List of people from Enid, Oklahoma

This is a list of people from Enid, Oklahoma.

Academics

• Melissa Dell - economics professor, Harvard University, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal

Actors and actresses

• Richard Erdman - actor, Stalag 17, Community
• Glenda Farrell - actress
• Lynn Herring - actress, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives
• Thad Luckinbill - actor, star of The Young and the Restless
• Russell Scott - Blinky the Clown, Blinky's Fun Club

Artists

• Donna Cox - digital artist, scientist, and academic
• Mark Enger - painter
• Matt Enger - painter
• Gene Havlick - Academy Award-winning film editor
• Paladine Roye - Ponca artist
• James B. Shackelford - cinematographer
• Lyndon Stromberg - sculptor

Athletes

• Kody Bliss - CFL
• Lydell Carr - running back for the Arizona Cardinals
• Todd Franz - 2005 NFL player, Green Bay Packers
• Steve Fuller - NFL
• Don Haskins - Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame coach of 1966 NCAA Champion Texas Western Miners, subject of book and movie Glory Road
• Ray Hayward - Major League Baseball pitcher
• Andrew Hoxie - USSF soccer player
• Lou Kretlow - Major League Baseball pitcher
• Chris McCubbins - Olympian, runner
• Ken Mendenhall - NFL
• William E. "Pinky" Newell - athletic trainer, Purdue University, a founder of the National Athletic Trainers' Association
• Stacy Prammanasudh - LPGA
• Brent Price - NBA
• Mark Price - NBA
• Rip Radcliff - Major League Baseball outfielder
• Lil Stoner - Major League Baseball pitcher, also played for Champlin Oilers
• John Ward - NFL
• Jeff Zimmerman - NFL

Architects

• Karl Kamrath - architect and tennis player

Authors

• Don Blanding - poet, author
• Walter Bowart - author, psychedelic drug advocate
• J. Quinn Brisben - poet, socialist presidential candidate
• Wade Burleson - author and historian
• Angie Debo - author, historian, teacher at Enid High School
• Jon Franklin - author, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Carol Hamilton - Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, 1995-1997
• Marquis James - author, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Louis Jenkins - poet
• D.L. Lang - Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California
• Quraysh Ali Lansana - poet, civil rights historian
• Mark Potts - Pulitzer prize winning journalist and filmmaker
• Betty Lou Shipley - Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, 1997-1998
• Bess Truitt - Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, 1945-1946

Business owners

• Sherman Billingsley - founder and owner of the Stork Club in New York City
• Sam Boyd - casino owner
• Clyde Cessna - aviation pioneer, aircraft manufacturer
• Harold Hamm - owner of Continental Resources and Hiland Partners; billionaire

Criminals

• Daniel Holtzclaw - serial sexual assault under color of authority as Oklahoma City police officer

Musicians and singers

• Vida Chenoweth - first professional solo classical marimbist
• Karen Dalton - singer, musician
• Kyle Dillingham - violinist
• Casey Grillo - drummer for power metal group Kamelot
• Michael Hedges - guitarist
• Mark Kelly - bassist for Petra
• Leona Mitchell - opera singer
• Brad Richter - classical guitarist
• Sam Rivers - jazz musician
• Matthew Schultz - musician, Pigface, Lab Report
• Mark Selby - musician
• Don Yule - opera singer with the New York City Opera

Television and radio personalities

• Glenn Hauser - DXer
• Sharron Miller - Emmy Award and Directors Guild of America Award winning television director, producer, writer
• Harold Taft - television meteorologist

Politicians and military figures

• Patrick Anderson - Oklahoma state senator
• Page Belcher - Oklahoma US representative
• Robert M. Blair - Medal of Honor recipient
• James Yancy Callahan - Oklahoma territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives
• John Newbold Camp - Oklahoma US representative
• Bud Cummins - United States attorney
• Frank Frantz - seventh Oklahoma territorial governor
• Milton C. Garber - Oklahoma US representative; editor of Enid News & Eagle
• Owen K. Garriott - astronaut
• Jerauld R. Gentry - Air Force test pilot
• Bo Gritz - former US Army Special Forces operator; political activist
• Stephen Jones - attorney
• Harold Kiner - Medal of Honor recipient
• Norman Lamb - Oklahoma Secretary of Veterans Affairs
• Todd Lamb - lt. governor of Oklahoma
• E. Bay Mitchell - judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals
• John D. Russell - federal judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
• Kenneth M. Taylor - USAF general, Pearl Harbor hero
• Leon Vance - Medal of Honor recipient
• George H. Wilson - Oklahoma US representative

Religious figures

• Wade Burleson - minister
• Yahweh Ben Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell Jr.) - founder, Nation of Yahweh

Scientists

• Paul H. Allen - botanist

Other

• Letitia Chambers - director of the Heard Museum

References

See also

• List of mayors of Enid, Oklahoma