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Jim Thorpe
American track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953)
Amber Valletta
American model and actress
Wes Studi
American actor
Saginaw Grant
Native American actor, dancer, motivational speaker (1936–2021)
N. Scott Momaday
Kiowa author and academic (1934–2024)
Joy Harjo
American Poet Laureate
Will Sampson
Muscogee Creek actor from Oklahoma (1933–1987)
Chaske Spencer
American actor (born 1975)
John Starks
American basketball player
Jesse Renick
American basketball player (1917-1999)
Johny Hendricks
American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist
Satanta
Satanta (IPA: [seˈtʰæntə]) (Set:t’aiñde ([séʔ.tˀã́j.dè]) or White Bear) ( – October 11, 1878) was a Kiowa war chief. He was a member of the Kiowa tribe, born around 1815, during the height of the power of the Plains Tribes, probably along the Canadian River in the traditional winter camp grounds of his people.
Grace Thorpe
World War II veteran, environmentalist, tribal court judge, and Native rights activist (1921-2008)
Sarah Rector
African American member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Donna Nelson
American chemist
Mollie Kyle
Osage woman
Buffalo Calf Road Woman
Cheyenne woman warrior
Allan Houser
Chiricahua Apache painter and sculptor from Oklahoma and New Mexico (1914-1994)
Lone Wolf
Guipago or Lone Wolf the Elder (, ; – July 1879) was the last Principal Chief of the Kiowa tribe. He was a member of the Koitsenko, the Kiowa warrior elite, and was a signer of the Little Arkansas Treaty in 1865.
Lindy Waters III
American basketball player (born 1997)
Angel Goodrich
American basketball player
Suzan Shown Harjo
Cheyenne-Holdulgee Muscogee activist, poet, writer, lecturer, and curator (born 1945)
Guy Erwin
American bishop
Minnie Devereaux
actress (1891-1984)
Dohasan
Dohäsan () (late 1780s to early 1790s – 1866) was a prominent Native American. He was War Chief of the Kata or Arikara band of the Kiowa Indians, and then Principal Chief of the entire Kiowa Tribe, a position he held for an extraordinary 33 years. He is best remembered as the last undisputed Principal Chief of the Kiowa people before the Reservation Era, and the battlefield leader of the Plains Tribes in the largest battle ever fought between the Plains tribes and the United States.
Kicking Bird
Kiowa chief (1835–1875)
Alexander Posey
Muscogee Creek poet, journalist, humorist, and politician from Indian Territory (1873-1908)
Louis Oliver
American writer (1904-1991)
Harvey Pratt
Southern Cheyenne peace chief and artist from Oklahoma (1941-2025)
Big Tree
Kiowa warrior
Allie Reynolds
Native American baseball player (1917–1994)
Gary Gray
American basketball player (born 1945)
Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone
American soprano (1882-1985)
Rosana Chouteau
Native American leader
Carter Camp
American activist
Jack Jacobs
American football player (1919-1974)
Truman Washington Dailey
Last Native speaker of Otoe-Missouria
Black Beaver
Delaware / Lenape chief, guide, rancher
Richard Ray Whitman
Yuchi-Muscogee Creek artist, videographer, poet and actor