Name |
Description |
Hometown |
Date of Birth |
Date of Death |
| Gene Autry |
Singer, actor |
Tioga |
9/29/1907 |
- |
| Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery |
Artist-animator; created Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck |
Taylor |
2/27/1908 |
8/26/80 |
| Joe Don Baker |
Actor |
Groesbeck |
2/12/36 |
- |
| Kathy Baker |
Actress |
Midland |
6/8/47 |
- |
| Marcia Ball |
Singer, pianist |
Austin |
- |
- |
| Ernie Banks |
Baseball Hall of Famer |
Dallas |
1/30/31 |
- |
| Clyde Barrow |
Bank robber (Bonnie and Clyde) |
Teleco |
3/21/1909 |
5/23/34 |
| Don "Red" Barry |
Actor (Red Ryder in serials of the same name) |
Houston |
1/11/1912 |
7/17/80 |
| Lou Ann Barton |
Singer |
Austin |
- |
- |
| Frank Beard |
Singer, guitarist (ZZ Top) |
Houston |
- |
- |
| Gordon Lee "Tex" Beneke |
Bandleader; jazzman |
Fort Worth |
1/1/1914 |
- |
| Robby Benson |
Actor |
Dallas |
1/21/56 |
- |
| Dan Blocker |
Actor; portrayed Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza |
O'Donnell |
12/10/28 |
5/3/72 |
| Edie Brickell |
Singer, songwriter; married to Paul Simon |
Oak Cliff |
3/10/66 |
- |
| Betty Buckley |
Actress, singer; Broadway and movies |
Big Spring |
7/3/47 |
- |
| Carol Burnett |
Actress, commedienne |
San Antonio |
4/26/33 |
- |
| Gary Busey |
Actor |
Goose Creek |
6/29/44 |
- |
| Kate Capshaw |
Actress; married to Steven Spielberg |
Austin |
- |
- |
| Joe "King" Carrasco |
Guitarist, singer |
Dumas/Austin |
- |
- |
| Cyd Charisse |
Actress, dancer; married to Tony Martin |
Amarillo |
3/8/21 |
- |
| Randall "Tex" Cobb |
Former pro boxer |
Abilene |
1/1/50 |
- |
| Arnett Cobb |
Jazz musician (tenor sax) |
Houston |
- |
- |
| Dabney Coleman |
Actor |
Austin |
1/2/32 |
- |
| Ornette Coleman |
Jazz musician (alto sax) |
Fort Worth |
- |
- |
| Albert Collins |
Guitarist, singer |
Leona |
10/1/32 |
11/24/93 |
| Anjanette Comer |
Actress |
Dawson |
8/7/42 |
- |
| Johnny Copeland |
Singer, guitarist |
Houston |
- |
- |
| Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
Aviator |
Galveston |
1/22/1907 |
12/9/95 |
| Shirley Cothran |
Miss America 1975 |
Fort Worth |
- |
- |
| Joan Crawford |
Actress |
San Antonio |
3/23/1908 |
5/10/77 |
| Christopher Cross |
Singer |
San Antonio/ Austin |
5/3/51 |
- |
| King Curtis |
R&B musician (tenor sax) |
Fort Worth |
- |
- |
| Bebe Daniels |
Actress (20's & 30's) |
Dallas |
1/14/1901 |
3/16/71 |
| Linda Darnell |
Actress |
Dallas |
10/17/23 |
4/10/65 |
| Mac Davis |
Singer, songwriter |
Lubbock |
1/21/42 |
- |
| Jimmy Dean |
Singer, songwriter, sausage maker |
Plainview |
8/10/28 |
- |
| Jo Carol Dennison |
Miss America 1942 |
Tyler |
- |
- |
| Sam Donaldson |
Network political reporter, anchor |
El Paso |
3/11/34 |
- |
| Michael Dorn |
Actor (Star Trek's Lt. Cmdr. Worf, etc.) |
Luling |
12/9/52 |
- |
| Sandy Duncan |
Actress; television & Broadway |
Henderson |
