- Pimp C
Pimp C was released on Friday, December 30, 2005 from the Terrell Prison Unit in Rosharon, Texas after serving about half of his eight-year sentence. He will be on parole until December of 2009. Pimp C was treated for minor injuries on April 18, 2006, after he was involved in a car accident while leaving the video shoot for his single "Pourin' Up." A Port Arthur Police officer that was escorting the rappers responded to gunfire and pursued the shooters.
- Bun B
Bun B (born Bernard Freeman March 19, 1973) is an African American rapper, one half (with Pimp C) of Southern hip hop act UGK from Port Arthur, Texas. He now resides in Houston where he is a member of Rap-A-Lot Records, an underground hip hop record label. He is also co-owner of Trill Entertainment with Pimp C. Bun B is short for Bun Beater, or Big Bun B-Da. With Houston's emergence as a hip hop hotbed in 2005, …
- 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.
- Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg (b. October 22 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. While the Combines are both painting and sculpture, Rauschenberg has also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, …
- Aaron Brown
Aaron Brown was an American college and professional football player. A defensive lineman, he played college football at the University of Minnesota, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1966 through 1969, and for the NFL Chiefs and Green Bay Packers. He died in 1997 when struck from behind by a motorist after walking home after his van broke down.
- Kevin Everett
Kevin Everett (born February 5, 1982 in Port Arthur, Texas) is a tight end for the Buffalo Bills of the NFL.
- Johnny Preston
Johnny Preston (born John Preston Courville, August 18 1939, Port Arthur, Texas) is an American singer. Of Cajun ancestry, Preston sang in high school choral contests throughout the state of Texas. He formed a rock and roll band called 'The Shades', before recording his No. 1 hit single "Running Bear." The song was written by J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, who had died the previous year in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.
- Stephen Jackson
Stephen Jesse Jackson is an American professional basketball player for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. Jackson, a 6'8" swingman, is currently in his 7th NBA season.
- Jimmy Johnson
James William Johnson (born August 14, 1943) is an American football coach and broadcaster. He was the first football coach whose teams won both a NCAA Division 1A National Championship and a Super Bowl. In 1987, Johnson wrote "Turning The Thing Around: My Life in Football" (ghostwritten by Ed Hinton). Johnson currently lives in Islamorada in the Florida Keys where he spends most of his time fishing.
- Babe Zaharias
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 - September 27, 1956) was an American athlete considered to be perhaps the greatest all-around female athlete of all time. She achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball and track and field.
- Jamaal Charles
Jamaal Charles (born December 27, 1986 in Port Arthur, TX) is a running back for The University of Texas Longhorns. Charles is a speed back and has enough speed to compete in track at the collegiate level, yet he seems to bounce off tacklers like a power back.
- Douglas Clark
Douglas Clark is an American sculptor. Native to Edna, Texas, he grew up near Port Arthur. He resides in McAllen Texas, where, in an old church, he researches and creates representational pieces in bronze. For Port Arthur he sculpted a number of busts of Janis Joplin in the memorial to her life in that town. He has a number of works around the city of McAllen, such as a stallion at the Memorial High and a soldier at the Veterans War Memorial of Texas.
- Jonathan Babineaux
Jonathan Joel Babineaux (born October 12, 1981 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an NFL defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons. He is the older brother of Seattle Seahawks safety Jordan Babineaux. Jonathan is of Creole descent.
- Jordan Babineaux
Jordan Jude Babineaux (born August 31, 1982 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an American football safety for the Seattle Seahawks. Jordan is of Louisiana Creole descent. He is also the younger brother of Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux.
- Amy Acuff
Amy Lyn Acuff is an athlete from the United States. An aggressive high jump competitor, Acuff competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field and is a three-time Olympian. Her personal best is 2.01 m, which she achieved in Zürich on 2003-08-15. Acuff lives in Austin, Texas, and is an alumna of UCLA. Acuff is distantly related to country musician Roy Acuff (her grandfather’s second cousin).
- Joe Washington
Joe Dan Washington (born September 24, 1953 in Crockett, Texas) is a former American football running back who played nine seasons for the San Diego Chargers, Baltimore Colts, Washington Redskins, and the Atlanta Falcons from 1977 to 1985 in the National Football League. Washington graduated from Lincoln High School in Port Arthur, Texas where his father coached football.
- Clifford Antone
Clifford Antone (October 27, 1949 in Port Arthur, Texas-May 23, 2006 in Austin, Texas) was the founder of a well-known Austin blues club, record label, and a mentor to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan and numerous other musicians. Antone moved to Austin in 1968 and attended The University of Texas at Austin. An arrest for marijuana led to his dropping out of school. Nurturing a passion for Chicago blues, Antone started a blues club at age 25. The namesake club, …
- G. W. Bailey
George W. Bailey (born August 27, 1945 in Port Arthur, Texas) is a veteran stage, television and film character actor. Although he appeared in many dramatic roles, he may be best remembered for his "crusty" comedic characters such as Captain Thaddeus Harris in "Police Academy" (1984-1994) and Staff Sergeant Luther Rizzo in "M*A*S*H" (TV-Series 1972 - 1983). He currently stars on the TNT series "The Closer".
- John Warne Gates
John Warne Gates (May 18, 1855-August 9, 1911), also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire who became a Gilded Age industrialist. Gates was born in Winfield, Illinois, but his career began with a trip to San Antonio, Texas in 1876 as a salesman for the Washburn-Moen barbed wire company, and a dramatic demonstration with cattle penned into Military Plaza. He later started the Southern Wire Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
- Paul Jones
Paul Jones (born Paul Frederick) was a professional wrestler and manager. He had success in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s Mid-Atlantic region including being NWA World Tag Team champs with Ricky Steamboat.
