100 Notable alumni of
Oklahoma State University
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Oklahoma State University is 266th in the world, 113th in North America, and 107th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Oklahoma State University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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James Marsden
- Occupations
- film actormodeltelevision actoractorsinger
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James Paul Marsden is an American actor and singer. He began his acting career guest starring in the television shows Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1993), Touched by an Angel (1995), and Party of Five (1995). Marsden gained fame for his portrayal of Cyclops in the X-Men film series (2000–2014) and for his roles in the films The Notebook (2004), Superman Returns (2006), Hairspray (2007), Enchanted (2007), and 27 Dresses (2008). He portrayed John F. Kennedy in the drama film The Butler (2013) and starred in the comedy films Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022).
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Daniel Cormier
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fightersports analystamateur wrestler
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Daniel Cormier is an American former professional mixed martial artist, amateur wrestler, and current commentator for the UFC. As a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight Champion, Cormier is the second fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two weight classes simultaneously and is the first fighter to have title defenses in two divisions. As an international wrestler, Cormier was a six-time US World or Olympic Team Member, a World bronze medalist, a World Cup runner-up, a Pan American Games gold medalist (bronze in 2007) and a two-time Pan American champion. In folkstyle wrestling, Cormier was an NCAA Division I national finalist (with loss to the eventual four-time NCAA champion Cael Sanderson from Iowa State) and two-time Big 12 Conference runner-up for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. He was also a two-time NJCAA champion.
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Garth Brooks
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- In 1984 studied advertising
- Occupations
- singer-songwriteractormusic artistmusiciansinger
- Biography
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Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him his immense popularity, particularly in the United States with success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and record-breaking live performances, while also crossing over into the mainstream pop arena.
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Reba McEntire
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- recording artistvoice actorcountry singeractor
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Reba Nell McEntire, or simply Reba, is an American country music singer and actress. Dubbed "the Queen of Country", she has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Since the 1970s, McEntire has placed over 100 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 25 of which reached the number one spot.
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Randy Couture
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- film actorprofessional wrestlertelevision actoractormixed martial arts fighter
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Randall Duane Couture is an American actor, former United States Army sergeant, former mixed martial artist and former collegiate and Greco-Roman wrestler. During his tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), he became a three-time UFC Heavyweight Champion, two-time UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, an interim UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, making him a six-time UFC Champion and the UFC 13 Heavyweight Tournament winner. He is the first of nine fighters to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (along with B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Georges St-Pierre, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes, Henry Cejudo, Jon Jones and Alex Pereira).
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Rickie Fowler
- Occupations
- golfer
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Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008. On January 24, 2016, he reached a career high fourth in the Official World Golf Ranking following his victory in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. He is one of only 3 golfers to shoot 62 in a major championship, achieving the feat at the 2023 U.S. Open, played at the Los Angeles Country Club.
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Anita Hill
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- lawyerhuman rights activistwomen's rights activistprofessor
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Anita Faye Hill is an American lawyer, educator and author. She is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the university's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment.
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Joyce Meyer
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Pauline Joyce Meyer is an American Charismatic Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Joyce and her husband, Dave, have four grown children and live outside St. Louis, Missouri. Her ministry is headquartered near the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.
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Johny Hendricks
- Occupations
- collegiate wrestlermixed martial arts fighter
- Biography
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Johny Hendricks is an American former mixed martial artist and collegiate wrestler. He competed in the welterweight and middleweight divisions of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is a former UFC Welterweight Champion.
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Marcus Smart
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Marcus Osmond Smart is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
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Rex Linn
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Rex Maynard Linn is an American film and television actor. He is best known domestically for playing the role of Sgt. Frank Tripp in the CBS drama CSI: Miami and more recently for playing Kevin Wachtell in the television series Better Call Saul. Internationally he is best known for playing Richard Travers in the 1993 action thriller film Cliffhanger.
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Paul Sparks
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Paul Sparks is an American actor. He is known for his roles as gangster Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire, writer Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards, mall owner John Breem in the Apple TV+ comedy-drama series Physical, attorney David Tellis in the Starz anthology drama series The Girlfriend Experience, and a recurring role in the limited series The Night Of. Sparks has also starred in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), Stealing Cars (2015), Thoroughbreds (2017), and The Greatest Showman (2017).
