Notable People from Texas

Shorty Rollins

American racing driver (1929-1998)

Gene Roland

American composer (1921–1982)

Huey Long

American musician (1904–2009)

John Graves

American writer, author (1920-2013)

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

Charley Ferguson

American football player (1939–2023)

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

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)

Eddy Shaver

American musician (1962-2000)

Bob Reeves

actor (1892-1960)

David Westheimer

American novelist (1917–2005)

Bill Douglass

American jazz drummer (1923–1994)

Rip Collins

American baseball player (1896–1968)

Claude Benton Hudspeth

American cowboy, rancher, lawyer, and statesman (1877-1941)

Myra Hemmings

American actress (1895-1968)

Jewel Akens

American singer and record producer (1933-2013)

Malcolm Jameson

US Navy officer and author

Chase Craig

American writer/cartoonist (1910–2001)

Charles K. Johnson

American conspiracy theorist (1924-2001)

Joe "Guitar" Hughes

American blues musician (1937–2003)

Bob Shaw

American actor (1915–2005)

Jake Carter

American basketball player (1924–2012)

Bill Sinkin

Chairman of the Board and Founder of Solar San Antonio, Inc.

Mariano Simon Garriga

Catholic bishop (1886-1965)

John Howell Collier

United States general

John D. Hickerson

American diplomat

Horace Tapscott

American musician (1934-1999)

Bennett McCallum

economist

William Humphrey

American novelist (1924–1997)

Danny Wagner

basketball player (1922-1997)

James Clay

American musician (1935–1994)

Thurman Tucker

American baseball player (1917-1993)

Jessie Daniel Ames

American suffragist and civil rights activist (1883-1972)

Snuff Garrett

American record producer (1938-2015)

Robert W. Mitchell

American zoologist (1933–2010)

Murray Mitchell

American basketball player

Thomas Morrow Reavley

American judge (1921–2020)

Robert Farris Thompson

American art historian (1932–2021)

Grady Gaines

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

Gil Bartosh

American football quarterback and coach (1930-2016)

Harold Simmons

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

Charlie Waller

singer

Clayton Williams

American businessman