Academic Research and Scholarship*

• Anita Hill
  Anita Hill
  Anita Faye Hill is an American attorney and academic—presently a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had...
  
  , Government, Brandeis University
  Brandeis University
  Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
  
  
• Ramchandran Jaikumar, Business Administration, Harvard Business School
  Harvard Business School
  Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...
  
  
• Gene R. Nichol
  Gene R. Nichol
  Gene Ray Nichol, Jr. was the twenty-sixth president of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. He succeeded Timothy J. Sullivan and officially served from July 1, 2005 to February 12, 2008. It was the shortest tenure for a William & Mary president since the Civil War...
  
  , former President of The College of William and Mary
• J. Tinsley Oden
  J. Tinsley Oden
  J. Tinsley Oden is the Associate Vice President for Research, the Director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, the Cockrell Family Regents' Chair in Engineering #2, the Peter O'Donnell Jr...
  
  , pioneer in the field of computational mechanics, noted as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world
• Patricia H. Reiff, Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
  Rice University
  William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
  
• John R. Rice
  John R. Rice
  John Richard Rice was a Baptist evangelist and pastor and the founding editor of The Sword of the Lord, an influential fundamentalist newspaper.-Childhood and Education:...
  
  , American mathematician and computer scientist (founder of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
  ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
  ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software is a quarterly scientific journal that aims to disseminate the latest findings of note in the field of numeric, symbolic, algebraic, and geometric computing applications...
  
   and Professor at Purdue University

Scientific Research and Engineering

• Walter Clore
  Walter Clore
  Dr. Walter J. Clore was a pioneer in wine growing and agricultural research in Washington State and has been formally recognized by the Washington State Legislature as the "Father of Washington Wine"....
  
  , Pioneer in Washington State wine growing. Considered the "Father of Washington Wine"
• William Pogue, Ret. Colonel, USAF, NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
   astronaut, pilot of Skylab 4
  Skylab 4
  Skylab 4 was the fourth Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew on board the space station. The mission started November 16, 1973 with the launch of three astronauts on a Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 84 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes...
  
  
• John R. Rice
  John R. Rice
  John Richard Rice was a Baptist evangelist and pastor and the founding editor of The Sword of the Lord, an influential fundamentalist newspaper.-Childhood and Education:...
  
  , American mathematician and computer scientist (founder of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
  ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
  ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software is a quarterly scientific journal that aims to disseminate the latest findings of note in the field of numeric, symbolic, algebraic, and geometric computing applications...
  
   and Professor at Purdue University
• Dr. H. Edward Roberts, engineer and inventor of the personal computer
  Personal computer
  A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
  
  
• Stuart Roosa
  Stuart Roosa
  Stuart Allen Roosa was a 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 on the Moon...
  
  , NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
   astronaut
  Astronaut
  An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
  
  , Apollo 14
  Apollo 14
  Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the American Apollo program, and the third to land on the Moon. It was the last of the "H missions", targeted landings with two-day stays on the Moon with two lunar EVAs, or moonwalks....
  
  
• Donald Sechrest
  Donald Sechrest
  Donald Ray Sechrest was an American designer of more than 90 golf courses mostly in the Midwest.Sechrest was born in St. Joseph, Missouri where he attended Christian Brothers High School. He graduated in 1956 from Oklahoma State University where he played on the varsity golf team...
  
   (1956), golf course designer
• Gene Stephens
  Gene Stephens
  Glen Eugene Stephens was an Outfielder for the Boston Red Sox , Baltimore Orioles , Kansas City Athletics and Chicago White Sox...
  
   Designer and inventor of The Auto-electric Lawn Mower (2005)
• Robert A. Whitney
  Robert A. Whitney
  Robert A. Whitney is an American veterinarian and public health administrator. He served as acting Surgeon General of the United States from July to September 1993.-Biography:Whitney was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
  
  , Acting Surgeon General of the United States

Government, religion and public service

• Joe Allbaugh
  Joe Allbaugh
  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...
  
  , former Federal Emergency Management Agency
  Federal Emergency Management Agency
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders...
  
   (FEMA) director (February 2001 to March 2003)
• Adnan Badran
  Adnan Badran
  Adnan Badran is a Jordanian scientist, academic and politician. He was the prime minister of Jordan from April 7, 2005 to November 27, 2005.-Early life:Badran was born in Jerash, Jordan...
  
  , former Prime Minister of Jordan
  Jordan
  Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
  
   (also see academia section)
• Henry Bellmon
  Henry Bellmon
  Henry Louis "Harry" Bellmon was an American Republican politician from Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma Legislature, the 18th and 23rd Governor of Oklahoma , and a two-term United States Senator.-Service in World War II:Bellmon was born in Tonkawa, Oklahoma and graduated from Billings...
  
  , former US Senator (R-OK) and first Republican Governor of Oklahoma
• Francis Cherry
  Francis Cherry
  Francis Adams Cherry was the 35th Governor of Arkansas, elected as a Democrat for a single two-year term from 1953 to 1955. He was only the second governor in Arkansas history to have been denied a second term—the first was Tom Jefferson Terral, who was defeated in 1926. After the...
  
  , former Governor of Arkansas
• Tom Coburn
  Tom Coburn
  Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburn, M.D. , is an American politician, medical doctor, and Southern Baptist deacon. A member of the Republican Party, he currently serves as the junior U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. In the Senate, he is known as "Dr. No" for his tendency to place holds on and vote against bills...
  
  , US Senator (R-OK)
• John Paul Hammerschmidt
  John Paul Hammerschmidt
  John Paul Hammerschmidt is an American politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas. A Republican, Hammerschmidt served for thirteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from the northwestern Arkansas district before he retired in 1993...
  
  , former US Congressman, Arkansas
  Arkansas
  Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
  
  
• Joel Hefley
  Joel Hefley
  Joel M. Hefley is a U.S Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the 5th Congressional District of Colorado from 1987 to 2007. His wife, Dr. Lynn Hefley, is, like he, a former member of the Colorado State House of Representatives...
  
