- Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. Spelling currently holds the world record as the world's most prolific television producer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits.
- Ernie Banks
Ernest "Ernie" Banks (born January 31, 1931 in Dallas, Texas) is an American former Major League baseball player who played his entire career with the Chicago Cubs (1953-1971). Banks is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. His nickname was Mr. Cub. He currently resides in the Los Angeles area.
- Larry Johnson
Larry Demetric Johnson (born March 14, 1969 in Dallas, Texas) is a retired American professional basketball player who spent his professional career with the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks in the NBA. He was listed as a 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) forward. Johnson played his collegiate ball at UNLV, winning the 1990 NCAA Championship title with them, was selected first overall in the 1991 NBA Draft by the Hornets, …
- Sam Johnson
Samuel Robert "Sam" Johnson (born October 11, 1930) is an American politician. He currently is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Third District of Texas (map).
- Glenn Morshower
Glenn Morshower (born April 24, 1959) is an American character actor perhaps known for his recurring role as Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce on the television drama "24." Aside from series star Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer), Morshower is the only actor to appear in each of the six seasons of the series. His character Pierce has developed a following among the show's fandom. Morshower was born in Dallas, Texas. He began his acting career at the age of 17.
- Trammell Crow
F. Trammell Crow (born June 11, 1914, in Dallas, Texas) is an American property developer who created several famous projects, including Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center (Atlanta, Georgia), and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center.
- Scott Verplank
Scott Rachal Verplank (born July 9 1964) is an American professional golfer. Verplank was born in Dallas, Texas. He was a leading member of the W.T. White High School Golf Team and a regular at Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas. While attending Oklahoma State University he won at the Western Open, becoming the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Doug Sanders won the 1956 Canadian Open.
- Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born), better known as Meat Loaf, is an American rock singer and actor of stage and screen. He is noted for his albums "Bat Out Of Hell I, II, and III" and several famous songs from movies. The Neverland Express is the name of the band he fronts, as its lead singer. In 2001, he changed his first name to Michael. Despite setbacks (including bankruptcy, on more than one occasion), …
- Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 - August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Screwball Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy into regular cartoon characters.
- Cowboy Troy
Cowboy Troy (born Troy Coleman, December 18, 1970 in Victoria, Texas) is an African-American country rap singer-songwriter. He graduated from Skyline High School in the Dallas Independent School District. Subsequently, he completed a bachelor's degree in psychology at The University of Texas. Prior to his career as a singer, he worked as the manager of a Dallas Foot Locker.
- Peri Gilpin
Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay O'Brien on May 27 1961, in Waco, Texas) is an actress best known for the role of Roz Doyle on the very successful U.S. television series "Frasier", for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Gilpin is one of the children of the late Jim O'Brien, …
- The D.O.C.
Tracy Lynn Curry (born June 10, 1968), known as The D.O.C., is an American rapper born in Houston, Texas, moved to Dallas, Texas where he was a member of the Fila Fresh Crew. He later lived in Compton, California, where he joined the creative force behind the rap group N.W.A. The D.O.C. contributed lyrics and vocals to Eazy E's debut, "Eazy-Duz-It", and to N.W.A's debut, "Straight Outta Compton".
- Jim Wright
James Claude Wright, Jr. (born December 22, 1922), usually known as Jim Wright, is a former U.S. Congressman from Texas who served 34 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the Speaker of the House from 1987 to 1989.
- Roy Hargrove
Roy A. Hargrove (born October 16 1969) is an American jazz trumpeter. Hargrove was born in Waco, Texas, and was discovered as a potential jazz talent when Wynton Marsalis visited his high school, Dallas's Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. One of his biggest influences was saxophone player David "Fathead" Newman, who played with the Ray Charles Band at Hargrove's junior high school.
- Karen Hughes
Karen Parfitt Hughes (born December 27, 1956) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas. She currently serves as the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State with the rank of ambassador. She resides in Austin, Texas where she is an elder in her church, Westlake Hills Presbyterian.
