100 Notable alumni of University of Oklahoma – Norman

Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Oklahoma – Norman is 234st in the world, 1st in North America, and 97st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Oklahoma – Norman sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Oklahoma – Norman won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Isaiah Cousins

1. Isaiah Cousins

1994-. (aged 32)
basketball player
Isaiah De Vonte Cousins is an American professional basketball player for Bashkimi of the Kosovo Superleague. He played college basketball for the University of Oklahoma before playing professionally in the NBA G League, France and Israel.
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Todd Hamilton

2. Todd Hamilton

1965-. (aged 61)
golfer
William Todd Hamilton is an American professional golfer. He is best known for his victory at the 2004 Open Championship.
Jed Johnson, Jr

3. Jed Johnson, Jr

1939-1993 (aged 54)
politician
Jed Joseph Johnson Jr. was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 6th congressional district from 1965 to 1967. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Doris Eaton Travis

4. Doris Eaton Travis

1904-2010 (aged 106)
dancer film actor model stage actor singer
Doris Eaton Travis was an American dancer, stage and film actress, dance instructor, owner and manager, writer, and rancher, who was the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl, a troupe of acclaimed chorus girls who performed as members in the Broadway theatrical revues of the Ziegfeld Follies.
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Jonathan Horton

5. Jonathan Horton

1985-. (aged 41)
artistic gymnast
Jonathan Alan Horton is a former American artistic gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and is the 2008 Olympic silver medalist on horizontal bar, the 2010 World all-around bronze medalist, a two-time Olympian, a two-time U.S. National All-Around Champion, and a 17-time medalist at the U.S. National Championships. At the 2008 Olympics,...
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Diane Bish

6. Diane Bish

1941-. (aged 85)
television presenter organist composer
Diane Joyce Bish is an American organist, composer, conductor, as well as executive producer and host of The Joy of Music television series. As a concert organist, she performs at concerts throughout North America and Europe. Bish also continues to tape episodes for her television series by visiting notable organs throughout the world.
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Frank Keating

7. Frank Keating

1944-. (aged 82)
lawyer politician
Francis Anthony Keating II is an American attorney, politician and a former FBI special agent who served as the 25th governor of Oklahoma from 1995 to 2003.
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Tony Casillas

8. Tony Casillas

1963-. (aged 63)
American football player
Tony Steven Casillas is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) from 1986 through 1997. He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, winning an NCAA national championship in 1985, when he also won the Lombardi Award and was the UPI Lineman of the Year. Casillas was also part of...
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Fred R. Harris

9. Fred R. Harris

1930-2024 (aged 94)
politician university teacher lawyer writer political scientist
Fred Roy Harris was an American politician from Oklahoma who served from 1957 to 1964 as a member of the Oklahoma Senate and from 1964 to 1973 as a member of the United States Senate.
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Cleta Mitchell

10. Cleta Mitchell

1950-. (aged 76)
lawyer politician
Cleta B. Deatherage Mitchell is an American lawyer, former politician, and Republican elections 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 activist focused on elections, asserting, without...
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Will Claye

11. Will Claye

1991-. (aged 35)
long jumper athletics competitor triple jumper
Will Claye is an American track and field athlete who competes in the long jump and triple jump. He won a bronze medal in 2011 World Championships in Athletics and the gold medals at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships and 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In his Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Claye won a bronze medal...
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Kenneth M. Taylor

12. Kenneth M. Taylor

1919-2006 (aged 87)
military officer
Kenneth Marlar Taylor was a United States Air Force officer and a flying ace of World War II. He was a new United States Army Air Corps second lieutenant pilot stationed at Wheeler Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Along with his fellow pilot and friend George Welch, Taylor managed to get a fighter...
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Brad Henry

13. Brad Henry

1963-. (aged 63)
lawyer politician
Charles Bradford Henry is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 26th governor of Oklahoma from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 1992 to 2003. As of 2026, he is the last Democrat to have been elected or serve as governor of Oklahoma.
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Lonny Chapman