  , US House, 5th District
  Colorado's 5th congressional district
  Colorado's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Colorado. The district lies in the center of the state and mostly comprises Colorado Springs and its suburbs including Cimarron Hills and Fort Carson....
  
   of Colorado
  Colorado
  Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
  
  
• Roger A. Lalich
  Roger A. Lalich
  Roger A. Lalich is a retired Brigadier General in the National Guard of the United States and former Assistant Adjutant General of the Joint Staff of the Wisconsin Army and Air National Guard.-Biography:...
  
  , U.S. National Guard general
• Frank Lucas, US House, 3rd District
  Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district
  Oklahoma's Third Congressional District is the largest congressional district in Oklahoma and also one of the largest congressional districts in the United States. It borders New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and the Texas panhandle...
  
   of Oklahoma
  Oklahoma
  Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
  
  
• Clem McSpadden
  Clem McSpadden
  Clem Rogers McSpadden was a Democratic politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District who served from 1973 to 1975. He was also the grandnephew of Oklahoma comedian and actor Will Rogers....
  
  , US House, Oklahoma
  Oklahoma
  Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
  
  
• Don Nickles
  Don Nickles
  Donald Lee Nickles is an American businessman and politician who was a Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 until 2005. He was a fiscal and social conservative.-Early life:...
  
  , former US Senator
• William B. Oden
  William B. Oden
  William Bryant Oden is a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1988. He was born 3 August 1935 in McAllen, Texas. He is married to Marilyn Brown Oden, the author of over eight books. They have four children and four grandchildren....
  
  , noted American Methodist Bishop
• Robert Dale Price, US House, Texas
• Virgil A. Richard
  Virgil A. Richard
  Brigadier General Virgil A. Richard is a retired Army General who served 32 years of active military service of which 30 were devoted to Financial Management. Richard has become an outspoken critic of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy of the U.S...
  
  , Brig. General, US Army
• William Royer
  William Royer
  William Howard Royer is an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He served as a U.S. Representative from the 11th Congressional District of California from 1979 until 1981. Born in Jerome, Idaho, he earned his B.S. at Santa Clara University and did graduate work at what is...
  
  , former US Congressman, California
• Steven W. Taylor
  Steven W. Taylor
  Steven W. Taylor, , is the Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court.-Early life:Steven Taylor was born in Henryetta, Oklahoma. During his high school years at McAlester High School in McAlester, Oklahoma, he served as a student body president and as member of the speech and debate team, and the...
  
  , Oklahoma Supreme Court
  Oklahoma Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court of Oklahoma is one of the two highest judicial bodies in the U.S. state of Oklahoma and leads the Oklahoma Court System, the judicial branch of the government of Oklahoma....
  
   Justice
• Wes Watkins
  Wes Watkins
  Wesley Wade "Wes" Watkins is a politician from the state of Oklahoma. He is a retired member of the United States House of Representatives where Watkins had represented Oklahoma's 3rd Congressional District for 14 years as a Democrat and then for six years as a Republican.-Early life and...
  
  , former US House Representative, Oklahoma
• Robert A. Whitney
  Robert A. Whitney
  Robert A. Whitney is an American veterinarian and public health administrator. He served as acting Surgeon General of the United States from July to September 1993.-Biography:Whitney was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
  
  , Acting Surgeon General of the United States

Arts, media and entertainment

• Keith Anderson
  Keith Anderson
  Keith Anderson is an American country music artist. Before signing to a record deal, Anderson was one of several co-writers on "Beer Run ", a duet by Garth Brooks and George Jones, released in late 2001. Anderson was signed as a recording artist to Arista Nashville in 2004...
  
  , country music singer, songwriter
• John Ashley
  John Ashley (actor)
  John Ashley was an actor who appeared in many films, most notably the American International Pictures' "Beach Party" films...
  
  , Producer (The A-Team
  The A-Team
  The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit". The A-Team was created by...
  
  , Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full...
  
  ), Associate Producer (Apocalypse Now: Redux)
• Tomur Atagok
  Tomur Atagok
  -Life:She graduated from American College for Girls in 1959. She continued her education in plastic arts at the Oklahoma State University with a BFA, and California College of Arts and Crafts during 1962-64. She completed her MA in plastic arts in University of California, Berkeley in...
  
  , famed Turkish Artist
• Hoyt Axton
  Hoyt Axton
  Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured, some of his songwriting efforts became well...
  
  , singer, songwriter and actor
• Jason Boland, country music singer, songwriter
• Garth Brooks
  Garth Brooks
  Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...
  
  , singer, songwriter and actor
• June Burn
  June Burn
  June Burn was an American author.June Burn was born Inez Chandler Harris on June 19, 1893 in Anniston, Alabama. Her father was a Methodist circuit riding minister. At age sixteen she moved to Oklahoma and eventually graduated from Oklahoma State University. In 1917 she started working as a...
  
  , utopian author
• Gary Busey
  Gary Busey
  William Gary Busey , best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in a large variety of films, as well as making regular appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage...
  
  , actor
• Jaime Cardriche
  Jaime Cardriche
  Jaime Cardriche was an American actor.Cardriche grew up in Cerritos, California and attended Oklahoma State University where he played both football and basketball. He appeared primarily in sitcoms such as Family Matters, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, A Different World, Malcolm & Eddie, The Wayans...
  
  , actor (Malcolm & Eddie
  Malcolm & Eddie
  Malcolm & Eddie is an American television sitcom that premiered August 26, 1996 on the UPN Network, and ran for four seasons. This series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin in the lead roles. This show was canceled after its fourth season, and aired its final episode on May 22, 2000...
  
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• Sarah Coburn
  Sarah Coburn
  Sarah Coburn is an American operatic soprano.-Biography:Sarah Coburn was born in Petersburg, Virginia on August 4, 1977. She graduated from Oklahoma State University and received a Master of Music degree from Oklahoma City University, studying under Larry Wade Keller...
  