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Viktor Hovland
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Viktor Hovland is a Norwegian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and European Tour. He won the 2018 U.S. Amateur and reached number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in 2019.
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Cade Cunningham
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Cade Parker Cunningham is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended Bowie High School in his hometown of Arlington, Texas, before transferring to Montverde Academy in Florida, where he was rated a consensus five-star recruit and among the top players in the 2020 class by major recruiting services. As a senior, he led one of the best high school teams in history and received national player of the year recognition.
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Mason Rudolph
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Brett Mason Rudolph III is an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oklahoma State, where he was a three-year starter and won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award during his last year. He was selected by the Steelers in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
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Bill Self
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- basketball playerbasketball coachhead coach
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Billy Eugene Self Jr. is an American basketball coach. He is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Kansas, a position he has held since 2003. During his 20 seasons as head coach, he has led the Jayhawks to 17 Big 12 regular season championships, including an NCAA record 14 consecutive Big 12 regular season championships, some of which were shared (2005–2018). He has also led the Jayhawks to three NCAA Final Four appearances (2008, 2012, 2022), the 2008 NCAA championship and 2022 NCAA championship. Self was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. At the end of the 2021–22 season, Self had the 18th most wins among Division I coaches in NCAA history and 4th among active head coaches. He is the second-winningest coach in Kansas history, behind only Hall of Famer Phog Allen and is the only coach in Kansas history to lead Kansas to multiple NCAA Tournament National Championships.
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Muhammed Lawal
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- mixed martial arts fighterprofessional wrestleramateur wrestler
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Muhammed Lawal, also known as "King Mo", is an American professional wrestler and retired mixed martial artist currently signed to Major League Wrestling. As a mixed martial artist, he is a former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion and Rizin Heavyweight Grand Prix Champion.
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Buddy Ryan
- Occupations
- player of American footballAmerican football coach
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James David "Buddy" Ryan was an American football coach in the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL). During his 35-season coaching career, Ryan served as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1986 to 1990, and of the Arizona Cardinals from 1994 to 1995. Ryan also served as the defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears from 1978 to 1985, and of the Houston Oilers in 1993. Coaching multiple Hall of Fame defensive players throughout his career, Ryan is considered by many to be one of the greatest defensive minds in the history of American football.
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Tony Allen
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Anthony Allen, nicknamed "the Grindfather," is an American former professional basketball player who played for 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), primarily for the Boston Celtics and Memphis Grizzlies. He is a six-time member on the NBA All-Defensive Team, including three first-team selections. Allen won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics in 2008.
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T. Boone Pickens
- Occupations
- rancherfinancierentrepreneur
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Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. was an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chaired the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016, Pickens had a net worth of $500 million.
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Markwayne Mullin
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- In 2010 graduated with associate degree
- Occupations
- business executiveradio personalityranchercattle rancherpolitician
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Markwayne Mullin is an American businessman and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in a special election in 2022 to serve the remainder of Jim Inhofe's term. Mullin is the first Native American U.S. senator since Ben Nighthorse Campbell retired in 2005. He is also the second Cherokee Nation citizen elected to the Senate; the first, Robert Latham Owen, retired in 1925. Before being elected to the Senate, Mullin served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2023.
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Justin Blackmon
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Justin Carl Blackmon is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys, twice earning unanimous All-American honors. He was selected by Jacksonville with the fifth overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. With the Jaguars, he was suspended for the first four games of the 2013 season for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy before being suspended indefinitely for another violation later that year and has not played since.
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Don Haskins
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Donald Lee Haskins, nicknamed "The Bear", was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for three years under coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University). He was the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1961 to 1999 (the school was known as Texas Western College until 1967). In 1966 his team won the NCAA tournament over the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp. The watershed game highlighted the end of racial segregation in college basketball.
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Eka Zguladze
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- journalistcivil servanttranslatorpolitician
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Ekaterine "Eka" Zguladze is a Georgian and Ukrainian government official. She served as First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine from 17 December 2014 until 11 May 2016. She had also served as Georgia's First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs from 2006 to 2012 and Acting Minister of Internal Affairs in 2012.
