Editing Tahlequah, Oklahoma (section)

==Notable people==
{{See also|List of Northeastern State University alumni}}<!-- Please put college students in this list instead of the city article -->
* [[Angela Barker-Jones]], Cherokee jurist
* [[Roy Boney, Jr.]], animator, artist, graphic novelist, language advocate
* [[Tyler Bunch]], puppeteer 
* [[Robert J. Conley]], author
* [[Butch Davis]], head football coach, [[University of North Carolina]] (2007–2011), former head coach, [[University of Miami]] (1995–2000)
*[[Evan Felker]] lead singer of the Tahlequah-based Red Dirt Country band [[Turnpike Troubadors|Turnpike Troubadours]]
* [[Tina Glory-Jordan]] Cherokee Nation supreme court justice (2023–present) secretary of state (2019–2023), tribal councilor (2007–2015)
* [[Bill Harrelson]], Major League Baseball pitcher
* [[Wanda Hatfield]], Cherokee Nation tribal councilor (2015–2019)
* [[Ryan Helsley]], Major League Baseball pitcher
* [[Sara E. Hill]], federal judge for the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma]]
*[[Adrian Houser]] Professional pitcher for the [[Milwaukee Brewers]]
* [[Murv Jacob]], artist and illustrator, owned an art gallery and studio in Tahlequah for three decades, where he died. 
* [[Stacy Leeds]], tribal judge, Indian law professor, Dean of [[University of Arkansas School of Law]]
* [[Ronald G. Lewis]], social worker and professor
* [[Wilma Mankiller]], born in Tahlequah, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
* [[Robert B. Presley|Robert Presley]], former Riverside County (CA) Undersheriff, California State Senator (1975-1995)
*[[Malcolm Rodriguez]], Professional football for the [[Detroit Lions]]
* [[Sonny Sixkiller]], football player
* [[Chaske Spencer]], Actor, born in Tahlequah, member of the Lakota Sioux Nation. 
* [[Chad "Corntassel" Smith]], author, lawyer, and former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
* [[Wes Studi]], actor, born in Tahlequah
* [[Johnny Tiger Jr.]], artist
* [[Florence Owens Thompson]],  subject of [[Dorothea Lange]]'s famous photograph Migrant Mother
* [[Merle Travis]], country singer and musician, 1917–1983; died at his home in Tahlequah