  , operatic soprano and daughter of senator Tom Coburn
  Tom Coburn
  Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburn, M.D. , is an American politician, medical doctor, and Southern Baptist deacon. A member of the Republican Party, he currently serves as the junior U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. In the Senate, he is known as "Dr. No" for his tendency to place holds on and vote against bills...
  
  , also an OSU alumni
• Jay Daniel, television producer
• Burr DeBenning
  Burr DeBenning
  Burr DeBenning was an American character actor, who has done work in both film and television. DeBenning appeared in nearly 100 films and TV shows during his career. His credits include the television films The House on Greenapple Road, Wolfen, The Incredible Melting Man, A Nightmare on Elm...
  
  , actor
• Ty England
  Ty England
  Gary Tyler "Ty" England is an American country music singer and guitarist. Initially a member of Garth Brooks' band, England began his solo career in 1995, recording a self-titled debut album on RCA Records. A second album, Two Ways to Fall, followed in 1996...
  
  , country music singer
• Chester Gould, creator of the Dick Tracy
  Dick Tracy
  Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a hard-hitting, fast-shooting and intelligent police detective. Created by Chester Gould, the strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate...
  
   comic strip
• Doug Gottlieb
  Doug Gottlieb
  Douglas Michael Gottlieb is a former NCAA collegiate basketball player for the University of Notre Dame and Oklahoma State University, and the Russian Basketball Super League...
  
  , ESPN
  ESPN
  Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
  
   analyst
• Bill Homans a.k.a. Watermelon Slim
  Watermelon Slim
  Bill Homans, 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.-Biography:...
  
  , American blues artist
• Diane Kern
  Diane Kern
  Diane Kern is an independent filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced two independent feature films: To Love A Mexican and Bloom. She is the owner of Wintershine Productions, formerly known as DSK Film Productions...
  
  ,film producer
• Ted Leitner
  Ted Leitner
  Ted Leitner is a former KFMB News 8 sportscaster and current radio play-by-play announcer for the San Diego Padres and San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball. He is also a former host on KFMB radio in San Diego. Due to a hectic schedule, he left KFMB just three days shy of his 25th anniversary at...
  
  , San Diego Padres
  San Diego Padres
  The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. They play in the National League Western Division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times...
  
   radio broadcaster
• Rex Linn
  Rex Linn
  Rex Maynard Linn is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Frank Tripp in the television series CSI: Miami.-Early life:...
  
  , actor
• James Marsden
  James Marsden
  James Paul Marsden is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. He is known for playing the superhero Cyclops in the first three X-Men films and for his roles in other commercially successful films such as Hop, Superman Returns, Hairspray, Enchanted, The Box, and 27 Dresses.-Early life...
  
  , actor
• Sharron Miller
  Sharron Miller
  Sharron Miller is an American television and film director, producer, and screenwriter. She has also worked as a sound editor and film editor. Miller was the first woman ever to win the coveted Directors Guild of America Award for directing drama....
  
  , television producer, director
• Kinga Philipps
  Kinga Philipps
  Kinga Philipps is a Polish-American actress and TV host. She has hosted for a variety of networks including: USA, AMC, Food Network, Current TV, Fox Sports and SyFy....
  
  , actor, television host
• Steve Ripley
  Steve Ripley
  Steve Ripley is a recording artist, songwriter, studio engineer, guitarist, and inventor. He has been active in the music business since 1977...
  
  , country-rock artist and guitarist
• Lise Simms
  Lise Simms
  Elisabeth Caroline Simms, credited as Lise Simms, is an American actress, singer, designer and dancer.-Personal life:As of 2006, Lise lives in the 1941 Hollywood colonial home she renovated. She is married to actor Terry Rhoads....
  
  , television actress

Business

• Minnie Lou Bradley
  Minnie Lou Bradley
  Minnie Lou Ottinger Bradley is the matriarch of the Bradley 3 Ranch in Childress County in the Texas Panhandle. An inductee of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, she is a trailblazer for women in the field of livestock breeding and ranch management. She is the first woman...
  
  , Class of 1953, first woman to graduate from OSU with a degree in animal husbandry
  Animal husbandry
  Animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.- History :Animal husbandry has been practiced for thousands of years, since the first domestication of animals....
  
  , matriarch of Bradley 3 Ranch in Childress County, Texas
• Gordon Eubanks
  Gordon Eubanks
  Gordon Eubanks is a microcomputer industry pioneer who worked with Gary Kildall in the early days of Digital Research. Eubanks attended Oklahoma State University. Dr. Kildall was his graduate thesis advisor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California...
  
  , CEO and President, Symantec Corporation, makers of Norton AntiVirus
  Norton AntiVirus
  Norton AntiVirus, developed and distributed by Symantec Corporation, provides malware prevention and removal during a subscription period. It uses signatures and heuristics to identify viruses. Other features include e-mail spam filtering and phishing protection.Symantec distributes the product as...
  
  
• Clark Hallren
  Clark Hallren
  P. Clark Hallren, former Managing Director of the Entertainment Industries Group of JPMorgan Securities, Inc., has played a central role on some of Hollywood's largest entertainment transactions over the years...
  
  , Managing Director of Clear Scope Partners, financial and strategic advisor for those operating in the media and entertainment industry. Hallren is former Managing Director of the Entertainment Industries Group of JPMorgan Securities, Inc.
• Paul Miller
  Paul Miller (journalist)
  Paul Miller was an American newspaper executive and journalist. He headed the Gannett newspaper chain from 1957 to 1973. Miller also served as the top official of the Associated Press from 1963 to 1977.-Early years:...
  
  , former President of the Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
   and former Chairman and CEO of Gannett Company
  Gannett Company
  Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly-traded media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States, near McLean. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the weekly USA Weekend...
  
   (publisher of many newspapers including USA Today
  USA Today
  USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
  
  , Arizona Republic and the Indianapolis Star)
• Neal Patterson
  Neal Patterson
  Neal L. Patterson is CEO of Cerner Corporation, a Kansas City-;based medical software corporation. He is also an owner of the Sporting Kansas City soccer team....
  
