Murphy (1924–2004), sportscaster, play-by-play for New York Mets Ross Porter (born 1938), longtime broadcaster for Los Angeles Dodgers Dan Rowan (1922–1987), comedian, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Reed Timmer (born 1980), television personality, Storm Chasers Judy Woodruff (born 1946), television journalist Scientists, including medicine Richard E. Berendzen (born 1938), astronomer, author, and professor Kenneth H. Cooper (born 1931), physician, United States Air Force officer, pioneer of aerobics David Deming (born 1954), PhD, author, professor of geology, and political commentator Edwin R. Gilliland (1909–1973), chemical engineer and professor Lyle Goodhue (1903–1981), research chemist and inventor Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950), physicist and radio engineer Dr. Donna J. Nelson (born 1954), OU Chemistry Professor, 2016 ACS President, and science advisor to Breaking Bad John York (born 1949), cancer research pathologist Religious figures Wade Burleson (born 1961), Lead Pastor of Emmanuel Enid (1992–present) and President of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (2002–2004) Finis Alonzo Crutchfield (1916–1987), Methodist minister and Bishop of Oklahoma Paul Vernon Galloway (1904–1990), Methodist minister and Bishop of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana Jerry Johnston (born 1959), Southern Baptist clergyman and university administrator, born in Oklahoma City Charles William Kerr (1875–1951), first permanent Protestant minister in Tulsa, Oklahoma Robert McGill Loughridge (1809–1900), Presbyterian missionary Quanah Parker (Comanche, 1852–1911), Native American Church leader and advocate Oral Roberts (1918–2009), evangelist Stanley Rother (1935–1981), First U.S.-born priest and martyr to be beatified by Roman Catholic church John Wilson (Caddo) (ca. 1840–1901), Native American Church roadman Yahweh ben Yahweh (born Hulon Mitchell Jr.) (1935–2007), leader of religious group Nation of Yahweh Visual artists Joe Andoe (born 1955), painter Fred Beaver (Seminole/Muscogee, 1911–1980), painter, printmaker Charles Bell (1935–1995), photorealist painter Acee Blue Eagle (Muscogee, 1907–1959), artist Carolyn Brady (1937–2005), artist Joe Brainard (1942–1994), artist T.C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo, 1946–1978), artist Larry Clark (born 1943), photographer, filmmaker Woody Crumbo (Citizen Potawatomi, 1912–1989), artist Joe Goode (born 1937), artist Chester Gould (1900–1985), creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), cartoonist, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914–1994), sculptor Robert McMurtry (1950–2012), painter, author Jason Nelson (born 1970), internet artist and digital poet Gary Panter (born 1950), illustrator, painter and designer Joe A. Rector (1935–2012), artist Ed Ruscha (born 1937), artist David Salle (born 1952), artist Leon Polk Smith (European-American, 1906–1996), artist Other Bobby Baldwin (born c. 1950), professional poker player Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), historian, professor, attorney, and writer Tom Colbert (born 1949), first African-American