- Tony Tompkins
Tony Tompkins (b. November 21, 1982 in Port Arthur, Texas) is a Canadian Football League wide receiver and special teams player for the Edmonton Eskimos. Standing at only 5'8", Tompkins is just one of many diminutive kick return specialists to have found success in the CFL. After attending Stephen F. Austin University, Tompkins signed with the Eskimos as the replacement for former kick returner Winston October.
- Evelyn Keyes
Evelyn Keyes (November 20 1916 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an American actress.
- Todd Dodge
Todd Dodge (born July 21, 1963) is an American football coach, currently serving as the head coach at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas for the North Texas Mean Green. Previously, Dodge was the head coach at Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas.
- Arthur Stilwell
Arthur Edward Stilwell (October 21 1859 - September 26 1928) was the founder of Kansas City Southern Railway. He served as the railroad's president from 1897 to 1900. He was also the founder of Port Arthur, Texas. Stilwell was born in Rochester, New York, in 1859. While working as a traveling salesman he courted and married Jennie A. Wood, and the couple moved to Kansas City, Missouri and then Chicago, Illinois, …
- Everett Doerge
Everett Gail Doerge (May 6, 1935 - April 17, 1998) was a 30-year educator and a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, having served from 1992 until his death in office. He was succeeded in his District 10 (Webster Parish seat by his widow Jean M. Doerge of Minden, who is a candidate for a third full term in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary.
- Phyllis Davis
Phyllis Davis (born July 17, 1947, in Port Arthur, Texas) is an actress who appeared primarily on television. She was most notably a part of the cast of Aaron Spelling's drama Vega$, playing the character Beatrice Travis. Some of her film appearances include "Lord Love a Duck" (1966), "Spinout" (1966), Russ Meyer's "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" (1970), "The Choirboys" (1977), and "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" (1995).
- Goose Gonsoulin
Austin William "Goose" Gonsoulin (born June 7, 1938 in Port Arthur, Texas) of Baylor University was a professional football safety, one of the original Denver Broncos from the 1960 season. At the end of his Bronco career, he was the all-time American Football League leader in interceptions with 43. His 11 pickoffs in 1960 are still a Denver club record, and he shares the team record for interceptions in a game with four, a feat he accomplished 18 September 1960 at Buffalo.
- Ted Dunbar
Ted Dunbar (born 1937 in Port Arthur, Texas; died June 12, 1998) was a Modern creative and hard bop jazz guitarist, educator, and writer. He published four volumes on jazz. He was also a trained pharmacist, but by the 1970s only did pharmacy work part-time. He became interested in jazz at age seven and in the 1950s he joined several groups while studying pharmacy at Texas Southern University.
- Mary Kay Place
Mary Kay Place (b. September 23 1947, Port Arthur, Texas) is an American actress and singer. After graduating from the University of Tulsa with a Speech Degree, Placee moved to Hollywood with aspirations of becoming an actress and writer. She was hired for "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour" in the 1970s as a production assistant to both Conway and producer Norman Lear. It was Conway who gave her her first on-camera break, …
- Lucian Adams
Staff Sergeant Lucian Adams (October 22, 1922-March 31, 2003) was a U.S. Army soldier during World War II who was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly destroying enemy machine gun emplacements to re-establish supply lines to U.S. Army companies. He was also awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his heroic actions in Italy.
- Xavier Hernandez
Francis Xavier "The X-Man" Hernandez (born August 16, 1965 in Port Arthur, Texas), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the major leagues; primarily in relief, from 1989-1998. He is currently the pitching coach for the Durham Bulls.
- Wilford Scypion
Wilford Scypion (born July 18, 1958) was a professional boxer. He now lives in Port Arthur, Texas with his father and sister. Wilford is well known around town. Even though Wilford is disabled, due to his boxing experiences, he manages to live a relatively normal life and attends church with his family. In February 1983, Scypion beat Frank Fletcher by a twelve round decision to take the USBA's regional Middleweight title.
- Jody
Red on the head, fire in the hole could sum it up I guess. I love photography, it drives me daily. I do it as a profession, not as a hobby like everyone else in this world who call themselves photographers. Im not concieted, just confident. I love shooting people with character. I live life for photographing live concerts. And I hate, I repeat I hate groupies!!!! I'm definately a meat and potatoes kind of girl.
- Jenn Morrison
name would be jenn.
- Kathy Nguyen
I am a simple, yet complicated person. I enjoy many things in life and I'm always open to meeting new and interesting people who will enhance and bring variety into my life.
- Joni Flowers
Intelligent, witty (ie sarcastic), extremely outgoing, outspoken, opinionated but kind-hearted, empathetic, strong-willed, and just a little edgy!
- Omar Lewis
My name is Omar Lewis and I go to Texas Southern University. My major is Telecommunications. I'm from Port Arthur, Texas. 409 IS THE PLACE TO BE!!!
- Washington
I enjoy this middle ground of just existing without being in a particular category. I can't really tell you who I am as a person, because I really don't know...at least anymore, or maybe I never knew. But I'll tell you what people have said about me. Some have been known to call me an asshole, but these are also the same people that say at times I'm one of the sweetest people in the world...go figure.
- Kim Nguyen
I love:.
- Tyler
Im just the usual Biology major whos trying to balance his scientific beliefs with his christian/buddhist/mormon philosophies. My 'seemingly' hetero partner for life Kyle and I have moved to Hawaii. Why you ask? Why the hell not? Hopefully our money won't run out after the first 3 months, cause I don't wanna sleep on the beach every night. And I just landed a DREAM job with the Blood Bank of Hawaii which is fortunatly just 2.3 miles away from my from door.