- Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is thereby the First Lady of the United States.
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kathyrn Ann Bailey Hutchison, usually known as Kay Bailey Hutchison (born July 22 1943), is the senior United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by "Ladies Home Journal".
- Lady Bird Johnson
Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson was the wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout her life, she was an advocate for beautification of the nation's cities and highways and conservation of natural resources. The former First Lady was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
- Jeb Bush
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953), a Republican, was the 43rd Governor of Florida, in the United States, as well as the first Republican to be re-elected to that office. He is a prominent member of the Bush family: the younger brother of current President George W. Bush; the older brother of Neil Bush, Marvin Bush and Dorothy Bush Koch; and the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush.
- 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), …
- Pierce Bush
Pierce George Mallon Bush (born March 15, 1986) is the nephew of President George W. Bush, son of Neil Bush and Sharon Bush, brother of Lauren and Ashley.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. For most of his career prior to his employment at the White House, Rove was a political consultant. Rove's election campaign clients have included George W. Bush (2000 and 2004 presidential elections, 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial elections), …
- Jenna Bush
Jenna Welch Bush (born November 25 1981, in Midland, Texas) is the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. She is the fraternal twin of Barbara.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Bill Moyers
Bill D. Moyers (born June 5, 1934 as Billy Don Moyers) is an American journalist and public commentator. Born in Hugo, Oklahoma, and raised in Texas, Moyers began his journalism career at age 16 as a cub reporter at the "Marshall News Messenger" in Marshall, Texas. He and his wife, Judith Davidson Moyers, have three grown children and five grandchildren.
- Sarah Weddington
Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945 in Abilene, Texas) is a Texas attorney and lecturer who gained world-wide fame when she and Linda Coffee represented "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark "Roe v. Wade" case in the United States Supreme Court.
- Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc.
- James Baker
James Addison Baker III (born April 28 1930) served as the Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration, Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 in the second Reagan administration, and Secretary of State in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. He is also the founder of the James Baker Institute.
- Mike Godwin
Mike Godwin is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the creator of the Internet adage Godwin's Law. As of July 2007 he is general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. __TOC_
- 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.
- Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an Academy Award-winning American film actress.
- Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. is a retired American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the "CBS Evening News" (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1970s and 1980s he was often cited in viewer opinion polls as "the most trusted man in America", because of his professional experience and avuncular demeanor.
- Dolph Briscoe
Dolph S. Briscoe (born April 23, 1923 in Uvalde, Texas) is a wealthy Uvalde rancher and businessman who was the Democratic Governor of Texas between 1973 and 1979. He was the last governor to serve a two-year term and the first to serve a four-year term, when the state doubled the length of gubernatorial terms, effective in 1975.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933-29 June 1967) was an American actress and "Playboy" centerfold. One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s, like Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, dramatic hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes. She was a recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a Theatre World Award for two early screen and stage performances.
- Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 - July 19, 2002) was an important American folklorist and musicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain.
- John Maxwell Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee, often called J.M. Coetzee, is a South African author (now an Australian citizen living in South Australia) and academic. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Charles Whitman
Charles Joseph Whitman was a student at the University of Texas at Austin who shot and killed 14 people (including those who survived the initial shooting but later died as a result of their injuries) and wounded 31 others from the observation deck of the University's Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin on August 1, 1966, after murdering his wife and mother, and before being shot by Austin police.
- John Lomax
John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 - January 26, 1948) was a pioneering musicologist and folklorist. Lomax was born in Goodman, Mississippi and grew up in central Texas, just north of Meridian in rural Bosque County. A Texan at heart, if not by birth, his early years on the family farm accustomed him to the hard work that, along with a boundless energy, became a hallmark of his life and career.
- Red McCombs
The oldest of four children, his family moved in 1943 to Corpus Christi, Texas. He briefly attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas where he played football (lineman and receiver) before serving in the Army in 1946 and 1947. After completing his Army stint, McCombs enrolled at The University of Texas, attending the business school and law school. While visiting a friend in Corpus Christi, he was convinced to try selling cars.
- Bill White
Mayor Bill White was elected as Mayor of Houston in 2003, and has focused on the streamlining of city government as well as the improvement of neighborhoods, traffic, and air quality. Before serving as mayor, White was President and CEO of WEDGE Group, and served as Deputy Secretary of Energy of the United States.
- Eamonn Healy
Dr. Eamonn F. Healy is a professor of chemistry at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. He received a doctorate in chemistry in 1984 from the University of Texas at Austin where he was a student of Dr. Michael J. S. Dewar. He appeared in Richard Linklater's 2001 film "Waking Life" in which he discussed concepts similar to a technological singularity. "Eamonn Healy appears in the movie Waking Life, giving an explanation of Telescopic Evolution: YouTube."
- William Bennett
William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative pundit and politician. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") under George H. W. Bush. Bennett was born in Brooklyn but later moved to Washington, D.C., where he attended Gonzaga College High School.
- Liz Carpenter
Elizabeth "Liz" Sutherland Carpenter (born September 1, 1920 in Salado, Texas) is a writer, feminist, former reporter, media advisor, speechwriter, political humorist, and public relations expert. Carpenter stood at the forefront of the Women's Movement when it began and never wavered from her platform. Her projects and causes range from supporting high tech to fighting cancer. Often called the "funniest woman in politics", she is still in demand as a public speaker.
- James Moeser
James Moeser is the current chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a trained concert organist. Moeser began his work as chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill on August 15, 2000. He has since overseen and introduced many historic changes and improvements for the university, including the Carolina Covenant, Carolina First Campaign, Carolina Connects Initiative, expansions of current genome research at the university, …
- Charles Black
Charles L. Black, Jr. (born September 22, 1915, Austin, Texas; died May 5, 2001, New York City) was a noted scholar of constitutional law, which he taught as professor of law from 1947 to 1999. He is best known for his role in the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, as well as for his "Impeachment: A Handbook", which served for many Americans as a trustworthy analysis of the law of impeachment during the Watergate scandal.
- Christopher Rich
Christopher Rich Wilson (born September 16, 1953 in Dallas, Texas) is an American actor, best known for his roles on "Murphy Brown" (as Miller Redfield) and "Reba" (as Reba's ex-husband, Brock Hart). He first became popular playing the role of Alexander "Sandy" Cory on the daytime drama "Another World" from 1981 to 1985. He starred in the short-lived 1987-1988 series "The Charmings" as Prince Eric Charming, with Caitlin O'Heaney, …
- Joe Jamail
Joseph D. Jamail, Jr (born October 19, 1925 in Houston, Texas) is a Lebanese American attorney and billionaire. One of the wealthiest lawyers in America, he is frequently referred to as the King of Torts. In 1985, Mr. Jamail represented Pennzoil in a lawsuit against Texaco. Pennzoil won the case and his contingency fee was $335 million. Mr. Jamail has given large donations to The University of Texas at Austin.
- Farrah Fawcett
Farrah Fawcett (born Mary Ferrah Leni Fawcett on February 2 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American actress. She became a noted pop culture figure and sex symbol of the 1970s and into the 1980s, shaping the landscape of fashion and pop culture.