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Wally Funk
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in secondary education
- Occupations
- astronautflight instructoraircraft pilotinspector
- Biography
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Mary Wallace Funk is an American aviator, commercial astronaut, and Goodwill Ambassador. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13.
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Kevin Stitt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Kevin Stitt is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2018, defeating Democrat and former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson with 54.3% of the vote. Stitt was reelected to a second term in 2022, defeating Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister, a Republican turned Democrat, with 55.4% of the vote. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt is the second Native American governor after former Oklahoma governor Johnston Murray.
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Mary Fallin
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- In 1977 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mary Fallin is an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Oklahoma from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014. She is the first and so far only woman to be elected governor of Oklahoma. She was the first woman to represent Oklahoma in Congress since Alice Mary Robertson left office in 1923.
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Tom Coburn
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- Studied in 1983
- Graduated with trainee
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianobstetrician
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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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Mason Cox
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- Studied in 2010-2014
- Occupations
- Australian rules football playerbasketball player
- Biography
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Mason Cox is an American-Australian professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Playing as a ruckman and key forward, he first played Australian rules football in April 2014 before making his AFL debut two years later in April 2016. Cox had previously played basketball for Oklahoma State University in the Big 12 Conference and, standing at 211 cm (6 ft 11 in), is the tallest player to ever be measured at an AFL Draft Combine.
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Adnan Al-Kaissie
- Occupations
- managerprofessional wrestleramateur wrestler
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Adnan bin Abdul Kareem Ahmed Alkaissy El Farthie, better known professionally as Adnan Al-Kaissie, was an Iraqi-American professional wrestler and manager best known as Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissey, Billy White Wolf, or General Adnan. In 1971 he defeated André the Giant in Al-Shaab Stadium in Baghdad, under the auspices of his high school classmate, Ba'ath Party leader Saddam Hussein. He competed in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). On December 7, 1976, he won the WWWF World Tag Team Championship with Chief Jay Strongbow.
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Eddie Sutton
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
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Edward Eugene Sutton was an American college basketball coach. A native of Bucklin, Kansas, Sutton played college basketball at Oklahoma A&M (later Oklahoma State) and was a head coach at the high school, junior college, and college levels spanning six decades.
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John Starks
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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John Levell Starks is an American former professional basketball player who was a shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was undrafted in the 1988 NBA draft after attending four colleges in his native Oklahoma, including Oklahoma State University. Starks was named an NBA All-Star while playing for the New York Knicks in the 1990s.
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Dexter Manley
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Dexter Keith Manley is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Washington Redskins. He also played for the Phoenix Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as well as in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Ottawa Rough Riders. Manley played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys and was selected by the Redskins in the fifth round of the 1981 NFL Draft.
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Chuba Hubbard
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Chuba Robert-Shamar Hubbard is a Canadian professional American football running back for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys, where he was a unanimous All-American, named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year and won the Jon Cornish Trophy in 2019. Hubbard was selected by the Panthers in the fourth round of the 2021 NFL Draft.
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Mark Muñoz
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- mixed martial arts fighterThai boxeramateur wrestler
- Biography
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Mark Kenery Muñoz is a Filipino-American former professional mixed martial artist who last competed in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor from 2007 until 2015, Munoz also formerly competed for the WEC. Throughout his career, Munoz was credited as one of "the nicest guys in MMA" even being officially ranked as No.1 during an Episode of "UFC Tonight" due to his contributions to both the sport of MMA, and his local community through activities such as starting up and running his own gym, and heading his own "anti-bullying" campaign.
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John Ashley
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- television actorsingerfilm actorfilm producertelevision producer
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John Ashley was an American actor, producer and singer. He was best known for his work as an actor in films for American International Pictures, producing and acting in horror films shot in the Philippines, and for producing various television series, including The A-Team.
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Stuart Roosa
- Occupations
- astronautaerospace engineeraircraft pilotmilitary officer
- Biography
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Stuart Allen Roosa was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971, and was the third mission to land astronauts (Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell) on the Moon. While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the Command Module Kitty Hawk. He was one of 24 men to travel to the Moon, which he orbited 34 times.
