List of Famous people born in Texas, United States of America

Dan Hewitt Owens ) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He has had a film and TV career for over 40 years and has won awards as a film director, screenwriter, producer, and cinematographer.

Bernard Anthony Harris Jr. is a former NASA astronaut. On February 9, 1995, Harris became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk), during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights.

Marion Joseph Levy Jr. was an American sociologist noted for his work on modernization theory.

Billy Joe "Red" McCombs, is an American businessman. He is the founder of the Red McCombs Automotive Group in San Antonio, Texas, a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, former chairman of Constellis Group, a former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, San Antonio Force, Denver Nuggets, the Minnesota Vikings, and the namesake of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. He is also known for his philanthropy.

James Edward Ferguson Jr., known as Pa Ferguson, was an American Democratic politician and the 26th Governor of Texas, in office from 1915 to 1917. He was indicted and impeached during his second term, but according to Ferguson technically impeached, after he resigned office. Ferguson said that he resigned "the day before the judgment was announced and contended that it did not apply to him. The question was eventually carried into the courts, where the judgment of the Court of Impeachment was sustained. But the mere fact that Ferguson had been impeached and made ineligible to hold any office of trust or profit under the state did not in any sense remove him from the field of Texas politics. In 1918 he sought the Democratic party nomination for the governorship but was defeated by William P. Hobby. In 1920 he was an unsuccessful candidate for President on his own American party ticket. In 1922 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate. But eventually returned to the Governor's mansion, when his wife was elected Governor.

Charles Edwin Herzig was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler, Texas.

Renée Victor is an American actress best known for her role as Lupita on Weeds, for providing the voice of Bethesda Softworks' 2011 video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and she also appeared in the 2014 film, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.

Mark Watters is an American composer of music for film and television.

Carlos Aneese "Sully" Kothmann was an American pair skater. After winning the bronze medal with partner Kay Servatius at the 1953 U.S National Championships, he teamed with Lucille Ash. He and Ash were twice silver medalists at the U.S. Championships and finished seventh at the 1956 Winter Olympics. He was born in San Antonio, Texas.

Ronald James Taylor was an American actor, singer and writer. He grew up in Galveston, Texas and later moved to New York City to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After graduating, Taylor began working in musical theater, appearing in The Wiz (1977), before getting his break with the 1982 off-Broadway production Little Shop of Horrors. Taylor voiced the killer plant Audrey II in the show, which ran for five years and over 2,000 performances.