2/20/46 |
- |
| Shelley Duvall |
Actress |
Houston |
7/7/49 |
- |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
34th U.S. President |
Denison |
10/14/1890 |
3/28/69 |
| Danny Elfman |
Hollywood's hottest film composer |
Amarillo |
5/29/53 |
- |
| Linda Ellerbee |
Actress, producer, writer |
Bryan |
8/15/44 |
- |
| Joe Ely |
Singer, songwriter |
Austin |
- |
- |
| Ron Ely |
Actor (15th screen Tarzan, etc.) |
Hereford |
6/21/38 |
- |
| Dale Evans |
Singer, actress; married to Roy Rogers |
Uvalde |
10/31/1912 |
- |
| Morgan Fairchild |
Actress |
Dallas |
2/3/50 |
- |
| Farrah Fawcett |
Actress |
Corpus Christi |
2/2/47 |
- |
| Freddy Fender |
Singer |
San Benito/ Corpus Christi |
6/4/37 |
- |
| Horton Foote |
Author (Pulitzer Prize) |
Wharton |
- |
- |
| Michelle Forbes |
Actress (Star Trek's Lt. Ro Larin, etc.) |
Austin |
2/17/67 |
- |
| George Foreman |
Former World Heavy-Weight Boxing Champion |
Marshall |
1/10/49 |
- |
| Robert Foxworth |
Actor; married to Elizabeth Montgomery |
Houston |
11/1/41 |
- |
| Jamie Foxx |
Actor, producer (In Living Color, etc.) |
Dallas |
12/13/67 |
- |
| Lefty Frizzell |
Singer |
Corsicana |
- |
- |
| Steven Fromholz |
Singer, songwriter |
Austin |
- |
- |
| Larry Gatlin |
Singer (The Gatlin Brothers) |
Odessa |
5/2/48 |
- |
| Rudy Gatlin |
Singer (The Gatlin Brothers) |
Odessa |
- |
- |
| Steve Gatlin |
Singer (The Gatlin Brothers) |
Odessa |
- |
- |
| Lynda Day George |
Actress (Mission Impossible, etc.) |
San Marcos |
12/11/46 |
- |
| Phyllis George |
Miss America 1971; sportscaster, journalist |
Denton |
- |
- |
| Billy Gibbons |
Singer, guitarist (ZZ Top) |
Houston |
- |
- |
| Jimmy Dale Gilmore |
Singer, songwriter |
Amarillo |
1945 |
- |
| Peri Gilpin |
Actress (Roz on Frasier) |
Waco |
5/27/61 |
- |
| Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales |
Character actor (discovered by Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life) |
Aguilares |
12/21/26 |
- |
| Salim Grant |
Actor; music producer |
Houston |
- |
- |
| Kathryn Grant |
Actress; married to Bing Crosby; mother of Mary Frances Crosby (she shot JR) |
Houston |
11/25/33 |
- |
| Teresa Graves |
Actress (Laughin, Get Christy Love) |
Houston |
1/10/49 |
- |
| Corrine Griffith |
Silent screen star |
Texarkana |
11/24/1894 |
7/13/79 |
| Nancy Griffith |
Singer, songwriter |
Seguin |
- |
- |
| Texas Guinan |
Vaudevillian, actress, personality |
Waco |
1/12/1884 |
11/5/33 |
| Jerry Hall |
Actress, model; married to Mick Jagger |
Mesquite |
7/2/56 |
- |
| Ann Harding |
Actress, leading lady of 20's & 30's |
Houston |
8/7/1901 |
9/1/81 |
| Woody Harrelson |
Actor |
Midland |
7/23/61 |
- |
| Lisa Hartman |
Actress |
Houston |
6/1/56 |
- |
| Ethan Hawke |
Actor |
Austin |
11/6/70 |
- |
| Don Henley |
Singer, songwriter |
Linden |
- |
- |
| Little Joe Hernandez |
Singer, bandleader |
Dallas |
- |
- |
| Dusty Hill |
Singer, guitarist (ZZ Top) |
