- William Lubbock
The Reverend William Lubbock MA BD (Cantab) (baptized North Walsham, Norfolk, 17 January, 1701, died North Walsham 20 April 1754) was an English divine, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, and Church of England clergyman. He founded the famous English family of Lubbock (see below). - John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 4th Baronet and 1st Baron Avebury, PC FRS (30 April 1834 - 28 May 1913), English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist was born the son of Sir John William Lubbock, Bart. Lubbock was educated at Eton College from 1845 and afterwards was taken into his father's bank (which later amalgamated with Coutts & Co), where he became a partner at the age of twenty-two. In 1865 he succeeded to the baronetcy. - Eric Lubbock 4th Baron Avebury
Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, PC (born 29 September 1928) is an English politician. A Liberal Member of Parliament from 1963 to 1970, he succeeded as Baron Avebury in 1971. In 1999, when the House of Lords was reformed, he was elected as a Liberal Democrat representative peer. - Sir John Lubbock 1st Baronet
Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet was an eminent English banker. Lubbock was a banker, merchant and member of Parliament. He was the first son of a Cambridge don, the Reverend William Lubbock of Lammas, Norfolk, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cooper of North Walsham, Norfolk. Married Elizabeth Christiana Commerell, daughter of his business partner, Frederick Commerell of Hanwell, Middlesex on 12 Oct 1771 at St Dunstan’s in the East, London. They had no children. - Sir John Lubbock 3rd Baronet
Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (March 26 1803-June 21 1865) was an English banker, mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Westminster, the son of Sir John William Lubbock, of the Lubbock & Co bank. He was educated at Eton and then Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1825. He immediately joined his father's bank. In 1828 he joined the Royal Astronomical Society, … - Sir John William Lubbock 2nd Baronet
Sir John William Lubbock, 2nd Baronet (26 August 1774-22 October 1840) was an English banker. He chaired the family bank Lubbock & Company. He was the nephew of Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet, succeeding him by special remainder, and the grandson of the Reverend William Lubbock. He was ultimately succeeded by his son Sir John William Lubbock, who later oversaw the merger in 1860 of Lubbock & Co. with Roberts & Co., becoming Roberts, Lubbock & Company. - John Lubbock 3rd Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 3rd Baron Avebury (13 May 1915 - 21 June 1971) was an English aristocrat. He was the son of the Honourable Harold Fox Pitt Lubbock and a grandson of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. His sister Moyra was married to the broadcaster Dorian Williams (1938-1949). He succeeded his uncle as Baron Avebury in 1929. - John Lubbock 2nd Baron Avebury
John Birkbeck Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury, DL (4 October 1858-26 March 1929) was an English aristocrat and banker. - Francis Lubbock
Francis Richard Lubbock (October 16, 1815 - June 22, 1905) was a governor of Texas during the American Civil War. He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom the City of Lubbock is named. Born in Beaufort, South Carolina, Lubbock was a businessman in South Carolina before moving to Texas in 1836. During the Republic of Texas period, President Sam Houston appointed Lubbock to be comptroller. - Stuart Lubbock
Stuart Lubbock (born October 1 1969, died March 31 2001) was a meat factory worker from Essex, England, who died in suspicious circumstances. Lubbock died in the Princess Alexandra Hospital after being found unconscious in the pool of popular British television game show presenter Michael Barrymore's home in Roydon, Essex on the morning of the 31 March, 2001. He was wearing only boxer shorts. He had severe anal injuries and ecstasy, cocaine and alcohol in his blood. - Michael Lubbock
Colonel Michael Ronald Lubbock, MBE, (31 May 1906 - 1989) was the son of Cecil Lubbock (15 February 1872 - 18 January 1956) and Edith Furse (before 1882 -14 December 1960) and grandson of Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet From 1927 to 1943 he had his first job in a London merchant bank; and then became executive assistant to the Governor of the Hudson Bay Company, spending 1936/37 at the Canadian head office and traveling extensively throughout Canada, … - Thomas Saltus Lubbock
Thomas (some sources say Thompson) Saltus Lubbock (November 29, 1817-January 1862) was a Texas Ranger and soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. - Percy Lubbock
Percy Lubbock, CBE (June 41879-1 August1965) was an English man of letters, known as an essayist, critic and biographer. He was a good friend of Henry James in James's later life, and became a follower in literary terms, and his editor after his death. Later scholars have questioned editorial decisions he made in publishing the James letters (in 1920, when in defence it could be said that many of those concerned were alive). - Tom Craddick
