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Alison Anthony

Year Inducted: 2023

Alison Anthony was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 For more than 40 years, the favorite part of Alison Anthony’s workday...

Yolanda and Harold Charney

Year Inducted: 2023

Yolanda and Harold Charney were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 Upon graduating from law school at the University of Oklahoma,...

Sarah and John Graves

Year Inducted: 2023

Sarah and John Graves were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 Born in Norman, OK, John Graves moved briefly to Bartlesville...

Teresa Knox

Year Inducted: 2023

Teresa Knox was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 Born in Tulsa, fourth generation Oklahoman Teresa Knox is the Founder and...

Sanjay Meshri

Year Inducted: 2023

Sanjay Meshri was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 Sanjay Meshri was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated with a bachelor’s...

The McElroy Family

Year Inducted: 2022

Donna M. Dutton, Peggy M. Tanner, and A.H. “Chip” McElroy II

Dennis R. Neill

Year Inducted: 2022

Dennis R. Neill was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2022 In March 2018, Dennis retired after serving for 37 years in...

Steve Turnbo

Year Inducted: 2022

Steve Turnbo was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2022 Steve Turnbo is a leader – in public relations, in business and...

Eva Unterman

Year Inducted: 2022

Eva Unterman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2022 In 2019, The Synagogue/Congregation B’nai Emunah bestowed its highest honor upon Eva...

Tim Colwell

Year Inducted: 2021

Award-winning corporate communications professional and Rotarian...

B.C. Franklin

Year Inducted: 2021

B.C. (Buck Colbert) Franklin was an attorney, a rancher, a newspaper publisher, a postmaster general and a writer...

Toni Garner

Year Inducted: 2021

Antoinette Marie Garner, simply known to everyone as Toni, was born in Tulsa in 1956...

Hannibal B. Johnson

Year Inducted: 2021

Hannibal B. Johnson, Esq., a graduate of Harvard Law School, is an attorney, author, consultant, and college professor...

Jake Henry Jr.

Year Inducted: 2021

Jake Henry Jr. wrapped up more than five decades in the healthcare field when he retired after 19 years...

Frontline Heroes

Year Inducted: 2020

Health Care Workers, First Responders, Banking, Retail and Media, Supply Chain, Utilities and Postal Services, Educators, Non-Profits and Volunteers

Juley Roffers & Jim Langdon

Year Inducted: 2019

Juley Roffers & Jim Langdon were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 Jim and Juley met in Oklahoma City on a...

Madeline Manning Mims

Year Inducted: 2019

Madeline Manning Mims was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 Named one of America’s Outstanding Young Women, Madeline is a Gold...

Joe Moran

Year Inducted: 2019

Joe Moran was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 When reviewing Joe Moran’s decades-long listing of work with non-profits, three things...

Susan Neal

Year Inducted: 2019

Susan Neal was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 Susan began her career in Washington, DC where she eventually served as...

Jeff Stava

Year Inducted: 2019

Jeff Stava was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 Jeff has always had a passion for community service and the outdoors....

Steve Bradshaw

Year Inducted: 2018

Steve Bradshaw was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 Steve Bradshaw was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and spent all but 18...

Chet Cadieux

Year Inducted: 2018

Chester (Chet) Cadieux III was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 Chester (Chet) Cadieux III, a Tulsa native, is the Chairman...

Ken Lackey

Year Inducted: 2018

Ken Lackey was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 Ken Lackey has lived in Tulsa for more than 50 years. During...

Phyllis & Guy Logsdon

Year Inducted: 2018

Phyllis & Guy Logsdon were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 After moving to Tulsa in 1967 with their four daughters,...

Nancy McDonald

Year Inducted: 2018

Nancy McDonald was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 When Nancy came to Tulsa in 1966, she set right to work...

David Hogan

Year Inducted: 2017

David Hogan was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 David is a native Oklahoman, born in Vinita and moved with his...

Sally & Tom Hughes

Year Inducted: 2017

Sally & Tom Hughes was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 Although neither Sally nor Tom are native Tulsans, they are...

Bonnie Klein

Year Inducted: 2017

Bonnie Klein was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 Growing up on a farm in rural southeastern Arkansas, Bonnie Klein had...

