- Amarillo Slim
Amarillo Slim (born Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. December 31, 1928 in Johnson, Arkansas) is a professional gambler, famous for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the main event at the World Series of Poker in 1972. - Brian Deneke
Brian Deneke (March 9, 1978 - December 12, 1997) was a person who listened to American punk and was from Amarillo, Texas, USA, who became well-known after his untimely murder in 1997, at the age of 19. Brian Deneke was born and raised in Amarillo, TX. While growing up, Brian was a Boy Scout and a Kwahadi Dancer. He attended Crockett Middle School in his early teens. - William Thomas
William Thomas (born August 13, 1968 in Amarillo, Texas) is a former American football linebacker for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles (1991 - 1999) and Oakland Raiders (2000 - 2001) franchises. Thomas attended Palo Duro High School and later played college football in Texas A&M University. After college, the Philadelphia Eagles selected Thomas in the fourth round, 104th overall in the 1991 NFL Draft. He will later played for the Eagles in nine NFL seasons. - Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse is an American dancer and actress. She was born Tula Ellice Finklea on March 8, 1921, in Amarillo, Texas. Reputedly, the name "Cyd" was a nickname resulting from the inability of a sibling to pronounce the word "Sis". Cyd Charisse had celebrated on-screen pairings with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly . - Terry Funk
Terrance (Terry) Funk (born June 30, 1945) is an American professional wrestler, known chiefly for the hardcore wrestling style he adopted in the later part of his career that inspired many later wrestlers, most notably Mick Foley. He is affectionately known as "The Funker". - Kel Seliger
Kelton Gray “Kel” Seliger is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 31 in the Panhandle and the Permian Basin. Seliger was sworn in to the Texas Senate on March 2, 2004, to complete the term of Teel Bivins of Amarillo, who obtained a diplomatic appointment from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Seliger was reelected to serve a full, four-year term on November 4, 2004. - Joe Ely
Joe Ely (born February 9 1947) is an Austin, Texas honky-tonk/country musician. Ely, born in Amarillo, spent his formative years from age 12 in Lubbock, Texas. Shortly after high school, in 1970, with fellow Lubbock musicians Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, he formed The Flatlanders. According to Ely, "Jimmie was like a well of country music. He knew everything about it. And Butch was from the folk world. I was kinda the rock & roll guy, and we almost had a triad. - Dory Funk Jr.
Dorrance Funk, Jr. better known as Dory Funk, Jr. (born February 3, 1942) is a professional wrestler and wrestling trainer. He is the son of Dory Funk Sr. and brother of Terry Funk. He is credited with the invention of the Texas cloverleaf submission hold, and runs the Funking Conservatory, a professional wrestling school. His students and friends participate in a wrestling show, local to Ocala, Florida, called !BANG!. - Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Jones was an American actress, she is best remembered for playing the role of Morticia Addams in the classic TV Series "The Addams Family". Carolyn Sue Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, she was named after actress Carole Lombard, and after moving to California, joined the Pasadena Playhouse in 1947, learning her craft and acting under the stage name Carolyn Jones. She secured a contract with Paramount Studios and made her first film in 1952. - Kevin Fowler
Kevin Fowler (born Amarillo, Texas) is an American country music singer. He is known for singing Texas Country music. - Terry Stafford
Terry Stafford (born Terry LaVerne Stafford, 22 November 1941, Hollis, Oklahoma - died 17 March 1996, Amarillo, Texas) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1964 U.S. Top Ten hit "Suspicion". The song "Suspicion", released on the Crusader record label, which had previously been recorded by Elvis Presley, made it to number 3 in the U.S. and number 31 in the UK Singles Chart. His follow-up, "I’ll Touch a Star" made number 23 in America. - Teel Bivins
Miles Teel Bivins (born 22 November 1947) served as United States ambassador to Sweden between 2004 and 2006. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 21, 2004 and sworn-in in Washington D.C. on May 26, 2004. Bivins presented his credentials to King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm on June 9 2004. Bivins formerly served as a Republican member of the Texas Senate from 1989 to 2004 from Senate District 31. - John Marvin Jones
Judge John Marvin Jones (February 26, 1882 - March 4, 1976) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas and Chief Judge of the federal Court of Claims. Marvin Jones was born to Horace King and Theodicia Jones on a cotton farm in Cooke County, Texas near the town of Valley View, Texas. By the age of 17, he was a teacher in a one-room school, and worked his way through Southwestern University, … - John T. Smithee
John True Smithee (born September 7, 1951) is an Amarillo attorney who has been a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since January 1985. Smithee's District 86 includes rural Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, and Deaf Smith counties. His district office is in Amarillo. He represents that part of Amarillo, some 40 percent of the population, located to the south of the central city within Randall County. The remainder of Amarillo, the seat of Potter County, … - Ben Sargent
Ben Sargent (born 1948) is an American editorial cartoonist. Since 1974, he has been drawing editorial cartoons for the "Austin American-Statesman". His cartoons are also distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate. He was born in Amarillo, Texas, into a newspaper family. He learned the printing trade from age twelve and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at fourteen. - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas. - Brandon Slay
Brandon Slay (born October 14, 1975) is a former Olympic wrestler for the United States. Brandon was born in Amarillo, Texas and now lives in Dallas where he works for Stream Realty Partners, a commercial real estate firm. - David Swinford
David Anthony Swinford (born June 28, 1941) is an agricultural consultant from the Texas Panhandle who is an influential Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. Swinford represents District 87, which includes Carson, Moore, and Sherman counties and populous Potter County. Swinford's district office is located in Amarillo, the seat of Potter County, and his residence is in Dumas, the seat of Moore County, some fifty miles north of Amarillo. - John Rich
John Rich (born in Amarillo, Texas on January 7, 1974) is a member of the country music duo Big & Rich. In addition to performing, Rich is also a prominent country music songwriter. - Evan Tanner
Evan Lloyd Tanner (born February 11 ,1971 in Amarillo, Texas) is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He is a former UFC Middleweight and USWF Heavyweight champion with a professional record of 32 wins and 6 losses. Tanner first won championship gold when he defeated Heath Herring at USWF 7, and went on to successfully defend that title five times. Tanner then won the UFC Middleweight title at "UFC 51", … - Trent Willmon
Trent Willmon (born March 6, 1973 in Amarillo, Texas) is an American country music singer-songwriter. He was raised in a ranch near Afton, Texas. He spent the early years of high school learning about agriculture, but at 16, he was given a guitar, and his interest in music began to grow. By his second year in college, he dropped out to join a bluegrass band. In 1995, he moved to Nashville to start a songwriting career, … - Paul Buentello
Paul Anthony "The Headhunter" Buentello (born January 16, 1974 in Amarillo, Texas) is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. - Ryan Palmer
Ryan Palmer (born September 19 1976) is an American professional golfer. Palmer was born in Amarillo, Texas. He has won one PGA Tour tournament. - Larry Combest
Larry Ed Combest (born March 20 1945) is a Texas Republican U.S. politician who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985-2003. Combest was born in Memphis, the seat of Hall County in West Texas. In 1969, he earned his bachelor of business administration degree from West Texas State University in Canyon, the seat of Randall County south of Amarillo. His family operated a farm for four generations. - Paul Lockhart
Paul S. "Paco" Lockhart, Colonel U.S.Air Force, (born 28 April 1956) is a former American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Lockhart, born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, earned degrees in mathematics and aerospace engineering from Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin before being commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1981. A test pilot for the F-16 aircraft, Lockhart was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1996. - Alex O'Brien
Alex O'Brien (born March 7, 1970 in Amarillo, Texas) is a professional tennis player from the United States, who competed on the ATP Tour. He was the No. 1 doubles player in the world (gaining that ranking on May 8, 2000) and was ranked as high as 30 in the world in singles (gaining that ranking on June 21, 1997). He won his only singles title at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1996. He won 13 doubles titles, the biggest coming at the U.S. Open in 1999, … - Gail Caldwell
Gail Caldwell is the chief book critic for "The Boston Globe", where she has been on staff since 1985. Caldwell was the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. The award was for eight Sunday reviews and two other columns written in 2000. According to the Pulitzer Prize board, those columns were noted for “her insightful observations on contemporary life and literature.” Caldwell was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. - Leroy Matthiesen
Leroy Matthiesen (born June 11, 1921) is a theologian, political and social activist, and the retired Catholic Bishop of Amarillo, Texas. Matthiesen was born in Olfen, Texas. He is notable for pursuing unpopular causes within the concerns of Catholicism, including a stay of execution for the killer of a nun, and providing sacramental duties for homosexuals, as well as influencing the resignation Catholic workers at the Pantex plant in the 1980s. - Mike Knox
Mike Hettinga (born on July 17, 1978 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its "ECW" brand and in the developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling under the ring name Mike Knox. - Richard Douglas Husband
Richard Douglas Husband was an astronaut and the space shuttle commander of STS-107 ("Columbia") who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. - Jodi Thomas
Jodi Thomas (born Amarillo, Texas) is the pen name of Jodi Koumalats, an American author of historical romance novels, most of which are set in Texas. - J. D. Souther
J. D. Souther, born John David Souther on November 3, 1946 in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Amarillo, Texas, is a singer-songwriter country rock singer and actor. - Ann Doran
Ann Doran, was an American character actress. She was born Ann Lee Doran in Amarillo, Texas. Starting from the age of four, she appeared in hundreds of silent films under assumed names, so that her father's family would not find out. She was rarely in a featured role, with the exceptions of Jean Andrews in "Rio Grande" (1938) and James Dean's dominating mother in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955). - Erik Watts
Erik Watts (born December 19, 1967) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s. - Brad Bryant
Bradley Dub Bryant (born December 11, 1954) is an American golfer. Bryant was born in Amarillo, Texas. He attended the University of New Mexico and turned professional in 1976. His only win on the PGA Tour came at the age of forty at the 1995 Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic. He now plays on the Champions Tour on which he won for the first time at the 2006 Toshiba Classic and followed up later the same year by winning the Regions Charity Classic. - Dick Hutton
Dick Hutton was a professional wrestler who was trained by Ed 'Strangler' Lewis. Notably, he won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship on November 14 1957 from Lou Thesz. - Mark Youngblood
Mark Romero is a retired 2nd generation professional wrestler better known as Mark Youngblood. - Beau Boulter
Eldon Beau Boulter (born February 23, 1942) is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist who was a Republican congressman from Texas between 1985 and 1989. He represented the sprawling district that stretches from Amarillo to Wichita Falls and embraces the Texas Panhandle. In 1988, after two terms, he gave up the House seat to challenge unsuccessfully the reelection of Democratic Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., (1921-2006). Boulter was born in El Paso, Texas. - Chris Romero
Chris Romero is a retired 2nd generation professional wrestler who is better known as Chris Youngblood. - Eck Robertson
Alexander "Eck" Robertson (November 20, 1886-February 17, 1975) was an American fiddle player. In 1922, he became the first fiddler and first country musician to be recorded when he performed 8 tracks for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York City. His rendition of "Sally Gooden" showcased his ability to interpret one melody with several variations.
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