Thomas Russell “Tom” Craddick is the first Republican to serve as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives since Reconstruction. - Preston Smith
Preston Earnest Smith was a Democratic governor of Texas from 1969-1973, and the lieutenant governor from 1963-1969. Smith was born into a tenant farming family of thirteen children in Williamson County near Austin. The family later moved to Lamesa in Dawson County on the Texas South Plains, where Smith graduated from high school. He thereafter graduated from Texas Tech University in Lubbock and built a movie theater business by the middle 1940s. - Randy Neugebauer
Randy Neugebauer (born December 24, 1949) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 19th Congressional district (map). The district includes a large swath of West Texas, including Lubbock and Abilene. He was sworn in on June 5, 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. Neugebauer serves on the House Committee on Agriculture, and Committee on Financial Services. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Dana. - Kent Hance
Kent Ronald Hance (born November 14, 1942, in Dimmitt, Texas) is a lobbyist and lawyer who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from west Texas, having served from 1979 to 1985. After his congressional service, he switched to the Republican Party. As a conservative Democrat, Hance represented the 19th Congressional District, which then stretched from Midland and Odessa to Lubbock. - Carl Isett
Carl Hawkins Isett (born March 7, 1957) is a Certified Public Accountant from Lubbock who has been a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1997. Isett was initially elected in House District 84 in 1996 to succeed Robert L. Duncan of Lubbock, who was elected to the Texas State Senate. Isett defeated the Democrat Don Richards in what has become a strongly Republican legislative district. - Delbert McClinton
Delbert McClinton (born 4 November 1940, in Lubbock, Texas) is a blues and country musician. - Mac Thornberry
William McClellan "Mac" Thornberry (born July 15, 1958), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. He represents the 13th Congressional District of Texas, which includes much of the Panhandle and stretches as far east as Wichita Falls (map). He currently serves on the Armed Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee. Thornberry is a lifelong resident of Clarendon, the seat of Donley County, … - Doug Smith
Doug Smith is a composer/pianist who graduated from Kermit High School in 1981 and began classes at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas in the fall of the same year. His goal was to earn a degree in telecommunications but that same year he started working with music recording for the first time and 'Just For You', Smith's first recording, was released in the spring of 1982, is a collection of songs ranging from ragtime originals to romantic ballads. - Jim Smith
Jim Smith, born James Carl Jobb in Lubbock, Texas in 1954, is an American animator and musician. He worked on "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures" with his long-time working partner John Kricfalusi. Smith later briefly worked on "Tiny Toon Adventures", and then along with Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, and Lynne Naylor, he founded Spümcø where he co-created "Ren & Stimpy" and "The Ripping Friends". - Ponty Bone
Ponty Bone is a Texan accordionist who has led his band, the Squeezetones to international popularity over a twenty year period. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Bone began studying accordion when he was only 5 years old. Later, he learned to play trumpet also. Ponty attended Texas Tech in Lubbock. With his band, Ponty has shared the stage with such artists as The Clash, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, King Flaco Jimenez, Linda Ronstadt, and Ronnie Lane. - Bob Livingston
Bob Livingston is a singer-songwriter currently living in Austin, Texas. Livingston grew up in Lubbock where he attended Lubbock High School. He went to Texas Tech University and was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. In 1969, Livingston left Lubbock for Los Angeles to pursue a career in music. He moved to Austin in 1971 and was one of the founders of the Lost Gonzo Band. - Kenneth Copeland
Kenneth Copeland (born December 6, 1936) is the founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, a Christian religious organization, and a television evangelist. He was born in Lubbock, Texas. - Duane Simolke
Duane Simolke (born 1965) is an American writer based in Lubbock, Texas, who has authored "The Acorn Stories", "Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure", "Holding Me Together", "The Return of Innocence" (with Toni Davis), and "New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio", based on the original Sherwood Anderson classic. He edited and co-wrote the spin-off "The Acorn Gathering" and donated the royalties of that work to the American Cancer Society. - Grandmaster Ratte'
Grandmaster Ratte<nowiki>'</nowiki> (born April 1970, formerly known as Swamp Rat and then Swamp Ratte<nowiki>'</nowiki>) is one of the founders of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) hacker group, along with Franken Gibe and Sid Vicious. His official title in the cDc is "Imperial Wizard of ExXxtasy." Ratte' is originally from Lubbock, Texas, though he now resides in Harlem, New York City, New York. - Dan Blocker
