- Jim Ward
"Jim Ward" (born September 19, 1976 in El Paso, Texas) is the lead vocalist, guitarist and leader of the band Sparta. A self-taught guitarist and pianist, he was also the co-founder of the seminal (and now defunct) post-hardcore band At the Drive-In. - Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre Reyes (born 10 November 1944 in Canutillo, Texas) represents the Texas's 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Reyes served in the United States Army and he later worked for the U.S. Border Patrol. In 1993, serving as the Chief Patrol Agent of the El Paso Border Patrol Sector, Reyes led the Border Patrol to position agents on the border to intercept illegal immigrants. He is a Vietnam War veteran. - Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Cedric Bixler-Zavala (born November 4, 1974 in Redwood City, California) is the lead singer and lyricist of The Mars Volta, and was previously the lead singer and lyricist of At the Drive-In. - Eddie Guerrero
Eduardo Gory Guerrero (October 9 1967 – November 13 2005) better known by his ring name Eddie Guerrero, was a Mexican-American professional wrestler born into a legendary Mexican wrestling family. Through the 1990s, he had a distinguished career, working for every major professional wrestling promotion in the United States during that period: Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). - Miguel Terrazas
Miguel Terrazas (c. 1985, El Paso, Texas - 19 November 2005, Haditha, Iraq) was a 20-year-old Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corps who was killed in action on November 19, 2005 while conducting combat operations for Operation Iraqi Freedom in Haditha, Iraq. His death has been cited as the reason that led to the alleged killing of a number of non-combatants by his fellow Marines. Terrazas was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1), 1st Marine Regiment, … - Chavo Guerrero
Chavo Guerrero, Sr. (born Salvador Guerrero Llanes on January 7, 1949) is a former professional wrestler. - Don Haskins
Donald L. "Don" Haskins (born March 16, 1930 in Enid, Oklahoma, United States) is a former collegiate basketball coach and player. He played for three years under legendary coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University). He was the head coach at Texas Western College (renamed the University of Texas at El Paso in 1967) from 1961 to 1999, … - Jeff Bingaman
Jesse Francis "Jeff" Bingaman Jr. (born October 3, 1943) is the junior U.S. Senator from New Mexico. He has been in the Senate since 1983 and is a member of the Democratic Party. Bingaman was Attorney General of New Mexico from 1978 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 1982, when he defeated Republican incumbent and former astronaut Harrison Schmitt. He was re-elected in 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006. - Norma Chavez
Norma Chavez (born 29 June 1960) is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 76 covering Ysleta and parts of El Paso in El Paso County. Chavez is seeking reelection in 2006 and faced challenger Martha "Marty" Reyes, an Ysleta Independent School District trustee, in the Democratic primary on March 7, 2006. Chavez easily won the Democratic primary election with seventy percent of the votes cast. - John Cook
John Cook (born February 27, 1946; Brooklyn, New York) is an American teacher, businessman, veteran, civic leader, and member of the Paso Del Norte Group. Cook has been Mayor of El Paso, Texas since June 2005. Cook graduated from Immaculata High School in 1964. He attended the University of Texas at El Paso and earned a degree in business in 1977. In 1970, Cook married his current wife Tram Cook, … - Bobby Fuller
Bobby Fuller was an American rock singer and guitarist best known for his classic "I Fought the Law". - Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. - Chavo Guerrero Jr.