Houston |
- |
- |
| Tish Hinojosa |
Singer, songwriter |
San Antonio |
- |
- |
| Ben Hogan |
Golf great |
Dublin |
8/13/1912 |
7/24/97 |
| Buddy Holly |
Cornerstone of rock music |
Lubbock |
9/7/36 |
2/3/59 |
| Sam "Lightnin" Hopkins |
Guitarist, composer, singer |
Centerville/ Houston |
- |
- |
| Lee Horsley |
Actor |
Muleshoe |
5/15/55 |
- |
| Johnny Horton |
Singer, guitarist |
Tyler |
- |
- |
| Howard Hughes |
Aviator, filmmaker, eccentric billionaire |
Houston |
12/24/1905 |
4/5/76 |
| Martha Hyer |
Actress |
Fort Worth |
8/10/24 |
- |
| Waylon Jennings |
C&W Singer, songwriter |
Littlefield |
6/15/37 |
- |
| Flaco Jiminez |
Accordionist |
San Antonio |
- |
- |
| Keg Johnson |
Jazz musician (trumpet) |
Dallas |
- |
- |
| Budd Johnson |
Jazz musician (tenor sax) |
Littlefield |
6/15/37 |
- |
| Lyndon B. Johnson |
36th U.S. President |
Stonewall |
8/27/1908 |
1/22/73 |
| Carolyn Jones |
Actress (original Morticia of Adams Family, etc.) |
Amarillo |
4/28/29 |
8/3/83 |
| George Jones |
C&W Singer |
Saratoga |
9/12/31 |
- |
| Tommy Lee Jones |
Actor, producer |
San Saba |
9/15/46 |
- |
| Scott Joplin |
Ragtime composer, pianist |
Linden |
11/24/1868 |
4/11/1917 |
| Janis Joplin |
Singer |
Port Arthur |
1/19/43 |
10/4/70 |
| Barbara Jordan |
U.S. Congresswoman |
Houston |
9/15/36 |
1996 |
| Freddie King |
Guitarist |
Gilmer |
- |
- |
| Tom Kite |
Pro golfer |
Dallas |
12/49 |
- |
| Kris Kristofferson |
Actor, singer, songwriter |
Brownsville |
6/22/36 |
- |
| Paul Lambert |
Actor |
El Paso |
1/1/23 |
4/27/97 |
| Josh Logan |
Director, writer, producer (Paint Your Wagon, etc.) |
Texarkana |
10/5/1908 |
7/12/88 |
| Trini López |
Singer, actor |
Dallas |
5/15/37 |
- |
| Bessie Love |
Actress, film star of the 20's |
Midland |
9/10/1898 |
4/26/86 |
| Lyle Lovett |
Singer, songwriter |
Klein |
11/1/57 |
- |
| Barbara Lynn |
Singer |
Beaumont |
- |
- |
| Peter MacNichol |
Actor |
Dallas |
4/10/54 |
- |
| Barbara Mandrell |
C&W Singer |
Houston |
12/25/48 |
- |
| Steve Martin |
Actor, commedian |
Waco |
8/14/45 |
- |
| Mary Martin |
Broadway star; mother of Larry Hagman |
Weatherford |
12/1/1913 |
11/3/90 |
| Johnny Mathis |
Singer extrordinaire |
Gilmer |
9/30/35 |
- |
| Delbert McClinton |
C&W Singer |
Lubbock / Fort Worth |
11/4/40 |
- |
| Matthew McConaughey |
Actor |
Uvalde |
11/4/69 |
- |
| George "Spanky" McFarland |
Child actor (Our Gang) |
Dallas |
10/2/28 |
6/30/93 |
| Larry McMurtry |
Author (Pulitzer Prize - Lonesome Dove) |
Wichita Falls |
6/3/36 |
- |
| Meat Loaf |
Singer, actor |
Dallas |
9/27/51 |
- |
| Ann Miller |
Tap dancer extrordinairre |
Chireno |
4/12/19 |
- |
| Roger Miller |
Singer, songwriter |
Fort Worth |
1/2/36 |
10/25/92 |
| Steve Miller |
Singer, guitarist |
Dallas |
- |
- |
| Deborah Morehart |
Actress |
Fort Worth |
7/3/62 |
- |
| Ella Mae Morse |
Jazz singer |
Mansfield |
9/12/24 |
- |
| Audie Murphy |
