Athletics/Sports

• Sam Adams
  Sam Adams (football player)
  Sam Aaron Adams, Jr. is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Seattle Seahawks eighth overall in the 1994 NFL Draft...
  
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• Brandon Allen
  Brandon Allen
  Brandon Durell Allen is a Major League Baseball first baseman and left fielder for the Oakland Athletics.-Arizona Diamondbacks:...
  
  
• Lance Alworth
  Lance Alworth
  Lance Dwight Alworth is a former American collegiate and Professional Football wide receiver. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame...
  
  
• H.B. Bailey
• Michael Bishop
• Rashard Lewis
  Rashard Lewis
  Rashard Quovon Lewis is an American professional basketball player, currently with the NBA's Washington Wizards as a small forward and a power forward.-Seattle SuperSonics:...
  
  
• Jonathan Horton
  Jonathan Horton
  Jonathan Alan Horton is an American gymnast. He is the 2008 Olympic silver medalist on high bar and the 2010 Worlds all-around bronze medalist. He is married to Haley DeProspero, former gymnast for the University of Oklahoma....
  
  
• Nneka Ogwumike
  Nneka Ogwumike
  Nnemkadi "Nneka" Ogwumike is an American basketball player at Stanford University. She is 6'2" and plays power forward. She attended Cypress Fairbanks High School and led them to a 5A State Championship in her senior season.-High school :...
  
  
• Cody Risien
  Cody Risien
  Cody Lewis Risien is a former American football offensive tackle who played eleven seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns...
  
  
• Lindsey Harding
  Lindsey Harding
  Lindsey Marcie Harding is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Atlanta Dream. She was born in Mobile, Alabama, but grew up in Houston, Texas.-College career:...
  
  
• Jason Bourgeois
  Jason Bourgeois
  Jason Jerrod Bourgeois is a Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros. Bourgeois plays all outfield positions and second base.-Baseball career:...
  
  
• Michael Bourn
  Michael Bourn
  Michael Ray Bourn is a professional baseball outfielder with the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. He serves as the Atlanta Braves leadoff hitter. He has also been a member of the United States national baseball team....
  
  
• Woody Williams
  Woody Williams
  Gregory Scott "Woody" Williams is a former right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He made his major league debut for the Toronto Blue Jays on May 14, 1993.-Baseball career:...
  
  
• Joe Bowman
  Joe Bowman (marksman)
  Joe Bowman, born Joseph Lee Bowman , was a Houston bootmaker and marksman called "The Straight Shooter", considered to have been a guardian of Texas and western frontier culture. Shortly after his death, Bowman was inducted posthumously into the Texas Heroes Hall of Honor at the Frontier Times...
  
  , bootmaker
  Shoemaking
  Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or...
  
   and marksman
  Marksman
  A marksman is a person who is skilled in precision, or a sharpshooter shooting, using projectile weapons, such as with a rifle but most commonly with a sniper rifle, to shoot at long range targets...
  
   of the American West
• Roger Clemens
  Roger Clemens
  William Roger Clemens , nicknamed "Rocket", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who broke into the league with the Boston Red Sox, whose pitching staff he would help anchor for 12 years. Clemens won seven Cy Young Awards, more than any other pitcher. He played for four different teams over...
  
  
• Brad Coleman
  Brad Coleman
  Bradford Coleman is an American stock car driver. He was a high school graduate of Carlisle School.Coleman was discovered at an indoor karting center in Houston, TX by LeMans champion Price Cobb...
  
  
• Carl Crawford
  Carl Crawford
  Carl Demonte Crawford is an American professional baseball outfielder who plays for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws left-handed...
  
  
• Donovan Greer
  Donovan Greer
  Donovan Orlando Greer is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins, and the Detroit Lions. He played college football at Texas A&M University....
  
  
• Warrick Holdman
  Warrick Holdman
  Warrick Donte Holdman is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 1999 NFL Draft...
  
