*Regina Bonny*, 1996 Law Enforcement Officer of the Year, for heroic rescue work at the Alfred P Murrah Building bombing. Midwest City.
Jerrie Cobb. First female to pass all three phases of
Mercury Astronaut Program, in 1961. Nominated for Nobel Peace
Price in 1981 for her missionary work in South America.
Gordon L. Cooper. Astronaut, Mercury 9, Gemini 5. Shawnee, Mar. 27, 1927.
Gary England, metereologist, 1994 Emmy for best weather anchor, initiated development of world's first commercial Doppler radar, developed 'First Warning' and 'Tracker' technology, now in use nationwide. Seiling.
Sylvan N. Goldman. Inventor of the grocery shopping cart, 1936-1937, the first of which were made of wood, then steel, for use in his Standard Food Market in Oklahoma City 1937.
Myra Vanderpool Gormley. Noted genealogist, columnist, supporter of internet genealogy through USGenWeb, and author ("Family Diseases: Are you at Risk"; "Cherokee Connection"). Born Muskogee.
Jimmy Houston, champion fisherman, TV host. Born (?), resident Cookson, OK.
Karl G. Jansky, discovered celestial bodies could emit radio waves as well as light waves, giving birth to radio astronomy; unit of radio flux is named "jansky", in his honor. Norman, 1905.
Shannon Lucid, astronaut, mission specialist on 4 missions. Born China, considers Bethany "home", Jan. 14, 1943.
Wilma Pearl Mankiller, first woman to be elected Principal Chief of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation, inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. Stillwater, December 18, 1945.
Oral Roberts, televangelist, founder Oral Roberts University, Pontotoc County, Jan. 24, 1918.
Stuart Allen Roosa, Apollo 14 astronaut, Command Module Pilot, 1971, one of six Apollo astronauts to fly solo around the moon. Claremore, 1933-1996. (NASA obituary states born in Durango, Colo?)
John Sabolich. Pioneer of advanced prosthetics (Sabolich Socket technology, Sense of Feel System). Oklahoma City. (Born ?)
*Sequoyah*. Developed Cherokee alphabet. Lived later years near what would become Sallisaw. 1770-1843, born Tennessee.
Norma Smallwood, Miss America, 1926, and one-time wife of philanthropist Thomas Gilcrease. Tulsa.
Thomas P. Stafford. Astronaut, Gemini 6, Gemini 9, Apollo 10, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Congressional Medal of Honor. Weatherford, Sept. 17, 1930.
Judge Juanita Kidd Stout, first black woman in America to be elected to the bench, Philadelphia, 1959. Born Wewoka.
