Others
- R.J.Q. Adams (born 1943), professor of British history at Texas A&M University
- Sara Alpern (born 1942), professor of women's history at Texas A&M
- Amarillo Slim (Thomas Preston, Jr.) (1928–2012), poker champion
- Lauren Anderson (born 1965), ballet dancer; first African-American ballerina to be principal of a major company (Houston Ballet)
- Terry H. Anderson (born 1946), professor of history at Texas A&M University
- B W Aston (1936–2010), historian, professor
- Corky Ballas (born 1960), ballroom dancer
- Mark Ballas (born 1986), ballroom dancer
- Eugene C. Barker (1874–1956), premier historian of Texas; Barker History Center on UT campus bears his name
- Alwyn Barr (born 1938), historian
- Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), historian, philosopher, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Garland E. Bayliss (born 1924), retired historian and director of academic services at Texas A&M University
- ZerNona Black (1906–2005), civil rights activist, educator
- Tom Blasingame (1898–1989), oldest cowboy in the history of the American West
- Lindsey Blaufarb (born 1980), dancer
- Joe Bowman (1925–2009), bootmaker and marksman and guardian of Old West culture
- H. W. Brands, historian, author, professor at University of Texas
- Ben Breedlove (1993–2011), Internet personality
- Brené Brown (born 1965), scholar, researcher, and University of Houston professor of social work
- Walter L. Buenger (born 1951), historian
- James Byrd, Jr. (1949-1998), murder victim, Texas hate crime and later federal law passed in his honor
- Robert A. Calvert (1933–2000), historian
- Norma V. Cantu (born 1954), civil rights lawyer, educator
- Paul H. Carlson (born 1940), historian of the American West
- Leslie Cochran (1951–2012), peace activist, cross-dresser, urban outdoorsman
- Louise Cowan (born 1916), liberal arts scholar, professor, critic
- Candice Crawford (born 1986), beauty queen, winner of Miss Missouri USA, competed in the Miss Texas Teen USA pageant and the Miss USA pageant
- Crazy Ray (Wilford Jones) (1931–2007), Dallas Cowboys mascot
- Mark Crutcher, pro-life activist, author, and founder of Life Dynamics Inc.
- Light Townsend Cummins (born 1946), historian, educator
- Brooke Daniels (born 1986), Miss Texas USA 2009
- Henry C. Dethloff (born 1934), historian, author, retired professor at Texas A&M
- Ramon H. Dovalina (born 1943), educator
- Chester Dunning (born 1949), historian, specialist in Russian studies
- Magen Ellis (born 1986), Miss Texas USA, Miss Texas Teen USA
- Joe B. Finley (1924–2011), rancher in Laredo
- Dan Flores (born 1948), historian of the American West
- Mike Godwin (born 1956), attorney, author
- Brison D. Gooch (born 1925), historian and professor emeritus from Texas A&M
- Lauren Grandcolas (1963–2001), one of the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11
- Amber Hagerman (1986–1996), victim of abduction/murder, namesake of AMBER Alert
- Claude Hall (1922–2001), historian, professor of American diplomacy
- Frank Hamer (1884–1955), Texas Ranger, led raid in which Bonnie and Clyde were killed
- Richard "Racehorse" Haynes (born 1927), defense attorney, author
- Roy Hazelwood (born 1938), FBI profiler
- Harold Hoehner (1935–2009), theologian, author, professor
- William Curry Holden (1896–1993), historian, archaeologist, educator, museum director
- George B. Jackson (1850–1900), former slave turned Republican politician in San Angelo, Texas
- Shirley Strum Kenny (born 1935), English scholar, university president
- Allan J. Kuethe (born 1940), historian of Latin America
- Herbert H. Lang (1921–2006), historian, professor at Texas A&M University
- Clarence Hailey Long (1910–1978), Texas cowboy who inspired the Marlboro Man cigarette advertising campaign
- Juan L. Maldonado (born 1948), educator
- Ramiro Martinez (born 1937), police officer, killed sniper Charles Whitman
- Odell McBrayer (1930–2008), Fort Worth Christian attorney who ran for governor in 1974
- Jessica McClure (born 1986), "Baby Jessica", rescued after falling into a well
- Captain Bill McDonald (1852–1918), one of the "Four Great Captains" of the Texas Rangers
- Martin V. Melosi (born 1947), environmental and urban historian at University of Houston
- Kenneth R. Mladenka (born 1943), political scientist at Texas A&M University who researched in urban studies
- J. Milton Nance (1913–1997), historian who specialized in 19th century Texas
- Michael Paine (born 1928), acquaintance of Lee Harvey Oswald
- Ruth Paine (born 1932), friend of Marina Oswald
- Albert Reyes, executive of Baptist charity, university president
- Olga Rodriguez, Chicano activist
- Eunice Sanborn (1896–2011), from November 2010 until her death in January 2011 was the world's oldest documented living person
- Henry C. Schmidt (born 1937), historian, specialist in Latin American affairs
- Marilyn McAdams Sibley (1921–2006), historian, professor\
- John Silber (1926–2012), president and chancellor of Boston University
- Karen Silkwood (1948–1974), nuclear plant worker, labor activist, died under mysterious circumstances
- Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945), first female African-American president of a major college (Smith College), first African-American president of an Ivy League college (Brown University)
- Marilyn Sitzman (1939–1993), witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Thomas Vernor Smith (1890–1964), philosopher, scholar, educator, U.S. representative
- John Wesley Snyder (1837–1922), pioneer Texas rancher, based primarily in Georgetown
- Ben Stevenson (born 1936), artistic director of Houston Ballet and Texas Ballet Theater
- Jean A. Stuntz (born 1957), historian of women's studies
- Swante M. Swenson (1816–1896), Founder of SMS Ranches
- Bob Tallman (born 1947), rodeo announcer
- Jerry D. Thompson (born 1943), historian of Texas and the Southwestern United States
- Leon Toubin (born 1928), Jewish civic leader, philanthropist, and historian
- W. D. Twichell (1864–1959), surveyor of 165 of 254 Texas counties
- Richard Viguerie (born 1933), conservative figure, pioneer of political direct mail and writer on American politics
- Ernest Wallace (1906–1985), historian of Texas and the southern Great Plains
- Plennie L. Wingo (1895–1993), world record for longest distance walked backwards (from Santa Monica, California, to Istanbul, Turkey).
- Charles Winstead (1891–1973), FBI Agent in the 1930s-40s, famous for being one of the agents who shot and killed John Dillinger
- Trey Wright (born 1974), U.S. national Scrabble champion, classical concert pianist
- Mark Yudof (born 1944), law professor, university chancellor
- Lou Zaeske (1941–2011), founder of English-only movement in Texas and advocate for Czech ethnic causes
- Abraham Zapruder (1905–1970), clothing manufacturer, filmed assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963
- Kevin Wu (born 1990), one of the top subscribed YouTube channel KevJumba
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