Notable Oklahoma Seminoles
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- Fred Beaver (1911-1980), easel painter, muralist
- Thomas Coker, long-serving member of Seminole General Council
- John Chupco (d. 1881), chief during the Trail of Tears
- John Frippo Brown, last elected Principal Chief before allotment, dissolution of government, and statehood
- Alice Brown Davis (1852–1935), appointed in 1922 by President Warren G. Harding as Principal Chief, first woman in that position
- William Dawson (Seminole), Oklahoma state senator representing the district of Seminole, and attorney for Seminole Freedmen
- Enoch Kelly Haney, politician and artist
- Benjamin Harjo, Jr., painter, printmaker, and youth advocate
- Jim Jumper, principal chief, 1853-post Civil War, until US interfered with tribal succession
- Micanopy, principal chief through Removal until his death in 1849 in Indian Territory
- T.B. Miller, curator of Seminole Nation Museum, Wewoka
- Johnny Tiger, Jr., artist
- Richmond Jimmie Tiger (May 17, 1928-August 4, 2009), principal chief in 1976 at time of land claims settlement
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