Joe King, country music singer-songwriter, and former NFL player, wrote and recorded Down In Stillwater Oklahoma Ted Leitner, San Diego Padres radio broadcaster Rex Linn, actor (best known as Frank Tripp in the television series CSI: Miami) James Marsden, actor and model (attained global stardom with X-Men film series) A. Frank Martin, musician, educator, and founding member of Kappa Kappa Psi Sharron Miller, television producer, director, writer (first woman ever to win the coveted Directors Guild of America Award) Pamela Morsi, USA Today bestselling author Kinga Philipps, actor, television host Steve Ripley, country-rock artist and guitarist Lise Simms, television actress and designer Larry Thompson, humor columnist, author Watermelon Slim, born Bill Homans, blues artist Emily Wickersham, NCIS, Sopranos, actress Business Minnie Lou Bradley, Class of 1953, first woman to graduate from OSU with a degree in animal husbandry; matriarch of Bradley 3 Ranch in Childress County, Texas Gordon Eubanks, CEO and President of Symantec Corporation, makers of Norton AntiVirus John D. Groendyke, CEO of Groendyke Transport Clark Hallren, managing director of Clear Scope Partners, financial and strategic advisor for those in the media and entertainment industry; former managing director of the Entertainment Industries Group of JPMorgan Securities, Inc. Paul Miller, former President of the Associated Press; former chairman and CEO of Gannett Company (publisher of many newspapers including USA Today, Arizona Republic and the Indianapolis Star) Neal Patterson, CEO of Cerner Corporation T. Boone Pickens, corporate tycoon; has donated over $235 million to OSU, including the renovation of the football stadium William A. Scroggs, insurance agent; founder of Kappa Kappa Psi M. B. "Bud" Seretean, former CEO of Coronet Industries, former general manager of the Atlanta Hawks Sanjiv Sidhu, founder of software giants i2 Technologies, the disruptive first mover in supply-chain-management software, and o9 Solutions Charles Watson, Chairman, founder and CEO of energy giant Dynegy Corp.; owner of the Houston Aeros professional hockey team Jerry Winchester, President and CEO of Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc.; CEO of Chesapeake Oilfield Services Public Affairs Yussur A.F. Abrar, Governor of the Central Bank of Somalia Joe Allbaugh, former FEMA director (February 2001 to March 2003) Adnan Badran, former Prime Minister of Jordan (also see academia section) Henry Bellmon, former US Senator (R-OK) and first Republican Governor of Oklahoma Francis Cherry, former Governor of Arkansas Tom Coburn, US Senator (R-OK) John W. Doucette, Brig. General, US Air Force Nam Duck-woo, former Prime