Notable People from Texas

Roland W. Schmitt

American academic

Mary Collins Ammirato

artist and poet

L. C. Robinson

American singer (1915–1976)

John Graves

American writer, author (1920-2013)

Gene Cockrell

American football player and rodeo cowboy

Samuel E. Beetley

American film editor (1913-1988)

John Henry Faulk

American folklorist, storyteller, and radio host from Texas

Marilyn Hickey

American televangelist, faith healer, and missionary

Roland Gross

American film editor

Buster Pickens

American blues pianist (1916–1964)

Bob Geddins

American musician and record producer (1913–1991)

Daniel I.J. Thornton

American politician (1911-1976)

Thomas Bruce White Sr.

American law officer and prison warden

Joe "Guitar" Hughes

American blues musician (1937–2003)

Allan Sears

American film actor (1887-1942)

Jewel Akens

American singer and record producer (1933-2013)

Frank Noel

photographer from the United States (1905-1966)

Horace Tapscott

American musician (1934-1999)

Frances Kavanaugh

American screenwriter known for penning B-Westerns

Joe Horlen

American baseball player

Jack Pope

Texas Supreme Court justice (1913-2017)

James Clay

American musician (1935–1994)

Bill Pickett

American rodeo performer (1870–1932)

Marjorie Deanne

American film actress (1917-1994)

Lorene Rogers

American biochemist (1914-2009)

Charles K. Johnson

American conspiracy theorist (1924-2001)

Wingate Hezekiah Lucas

American politician (1908-1989)

Homer Thornberry

American politician (1909-1995)

Shorty Rollins

American racing driver (1929-1998)

Bennett McCallum

economist

Gene Roland

American composer (1921–1982)

Henry Nash Smith

American literary critic (1906-1986)

Joe Reisman

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

Snuff Garrett

American record producer (1938-2015)

William Humphrey

American novelist (1924–1997)

Huey Long

American musician (1904–2009)

Milton Brown

American musician (1903-1936)

Terry Todd

American powerlifter (1937–2018)

Betty Mary Goetting

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

Saxton Pope

American hunter (1875–1926)

Jake Carter

American basketball player (1924–2012)

Charles C. Tansill

American historian

Jack Baxley

American actor (1884-1950)

Robert Farris Thompson

American art historian (1932–2021)

Danny Wagner

basketball player (1922-1997)

Grady Gaines

American electric blues, Texas blues and jazz blues tenor saxophonist (1934-2021)

Harold Simmons

American businessman and financier, developer of the leveraged buyout (1931–2013)

Robert Willard Hodgson

American agronomist (1893-1966)

Frank N. Ikard

American politician (1913-1991)

Bill Douglass

American jazz drummer (1923–1994)