  
• Jimmy Demaret
  Jimmy Demaret
  James Newton Demaret was an American professional golfer. He won 31 PGA Tour events in a long career between 1935 and 1957, and was the first three-time winner of the Masters....
  
  
• Adam Dunn
  Adam Dunn
  Adam Troy Dunn , nicknamed "Big Donkey", is an American Major League Baseball first baseman, outfielder, and designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. He bats left-handed and throws right-handed....
  
  
• Aaron Durley
  Aaron Durley
  Aaron Durley is a former Little League World Series baseball player known for his exceptional size, and current all-state high school basketball player....
  
  
• George Foreman
  George Foreman
  George Edward Foreman is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur...
  
  
• A.J. Foyt
• Zina Garrison
  Zina Garrison
  Zina Lynna Garrison is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she was a women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games.-Career:An African-American...
  
   (born in Houston; resident of Missouri City
  Missouri City, Texas
  Missouri City is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County with a small portion within Harris County. As of the 2000 U.S...
  
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• Craig James
• Scott Kazmir
  Scott Kazmir
  Scott Edward Kazmir is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. Kazmir made his Major League debut with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2004 when he was only 20 years old and at one time held many of the franchise's career pitching records...
  
  
• Rashard Lewis
  Rashard Lewis
  Rashard Quovon Lewis is an American professional basketball player, currently with the NBA's Washington Wizards as a small forward and a power forward.-Seattle SuperSonics:...
  
  
• Tara Lipinski
  Tara Lipinski
  Tara Kristen Lipinski is an American figure skater. At the age of 15, she won the Ladies' Singles Olympic gold medal in figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Lipinski remains the youngest individual gold medalist in the history of the Olympic Winter Games. She is also the 1997 World...
  
   (from Sugar Land
  Sugar Land, Texas
  Sugar Land is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area and Fort Bend County. Sugar Land is one of the most affluent and fastest-growing cities in Texas, having grown more than 158 percent in the last decade. In the time period of 2000–2007, Sugar Land also enjoyed a...
  
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• James Loney
  James Loney (baseball player)
  James Anthony Loney is a first baseman in Major League Baseball who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers.-Prep career:...
  
  
• Emeka Okafor
  Emeka Okafor
  Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi Okafor, abbreviated as Emeka Okafor , is an American basketball power forward and center for the New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association. Prior to the NBA, Okafor attended Houston's Bellaire High School, and the University of Connecticut.-Early life:Okafor...
  
  
• Andy Pettitte
  Andy Pettitte
  Andrew Eugene Pettitte is a retired American left-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher.In his major league career, he played for the New York Yankees from 1995–2003. He then signed with the Houston Astros, and played for them from 2004 through 2006. In 2007, Pettitte rejoined the Yankees...
  
   (from Deer Park
  Deer Park, Texas
  Deer Park is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The city is located in Harris County and is situated in Southeast Texas. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Deer Park was 32,010....
  
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• Gene Phillips
  Gene Phillips (basketball)
  Gene Phillips is a former professional basketball player.-Biography:Phillips was born Donald Eugene Phillips on October 25, 1948 in Livingston, Texas. He attended Jones High School in Houston, Texas.-Career:...
  
  
• Mel Renfro
  Mel Renfro
  Melvin Lacy "Mel" Renfro is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League who spent his entire fourteen-year career with the Dallas Cowboys.-High school:...
  
  
• Nolan Ryan
  Nolan Ryan
  Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. , nicknamed "The Ryan Express", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He is currently principal owner, president and CEO of the Texas Rangers....
  
   (from Alvin
  Alvin, Texas
  Alvin is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area and Brazoria County. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 21,413. Alvin's claim to fame is Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, who moved with his family to the city in 1947 as...
  
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• Kevin Schwantz
  Kevin Schwantz
  Kevin Schwantz is an American former World Champion motorcycle road racer during the late 1980s and early 1990s.-Early life:...
  