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Desmond Mason
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Desmond Tremaine Mason is an American painter and former professional basketball player. He played as a shooting guard and small forward. Mason has also found success as an artist, working in a variety of media. Currently, he is an NBA analyst and sports radio co-host for The Franchise, a sports talk station in Oklahoma City.
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Andrew Heaney
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Andrew Mark Heaney is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Miami Marlins, Los Angeles Angels, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers. Prior to becoming a professional, he played college baseball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
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James Anderson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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James Lee Anderson is an American professional basketball player for Manisa BB of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He played college basketball at Oklahoma State University. In 2010, Anderson was named Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year and a first team All-American. He was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 20th overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft.
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Ed Roberts
- Occupations
- computer scientistmilitary officerphysicianinventorbusinessperson
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Henry Edward Roberts was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1974. He is most often known as "the father of the personal computer." He founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but the first successful product was an electronic calculator kit that was featured on the cover of the November 1971 issue of Popular Electronics. The calculators were very successful and sales topped one million dollars in 1973. A brutal calculator price war left the company deeply in debt by 1974. Roberts then developed the Altair 8800 personal computer that used the new Intel 8080 microprocessor. This was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, and hobbyists flooded MITS with orders for this $397 computer kit.
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Jeffrey Beall
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- librarianblogger
- Biography
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Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian and library scientist, who drew attention to "predatory open access publishing", a term he coined, and created Beall's list, a list of potentially predatory open-access publishers. He is a critic of the open access publishing movement and particularly how predatory publishers use the open access concept, and is known for his blog Scholarly Open Access. He has also written on this topic in The Charleston Advisor, in Nature, in Learned Publishing, and elsewhere.
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Richard Dumas
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Richard Wayne Dumas is an American former professional basketball player. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he is the son of former American Basketball Association (ABA) player Rich Dumas.
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Liu Shih-fang
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liu Shyh-fang is a Taiwanese politician. She graduated from the Oklahoma State University and is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. She was deputy secretary-general of the office of President Chen Shui-bian.
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John Juanda
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Johnson "John" Juanda is an Indonesian professional poker player of Chinese descent based in Tokyo, Japan. He has won five World Series of Poker bracelets.
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Blake Jarwin
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Blake Jarwin is a former American football tight end. He played college football at Oklahoma State and signed with the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2017.
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Matt Hague
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Matthew Donald Hague is an American former professional baseball first baseman and current assistant hitting coach for the Toronto Blue Jays. Between 2012 and 2016, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Toronto Blue Jays, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers. Prior to beginning his professional career, he played college baseball at the University of Washington and Oklahoma State. In early 2020, he joined the Blue Jays organization as a coach.
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Don Nickles
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- In 1971 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Donald Lee Nickles is an American politician and lobbyist who was a Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 to 2005. He was considered both a fiscal and social conservative. After retiring from the Senate as the longest-serving senator from Oklahoma up until that point, he founded the Nickles Group, a lobbying firm.
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Kathrin Lehmann
- Occupations
- association football playerice hockey player
- Biography
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Kathrin Margrit Lehmann is a Swiss ice hockey forward. She most recently played with ESC Planegg of the Deutsche Fraueneishockey-Liga (DFEL) in the 2019–20 season.
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Markel Brown
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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DeMarious Markel Brown is an American professional basketball player who plays for Napoli Basket of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
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Jawun Evans
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jawun B. Evans is an American professional basketball player for Śląsk Wrocław of the PLK. A point guard, he played college basketball for Oklahoma State, Evans was named an All-American in the 2016–17 season.
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Jordy Mercer
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jordy Joe Mercer is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, and Washington Nationals. Prior to beginning his professional career, he played college baseball at Oklahoma State University. He has also competed for the United States national baseball team in international competition. Mercer bats and throws right-handed.
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Spencer Sanders
- Years
- 1999-.. (age 25)
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Spencer Sanders is an American football quarterback who plays college football for Ole Miss. He previously played for the Oklahoma State Cowboys before transferring in 2023.