Dayal Meshri

Year Inducted: 2017

Dayal Meshri was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 Dayal Meshri was born in 1936 in British India. After the partition...

William & Robert Thomas

Year Inducted: 2017

  William and Robert Thomas was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 In 1976, twin brothers Bill and Bob co-founded Gemini...

Felicia Collins Correia

Year Inducted: 2016

Felicia Collins Correia was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 Felicia Collins Correia served as the Executive Director of Domestic Violence Intervention...

Patty & Len Eaton

Year Inducted: 2016

Patty & Len Eaton were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 Patty was born in New York City and is a...

Cathy & Frank Keating

Year Inducted: 2016

Cathy & Frank Keating were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 Cathy Keating is a fourth generation Oklahoman whose great grandparents came...

Lilah & Paul Marshall, John Marshall

Year Inducted: 2016

Lilah Paul Marshall & John Marshall were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 When the Great Depression hit, Henry Marshall used...

Stephanie Seymour

Year Inducted: 2016

Stephanie Seymour was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 Seymour attended Smith College, graduating magna cum laude and Phil Beta Kappa in...

Dorothy DeWitty

Year Inducted: 2015

Ms. DeWitty had a 30-year career with the Tulsa Public Schools, serving as a classroom educator and principal at Walt Whitman Elementary School. ...

Frederic Dorwart

Year Inducted: 2015

Frederic Dorwart was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2015 Dorwart was the United States National High School Extemporaneous Speaking Champion in 1954,...

Mary Ann Hille

Year Inducted: 2015

Mary Ann Hille was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2015 Coming to Tulsa in the late 1940’s with her parents and...

Gary Trennepohl

Year Inducted: 2015

Gary Trennepohl was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2015 Trennepohl grew up in Tulsa living on “Route 66”.  His parents ran...

John Wolf

Year Inducted: 2015

John Wolf was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2015 Wolf served as minister of All Souls Unitarian Church for more than...

Anne B. Cleveland

Year Inducted: 2014

Anne B. Cleveland was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Cleveland’s parents relocated to Oklahoma at the turn of the 20th...

Rosalind Cook

Year Inducted: 2014

Rosalind Cook was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 In her 2014 book Capturing the Spirit in Bronze, Rosalind Cook writes,...

Burt Holmes

Year Inducted: 2014

Burt Holmes was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Equipped with a degree from The University of Tulsa and the experience...

George Krumme

Year Inducted: 2014

George Krumme was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Krumme was born and reared in rural Oklahoma about five miles northeast...

Rachel Perryman

Year Inducted: 2014

Rachel Perryman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Known as “Aunt Rachel” to the pioneer town and Indian settlement called...

Jon Stuart

Year Inducted: 2014

Jon Stuart was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Jon Stuart was adopted as an infant in Norway by his parents...

Randi Wightman

Year Inducted: 2014

Randi Wightman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Randi Stuart Wightman fell in love with horses before age 12. Her...

Robert W. Block

Year Inducted: 2013

Robert W. Block was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013 As president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 2011-2012,...

Patrick S. Gordon

Year Inducted: 2013

Patrick S. Gordon was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013 By the time he was five years old, Patrick S. Gordon,...

Roseline and Herbert Gussman

Year Inducted: 2013

Roseline and Herbert Gussman were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013 The legacy of Herbert and Roseline Gussman represents the culmination...

Hannah and Joe Robson

Year Inducted: 2013

Hannah and Joe Robson were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013 Hannah and Joe Robson were born 4 days apart in...

Mickey D. Wilson

Year Inducted: 2013

Mickey D. Wilson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013 Mickey Wilson is an ideal Boy Scout and he has done...

Bryan B. Close

Year Inducted: 2012

Bryan B. Close was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Many military BRATS, which Hall of Fame inductee Bryan B. Close...

Mouzon Biggs, Jr.

Year Inducted: 2012

Mouzon Biggs Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Our community is better place because Mouzon Biggs Jr. did not...

Jean B. McGill

Year Inducted: 2012

Jean B. McGill was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Jean B. McGill never backed down from a challenge. In her...