  
• David Starr
  David Starr
  David Starr is an American stock car driver. He currently drives the #95 WRL General Contractors/TWD Drywall/B&D Electrical/Fenton Motor Group Ford Fusion for Leavine Fenton Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series part-time and the #81 Zachry Holdings, Inc. Toyota Tundra for SS-Green Light Racing...
  
  
• Michael Strahan
  Michael Strahan
  Michael Anthony Strahan is a former National Football League defensive end who played his entire career for the New York Giants; a career where he set the record for the most sacks in a single season and won a Super Bowl in his final year. He is currently a football analyst on Fox NFL Sunday, and...
  
  
• Mike Swick
  Mike Swick
  Mike Swick is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship as a welterweight....
  
  
• Thurman Thomas (from Missouri City
  Missouri City, Texas
  Missouri City is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County with a small portion within Harris County. As of the 2000 U.S...
  
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• Billy Wade
• Kip Wells
  Kip Wells
  Robert "Kip" Wells is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization.-High school career:...
  
  
• Alfred Williams
  Alfred Williams
  Alfred Williams is a former American football player. He was a linebacker and defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals, San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos. He finished his career with the New Orleans Saints.-College:...
  
  
• Vince Young
  Vince Young
  Vincent Paul Young, Jr. , nicknamed "VY", is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League . He spent the first five seasons of his career with the Tennessee Titans. Young was the third overall draft pick in the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college...
  
  

Arts/Entertainment/Media

• Debbie Allen
  Debbie Allen
  Deborrah Kaye “Debbie” Allen is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities...
  
  
• Wes Anderson
  Wes Anderson
  Wesley Wales Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer of features, short films and commercials....
  
  
• Clint Black
  Clint Black
  Clint Patrick Black is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin' Time album, which produced four straight Number One singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country...
  
  
• Alexis Bledel
  Alexis Bledel
  Alexis Bledel is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Rory Gilmore in the television series Gilmore Girls and Lena Kaligaris in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.-Early life:Bledel was born Kimberly Alexis Bledel in Houston, Texas...
  
  
• Tony Oller
  Tony Oller
  Tony Oller is an American actor and musician from Cypress, Texas. He is known for his role as Walt Moore on Gigantic, Jesse in Lifetime's "Unanswered Prayers". and as Daniel "Danny" Neilson on As the Bell Rings.-Career:...
  
  
• Berkeley Breathed
  Berkeley Breathed
  Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters and through humorous analogies...
  
   (born in California)
• Ragan Fox
• Burnie Burns
  Burnie Burns
  Michael Justin "Burnie" Burns is an independent filmmaker living in Texas. His best known contributions have been in machinima, although he has also worked with live-action. In April 2003, Burns, along with several of his friends, created the Internet machinima series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch...
  
  
• Win Butler
  Win Butler
  Win Butler is the lead vocalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and his brother William Butler are both members of the band.-Life and career:...
  
   (born in California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  , raised in The Woodlands
  The Woodlands, Texas
  The Woodlands is a master-planned community and a Census-designated place in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. The population of the CDP was 55,649 at the 2000 census—a 90 percent increase over its 1990 population. According to the 2010 census, The Woodlands' population rose...
  
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• Will Butler (born in California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  , raised in The Woodlands
  The Woodlands, Texas
  The Woodlands is a master-planned community and a Census-designated place in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. The population of the CDP was 55,649 at the 2000 census—a 90 percent increase over its 1990 population. According to the 2010 census, The Woodlands' population rose...
  
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• Mark Calaway ("The Undertaker")
• DJ Premier
  DJ Premier
  Christopher Edward Martin , better known by his stage name DJ Premier , is an American record producer and DJ, and was the instrumental half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr, together with emcee Guru...
  
  
• Jonathan Caouette
  Jonathan Caouette
  Jonathan Caouette is an American film director, writer, editor and actor. Caouette is the director and editor of Tarnation , an autobiographical documentary, and director of All Tomorrow's Parties about a cult music festival.-Films:...
  