- Karan Ashley
Karan Ashley (born Karan Ashley Jackson September 28, 1975 in Odessa, Texas) is an American actress. She graduated from David W. Carter High School in Dallas, Texas. Her first acting job was in the series "Kenan and Kel" (with Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell). She left that role to play Aisha Campbell, the second Yellow Ranger in "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers", replacing Thuy Trang (Trini). Staying on for two years, Karan left the show in 1996, …
- Chris Bosh
Christopher Wesson Bosh (born March 24 1984) is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association who plays for the Toronto Raptors. Garnering an array of basketball accolades since his high school days, Bosh left college after one season to enter the 2003 NBA Draft. He was selected fourth overall by the Raptors in what proved to be a very competitive draft class. Since his NBA career began, Bosh, who plays the forward position, …
- Harvey Martin
Harvey Banks Martin (born November 16, 1950 in Dallas, Texas; died December 24, 2001) was a defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys from 1973 until 1983. He started playing football in high school, only because he overheard his father tell his mother that he was ashamed that his son didn't play like his friends' kids. He eventually starred at South Oak Cliff High School and East Texas State University before being drafted in the third round of the 1973 NFL draft.
- Davey O'Brien
Robert David O'Brien was an American football player who played quarterback at Texas Christian University and for the Philadelphia Eagles, and was also an agent for the FBI. O'Brien played college football at Texas Christian University, and in 1938 led TCU to an undefeated season. O'Brien was named to thirteen All-American teams that season and became the first college football player to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and Walter Camp Award in the same year.
- Andre Emmett
Andre Emmett (born August 27 1982 in Dallas, Texas) is an American professional basketball player. He currently plays for the NBA Development League team the Los Angeles D-Fenders. Emmett played college basketball at Texas Tech University. Emmett won the 2004 NCAA slam dunk contest, leaping over six children to take the title. Emmett earned the only perfect score of the night in the semifinals by tossing a bounce pass to himself off the back wall.
- Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is a Tony Award-nominated American television, stage and film actor best known for playing characters who are amiable, brainy, and/or clueless.
- Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell (born on March 27, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress who is currently known for her role as Dr. Juliet Burke, one of the main characters on ABC's hit TV series "Lost"
- Abner Haynes
Abner Haynes was a college and professional football player in the United States. A graduate of North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas) in 1960 he chose to play for the Dallas Texans and led the American Football League in rushing attempts, yards, and TDs in the league’s first year. Haynes helped launch the AFL in 1960, when he was the fledgling league's first Player of the Year, and its first Rookie of the Year.
- Michael Nesmith
Robert Michael Nesmith, born in Houston, Texas, is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, perhaps best known for his time in the musical group The Monkees and on the TV series of the same name. Nesmith's mother was Bette Nesmith Graham. He has two sons, Christian DuVal Nesmith (1-31-64) and Jonathan Darby Nesmith (2-4-68), and a daughter, Jessica Buffler Nesmith (9-10-70), by his first wife Phyllis Barbour, …
- Tim Brown
Timothy Donell Brown (born July 22, 1966) is a retired National Football League player who was predominantly used as a wide receiver and also as a kick and punt returner early in his career. He spent all but one season of his 16-year career on the Oakland Raiders, and played his last season in 2004 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- Acie Law IV
Acie Law IV (born January 25, 1985) is a basketball point guard who finished a four-year college career at Texas A&M University in 2007. In his four seasons at Texas A&M, Law scored 1,653 points and was credited with 540 assists. Nicknamed "Captain Clutch" for his ability to take over the game late, Law is well known among Aggie basketball fans for "The Shot," his buzzer-beating 3-pointer to beat the archrival Texas Longhorns at Reed Arena on March 1, 2006, …
- Stanley Marcus
Stanley Marcus was an early president (1950–1972) and later chairman of the board (1972–1976) of the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas. The Advertising Hall of Fame notes: "Stanley Marcus was among the most important figures in the history of American retail merchandising and marketing. Through his many innovations, he transformed a local Dallas clothing store into an international brand synonymous with high style, fashion and gracious service."
