ET CETERA

• *Regina Bonny*, 1996 Law Enforcement Officer of the Year, for heroic rescue work at the Alfred P Murrah Building bombing. Midwest City.
• Jerrie Cobb. First female to pass all three phases of Mercury Astronaut Program, in 1961. Nominated for Nobel Peace Price in 1981 for her missionary work in South America.
• Gordon L. Cooper. Astronaut, Mercury 9, Gemini 5. Shawnee, Mar. 27, 1927.
• Gary England, metereologist, 1994 Emmy for best weather anchor, initiated development of world's first commercial Doppler radar, developed 'First Warning' and 'Tracker' technology, now in use nationwide. Seiling.
• Owen K. Garriott. Astronaut, Skylab 3, STS-9. Enid, Nov. 22, 1930.
• Sylvan N. Goldman. Inventor of the grocery shopping cart, 1936-1937, the first of which were made of wood, then steel, for use in his Standard Food Market in Oklahoma City 1937.
• Myra Vanderpool Gormley. Noted genealogist, columnist, supporter of internet genealogy through USGenWeb, and author ("Family Diseases: Are you at Risk"; "Cherokee Connection"). Born Muskogee.
• *Charles N. Gould*. "Father of Oklahoma Geology", established world's first School of Petroleum Geology,OU, 1900. 1868-1949, born Ohio, raised in Kansas.
• Jimmy Houston, champion fisherman, TV host. Born (?), resident Cookson, OK.
• Karl G. Jansky, discovered celestial bodies could emit radio waves as well as light waves, giving birth to radio astronomy; unit of radio flux is named "jansky", in his honor. Norman, 1905.
• Jane Anne Jayroe, Miss America, 1967. Laverne.
• Shannon Lucid, astronaut, mission specialist on 4 missions. Born China, considers Bethany "home", Jan. 14, 1943.
• Wilma Pearl Mankiller, first woman to be elected Principal Chief of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation, inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. Stillwater, December 18, 1945.
• William R. Pogue. Astronaut, Skylab 4. Okemah, Jan. 23, 1930.
• Oral Roberts, televangelist, founder Oral Roberts University, Pontotoc County, Jan. 24, 1918.
• Stuart Allen Roosa, Apollo 14 astronaut, Command Module Pilot, 1971, one of six Apollo astronauts to fly solo around the moon. Claremore, 1933-1996. (NASA obituary states born in Durango, Colo?)
• John Sabolich. Pioneer of advanced prosthetics (Sabolich Socket technology, Sense of Feel System). Oklahoma City. (Born ?)
• *Sequoyah*. Developed Cherokee alphabet. Lived later years near what would become Sallisaw. 1770-1843, born Tennessee.
• Norma Smallwood, Miss America, 1926, and one-time wife of philanthropist Thomas Gilcrease. Tulsa.
• Shawntel Smith, Miss America, 1996. Muldrow.
• Thomas P. Stafford. Astronaut, Gemini 6, Gemini 9, Apollo 10, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Congressional Medal of Honor. Weatherford, Sept. 17, 1930.
• Judge Juanita Kidd Stout, first black woman in America to be elected to the bench, Philadelphia, 1959. Born Wewoka.
• *J. Willis Stovall*. Vertebrate paleontologist/geologist, early fossil collecting WPA program. 1891-1953.
• George M. Sutton, ornithologist, Professor Emeritus of University of Oklahoma, namesake of Sutton Avian Research Center, Bartlesville. Died 1982.
• *Amber Valletta*, supermodel/TV personality, born Feb. 2, 1974, Arizona, moved to Oklahoma at age 2, and considers Tulsa her home.

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