  
• Lois Chiles
  Lois Chiles
  Lois Cleveland Chiles is an American actress and former fashion model known for her role as Dr. Holly Goodhead in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.-Early life:...
  
  
• Nichole Cordova (from Girlicious
  Girlicious
  Girlicious is an American girl group originally formed by Robin Antin, creator of the Pussycat Dolls, from the CW reality TV show Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious. The group was originally signed to Geffen Records and composed of members Natalie Mejia, Chrystina Sayers, Nichole Corvoda and...
  
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• Carlos Coy (also known as South Park Mexican)
• Walter Cronkite
  Walter Cronkite
  Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
  
  
• Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....
  
  
• Allen Drury
  Allen Drury
  Allen Stuart Drury was a U.S. novelist. He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960.- Early life & ancestry :...
  
  
• Haylie Duff
  Haylie Duff
  Haylie Katherine Duff is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is the older sister of actress and singer Hilary Duff...
  
  
• Hilary Duff
  Hilary Duff
  Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and author. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, she achieved fame playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. She also reprised her role in...
  
  
• Shelley Duvall
  Shelley Duvall
  Shelley Alexis Duvall is an American film and television actress best known for her roles in The Shining, Popeye, Thieves Like Us and 3 Women....
  
  
• Terry Ellis
  Terry Ellis
  Terry Lynn Ellis is an African-American R&B singer best known for her work with the quartet En Vogue.-Biography:...
  
   (from En Vogue
  En Vogue
  En Vogue is an American female R&B vocal group from Oakland, California assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy.The group has won more MTV Video Music Awards than any other female group in MTV history, a total of seven, along with four Soul Train Awards, six American Music...
  
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• Kelly Emberg
  Kelly Emberg
  Kelly Kay Emberg is a former 1980s supermodel who appeared on the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour and Cosmopolitan magazines...
  
  
• Sean Patrick Flanery
  Sean Patrick Flanery
  Sean Patrick Flanery is an American actor known for such roles as Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints, Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone and for portraying Indiana Jones in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as Bobby Dagen in Saw 3D.He is currently known for his role as Sam Gibson on The...
  
   (from Sugar Land
  Sugar Land, Texas
  Sugar Land is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area and Fort Bend County. Sugar Land is one of the most affluent and fastest-growing cities in Texas, having grown more than 158 percent in the last decade. In the time period of 2000–2007, Sugar Land also enjoyed a...
  
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• Jeremy Furstenfeld
• Justin Furstenfeld
  Justin Furstenfeld
  Justin Steward Furstenfeld is a record producer, artist, author, and the lead singer, guitarist, lyricist and frontman of the American rock band Blue October.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Geto Boys
  Geto Boys
  Geto Boys is a rap group from Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface, Willie D and Bushwick Bill. The Geto Boys earned notoriety for its lyrics which included misogyny, gore, psychotic experiences, and necrophilia...
  
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• Lisa Hartman
  Lisa Hartman
  Lisa Hartman is an American actress and singer.After some minor television appearances, Lisa Hartman starred in the short-lived Bewitched spin-off, Tabitha during 1977-78...
  
  
• Bill Hicks
  Bill Hicks
  William Melvin "Bill" Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material largely consisted of general discussions about society, religion, politics, philosophy, and personal issues. Hicks' material was often controversial and steeped in dark comedy...
  
  
• Larry Hovis
  Larry Hovis
  Larry Hovis was an American singer and actor best known for playing a fictional prisoner of war on the 1960s television sitcom Hogan's Heroes.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Solange Knowles
  Solange Knowles
  Solange Piaget Knowles , who performs under the mononym Solange, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, model, dancer, and DJ. Knowles was born and raised in Houston, Texas along with her older sister singer Beyoncé, a former member of R&B group Destiny's Child...
  