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Alexander Norén
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Alexander Norén is a Swedish professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has won ten tournaments on the European Tour, including the BMW PGA Championship, the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, the British Masters, HNA Open de France and the Nedbank Golf Challenge. He was a member of the winning 2018 European Ryder Cup team.
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Kenny Monday
- Occupations
- amateur wrestlermixed martial arts fighter
- Biography
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Kenny Dale Monday is an Olympic gold medalist and three-time All-American wrestler from Oklahoma State University. He began wrestling at age six at a YMCA after-school program and grew up idolizing Olympic wrestler Wayne Wells. Monday is a three-time Olympian.
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Frank Lucas
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank Dean Lucas is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district since 2003, having previously represented the 6th district from 1994 to 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Lucas has chaired the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology since 2023. His district, numbered as the 6th from 1994 to 2003, is Oklahoma's largest congressional district and one of the largest in the nation that does not cover an entire state. It covers 34,088.49 square miles and stretches from the Panhandle to the fringes of the Tulsa suburbs, covering almost half of the state's land mass. Lucas is the dean of Oklahoma's congressional delegation.
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Le'Bryan Nash
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Le'Bryan Nash is an American professional basketball player plays for RANS Simba Bogor of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He played college basketball for Oklahoma State University.
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Joe Stanka
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Joe Donald Stanka was an American professional baseball player. The right-handed pitcher from Hammon, Oklahoma played for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (1959), and the Nankai Hawks and Taiyo Whales in the Japanese professional leagues (1960–66). He stood 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall and weighed 201 pounds (91 kg).
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Chase Ealey
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Chase Foster Jackson is an American track and field athlete specializing in throwing events. She won the gold medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in women’s shot put, which made her the first American woman to win a shot put world title at the World Athletics Championships. She won on the first attempt which, according to Olympic historian Bill Mallon, made her the first woman’s shot put world champion to win on the first attempt.
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Ally Carter
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerbloggerwriter
- Biography
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Ally Carter is the pen name of Sarah Leigh Fogleman, an American author of young adult fiction and adult-fiction novels.
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Mickey Tettleton
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Mickey Lee Tettleton is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, and Texas Rangers. Although Tettleton played mostly as a catcher, he also played as a first baseman, an outfielder, and as a designated hitter.
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Bob Kurland
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Robert Albert Kurland was a 7 feet (2.1 m) American basketball center, who played for the two-time NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M Aggies (now Oklahoma State Cowboys) basketball team. He led the U.S. basketball team to gold medals in two Summer Olympics, and led his AAU team to three national titles. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Kevin Tway
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Kevin Coulter Tway is an American professional golfer who has played on the Web.com Tour and the PGA Tour. He won numerous junior tournaments, and most notably, the 2005 U.S. Junior Amateur. Tway is the son of Bob Tway, an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour, including the PGA Championship in 1986. Following Kevin's maiden PGA Tour win at the Safeway Open in October 2018, they are one of only ten father-son pairs to have won PGA Tour events.
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Pernilla Lindberg
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Pernilla Anna Lindberg is a Swedish professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour. Her only professional win to date came at the ANA Inspiration, a major championship, in April 2018.
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Allie Reynolds
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Allie Pierce Reynolds was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). Reynolds pitched in MLB for the Cleveland Indians (1942–1946) and New York Yankees (1947–1954). A member of the Creek nation, Reynolds was nicknamed "Superchief".
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Harry Azhar Azis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harry Azhar Azis was an Indonesian politician.
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Neal Patterson
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Neal L. Patterson was an American businessman who was CEO of Cerner Corporation, a Kansas City-based medical software corporation. Patterson was also owner of the Sporting Kansas City soccer team.
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Ali Hamsa
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Ali bin Hamsa was a Malaysian civil servant who served as the 13th Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia from 24 June 2012 to 28 August 2018.
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Coumba Sow
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Coumba Louisa Sow is a Swiss footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Basel in the Swiss Women's Super League and has appeared for the Switzerland national team.