Joseph W. Morris

Year Inducted: 2012

Joseph W. Morris was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Judge Joseph W. Morris has been at more than one crossroads...

Alfred Randolph “Bill” Tandy

Year Inducted: 2012

Alfred Randolph (Bill) Tandy was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Alfred Randolph (Bill) Tandy flew his B-26 Marauder, a twin-engine,...

Roy Clark

Year Inducted: 2011

Roy Clark was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011 Roy Clark was 15 when he earned $2 for his first paid...

Sharon King Davis

Year Inducted: 2011

Sharon King Davis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011 Things catch your eye in the beginning of the resume of...

John and Marge Gaberino

Year Inducted: 2011

John and Marge Gaberino were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011 As a couple, John and Marge Gaberino impact Tulsa through...

Therese Gottschalk

Year Inducted: 2011

Therese Gottschalk was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011 Sister M. Therese Gottschalk led Tulsa’s St. John Hospital more than 35...

Steadman Upham

Year Inducted: 2011

Steadman Upham was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011 Dr. Steadman Upham became 17th president of The University of Tulsa in...

Robin Flint Ballenger

Year Inducted: 2010

Robin Flint Ballenger was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 Robin Flint Ballenger, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, is...

Judith Z. Kishner

Year Inducted: 2010

Judith Z. Kishner was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 In an ambitious and inspiring goal to end chronic homelessness in...

Bill Lobeck

Year Inducted: 2010

William E. “Bill” Lobeck was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 As a couple, Kathy Taylor and William E. “Bill” Lobeck...

Gail Zarrow Richards

Year Inducted: 2010

Gail Zarrow Richards was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 In an ambitious and inspiring goal to end chronic homelessness in...

Kathy Taylor

Year Inducted: 2010

Kathy Taylor was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 As a couple, Kathy Taylor and William E. “Bill” Lobeck impact Tulsa...

Michael Wallis

Year Inducted: 2010

Michael Wallis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 Best-selling author and award-winning reporter, Michael Wallis is a historian and biographer...

George and Phyllis Dotson

Year Inducted: 2009

George and Phyllis Dotson were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 George and Phyllis Dotson are two of Tulsa’s most admired...

Linda Sellen Frazier

Year Inducted: 2009

Linda Sellen Frazier was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 Three beliefs motivate Linda Sellen Frazier’s volunteer work: Every child should...

George Fulton Collins III

Year Inducted: 2009

George Fulton Collins III was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 George Fulton Collins III sought challenges for himself and created...

Michael P. Johnson

Year Inducted: 2009

Michael P. Johnson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 “Human Resources” takes on a new meaning when applied to Michael...

Clayton Vaughn

Year Inducted: 2009

Clayton Vaughn was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 “The Dean of Tulsa Television,” Clayton Vaughn’s broadcast journalism career spanned nearly...

Richard B. Williamson

Year Inducted: 2009

Richard B. Williamson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 Richard B. (Dick) Williamson’s influence in his chosen industry circles the...

Randy A. Foutch

Year Inducted: 2008

Randy A. Foutch was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Randy A. Foutch fits the bill as an entrepreneurial oilman.  Born...

John B. Johnson, Jr.

Year Inducted: 2008

John B. Johnson Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 John B. Johnson Jr. is nearing a half century of...

Roxana Rozsa Lorton

Year Inducted: 2008

Roxana Rozsa Lorton was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Roxana Rozsa Lorton has had a remarkable career of leadership of...

Julius Pegues

Year Inducted: 2008

Julius Pegues was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Lifelong Tulsan, Julius Pegues graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in...

Peggy Clark Stephenson

Year Inducted: 2008

Peggy Clark Stephenson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Peggy Clark Stephenson learned the bedrock Oklahoma values of faith in...

Suzanne M. Warren

Year Inducted: 2008

Suzanne M. Warren was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Suzanne M. Warren is an example of character grown with the...

Major Charles E. Snyder, USAF (Retired)

Year Inducted: 2007

Major Charles E. Snyder, USAF (Retired) was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2007 Charles E. “C.E.” Snyder was born in Topeka,...

Howard and Billie Barnett

Year Inducted: 2007

Howard and Billie Barnett were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2007 Born in Kansas City, MO, Howard G. Barnett was immediately...

