# List of people from Enid, Oklahoma

This is a list of people from Enid, Oklahoma.

## Academics

* Melissa Dell - Economics professor, Harvard University, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal

## Actors and actresses

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

## Artists

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

## Athletes

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

## Architects

* Karl Kamrath - architect and tennis player

## Authors

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

## Business owners

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

## Criminals

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

## Musicians and singers

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

## Television and radio personalities

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

## Politicians and military figures

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

## Religious figures

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

## Scientists

* Paul H. Allen - botanist

## Other

* Letitia Chambers - director of the Heard Museum