14. Lonny Chapman

1920-2007 (aged 87)
playwright actor television actor
Lon Leonard Chapman was an American actor best known for his numerous guest star appearances on television drama series.
Kenneth Murray

15. Kenneth Murray

1998-. (aged 28)
American football player
Kenneth Rogers Murray Jr. is an American professional football linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and was selected by the Los Angeles Chargers in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft. He signed with the Tennessee Titans in 2024 before being traded to the Cowboys in...
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Nik Bonitto

16. Nik Bonitto

1999-. (aged 27)
American football player
Nikolas Bonitto is an American professional football linebacker for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners.
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Alvan Adams

17. Alvan Adams

1954-. (aged 72)
basketball player
Alvan Leigh Adams is an American former professional basketball player. He spent his entire 13-year career with the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Adams was named as the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1975 and selected as an NBA All-Star in 1976. He retired in 1988 and holds Suns records for games played (988), minutes played...
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Ruben Kihuen

18. Ruben Kihuen

1980-. (aged 46)
graduate advisor politician
Rubén Jesús Kihuen Bernal is an American politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives for Nevada's 4th congressional district, serving from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was a member of the Nevada Senate from 2006 to 2016. He was Nevada's first Latino member of the U.S. House of Representatives and...
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Susan Stryker

19. Susan Stryker

1961-. (aged 65)
university teacher film director historian sociologist film producer
Susan Stryker is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona. Stryker is the author of several books and a founding figure of...
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Jermaine Gresham

20. Jermaine Gresham

1988-. (aged 38)
American football player
Jermaine Gresham is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, earning first-team All-American honors in 2008. He was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft.
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Jon Gray

21. Jon Gray

1991-. (aged 35)
baseball player
Jonathan Charles Gray is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and Texas Rangers.
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Yul Moldauer

22. Yul Moldauer

1996-. (aged 30)
artistic gymnast
Yul Kyung-Tae Moldauer is an American artistic gymnast. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He is the 2017 U.S. national all-around champion and the 2017 World bronze medalist on floor exercise. Additionally he was a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2023 World Championships.
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Shannon Lucid

23. Shannon Lucid

1943-. (aged 83)
chemist biochemist astronaut
Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut. She has flown in space five times, including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996, and is the only American woman to have stayed on Mir. From 1996 to 2007, Lucid held the record for the longest duration spent in space by an American...
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Gregory Benford

24. Gregory Benford

1941-. (aged 85)
science fiction writer writer astronomer university teacher novelist
Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of Reason magazine.
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Stacey Dales

25. Stacey Dales

1979-. (aged 47)
basketball player sports commentator
Stacey Dales is a Canadian-American former basketball player and a current reporter on the NFL Network. Dales was born in Collingwood, Ontario, and raised in Brockville, Ontario.
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Michael James Adams

26. Michael James Adams

1930-1967 (aged 37)
military officer test pilot military flight engineer aircraft pilot astronaut
Michael James Adams was an American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and USAF astronaut. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA.
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Seth Littrell

27. Seth Littrell

1978-. (aged 48)
American football player
James Seth Littrell is an American football coach and former player. He is a senior offensive analyst at the University of Tennessee. Littrell served as the head football coach at the University of North Texas from 2016 to 2022. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Oklahoma for part of the 2024 season.
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J. C. Watts

28. J. C. Watts

1957-. (aged 69)
American football player politician Canadian football player
Julius Caesar Watts Jr. is an American politician, clergyman, and former football player. Watts played as a quarterback in college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and later played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 as a Republican, representing Oklahoma's 4th congressional district.
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Owen K. Garriott

29. Owen K. Garriott

1930-2019 (aged 89)
electrical engineer electrotechnician military officer engineer aircraft pilot
Owen Kay Garriott was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission in 1983.
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Azar Nafisi

30. Azar Nafisi

1948-. (aged 78)
novelist professor public figure journalist literary critic
Azar Nafisi is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.
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Danny Hodge