Joe Craft

Year Inducted: 2007

Joe Craft was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2007 A native of Hazard, KY, Joseph W. Craft III came to Tulsa...

Richard and Sally Minshall

Year Inducted: 2007

Richard and Sally Minshall were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2007 Richard Minshall’s grandfather came to Tulsa in 1901 from Pittsburg,...

John T. Nickel

Year Inducted: 2007

John T. Nickel was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2007 John T. Nickel is a native Oklahoman. He was born in...

Sam Avey

Year Inducted: 2006

Sam Avey was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2006 Sam Avey loved Tulsa, once remarking that he would rather be broke...

John A. Brock

Year Inducted: 2006

John A. Brock was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2006 Businessman and community leader John A. Brock was born in Durant,...

David Kyle

Year Inducted: 2006

David Kyle was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2006 David Kyle joined Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, a division of ONEOK in...

Steve Malcolm

Year Inducted: 2006

Steve Malcolm was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2006 Steve Malcolm is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Williams and...

Frances W. O’Hornett

Year Inducted: 2006

Frances W. O’Hornett was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2006 A life long supporter of the arts, Frances O’Hornett was born...

Joe and Patty Cappy

Year Inducted: 2005

Joe and Patty Cappy were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 Joe Cappy is a retired rental car executive and he...

J.M. Jack and Ann Graves

Year Inducted: 2005

J.M. Jack and Ann Graves were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 J. M. (Jack) Graves’ death in July 2005 was...

Edward Campbell Lawson, Jr.

Year Inducted: 2005

Edward Campbell Lawson, Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 Edward C. Lawson, Jr. is an oilman, philanthropist, American Impressionist...

Rabbi Charles P. Sherman

Year Inducted: 2005

Rabbi Charles P. Sherman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rabbi Charles P. Sherman was...

Robert E. Thomas

Year Inducted: 2005

Robert E. Thomas was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 Robert E. Thomas has a distinguished career and world wide reputation...

Cyrus Avery

Year Inducted: 2004

Cyrus Avery was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 Cyrus Stevens Avery was born in 1871 in Pennsylvania and moved with...

John Barry

Year Inducted: 2004

John E. Barry was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 John E. Barry is a lawyer with the Tulsa law firm...

Michael D. Case

Year Inducted: 2004

Michael D. Case was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 Michael D. Case formed Case & Associates Properties in 1983. The...

David Halpern

Year Inducted: 2004

David Halpern was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 David Halpern’s interest in photography began in childhood but remained a hobby...

P. C. Lauinger

Year Inducted: 2004

P. C. Lauinger was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 P. C. Lauinger, a long-time Tulsa business leader, headed the PennWell...

Paula Marshall-Chapman

Year Inducted: 2004

Paula Marshall-Chapman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 Paula Marshall-Chapman grew up in Tulsa and spent her teenage years working...

Thomas R. Brett

Year Inducted: 2003

Thomas R. Brett was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 Known for his commitment to ethics in the legal profession, The...

Frederick W. Insull

Year Inducted: 2003

Frederick W. Insull was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 When Frederick W. Insull came to town in 1913 to organize...

William K. Warren, Jr.

Year Inducted: 2003

William K. Warren, Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 Tulsa native William K. Warren, Jr. graduated from Cascia Hall...

Lillian Norberg

Year Inducted: 2003

Lillian Norberg was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 As “First Lady of Oklahoma Libraries,” Lillian Norberg’s legacy is incalculable. Every...

John T. Oxley

Year Inducted: 2003

John T. Oxley was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 John T. Oxley built a liquefied petroleum business and brought world-class...

Jack and Maxine Zarrow

Year Inducted: 2003

Jack and Maxine Zarrow were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 Jack Zarrow is a native Tulsan; Maxine Foreman, originally from...

Margery Mayo Bird

Year Inducted: 2002

Margery Mayo Bird was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 Margery Mayo Bird counts herself fortunate to be the daughter of...

Chester Cadieux

Year Inducted: 2002

Chester Cadieux was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 Chester Cadieux is chairman of QuikTrip, a Tulsa based regional convenience store...

