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

Jackson Ryan Hurst is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Grayson Kent on the Lifetime comedy series Drop Dead Diva (2009–2014).

Ara Celi is an American actress active in American film and television. She had a starring role in the minor 1997 dance movie Looking for Lola, but she is probably best known for her guest starring role as Ampata Gutierrez aka "Inca Mummy Girl" from season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is now most often seen in television advertisements for Universal Toyota car dealership in San Antonio, Texas and Charles Maund Toyota dealership in Austin, Texas and Boggus Ford dealership in McAllen, Texas.

William Frankfather was an American film and television actor.

James Thomas Dauterive is an American animation producer and writer, widely known for his work on King of the Hill (1997–2010) and Bob's Burgers (2011–present).

Travis Oates is an American actor, voice actor and director. He continued the role of Piglet in My Friends Tigger & Pooh and other Winnie the Pooh-related media after the passing of John Fiedler. He and Jim Cummings were the only two voice actors to return for the 2011 film. He also was one of the original co-hosts of the G4TV original program Arena, a competitive gaming show with Wil Wheaton in 2002. Oates owns and manages the ACME Comedy Theatre in Costa Mesa, California. He directed the 2014 film Don't Blink.

Henry Gale Sanders is an American actor best known for his role in Charles Burnett's 1977 neo-realist film Killer of Sheep. He has also appeared extensively on television, on such programs as The Rockford Files, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Knight Rider, Knots Landing, Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey, Married... with Children, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, NYPD Blue, and The Mentalist.

Lucian Perkins is an American photojournalist, who is best known for covering a number of conflicts with profound compassion for his photograph's subjects, including the war in Afghanistan, Kosovo and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. It has been said that Perkins has a developed style that not only portrays the hopes and weaknesses of the people in his photographs but in an unconventional manner. Perkins currently works at The Washington Post, where he has worked for the past 30 years and resides in Washington, D.C.

Efren Saldivar is an American serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist at Adventist Health Glendale in Glendale, California.