31. Danny Hodge

1932-2020 (aged 88)
amateur wrestler boxer professional wrestler
Dan Allen Hodge was an American amateur and professional wrestler, who also had a brief professional boxing career. He is in both the U.S. amateur wrestling Hall of Fame, for his three NCAA titles and Olympic silver medal, and the pro wrestling Hall of Fame, as a seven-time NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion. The Dan Hodge Trophy is the college...
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Travis McElroy

32. Travis McElroy

1983-. (aged 43)
podcaster presenter
Travis Patrick McElroy is an American podcaster, writer, and comedian. He is known for his work on podcasts such as My Brother, My Brother and Me, Shmanners, The Adventure Zone, and Can I Pet Your Dog?.
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Dick Armey

33. Dick Armey

1940-. (aged 86)
fellow assistant professor economist professor university teacher
Richard Keith Armey is an American economist and politician. He was a U.S. representative from Texas's 26th congressional district (1985–2003) and House majority leader (1995–2003). He was one of the engineers of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades. Armey was one...
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Eduardo Nájera

34. Eduardo Nájera

1976-. (aged 50)
basketball player basketball coach
Eduardo Alonso Nájera Pérez is a Mexican former professional basketball player who is currently a scout for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is also a pregame and postgame analyst on Mavericks Live on Fox Sports Southwest. Before being promoted to a scout with the Mavs, he was head coach of the Texas Legends of the...
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Brady Manek

35. Brady Manek

1998-. (aged 28)
basketball player
Brady Reece Manek is an American professional basketball player for Nanjing Monkey Kings of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners and the North Carolina Tar Heels.
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Carl Albert

36. Carl Albert

1908-2000 (aged 92)
lawyer politician
Carl Bert Albert was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 46th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and represented Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1947 to 1977.
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Fernando Chui

37. Fernando Chui

1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Fernando Chui Sai On GCM GML is a Macau politician who served as the 2nd chief executive of Macau from 2009 to 2019. He served as secretary for social and cultural affairs from 1999 to 2009.
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Sterlin Harjo

38. Sterlin Harjo

1979-. (aged 47)
film director screenwriter
Sterlin Harjo is a Native American director, producer and screenwriter from Oklahoma. He is a citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and a Muscogee descendant. He has directed three feature films, two documentaries, as well as the FX comedy-drama series Reservation Dogs and The Lowdown, all of them set in his home state of Oklahoma and concerned primarily with...
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C. J. Cherryh

39. C. J. Cherryh

1942-. (aged 84)
translator science fiction writer novelist writer
Carolyn Janice Cherry, better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award–winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner series. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great...
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Tom Cole

40. Tom Cole

1949-. (aged 77)
professor consultant advocate politician graduate assistant
Thomas Jeffery Cole is an American politician and former educator serving as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district since 2003. A Republican, he previously served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1988 to 1991 and as the 26th secretary of state of Oklahoma from 1995 to 1999. An enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, Cole is the longest-serving Native...
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Tom Paxton

41. Tom Paxton

1937-. (aged 89)
singer guitarist singer-songwriter writer environmentalist
Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer-songwriter whose career spans more than sixty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a music educator as well as an advocate for folk singers to combine traditional songs with new compositions.
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Darrell Royal

42. Darrell Royal

1924-2012 (aged 88)
American football player
Darrell K Royal was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi State University from 1954 to 1955, the University of Washington in 1956, and the University of Texas from 1957 to 1976, compiling a career record of 184 wins, 60 losses and five ties. During his 20-year tenure as...
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Creed Humphrey

43. Creed Humphrey

1999-. (aged 27)
American football player
Creed Humphrey is an American professional football center for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, where he was named the Big 12 Conference's offensive lineman of the year in 2019 and 2020. He was selected by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.
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Frank Trigg

44. Frank Trigg

1972-. (aged 54)
professional wrestler mixed martial arts referee judoka mixed martial arts fighter
Frank Trigg is an American retired mixed martial artist, color commentator, pro wrestler, MMA referee and TV host. Trigg is a veteran of the UFC, Pride Fighting Championships, BAMMA, and the World Fighting Alliance, where he was the promotion's only Welterweight champion. He has professional wrestling appearances in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
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Kelly Mantle