Most decorated enlisted man in WWII; actor |
Kingston |
6/20/24 |
5/28/71 |
| Emilio Navaira |
Singer |
San Antonio |
- |
- |
| Willie Nelson |
C&W singer, songwriter |
Abbott |
4/30/33 |
- |
| Michael Nesmith |
Singer (The Monkees), songwriter, producer |
Houston |
12/30/42 |
- |
| Fathead Newman |
Jazz musician (tenor sax) |
Dallas |
- |
- |
| Chester W. Nimitz |
Fleet Admiral, USN (during WWII) |
Fredericksburg |
2/24/1885 |
2/20/66 |
| Christopher Null |
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter |
Houston |
9/7/71 |
- |
| Annette O'Toole |
Actress |
Houston |
4/1/52 |
- |
| Roy Orbison |
Singer, guitarist |
Wink |
4/23/36 |
12/6/88 |
| Bonnie Parker |
Bank robber (Bonnie and Clyde) |
Rowena |
10/1/1910 |
5/23/34 |
| Fess Parker |
Actor (portrayed Davy Crockett, etc.) |
Fort Worth |
4/1/52 |
- |
| Suzy Parker |
Supermodel of 50's, 60's, actress |
San Antonio |
10/28/33 |
- |
| Bill Paxton |
Actor |
Fort Worth |
5/17/55 |
- |
| Ross Perot |
Self-made man |
Texarkana |
6/27/30 |
- |
| Valerie Perrine |
Actress |
Galveston |
9/3/44 |
- |
| Esther Phillips |
Singer |
Galveston |
- |
- |
| Mary Kay Place |
Actress |
Port Arthur |
9/23/41 |
- |
| Katherine Ann Porter |
Author (Pulitzer Prize - Collected Stories) |
Indian Creek |
5/15/1890 |
9/18/80 |
| Wiley Post |
Aviator (first solo global flight) |
Grand Saline |
11/22/1898 |
8/15/35 |
| Paula Prentiss |
Actress; married to Richard Benjamin |
San Antonio |
3/4/39 |
- |
| Billy Preston |
- |
Houston |
9/9/46 |
- |
| Ray Price |
Singer |
Perryville |
- |
- |
| Randy Quaid |
Actor |
Houston |
10/1/50 |
- |
| Dennis Quaid |
Actor |
Houston |
4/9/54 |
- |
| Tomas Ramirez |
Jazz musician (tenor sax) |
South Texas |
- |
- |
| Phylicia Rashad |
Actress |
Houston |
6/19/48 |
- |
| Dan Rather |
CBS National News anchor |
Wharton |
10/31/31 |
- |
| Dewey Redman |
Jazz musician (tenor sax) |
Fort Worth |
- |
- |
| Rex Reed |
Critic, personality |
Fort Worth |
2/10/38 |
- |
| Jim Reeves |
C&W Singer |
Panola County |
- |
- |
| Debbie Reynolds |
Actress; mother of Carrie Fisher |
El Paso |
4/1/32 |
- |
| J. P. (Big Bopper) Richardson |
Singer |
- |
- |
2/3/59 |
| Jennie C. Riley |
C&W Singer |
Anson |
- |
- |
| Tex Ritter |
C&W Singer, actor |
Murvaul |
1/12/1905 |
1/2/74 |
| Gene Roddenberry |
Creator of Star Trek, producer |
El Paso |
8/19/21 |
10/24/91 |
| Johnny Rodriguez |
Singer, songwriter |
Sabinal |
- |
- |
| Kenny Rogers |
Singer |
Houston |
8/21/38 |
- |
| Brad Rushing |
Filmmaker |
Houston |
10/27/64 |
- |
| Keri Russell |
TV actress; former Mouseketeer |
Dallas |
3/23/76 |
- |
| Nolan Ryan |
Legendary Pitcher |
Refugio County |
- |
- |
| Irene Ryan |
Actress (Granny of Beverly Hillbillies, etc.) |
El Paso |
10/17/02 |
4/26/73 |
| Boz Scaggs |
Singer, songwriter |
Dallas |
- |
- |
| Zachary Scott |
Actor |
Austin |
2/21/1914 |
10/3/65 |
| Selena (Quintanilla Perez) |
