List of Famous people born in Texas, United States of America
Jeff Gladney
Jeff Gladney is an American football cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at TCU.
Pam Oliver
Pamela Donielle Oliver is an American sportscaster known for her work on the sidelines for various National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL) games.
Robert Tilton
Robert Gibson Tilton is an American televangelist and the former pastor of the Word of Faith Family Church in Farmers Branch, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Tilton is a proponent of the prosperity gospel and is widely known for his infomercial-style religious television program Success-N-Life. At its peak in 1991, the program aired in all 235 American television markets and brought in nearly $80 million per year; it was described as "the fastest growing television ministry in America."
Dev Hynes
Devonté Hynes, also known as Blood Orange and formerly Lightspeed Champion, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and director. From 2004 to 2006, Hynes was a member of the band Test Icicles, playing guitar, synth, and occasionally performing vocals. They released one full-length album in 2005. Hynes went on to release two solo studio albums as Lightspeed Champion and subsequently four more as Blood Orange, between 2008 and 2018.
Justise Winslow
Justise Jon Winslow is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils where they won the 2015 NCAA Championship.
Aaron Ripkowski
Aaron Randal Ripkowski is a former American football fullback. He played college football at Oklahoma, and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 2015 NFL Draft.
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as an El Paso County Commissioner from 2007 to 2011 and the El Paso County Judge from 2011 until 2017.
Lindsey Morgan
Lindsey Marie Morgan is an American actress. She is best known for starring as mechanic Raven Reyes on The CW science fiction drama series The 100 (2014–2020).
Tevin Campbell
Tevin Jermod Campbell is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He performed gospel in his local church from an early age. Following an audition for jazz musician, Bobbi Humphrey, in 1988, Campbell was signed to Warner Bros. Records. In 1989, Campbell collaborated with Quincy Jones performing lead vocals for "Tomorrow" on Jones' album Back on the Block, and released his Platinum-selling debut album, T.E.V.I.N. The album included his highest-charting single to date, "Tell Me What You Want Me to Do", peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. The debut album also included the singles "Alone With You", and "Goodbye".
Kim Zmeskal
Kimberly Lynn Zmeskal Burdette is an American retired artistic gymnast turned gymnastics coach and the 1991 World All-Around champion. A member of the silver medal-winning U.S. team from the 1991 World Championships, she was the first American woman to ever win the all-around title at the World Championships, as well as the first to win a world championship medal of any color in the all-around. A three-time United States national all-around champion (1990–92), Zmeskal is also the 1992 world champion on both balance beam and floor exercise, and was a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. team at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, the first U.S. team medal won at a fully attended Olympic Games.