List of people from San Antonio, Texas

Below follows a comprehensive list of notables of San Antonio, Texas.

Politics

• Glenn A. Abbey, U.S. diplomat
• William P. Atkinson, former Wisconsin State Assemblyman
• Claude W. Black, Jr., Baptist minister, civil rights leader, former City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tempore
• Bill Blythe, former state representative from Harris County, born in San Antonio ca. 1935
• Robert Lee Bobbitt, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, state attorney general, and chairman of the Texas Highway Commission
• Joaquín Castro, Texas state representative from District 125 and the brother of mayor Julian Castro.
• John Cornyn, United States Senator, who attended Trinity University and St. Mary's University Law School
• Frank Corte, Jr., Republican state representative from San Antonio, 1993 to 2011
• Alberto Gonzales, former United States Attorney General under President of the United States George W. Bush
• Henry B. Gonzalez, late United States Congressman, honored by City of San Antonio with Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio
• Rita Jenrette, former wife of United States Congressman John W. Jenrette, Jr., of South Carolina, posed for Playboy magazine in 1981, dated country singer Mickey Gilley.
• Cyndi Taylor Krier, former state senator and Bexar County administrative judge
• Joe Rollins (1918–2008), Houston attorney, graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio in 1934
• Sally Shelton-Colby, Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia, and Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St. Vincent from 1979 to 1981, under Jimmy Carter.
• John Shields, former state representative from San Antonio
• Bill Siebert, former state representative from San Antonio
• G. J. Sutton, late Texas State Representative, first black elected official in Texas
• Lou Nelle Sutton, late wife of G. J. Sutton, who succeeded her husband in the Texas House of Representatives
• Percy Sutton, former Manhattan borough president, civil rights attorney with such high profile clients as Malcolm X, owner of Apollo Theater in Harlem and several radio stations
• Lawson Swearingen, born in San Antonio in 1944 but reared in Ruston, Louisiana, is a former member of the Louisiana State Senate and a former president of his alma mater, the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
• Jeff Wentworth, current state senator from San Antonio
• John H. Wood, Jr., served as a federal judge in San Antonio until 1979, when he was assassinated by convicted murderer-for-hire Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson.
• John C. Woods executioner of the Nuremberg Trials. Also a Master Sergeant in the Army.
• Lou Zaeske, born in San Antonio in 1941, began English-only movement in Texas and was advocate for Czech ethnic causes
• Henry E. Catto, Jr., former amabassador to the U.K.

Notable mayors

• Julian Castro, 2009–present, former city councilman who garnered national attention for campaign stunts involving his identical twin brother, Joaquín, a state legislator, in his 2005 mayoral bid.
• Phil Hardberger, 2005–2009
• Howard Peak, 1997–2001
• Nelson Wolff, 1991–1995
• Henry Cisneros, 1981–1989, Secretary of HUD under President of the United States Bill Clinton.
• Lila Cockrell, 1976–1981, 1989–1991
• Maury Maverick, Sr., 1939–1941
• Juan Seguin, 1841–1842
• Sam Maverick, 1839–1840

Artists

• Carl Hoppe
• Porfirio Salinas
• Julian Onderdonk, landscape painter
• Verner Moore White

Architects

• O'Neil Ford
• Alfred Giles (1853–1920) Designed many historic homes and courthouses, including the Pershing House
• Robert Hugman, most noted in for designing the horseshoe section of the San Antonio River Walk

Fashion

• Suzy Parker, actress, supermodel favorite of Coco Chanel and photographer Richard Avedon.

