Notable People
- Raymond Benson, author
- Jim J. Bullock, actor
- Hayden Fry, college football coach
- Larry Gatlin, country music singer
- Britt Harley Hager, professional football player
- Daniel Ray Herrera, professional baseball pitcher
- Daryl Hunt, professional football player
- Virgil Johnson, founder of The Velvets singing group
- Chris Kyle, former Navy SEAL, most lethal sniper in United States military history
- Gene Mayfield, college and high-school football coach
- Bill Noël, oil industrialist and philanthropist
- J. L. "Dusty" Rhoades, one of the founders of the American Quarter Horse Association
- Bill Myrick, country music singer
- Jim Reese, mayor of Odessa from 1968 to 1974
- Kelly Schmedes, professional soccer player
- John Ben Shepperd, Texas attorney general from 1953 to 1957
- Kim Smith, model and actress
- Toby Stevenson, Olympic pole vaulter
- Stephnie Weir, actress and comedian
- Roy Williams, professional football player
- Alfred Mac Wilson, United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Marvin Rex Young, US Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Marcus Cannon, NFL player
- Robert Rummel-Hudson, author
- Chris McGaha, NHRA Pro Stock racer
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