List of Famous people born in Oklahoma, United States of America

Gerald McCoy

Gerald Keith McCoy Jr. is an American football defensive tackle who is a free agent. He played college football at Oklahoma, where he earned consensus All-American honors, and was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers third overall in the 2010 NFL Draft. McCoy has been selected to the Pro Bowl six times, and is also a three time First-Team All-Pro.

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Xernona Clayton

First Name Xernona
Born on August 30, 1930 (age 95)

Xernona Clayton Brady is an American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive. During the Civil Rights Movement, she worked for the National Urban League and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where she became involved in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Later, Clayton went into television, where she became the first African American from the southern United States to host a daily prime time talk show. She became corporate vice president for urban affairs for Turner Broadcasting.

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Terrance Ferguson

Terrance Eugene Ferguson Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He completed high school at Advanced Preparatory International in Dallas, Texas, where he was a top-20 player in the Class of 2016. Ferguson made separate commitments to both Alabama and Arizona before deciding to skip college and play overseas in 2016–17. He is a three-time gold medalist with Team USA, and in 2016, he participated in the McDonald's All-American Game and the Nike Hoop Summit, winning the MVP award at the latter.

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Cleta Mitchell

Deatherage
First Name Cleta
Born on September 15, 1950 (age 75)

Cleta B. Deatherage Mitchell is an American lawyer, politician and conservative activist. Elected in 1976, Mitchell served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives until 1984, representing District 44 as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1996, she registered as a Republican. Since then, she has worked as a Republican lawyer and conservative activist.

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Matt Kemp

First Name Matt
Last Name Kemp
Born on September 23, 1984 (age 41)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Matthew Ryan Kemp is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. He began his professional career in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization in 2003, and played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Dodgers from 2006 until 2014, the San Diego Padres in 2015 and 2016 and the Atlanta Braves in 2016 and 2017 before returning to the Dodgers for the 2018 season, and briefly playing for the Cincinnati Reds in 2019 and Colorado Rockies in 2020. He has been named to three All-Star teams and has won two Gold Glove Awards and two Silver Slugger Awards.

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Kay Francis

Katharine Edwina Gibbs
First Name Kay
Last Name Francis
Born on January 13, 1905
Died on August 26, 1968 (aged 63)

Katherine Edwina "Kay" Francis was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star and highest-paid actress at Warner Bros. studio.

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Tim Means

First Name Tim
Last Name Means
Born on February 20, 1984 (age 42)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Timothy Carl Means is an American professional mixed martial artist from Moriarty, New Mexico currently competing in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 2004, Means has also formerly competed for King of the Cage and Legacy FC. Means is the former King of the Cage Lightweight Champion and the former King of the Cage Junior Welterweight Champion.

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Mike Pouncey

James Michael Pouncey

James Michael Pouncey is an American football center for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Florida, was a member of a BCS National Championship team, and earned All-American honors. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft.

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Taylor Hanson

Jordan Taylor Hanson
First Name Taylor
Last Name Hanson
Born on March 14, 1983 (age 43)

Jordan Taylor Hanson is an American musician best known as a member of the pop rock band Hanson. He was born in Jenks, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa. He sings both lead and back-up vocals, and plays keyboard, percussion, guitar, harmonica, and piano. He is also the lead singer of supergroup Tinted Windows.

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Larry Drake

First Name Larry
Born on February 21, 1950
Died on March 17, 2016 (aged 66)
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Larry Richard Drake was an American actor, voice artist, and comedian, best known as Benny Stulwicz in L.A. Law, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards. He also appeared as Robert G. Durant in both Darkman and Darkman II: The Return of Durant, a homicidal mental patient who escapes an insane asylum in the slasher black comedy Dr. Giggles, and was the voice of Pops in Johnny Bravo.

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