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

Paige Audrey Marie Hurd is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring role as Tasha Clarkson on the American sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.

Katherine Nicole McKibbin was an American rock music singer-songwriter who finished third in the debut season of the reality television series American Idol. Prior to American Idol, McKibbin appeared in the first season of Popstars. In May 2007, she released a rock album called Unleashed.

Granger Kelly Smith, also known by his alter ego, Earl Dibbles Jr, is an American country music singer-songwriter. He has released ten studio albums, one live album, and two EPs. He has charted six times on the country airplay with, "Backroad Song", "If the Boot Fits", "Happens Like That", "You're in It", “That’s Why I Love Dirt Roads” and “Hate You Like I Love You”.

Charles Wade Wilson was an American football coach and previously a quarterback who played for the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys and the Oakland Raiders in a seventeen-year career from 1981 to 1998 in the National Football League (NFL). He was quarterbacks coach for the Dallas Cowboys from 2000 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2017 and the Chicago Bears from 2004 to 2006. He played college football for East Texas State University, where he was an NAIA All-American Quarterback and led the Lions to the NAIA national semifinals during the 1980 season.

Catherine Leigh Osterman is an American, former collegiate 4-time All-American and 2-time medal winning Olympian, unretired 6-time professional All-Star, left-handed softball pitcher and former softball Assistant Coach originally from Houston, Texas. She completed her college eligibility in 2006 at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a starting pitcher for the Longhorns since 2002. Osterman pitched on the USA Women's Softball Team which won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the silver medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Osterman holds the Big 12 Conference pitching Triple Crown for her career wins, ERA, strikeouts, as well as shutouts, no-hitters, WHIP and perfect games, additionally claiming the NCAA Division I record for strikeout ratio (14.34). In the National Pro Fastpitch, Osterman was drafted #1 and is the career leader in strikeout ratio (10.90) and no-hitters (6). She is also one of NCAA's five pitchers to strikeout 1,000 batters with 100 wins, an ERA of under 1.00, and averaging double digit strikeouts. Osterman currently is a member of Team USA softball that has qualified for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics. She was a member of the independent "This is Us" team. In May of 2020, she joined and eventually won the gold medal in the Athletes Unlimited softball league as the inaugural top individual points leader. Osterman was also named #3 Greatest College Softball Player and the No. 1 pitcher in NCAA history.

Ronald Jack Wright was an American politician from the state of Texas. A Republican, he was the member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 6th congressional district. The district is anchored in Arlington and southeastern Fort Worth, and also includes a swath of exurban territory to the south.

Susan Lucille Wright is an American criminal from Houston, Texas, who made headlines in 2003 for stabbing her husband, Jeff Wright, 193 times in an act of mariticide and then burying his body in their backyard. She was convicted of murder in 2004, and was given a 20-year sentence at the Crain Unit in Gatesville, Texas. She was denied parole on June 12, 2014, and July 24, 2017. She was granted parole in July 2020 and released from prison on December 30, 2020.

Robby Benson is an American actor, singer, composer, teacher and filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a teen idol in the late 1970s, appearing in the sports films One on One (1977) and Ice Castles (1978). He subsequently garnered more fame for portraying the voice of Beast in the Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991) and its numerous sequels and spin-offs. He later forged a career in directing television, including six episodes of the sitcom Friends.

Kimberly Burrell is an American gospel singer from Houston, Texas.

Peter Brett Cullen is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television series.