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==Notable people== * [[Reubin Askew]], [[Governor of Florida]] 1971 to 1979 * [[Randy Ball]], college football head coach, [[Western Illinois University|Western Illinois]], [[Missouri State University|Missouri State]] * [[Louis W. Ballard]], [[Cherokee]] and [[Osage Nation|Osage]] composer and inductee, [[Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame]] * [[R. Perry Beaver]], Principal Chief of the [[Muscogee]] (Creek) Nation * [[Maurice R. Bebb]], etcher and printmaker * [[Aaron Bell (musician)|Aaron Bell]], jazz double-bassist * [[Keith Birdsong]], illustrator known for his ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel covers * [[Tams Bixby]], newspaper owner and publisher of ''Muskogee Phoenix''; chairman of [[Dawes Commission]], which he relocated to Muskogee; lived in Muskogee from 1905 to 1922. * [[Archie Bradley (baseball)|Archie Bradley]], Major League Baseball pitcher * [[Don Byas]], jazz musician * [[Kristin Cast]], writer * [[PC Cast]], writer * [[Eddie Chuculate]], author, graduate of Muskogee High School * [[Tom Coburn]], former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma * [[Isaac N. Coggs]], [[Wisconsin State Assembly]] * [[Fletcher Daniels]], Missouri state representative * [[Nelson Dean]], Negro League baseball player * [[Drew Edmondson]], former Attorney General of Oklahoma, 2018 gubernatorial candidate * [[Ed Edmondson (politician)|Ed Edmondson]], U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma * [[James E. Edmondson]], current Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice * [[Ernest E. Evans]], posthumous Medal of Honor recipient for actions as U.S. destroyer captain in WWII * [[George Faught]], Former Representative from Oklahoma State House District 14; first [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] in state history to represent Muskogee-based district * [[Carolyn T. Foreman]] (1872β1967), historian, wife of Grant Foreman and daughter of [[John R. Thomas]]; lived in Muskogee (1887β1967) * [[Sandy Garrett]], former [[Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction]] and Hilldale Public School teacher * [[Susan Golding]], former [[mayor of San Diego]], [[California]] * [[Gloria Greer]], actress * [[Clu Gulager]], actor * [[Charles V. Hamilton]], political scientist * [[John Tyler Hammons]], former mayor of Muskogee and one of youngest mayors in United States history * [[Charles N. Haskell]], noted lawyer, oilman, statesman, and first [[Governor of Oklahoma]] * [[Darnell Hinson]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://basketball.latinbasket.com/player/Darnell_Hinson/55147|title=Darnell Hinson Player Profile, Brujos de Guayama, News, Stats - Latinbasket}}</ref> former professional basketball player * [[David R. Hinson]], pilot and former head of Midway Airlines * [[Lance Hinson]], college football coach * [[Harold L. Holliday]], Missouri state representative * [[Olivia Hooker]], psychologist, educator * [[Leroy Hurte]] (1915β2011), musician, businessman<ref name="Isoardi-1995">{{Cite web |last=Isoardi |first=Steven L. |date=July 20, 1995 |title=Central Avenue Sounds: Leroy Hurte |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb4m3nb6cj&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Calisphere |publisher=[[University of California, Los Angeles]]}}</ref> * [[James Jabara]], first American jet ace * [[Dennis Jernigan]], contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter * [[James R. Jones]], U.S. Congressman for Oklahoma's 1st District (1973β1987), Chairman of the [[American Stock Exchange]] (1989 to 1993), [[U.S. Ambassador to Mexico]] (1993 to 1997) * [[L. R. Kershaw]], lawyer, banker, cattle breeder, [[real estate developer]] and candidate for governor * [[Barney Kessel]], jazz guitarist * [[Leo Kottke]], acoustic guitarist * [[Robert E. Lavender]], former [[Oklahoma Supreme Court]] Justice * [[Seth Littrell]], football head coach, [[North Texas Mean Green football|North Texas]] * [[Barbara McAlister (opera singer)]], opera singer * [[Roberta McCain]], mother of Senator [[John McCain]] * [[Calvin McCarty]], professional [[Canadian football]] running back for CFL's [[Edmonton Eskimos]] * [[Jay McShann]], jazz musician * [[Bill Mercer]], [[sportscaster]], educator and author * [[Smokie Norful]], Gospel recording artist * [[Kevin Peterson (American football)|Kevin Peterson]], American football player * [[Pleasant Porter]], principal chief of [[Creek Nation]] (1899 – 1907) and president of [[Sequoyah Constitutional Convention]] * [[Alexander Posey]], writer, newspaper editor, secretary of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention * [[Joe A. Rector]], American/Cherokee artist * [[Robert Reed]], actor who played Mike Brady, father on ''The Brady Bunch'' * [[Bass Reeves]], one of the first African-American Deputy U.S. Marshals, who served at the Muskogee Federal Court in Indian Territory,<ref name=Museum>{{cite web |title=Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves |url=http://www.usmarshalsmuseum.com/reeves |publisher=U.S. Marshals Museum |access-date=August 27, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302113628/http://www.usmarshalsmuseum.com/reeves |archive-date=March 2, 2014}}</ref> and later became an officer of the [[Muskogee Police Department]]<ref name="Crisis 38">{{cite journal|last=Burton|first=Art T.|title=The Legacy of Bass Reeves: Deputy United States Marshal|journal=The Crisis|date=MayβJune 1999|volume=106|issue=3|pages=38β42|issn=0011-1422}}</ref> * [[Alice Mary Robertson]], educator, social worker, government official, second woman to serve in the United States Congress * [[Muskogee Yargee Ross]], pioneer resident * [[Pee Wee Russell]], jazz musician * [[Thomas Ryan (congressman)|Thomas Ryan]], politician, lawyer, lived in Muskogee as representative from [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]] * [[A. G. W. Sango]], lawyer, newspaper editor, school founder * [[James M. Shackelford]], first United States judge in Indian Territory (1889β1907) * [[Jackie Shipp]], former NFL player * [[The Swon Brothers]], duo that gained fame on [[NBC]]'s ''[[The Voice (U.S. TV series)|The Voice (season 4)]]'' * [[Mike Synar]], former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma * [[John R. Thomas]], attorney, Federal judge before Oklahoma statehood, father of historian [[Carolyn T. Foreman]] * [[Carrie Underwood]], country music singer * [[Sarah Vowell]], author * [[Les Walrond]], [[Major League Baseball]] player * [[W. Richard West Jr.]], director of [[National Museum of the American Indian]] * [[Claude Williams (musician)|Claude "Fiddler" Williams]], jazz musician
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