Chavo Guerrero, Jr. (born Salvador Chavito Guerrero III on October 20, 1970) is a third generation American professional wrestler and member of the famed Guerrero wrestling family. He is the grandson of Gory Guerrero; the son of Chavo Guerrero, Sr.; the nephew of Eddie Guerrero, Hector Guerrero, Mando Guerrero and Enrique Llanes; and the cousin of Javier Llanes and Hector Mejia. - Julio Venegas
Julio Venegas (April 3, 1972 - February 15, 1996) was an artist and musician from El Paso, Texas who committed suicide in 1996. The Mars Volta, a rock band comprised of former members of the El Paso band At the Drive-In and other musicians, released a debut album entitled "De-Loused in the Comatorium", which is a concept album about a character named Cerpin Taxt, whom the band has said is based almost entirely on Venegas. - Victoriano Huerta
José Victoriano Huerta Márquez (Colotlán, Jalisco, December 23, 1850, - January 13, 1916 in El Paso, Texas) was a Mexican military officer and president of Mexico. Huerta was born in the town of Colotlán, Jalisco, son of Jesús Huerta and Refugio Márquez who were of Mestizo descent. He entered the Mexican Army at the age of 17, distinguished himself and gained admission to the Military Academy at Chapultepec. - Vickie Guerrero
Vickie Guerrero " is a professional wrestling personality and widow of professional wrestler Eddie Guerrero currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on its "SmackDown! brand, where she is the Assistant General Manager. She has also made appearances at different venues in memory of her husband such as collecting "The Star Of the Mountain Award" in Eddie's hometown, El Paso, Texas, and speaking on WWE.com about Eddie's induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. - Sandra Day O'Connor
Born in 1930, O'Connor, grew up on an 198,000-acre cattle ranch in Arizona. By the time she was 8, she could mend fences, drive a truck and ride horses with the cowboys on the ranch. In 1952, she graduated from Stanford Law School in California. But law firms would not hire a woman lawyer, so she turned to public service. "In my lifetime, I have seen attitudes about women change dramatically," she told TFK. "Today, almost all occupations are open to women. - Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American scriptwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of "Star Trek". He would also become one of the first people to be buried in space. - Eliot Shapleigh
Eliot Shapleigh (born November 11, 1952) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 29th Senatorial District which comprises the majority of El Paso County, Texas. - Hector Guerrero
Hector Manuel Guerrero Llanes (born October 11, 1954) is a Mexican-American professional wrestler, better known simply by his paternal name, Hector Guerrero. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a Spanish color commentator and road agent. - Shoshana Johnson
Shoshana Nyree Johnson (born 1971) was the first black female prisoner of war in the military history of the United States. Johnson was a Specialist of the U.S. Army 507th Maintenance Company, 5/52 ADA BN, 11th ADA Brigade. During a gun fight that lead to her capture she suffered bullet wounds to both of her ankles. She was freed in a rescue mission conducted by U.S. Marines on April 13, 2003. - Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk grew up in Plano, Texas. After high school, Alan attended Lon Morris Junior College from 1990-1991, where he studied drama. While there, he was an active member of Delta Psi Omega. In 1991, he was awarded the Academic Excellence award for Drama, as well as Most Likely to Succeed and Sophomore Beaus. In 1993, he continued his studies at Juilliard until 1996, when he left before earning a ... show all Alan Tudyk grew up in Plano, Texas. - Harold P. Warren
Harold P. Warren was a fertilizer salesman who lived in the El Paso, Texas area. He is best remembered for writing, directing, and producing the 1966 movie, "Manos" The Hands of Fate". "Manos" is remembered as one of the worst films of all time. Warren made "Manos" on a bet. He had met Stirling Silliphant, who was in the area scouting locations for a film. - Raymond Telles
Raymond Telles (b. September 5, 1915, in El Paso) was the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city, El Paso, Texas.. Telles was elected the city's first Hispanic mayor in 1957. Educated as an accountant, Telles worked at the United States Department of Justice for eight years. He was drafted into the Army in 1941. Telles then served in the U.S. Army Air Force where he became Chief of the Lend-Lease Program for Central and South America. - Dallas Stoudenmire
Dallas Stoudenmire (1845-1882) was an Old West gunman and lawman, who gained fame for a brief gunfight that was later dubbed the "Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight". Although lesser known than many others from the Old West called "gunfighters", his name is becoming more prominent. Hollywood briefly considered a movie of him, but it has yet to materialize. - Joe Wardy