  
• Ike Eisenmann
  Ike Eisenmann
  Ike Eisenmann is an American actor, voice actor, producer, and sound-effects specialist who has been active in the entertainment industry since he was a preteen.-Career:...
  
  
• Molly Ivins
  Molly Ivins
  Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins was an American newspaper columnist, populist, political commentator, humorist and author.-Early life and education:Ivins was born in Monterey, California, and raised in Houston, Texas...
  
  
• Mickey Jones
  Mickey Jones
  Mickey Jones is an American musician and actor.-Early life:Jones was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Frances Marie and Fred Edward Jones...
  
  
• Mike Jones
  Mike Jones (rapper)
  Michael "Mike" Jones is an American southern rap artist, who initially was affiliated with the record label Swishahouse, then left to be the owner of Ice Age Entertainment....
  
  
• Bradley Jordan
• Beyoncé Knowles
  Beyoncé Knowles
  Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...
  
  
• Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man"...
  
   (from Klein
  Klein, Texas
  Klein is an unincorporated community in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston within north Harris County, Texas, United States, bordering on Houston to the South and Tomball to the North. It is named after Adam Klein, a German immigrant whose best-known great-great-grandson is singer Lyle...
  
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• LeToya Luckett
  LeToya Luckett
  LeToya Nicole Luckett , known professionally as LeToya, is an American R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She was a member of the R&B group Destiny's Child, with whom she won two Grammy Awards and released many successful commercial recordings.After signing a record deal with Capitol Records, she's...
  
  
• Barbara Mandrell
  Barbara Mandrell
  Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...
  
  
• John H. Murphy
  John H. Murphy
  John Hulen Murphy, I , a newspaperman for seventy-four years, was the longtime executive vice president of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the former assistant to the late Richard J.V...
  
   (from Galveston
  Galveston, Texas
  Galveston is a coastal city located on Galveston Island in the U.S. state of Texas. , the city had a total population of 47,743 within an area of...
  
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• Renee O'Connor
  Reneé O'Connor
  Renée O'Connor is an American actress, producer and director best known for playing the role of Gabrielle on the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess from 1995 to 2001.-Early career:...
  
  
• Annette O'Toole
  Annette O'Toole
  Annette O'Toole is an American actress, dancer, and singer-songwriter. She is most recently known for portraying Martha Kent, the mother of Clark Kent on the television series Smallville.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• P.J. Proby
• Dennis Quaid
  Dennis Quaid
  Dennis William Quaid is an American actor known for his comedic and dramatic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the 1980s, his career rebounded in the 1990s after he overcame an addiction to drugs and an eating disorder...
  
  
• Randy Quaid
  Randy Quaid
  Randall Rudy "Randy" Quaid is an American actor perhaps best known for his role as Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, as well as his numerous supporting roles in films, including his Oscar nominated performance in The Last Detail, Independence Day, Kingpin and Brokeback Mountain...
  
  
• Phylicia Rashad
  Phylicia Rashad
  Phylicia Rashād is an American Tony Award winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show....
  
  
• Dan Rather
  Dan Rather
  Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...
  
   (from Wharton
  Wharton, Texas
  Wharton is a city in Wharton County, Texas, United States. The population was 9,237 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wharton County and is located on the Colorado River of Texas just south of U.S...
  
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• Charlie Robison
  Charlie Robison
  Charles Fitzgerald "Charlie" Robison is an Texas Country singer/songwriter, who was raised in Bandera, Texas. His brother is singer/songwriter Bruce Robison...
  
  
• Kenny Rogers
  Kenny Rogers
  Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
  
  
• Kelly Rowland
  Kelly Rowland
  Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality. She rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child...
  
  
• Hakeem Seriki
  Chamillionaire
  Hakeem Seriki , better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. Chamillionaire is also the founder and an original member of The Color Changin' Click...
  
