List of Famous people born in Oklahoma, United States of America
Ronnie Claire Edwards
Ronnie Claire Edwards was an American actress, best known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey on the TV series The Waltons.
Christopher Bell
Christopher David Bell is an American professional stock car racing driver and a Toyota Racing Development driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 20 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing. He is the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion.
Eliah Drinkwitz
Eliah Drinkwitz is an American football coach who is the head football coach at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. He was previously the head football coach at Appalachian State University in 2019.
James Hampton
James Wade Hampton is an American actor, television director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his Tv roles such as Private Hannibal Shirley Dobbs on F Troop (1965-1967), and Leroy B. Simpson on The Doris Day Show (1968-1969. and his movie roles such as Caretaker in The Longest Yard, Howard Clemmons in Hawmps!, Harold Howard in Teen Wolf, and Jerry Woolridge in Sling Blade.
Marshall Bell
Archibald Marshall Bell is an American character actor. He has appeared in many character roles in movies and television. He is known for roles in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), Stand by Me (1986), Twins (1988), Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers (1997).
Riley Cooper
Riley Cooper is a former American football wide receiver who played 6 seasons in the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Florida, where he was a member of two BCS National Championship teams. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL Draft where he played his whole career.
Johnny Bench
Johnny Lee Bench is an American former professional baseball player. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 through 1983. Bench was the leader of the Reds team known as the Big Red Machine that dominated the National League in the mid-1970s, winning six division titles, four National League pennants and two World Series championships.
Dave Nelson
David Earl Nelson was an American professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators / Texas Rangers, and Kansas City Royals from 1968 through 1977. He also served as one of the broadcasters for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team on Fox Sports Wisconsin.
Butch Davis
Paul Hilton "Butch" Davis Jr. is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at Florida International University. After graduating from the University of Arkansas, he became an assistant college football coach at Oklahoma State University and the University of Miami before becoming the defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He was head coach of the University of Miami's Hurricanes football team from 1995 to 2000 and the NFL's Cleveland Browns from 2001 to 2004. Davis served as the head coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Tar Heels football team from 2007 until the summer of 2011, when a series of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) investigations resulted in his dismissal. He was hired by the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an advisor in February 2012.
Tommy Allsup
Thomas Douglas Allsup was an American rockabilly and swing musician.