- Lamarcus Aldridge
LaMarcus Nurae Aldridge (born July 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas) is an American professional basketball player with the Portland Trail Blazers. He is a power forward.
- Terry Southern
Terry Southern was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer. He was part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village; he was at the center of Swinging London in the sixties and helped to change the style and substance of Hollywood films of the 1970s.
- Dave Duncan
David Edwin Duncan (born September 26, 1945 in Dallas, Texas) is a former Major League Baseball player and current pitching coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. He played 11 seasons as a catcher, with the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics for seven seasons, and was an important member of their 1972 World Championship team. He finished his career with the Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles. With a career batting average of .214, Duncan was mainly a defensive catcher.
- Tony Battie
Demetrius Antonio Battie (born February 11, 1976 in Dallas, Texas) is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic in the National Basketball Association. Battie attended South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas and played college basketball at Texas Tech University where he ended his career as the school all-time leader in blocked shots with 162. Battie was drafted 5th overall by the Denver Nuggets in the 1997 NBA Draft where he played one season.
- John Carona
John Joseph Carona (born 14 December 1955) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 16th District. First elected to the Texas Legislature in 1990, Carona is now in his fourth term in the Texas State Senate, representing District 16 in Dallas County. His current senate term runs through the end of the Eightieth Texas Legislature in 2009. Previously, Carona was elected to three terms in the Texas House of Representatives.
- Yvonne Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig (born May 16, 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois) is an American actress best known as Batgirl from the 1960s TV series "Batman".
- Quinton Ross
Quinton Lenord Ross (born April 30 1981 in Dallas Texas) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays small forward for the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA. Ross led Dallas' Justin F. Kimball High School to the state finals, but they lost in the championship game. He went undrafted in the 2003 NBA Draft after graduating from Southern Methodist University where he majored in economics.
- Kenyon Martin
Kenyon Lee Martin, is an American professional basketball player. Nicknamed 'K-Mart', he currently plays at power forward for the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets. After participating in two games, Martin missed the entire 2006-07 NBA season because of a damaged right knee which required microfracture surgery, his second such surgery in 1½ years. He is expected to come back in the 2007-2008 season.
- Jerry Mays
Gerald Avery Mays (November 24, 1939 - July 17, 1994) was a football player who starred collegiately for Southern Methodist University before becoming a standout at the professional level for the Kansas City Chiefs. Mays put together an all-state career at Sunset High School before heading to SMU, where he served as co-captain and earned All-Southwest Conference honors at defensive tackle.
- Chryste Gaines
Chryste Dionne Gaines (born September 14, 1970) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. She competed for the United States in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, USA in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates olympic 100m champion Gail Devers, Inger Miller and Gwen Torrence who won the 200m gold and a bronze in the 100m. She returned to Sydney for the 2000 Summer Olympics as the sole survivor of the 4 x 100 metre, …
- Dwight White
Dwight White (born July 30, 1949 in Hampton, Virginia) was an American football player who played defensive end with the Pittsburgh Steelers and was a member of the famed Steel Curtain defense. He played college football at Texas A&M University-Commerce. White was named "Mad Dog" White and became a Pro Bowl defensive end. He was one of the game's more colorful characters, but was also a standout defensive end who played with much intensity.
- Carroll Shelby
Carroll Hall Shelby, (born January 11, 1923 in Leesburg, Texas) is an American racing and automotive designer and former racing driver.
- Greg Ryan
Greg Ryan (born January 21, 1957) is the current head coach of the United States women's national soccer team (US WNT). He was previously the head coach at University of Wisconsin, Southern Methodist University, and Colorado College, and an assistant with the US WNT. Ryan, a native of Dallas, Texas, attended the Southern Methodist University from 1975-1978. He played on the men's soccer team, earning first team All American honors his senior year.