Film and television

• Kevin Alejandro, actor " True Blood HBO series
• Jesse Borrego, actor "Blood In Blood Out", Jesse Velasquez Fame,
• Taylor Ball, actor, Still Standing
• Gil Birmingham (b. 1966), Comanche actor Twilight film series
• Pat Boyette, KENS-TV news anchor, comic book artist, actor, composer, director of horror films
• Lara Flynn Boyle, actress Twin Peaks, The Practice, Wayne's World and Men in Black, married San Antonio businessman Donald Ray Thomas on December 18, 2006.
• Carol Burnett, Emmy Award-winning actress-comedienne, CBS-TV's The Carol Burnett Show
• Wendell Burton, film actor The Sterile Cuckoo, also numerous television roles.
• Cass Ole, Arabian stallion who starred in the films The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns, performed at personal appearances throughout United States, died and was buried at his owner's home in San Antonio on June 29, 1993.
• Ricardo Antonio Chavira, actor, ABC-TV's Desperate Housewives in which he plays husband of Eva Longoria's character.
• Jessica Collins, actress, plays Maggie on AMC's Rubicon; played the mysterious Sophie on NBC-TV's Heroes; played social worker Lizzie Miller on the ABC-TV's The Nine. Born and raised in San Antonio; graduated from San Antonio's Tom C. Clark High School in 2001. Graduated from Juilliard School in 2005.
• Joan Crawford, Academy Award-winning actress, Mildred Pierce, after retirement from film, was business executive with PepsiCo
• Olivia de Havilland, Academy Award-winning actress who portrayed kind-hearted Melanie in Gone With the Wind, also starred in The Sea Hawk, Dodge City, They Died With Their Boots On and many other Warner Brothers films; in 1940s, the actress owned a Texas home in the San Antonio area; Ms. de Havilland's residence (now a restaurant) is part of a corporate meeting complex known as Guadalupe River Ranch.
• Dayna Devon, host of syndicated TV series, Extra
• Jade Esteban Estrada, actor, comedian
• Al Freeman, Jr., Emmy Award-nominated actor, One Life to Live, Malcolm X
• Summer Glau, actress, Firefly, Serenity, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• Emilio Rivera, actor, Lie to Me, Ali G Indahouse, Harsh Times
• Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, character actor best known for his appearances in Rio Bravo and The High and the Mighty, contract actor for John Wayne's Batjac Productions.
• Jackie Earle Haley, Academy Award-nominated actor, Breaking Away, All the King's Men, Little Children, The Bad News Bears and Watchmen
• Daisy and Violet Hilton, British-born conjoined twins who toured in the U.S. sideshow and vaudeville circuit in the 1930s; lived in mansion in San Antonio in the 1930s; appeared in MGM's Freaks (1932) and the 1950 exploitation film Chained for Life.
• Tommy Lee Jones, Academy Award-winning actor. Coal Miner's Daughter, Men in Black, Space Cowboys, The Missing, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, In the Valley of Elah and No Country for Old Men, as well as CBS-TV mini-series, Lonesome Dove. Makes his home in the Terrell Hills section of town. Mr. Jones' ex-wife and the mother of his children, Kimberlea Moser, is the daughter of San Antonio former Mayor Phil Hardberger and his ex- wife, Sherry Kafka Wagner.
• Jana Jordan, adult film star, former Penthouse Pet of the Month (August 2007)
• Callie Khouri, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Thelma and Louise
• Hal LeSueur, brother of Joan Crawford, actor with uncredited appearances in MGM films including: Mutiny on the Bounty, Madame X, The Girl of the Golden West, Flight Command, Shadow of the Thin Man and The Big Store.
• Bruce McGill, actor, Animal House, The Lookout, Cinderella Man, Matchstick Men Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, The Legend of Bagger Vance, My Cousin Vinny, Silkwood, best known for portraying Jack Dalton on the television series MacGyver.
• Pola Negri, a major motion picture actress of the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s. Miss Negri was one of the silent screen's greatest vamps.
• John Allen Nelson, actor in television series, 24
• Oliver North, host of Fox News series, War Stories, Fox News commentator, as United States Marine Corps colonel assisted the opponents of Nicaragua's Sandinista government (known as Contras), served as member of National Security Council in the President of the United States Ronald Reagan's cabinet.
• Derek Lee Nixon, actor, When in Rome, Hallettsville, The Jerk Theory (2010)
• Norah O'Donnell, NBC News correspondent, frequent guest on MSNBC's political talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews
• Jared Padalecki, actor, Gilmore Girls, Supernatural (TV series)
• Ann Prentiss, TV supporting actress, Starsky and Hutch, Emergency!, Love, American Style Bonanza, McCloud, Baretta, Switch. Gained notoriety in 1997 after being sent to prison for terrorizing members of her family
• Ann B. Davis, TV series actress, The Bob Cummings Show, The Brady Bunch
• Paula Prentiss, Emmy Award-nominated actress, wife of actor/director Richard Benjamin and sister of Ann Prentiss, Where the Boys Are, In Harm's Way, Catch-22 The Black Marble, The Parallax View, The Stepford Wives, Man's Favorite Sport? and CBS-TV series, He & She with actor husband Dick Benjamin.
• Kevin Reynolds, film director & screenwriter of Fandango, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Waterworld and The Count of Monte Cristo
• James Roday, actor, Miss Match, Psych
• Michelle Rodriguez, actress, The Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil, Lost
• Robert Rodríguez, director, El Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, Spy Kids, Grindhouse, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Sin City.
• Jayne Walton Rosen, Champagne Lady and entertainer with Lawrence Welk
• Ginny Sims, MGM contract actress in the 1940s
• Andy Stahl (b. 1952), actor
• Henry Thomas, actor, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Legends of the Fall, Gangs of New York, All the Pretty Horses, Moby Dick (made for cable), Riders of the Purple Sage (made for cable), Cloak & Dagger and Misunderstood and Raggedy Man.
• Peter Weller, actor,, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, RoboCop, First Born, Leviathan
• Eva Longoria, actress Desperate Housewives.
• Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter. Won an Academy Award in 2009 for Milk
• Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor. Currently plays Mohinder Suresh in the television show Heroes.
• Violet Luv, pornographic actress
• Jim Lehrer, anchor of the PBS NewsHour graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School (San Antonio, TX).
• Thomas Gibson, actor. Special Agent Aaron Hotchner in Criminal Minds.

