Editing Shawnee, Oklahoma (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Brad Pitt]], born in Shawnee, actor, producer
* [[Brent Ashabranner]], Peace Corps administrator and author
* [[Jack Baer]], sports star and graduate of Shawnee High School and OU, Sooners baseball coach winning Nat'l championship in 1951, and long-time on the staff of the football program.
* [[Dan Boren]], [[United States Representative]] from [[Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district]] 
* [[Harold Cagle]], graduate of SHS, track star at OBU, who participated in the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] in Berlin, where his 4x400 relay team placed second
* [[Joe Cobb|Joe Frank Cobb]], born in Shawnee, actor, original "fat boy" in the early "[[Our Gang]]" series
* [[Martha Lillard]], [[polio]] survivor, best known for being the last person living in the [[iron lung]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-11-30 |title=60 years in an iron lung: US polio survivor worries about new global threat |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/60-years-iron-lung-us-polio-survivor-worries-about-new-2D11641456 |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Patrick Cobbs]], born in Shawnee but lived in nearby [[Tecumseh, Oklahoma]], pro football running back and special teams player for [[Miami Dolphins]]
* [[Doug Combs]], Vice Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma
* [[Leroy Gordon Cooper]], one of the original [[Mercury Seven]] astronauts
* [[Samantha Crain]], songwriter, musician
* [[Melodie Crittenden]], singer
* [[Rebecca Cryer]] (1946–2020), attorney, tribal officer, and judge
* [[Jeremy Dawson]], keyboardist for [[Shiny Toy Guns]]
* [[Mason Dye]], actor 
* [[Brynne Edelsten|Bryn Edelston]], American-Australian socialite, actress
* [[Ryan Franklin]], pro baseball pitcher with Mariners, Phillies, Reds, Cardinals, wife from Shawnee, makes home in Shawnee
* [[Robert Galbreath, Jr.]], drilled first oilwell in [[Glenn Pool Oil Reserve|Glenn Pool Field]].
* [[Gregory Gerrer]], monk, artist, founder of [[Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art]]
* [[Darrien Gordon]], pro football player with Chargers, Broncos and Raiders, played in three Super Bowls
* [[Jon Gray|Jonathan Gray]], pro baseball pitcher with the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]], born in Shawnee
* [[Prerna Gupta]], entrepreneur
* [[Monte Hale]], singer, movie star, comic book character
* [[Wade Hayes]], country singer
* [[Brad Henry]], Governor of Oklahoma 2003–11
* [[Kim Henry]], First Lady of Oklahoma 2003–11 (wife of [[Brad Henry]]); teacher at Shawnee High School
* [[Robert Harlan Henry]], President of [[Oklahoma City University]], [[United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit]] judge, and Oklahoma Attorney General
* [[Brewster Higley]], homesteader, medical doctor, poet of the famous folk song "[[Home on the Range]]"
* [[Tim Holt]], Hollywood actor, died in Shawnee Medical Center Hospital<ref>{{cite news |title=Tim Holt, Western Film Star Who Made 149 Pictures, Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/16/archives/tim-holt-western-film-star-who-made-149-pictures-dead-a-sons-role-a.html |access-date=10 April 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=February 16, 1973}}</ref>
* [[Creed Humphrey]], center for the [[Kansas City Chiefs]], [[Super Bowl LVII]] champion
* [[Robert L. Lynn]], college president ([[Louisiana College]])
* [[Vicky McGehee]], songwriter
* [[Charles W. Mooney Jr.|Charles ("Chuck") W. Mooney Jr.]], the Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law, and former interim Dean, at the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]]
* [[Zack Mosley]], graduate of Shawnee High School, creator of [[The Adventures of Smilin' Jack]] aviation cartoon strip, developer of Civil Air Patrol
* [[Gregori Chad Petree]], singer for [[Shiny Toy Guns]]
* [[Ross Porter (sportscaster)|Ross Porter]], longtime sportscaster for [[Los Angeles Dodgers]]
* [[Burton Rascoe]], attended Shawnee High School, author, columnist, critic – biography "Before I Forget", details life growing up in Shawnee
* [[Robert Reed]], attended Woodrow Wilson grade school, actor, Mike Brady on "[[The Brady Bunch]]"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Steinberg |first1=Jacques |title=Robert Reed, Actor, Dead at 59; The Father of 'The Brady Bunch' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/14/arts/robert-reed-actor-dead-at-59-the-father-of-the-brady-bunch.html |access-date=10 April 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=May 14, 1992}}</ref>
* [[Ann C. Scales]], legal scholar<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Scales |first1=Ann C. |title=Towards a Feminist Jurisprudence |journal=Indiana Law Journal |date=1981 |volume=56 |issue=3 |url=https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj/vol56/iss3/1 |access-date=10 April 2021}}</ref>
* [[James R. Scales]], academic administrator and President of [[Oklahoma Baptist University]] and [[Wake Forest University]]
* [[Ron Sharp]], former member of the [[Oklahoma State Senate]] from the 17th district
* [[Troy Smith (businessman)|Troy N. Smith, Sr.]], restaurateur, developer of Sonic Drive-ins, opened first one in his hometown of Shawnee in 1959
* [[Kris Steele]], Speaker of the [[Oklahoma House of Representatives]]
* [[Frank Thompson (designer)|Frank Thompson]], costume designer for Broadway, television, and film
* [[Jim Thorpe]], Olympian, pro football, baseball, basketball player, named Athlete of Century, born eastern edge of Pottawatomie Co., called Shawnee his hometown
* [[Krista Tippett]], journalist, author, host of public radio's [[Being (radio program)|On Being]]
* [[William O. Wooldridge]], first [[Sergeant Major of the Army]]