Notable People from Texas

Charley Johnson

American football player (born 1938)

Mary Collins Ammirato

artist and poet

Ken Smith

American chess player (1930-1999)

L. C. Robinson

American singer (1915–1976)

William C. Rogers III

United States Navy captain (born 1938)

Lowry Mays

American businessman

Charley Ferguson

American football player (1939–2023)

Joe Horlen

American baseball player

Roland Gross

American film editor

Carl Gardner

American singer (1928–2011)

John Graves

American writer, author (1920-2013)

Buster Pickens

American blues pianist (1916–1964)

William J. Bordelon

Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (1920–1943)

King Hill

American football player (1936-2012)

James Aubrey Parker

United States federal judge

Bob Geddins

American musician and record producer (1913–1991)

Daniel I.J. Thornton

American politician (1911-1976)

Johnny "Country" Mathis

American country music singer-songwriter (1930–2011)

Thomas Bruce White Sr.

American law officer and prison warden

Frank Noel

photographer from the United States (1905-1966)

Allan Sears

American film actor (1887-1942)

Bill Pickett

American rodeo performer (1870–1932)

Frances Kavanaugh

American screenwriter known for penning B-Westerns

Jack Pope

Texas Supreme Court justice (1913-2017)

Marjorie Deanne

American film actress (1917-1994)

Homer Thornberry

American politician (1909-1995)

Lorene Rogers

American biochemist (1914-2009)

Wingate Hezekiah Lucas

American politician (1908-1989)

Horace Tapscott

American musician (1934-1999)

James Clay

American musician (1935–1994)

Jewel Akens

American singer and record producer (1933-2013)

Henry Nash Smith

American literary critic (1906-1986)

Shorty Rollins

American racing driver (1929-1998)

Gene Roland

American composer (1921–1982)

Huey Long

American musician (1904–2009)

Joe Reisman

American musician (tenor and baritone saxophone, clarinet), bandleader, arranger, and record producer in the swing era (1924–1987)

José Antonio Navarro

Texas statesman, revolutionary, politician, and merchant

Bill Douglass

American jazz drummer (1923–1994)

Joe "Guitar" Hughes

American blues musician (1937–2003)

Milton Brown

American musician (1903-1936)

Betty Mary Goetting

librarian, women's rights activist in El Paso, Texas

Saxton Pope

American hunter (1875–1926)

Charles C. Tansill

American historian

William Humphrey

American novelist (1924–1997)

Sue May Gill

American artist (1887–1989)

Jack Baxley

American actor (1884-1950)

Robert Willard Hodgson

American agronomist (1893-1966)

Frank N. Ikard

American politician (1913-1991)

Bob Reeves

actor (1892-1960)

Danny Wagner

basketball player (1922-1997)