Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Famous persons from OKC

• Jim Thorpe, athlete
• Mickey Mantle, baseball player
• JC Watts, football player, politician
• Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins, of the band The Flaming Lips
• Jeremy Castle, country singer
• The Chainsaw Kittens, rock band
• Ralph Ellison, writer
• Johnny Bench, baseball player
• Bullet Rogan, baseball player
• Matt Hoffman, World Champion BMX biker
• Suzy Amis, actress
• Lon Chaney Jr., actor
• Dr. Shannon Lucid, astronaut
• Eddie Cochrane, rockabilly musician
• Joe Carter, baseball player
• Color Me Badd, early 1990's Hip-Hop group
• Jeff Rowland, cartoonist, author of WIGU
• Vince Gill, country singer
• Toby Keith, country singer
• Reba McEntire, country singer
• Megan Mullally, actress

The Nixons - 90's hard rock band

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Famous inventions from OKC

• Shopping cart - Sylvan N. Goldman, of Oklahoma City, invented the shopping cart in 1937 for use in his Standard Food Markets and Humpty Dumpty Supermarkets (the Omniplex science museum even features a statue of its creator, depicted pushing a shopping cart).
• Parking meter - Carl C. Magee, of Oklahoma City, patented the parking meter (filed May 13, 1935, patent no. 2,118,318 issued May 24, 1938 and the first meter was installed in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935).

Famous songs from or about OKC

• Route 66 - Bobby Troup
• Heart of Rock 'N Roll - Huey Lewis and the News
• A Little Too Loose - Mr. Big
• Christmas at the Zoo - the Flaming Lips
• Oklahoma Borderline - Vince Gill
• This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie