- Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson (born William Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called "outlaw country" movement of the 1970s. - Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin (19th January, 1943 - 4 October, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. She was one of the most influential rock singers of the 1960s and is widely considered to be the greatest female rock singer of the decade. - Townes van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt (March 7 1944 - January 1 1997) was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Although Van Zandt was not widely known before his death, he has since slowly gained a cult status. His songs have been covered by such notable musicians as Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Norah Jones, John Prine, Gillian Welch, Devendra Banhart, The Meat Puppets, GG Allin, Johnny Dowd, … - 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. - Don Walser
Donald Ray Walser (September 14 1934 - September 20 2006) was an American country music singer. He was known as a unique, award-winning yodeling "Texas country music legend." - Roky Erickson
Roky Erickson (born Roger Kynard Erickson on July 15 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist from Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators and pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre. One of rock and roll's most famous cult figures, Erickson is perhaps as well-known for his mental illness (and subsequent recovery) as for his musical talents. - Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong Facing testicular cancer and not yet knowing his own fate, in 1997 champion cyclist Lance Armstrong established the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a non-profit organization that inspires and empowers people affected by cancer. This marked the beginning of Lance's role as an advocate for cancer survivors and a world representative for the cancer community. - Marcia Ball
Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949) is an American blues singer and pianist born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana. This same region spawned other American blues greats, including Clifton Chenier, Janis Joplin, Lonnie Brooks, and Kenny Neal. Born into a musical family, Ball began playing piano at age 5, and showed an early interest in New Orleans style piano playing, as exemplified by Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, and James Booker. - Nanci Griffith
Nanci Caroline Griffith, (born July 6, 1953 in Seguin, Texas) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas. Griffith's career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, folk, and what she terms "folkabilly." Griffith won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her recording, "Other Voices, Other Rooms". This album features Griffith covering the songs of artists who are her major influences. - Eliza Gilkyson
Eliza Gilkyson (born in Hollywood, California about 1950) is an Austin, Texas based folk musician. Her father was the songwriter and folk musician Terry Gilkyson. She is the sister of guitarist Tony Gilkyson, formerly of the band X. - Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956 in Vermillion, South Dakota) is a Grammy Award winning American musician. - Alejandro Escovedo
Alejandro Escovedo is an American musician. He is from a very musical family that has generated several professional musicians, including longtime Prince collaborator Sheila E (who is Escovedo's niece). Escovedo began performing in the first-wave punk rock group The Nuns, with Delphine Neid, Jennifer Miro, and Jeff Olener, in San Francisco, California. After Escovedo's departure, The Nuns recorded an album on Posh Boy Records, but had little commercial success. - Alex Jones
Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11 1974) is an American radio host and filmmaker who is best known for his work in promotion of conspiracy theories. - Bob Schneider
Bob Schneider (born October 12, 1965) is an Austin, Texas-based musician and artist, born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and raised in Munich, Germany. The son of an opera singer, his parents moved to Germany, when he was two. He was taught guitar and piano at an early age. He kicked around for years in various bands before embarking on a solo career. He dropped out of the University of Texas at El Paso to front his first band, the funk-and-rap outfit Joe Rockhead. - Tommy Shane Steiner
Tommy Shane Steiner (born October 9, 1979 in Austin, Texas) is an American country music artist. - James McMurtry
James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American folk music singer-songwriter and the son of novelist Larry McMurtry. James' father gave him his first guitar at age seven. His mother, an English professor, taught him how to play it: "My mother taught me three chords and the rest I just stole as I went along. I learned everything by ear or by watching people." - Harry Whittington
Harry M. Whittington (born March 3, 1927) is an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure from Austin, Texas who received international media attention on February 11, 2006, when he was accidentally shot in the face by Vice President Dick Cheney while hunting quail with two women on a ranch in Corpus Christi, Texas. - 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. - Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an Mexican-American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. Rodriguez shoots and produces many of his films in Texas and Mexico. - Scott McClellan
Scott McClellan (born February 14, 1968) was the White House Press Secretary (2003-2006) for President George W. Bush. On April 19, 2006, McClellan announced that he would be leaving the Administration but that he would remain in the position of Press Secretary until a replacement was selected. Tony Snow was announced as McClellan's replacement on April 26, 2006. - Steve Austin
Steven James Williams (born Steven Anderson on December 18, 1964) better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American actor and former professional wrestler. After debuting in 1989, Austin wrestled for promotions such as World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment. Austin was forced to retire from the ring in 2003 due to neck, … - Kelly Willis