Ray H. Siegfried II

Year Inducted: 2002

Ray H. Siegfried II was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002  Tulsa native Ray H. Siegfried II acquired a bankrupt NORDAM...

Henry Kravis

Year Inducted: 2002

Henry Kravis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 Tulsa native Henry Kravis is a founder of the New York merchant...

James W. Pielsticker

Year Inducted: 2002

James W. Pielsticker was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 His family and his community lost James William Pielsticker in a...

Joseph H. Williams

Year Inducted: 2002

Joseph H. Williams was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 Joseph H. Williams is a 1956 graduate of Yale University. After...

Patrick J. Hurley

Year Inducted: 2001

Patrick J. Hurley was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 The late Patrick Hurley was born in Indian Territory, practiced law...

Wilson Hurley

Year Inducted: 2001

Wilson Hurley was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 Wilson Hurley, the only son of Patrick J. Hurley (above) grew up...

Nelle Jackson

Year Inducted: 2001

Nelle Jackson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 Miss Jackson’s, one of Tulsa’s longtime traditions, of fashion excellence, came about...

Peter & Nancy Meinig

Year Inducted: 2001

Peter & Nancy Meinig were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 The Meinigs were born in Reading, Pa. and graduated from...

Bob Parker

Year Inducted: 2001

Bob Parker was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 Bob Parker, a Tulsa native, started his success early.  He was only...

Sid W. Patterson

Year Inducted: 2001

Sid W. Patterson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 Sid Patterson just might have had something to do with Oklahoma...

Marylouise Tandy Cowan

Year Inducted: 2000

Marylouise Tandy Cowan was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Arts patron and newspaper publisher Marylouise Tandy Cowan is a Tulsa...

Charles C. Stephenson, Jr.

Year Inducted: 2000

Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. graduated from the University of Oklahoma...

Charles & Lynn Schusterman

Year Inducted: 2000

Charles & Lynn Schusterman were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Charles and Lynn Schusterman personify commitment to sharing good fortune...

Ross Swimmer

Year Inducted: 2000

Ross Swimmer was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Ross Swimmer served ten years as Chief of the Cherokee Nation of...

Charles P. Williams

Year Inducted: 2000

Charles P. Williams was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Charles P. Williams grew up in Cuba, where his father was...

Keith Bailey

Year Inducted: 1999

Keith Bailey was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 Engineers know how to make things work. In the case of Keith...

Florence L.J. “Bisser” Barnett

Year Inducted: 1999

Florence L.J. “Bisser” Barnett was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 Wendell Wilkie lost his bid to unseat FDR in the...

John Kirkpatrick

Year Inducted: 1999

John Kirkpatrick was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 He is among Oklahoma’s most distinguished citizens. With a resume that includes...

Robert Lorton

Year Inducted: 1999

Robert Lorton was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 Inheriting a legacy can be a tremendous responsibility. In Tulsa, few legacies...

Ruth K. Nelson

Year Inducted: 1999

Ruth K. Nelson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 Ruth Nelson cares about people. In an environment where it has...

Josie Vann

Year Inducted: 1999

Josie Vann was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 Retirement for most people is a period when they can contemplate lazy...

Grace and Franklin Bernsen

Year Inducted: 1998

Grace and Franklin Bernsen were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 In a city widely known for its civic spirit and...

Pocahontas Greadington

Year Inducted: 1998

Pocahontas Greadington was inducted into Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 Calculating the impact an individual has made upon a community often involves adding...

E. Fred Johnson

Year Inducted: 1998

E. Fred Johnson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 The term “community builder” can have many meanings. The term can...

Virginia Kramer Kulp

Year Inducted: 1998

Virginia Kramer Kulp was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 Growing up in the Oklahoma oil patch, Virginia Kramer Kulp learned...

Mildred Sanditen

Year Inducted: 1998

Mildred Sanditen was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 The spirit of volunteerism frequently is cited as one of Tulsa’s greatest...

Nancy and Raymond Feldman

Year Inducted: 1997

Nancy and Raymond Feldman were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 A partnership of 51 years is a remarkable achievement, particularly...

James Maxwell

Year Inducted: 1997

James Maxwell was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 Youth may have been one reason for his tremendous energy. James Maxwell...

