Professional American football player
Hugh Franklin
1916–1986 American actor
Larry Winget
born 1952 American motivational speaker
Les Walrond
born 1976 American baseball player
Bill Mercer
1926–2025 American sportscaster, educator and author
Budge Garrett
1893–1950 American football player and coach
James Vance
1953–2017 Writer
Keith Birdsong
1959–2019 American artist
Pamela Morsi
1951–2024 American writer of romance novels
Walter Thomas
1907–1981 American saxophonist
Dana Tiger
born 1961 American artist
Earl Garrison
born 1941 American politician
John Goodell
1907–1993 Major League Baseball pitcher
John Hall
1924–1995 American baseball player, born 1924
John N. Reese, Jr.
1923–1945 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Owen Crump
1903–1998 American film director and screenwriter
Phil Moffatt
1908–1987 American football player
R. Perry Beaver
1938–2014 American politician
Sandy Garrett
born 1943 American politician in Oklahoma
Harold Holliday Sr.
1918–1985 American politician
Joe Reiff
1911–1988 American basketball player
Margie Gay
1919–2003 American actress
Maxine Martell
born 1937 American artist (b. 1937)
Randy Ball
born 1951 American football player and coach
Robert E. Lavender
1926–2020 American judge
Scott Leggett
1962–1997 American football player
William J. Moore
1923–2015 American politician, Pennsylvania
ZerNona Black
1906–2005 American academic
Albert Ashwood
born 1959 Director of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management
Barbara McAlister
born 1941 American opera singer and painter
Betty Cole Dukert
1927–2024 Television producer
Bobby Frame
1959–2025 American politician
Charlotte Anne Wilson Heth
born 1937 Cherokee ethnomusicologist, director of UCLA's American Indian Studies Center
David R. Morgan
1933–2023 American political scientist
E. Summers Hardy
1933–2012 American judge
Eddie Miller
1916–2000 Player of American football
Gene Shelby
born 1951 American politician
Hardy Summers
1933–2012 American judge
Hermione Hortense Love
1910–2001 Concert singer
Jimmie Baker
1920–2003 TV producer known for jazz documentaries
Joe Thomas
1908–1997 American alto saxophonist and songwriter
John York
born 1949 San Francisco 49ers owner
Kenneth Harlan Simmons
1933–2010 American architect and urban planner
Kevin Peterson
born 1994 American football cornerback
Lou Jennings
1904–1957 American football player
Nelson Dean
1899–1939 Negro League Baseball player
Opio Toure
1954–2008 American politician
Sara Bates
born 1944 Cherokee artist
Tate C. Page
1908–1984 American football coach
Vera Embree
1921–2004 American dancer and choreographer
Also called Muskogee home
Robert Reed
1932–1992 American actor, director
Cornelius J. Jones
1858–1931 Mississippi state legislator and attorney
William Frederick McCaw
1850–1923 Irish-born American architect
George N. Garrett
1919–2010 US lieutenant and International Military Tribunal staff