Other

• Vivian Liberto, former wife of country music legend Johnny Cash, mother of Rosanne Cash.
• Mitch Clem, cartoonist and writer, lives outside of San Antonio, in Kirby Texas.
• Joseph Gottschalk, internationally known and mourned "Thong Man."
• José María Jesús Carbajal, military officer in the Mexican-American War; born in San Fernando de Béxar, present-day San Antonio.

Scientists

• Robert Cade Medical doctor and inventor of Gatorade.
• William H. Cade noted insect behaviorist/cricket expert
• Elsa Salazar Cade science educator/entomologist

Sports

Basketball

• Shaquille O'Neal, center, Boston Celtics, graduated from Robert G. Cole High School, Fort Sam Houston, after leading his team to a 36–0 record and state championship; four-time NBA world champion with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat
• Jeff Foster, center, Indiana Pacers, since 1999 and who graduated from James Madison High School
• Bo Outlaw, forward, played for several NBA teams between 1994 and 2006 and graduated from John Jay High School
• Fennis Dembo, forward, played for the NBA world champion Detroit Pistons in 1989 and graduated from Fox Tech High School
• Keith Edmonson, forward, played for several NBA teams in 1982–83 and graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School
• Askia Jones, guard, played for the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1994 and graduated from John Marshall High School
• Trent Plaisted, forward, drafted 46th overall in the 2008 NBA Draft and currently plays overseas for K.K. Zadar in Croatia; graduated from Tom Clark High School

NFL Football Players

• Scott Ankrom (John Jay High School)
• Patrick Bailey (Alamo Heights High School)
• Glenn Blackwood (Churchill)
• Lyle Blackwood (Churchill)
• Chris Bordano (Southwest)
• Cody Carlson (Churchill)
• Keith Cash (Oliver Wendell Holmes High School)
• Kerry Cash (Holmes)
• Bruce Collie (Robert E. Lee)
• Tony Darden (Holmes)
• Trey Darilek (Robert E. Lee)
• Ty Detmer (Southwest)
• Quintin Demps (Roosevelt)
• Ronald Flemons (Marshall)
• Erik Flowers (Roosevelt)
• Darryl Grant (Highlands)
• Derwin Gray (Judson)
• Gary Green (American football) (Sam Houston)
• Cedric Griffin (Holmes)
• Weldon Humble (Brackenridge)
• David Hill (tight end) (Highlands)
• Priest Holmes (Marshall)
• Carlyle Holiday (Roosevelt)
• Sam Hurd (Brackenridge)
• A.J. Johnson (Clemens)
• N.D. Kalu (Marshall)
• Wade Key (Edison)
• Tommy Kramer (Robert E. Lee)
• Wane McGarity (Clark)
• Warren McVea (Brackenridge)
• Willie Mitchell (football player) (Brackenridge)
• Sammy Morris (Jay)
• Tommy Nobis (Jefferson)
• Joe Pawelek (Smithson Valley)
• Robert Quiroga (Holmes)
• Reggie Rivers (Randolph)
• Aaron Ross (Fox Tech)
• Kyle Rote (Jefferson)
• Tobin Rote (Jefferson)
• Chris Samuels (Judson)
• Greg Schorp (Churchill)
• Corey Sears (Judson)
• Andrew Sendejo (Smithon Valley)
• Michael Toudouze (East Central)
• Alex Van Pelt (Churchill)