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Henry Bellmon
- Occupations
- farmerpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Henry Louis Bellmon was an American Republican politician from the U.S. State of Oklahoma. A member of the Oklahoma Legislature, he went on to become both the 18th and 23rd governor of Oklahoma, mainly in the 1960s and again in the 1980s, as well as a two-term United States Senator in the 1970s. He was the first Republican to serve as Governor of Oklahoma and, after his direct predecessor George Nigh, only the second governor to be reelected.
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Ponnala Lakshmaiah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ponnala Lakshmaiah is an Indian politician. He is a member of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). He is a former minister for Information Technology and Communications for the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He was also a member of the legislative assembly of Andhra Pradesh, and a member of the All India Congress Committee.
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Marcell Ateman
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Marcell Ligon Ateman is an American football wide receiver for the St. Louis Battlehawks of the United Football League (UFL). He played college football at Oklahoma State.
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Kinga Philipps
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractortelevision producerjournalist
- Biography
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Kinga Philipps is a Polish American actress and journalist. She has been a correspondent for a variety of networks including: USA Network, AMC, Food Network, Current TV, Fox Sports, SyFy, National Geographic Channel and Travel Channel.
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Neill Armstrong
- Occupations
- Canadian football playerAmerican football coachplayer of American football
- Biography
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Neill Ford Armstrong was an American football player and coach whose career spanned more than four decades at both the college and professional levels. Notably, Armstrong served as the head coach of the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). Member of the 1945 National Championship Oklahoma A&M Team.
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William R. Pogue
- Occupations
- autobiographermilitary officerastronautaircraft pilotmathematician
- Biography
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William Reid "Bill" Pogue was an American astronaut and pilot who served in the United States Air Force (USAF) as a fighter pilot and test pilot, and reached the rank of colonel. He was also a teacher, public speaker and author.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was an American politician from the state of Arkansas. A Republican, Hammerschmidt served thirteen terms in the United States House of Representatives for Arkansas's 3rd congressional district, located in the northwestern quadrant of the state. He served from 1967 until his retirement in 1993.
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Jordan Baker
- Occupations
- baseball umpire
- Biography
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Jordan Christopher Baker is an American umpire for Major League Baseball.
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Leroy McGuirk
- Occupations
- amateur wrestlerpromoteractorprofessional wrestler
- Biography
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Leroy Michael McGuirk was an American amateur and professional wrestler, and wrestling promoter. He was involved in professional wrestling for more than fifty years. As one of the longest surviving members of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), he was affiliated with the promotion from 1949 to 1982, where he was a one-time NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion.
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Todd Lamb
- Occupations
- politicianSecret Service agent
- Biography
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Todd Lamb is an American politician and university administrator who is the current president of the University of Central Oklahoma. He previously served as the 16th lieutenant governor of Oklahoma from 2011 to 2019 and as a member of the Oklahoma state senate from 2005 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Steve Ripley
- Occupations
- composerguitaristmusical instrument makersingerrecord producer
- Biography
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Paul Steven Ripley was an American recording artist, record producer, songwriter, studio engineer, guitarist, and inventor. He entered the music industry in 1977. He was also the leader/producer of country rock band The Tractors.
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Rusty Ryal
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Rusty Allen Ryal is an American former professional baseball utility man. He was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 14th round of the 2005 MLB Draft, out of Oklahoma State University. He is the son of the former major league player, Mark Ryal.
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R. W. McQuarters
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- player of American footballbasketball player
- Biography
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Robert William McQuarters, II is a former American football cornerback. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oklahoma State.
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Josh Brecheen
- Occupations
- politicianmotivational speaker
- Biography
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Joshua Chad Brecheen is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who has served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the 6th district in the Oklahoma Senate from 2010 to 2018. He is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation.
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Jack Hartman
- Occupations
- player of American footballbasketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Jack Hartman was an American football player and college basketball coach.
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Ted Leitner
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Theodore Leitner is an American sportscaster.
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Barry Hinson
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Barry Douglas Hinson is an American college basketball coach and most recently was the head coach of the Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball team (SIU). He was born in Marlow, Oklahoma. Before SIU he was the Director of Men's Basketball Operations at the University of Kansas, head coach of Missouri State University and head coach of Oral Roberts University. On March 28, 2012, Hinson was announced the head coach of Southern Illinois University's men's basketball team.