   (better known as the rapper Chamillionaire)
• Molly Louise Shepard
  Molly Louise Shepard
  Molly Louise Shepard is a published dramatic author, Off-Off-Broadway playwright, and produced screen writer. She received her B.A. in theatre from the University of Texas at Dallas....
  
   (born in Houston, raised in Lake Jackson
  Lake Jackson, Texas
  Lake Jackson is a city in Brazoria County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of a 2006 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, the city population was 27,614....
  
   and Huntsville
  Huntsville, Texas
  Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States. The population was 35,508 at the 2010 census. It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area....
  
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• Guitar Shorty
  Guitar Shorty
  Guitar Shorty is an American blues guitarist. He is well known for his explosive guitar style and wild stage antics. Billboard magazine said, “his galvanizing guitar work defines modern, top-of-the-line blues-rock. His vocals remain as forceful as ever...
  
  
• Anna Nicole Smith
  Anna Nicole Smith
  In 1992 Smith was chosen by Hugh Hefner to appear on the cover of the March issue of Playboy, where she was listed as Vickie Smith, wearing a low-cut evening gown. The centerfold was photographed by Stephen Wayda. Smith said she planned to be "the next Marilyn Monroe". Becoming one of Playboys...
  
   (born in Houston, raised in Mexia, Texas
  Mexia, Texas
  Mexia is a city in Limestone County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,552 at the 2008 census.The city's motto, based on the fact that outsiders tend to mispronounce the name , is "A great place, no matter how you pronounce it."...
  
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• Jaclyn Smith
  Jaclyn Smith
  Jacquelyn Ellen "Jaclyn" Smith is an American actress and businesswoman. She is best-known for the role of Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels, and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run...
  
  
• Brent Spiner
  Brent Spiner
  Brent Jay Spiner is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films. His portrayal of Data in Star Trek: First Contact and of Dr...
  
  
• Matt Stone
  Matt Stone
  Matthew Richard "Matt" Stone is an American screenwriter, producer, voice artist, musician and actor, best known for being the co-creator of South Park along with creative partner and best friend, Trey Parker....
  
  
• Patrick Swayze
  Patrick Swayze
  Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best known for his tough-guy roles, as romantic leading men in the hit films Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and as Orry Main in the North and South television miniseries. He was named by People magazine as its "Sexiest...
  
  
• B.J. Thomas
• Rigo Tovar
  Rigo Tovar
  Rigoberto Tovar García was a Mexican singer best known as Rigo Tovar. Famous for his cumbia songs, Tovar is considered a musical pioneer by fusing electric guitar, synthesizer, and rock melodies with traditional Mexican music.Tovar was born and raised in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico...
  
   (emigrated from Matamoros, Tamaulipas
  Matamoros, Tamaulipas
  Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern part of Tamaulipas, in the country of Mexico. It is located on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, directly across the border from Brownsville, Texas, in the United States. Matamoros is the second largest and second...
  
  , Mexico
  Mexico
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
  
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• Tommy Tune
  Tommy Tune
  Thomas James "Tommy" Tune is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won nine Tony Awards and the National Medal of Arts.-Early years:...
  
  
• Brooke Valentine
  Brooke Valentine
  Kanesha Nichole Brookes , better known by her stage name Brooke Valentine, is an American R&B singer and former member of the group Best Kept Secret. In 2005, her single "Girlfight" was a hit on the United States single charts....
  
  
• Jaci Velasquez
  Jaci Velasquez
  Jacquelyn Davette Velasquez is an American Contemporary Christian and Latin Pop singer—in both English and Spanish languages....
  
  
• LaTavia Roberson
  LaTavia Roberson
  LaTavia Marie Roberson is a two-time Grammy Award–winning American contralto singer-songwriter, as well as an original member of Girl's Tyme which later became Destiny's Child. She was eventually replaced by Farrah Franklin in 2000. She was an original founder of the group with Beyoncé as they...
  
