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