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

Raini-Alena Rodriguez is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Trish in the Disney Channel original series Austin & Ally and Maya Blart in the films Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. She played Tess in the 2011 film Prom and won Best Young Television Actress at the 2013 Imagen Awards.

Vickie Lynn Benson is an American professional wrestling personality and manager who is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

Vergil Ortiz Jr. is an American professional boxer of Mexican descent. He has held the WBO International welterweight title since 2021. As an amateur, he was a seven-time national champion and was the winner at the 2013 Junior Olympics. He was named 2019 The Ring magazine Prospect of the Year.

Gary Gilmore may refer to:

• Gary Gilmore (baseball), American college baseball coach who is currently the head coach of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
• Gary Gilmore (criminal) (1940-1977), American murderer who was the first to be executed after the US ban on capital punishment was lifted in 1976

Stephen Espinoza is an American sports and corporate executive. He is the President of Showtime Sports.

Andrew Victor Sendejo is an American football free safety for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Rice Owls, and was signed by the Sacramento Mountain Lions of The United Football League as a free agent in 2010. Andrew has also been a member of the Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, and Minnesota Vikings.

Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillips Jr. was an American football coach at the high school, college and professional levels. He served as head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Oilers from 1975 to 1980 and the New Orleans Saints from 1981 to 1985. He was the father of NFL coach Wade Phillips.

Brandon "Bug" Hall is a retired American actor. He is best known for his childhood roles as Alfalfa in The Little Rascals (1994) and Buster Stupid in The Stupids (1996).

Dixie Carter-Salinas is an American businesswoman best known for her time as president of the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2003 to 2016.

Karla Faye Tucker was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. She was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and executed by lethal injection after 14 years on death row. Due to her gender and widely publicized conversion to Christianity, she inspired an unusually large national and international movement that advocated the commutation of her sentence to life without parole, a movement that included a few foreign government officials.