- Priscilla Slade
Dr. Priscilla Dean Slade has been President of Texas Southern University since October 27, 1999. She holds a Ph. D. in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. As of late March 2006, Dr. Slade has been at the forefront of a money spending scandal involving using Texas Southern University money to fund landscaping done at her home, furniture (including a $9,000 bed and $48,000 worth of China), expensive trips, …
- Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician from Texas. She served as a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979.
- Mickey Leland
George Thomas Leland, better known as Mickey Leland, was a spokesman for the hungry and poor, and later became a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He was a Democrat. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Leland attended Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas and obtained a bachelor's and Doctorate of Pharmacy at Texas Southern University in Houston.
- Rodney Ellis
Rodney Glenn Ellis (born 7 April 1954) is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate for the 13th District, and co-founder of Apex Securities. He is currently Chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Organization and sits on the Senate Committees on State Affairs, Criminal Justice, and Transportation and Homeland Security. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy, the University of Texas Law School Foundation Board, …
- Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialog, and richly detailed African American characters; among the best known are her novels "The Bluest Eye", "Song of Solomon", and "Beloved", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.
- Al Green
Alexander N. "Al" Green, commonly known as Al Green, was born on September 1, 1947, and is the U.S. Representative from the Ninth Congressional District in Texas (map). Green won the Democratic primary for District 9 in Houston on March 9, 2004, a district that is largely Democratic with 37% of its population African American and 31% Hispanic - two ethnic groups that traditionally support the Democrats - and later was victorious over Republican Arlette Molina.
- Michael Strahan
Michael Anthony Strahan (born November 21, 1971, in Houston, Texas) is an American Football player who currently plays Defensive End for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He attended Texas Southern University and was drafted in the second round of the 1993 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. Strahan was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press in 2001, because of his record 22.5 sacks.
- Ronnie Courtney
Ronnie Courtney is the head men's basketball coach at Texas Southern University.
- Ernie Holmes
Earnest Lee "Ernie" Holmes, also nicknamed "Fats" (born July 11, 1948, Jamestown, Texas) was an American football player who was most famous for his years with the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1972-77. He was part of the famous Steel Curtain and played at defensive lineman. His fellow linemen during this period were Joe Greene, Dwight White, and L.C. Greenwood. Although overshadowed by these three more famous teammates, he won two Super Bowl rings with them.
- Harry E. Johnson
Harry E. Johnson (b. in St. Louis, Missouri, United States), is a practicing attorney in Houston, Texas, and serves as an adjunct professor of law at Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He received his undergraduate from Xavier University of Louisiana and his J.D. from Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Johnson was the 31st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha, …
- Bennie Swain
Bennie S. Swain (born December 16, 1933) is an American retired professional basketball player. A 6'8" forward from Texas Southern University, Swain was selected by the Boston Celtics with the eighth pick of the 1958 NBA Draft. He played one season for the Celtics, contributing 4.6 points and 4.5 rebounds en route to the 1958 NBA Championship.
- Ken Burrough
Kenneth Othell Burrough (born July 14, 1948 in Jacksonville, Florida), is a former professional American football player who was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the 1st round (10th overall) of the 1970 NFL Draft. A 6'4", 210-lb. wide receiver from Texas Southern University, Burrough played in 12 NFL seasons for the Saints and Houston Oilers from 1970 to 1981. A two-time Pro Bowl selection in 1975 and 1977, …
- Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes (born May 15, 1928 in Bristow, Oklahoma, United States) is a former high school basketball coach. From 1973 to 2005 he coached at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Fort Worth, Texas. He previously coached at Terrell High School in [[Ft.Worth, Texas]. Combined, he won five state basketball titles. He retired as the all-time winningest high school basketball coach with 1,333 wins, passing Morgan Wootten in 2003.
- Stacey Thomas
Stacey Thomas (born December 4, 1984 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football strong safety who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played collegiately at Texas Southern.
- Woody Sauldsberry
Woodrow "Woody" Sauldsberry Jr. (born July 11, 1935 in Winnsboro, Louisiana) is an American former National Basketball Association player. Sauldsberry graduated from Compton Union High School where he was the star of his basketball team and then went on to attend Texas Southern University. In 1957, he was drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors). The following year in 1958, he was named the league's Rookie of the Year, …
- Cortez Hankton
Cortez Hankton (born January 20, 1981) in New Orleans, Louisiana is a National Football League wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings. He is a graduate of St. Augustine High School in New Orleans LA. He also attended Texas Southern University.
- Russell Jacquet
Russell Jacquet (December 4, 1917 - February 28, 1990) was an American trumpeter. Jacquet was born on December 14, 1917 in Saint Martinville, Louisiana. He was the elder brother of well-known tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet, who he worked with through the years. Jacquet had stints with Floyd Ray and Milt Larkin before he began studying music at Wiley College and Texas Southern University. He moved west and played with his brother's band for a time, …
- Winston Hill
Winston Hill was a tennis champion in high school and an American college and professional football player. He played both offensive and defensive line in college at Texas Southern University and was an All-American. He was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in 1963, but signed as a free agent with New York’s American Football League franchise in the same year that they became the New York Jets, …
- W. K. Hicks
Wilmer Kenzie Hicks (born in 1942) is a former professional American Football player who played defensive back for the American Football League's Houston Oilers from 1964-1969, and for the NFL New York Jets from 1970 through 1972. Before his professional career, Hicks played for Texas Southern University.
