Native Americans
- Bill Anoatubby (born 1945), Governor of the Chickasaw Nation
- Black Kettle (1801/07–1868), Cheyenne Chief killed near Cheyenne, Oklahoma, in Roger Mills County
- Joseph J. Clark (1893-1971), Admiral in U.S. Navy and member of Cherokee Nation.
- Woody Crumbo (1912-1989), Pottawatomi artist
- Geronimo (1829–1909), Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache
- Wilma Mankiller (1945–2010), first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
- Quanah Parker (c. late 1840s – 1911), last Comanche chief
- Harvey Pratt (born 1941), Native American forensic artist
- Will Rogers (1879–1935), humorist Actor
- Clarence L. Tinker (1887–1942), member of the Osage tribe, U.S. Army Air Corps general, first American general to die in World War II
- Fred Waite (1853–1895), Native American of the Chickasaw tribe, cowboy, member of Billy the Kid's gang and politician
- Stand Watie (1806–1871), Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, Cherokee chief
- Maria Tallchief (born 1925), 1st American Prima ballerina
- Sequoyah (1776-1842?), lived in what is now Sequoyah County, where he created the symbols that he would soon form into the Cherokee Indian alphabet.
- T.C. Cannon (1946–1978), noted 20th Century Native American artist and member of the Kiowa Tribe
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