- Henry B. Gonzalez
Henry Barbosa Gonzalez was a Democratic politician from the state of Texas. He represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999. Gonzalez was born in San Antonio, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and San Antonio College, earning his undergraduate degree. Later, he received a Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University. Upon graduation, he became a probation officer, and was quickly promoted to the chief office of Bexar County, Texas. - Gregg Popovich
Gregg Popovich is the head coach of the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs - Stephen F. Austin
Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 - December 27, 1836), known as the "Father of Texas," led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by the United States. The capital city of Austin, Texas, Austin County, Texas, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, Austin College in Sherman, Texas, as well as a number of K-12 schools are named in his honor. - Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey), frequently referred to simply as Shaq (pronounced "shack"), is an American professional basketball player, generally regarded as one of the most dominant in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He starts at center for the Miami Heat, after previous stints with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Orlando Magic. O'Neal has been on four NBA Championship teams, most recently in 2006, … - Shawn Michaels
Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, (born July 22 1965), is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Shawn Michaels. He performs on the RAW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), though he is currently out of action because of a legitimate knee surgery. His absence is being portrayed on television as being a result of a serious concussion. - 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. - George Strait
George Harvey Strait, (born May 18, 1952), is an American country music singer. The native Texan is known for his honky tonk country western sound. Strait is sometimes referred to as the "King of Country" and some critics call Strait a living legend (Bego, 2001). He is well known for his unique style of western swing music. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Strait has been nominated for more CMA awards than any other artist. - Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. While Bush was Governor of Texas, Gonzales had served as his general counsel (1994-1997). Subsequently he served as Secretary of State of Texas (1997-1999) and then on the Texas Supreme Court (1999-2000). From 2001 to 2005, Gonzales served in the Bush Administration as White House Counsel. - 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. - Nelson Wolff
Nelson W. Wolff (born 1940) is a San Antonio, Texas political figure. He represented Bexar County as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973, and the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1975. He served on the San Antonio City Council as the representative of Council District 8 and then as mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 1991-1995 and currently serves as Bexar County Judge. - 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. - Henry Cisneros
Henry Gabriel Cisneros (born June 11, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and community leader. He was the first person of Hispanic background elected as mayor of a large American city, and later served as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. He left public office after pleading guilty to making false statements to federal officials. - 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. - 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. - Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen, Junior (born January 11 1956 in Houston, Texas) is an American singer-songwriter. He is popular with traditional country music fans, folk music fans, the college radio crowd and alt-country fans. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Bandera, Texas. - Pat Green
Pat Green (born Patrick Craven Green, April 5, 1972 in San Antonio, Texas) is a singer/songwriter from Texas. He is known for his brand of "Texas country", which was made famous by Cory Morrow, Robert Earl Keen, and others. - 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. - 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. - Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and director. - 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. - Carlos Uresti
Carlos Ismael "Charlie" Uresti (born September 12, 1963) is a Democrat representing the 19th District in the Texas Senate. Uresti previously represented portions of Bexar County and the City of San Antonio in District 118 in the Texas House from 1997 to 2006. Uresti, the youngest of eight children, was born in Bexar County, Texas, reared in San Antonio and graduated from McCollum High School. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve at age eighteen, … - Devin Brown
Devin Brown (born December 30, 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American National Basketball Association player currently with the New Orleans Hornets. Brown was raised in San Antonio, Texas. He played organized basketball at South San Antonio West Campus High School, a school on the south side of San Antonio, where a large Hispanic community resides. He also became the all-time high school scorer in greater San Antonio while at South San Antonio West Campus. - 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. - Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is a five-time Golden Globe winning American actress and comedienne. In a career spanning five decades in television, stage and film, she is best known for her eponymous variety show that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978. - Johnny Bush
Johnny Bush, born February 17 1935 as John Bush Shin III in Houston, Texas, is a country music singer, songwriter, and drummer. Starting out as a solo act in 1952 in San Antonio, Texas, Bush switched to drums, and in the 1960s began working with Willie Nelson's band, The Record Men, afterwards, joining Ray Price's Cherokee Cowboys. While with the band, Bush wanted a record deal, but record executives felt he sounded too similar to Price to be marketable. - Roy Bean
Phantly Roy Bean, the "Hangin' Judge", (c. 1825 - March 16, 1903) was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande River in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of west Texas. - Ciro D. Rodriguez
Ciro Davis Rodriguez (born December 9 1946) is a Democratic Congressman who represents Texas's 23rd congressional district. Rodriguez has served in public office for over 30 years, first on a school board, then as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. After leaving Congress in January 2005, he joined with his former chief of staff, Jeff Mendelsohn, to create Rio Strategy Group LLC, a boutique government relations firm to assist clients at the local, … - Oliver North
Oliver L. North is a combat decorated marine, a #1 best-selling author, the founder of a small business, an inventor with three U.S. patents, a syndicated columnist, and the host of War Stories on the Fox News Channel. Yet, he claims his most important accomplishment is to be "the husband of one, the father of four and the grandfather of eleven." North was born in San Antonio, Texas, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and served 22 years as a U.S. Marine. - Priest Holmes
Priest Anthony Holmes (born October 7, 1973 in Fort Smith, Arkansas) is an American football running back who is currently a member of the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL. - Max Lucado
Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author and well-known minister. Lucado has written more than 50 books with 28 million copies in print, and currently serves as senior minister at Oak Hills Church (formerly Oak Hills Church of Christ) in San Antonio, Texas. After serving in this capacity for 20 years, Lucado announced in early 2007 that he is stepping down due to health concerns related to atrial fibrillation. Lucado was born in 1955 in San Angelo, Texas, … - Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb, nicknamed the "Texas Troubadour", was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941) marked the rise of the honky-tonk style of music. In 1948-49, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas," a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit is "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), … - 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, … - Tish Hinojosa
Leticia ("Tish") Hinojosa (born December 6, 1955 San Antonio, Texas) is a folksinger recording in both Spanish and English. Hinojosa was the youngest of 13 children. From the White House to el barrio, Tish Hinojosa has enchanted, enlightened and entertained countless listeners with her distinctive cross-cultural music. In the process, she has become one of the most acclaimed and beloved artists in the contemporary Latin and folk scene. - Jeff Foster
Jeffrey Douglas Foster (born January 16, 1977 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Indiana Pacers of the NBA. He was selected 21st overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 1999 NBA Draft out of Southwest Texas State University, but his draft rights were immediately traded to the Pacers in exchange for Vonteego Cummings and a future first-round draft pick. - 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". - Ruben Cantu
Ruben Montoya Cantu (December 5, 1966 - August 24, 1993) was a Texan who was executed for a murder that occurred when he was seventeen years old. During the years following the conviction, the surviving victim, the co-defendant, the District Attorney, and the jury forewoman have all made public statements that cast doubt on Cantu's guilty verdict and death sentence. - Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - Charlie Sexton
Charles Wayne Sexton (born August 11, 1968) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band from 1999 to 2002. Sexton's mother was 16 years old when she gave birth to him in San Antonio, Texas. When he was four, he and his mother moved to Austin, where clubs like the Armadillo World Headquarters, the Soap Creek Saloon, and more notably the Split Rail and Antone's Blues Club exposed him to popular music. - Henry Thomas
Henry Jackson Thomas, Jr. (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor and musician. He has appeared in more than 40 films and is best known for his role as Elliott in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Thomas was born September 9, 1971 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, the son of Carolyn L. Davis and Henry Jackson Thomas, a hydraulics mechanic.
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