Dan Blocker aka Dan Davis Blocker (real name - B. Dan D. Blocker)(December 10 1928 - May 13 1972) was an American actor best remembered for his role as Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright in the TV western blockbuster "Bonanza". He was born in DeKalb in east Texas, the son of Ora Shack Blocker & Mary Davis Blocker. He is also related to David Blocker and Kristen Blocker as well. His family moved to O'Donnell, Texas near Lubbock soon after his birth. - Legendary Stardust Cowboy
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, born Norman Carl Odam on October 10, 1947 in Lubbock,Texas, was an incoherent rock and roll performer who invented an early example of the genre that came to be known as psychobilly in the 1960s. While often considered a novelty artist, he considers himself a serious performer. He recorded his only "hit," the song "Paralyzed", in 1968, in what was, apparently, a moment of spare time in a recording studio in Texas. - Tommy Hancock
Tommy Hancock (Tommy X. Hancock) is widely regarded as the godfather of West Texas music. Born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, Hancock's grandmother had him classically trained in violin. But at age 16, Tommy joined the military and traveled overseas as a paratrooper and military policeman. In 1946 he left the service and returned to Lubbock, … - 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. - Justin Duchscherer
Justin Craig Duchscherer [duke-SHUR] (born November 19, 1977 in Aberdeen, South Dakota) is a right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Oakland Athletics (since 2003). Previously, he played with the Texas Rangers (2001). Duchscherer was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the 8th round (241st overall) of the 1996 MLB Draft out of Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas. His high-80's fastball made him one of the hardest throwers in the area, … - Robert L. Duncan
Robert Lloyd Duncan (born August 5, 1953) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate from the 28th District, based in Lubbock. He was first elected to the Senate in 1996. He previously served in the Texas House of Representatives. He was succeeded in the House seat by his fellow Republican Carl Isett. - Tom Loeffler
Thomas Gilbert (Tom) Loeffler (born August 1, 1946) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from central Texas. He is currently an advisor to the presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona. Loeffler was born in Fredericksburg in the heart of the Texas Hill Country and attended school in Mason, the seat of Mason County. He earned B.B.A. and a Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. - 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. - Jill Goodacre
Jill Goodacre Connick (born March 29, 1965 in Lubbock, Texas) is a fashion model who appeared extensively in the 1990s Victoria's Secret catalogs. After directing one of his music videos in 1992, Goodacre married Harry Connick, Jr., in 1994. She is the daughter of real estate broker William Goodacre of Boulder, CO and Glenna N. Goodacre, a native of Lubbock, Texas, who resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her mother is now married to Dallas attorney Michael Lee "Mike" Schmidt. - Tyla Wynn
Tyla Wynn (born Nancy Spencer on October 16, 1982 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American pornographic actress. While born in Lubbock, she moved to Lancaster, California during her childhood. She graduated from Quartz Hill High School in 2002. She entered the adult industry after her agent at So Cal Pro Models booked her into a foot fetish scene with Jennifer Luv. She has stated to prefer anal sex over regular sex, … - Natalie Louise Maines
Natalie Louise Maines (born October 14, 1974) is a Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter who achieved success as the lead vocalist for the female country music band Dixie Chicks. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Maines considers herself a rebel who "loved not thinking in the way I knew the majority of people thought." In 1995, after leaving the Berklee College of Music, Maines was recruited by the Dixie Chicks to replace their lead singer, Laura Lynch. - Bill Sarpalius
William "Bill" Sarpalius (born January 10, 1948) is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, having represented the Texas Panhandle district from 1989-1995. Sarapalius was born in Houston. As a teenager, he left his parents in the city to work and learn at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch near Amarillo. At the age of eighteen, he became the president of the Future Farmers of America. - John T. Smithee
John True Smithee (born September 7, 1951) is an Amarillo attorney who has been a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since January 1985. Smithee's District 86 includes rural Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, and Deaf Smith counties. His district office is in Amarillo. He represents that part of Amarillo, some 40 percent of the population, located to the south of the central city within Randall County. The remainder of Amarillo, the seat of Potter County, …
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