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
Donna Cox - digital artist, scientist, and academic Mark Enger - painter Matt Enger - painter Gene Havlick - Academy Award-winning film editor Paladine Roye - Ponca artist James B. Shackelford - cinematographer Lyndon Stromberg - sculptor
Athletes
Kody Bliss - CFL Lydell Carr - running back for the Arizona Cardinals Todd Franz - 2005 NFL player, Green Bay Packers Steve Fuller - NFL 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 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 Wade Burleson - minister Yahweh Ben Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell Jr.) - founder, Nation of Yahweh
Scientists Paul H. Allen - botanist
Other Letitia Chambers - director of the Heard Museum
References
See also List of mayors of Enid, Oklahoma