- Gregg Popovich
Gregg Popovich is the head coach of the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs - John Hagee
John C. Hagee (b. April 12, 1940) is the founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational evangelical church with more than 18,000 active members. Hagee is the President and CEO of John Hagee Ministries which telecasts his national radio and television ministry carried in America on 160 TV stations, 50 radio stations and eight networks. The ministries can be seen and heard weekly in 99 million homes. - David Robinson
David Maurice Robinson (born) is a retired American NBA basketball player, who is often considered one of the greatest centers to ever play the game. A born-again Christian, Robinson is also an amateur musician who enjoys playing various instruments at home. His nicknames include "The Admiral", based on his service as an officer in the United States Navy. Robinson is now on staff at the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. - Deaf Smith
Erastus "Deaf" Smith (April 19, 1787 - November 30, 1837) was an American frontiersman noted for his part in the Texas Revolution and the army of the Republic of Texas. He fought at the Grass Fight and the Battle of San Jacinto. After the war, Deaf Smith led a company of Texas Rangers. - Malik Rose
Malik Rose (born November 23 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American National Basketball Association player with the New York Knicks. Rose graduated from Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, the same high school as Wilt Chamberlain. He graduated from Drexel University with All-American honors after leading the Dragons to their lone NCAA Tournament victory with an upset of the University of Memphis 75-63. - Michael Doleac
Michael Scott Doleac (born June 15 1977 in San Antonio, Texas, USA) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Miami Heat of the NBA. He graduated from Central Catholic High School (Portland, Oregon) Doleac was selected 12th overall in the 1998 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1998. After four years at Utah, he was among the school's all-time top ten in 3 categories: 10th in scoring (1,519 points), … - Tom Benson
Tom Benson (born 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is the owner of the New Orleans Saints NFL team. He is also the owner of several automobile dealerships in the Greater New Orleans and San Antonio areas. Benson became wealthy by investing profits from his automobile dealerships in local banks. He eventually purchased several small Southern banks and formed Benson Financial, which he sold to Wells Fargo in 1996. - Phil Hardberger
Phil Hardberger was elected Mayor of San Antonio on June 7, 2005. A veteran public servant, Hardberger was the first Mayor in modern San Antonio history ever to have been elected from outside the City Council. A Texas native, Hardberger served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force where he piloted the B-47 bomber. He then went on to serve as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Peace Corps and as Assistant Director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. - Henry Cuellar
Henry Roberto Cuellar (born September 19, 1955) is a Democratic politician from Laredo, Texas, representing the state's 28th Congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. Cuellar's district extends from the Rio Grande to the suburbs of San Antonio - Jeff Wentworth
Earl Jeffrey “Jeff” Wentworth (born November 20, 1940) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate from the 25th District, based about San Antonio to the north. He has been in the Senate since 1993. In 2002, Wentworth had a close primary challenge waged by the then conservative state Representative John Shields of San Antonio, son-in-law of the popular businessman Red McCombs. - Henry Bonilla
Henry D. Bonilla (born January 2, 1954) is a former Congressman who represented Texas's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was defeated in his bid for re-election by Ciro Davis Rodriguez, a former Democratic member of Congress, in a special election runoff held on December 12, 2006. His term expired January 3, 2007 when the 110th Congress officially began. - Doug Sahm
Douglas Wayne Sahm, was a musician from Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he was a child prodigy in country music, but became a significant figure in blues, rock and other genres. Today Sahm is considered one of the most important figures in what is identified as Tex-Mex. He was the founder and leader of the 1960s hippie band The Sir Douglas Quintet, and later with Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez - The Texas Tornados. - Judith Zaffirini
Judith Zaffirini is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 21st District. As of January 9, 2007, Judith Zaffirini is the second in seniority in the 31-member Texas Senate where she has served for 20 years. Since her initial primary victory in 1986 over state Representative William N. “Billy” Hall of Laredo, Senator Zaffirini has continued to defeat challengers in her Webb County-based district. - Herb Kelleher
Herbert D. Kelleher (born March 12, 1931) is the co-founder, Chairman and former CEO of Southwest Airlines (based in the United States). Kelleher was born and raised in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. He has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and a Juris Doctor from New York University. At Wesleyan he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is married to the former Joan Negley and they have four children. - Charlie Gonzalez
Charles A. "Charlie" Gonzalez (born May 5, 1945), is a Democratic politician from Texas. He has represented the state's 20th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1999. The district includes more than half of San Antonio. Gonzalez was born in San Antonio, Texas. His father, Henry B. Gonzalez, represented the 20th from 1961 until his son took over in 1999. Charlie graduated from Thomas A. Edison High School. - Mike Villarreal
Michael U. “Mike” Villarreal is an American state politician serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from a district centered in north central San Antonio. A Democrat currently in his fifth term, Villarreal also works for San Antonio's SAMCO Capitol Markets, specializing in municipal finance, and teaches political science as an adjunct professor at St. Mary's University. - Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross (born Christopher Geppert on May 3 1951 in San Antonio, Texas) is an Oscar, Golden Globe and five-time Grammy winning, American singer-songwriter. - Peter Holt
Peter M. Holt, a Peoria, Illinois native, lived in San Antonio, Texas as a child before moving to Corpus Christi, Texas. Today, the great-grandson of Benjamin Holt, who developed the first practical track-type tractor 100 years ago, is the chief executive officer of HOLT CAT, the largest Caterpillar dealership in the United States and chairman, chief executive officer, and owner of Spurs Sports & Entertainment, which is made up by the WNBA's San Antonio Silver Stars, … - Alvin Gentry
Alvin Gentry is an American professional basketball coach, and college basketball player, who has led three different NBA teams. He served as an interim coach for the Miami Heat at the end of the 1995 season, and later coached the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Clippers. As of March 2006, Gentry is an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns. He began his NBA coaching career in 1989 as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs under Larry Brown. - Rafael Castillo
Rafael C. Castillo was the first editor of "ViAztlan: a journal of Chicano Arts and Letters" established in San Antonio, Texas in 1979. The journal was funded through the City of San Antonio and the culture-based arts organization, Centro Cultural de Aztlan. - Doug Moe
Douglas Edwin Moe (born September 21, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American former professional basketball coach. He is most closely associated with the Denver Nuggets franchise. Moe was a star player at the University of North Carolina, then in the American Basketball Association for the New Orleans Buccaneers, Oakland Oaks, Washington Caps, Carolina Cougars and Virginia Squires. Moe became a coach in 1976-1977, working behind the bench for 15 years, … - John Connally
John Bowden Connally, Jr. (February 27 1917 - June 15 1993) was a powerful American politician from the state of Texas. He was initially a member of the Democratic Party, but in 1973, at the height of the Watergate affair, he switched allegiance to the Republican Party. He was also noteworthy as a passenger in the car in which John F. Kennedy was shot to death. Although badly wounded himself, Connally made a full recovery from his injuries. - Joe Simpson
Joseph Truett Simpson (born February 17, 1958, in San Antonio, Texas, to Curtis T. Simpson and Joyce Alice Adams) is the manager of singers Jessica Simpson and Ashlee Simpson (both of whom are his daughters) and Ryan Cabrera. He appeared frequently on the reality television shows of both his daughters, "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica" and "The Ashlee Simpson Show". He is married to Tina Simpson. Simpson married Tina Drew (b. January 18, 1960) on August 19, 1978, … - Daniel Meyer
Daniel Meyer was the founder and president Southwest Technical Products Corporation. He was born in New Braunfels, Texas and raised in San Marcos, Texas where he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1957 from Southwest Texas State. After college he married Helen Wentz, moved to San Antonio and became a research engineer in the electrical engineering department of Southwest Research Institute. He soon started writing hobbyist articles. - Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley (b. July 28, 1957) is an American television journalist, currently working as a correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Pelley grew up in Lubbock. He got his first job in journalism at age 15, as a copyboy for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He stayed close to home, graduating from the journalism school at Texas Tech University and beginning his career as a reporter at Lubbock's KSEL-TV in 1975. - Scott Jones
Scott Jones (born September 22, 1983 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American soccer midfielder for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer. - Lydia Mendoza
Lydia Mendoza (born May 21, 1916) is an American guitarist and singer of Tejano music. She is considered by many "the queen of Tejano music". Mendoza was born into a musical family in Houston, Texas. She learned to sing and play stringed instruments from her mother and grandmother. In 1928, as part of the family group Cuarteto Carta Blanca, she made her first recordings for the OKeh company in San Antonio. - Summer Glau
Summer Glau (born July 24, 1981 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American dancer and actress, best known for her role as River Tam in the short-lived science fiction series "Firefly" and follow-up movie "Serenity". - Michelle Manhart
Senior Airman Michelle Manhart (born 1976) is a former United States Air Force Military Training Instructor based at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, holding the rank of Staff Sergeant. In January 2007 she was relieved of duty and placed under investigation for posing nude in "Playboy" magazine. She has since been demoted to Senior Airman, a move which caused her to resign from the Air Force. Manhart, a California native, joined the Air Force in 1994, … - Charles Wright
Charles Wright (October 29, 1811 - August 11, 1885) was an American botanist. Wright was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, the son of James Wright and Mary nee Goodrich. He studied classics and mathematics at Yale, and in October 1835 moved to Natchez, Mississippi to tutor a plantation owner's family. His employer's business failed two years later, and he moved to Texas, working as a land surveyor and teacher. During this time he collected plants for Asa Gray. - Floyd Tillman
Floyd Tillman country musician who in the 1930s-40s helped create the western swing and honky tonk styles of music. Tillman was inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1984. Born in Ryan, Oklahoma December 8th, 1914 and died in Bacliff, Texas August 22nd, 2003. Tillman grew up in the cotton-mill town of Post, Texas as a sharecropper's son. One of his early jobs was with Western Union as a telegraph operator. - Jack Teagarden
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905-January 15, 1964) was an influential jazz trombonist and vocalist. Born in Vernon, Texas, his brothers Charlie and Clois "Cub" and his sister Norma also became noted professional musicians. Teagarden's father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started young Jack on baritone horn; by age 10 he had switched to trombone. He first heard jazz music played by the Louisiana Five and decided to play in the new style. - Charles Anderson
Charles Anderson (June 1, 1814 - September 2, 1895) was first a Whig and later a Republican politician from Ohio. He served briefly as the 27th Governor of Ohio. Anderson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to a prominent family; his father was an aide to the Marquis de Lafayette during the American Revolution. Anderson graduated from Miami University in 1833, studied law and was admitted to the Ohio bar. - William Harris
William Harris was an American tennis player in the mid-20th Century. Born January 14, 1947, in West Palm Beach, Florida, won the singles title at the Cincinnati Masters in 1968. He knocked Premjit Lall of India out in the semifinals and Allan Stone of Australia in the final for the title. He also reached the singles final in Cincinnati in 1966. In junior tennis, Harris was the No. 2 ranked player in the United States, and won the National Boys championship in the 13, … - Kidd Chris
Chris Derek 'Kidd Chris' Foley (b. May 15, 1974) is an American radio personality, who has hosted radio shows throughout the United States during the late-1990s and early 21st Century. He currently hosts an afternoon-drive talk show for the Philadelphia station WYSP. Born in Chittenango, New York, Foley got his start in radio in the nearby town of Syracuse. He was known as the Kitten Destroyer. He then shortened it to Kidd. - Michael McCaul
Michael T. McCaul (b. January 14 1962, Dallas, Texas) is an American lawyer and politician who currently is the Republican U.S. Representative for Texas District 10 (map). McCaul earned a Bachelor of Arts from San Antonio's Trinity University in 1984 and his Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University in 1987. He also attended Harvard University. McCaul worked as an attorney and a federal prosecutor before running for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004. - Jesse James Leija
Jesse James Leija (born July 8, 1966), is a professional boxer from Texas. Named both after the famous cowboy Jesse James and after his grandfather, Jesse Leija, Jesse James has had a career that spanned three decades. Jesse James Leija's nickname is "The Texas Tornado". - Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 - June 9, 1993) was a Tony Award-winning Canadian actress. Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, she was the second Canadian with the name (following Mary Pickford) to achieve New York City and Hollywood stardom. Later in life she would say she preferred New York, while her husband of 49 years, actor Craig Stevens, favored California. She was quite tall, standing at least 5'9", and to fit her, the long, … - Cito Gaston
Clarence Edwin "Cito" Gaston (born March 17, 1944 in San Antonio, Texas) is a former outfielder and manager in professional baseball, best known for managing the Toronto Blue Jays to their two World Series championships in 1992 and 1993. He, along with Dusty Baker, are the only African American managers to have led a team to a World Series, with Gaston being the only one to have won. - Jennifer Lothrop
Jennifer Lothrop was born on March 17 1974, in San Antonio, Texas. She is a model, actress and underwear designer. Jennifer started acting and modeling when she was 8 years old and entered the world of high fashion modeling in her home town. This career took her to New York and when she was 17 she traveled to Europe, where she visited Germany, France and Italy. She appeared in several magazines including "Harper's Bazaar", "Seventeen", "US Weekly".
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