45. Kelly Mantle

1976-. (aged 50)
comedian television actor singer-songwriter drag queen musician
Kelly Leroy Mantle is an American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian, musician, drag queen, trans-icon and reality television personality. Mantle appeared as a contestant on the sixth season of the reality TV show RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Iqbal Theba

46. Iqbal Theba

1963-. (aged 63)
film actor actor television actor
Iqbal Theba is a Pakistani and American actor, best known for his recurring role as Principal Figgins in the show Glee.
Jack Ging

47. Jack Ging

1931-2022 (aged 91)
television actor film actor
Jack Lee Ging was an American actor. He was best known as General Harlan "Bull" Fulbright on NBC's television adventure series The A-Team, and for his supporting role in the final season of Tales of Wells Fargo starring Dale Robertson.
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Jack Brisco

48. Jack Brisco

1941-2010 (aged 69)
professional wrestler amateur wrestler
Freddie Joe "Jack" Brisco was an American amateur wrestler and professional wrestler. As an amateur for Oklahoma State, Brisco was two-time All-American and won the NCAA Division I national championship. He turned pro shortly after and performed for various territories of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), becoming a two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and multi-time NWA World Tag Team Champion...
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Terry Stotts

49. Terry Stotts

1957-. (aged 69)
basketball player basketball coach
Terry Linn Stotts is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the top assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously served as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA from 2012 to 2021 before most recently spending an offseason as an assistant coach for the Milwaukee...
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Ragan Smith

50. Ragan Smith

2000-. (aged 26)
artistic gymnast
Ragan Elizabeth Smith is a retired American gymnast and current assistant coach. She is a five-time member of the US National Team (2014–2019) and competed for the University of Oklahoma in collegiate gymnastics from 2020 to 2024. She is the 2017 United States national all-around champion and was an alternate for the 2016 Olympic team.
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Bill Watts

51. Bill Watts

1939-. (aged 87)
professional wrestler American football player
William F. Watts Jr., better known under the ring name Bill Watts, is a retired American professional wrestler, promoter and former American football player. Watts garnered fame under his "Cowboy" gimmick in his wrestling career, and then as a promoter in the Mid-South United States, which grew to become the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF). Watts also worked under the ring...
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Jason White

52. Jason White

1980-. (aged 46)
American football player
Jason White is an American former college football player who was a quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners. He was named a unanimous All-American and won the Heisman Trophy in 2003.
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Jamie Marchi

53. Jamie Marchi

1977-. (aged 49)
screenwriter voice actor dub director film actor
Jamie Marchi is an American voice actress, ADR director and script writer. She has provided a number of voices for English-language versions of anime and video games. She is known for her role as Masane Amaha in Witchblade, Mari Ohara in Love Live! Sunshine!!, Mimi in Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne, Mitsuko Kongo in A Certain Scientific Railgun, Charlotte E. Yeager...
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Wayman Tisdale

54. Wayman Tisdale

1964-2009 (aged 45)
basketball player jazz guitarist jazz musician
Wayman Lawrence Tisdale was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and a smooth jazz bass guitarist. A three-time All American at the University of Oklahoma, he was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
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"Dr. Death" Steve Williams

55. "Dr. Death" Steve Williams

1960-2009 (aged 49)
professional wrestler American football player amateur wrestler mixed martial arts fighter
Steven Franklin Williams, best known under the ring name "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, was an American collegiate and professional wrestler and collegiate football player. He was known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and is a three-time professional wrestling world heavyweight champion, having won both the Herb Abrams and Bill Watts versions...
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Taylor Griffin

56. Taylor Griffin

1986-. (aged 40)
basketball player
Taylor Drew Griffin is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners and is the older brother of Blake Griffin.
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Rick Bayless

57. Rick Bayless

1953-. (aged 73)
restaurateur chef
Rick Bayless is an American chef and restaurateur who specializes in traditional Mexican cuisine with modern interpretations. He is widely known for his PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time. Among his various accolades are a Michelin star, the title of Top Chef Masters, and seven James Beard Awards.
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Jake Hager