Baseball

• Josh Beckett, MLB two-time All-Star pitcher (resident as of 2011)
• Randy Choate, MLB relief pitcher
• Jerry Grote, MLB two-time All-Star catcher
• Alva Jo Fischer, San Antonio native All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player inducted into the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame and the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame
• Bob Heise, MLB player for the Mets, Giants, Brewers, Cardinals, Angels, Red Sox and Royals
• Joe Horlen, MLB All-Star pitcher
• Cliff Johnson, MLB catcher
• Brandon Larson, MLB player for the St.Louis Cardinals
• Boone Logan (born in Helotes), MLB pitcher for the Yankees, White Sox and Braves
• Jeff Manship, MLB player for the Minnesota Twins

Professional Wrestling

• Tully Blanchard
• Shoichi Funaki
• Jose Lothario
• Shawn Michaels

Swimming

• Josh Davis, (Churchill High School), Olympic gold medalist

Track & field

• Darold Williamson (Oliver Wendell Holmes High School), Olympic gold medalist in 4x400-meter relay
• Anjanette Kirkland (Holmes), World Championships gold medalist in 100-meter hurdles
• Reuben Reina (John Jay), Olympic 10,000-meter runner
• Jennifer Gutierrez (Holmes), Olympic triathlete

Professional rodeo

• Gene Lyda, professional bull rider from Somerset, Texas, National High School Rodeo Association champion bull rider, member of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, Top 15 Bull Riders at 1967 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, current partner/manager of La Escalera Ranch, son of San Antonio general contractor /rancher Gerald Lyda.