  , CEO of Cerner Corporation
• T. Boone Pickens, Corporate tycoon; has donated over $235 million to OSU, including to the renovation of the football stadium
  Boone Pickens Stadium
  Boone Pickens Stadium has been home to the Oklahoma State University Cowboys football team in rudimentary form since 1913, and as a complete stadium since 1920...
  
  
• M. B. "Bud" Seretean, former CEO of Coronet Industries, former general manager of the Atlanta Hawks
  Atlanta Hawks
  The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association .-The first years:...
  
  
• Charles Watson, Chairman, Founder and CEO of energy giant Dynegy
  Dynegy
  Dynegy Inc. , based in Houston, Texas, United States, is a large owner and operator of power plants and a player in the natural gas liquids and coal business...
  
   Corp., owner of the Houston Aeros
  Houston Aeros
  The Houston Aeros are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. The team plays in Houston, Texas, at the Toyota Center. They are the AHL affiliate of the NHL's Minnesota Wild.- History :...
  
   professional hockey team

Sports

• Jerry Adair
  Jerry Adair
  Kenneth Jerry Adair was a professional baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, and Kansas City Royals from Sand Springs, Oklahoma.-Baltimore Orioles:...
  
  , former MLB player and coach
• Adnan Al-Kaissie
  Adnan Al-Kaissie
  Adnan Bin Abdulkareem Ahmed Alkaissy El Farthie , better known professionally as Adnan Al-Kaissie, is a former iraqi professional wrestler and a manager best known as Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissy, Billy White Wolf, or General Adnan...
  
  , former pro wrestler and manager
• Tony Allen
  Tony Allen (basketball)
  Anthony Allen is an American professional basketball player with the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA.-Early career:...
  
  , current NBA basketball player, Memphis Grizzlies
  Memphis Grizzlies
  The Memphis Grizzlies are a professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The team is part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Along with the Toronto Raptors, the Grizzlies were established in 1995 as part of the NBA's...
  
  
• Scott Baker, current MLB pitcher
  Pitcher
  In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...
  
  , Minnesota Twins
  Minnesota Twins
  The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...
  
  
• Tatum Bell
  Tatum Bell
  Tatum Antoine Bell is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft...
  
  , former NFL football player
• Steven Braley, former Senior Director of the PGA of America
• Jack Brisco
  Jack Brisco
  Freddie Joe Brisco was an American professional wrestler, better known as Jack Brisco or Uvalde Slim. He performed for various territories of the National Wrestling Alliance , becoming a two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and multi-time NWA Tag Team Champion with his brother Gerald Brisco...
  
  , former pro wrestler, 2 time former NWA World Heavyweight Champion
• Jerry Brisco, former pro wrestler
• Dez Bryant
  Dez Bryant
  - 2010 - Rookie Season :Bryant was signed by the Cowboys to a contract very similar to that of Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin on July 22, 2010. On July 23, 2010, it was announced that Bryant will wear number 88, the same as Hall of Famer Michael Irvin, and Cowboys legend Drew Pearson...
  
  , current NFL football player, Dallas Cowboys
  Dallas Cowboys
  The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
  
  
• Jeromy Burnitz
  Jeromy Burnitz
  Jeromy Neal Burnitz is a former baseball player who was a right fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the New York Mets , Cleveland Indians , Milwaukee Brewers , Los Angeles Dodgers , Colorado Rockies , Chicago Cubs , and Pittsburgh Pirates .Burnitz played his...
  
  , former MLB baseball player
• Kelly Cook
  Kelly Cook
  -Career:Cook played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1987 NFL season. He played at the collegiate level at Oklahoma State University-Stillwater.-References:...
  
  , former NFL football player, Green Bay Packers
  Green Bay Packers
  The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
  
  
• Randy Couture
  Randy Couture
  Randy Duane Couture is a retired American mixed martial artist, Greco-Roman wrestler, actor, a three-time former heavyweight champion, two-time former light-heavyweight champion, former interim light heavyweight champion and UFC 13 tournament winner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
  , UFC heavyweight champion, former All-American wrestler
• Pete Darcey
  Pete Darcey
  Pete Darcey was a center in the National Basketball Association. Darcey played with the Milwaukee Hawks before being traded along with Don Boven and George McLeod to the Baltimore Bullets for Stan Miasek and Dave Minor.Darcey died in 2009....
  
  , former NBA basketball player
• Shane Drury
  Shane Drury
  Shane Wesley Drury was a professional American rodeo bull rider for the PRCA association. He was also known for his inspiration to fight cancer.- Childhood and pre-career :...
  
  , rodeo bull-rider who died prematurely from cancer
• Danny Edwards
  Danny Edwards
  Danny Edwards is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour. He is the older brother of former PGA Tour player David Edwards....
  
  , PGA Tour golfer
• David Edwards
  David Edwards (golfer)
  David Wayne Edwards is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour from 1979–2005 and now plays on the Champions Tour. He is the younger brother of former PGA Tour professional, Danny Edwards....
  
  , PGA Tour golfer
• Josh Fields, current MLB baseball player, Royals
  Royals
  Royals can refer to:* A royal family* Reading Football Club, a football team currently playing in the Football League Championship* Rajasthan Royals, an Indian Premier League franchise* Kansas City Royals, a Major League Baseball team...
  
  
• Rickie Fowler
  Rickie Fowler
  Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008.-Amateur career:...
  
  , professional golfer
• Edward C. Gallagher
  Edward C. Gallagher (wrestling)
  Edward Clark Gallagher was the Oklahoma A&M wrestling coach from 1916-1940. With his knowledge of physical principles like leverage and stress along with anatomy he all but invented the modern style of wrestling. He remains one of the most successful coaches in NCAA athletics history...
  