58. Jake Hager

1982-. (aged 44)
mixed martial arts fighter professional wrestler
Donald Jacob Hager Jr. is an American retired professional wrestler, amateur wrestler and mixed martial artist. He is best known for his tenures in WWE as Jack Swagger and in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as Jake Hager. As a mixed martial artist, he was signed to Bellator MMA and competed in the heavyweight division.
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Mark Andrews

59. Mark Andrews

1926-2020 (aged 94)
politician
Mark Andrews is an American professional football tight end for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and was selected by the Ravens in the third round of the 2018 NFL draft. Andrews has been elected to the Pro Bowl three times and was named to the 2021 All-Pro Team...
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Larry Drake

60. Larry Drake

1950-2016 (aged 66)
voice actor television actor film actor dub actor
Larry Richard Drake was an American actor. He was 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...
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Jim Butcher

61. Jim Butcher

1971-. (aged 55)
actor science fiction writer novelist
Jim Butcher is an American author. He has written the contemporary fantasy The Dresden Files, Codex Alera, and Cinder Spires book series.
Pat Bowlen

62. Pat Bowlen

1944-2019 (aged 75)
businessperson
Patrick Dennis Bowlen was an American lawyer, executive and the majority owner of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL), winning three Super Bowls. He was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the class of 2019. Bowlen owned other professional sports franchises in the Colorado region. Bowlen served as the Broncos CEO from 1984 until...
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Bart Conner

63. Bart Conner

1958-. (aged 68)
artistic gymnast gymnastics coach
Barthold Wayne Conner is a retired American Olympic gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He owns and operates the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy in Norman, Oklahoma, along with his wife, Romanian Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comăneci. In addition, Conner is a long-time...
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Rick Rescorla

64. Rick Rescorla

1939-2001 (aged 62)
paratrooper security consultant army officer
Richard Cyril Rescorla was a British-American soldier, police officer, educator and private security specialist. He served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He rose to the rank of colonel in the Army before entering the private sector, where he worked in corporate security.
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Van Heflin

65. Van Heflin

1908-1971 (aged 63)
film actor character actor stage actor
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. was an American theatre, radio, and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. Heflin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942). He also had starring roles in...
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Randy Bass

66. Randy Bass

1954-. (aged 72)
baseball player politician
Randy William Bass is an American politician and former baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and served in the Oklahoma Senate.
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CeeDee Lamb

67. CeeDee Lamb

1999-. (aged 27)
American football player
Cedarian DeLeon "CeeDee" Lamb is an American professional football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners where he was a consensus All-American in 2019, and was selected by the Cowboys in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft.
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Trent Williams

68. Trent Williams

1988-. (aged 38)
American football player
Trent Williams is an American professional football offensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, where he was recognized as an All-American, and was selected by the Washington Redskins fourth overall in the 2010 NFL draft. Williams is considered one of the greatest offensive tackles of all...
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DeMarco Murray

69. DeMarco Murray

1988-. (aged 38)
American football player
DeMarco Murray is an American football coach and former professional player who is currently the running backs coach for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). A running back in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons, Murray was a three-time Pro Bowl selection, one-time first-team All-Pro, and NFL Offensive Player of the Year in 2014...
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Buddy Hield

70. Buddy Hield

1992-. (aged 34)
basketball player
Chavano Rainer "Buddy" Hield is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners and was named the Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016.
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Rance Howard

71. Rance Howard

1928-2017 (aged 89)
screenwriter television actor film producer actor film actor
Rance Howard was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard.
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Fred Haise

72. Fred Haise

1933-. (aged 93)
military officer military flight engineer fighter pilot aircraft pilot astronaut
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. is an American former NASA astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, and a test pilot. He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, having served as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth person to walk on the Moon,...
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Brian Bosworth

73. Brian Bosworth

1965-. (aged 61)
film actor actor American football player
Brian Keith Bosworth is an American actor and former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. Nicknamed "the Boz", he played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, earning two Dick Butkus Awards and winning the 1986 Orange Bowl. Bosworth was selected by the Seahawks in the first round of...
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Trae Young