Joseph D. Wardy (b. 1953), is the former mayor of El Paso, Texas. He was elected mayor in 2003, when he defeated the previous incumbent Raymond Caballero. Wardy was defeated by John Cook in the 2005 municipal election. Wardy, a businessman in the trucking industry, was generally regarded as favorable to business interests, in contrast to his predecessor's more confrontational stand against "big developers" and industries. - John Reynolds
John Markward Reynolds, Jr was an American actor, best remembered for his portrayal of Torgo in "Manos: The Hands of Fate". The movie would be his only film role, and he died before its release. Over 25 years after his death, Reynolds gained a following when "Manos" was featured on an episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Torgo was a satyr, a man who is half human and half goat. - John Rechy
John Rechy, (born March 10, 1934 in El Paso, Texas), is an American author. His novels reflect his background as a gay man of Mexican-Scottish descent. - Richard Ramirez
Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramirez aka The Nightstalker (born February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas) is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media as he terrorized California with a series of car and home abductions, rapes, and murders during the first half of 1985. - Beto O'Rourke
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (born 1973), is an American entrepreneur, civic leader, and former member of the Paso Del Norte Group. O'Rourke has been the District 8 representative of El Paso, Texas, since June 2005. O'Rourke is a fourth-generation El Paso native. He is the son of former El Paso County Judge Pat O'Rourke, and Melissa O'Rourke. His grandparents were Frank and Mildred O'Rourke and Robert and Charlotte Williams. - Phil Ochs
Philip David Ochs was a U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a "topical singer"), songwriter, musician and recording artist who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. He wrote hundreds of songs in the 1960s and released eight LP record albums in his lifetime. He performed at many political events, anti-Vietnam War and civil rights rallies, student events, … - Arturo Islas
Arturo Islas, (May 25, 1938) a native of El Paso, Texas, was a professor of English and a novelist, writing about the experience of Chicano cultural duality. He received three degrees from Stanford: a B.A. in 1960, a master's in 1963 and a Ph.D. in English in 1971, when he joined the Stanford faculty. Islas died on February 15, 1991 from complications related to AIDS. - Nolan Richardson
Nolan Richardson (b. December 27, 1941 in El Paso, Texas, United States) was a college basketball coach at the University of Tulsa and the University of Arkansas. He won the NCAA title with the University of Arkansas in 1994 and was runner-up the following year. Richardson played collegiately at Texas Western College, now the University of Texas at El Paso, playing his senior year under the school's new coach, future Basketball Hall of Famer Don Haskins. - Barbara Lee
Barbara Jean Lee (born July 16 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing (map) and is the first woman to represent that district. Congresswoman Lee was born in El Paso, Texas. She moved from Texas to California in 1960 with her military family parents, and attended high school at San Fernando High School, San Fernando, California. - Pat Garrett
Patrick "Pat" Floyd Garrett (June 5, 1850 - February 28, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent who was most known for killing Billy the Kid. - John Wesley Hardin
John Wesley Hardin was an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West. He was born in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas. - Sam Donaldson
Samuel Andrew Donaldson (born March 11, 1934 in El Paso, Texas) was a reporter and news anchor for ABC News, anchoring the Sunday edition of "World News Tonight" from its inception in January 1979 through the 1990s. He was known for his loud, distinctive cadence and his persistence in questioning senior government officials, up to, and including, the President of the United States. - Ralph Yarborough
Ralph Webster Yarborough (June 8, 1903 - January 27, 1996) was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate (1957 until 1971) and was a leader of the progressive or liberal wing of his party in his many races for statewide office. As a U.S. senator, he was a staunch supporter and author of "Great Society" legislation that encompassed Medicare and Medicaid, the War on Poverty, federal support for higher education and veterans. - Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, dancer and singer. - Calamity Jane
Martha Jane Canary-Burke, better known as Calamity Jane, was a frontierswoman and professional scout most well-known for her claim of being a close friend of Wild Bill Hickok, but also having gained fame fighting Native Americans.
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