  , former wrestling coach; winningest coach in NCAA wrestling history
• Joey Graham
  Joey Graham
  Joseph "Joey" Graham is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers.-College career:Graham played at Central Florida from 2000 to 2002, and at Oklahoma State from 2003 to 2005...
  
  , current NBA basketball player, Toronto Raptors
  Toronto Raptors
  The Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1995, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as part of the NBA's re-expansion...
  
  
• Chad Glasgow
  Chad Glasgow
  Chad Glasgow is an American football coach and former player. Currently, Glasgow is the Texas Tech Red Raiders football program's defensive coordinator. From 2001-2010, Glasgow was safeties coach for the TCU Horned Frogs.-Early years:...
  
  , current defensive coordinator for the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
• Mike Gundy
  Mike Gundy
  Mike Gundy is an American football coach and former player He is currently the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. Gundy played college football Oklahoma State, where he was the Cowboys quarterback from 1986 to 1989. Gundy became Oklahoma State's coach on January 3, 2005...
  
  , current head coach of Oklahoma State University football
• Labron Harris
  Labron Harris
  Labron E. Harris was an American professional golfer and golf coach at Oklahoma State University from 1947 to 1973. He coached Oklahoma State to 24 Missouri Valley and Big 8 Conference championships and the 1963 NCAA Division I Golf Championship...
  
   first golf coach at Oklahoma State University
• Don Haskins
  Don Haskins
  Donald Lee Haskins, nicknamed "The Bear" , was an American collegiate basketball coach and player. He played for three years under legendary coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M...
  
  , former NCAA
  National Collegiate Athletic Association
  The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
  
   men's basketball coach, University of Texas at El Paso
  University of Texas at El Paso
  The University of Texas at El Paso is a four-year state university, and is a component institution of the University of Texas System. Its campus is located on the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas. The school was founded in 1914 as The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy,...
  
  , subject of movie Glory Road
  Glory Road
  Glory Road is a fantasy novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published in hardcover later the same year...
  
  
• Mark Hayes
  Mark Hayes (golfer)
  Mark S. Hayes is an American professional golfer.-Early years and amateur career:Hayes was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He played collegiately at Oklahoma State University, where he was a two-time All-American...
  
  , PGA Tour, Senior PGA Tour golfer
• Randy Heckenkemper
  Randy Heckenkemper
  Randall J. Heckenkemper is a renowned golf course architect.Heckenkemper was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in landscape design. Heckenkemper began his career in the 1980s working for Poe and Associates...
  
  , noted golf course architect
• Johny Hendricks
  Johny Hendricks
  Johny Hendricks is an American mixed martial artist and an accomplished former amateur wrestler. He currently fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship's Welterweight division...
  
  , MMA fighter
• Mike Holder
  Mike Holder
  Mike Holder is the current athletic director for Oklahoma State University, succeeding Harry Birdwell on September 16, 2005. His previous position was head coach of the men's golf program, where he served for 32 years....
  
  , former men's golf coach and current athletic director
• Joe Horlen
  Joe Horlen
  Joel Edward Horlen is a right-handed former Major League Baseball pitcher. Horlen pitched for the Chicago White Sox from to , and the Oakland Athletics in ....
  
  , former MLB All-Star pitcher
• Matt Holiday, current MLB baseball player, St. Louis Cardinals
  St. Louis Cardinals
  The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...
  
  
• Charles Howell III
  Charles Howell III
  Charles Gordon Howell III is an American golfer. He has been featured in the top 15 of the Official World Golf Rankings.-Early years and amateur career:...
  
  , current PGA Tour golfer
• Dick Hutton
  Dick Hutton
  Richard "Dick" 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.-Early life:...
  
  , former pro wrestler, former NWA World Heavyweight Champion
• Moe Iba
  Moe Iba
  Henry "Moe" Iba Jr. is an American basketball coach. He coached the University of Memphis from 1966–1970, the University of Nebraska from 1980–1986 and Texas Christian University from 1987-1994....
  
  , former University of Nebraska basketball coach
• Pete Incaviglia
  Pete Incaviglia
  Peter "Inky" Joseph Incaviglia is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He was drafted in the 1st round by the Montreal Expos in the 1985 amateur draft out of Oklahoma State University, but was traded later the same year to the Texas Rangers...
  
  , former MLB baseball player, Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball newspaper College Baseball Player of the Century
• Ed Jeffers
  Ed Jeffers
  Ed Jeffers was a professional American football guard. He was a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.He served his country in the United States Army during World War II in the Pacific....
  
  , former professional football player
• Charlie Johnson
  Charlie Johnson (offensive tackle)
  Charlie Johnson is an American football offensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft...
  
  , current NFL player, Super Bowl Champion 2006 Indianapolis Colts
• John Juanda
  John Juanda
  Johnson "John" Juanda is a Chinese Indonesian professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California. Juanda lives in Los Angeles.-Personal life:...
  
  , Professional poker player, Winner of 3 World Series of Poker
  World Series of Poker
  The World Series of Poker is a world-renowned series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas and, since 2005, sponsored by Harrah's Entertainment...
  
   bracelets
• Muhammed Lawal
  Muhammed Lawal
  |-| Win|align=center| 8–1| Roger Gracie| KO | Strikeforce World Grand Prix: Barnett vs. Kharitonov| |align=center| 1|align=center| 4:37|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States|||-| Loss|align=center| 7–1| Rafael Cavalcante| TKO...
  
  , MMA fighter
• John Lucas, current NBA basketball player, Houston Rockets
  Houston Rockets
  The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1967, and played in San Diego, California for four years, before being...
  
  
• R.W. McQuarters, current NFL football player, New York Giants
  New York Giants
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Hunter Mahan
  Hunter Mahan
  Hunter Myles Mahan is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Mahan was born in Orange, California. He had a successful amateur career, winning the 1999 5A Texas State High School Golf Championship while attending McKinney High School and the 1999 U.S. Junior...
  
