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Texans - Founders of the Republic of Texas

Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), the "Father of Texas"

Edward Burleson (1798–1851), Texas soldier, general, and statesman

David G. Burnet (1788–1870), interim President of the Republic of Texas

Jao De La Porta, trader, financed settlement of Galveston Island

Sam Houston (1793–1863), first President of Republic of Texas, later U.S. Senator from Texas and Governor of Texas

Anson Jones (1798–1858), last President of the Republic of Texas, called the "Architect of Annexation"

Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), second President of Republic of Texas

Jose Antonio Navarro (1795–1871), Texas statesman, revolutionary and politician

Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803–1857), Secretary of War between Texas and Mexico, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas and Senator from Texas after admission to the Union.

Edwin Waller (1800–1881) judge, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence

Lorenzo de Zavala (1788–1836), first vice-president of the Republic of Texas and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence

The Texas Revolution/The Alamo

Jim Bowie (1796–1836), frontiersman, died at the Battle of the Alamo

John Coker (1789–1851), hero of San Jacinto

Davy Crockett (1786–1836), frontiersman and U.S. Congressman, died at the Alamo

James Fannin (c. 1804 – 1836), key figure during the Texas Revolution

Sam Houston (1793–1863), commander of victorious Texian Army at the Battle of San Jacinto of the Texas Revolution, which won independence for Texas

Benjamin McCulloch (1811–1862), soldier in the Texas Revolution, Texas Ranger, U.S. Marshal, and brigadier general for the Confederate States of America

Henry Eustace McCulloch (1816–1895), a soldier in the Texas Revolution, Texas Ranger, and brigadier general for the Confederate States of America

Juan Seguin (1806–1890), Tejano hero during the Texas Revolution

William B. Travis (1809–1836), commander of Texas forces at the Alamo

Logan Vandeveer (1815–1855), hero of San Jacinto ashlea smith (1809-1836)

The Civil War

John Henry Brown (1820–1895), Confederate officer, served on staffs of two generals

Dick Dowling (1838–1867), commander at Sabine Pass and famous Houstonian

John "Rip" Ford (1815–1897), Texas Rangers legend and commander at the Battle of Palmito Ranch

John Bell Hood (1831–1879), commander of Hood's Texas Brigade and Confederate General

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862), Confederate General and commander of the Confederate western forces

John B. Magruder (1807–1871), Confederate General at the Battle of Galveston

Rosanna Osterman (1809–1866), Civil War nurse

Pleasant Tackitt (1803–1886), Confederate Officer and county official at Fort Belknap, Texas. One of the founders of Parker County, Texas.

Charles S. West (1829–1885), Confederate officer and judge advocate general for the Trans-Mississippi Department

Louis T. Wigfall (1816–1874), Confederate General and Senator from Texas, secured the surrender of Fort Sumter

Infamous Texans

Bonnie and Clyde, bank robbers

Sam Bass (1851–1878), train robber and western icon

David Brooks (born 1955), Houston serial killer, early 1970s

Mark David Chapman (born 1955), murdered Beatle John Lennon

John Wesley Hardin (1853–1895), outlaw and gun-fighter, reputed to be "the meanest man alive"

Elmer Wayne Henley (born 1956), Houston serial killer, early 1970s

John Hinckley, Jr. (born 1955), attempted to assassinate President Reagan

David Koresh (1959–1993), self proclaimed messiah and head of Branch Davidian cult

Tom O'Folliard (1858–1880) Outlaw and Billy the Kid's best friend

Ollie P. Roberts (1879?-1950), claimed to be Billy the Kid

Soapy Smith (1860–1898), infamous confidence man of Round Rock, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas

Belle Starr (1848–1889), the Wild West's "bandit queen"

Pearl Starr (1868–1925), Belle's daughter and infamous Texas brothel owner

Libby Thompson (1855–1953), dancehall girl, prostitute, and brothel owner better known as Squirrel-tooth Alice