Tejano songstress |
Lake Jackson |
4/16/71 |
3/31/95 |
| Joan Severance |
Model, actress |
Houston |
12/23/58 |
- |
| Ann Sheridan |
Actress |
Denton |
2/21/15 |
1/21/67 |
| Anna Nicole Smith |
Model, actress |
Houston |
11/28/67 |
- |
| Jaclyn Smith |
Actress, model |
Houston |
10/26/47 |
- |
| Buster Smith |
Jazz musician (alto sax, clarinet) |
Dallas |
- |
- |
| Liz Smith |
Celebrity journalist |
Fort Worth |
2/2/23 |
- |
| Sissy Spacek |
Actress; cousin of Rip Torn |
Quitman |
12/25/49 |
- |
| Aaron Spelling |
Television producer; father of Tori Spelling |
Dallas |
4/22/28 |
- |
| Brent Spiner |
Actor (Star Trek's Data, etc.) |
Houston |
2/2/49 |
- |
| Stephen Stills |
Singer, songwriter |
Dallas |
1/3/45 |
- |
| Gale Storm |
Singer, film & TV actress |
Bloomington |
4/5/21 |
- |
| George Strait |
C&W Singer |
Poteet |
5/18/52 |
- |
| Angela Strehli |
Singer |
Lubbock/ Austin |
- |
- |
| Patrick Swayze |
Actor |
Houston |
8/18/52 |
- |
| Sharon Tate |
Actress; murdered by Manson Family |
Dallas |
1/24/43 |
8/9/69 |
| Jack Teagarden |
Jazz trombone virtuoso |
Venon |
8/20/1905 |
1/15/64 |
| B. J. Thomas |
Singer, songwriter |
Houston |
8/7/42 |
- |
| Henry Thomas |
Actor (E.T., Valmont, etc.), musician |
San Antonio |
9/9/71 |
- |
| Hank Thompson |
C&W Singer, guitarist |
Waco |
- |
- |
| Floyd Tillman |
Singer, songwriter |
Post |
- |
- |
| Stephen Tobolowsky |
Actor |
Dallas |
5/30/51 |
- |
| Rip Torn |
Actor; Sissy Spacek's cousin |
Temple |
2/6/31 |
- |
| Lee Trevino |
Championship pro golfer |
Dallas |
12/1/39 |
- |
| Ernest Tubb |
C&W Singer |
Crisp |
2/9/1914 |
9/6/84 |
| Tanya Tucker |
C&W Singer |
Seminole |
10/10/58 |
- |
| Tommy Tune |
Broadway director, choreographer |
Wichita Falls |
2/28/39 |
- |
| Jimmy Vaughan |
Rock musician |
Dallas/Austin |
- |
- |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan |
Rock musician |
Dallas/Austin |
10/3/54 |
8/27/90 |
| King Vidor |
Pioneer film director, producer |
Galveston |
2/8/1894 |
11/1/82 |
| Aaron "T-Bone" Walker |
Guitarist, singer |
Linden/Dallas |
- |
- |
| Charles Denton "Tex" Watson |
Manson family member serving life in prison |
Collin County |
1945 |
- |
| Lisa Whelchel |
Former Mouseketeer; TV infomercials |
Fort Worth |
5/29/63 |
- |
| Forest Whitaker |
Actor |
Longview |
7/15/61 |
- |
| Ed White |
Astronaut; first to walk in space (1965) |
- |
- |
- |
| Charles Whitman |
Texas Tower shooter; Eagle Scout |
- |
- |
8/1/66 |
| JoBeth Williams |
Actress |
Houston |
12/6/48 |
- |
| Van Williams |
Actor |
Fort Worth |
2/27/34 |
- |
| Bob Wills |
Bandleader; fiddler |
Turkey |
3/6/1906 |
5/13/75 |
| Chill Wills |
Actor |
Seagoville |
7/18/1903 |
12/15/78 |
| Robin Wright |
Actress |
Dallas |
4/8/66 |
- |
| Babe Didrikson Zaharias |
Olympic medalist, 1932; American pioneer sportswoman |
Port Arthur |
6/26/14 |
1956 |
| Renee Zellweger |
Actress |
Katy |
1969 |
- |
