Notable People from Texas

Curt Walker

American baseball player (1896-1955)

Davey Williams

American baseball player (1927-2009)

Billy Williams

African-American singer (1910-1972)

Cedric Durst

American baseball player (1896-1971)

Buron Fitts

American politician (1895–1973)

Biz Mackey

American Hall of Fame baseball player (1897-1965)

Harold Moss

American politician (1929–2020)

Justin Tubb

American country singer (1935–1998)

Malcolm Perry

American surgeon (1929-2009)

Beatrice Morrow Cannady

American activist

Hilmar Moore

American politician (1920-2012)

Grace Gibson

radio producer (1905–1989)

Dorothy Howard

American folklorist (1902–1996)

Jim Spruill

American football and basketball player (1923-2006)

Martin Ruby

Player of American and Canadian football (1922-2002)

Lindon Crow

American football player (1933-2018)

Marvin Zindler

American television news reporter (1921-2007)

Matt Batts

Major League Baseball catcher

Jack Seaward

American writer

Frank Q. Dobbs

American film director and screenwriter (1939-2006)

Andy Cooper

American Hall of Fame baseball pitcher

James Bradshaw Adamson

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1921–2003)

Bernice Edwards

American musician and singer

A. F. Maciejewski

American politician (1893–1949)

James H. Fields

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1920-1970)

James M. Logan

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1920-1999)

Joseph L. Reid

American oceanographer (1923-2015)

Glynn R. Donaho

United States admiral (1905-1986)

Tom E. Huff

American writer (1938–1990)

Glenn McCarthy

20th century Texan oil tycoon (1907–1988)

John R. Hubbard

American academic, educator and diplomat

John Gilliland

American radio broadcaster and documentarian

George Washington

professional baseball outfielder

Paul Pressler

American legislator, judge and Southern Baptist Convention figure

Oscar Wyatt

American businessman

George Rankine Irwin

American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials

Marshall Brown

American basketball player (1918-2008)

Keith Flowers

American football player (1930-1993)

Stanley Marcus

American businessman and art collector (1905–2002)

Dick Clark

American politician in Florida

Américo Paredes

American writer

Shari Rhodes

American casting director

Don Kidd

American politician (1937-2020)

A. Hunter Dupree

historian and United States Navy officer (1921–2019)

Hardie Gramatky

American artist (1907-1979)

Edmond L. Browning

American bishop (1929–2016)

Nancy Nash

American actress

Lillie Elizabeth Drennan

American first licensed female truck driver in Texas

Dudley C. Sharp

Asst. Sec. of the Air Force for Materiel under Pres. Eisenhower; son of American businessman Walter Benona Sharp (1905–1987)

Lamar Fontaine

American military veteran, surveyor, poet and author