Music industry

• Jay Boy Adams, singer, songwriter, guitarist; businessman in Comfort
• Moe Bandy, country singer from San Antonio area, Lone Oak, Texas, brother of professional bull rider Mike Bandy, recorded 'Bandy the Rodeo Clown' and other hits for Columbia Records, regularly performs in Branson, Missouri
• Johnny Bush, country singer, performed with Ray Price's Cherokee Cowboys and Willie Nelson's Record Men band, wrote and had a smash RCA Victor single with Whiskey River, lives in San Antonio, wrote autobiography, Whiskey River, Take My Mind.
• Vikki Carr, pop and Latin singer, recorded for Liberty Records, provided background vocals for Bob Wills during Wills' Liberty Records sessions; lives in San Antonio
• Christopher Cross, Oscar Award-winning singer/songwriter & four-time Grammy Award winner.
• Al Dean, country singer and band leader of "The All-Stars", recorded hugely-popular "National Anthem of Texas", Cotton-Eyed Joe which is played at San Antonio Spurs basketball games.
• Jessy Dixon, black gospel singer born in San Antonio, regular on Gaither Homecoming video series.
• Holly Dunn, country singer/songwriter, radio personality
• Steve Earle, progressive country singer/songwriter, married to singer Allison Moorer, sister of singer Shelby Lynn.
• Alejandro Escovedo, punk rock, roots rock, alternative country singer/songwriter, from a family that boasts several professional musicians.
• Robert Fitzpatrick, actor, entertainment lawyer who managed such groups as Bee Gees, The Who, Rolling Stones, Cream, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, The Buckinghams, Dick Dale & the Del-Tones, Dobie Gray, Taj Majal and Peggy Lee.
• Rosie Flores, rockabilly and country music artist; toured with Wanda Jackson and Asleep at the Wheel.
• Pat Green, singer/songwriter of Texas music
• Gibby Haynes, founding member and lead singer of the Butthole Surfers, a popular rock band formed at Trinity University
• Tish Hinojosa, Tejano singer, recorded for A & M Records and Watermelon Records.
• Adolph Hofner, country singer, toured Texas festivals, fairs and rodeos with his band, The Pearl Wranglers, had daily radio program on KMAC Radio, sponsored by Pearl Beer, recorded for Okeh Records.
• Flaco Jimenez, Tejano and conjunto musician, accordionist, member of Texas Tornadoes
• Bobby Jarzombek, drummer for bands such as Halford (band), Sebastian Bach and Spastic Ink. Brother of Ron Jarzombek.
• Ron Jarzombek, guitarist for bands such as S.A. Slayer (San Antonio Slayer), Watchtower, Spastic Ink and Blotted Science. Legendary in the scene. Brother of Bobby Jarzombek.
• Paul Leary, a founding member and guitarist of the Butthole Surfers, a popular rock band formed at Trinity University
• Marshall Dyllon, country vocal group consisting of brothers Paul Martin and Michael Martin, Todd Sansom, Jess Littleton and Daniel Cahoon, charted three Top 50 Billboard country songs, Live It Up (2000), You (2001) and She Ain't Gonna Cry (2000).
• Austin Mahone, Singer who built up in (2011)
• Jordan McCoy, American Juniors runner-up, who has signed with Sean (Puffy) Combs
• Red River Dave McEnery, hillbilly singer/songwriter, film, radio & recording star; in the early 1940s, returned to San Antonio and broadcast his songs on XERF Radio located along the Texas/Mexico border, offering copies of his songbooks for sale as well. He also appeared in several B-Western films, including 1944's Swing in the Saddle, which featured cameos by the Hoosier Hotshots and Nat "King" Cole.
• Augie Meyers, Tex-Mex/country/rock musician, member of The Texas Tornadoes, founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet, charted Top 100 Billboard solo country hit Kap Pa So (1988) on Atlantic-American Records Session keyboardist for Bob Dylan's Grammy-winning album of the year Time Out Of Mind(1998) and it's follow up, Love and Theft, 2001 Columbia Records)
• Michael Morales (musician), Grammy Award-winning pop artist who had two Billboard top-40 hits in the early 1990s. Graduated from San Antonio's Oliver Wendell Holmes High School.
• Emilio Navaira, Grammy Award-winning Tejano music/country music singer.
• Michael Nesmith, singer/songwriter, member of group The Monkees, who had their own NBC-TV musical comedy series, The Monkees, producer of award-winning video, Elephant Parts. Also a member early on in Denny Ezba band "Denny Ezba and the Goldens" along with Keith Allison (Where the Action is" and Paul McCartney look alike bass player in Paul Revere and the Raiders) Augie Meyers, and Wayne Hensley.
• Offbeats, a San Antonio-based garage/punk band.
• Chris Pérez, Tejano musician
• Ray Peterson, 1960s pop singer whose major hits included Corrina, Corrina", "Missing You", "The Wonder of You" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" for RCA Victor Records
• Emily Robison, plays banjo, dobro, guitar and vocals in Grammy Award-winning Country music group the Dixie Chicks
• Robert Xavier Rodriguez, classical composer
• Doug Sahm, Tex-Mex/country/rock musician, member of Texas Tornadoes, leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet which recorded such hits as "She's About a Mover" and "Mendocino".
• Olga Samaroff, concert pianist and first wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski
• John Schneider, actor/singer, best known as "Bo Duke" on CBS-TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, had 18 Top 100 Billboard hits on the country chart, appeared as "Curley" in CBS-television film, Stagecoach starring Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, San Antonio resident.
• George Strait, Grammy Award-winning country music superstar, had more than 50 No. 1 Billboard songs, including The Chair, "All My Ex's Live in Texas", starred in Universal Pictures' film, Pure Country, lives in San Antonio in the Dominion.
• Ernest Tubb, country singer/songwriter, inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame, member of Grand Ole Opry, lived in San Antonio in the 1940s.
• Justin Tubb, country singer/songwriter member of Grand Ole Opry, son of country music legend Ernest Tubb, born in San Antonio
• Ron Jarzombek, guitarist for bands such as S.A. Slayer (San Antonio Slayer),

