List of Famous people born in Oklahoma, United States of America
Woody Bledsoe
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Bledsoe was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. He is one of the founders of artificial intelligence (AI), making early contributions in pattern recognition and automated theorem proving. He continued to make significant contributions to AI throughout his long career.
Jim Thompson
James Myers Thompson was an American author and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.
Harry Eugene Stanley
Harry Eugene Stanley is an American physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science. His current research focuses on understanding the anomalous behavior of liquid water, but he had made fundamental contributions to complex systems, such as quantifying correlations among the constituents of the Alzheimer brain, and quantifying fluctuations in noncoding and coding DNA sequences, interbeat intervals of the healthy and diseased heart. He is one of the founding fathers of econophysics.
Shelby Grant
Shelby Grant was an American actress whose credits included Our Man Flint, Fantastic Voyage, and Medical Center.
Jerry Hopper
Harold Hankins "Jerry" Hopper was an American film and television director, active from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s.
Ralph Faudree
Ralph Jasper Faudree was a mathematician, a professor of mathematics and the former provost of the University of Memphis.
Penelope Maddy
Penelope Maddy is an American philosopher. She is a UCI Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine. She is well known for her influential work in the philosophy of mathematics, where she has worked on mathematical realism and mathematical naturalism.
T. Hee
"T." (Thornton) Hee was an American animator, director, and teacher. He taught character design and caricature. He is always credited as T. Hee.
Tony Hillerman
Anthony Grove Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Several of his works have been adapted as theatrical and television movies.
Brent Price
Hartley Brent Price is an American retired professional basketball player who played for four teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the brother of 4-time NBA All-Star, Mark Price.