  
• Paul Wall
  Paul Wall
  Paul Michael Slayton , better known by his stage name Paul Wall, is an American rapper. He is currently affiliated with Swishahouse Records, having released several albums under the label as well as...
  
  
• Ashley Cheatham
  The Bad Girls Club (season 5)
  Bad Girls Club: Miami was the fifth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The fifth season moved filming from the previous location in Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida in an area on North Bay Road, between 41st and 64th streets...
  
   (from the fifth season of The Bad Girls Club
  The Bad Girls Club
  Bad Girls Club is an American reality television series created by Jonathan Murray for Oxygen. The show centers on seven mischievous and rebellious women from different backgrounds and personalities who have a number of psychological and behavioral problems. They are introduced to the show to...
  
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• Isaiah Washington
  Isaiah Washington
  Isaiah Washington IV is an American actor. A veteran of several Spike Lee films, Washington is best known for his role as Dr. Preston Burke on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2007.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Alicia Webb
  Alicia Webb
  Alicia Nicole Webb is an American professional wrestling valet. She is perhaps best known for her appearances with the World Wrestling Federation from 1998 until 1999 as Ryan Shamrock-World Wrestling Federation:...
  
  
• Wesley Weston, Jr.
• JoBeth Williams
  JoBeth Williams
  JoBeth Williams is an American film and television actress and director, and current President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.-Early life:...
  
  
• Chandra Wilson
  Chandra Wilson
  Chandra Danette Wilson is an American actress and director, best known as Dr. Miranda Bailey in the ABC television drama, Grey's Anatomy.-Early life:...
  
  
• Renée Zellweger
  Renée Zellweger
  Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire , and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary ...
  
   (from Katy
  Katy, Texas
  Katy is a city located in Harris, Fort Bend and Waller Counties in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area...
  
  )
• ZZ Top
  ZZ Top
  ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
  
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• "King" Booker Huffman, professional wrestler
• Cole Mohr
  Cole Mohr
  Cole Mohr is an American model from Houston, Texas, signed with Request Model Management. Notable for work with Dior Homme, H&M, Burberry, Valentino, Barneys, Costume National, Marc Jacobs, Levi's, Tommy Hilfiger, and Andrew Buckler...
  
  
• Jim Parsons
  Jim Parsons
  James Joseph "Jim" Parsons is an American television and film actor. He is best known for playing Sheldon Cooper on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, with his performance often cited as a significant reason for the program's success...
  
   (from Spring
  Spring, Texas
  Spring, Texas is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, north of Downtown Houston. The population was 54,298 at the 2010 census...
  
  )
• Clyde Drexler
  Clyde Drexler
  Clyde Austin "Clyde The Glide" Drexler is a former National Basketball Association shooting guard and small forward. A ten-time All-Star and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, the NBA named him one of basketball's fifty greatest players as of 1996. Drexler won an Olympic gold medal in 1992 and...
  
  

Business/Law/Government/Military

• Mary Kay Ash
  Mary Kay Ash
  Mary Kay Ash was an American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.-Early life:Mary Kay Ash, born Mary Kathlyn Wagner in Hot Wells, Harris County, Texas, was the daughter of Edward Alexander and Lula Vember Hastings Wagner. She attended Reagan High School in Houston, and graduated...
  
  
• James Baker
  James Baker
  James Addison Baker, III is an American attorney, politician and political advisor.Baker served as the Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration and in the final year of the administration of President George H. W. Bush...
  
  
• Bill Blythe
  Bill Blythe
  William Jackson Blythe, Jr., usually known as Bill Blythe or William Blythe , is a real estate broker in Houston, Texas, and a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Harris County...
  
  , born in San Antonio
  San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
  
  , Houston Realtor and former state representative
• Russell B. Cummings
  Russell B. Cummings
  Russell Bennett Cummings was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 22 in Harris County from 1967 to 1971, who is best known for having worked for passage of the state's open meetings and open beaches laws. He lost his bid for a third term in the 1970 general...
  
