Notable People from Texas

B. F. Sisk

American politician (1910-1995)

Gene Ramey

American musician (1913–1984)

Walter Frank Woodul

American politician (1892-1984)

Bernard Bartzen

American tennis player

A. D. Flowers

Visual Effects Artist (1917–2001)

David E. Muller

American mathematician

John Paul Jackson

Christian mystic

Thomas C. Mann

American diplomat who specialized in Latin American affairs

Inez Beverly Prosser

American psychologist

Louis Clyde Stoumen

American photographer (1917-1991)

Clifford Scott

American musician & saxophonist

Alice Gast

American academic administrator and businessperson, President, Imperial College London

Bill Closs

American basketball player (1922-2011)

Margaret Varner Bloss

badminton, squash and tennis player

Pat Boyette

American television personality and comics artist (1923–2000)

James Iley McCord

American theologian (1919-1990)

Don Payne

American jazz bassist

Scott M. Grundy

American cardiologist

Mac Sweeney

American politician

Lyn Osborn

American actor (1926-1958)

Harvey Schmidt

American composer for musical theatre and illustrator (1929–2018)

Slim Richey

American guitarist (1938-2015)

Lindley Beckworth

American politician (1913-1984)

Lee Gaines

American singer (1914–1987)

Graham B. Purcell, Jr.

American politician (1919-2011)

Bobby Doyle

American R&B & jazz vocalist

Ernie Caceres

American musician (1911–1971)

Louise Tobin

American singer (1918–2022)

John Andrew Young

American politician (1916-2002)

David Hawkins

American philosopher of science (1913-2002)

Jack Hanlon

American actor (1916-2012)

Yank Rachell

American country blues musician (1910–1997)

Dick Hutton

American amateur and professional wrestler

Hogan Wharton

American football player (1935-2008)

Tommy Duncan

American musician (1911–1967)

Richard M. Kleberg

seven-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 14th congressional district over the period 1931–1945 and an heir to the King Ranch in South Texas

George W. Stocking, Sr.

American economist (1892-1975)

Percy Lee Gassaway

American politician (1885–1937)

William Winn Hay

American paleontologist and geologist

Harriet Burns

American artist and designer (1928–2008)

Hardy Brown

American football player (1924-1991)

Suzette Harbin

American actress and dancer

Tom McCormick

American football player (1930-2012)

Vendyl Jones

American archaeologist (1930-2010)

Jody Gilbert

American film actress (1916-1979)

Frank Snyder

American baseball player and coach (1895-1962)

Max Williams

American basketball coach and basketball player

Bill Henry

American baseball player (1927–2014)

John William Behnken

Lutheran pastor, LCMS president (1884–1968)

Blake Williams

American basketball player (1924-2003)