  , PGA Tour golfer
• Leroy McGuirk
  Leroy McGuirk
  Leroy Michael McGuirk was an American wrestler and professional 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 , he was affiliated with the promotion from 1949 to 1982.-Early...
  
  , former pro wrestler and promoter, 3 time NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion
• Desmond Mason
  Desmond Mason
  Desmond Tremaine Mason is an American former professional basketball player. He was designated as a shooting guard and small forward.-Career:...
  
  , current NBA basketball player, Oklahoma City Thunder
  Oklahoma City Thunder
  The Oklahoma City Thunder are a professional basketball franchise based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ; their home court is at Chesapeake Energy Arena....
  
  
• Caroline Masson, professional golfer
• Bud Millikan
  Bud Millikan
  Harold A. "Bud" Millikan was the head coach of the University of Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team from 1950 to 1967. He compiled a 243–182 record...
  
  , basketball coach of University of Maryland
• Vernand Morency
  Vernand Morency
  Vernand Morency is a former American football running back who played in the NFL.-Biography:Vernand Morency grew up in Miami, Florida where his parents, immigrants from Haiti, had him working in their family real estate business from the age of 5...
  
  , current NFL football player, Green Bay Packers
  Green Bay Packers
  The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
  
  
• Mark Munoz
  Mark Munoz
  Mark Muñoz is an American mixed martial artist of Filipino descent currently fighting in the middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.Muñoz is known for his wrestling ability and his relentless ground-and-pound...
  
  , MMA fighter, wrestling All-American
• Ray Murphy, Jr.
  Ray Murphy, Jr.
  Ray Murphy, Jr. was an all-American collegiate wrestler at Oklahoma State University. He was awarded the 1998 Medal of Courage from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.-Early life:...
  
  , former wrestler and developer of handicapped-assisting technologies, recipient of Medal of Courage from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
• Houston Nutt
  Houston Nutt
  Houston Dale Nutt, Jr. is an American football coach and former player. Most recently he was the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 2008 to 2011. Previously, he served as the head coach at Murray State University , Boise State University , and the University of Arkansas...
  
  , current NCAA
  National Collegiate Athletic Association
  The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
  
   football head coach, University of Mississippi
  University of Mississippi
  The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1844, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, and Southaven as well as the...
  
  
• Doyle Parrack
  Doyle Parrack
  Doyle Parrack was an American basketball player and coach.Parrck was born in Cotton County, Oklahoma, and played basketball at Oklahoma A&M University, where he won an NCAA Championship in 1945. He played one season of professional for the Chicago Stags of the NBA, then became a coach at Oklahoma...
  
  , former NBA basketball player, and NCAA coach
• Danny Perez
  Danny Perez
  Danny Perez is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. Perez was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the twenty-first round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft. He played at the Major League level with the team in 1996....
  
  , former MLB outfielder, Milwaukee Brewers
  Milwaukee Brewers
  The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
  
  
• Bryant Reeves
  Bryant Reeves
  Bryant Reeves is an American retired professional basketball player for the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies...
  
  , former NBA basketball player, Vancouver Grizzlies
  Memphis Grizzlies
  The Memphis Grizzlies are a professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The team is part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Along with the Toronto Raptors, the Grizzlies were established in 1995 as part of the NBA's...
  
  
• Allie Reynolds
  Allie Reynolds
  Allie Pierce Reynolds was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.-Biography:...
  
  , MLB
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   pitcher
• Jake Rosholt
  Jake Rosholt
  Jake Rosholt is an American mixed martial artist and former collegiate amateur wrestler. Rosholt formerly competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship .-Early life:...
  
  , former NCAA champion wrestler, current MMA fighter
• Rusty Ryal
  Rusty Ryal
  Rusty Allen Ryal is an American professional baseball infielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He was picked by the Diamondbacks in the 14th round of the 2005 MLB Draft, Ryal played baseball at Oklahoma State University...
  
  , current MLB infielder, Arizona Diamondbacks
  Arizona Diamondbacks
  The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix. They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field...
  
  
• Barry Sanders
  Barry Sanders
  Barry Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record...
  
  , Heisman Trophy
  Heisman Trophy
  The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...
  
   winner, former NFL football player, Detroit Lions
  Detroit Lions
  The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...
  
  ; Hall of Famer
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
  
  
• Luke Scott, current MLB outfielder, Baltimore Orioles
  Baltimore Orioles
  The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...
  
  
• Bill Self
  Bill Self
  Bill Self is an American college men's basketball coach at the University of Kansas, where he led the Jayhawks to the 2008 NCAA national championship....
  
  , current NCAA
  National Collegiate Athletic Association
  The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
  
   basketball head coach, University of Kansas
  University of Kansas
  The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
  
  ; former head coach Oral Roberts University
  Oral Roberts University
  Oral Roberts University , based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States, is an interdenominational, Charismatic Christian, comprehensive university with an enrollment of about 3,790 students from 49 U.S. states along with a significant number of international students from 70 countries...
  
  , University of Tulsa
  University of Tulsa
  The University of Tulsa is a private university awarding bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. It is currently ranked 75th among doctoral degree granting universities in the nation by US News and World Report and is listed as one of the "Best 366 Colleges" by...
  
  , University of Illinois
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
  
  
• Jerry Slack
  Jerry Slack
  Jerry Slack is an American golf course designer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has played a role in more than 65 golf course construction projects. His winning of the Municipal Improvement of the Year award for Quail Ridge Golf Club in Kansas propelled him to designing some of the biggest projects...
  
  , golf course architect
• John Smith
  John Smith (wrestler)
  John William Smith is a successful college wrestler, 6-time World Champion, 2-time Olympic Games champion, and is currently the head coach of wrestling at Oklahoma State University.-High school career:...
  
  , current head coach of Oklahoma State University wrestling and two-time Olympic gold medal winner
• John Starks
  John Starks (basketball)
  John Levell Starks is a former American professional basketball shooting guard. Starks was listed at 6'5" and 190 pounds during his NBA playing career...
  