  
• Michael Dell
  Michael Dell
  Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate and the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Inc. He is the 44th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$14.6 billion in 2011, based primarily on the 243.35 million shares of Dell stock worth $3.5 billion that he owns,...
  
  
• Richard W. Dowling
  Richard W. Dowling
  Richard William "Dick" Dowling was the victorious commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War, and is considered Houston, Texas's first prominent citizen and hero.-Biography:...
  
  
• Joan Huffman
  Joan Huffman
  Joan J. Huffman is a former felony court judge in Houston, Texas, and an incoming Republican member of the 31-member Texas State Senate from District 17, which includes a portion of populous Harris County. Huffman will also be the sixth currently serving female member of the chamber...
  
  
• Howard Hughes
  Howard Hughes
  Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world...
  
  
• Jesse H. Jones
• Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician who was both a product and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives...
  
  
• Mickey Leland
  Mickey Leland
  George Thomas "Mickey" Leland was an anti-poverty activist who later became a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus...
  
  
• Walter Mengden
  Walter Mengden
  Walter Henry Mengden, Jr. , is an attorney and oilman in Austin and Houston, Texas, who is a Republican former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature from Harris County.-Early years:...
  
  
• Steve Munisteri
  Steve Munisteri
  Stephen Peter Munisteri is a retired attorney from Houston, Texas, who was elected chairman of the Republican Party of Texas at the state convention held in Dallas on June 13, 2010. He unseated the incumbent Cathie L. Adams, the wife of a Dallas chiropractor, who had held the position for only...
  
  
• Gary M. Polland
  Gary M. Polland
  Gary Michael Polland is a Houston, Texas, attorney who is the former elected chairman of the Harris County Republican Party and the publisher of the Texas Conservate Review, which he issues periodically on the Internet. From 2001-2006, the politically conservative Polland cohosted with the...
  
  
• George William Strake, Jr.
  George Strake, Jr.
  George William Strake, Jr. , is a Houston, Texas, businessman and philanthropist who served as Texas secretary of state from January 16, 1979–October 6, 1981, during the administration of Republican Governor William Perry Clements, Jr...
  
  

Science/Medicine/Engineering

• Red Adair
  Red Adair
  Paul Neal "Red" Adair was an American oil well firefighter. He became world notable as an innovator in the highly specialized and extremely hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping blazing, erupting oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore.-Life and career:Adair was born in...
  
  
• Denton Cooley
  Denton Cooley
  Denton Arthur Cooley is an American heart surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley is also founder and surgeon in-chief of the Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at St...
  
  
• Richard Smalley Noble Prize Winner

Religion

• David Koresh
  David Koresh
  David Koresh , born Vernon Wayne Howell, was the leader of a Branch Davidian religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet. Howell legally changed his name to David Koresh on May 15, 1990. A 1993 raid by the U.S...
  
  
• Joel Osteen
  Joel Osteen
  Joel Scott Osteen is an American author, televangelist, and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. His ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in over 100 nations around the world.-Biography:...
  
  
• Hyman Judah Schachtel
  Hyman Judah Schachtel
  Hyman Judah Schachtel was Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel of Houston from 1943 to 1975. From 1975-1990 He served as Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Beth Israel of Houston He also served the Houston Jewish community as "rabbi-at-large" for the remainder of his life. On January 20, 1965,...
  
  
• Yusuf Estes
  Yusuf Estes
  Yusuf Estes is an American Muslim preacher and teacher who converted to Islam in 1991. He was the National Muslim Chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons through the 1990s. He became the Muslim Delegate to the United Nations World Peace Conference for Religious Leaders held at the U.N....
  
  
• Kim Burrell
  Kim Burrell
  Kimberly Burrell is an American gospel singer from Houston, Texas. She calls her musical style jazz gospel. Though she is comparatively new to the gospel music industry, having only performed since 1989, she has quickly become one of the most influential voices in the genre, often named as "this...