- Peter MacNicol
Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954 in Dallas, Texas) is an Emmy Award winning American actor. MacNicol was raised in Texas as the youngest of five children. MacNicol began his career studying at the University of Minnesota. While there, he performed in two seasons at the Guthrie Theater. A New York talent agent spotted him and told him to make a move to Manhattan. Shortly thereafter, he was cast in the off-Broadway play, "Crimes of the Heart".
- Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter who led the rock band Oingo Boingo from 1978 until its breakup in 1995, and has since gone on to become one of the most sought-after film score composers working in Hollywood today. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards.
- Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. He was an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live", an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.
- Daniel Johnston
Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Johnston was the subject of the 2005 documentary "The Devil and Daniel Johnston." He currently lives in a house adjacent to his parents' home in Waller, Texas. Johnston, who has been diagnosed with manic depression, has been classified as an outsider musician. His songs are typically painfully direct, and often display a disturbing blend of childlike naïveté with darker, "spooky" themes.
- Fabricio Oberto
Fabricio Raúl Jesús Oberto is an Argentine professional basketball player, currently playing for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. He is a 6' 10", 245 lb center/power forward. He has dual Argentine and Italian citizenship. At age 17, Oberto went to a trial at "AD Atenas de Córdoba", one of the most important basketball clubs in Argentina, and was selected to start the following year, and started playing professionally later that year.
- Marty Turco
Marty Turco (born August 13, 1975 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is a goaltender for the Dallas Stars of the NHL.
- Damon Stoudamire
Damon Lamon Stoudamire (born September 3 1973 in Portland, Oregon) is an American NBA basketball player, currently playing for the Memphis Grizzlies. He was selected by the Toronto Raptors in the first round (seventh pick overall) of the 1995 NBA Draft. In college he played for the Arizona Wildcats. Damon is the cousin of former University of Arizona standout and current Atlanta Hawks guard Salim Stoudamire.
- Jussi Jokinen
Jussi Jokinen (born April 1, 1983 in Kalajoki, Finland) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. Jussi is well know for being a shootout specialist. He can be seen pulling some unique dekes, such as the one handed slide in goal -- also known as "The Paralyzer" -- in shootouts to help his team. He set an NHL record by scoring in 9 straight overtime shootout attempts in the 2005-2006 NHL season.
- Bear Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team, and is the namesake of the Paul W. Bryant Museum.
- Larry Kellner
Lawrence W. "Larry" Kellner (born 1959) has been CEO of Continental Airlines since December 2004. He previously served as a vice president, chief financial officer and chief operations officer for the airline. Kellner grew up in Sumter, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1981 with a degree in accounting. He resides in Houston, Texas.
- Carly Patterson
Carly Rae Patterson (born February 4, 1988 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a former American gymnast (the 2004 Olympic All-Around Champion) and is currently an aspiring professional singer. She currently lives in Allen, Texas.
- Ime Udoka
Ime Udoka (pronounced EE-may you-DOE-kuh) (born August 9, 1977 in Portland, Oregon) is an American professional basketball player of partial Nigerian descent. He is currently a free agent. Udoka, a small forward, attended Portland's Jefferson High School and Portland State University where he starred for the Vikings. He started his professional basketball career by playing in the NBDL with the Charleston Lowgators.
- Erick Dampier
Erick Travez Dampier (born July 14, 1975, in New Hebron, Mississippi) is an American professional basketball player. He is a 6 ft 11 in / 265 lb. center who currently plays for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA. Erick played competitively at Lawrence County High School in Monticello, Mississippi, where he led the rural county to two state championships. Dampier played college basketball at Mississippi State University. While there he became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi.
- William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 - 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and abolitionist who led the parliamentary campaign against the slave trade.
- Tashard Choice
Tashard "Deuce" Choice (born November 20, 1984) is the starting running back for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Choice began his collegiate career at Oklahoma University but transferred to Georgia Tech in 2005. Choice was born in Riverdale, Georgia. He played high school football for Lovejoy High School where he accounted for 40 career all-purpose touchdowns.
- Ndudi Ebi
Ndudi Ebi (born June 18, 1984 in London, England) is an English professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA. He committed to the University of Arizona, in the U.S., but reneged by making himself eligible for the NBA Draft. Ebi was selected out of Westbury Christian School by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round (26th pick overall) of the 2003 NBA Draft.
- Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. (born October 31, 1931 in Wharton, Texas) is the former longtime anchor for the "CBS Evening News" and is now under contract and scheduled to serve as managing editor and anchor of a new television news magazine, "Dan Rather Reports", on the new cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the "CBS Evening News" for 24 years, from March 9, 1981 to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS' "60 Minutes".
- Wilhelm Cuno
Wilhelm Cuno (2 July 1876 - 3 January 1933) was a German politician who was the Chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923. He was born in Suhl, Thuringia. Cuno's government is best known for its passive resistance of the French occupation of the Ruhr (1922-1923). Cuno's government was also responsible for its poor handling of economic problems. In order to pay off the state's debts, the government under Cuno printed off vast amounts of money, …
- Matt Niskanen
Matt Niskanen (born December 6, 1986 in Virginia, Minnesota, USA) is an American professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted by the Dallas Stars in the first round, 28th overall, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. Niskanen currently attends the University of Minnesota Duluth. In 2005-06, his freshman season on the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs hockey team, he recorded 14 points in 38 games.