Writers

• Jacques Barzun, America's leading cultural historian.
• Sandra Cisneros, author, who lives in a purple house in the city's King William District
• Light Townsend Cummins, historian and author
• Heloise, syndicated advice columnist, who lives in the suburb of Helotes
• Esther Hicks,San Antonio-based best-selling author & inspirational speaker, Law of Attraction, Ask & It Is Given, The Astonishing Power of Emotions
• Naomi Shihab Nye, writer and poet
• Rick Riordan, San Antonio-based novelist, Big Red Tequila, The Last King of Texas, Southtown, Mission Road, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, "The Kane Chronicles", "The Heroes of Olympus" "The Maze of Bones", "Vespers Rising"
• Whitley Strieber, writer and film producer, Communion (film), The Hunger and Wolfen (film)

Religion

• Buckner Fanning, retired pastor at Trinity Baptist Church and founder of The Buckner Fanning School at Mission Springs; known for his 30-second TV "words of encouragement" spots.
• Patrick Flores (b. 1929), retired Catholic Archbishop of San Antonio (archbishop from 1979–2004)
• José Gomez, Catholic Archbishop of San Antonio
• John Hagee, televangelist and pastor of Cornerstone Church
• Cardinal William H. Keeler, born in San Antonio; Archbishop of Baltimore
• Max Lucado, best-selling Christian author and pastor of the city's Oak Hills Church.
• Samuel M. Stahl – Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth-El (San Antonio, Texas).

Billionaires

• Charles Butt, H-E-B
• Lowry Mays, Clear Channel Communications
• B. J. (Red) McCombs, founding partner in Clear Channel, auto dealer, and former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Minnesota Vikings, and Denver Nuggets

Civic leaders

• Tom Benson, Owner of New Orleans Saints and automobile dealer
• Ferdinand Ludwig Herff Medical pioneer
• Peter Holt, Chairman of Spurs. Partner in Caterpillar, Inc.
• Herb Kelleher, Chairman of Southwest Airlines
• Robert F. McDermott, Chairman Emeritus of USAA
• Ed Whitacre, Retired CEO of SBC/AT&T

Prominent businessmen

• Gerald Lyda, founder and president of Lyda Inc. and Lyda Constructors, Inc.; owner of 320,000-acre (1,300 km²) La Escalera Ranch in Texas; former owner of Ladder Ranch in Sierra County, New Mexico
• Edward Whitacre, Jr., interim CEO of General Motors
• Jeff Smisek, President and CEO of United Airlines

Hill Country residents

• Brian Benben, star of two HBO series Dream On and The Brian Benben Show, married to actress Madeleine Stowe, lives in Fredericksburg, Texas.
• Thomas Haden Church, Academy Award-nominated actor best known for roles in Wings, Sideways, and Spider-Man 3 lives in Bandera, Texas
• Shelley Duvall, best known for the role of Wendy in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as Nashville, Popeye, and Annie Hall, lives in Blanco, Texas.
• Olivia de Havilland, Academy Award-winning actress who portrayed kind-hearted Melanie in Gone With the Wind, also starred in Charge of the Light Brigade, Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, Dodge City, They Died with Their Boots On and many other Warner Brothers films; in 1940s, the actress owned a Texas home in the San Antonio area near present day Boerne, Texas; Ms. de Havilland's residence (now a restaurant) is part of a corporate meeting complex known as Guadalupe River Ranch.
• Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), songwriter, ("The Singing Brakeman"), inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame, lived in Kerrville, Texas
• Karl Rove, top adviser to President of the United States George W. Bush
• Madeleine Stowe, actress, The Last of the Mohicans, Stakeout, Blink, Short Cuts, Twelve Monkeys, Bad Girls, and Revenge, married to actor Brian Benben, lives in Fredericksburg, Texas.