- Oliver Celestin
Oliver Celestin, Jr. (born February 25, 1981 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football player. He played as a defensive back and/or safety for the New York Jets and the Seattle Seahawks. Celestin, Jr. attended Texas Southern University and had played for NFL Europe before embarking on his National Football League career.
- Homer Jones
Homer Jones (February 18, 1941 in Houston, Texas) is a former football wide receiver, who played for the National Football League's New York Giants from 1964 to 1969, and for the Cleveland Browns in 1970. Six-foot-two and weighing 220 pounds, Jones was a cousin of Hall of Fame receiver Charley Taylor of the Washington Redskins and Browns' defensive end Joe Jones. Jones attended Texas Southern College (now Texas Southern University), a historically black college, …
- Craig Anthony Washington
Craig Anthony Washington (born October 12, 1941 in Longview, Gregg County, Texas) is a former African-American congressman in the United States House of Representatives from Texas. Born to Roy and Azalia Washington, Craig was already a proficient reader at three years old. He graduated from Prairie View A&M University in 1966 and was originally interested in becoming a doctor, but as admissions to medical school had already ceased, …
- Jean Bell
Jean Bell (born Annie Lee Morgan on 23 November 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri) was one of the first of "Playboy" magazine's African American Playmates of the Month (the first was Jennifer Jackson, in March 1965). She appeared in the October 1969 issue of the magazine. Her centerfold was photographed by Don Klumpp. She grew up in Houston, Texas, attending Phillis Wheatley High School. She has three younger sisters and attended Texas Southern University, …
- Lady Paula Merry
Lady Paula Merry Mayowa-Harrison is an African-American author of children's books based in Houston, Texas. Lady Paula holds a B.A. in education from Texas Southern University. Her book, "The Buckaroos", an illustrated children's story about fighting crime, was published by Dorrance Publishing Co. in 2006. She currently also publishes "The Investigator Paper of Treatment", …
- Felton Turner
Felton Turner (died April 23, 2006) was an African-American whose survival from a vicious attack on March 7, 1960, helped galvanize the city of Houston, Texas during the American Civil Rights movement. Turner was an 27-year-old unemployed awning installer in Houston who fell victim to the enmity caused by continuing sit-in demonstrations against segregation. Those protests, coming just over a month after the first such actions in Greensboro, North Carolina, …
- Willie Ellison
Willie Ellison (born November 1, 1945 in Lockhart, Texas) is a former American football running back who played eight seasons in the NFL. He went to the Pro Bowl after the 1971 season. He played college football at Texas Southern.
- Andy Rice
Andy Rice (born September 6, 1940) was an American college and professional football player. He played collegiately for Texas Southern, and went to the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs in 1965. After winning the American Football League Championship with the Chiefs in 1966, he started for them in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game
- 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.
- Keydren Clark
Keydren "Kee-Kee" Clark (born October 8, 1984 in Alabama) was one of the most prolific scorers in NCAA Division I history, amassing 3,058 points and averaging 25.9 ppg for his career. Not heavily recruited on a Rice High School team in New York City that featured four Division I-bound seniors, Clark became one of the shortest players ever to lead Division I in scoring at 5'9" (1.75 m), doing so twice and finishing in the top five his senior year.
- Gary Legenhausen
Gary Carl (Muhammad) Legenhausen (Born 1953 New York) is an American philosopher who teaches at the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute, which is directed by Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi. He converted to Islam in 1983. He wrote a book entitled "Islam and Religious Pluralism" where he advocates "non-reductive religious pluralism." He has been an advocate of interfaith dialogue, and serves on the advisory board of the Society for Religious Studies in Qom.
- Larry Leon Palmer
Larry Leon Palmer is the United States Ambassador to Honduras. Larry Palmer was born in Augusta, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in 1970 and completed his graduate training at Texas Southern University (M.Ed., African History, 1973) and Indiana University at Bloomington (Ed. D., Higher Education Administration and African Studies, 1978). Prior to joining the United States Foreign Service, Palmer served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, …
- Musiliu Obanikoro
Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro (popularly known as Koro) is a Nigerian Senator and prominent politician. He lost the April 14, 2007 Lagos State gubernatorial elections, which he took part in under the banner of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
- Wilene Dozier
Dozier was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She received her B.A. from Florida State University, a M.S.L.S. from Clark Atlanta University and J.D.from Texas Southern University
- Richard Kent
Richard Kent is a former college football player with a recent scouting and coaching career in NFL Europe. He currently works as defensive coordinator for the Amsterdam Admirals. Richard Kent played for 16 successful years in the collegiate ranks of American football at Appalachian State where he also earned his Bachelor of Science degree. Later on he earned his Masters degree at Clemson. During the last 10 years of his college career, …
- Don Narcisse
Donald "Don" Narcisse was a wide receiver with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League. He played college football at Texas Southern University. He signed with Saskatchewan as a free agent on September 1, 1987 after a tryout with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams. A smaller player at 5'9" and 170 pounds. He was a master at short yardage plays, often in critical situations needing a 1st down.
- James
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- John Codwell
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- Victor Robinson
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- Howard
A indolent compulsive, A happy-go-lucky worrier, A civilized bum, A sensibly foolish person, A stingy benefactor, A quixotic pragmatist, A indulgent abstemious, A aggregative of paradoxes.
- Tami Hayes
I am a God fearing, saved "Woman" with a passion to give and receive "REAL LOVE"....UNCONDITIONAL LOVE". My God made me that way. I have not always been saved, but God has kept me all along...."Thank You, Lord!".