74. Trae Young

1998-. (aged 28)
basketball player
Rayford Trae Young is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, where in his one season in 2017–18, he tied the then NCAA Division I single-game assists record with 22 and became the only player to ever lead the NCAA in both points and...
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Huey Long

75. Huey Long

1893-1935 (aged 42)
politician
Huey Pierce Long Jr., nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of...
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Dennis Weaver

76. Dennis Weaver

1924-2006 (aged 82)
voice actor aircraft pilot trade unionist actor television actor
Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode on the western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the police...
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Austin Reaves

77. Austin Reaves

1998-. (aged 28)
basketball player
Austin Tyler Reaves, is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Wichita State Shockers and the Oklahoma Sooners. Reaves joined the Lakers as an undrafted free agent.
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Adrian Peterson

78. Adrian Peterson

1985-. (aged 41)
American football player
Adrian Lewis Peterson is an American former professional football running back. Peterson played 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He is widely considered to be one of the greatest running backs in football history. He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, setting the freshman rushing record with 1,925 yards in 2004. Named a unanimous All-American that year,...
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Jalen Hurts

79. Jalen Hurts

1998-. (aged 28)
American football player
Jalen Alexander Hurts is an American professional football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He began his college football career with the Alabama Crimson Tide, leading the team to consecutive College Football Playoff National Championship appearances in 2016 and 2017. After three seasons at Alabama, Hurts used his final year of eligibility with the Oklahoma...
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Troy Aikman

80. Troy Aikman

1966-. (aged 60)
NASCAR team owner television presenter announcer American football player
Troy Kenneth Aikman is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. After transferring from the Oklahoma Sooners, he played college football for the UCLA Bruins and won the Davey O'Brien Award as a senior. Aikman was selected first overall in the 1989 NFL draft by the...
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Ed Harris

81. Ed Harris

1950-. (aged 76)
film director director television actor voice actor theatrical director
Edward Allen Harris is an American actor and filmmaker. Harris received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), and The Hours (2002). He also directed and starred in Pollock (2000) and Appaloosa (2008), the former earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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James Garner

82. James Garner

1928-2014 (aged 86)
actor television actor film actor military personnel television producer
James Scott Garner was an American actor. He played leading roles in more than fifty theatrical films, including The Great Escape (1963), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Grand Prix (1966), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Victor/Victoria (1982), and Murphy's Romance (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He also starred on television in Maverick and The Rockford Files.
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Blake Griffin

83. Blake Griffin

1989-. (aged 37)
basketball player actor
Blake Austin Griffin is an American former professional basketball player. Griffin primarily played with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, where he was named the consensus national college player of the year as a sophomore. Griffin was selected first overall by the Clippers in the 2009 NBA draft,...
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Olivia Munn

84. Olivia Munn

1980-. (aged 46)
television presenter film actor comedian television actor actor
Lisa Olivia Munn is an American actress. After an internship at a news station in Tulsa, she moved to Los Angeles where she began her professional career as a television host for the gaming network G4, and on the series Attack of the Show! (2006–2010) before appearing as a recurring correspondent on the Comedy Central late night series The Daily...
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Tom Coburn

85. Tom Coburn

1948-2020 (aged 72)
physician obstetrician politician
Thomas Allen Coburn was an American politician and physician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 2005 to 2015. A Republican, Coburn previously served as a United States representative from 1995 to 2001.
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Rue McClanahan

86. Rue McClanahan

1934-2010 (aged 76)
autobiographer film actor comedian stage actor television actor
Eddi-Rue McClanahan was an American actress, primarily known for her work in television sitcoms. She portrayed Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–1978), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Family (1983–1984), and Blanche Devereaux on both The Golden Girls (1985–1992) and its spin-off The Golden Palace (1992–1993).
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Randall L. Stephenson

87. Randall L. Stephenson

1960-. (aged 66)
chief executive officer
Randall Lynn Stephenson is a retired American telecommunications executive. He served as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of AT&T Inc. from 2007 to 2020. He was national president of Scouting America from 2016 to 2018.
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Arlen Specter

