Infamous Texans
- Charles Albright (born 1933), Dallas area serial killer
- Joe Ball (1892-1938), serial killer
- Buck Barrow (1903–1933), member of Bonnie and Clyde's gang, brother of Clyde Barrow
- Sam Bass (1851–1878), train robber and western icon
- Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow ), bank robbers
- David Brooks (born 1955), Houston serial killer, early 1970s
- Marilyn Buck (born 1947), accomplice in both the 1979 prison break of black activist Assata Shakur and the 1981 Brink's robbery
- William Carver (1868–1901), member of Butch Cassidy's gang
- Jamiel Chagra (1944–2008), drug trafficker
- Mark David Chapman (born 1955), murdered Beatle John Lennon
- T. Cullen Davis (born 1933), heir to oil fortune, arrested for murder and solicitation; acquitted of criminal charges but held responsible in wrongful death lawsuit
- Anna Fermanova (born 1986), alleged Russian spy and smuggler
- Ralph Fults (1911–1993), outlaw, associated with Bonnie and Clyde
- Raymond Hamilton (1913–1935), member of Bonnie and Clyde's gang; executed
- John Wesley Hardin (1853–1895), outlaw and gun-fighter, reputed to be "the meanest man alive"
- Charles Harrelson (1938–2007), hitman
- Elmer Wayne Henley (born 1956), Houston serial killer, early 1970s
- John Hinckley, Jr. (born 1955), attempted to assassinate President Reagan
- W. D. Jones (1916–1974), member of Bonnie and Clyde's gang
- David Koresh (1959–1993), self-proclaimed messiah and head of Branch Davidian cult
- Colleen LaRose (born 1963), "Jihad Jane", charged with multiple terrorist-related crimes
- Tom O'Folliard (1858–1880) Outlaw and Billy the Kid's best friend
- Jonathan Pollard (born 1954), intelligence analyst convicted of espionage
- Richard Ramirez (born 1960), serial killer
- Ollie P. Roberts (1879?–1950), claimed to be Billy the Kid
- Jack Ruby (1910–1967), killed Lee Harvey Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
- Yolanda Saldívar (born 1960), convicted for the murder of pop singer Selena
- Jon Schillaci (born 1971), a former FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive
- Bobby Seale (born 1936), co-founder of the Black Panthers
- Servant Girl Annihilator (1885), unidentified serial killer from Austin
- Soapy Smith (1860–1898), infamous confidence man of Round Rock, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas
- Allen Stanford (born 1950), financier convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme and fraud
- Belle Starr (1848–1889), the Wild West's "bandit queen"
- Texas Seven, group of prison escapees who caused a national manhunt after a crime spree in December 2000, apprehended in January 2001 due to America's Most Wanted
- Libby Thompson (1855–1953), dancehall girl, prostitute, and brothel owner better known as Squirrel-tooth Alice
- Edgar Valdez Villarreal (born 1973), "La Barbie", drug trafficker
- Charles "Tex" Watson (born 1945), convicted murderer, former member of the Charles Manson "Family"
- Andrea Yates (born 1964), drowned her five children in the bathtub of her house
- Diane Zamora (born 1978), convicted, along with her boyfriend, David Graham, in notorious "cadet murder" case
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“The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–117)
“It is very considerably smaller than Australia and British Somaliland put together. As things stand at present there is nothing much the Texans can do about this, and ... they are inclined to shy away from the subject in ordinary conversation, muttering defensively about the size of oranges.”
—Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)