List of Famous people born in Texas, United States of America
Danielle Bradbery
Danielle Simone Bradbery is an American country music singer from Cypress, Texas. She won season four of NBC's The Voice in 2013, becoming the youngest artist to win the competition. Bradbery's debut studio album, Danielle Bradbery, was released on November 25, 2013. It featured the single "The Heart of Dixie". On June 2, 2017, Bradbery released a single entitled "Sway". The song was the lead single from her second album, I Don't Believe We've Met, which was released on December 1, 2017.
Candice Crawford
The Miss Missouri USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Missouri in the Miss USA pageant. It is directed by Vanbros and Associates, based in Lenexa, Kansas. In 1993, Missouri joined the Vanbros group of state pageants for the Miss USA and Teen USA system.
William Jackson Harper
William Jackson Harper is an American actor and playwright. He is best known for his role as Chidi Anagonye on the NBC comedy The Good Place (2016–2020).
Emma Fuhrmann
Emma Fuhrmann is an American actress known for her acting in the roles as Finnegan O'Neil in The Magic of Belle Isle (2012), Espn Friedman in Blended (2014), and Cassie Lang in Avengers: Endgame (2019).
Emilio Azcárraga Milmo
Emilio Azcárraga Milmo or Emilio Azcárraga Jr. was a Mexican businessman and the son of Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and Laura Milmo Hickman. He was educated at Culver Military Academy, he graduated in 1948. He was married four times, to Nadine Jean, Pamela de Surmont, Adriana Abascal, Miss Mexico in 1989 and most recently to Paula Cussi. He worked in various positions in television such as owner of Univision, a twelve-station Spanish-language network in the U.S., and in the 1960s and 1970s as a controlling shareholder of Televisa, S.A. He was the owner of The National, an American daily newspaper centered on sports that was published from January 31, 1990 to June 13, 1991. He also owned major Mexican television stations and was the chairman of the U.S.-based Spanish-language TV network "Galavisión". He was also involved in publishing, video rental, and real estate ventures. He died on April 16, 1997 on board his yacht ECO outside Miami. His business passed to his son Emilio Azcárraga Jean, and daughters.
Russ Martin
Russell Dale Martin was an American radio presenter in Dallas, Texas. He worked in the Dallas radio market for 31 years. Martin hosted the No. 1-rated The Russ Martin Show on KLLI Live 105.3 in Dallas, until December 8, 2008, when KLLI switched to an all-sports format. On July 12, 2010, Martin returned to radio with his afternoon (3p-7p) show on 97.1 "The Eagle" (KEGL).
Eddie Wineland
Edward Alan Wineland Jr. is an American professional mixed martial artist, who currently competes in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional competitor since 2003, Wineland is a former WEC Bantamweight Champion.
Sandy Duncan
Sandra Kay Duncan is an American actress, comedian, singer and dancer, of stage and television. She is known for her performances in the Broadway revival of Peter Pan and in the sitcom The Hogan Family. Duncan has been nominated for three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Kenneth Parnell
Kenneth Eugene Parnell was an American convicted sex offender, child rapist, and kidnapper infamously known for perpetrating the abductions of seven year-old Steven Stayner and five year-old Timothy White in Merced, California. He was convicted in 2004 for attempting to purchase a child for sex and died in prison.
Jacqueline Moore
Jacqueline DeLois Moore is an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager. She is best known for her time in WWE from 1998 to 2004, where she became the first African American WWE Cruiserweight champion as well as being the first and only woman to hold the belt, as well as working for World Championship Wrestling in 1997–98 and later Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a wrestler, manager and road agent.