  , former Oklahoma State basketball player, former New York Knicks
  New York Knicks
  The New York Knickerbockers, prominently known as the Knicks, are a professional basketball team based in New York City. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
   guard
• Eddie Sutton
  Eddie Sutton
  Eddie Sutton is an American former college head coach with 36 years of Division I basketball coaching experience at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State , and the University of San Francisco...
  
  , former head coach of Oklahoma State University basketball
• Sean Sutton
  Sean Sutton
  Sean Sutton was the head coach of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball program from 2006 until April 1, 2008. He is currently an assistant at Oral Roberts University.-Playing career:...
  
  , former head coach of Oklahoma State University basketball
• Scott Sutton
  Scott Sutton
  Scott Sutton is the men's basketball coach for the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles. He coached the university into the first round of the 2006, 2007, and 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournaments....
  
  , current head coach of Oral Roberts University basketball
• Mickey Tettleton
  Mickey Tettleton
  Mickey Lee Tettleton , is a former American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, and Texas Rangers...
  
  , former MLB baseball player
• Doug Tewell, PGA Tour, Senior PGA Tour golfer
• Thurman Thomas, former NFL football player, Buffalo Bills
  Buffalo Bills
  The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  ; Hall of Famer
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
  
  
• Bob Tway
  Bob Tway
  Robert Raymond Tway IV is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments including eight PGA Tour victories. He spent 25 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings in 1986-87....
  
  , current PGA Tour golfer
• Robert (Bo) Van Pelt
  Bo Van Pelt
  Bo Van Pelt is an American professional golfer who has played on both the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.Van Pelt was born in Richmond, Indiana...
  
  , professional golfer
• Robin Ventura
  Robin Ventura
  Robin Mark Ventura is the current manager of the Chicago White Sox. He is a former professional baseball player, a third baseman who played for four major league teams, most notably for the Chicago White Sox...
  
  , former MLB baseball player
• Scott Verplank
  Scott Verplank
  Scott Rachal Verplank is an American professional golfer.Verplank was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He was a leading member of the W.T. White High School Golf Team and a regular at Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas...
  
  , current PGA Tour golfer
• Gary Ward
  Gary Ward (baseball coach)
  Gary Ward is a former baseball coach in the United States. He was the head baseball coach at Oklahoma State University from 1978 to 1996, compiling a record of 953–313–1. Ward won 17 Big Eight Conference championships at OSU, including 16 in a row from 1980 to 1996. He led his team...
  
  , former baseball coach
• Darrent Williams
  Darrent Williams
  Darrent Demarcus Williams was an American football player for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Williams was also the owner and CEO of independent record label RYNO Entertainment in Fort Worth, Texas.-High school:Born and raised in Fort Worth, Williams attended O.D...
  
  , former NFL football player, Denver Broncos
  Denver Broncos
  The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado. They are currently members of the West Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   (d. 2007)
• Kevin Williams, current NFL football player, Minnesota Vikings
  Minnesota Vikings
  The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...
  
  
• Rashaun Woods
  Rashaun Woods
  Rashaun Dorrell Woods is a professional football player who recently played in the Canadian Football League prior to his release by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on June 22, 2008...
  
  , current NFL Europa football player, Hamburg Sea Devils
  Hamburg Sea Devils
  The Hamburg Sea Devils were an American football team that began play in NFL Europa from 2005 to 2007. They played their home games at Hamburg's AOL Arena . They played their first game on April 2, 2005 losing 24-23 to the Cologne Centurions...
  
  

Presidents past and present

Notable former and current faculty

• Ai
  Ai (poet)
  Florence Anthony was a National Book Award winning American poet and educator who legally changed her name to Ai Ogawa...
  
   - American Poet and member of OSU English faculty until her death
• Angie Debo
  Angie Debo
  Angie Elbertha Debo was an American historian who wrote 13 books and hundreds of articles about Native American and Oklahoma history...
  
   - leading historian of Oklahoma and Native Americans (curator of maps for Oklahoma A&M library, 1947–1955; left her papers to OSU Library)
• J. Frank Dobie
  J. Frank Dobie
  James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range...
  
   - author/folklorist taught English at OSU, but is most remembered for his service at the University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  
• Brian Evenson
  Brian Evenson
  Brian Evenson is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction. He has received degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Washington . After leaving a teaching position at BYU, he held positions at Oklahoma State University, Syracuse University...
  
   - American academic and writer of both literary fiction
  Literary fiction
  Literary fiction is a term that came into common usage during the early 1960s. The term is principally used to distinguish "serious fiction" which is a work that claims to hold literary merit, in comparison from genre fiction and popular fiction . In broad terms, literary fiction focuses more upon...
  
   and popular fiction
• Elbert Glover
  Elbert Glover
  Having secured millions of dollars in private and federal funding and published in excess of 200 manuscripts, Elbert D. Glover, PhD is a prolific researcher and writer who researches and develops public health strategies related to tobacco addiction and smoking cessation...
  
   - public health expert
• Edward Goljan
  Edward Goljan
  Edward Goljan, M.D., is the Professor and Chair of Pathology and Curriculum Coordinator at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, a medical school for Osteopathic Medicine in Oklahoma...
  
   - noted medical educator
• Jack Harlan
  Jack Harlan
  Jack Harlan was a botanist and agronomist.-Biography:Harlan earned a B.S. from George Washington University in 1938 and a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California in 1942. He worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1942 to 1961...
  
   - influential agronomist
  Agronomist
  An agronomist is a scientist who specializes in agronomy, which is the science of utilizing plants for food, fuel, feed, and fiber. An agronomist is an expert in agricultural and allied sciences, with the exception veterinary sciences.Agronomists deal with interactions between plants, soils, and...
  
  
• Riffat Hassan
  Riffat Hassan
  Riffat Hassan is a Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur'an.-Early life and career:Hassan was born in Lahore, Pakistan to an upper-class Sayid Muslim family. Her grandfather was Hakim Ahmed Shuja', a Pakistani poet, writer and playwright...
  