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Jelani Woods
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Jelani Woods is an American football tight end for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oklahoma State before transferring to Virginia for 2021, where he was named first-team All-ACC. Woods was drafted by the Colts in the third round of the 2022 NFL Draft.
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Watermelon Slim
- Occupations
- singermusicianguitarist
- Biography
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William P. Homans III, professionally known as "Watermelon Slim", is an American blues musician. He plays both guitar and harmonica. He is currently signed to NorthernBlues Music, based in Toronto, Ontario. Homans has also earned bachelor's and master's degrees from University of Oregon and Oklahoma State University.
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Corey Williams
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Corey Williams is an American retired professional basketball player and assistant coach for the Auburn Tigers of the SEC Conference. He is the former men's basketball head coach of Stetson University.
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Caroline Hedwall
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Caroline Ingrid Hedwall is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and the LPGA Tour. In 2013 she became the first player to win five matches in a single Solheim Cup event. As an amateur she was a dominating player, winning the European Ladies Amateur Championship as well as the individual titles at the Espirito Santo Trophy and the NCAA Championship.
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Tyler Lyons
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Tyler William Lyons is an American professional baseball pitcher in the New York Yankees organization. He attended Oklahoma State University (OSU) at Stillwater and played college baseball for the Cowboys. The New York Yankees selected him in the 10th round of the 2009 amateur draft, but he chose to remain at OSU. The next year, the St. Louis Cardinals made him a ninth round pick, and he signed. Along with the Yankees, he has played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Caroline Masson
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Caroline Masson is a German professional golfer, currently playing on the Ladies European Tour (LET).
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Sanjiv Sidhu
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Sanjiv Sidhu, who was born in June 1957 in Hyderabad, India, is an Indian-American software entrepreneur known for founding i2 Technologies, a supply chain management software company, and o9 Solutions, a Dallas, Texas-based company that offers a decision management platform for multinational corporations
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Koda Glover
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Koda James Glover is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals. He is of Cherokee and Sioux descent.
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Joseph W. Westphal
- Enrolled in Oklahoma State University
- Graduated with Master of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- university teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Joseph William Westphal is an American politician and diplomat who was most recently the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He served as the 30th United States Under Secretary of the Army from 2009 to 2014.
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Dick Hutton
- Occupations
- amateur wrestlerprofessional wrestler
- Biography
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Richard Heron Avis Hutton was an American amateur and professional wrestler. He was a three-time NCAA champion and, as a professional, held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, making him a one-time world champion in professional wrestling.
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Terrel Harris
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Terrel Andre Harris is an American former professional basketball player who is a player development coach for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Oklahoma State.
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Michael J. Hunter
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Michael J. Hunter is an American politician from the state of Oklahoma. Hunter served as the Secretary of State of Oklahoma from 1999 to 2002, having been appointed by Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating. On November 1, 2016, he was appointed to the same post by Governor Mary Fallin. He also served as Special Counsel to the Governor. On February 20, 2017, Hunter was appointed Attorney General of Oklahoma to replace Scott Pruitt who resigned to become the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. On November 8, 2018, Hunter won election as Attorney General.
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Gebisa Ejeta
- Occupations
- geneticist
- Biography
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Gebisa Ejeta is an Ethiopian American plant breeder, geneticist and Professor at Purdue University. In 2009, he won the World Food Prize for his major contributions in the production of sorghum.
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Joe Allbaugh
- Occupations
- lobbyist
- Biography
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Joe M. Allbaugh is an American political figure in the Republican Party. After spending most of his career in Oklahoma and Texas, Allbaugh came to national prominence working for Texas governor George W. Bush and helping manage his 2000 presidential election campaign. Allbaugh then became Bush's Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) beginning in February 2001. He served until FEMA's transfer into the newly created Department of Homeland Security, after which he resigned in March 2003. He was appointed as the interim Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections by the state Board of Corrections, effective January 11, 2016. On July 6, 2016, the Oklahoma Board of Corrections voted unanimously to make his appointment permanent and set his salary at $185,000. Allbaugh has pointed out his department "is not a listing ship, it is a sinking ship."