Cass A. Mayo & John D. Mayo

Year Inducted: 1997

Cass A. Mayo & John D. Mayo were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 The pioneers who came to Tulsa, I.T.,...

B.S. Roberts

Year Inducted: 1997

B.S. Roberts was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 Reverend B.S. Roberts recognized the link between Tulsa’s spiritual life and civic...

Mollie and Richard Williford

Year Inducted: 1997

Mollie and Richard Williford was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 Any study of Tulsa’s history confirms one important fact. Tulsa...

Dewey F. Bartlett

Year Inducted: 1996

Dewey F. Bartlett was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1996 Dewey Bartlett defied the conventional wisdom. As a Roman Catholic Republican...

Mary Veasey Leech

Year Inducted: 1996

Mary Veasey Leech was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1996 In a quieter and more gracious era, the stately residences of...

Edgar R. Sanditen

Year Inducted: 1996

Edgar R. Sanditen was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1996 Service was a quality customers of OTASCO learned to expect when...

Jill Tarbel

Year Inducted: 1996

Jill Tarbel was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1996 The architectural landscape of Tulsa has been changed by Jill Tarbel. Having...

Clifton LeMoure Taulbert

Year Inducted: 1996

Clifton LeMoure Taulbert was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1996 Born in the Mississippi Delta, author Clifton Taulbert has reaped rewards...

Thomas Gilcrease

Year Inducted: 1995

Thomas Gilcrease was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 Rooted in nature, self-educated in Western classics, appreciative of Native American mysticism...

Ruth G. Hardman

Year Inducted: 1995

Ruth G. Hardman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 An active mind matched with boundless energy are the hallmarks of...

Ed Lacy

Year Inducted: 1995

Ed Lacy was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 While the roar of the crowd and the love of the game...

John Mabee

Year Inducted: 1995

John Mabee was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 Eulogized upon his death as “Oklahoma’s Mr. Philanthropy,” John Mabee and his...

Maurice De Vinna

Year Inducted: 1995

Maurice De Vinna was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 Before there was an Oklahoma, there was Maurice De Vinna; his...

Betty B. Bradstreet

Year Inducted: 1994

Betty Buell Bradstreet was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 Betty Buell Bradstreet is music to art lovers’ ears.  She has...

Warren C. Hultgren

Year Inducted: 1994

Warren C. Hultgren was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 Warren C. Hultgren is known as “the minister’s minister.”  His tenure...

David Randolph Milsten

Year Inducted: 1994

David Randolph Milsten was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 David Randolph Milsten has played a central role in the intellectual...

Jeanne & Edward Goodwin, Sr.

Year Inducted: 1994

Jeanne & Edward Goodwin, Sr. were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 Jeanne B. and Edward L. Goodwin, Sr. were leaders...

Leta Chapman & Pauline Walter

Year Inducted: 1994

Leta M. Chapman and Pauline M. Walter were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 Leta M. Chapman and Pauline M. Walter,...

Amos T. Hall

Year Inducted: 1993

Amos T. Hall was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 Amos T. Hall pursued a law career that led him to...

Peggy Helmerich

Year Inducted: 1993

Peggy Helmerich was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 Peggy V. Helmerich traded stardom in Hollywood to play a starring role...

James M. Hewgley, Jr

Year Inducted: 1993

James M. Hewgley, Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 James M. Hewgley, Jr. epitomizes the term “public service.”  In...

George Renberg

Year Inducted: 1993

George Renberg was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 George Renberg is a part of the fabric of Tulsa.  The hallmark...

John H. Williams

Year Inducted: 1993

John H. Williams was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 John H. Williams has made contributions to Tulsa that are obvious...

Ben Henneke

Year Inducted: 1992

Ben Henneke was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 The high caliber of Tulsa’s intellectual discourse has been among the most...

Dan P. Holmes

Year Inducted: 1992

Dan P. Holmes was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 Thousands of drivers travel old Highway 33 east of Tulsa every...

Roberta Campbell Lawson

Year Inducted: 1992

Roberta Campbell Lawson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 Roberta Campbell Lawson sought to achieve a “spiritual balance” between her...