Kelly Willis is a country music singer-songwriter, whose music has been described as contemporary country, alternative country and new traditionalist. - Bruce Robison
Bruce Robison is a country music singer-songwriter. He is married to singer-songwriter Kelly Willis; they have four children. Bruce and his brother, fellow singer-songwriter Charlie Robison (husband of Dixie Chicks member Emily Robison), grew up in Bandera, Texas and currently reside in Austin, Texas. Bruce has written several hit songs, including "Travelin' Soldier," released by the Dixie Chicks in 2003, reaching No. - Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater is the writer/director of several films, including Fast Food Nation, Dazed & Confused, School of Rock, and Waking Life. He also serves as artistic director of the Austin Film Society, founded in 1985 to showcase films from around the world not typically shown in Austin. The Film Society was the first recipient of the National Honoree Award from the Directors Guild of America in recognition of its support of the arts. - Charlie Sexton
Charles Wayne Sexton (born August 11, 1968) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band from 1999 to 2002. Sexton's mother was 16 years old when she gave birth to him in San Antonio, Texas. When he was four, he and his mother moved to Austin, where clubs like the Armadillo World Headquarters, the Soap Creek Saloon, and more notably the Split Rail and Antone's Blues Club exposed him to popular music. - Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. While Bush was Governor of Texas, Gonzales had served as his general counsel (1994-1997). Subsequently he served as Secretary of State of Texas (1997-1999) and then on the Texas Supreme Court (1999-2000). From 2001 to 2005, Gonzales served in the Bush Administration as White House Counsel. - Hayes Carll
Joshua Hayes Carll, known as Hayes Carll, is a singer/songwriter from The Woodlands, Texas currently signed to Lost Highway Records. Raised in a Houston suburb by two working parents (who he has identified as "liberal"), Carll has cited influences in his youth from such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and John Prine to Jack Kerouac and Dead Poets Society. He received his first guitar at 15. - Ann Richards
Dorothy Ann (Willis) Richards (September 1, 1933 - September 13, 2006) was an American politician and teacher from Texas. She first came to national attention as the Texas state treasurer, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards served as Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994. Born during the start of the Depression in rural Texas, … - Toni Price
Toni Price (b. March 13, 1961, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a country-blues singer-songwriter resident in Austin, Texas. Her adoptive parents, the Prices, named her Luiese Esther after her grandmothers. Her first exposure to blues was through second-generation blueswoman Bonnie Raitt. Luiese later began to study the recordings of women blues singers such asSippie Wallace and Victoria Spivey, from whose music Raitt herself had learned. - Matthew McConaughey
Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. After a series of minor roles in the early 1990s (including his breakout role in "Dazed and Confused", director Richard Linklater's second feature film), he appeared in films such as "A Time to Kill" and "U-571". He also played the leading man in several romantic comedies, including "The Wedding Planner" (2001), … - Sara Hickman
Sara Hickman (born March 1, 1963) is a rock/folk/pop/children's music singer, songwriter, and artist. - Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer. Wilson was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of "The Royal Tenenbaums", but he is perhaps best known for his successful comedic roles such as John Beckwith in "Wedding Crashers" and as Hansel in "Zoolander". Owen is considered a part of the Frat Pack, a set of actors including Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, … - Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American writer, producer, and director of films and commercials. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. - Ethan Hawke
Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, writer and film director. - Terri Hendrix
Terri Hendrix is an Austin Texas-based singer, best known for co-writing the Dixie Chicks song "Lil' Jack Slade." - Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller, born Stewart Ransom Miller II in Austin, Texas on September 6, 1970, is the lead singer of the alt-country band Old 97's as well as a successful solo musician. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas in 1989. Miller briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College before dropping out after one semester. In 1990, Miller joined Murry Hammond and drummer Benjamin Warrenfells to form Sleepy Heroes, a Dallas-based "alterna-pop" band. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for designing his Great Society, … - Household Names
Household Names have been together since 1998, with various members rotating throughout the line-up with singer, Jason Garcia, until it was solidified in the summer of 2000 with bassist/keyboardist, Chris Peters, and drummer, C. J. Barker, permanently joining the group. The band started when Garcia met Peters and Barker through an ad in the local weekly. "I had done a few things on my own before that," Garcia says, … - Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Alton Doggett II (born October 6, 1946), American politician, is a Democratic politician from Texas. He has represented a district based in the state capital, Austin, since 1995. It is currently numbered as the 25th Congressional district but was numbered as the 10th Congressional district from 1995 to 2005. - Bruce Sterling
Author, journalist, editor, and critic, Bruce Sterling is also leader of the Viridians an online ecological design community. He has written eight science fiction novels, and edited the anthology Mirrorshades, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement. He also wrote the non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992), available electronically on the Internet.
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