   - Pakistani-American religious scholar notable for her studies of Islamic feminism
  Islamic feminism
  Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of women in Islam. It aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of gender, in public and private life. Islamic feminists advocate women's rights, gender equality, and social justice grounded in an Islamic framework...
  
  
• William Jaco
  William Jaco
  William "Bus" H. Jaco is the Grace B. Kerr Professor of mathematics at Oklahoma State University. He works on 3-manifolds and discovered the JSJ decomposition....
  
   - American mathematician (discovered the JSJ decomposition
  JSJ decomposition
  In mathematics, the JSJ decomposition, also known as the toral decomposition, is a topological construct given by the following theorem:The acronym JSJ is for William Jaco, Peter Shalen, and Klaus Johannson...
  
  )
• Subhash Kak
  Subhash Kak
  Subhash Kak is an Indian American computer scientist, most notable for his controversial Indological publications on history, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and the history of mathematics...
  
   - computer scientist, poet, and author
• Mike Sowell
  Mike Sowell
  Mike Sowell is a sports historian and the author of three baseball books, including The Pitch That Killed about Ray Chapman and Carl Mays. Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times in 1989, and winner of the CASEY Award for best baseball book of 1989, The Pitch That Killed tells the...
  
   - acclaimed journalist and sportswriter
• Robert Sternberg
  Robert Sternberg
  Robert Jeffrey Sternberg , is an American psychologist and psychometrician and Provost at Oklahoma State University. He was formerly the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University and the President of the American Psychological...
  
   - One of the twenty most-cited psychologists of the 20th Century
• Elsayed Elsayed Wagih
  Elsayed Elsayed Wagih
  Elasayed Elsayed Wagih PhD, DIC, CIDTT is an Egyptian Professor of Virology and Biotechnology and vice President of the Arab Society for Biotechnology. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt...
  
  - inventor of the zymoblot
  Zymoblot
  Zymoblot is the fastest available microtechnique to detect gene expression or enzyme activity in any biological specimen. The technique was invented by Professor Elsayed Elsayed Wagih in collaboration with Professor Jacqueline Fletcher of the Department of Plant Pathology, Noble Research Centre,...
  
  
• Joseph W. Westphal
  Joseph W. Westphal
  Joseph W. Westphal is the United States Under Secretary of the Army in the United States Department of the Army.Westphal was born in Santiago, Chile. Joseph Westphal served as Chancellor of the University of Maine System and Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine...
  
   - Political Scientist, educator, and current United States Under Secretary of the Army
  United States Under Secretary of the Army
  The United States Under Secretary of the Army is the second-highest ranking civilian official of the United States Department of the Army, serving directly under the United States Secretary of the Army...
  
  

Former and current athletic staff

• Larry Coker
  Larry Coker
  Larry Edward Coker is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio, whose Roadrunners football team begins play in 2011. From 2001 to 2006, Coker served as the head coach at the University of Miami...
  
   former coach of University of Miami
  University of Miami
  The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
  
  
• Butch Davis
  Butch Davis
  Paul Hilton "Butch" Davis, Jr. is an American football coach and former player in the United States. He was the head coach at the University of Miami from 1995 to 2000, the Cleveland Browns of the NFL from 2001 to 2004, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2007 to 2011.-Early...
  
   former coach of University of Miami
  University of Miami
  The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
  
   and Cleveland Browns
  Cleveland Browns
  The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Leonard Hamilton
  Leonard Hamilton
  Leonard Hamilton is the current head basketball coach at Florida State University. He is a former coach at Oklahoma State University, the University of Miami, and the NBA's Washington Wizards...
  
   current coach of Florida State Seminoles basketball
• Henry Iba
  Henry Iba
  Henry Payne "Hank" Iba was an American basketball and baseball coach.-Early life:Iba was born and raised in Easton, Missouri...
  
  , former basketball coach and athletic director
• Jimmy Johnson
  Jimmy Johnson (American football coach)
  James William "Jimmy" Johnson is an American former NCAA and National Football League head coach. As of 2010, he is currently an analyst for Fox NFL Sunday, the Fox network's NFL pregame show. He was the first football coach whose teams won both an NCAA Division 1A National Championship and a...
  
   current Fox Sports Analyst, former coach of Dallas Cowboys
  Dallas Cowboys
  The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
  
  , Miami Dolphins
  Miami Dolphins
  The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   & future spokesman for Extenze
• Les Miles
  Les Miles
  Leslie Edwin "Les" Miles, nicknamed "The Mad Hatter", is an American college football coach and the current head coach of the Louisiana State University football team. Prior to holding that position, he was head coach at Oklahoma State...
  
   current head football coach of LSU
• Doyle Parrack
  Doyle Parrack
  Doyle Parrack was an American basketball player and coach.Parrck was born in Cotton County, Oklahoma, and played basketball at Oklahoma A&M University, where he won an NCAA Championship in 1945. He played one season of professional for the Chicago Stags of the NBA, then became a coach at Oklahoma...
  
   won national basketball championship under Henry Iba in 1945, was assistant coach under Iba, then head women's basketball coach 1978-80
• Eddie Sutton
  Eddie Sutton
  Eddie Sutton is an American former college head coach with 36 years of Division I basketball coaching experience at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State , and the University of San Francisco...
  
   former basketball coach (also alumnus)
• Dave Wannstedt
  Dave Wannstedt
  Dave Wannstedt is current Assistant Head Coach/Inside Linebackers Coach for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League. He was most recently head coach of the University of Pittsburgh football team, a position he held for six seasons. Wannstedt is also the former head coach of the Miami...
  
   current coach of Pittsburgh Panthers, former coach of Chicago Bears
  Chicago Bears
  The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   and Miami Dolphins
  Miami Dolphins
  The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Rickie Fowler
  Rickie Fowler
  Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008.-Amateur career:...
  
  current pga pro

External links

• Oklahoma State University Alumni Association