Henry Zarrow

Year Inducted: 1992

Henry Zarrow was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 His belief that he should “give back to the community” has allowed...

John Steele Zink

Year Inducted: 1992

John Steele Zink was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 A fertile imagination and a zeal for the unorthodox were two...

Jane Heard & Fred S. Clinton

Year Inducted: 1991

Jane Heard & Fred S. Clinton were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Jane Heard & Fred Severs Clinton were Tulsans...

Allie Beth Martin

Year Inducted: 1991

Allie Beth Martin was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Allie Beth Martin’s career with the Tulsa Library began in 1949. ...

Charles E. Thornton

Year Inducted: 1991

Charles E. Thornton was inducted into the the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Charles E. Thornton has been instrumental in the development of...

Kathleen P. Westby

Year Inducted: 1991

Kathleen P. Westby was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Kathleen P. Westby has worked with many social services as well...

Ellis Walker Woods

Year Inducted: 1991

Ellis Walker Woods was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Ellis Walker Woods – in 1913, he was the first principal...

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Year Inducted: 1990

Jenkin Lloyd Jones was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Jenkin Lloyd Jones, in his roles as publisher, columnist and world...

Thelma & Henry C. Whitlow, Jr

Year Inducted: 1990

Thelma & Henry C. Whitlow Jr. were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Thelma and Henry C. Whitlow, Jr. have left...

Carol & T.D. Williamson, Jr.

Year Inducted: 1990

Carol & T.D. Williamson, Jr. were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Carol and T.D. Williamson, Jr. are native Tulsans whose...

Raymond F. Kravis

Year Inducted: 1990

Raymond F. Kravis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Raymond F. Kravis, has dedicated himself to improving the lives of...

Waite Phillips

Year Inducted: 1990

Waite Phillips was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Waite Phillips epitomized a tradition of generosity that has become the hallmark...

Daniel J. Boorstin

Year Inducted: 1989

Daniel J. Boorstin was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 Daniel J. Boorstin has taken principles nurtured by a Tulsa upbringing...

William R. & Hope Holway

Year Inducted: 1989

William R. & Hope Holway were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 William R. and Hope Holway dedicated themselves to building...

Janice C. Jones

Year Inducted: 1989

Janice C. Jones was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 Janice C. Jones believed that a community’s health was only as...

George & Josiah Perryman

Year Inducted: 1989

George & Josiah Perryman were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 George and Josiah Perryman, members of a family who first...

William G. Skelly

Year Inducted: 1989

William G. Skelly was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 William G. Skelly was the embodiment of the qualities which earned...

Alfred Aaronson

Year Inducted: 1988

Alfred Aaronson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988. There are times when people simply have to be told.  In Tulsa...

John Hope Franklin

Year Inducted: 1988

John Hope Franklin was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988 If a commitment to reason and justice is the hallmark of...

Moscelyne Larkin & Roman Jasinski

Year Inducted: 1988

Moscelyne Larkin & Roman Jasinski was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988 Thirty-two years of love and labor have established the...

Robert J. LaFortune

Year Inducted: 1988

Robert J. LaFortune was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988 Harmony and consistency, Robert J. LaFortune once said, creates the best...

Dode McIntosh

Year Inducted: 1988

Waldo Emerson “Dode” McIntosh was Inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988 Waldo Emerson “Dode” McIntosh is much like Tulsa.  Like the city...

James Monroe Hall

Year Inducted: 1987

James Monroe Hall was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 James Monroe Hall was a pioneer Tulsan whose arrival with the...

Benjamin Harrison Hill

Year Inducted: 1987

Benjamin Harrison Hill was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 Benjamin Harrison Hill’s contributions to Tulsa derived from his double role...

Charles Page

Year Inducted: 1987

Charles Page was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 Charles Page envisioned a self-sustaining institution that would support orphaned children. That...

William Kelly Warren

Year Inducted: 1987

William Kelly Warren was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 William Kelly Warren embodies the spirit of the independent oilmen who...

Patti Johnson Wilson

Year Inducted: 1987

Patti Johnson Wilson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 Patti Johnson Wilson, civic leader, philanthropist and world traveler, was born...

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