88. Arlen Specter

1930-2012 (aged 82)
military officer lawyer politician
Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he was the longest-serving senator from Pennsylvania, having represented the state...
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Nate Parker

89. Nate Parker

1979-. (aged 47)
screenwriter director film director film producer actor
Nate Parker is an American actor and filmmaker. He has appeared in Beyond the Lights, Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Debaters, Arbitrage, Non-Stop, Felon, and Pride.
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Baker Mayfield

90. Baker Mayfield

1995-. (aged 31)
American football player
Baker Reagan Mayfield is an American professional football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). Following one season of college football with the Texas Tech Red Raiders, he played for the Oklahoma Sooners, becoming the first walk-on player to win the Heisman Trophy. He was selected first overall by the Cleveland Browns in the 2018...
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Brett James

91. Brett James

1968-2025 (aged 57)
record producer musician singer-songwriter
Brett James Cornelius was an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer based in Nashville. James began his musical career in 1995 with a self-titled album on the former Arista Nashville's Career Records division, which charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. He re-signed with Arista Nashville early in the 21st century and charted two more...
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Pat Choate

92. Pat Choate

1941-. (aged 85)
politician economist
Patrick Jeffrey Choate is an American economist who is most known for being the 1996 Reform Party candidate for Vice President of the United States, the running-mate of Ross Perot. Following the 1996 election, the Federal Election Commission certified the Reform Party as a national political party eligible for federal campaign matching funds, a historic first.
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Susana Martinez

93. Susana Martinez

1959-. (aged 67)
lawyer politician
Susana Martinez is an American politician and attorney who served as 31st governor of New Mexico from 2011 to 2019. A Republican, she served as chair of the Republican Governors Association (RGA) from 2015 to 2016. She was the first female Governor of New Mexico, and the first Hispanic female governor in the United States.
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Dan Boren

94. Dan Boren

1973-. (aged 53)
academic administrator politician bank teller aide-de-camp congressional staff
David Daniel Boren is an American businessman and retired politician who serves as the Secretary of Commerce for the Chickasaw Nation. Prior to this, he served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district from 2005 to 2013. The district included most of the eastern part of the state outside of Tulsa. He is a member of the Democratic...
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Zach Neal

95. Zach Neal

1988-. (aged 38)
baseball player
Zachary Sheridan Neal is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Dodgers, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Saitama Seibu Lions.
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Rick Saccone

96. Rick Saccone

1958-. (aged 68)
politician military officer
Richard Saccone is an American educator and far-right politician who represented Pennsylvania's 39th district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2011 to 2018. A Republican, he was his party's nominee for the March 2018 special election to fill in the vacant U.S. House seat for the 18th congressional district. Saccone lost to Democratic candidate Conor Lamb by a margin...
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Josh Heupel

97. Josh Heupel

1978-. (aged 48)
head coach American football player
Joshua Kenneth Heupel is an American college football coach and former player who is the head football coach at the University of Tennessee. Previously he was head coach at the University of Central Florida, where he compiled a 28–8 record.
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Gladys West

98. Gladys West

1930-2026 (aged 96)
mathematician surveyor
Gladys Brown West was an American mathematician. She was known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of satellite geodesy models, which were later incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS).
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Mark Chen

99. Mark Chen

1935-. (aged 91)
diplomat politician
Chen Tan-sun, also known by his English name Mark Chen, is a Taiwanese politician and atmospheric scientist who served as Secretary-General of the Office of the President of Taiwan under former President Chen Shui-bian. He was also previously Foreign Minister of the ROC from 2004 to 2006 (the first Democratic Progressive Party member to occupy the position). Before returning to...
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Martha Hildebrandt

100. Martha Hildebrandt

1925-2022 (aged 97)
writer linguist university teacher politician
Martha Luz Hildebrandt Pérez-Treviño was a Peruvian linguist and Fujimorist politician. She was first elected to Congress in 1995 and, in 1999, she became the second woman to serve as President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru (following Martha Chávez's term in 1995–1996).
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