- Francisco Elson
Francisco Marinho Robby Elson (born February 28 1976 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch professional basketball player of Surinamese descent. At 7' 0" (2.13 m) and weighing 235 lbs (107 kg), he currently plays center for the San Antonio Spurs in the United States' NBA. The Spurs consider Elson their most athletic "big man" of their centers and power forwards. He has earned praise for his ability to distribute the ball and speed.
- Stephane Robidas
Stéphane Robidas in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a professional ice hockey player.
- Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of State and Head of the "Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning" (1992-1993) and actual Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
- Scott Verplank
Scott Rachal Verplank (born July 9 1964) is an American professional golfer. Verplank was born in Dallas, Texas. He was a leading member of the W.T. White High School Golf Team and a regular at Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas. While attending Oklahoma State University he won at the Western Open, becoming the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Doug Sanders won the 1956 Canadian Open.
- Antti Miettinen
Antti Miettinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward. He was drafted by the Dallas Stars as their seventh-round pick, #224 overall, in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. He has two brothers and one sister, owns a cat, and returns to his hometown in the summer. He was chosen to play for Finland in the 2006 Winter Olympics but was unable to participate due to an upper body injury. He was replaced by fellow Dallas Star Niklas Hagman.
- Joel Lundqvist
Joel Lundqvist is a Swedish professional ice hockey player with Dallas Stars in NHL. Joel Lundqvist is 6'0 feet tall. He weighs 194 pounds and shoots left handed when playing hockey. Lundqvist was selected by the Dallas Stars in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft (3rd round, 68th overall) and signed a one year entry level two way contract with them in May 2006.
- Brian Thompson
Brian Thompson (born August 28, 1959) is an American actor. His distinctive square-jaw profile, booming voice, and imposing stature (six-foot-three) has led him to star in many action films, invariably as a villain. Thompson was born in Ellensburg, Washington to teacher parents. His first role was playing one of the punks who are killed by Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "The Terminator" at the beginning of the film.
- Loui Eriksson
Loui Eriksson (born July 17, 1985, in Gothenburg, Sweden) is an ice hockey left winger, currently a prospect under contract with the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. He spent his entire 2005-2006 season with the Iowa Stars, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Stars.
- Bruno Kreisky
Bruno Kreisky served as Chancellor of Austria from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72 at the end of his chancellorship, he was the oldest acting Chancellor after the Second World War.
- Nolan Ryan
Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. (born January 31, 1947) is an American right-handed former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in a record-tying 27 seasons for the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers, from to. Ryan still holds many major-league pitching records, some by such wide margins over previous marks that they will likely stand for many years. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in. Ryan, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher, …
- Bob Deuell
Bob Deuell (born 11 March 1950) is a conservative Republican member of the Texas Senate, representing the 10 counties of Senate District 2 in Northeast Texas, since 2003. He was educated at George Mason University and the Medical College of Virginia in order to become a family physician. Deuell is a partner in Primary Care Associates of Greenville, Texas, and is a member of the American Medical Association and Texas Medical Association.
- Kip Averitt
Barry Kip Averitt (born 31 October 1954) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 22nd District.
- Owen M. Fiss
Owen M. Fiss is a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School.
- Jill Mills
Jill Mills is a powerlifter and strongwoman from the United States. Jill Brown was born on March 2, 1972. She competed in bodybuilding from 1993 to 1995, but turned to powerlifting in 1996. She is undefeated in powerlifting competition, and has set many state and national records. Jill was also one of the first women to compete in strongwoman contests, starting in 1997. She was named the 1997 North American Strongman Society Woman Athlete of the Year.
- Edwin Outwater
Edwin Maurice Outwater (born 12 April 1971) is an American conductor from Santa Monica, California, USA. Outwater is the recently appointed Music Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada. He begins his tenure in September 2007. From 2001 to 2006, Edwin Outwater was Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, and from 2001 to 2005, he was the Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.
- Kliff Kingsbury
Kliff Kingsbury (born August 9, 1979 in San Antonio, Texas) has spent time in the National Football League, and is currently a quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL.
- Bill Proenza
Xavier William Proenza (also known as Bill Proenza) served as the director of the National Hurricane Center (NHC) from January 4, 2007 to July 9, 2007. He previously served as the Southern Region Director of the National Weather Service from 1999 to 2007.
- Robert Mosbacher
Robert Adam Mosbacher (born March 11 1927) is a U.S. businessman. He was the Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, his father was a wealthy stock trader who cashed in most of his holdings before Wall Street crashed, so the family did not suffer during the Depression. Robert Mosbacher graduated from Washington & Lee University in Virginia in 1947 with a degree in business administration.
- Robinson Tejeda
Robinson Garcia Tejeda, born March 24 1982 in Baní, Dominican Republic, is a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. Tejeda was signed as an amateur free agent by the Philadelphia Phillies on November 24, 1998. He made his professional debut the following year with the GCL Phillies. Tejeda spent the 2001, 2002 and 2003 seasons with the Single-A Lakewood BlueClaws and Clearwater Threshers before being promoted to the Double-A Reading Phillies in 2004.
- Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I, but later won acclaim for his prose work.
- Mojo Nixon
Mojo Nixon (born Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr., August 2, 1957 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American musician. A part of the psychobilly movement, he is known for his boisterousness, his often scathing critiques of pop culture, and his libertarian political views.