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This is a list of notable people who were born in, or have lived in El Paso, Texas.

Politics, military, and government

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Veronica Escobar official portrait, 116th Congress

Western history

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Henry O. Flipper, a Buffalo Soldier, lived in El Paso.

Film

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Gilbert Roland in The French Line.

Television

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Gene Roddenberry on set.

Literature

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Benjamin Saenz in 2009.
Sergio Troncoso

Visual arts

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Music, performing arts and stage

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The Mars Volta in concert.

Sports

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Educators and librarians

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Video games

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Others

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References

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  2. ^ Garcia, Vicente; Pinon, Tony; Rasmussen, Aaron; Coons, Heather (2009). "Suzie Azar Still Reaches for the Sky" (PDF). EPCC Borderlands. 27. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Cardone, Kathleen". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  4. ^ Chavez, Adriana (June 15, 2000). "Ex-county Judge to be Honored". El Paso Times. Retrieved March 31, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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  8. ^ "Forty Years Ago". El Paso Times. 1952-11-14. p. 6. Retrieved 2019-12-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Longo, Joseph (Spring 2016). "Early El Paso Women Political Pioneers: 1912-1952". Password. 60 (1): 15.
  10. ^ Cusic, Don (2009). The Trials of Henry Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 120. ISBN 9780786439690.
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  13. ^ "Gilbert Roland".
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  16. ^ "Kathleen Barber, December 28". River City Reader. Archived from the original on 2019-07-22. Retrieved 2019-07-22. Author Barber was raised in Galesburg and graduated from the University of Illinois and Northwestern University School of Law. While she previously practiced bankruptcy law at large firms in Chicago and New York, Barber is also a registered yoga teacher and self-described "incurable wanderer" who, when she isn't writing, enjoys traveling the world with her husband.
  17. ^ Benanti, Mary (14 January 1985). "Southwest Writers Captured on Film". El Paso Times. Retrieved 25 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ Sumner, Jane (13 December 2009). "Book Review: 'Literary El Paso,' Edited by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  19. ^ Cortez Gonzalez, Maria (19 May 2015). "Longtime arts columnist Betty Ligon passes away at the age of 93 in Pleasant Hills, California". El Paso Times. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  20. ^ "Colorado Poets Center : Sheryl Luna".
  21. ^ Dingus, Anne (1996). "West Seller". Texas Monthly. 24 (8): 26. Retrieved 9 July 2016 – via EBSCO.
  22. ^ Saenz, Brandy; Eubank, Alexis; Vise, Ruth (2012). "Kate Moore Brown: A Woman of Many Firsts" (PDF). Borderlands. 30.
  23. ^ Hakim, Musa Abdul (2000). "Mago Orona Gandara". In Lindenmeyer, Kriste (ed.). Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives: Women in American History. Lanham, Maryland: SR Books. pp. 262. ISBN 9780842027540.
  24. ^ Dura, Lucia, ed. (2006). Texas 100: Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art. El Paso, Texas: El Paso Museum of Art Foundation. pp. 60–61. ISBN 9780978538309.
  25. ^ Villalva, Maribel (11 July 1999). "Her Art Lives On". El Paso Times. Retrieved 17 March 2019. and "Osuna". El Paso Times. 11 July 1999. p. 7F. Retrieved 17 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Cortez, Mia (30 April 2005). "A Q&A with Becky Duval-Reese, director of the El Paso Museum of Art". El Paso Inc. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  27. ^ "Miss Alexander Taken by Death". El Paso Herald-Post. 2 August 1960. p. 2. Retrieved 2018-04-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ "Ranchero Artist Will Sing At Chamizal". El Paso Times. 11 January 1991. Retrieved 2018-08-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ Romero, Dennis "Kenneth James Gibson: Hollywood Shuffler" , LAweekly.com, Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  30. ^ Berchelmann III, David A. (2015). Legendary Locals of El Paso. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 111. ISBN 9781467101875.
  31. ^ "Ballet Director to Retire". ¿Que Pasa?. 18 October 2006. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
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  33. ^ Johnson, Matt (19 July 2002). "El Paso Woman Has a Long History of Acting, Directing". El Paso Times. Retrieved 2018-07-14 – via Newspapers.com.
  34. ^ "Keitha Adams". UTEP Athletics. Archived from the original on February 10, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  35. ^ LPGA All-Time Winners List Archived December 29, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  36. ^ Henry, Don (10 May 1990). "New UTEP Coach Says Being Woman Is Big Plus". El Paso Times. Retrieved 13 July 2019 – via Newspapers.com. and "Coach". El Paso Times. 10 May 1990. p. 5C. Retrieved 13 July 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  37. ^ Smith, Linda (2 April 2015). "Welcome the New Office of Head Start Director". Administration for Children and Families. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  38. ^ Metz, Leon (1999). El Paso: Guided Through Time. El Paso, Texas: Mangan Books. p. 57. ISBN 9780930208370.
  39. ^ Kohout, Martin Donell (15 June 2010). "Kohlberg, Olga Bernstein". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  40. ^ Dailey, Maceo Crenshaw Jr. (29 September 2014). African Americans in El Paso. Smith-McGlynn, Kathryn; Gutierrez Venable, Cecilia. Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 9781439647448. OCLC 905238686.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  41. ^ Mullin, Mark (2008). The Headmaster's Run. Rowman & Littlefield Education. p. 16. ISBN 978-1578866540.
  42. ^ MENTOR. ADVOCATE. PRESIDENT.
  43. ^ Meeting No. 831 THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
  44. ^ Timmons, W.H. (1990). El Paso: A Borderlands History. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press. p. 194. ISBN 0-87404-213-5.
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  48. ^ "Japanese Granted Citizenship". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1953. p. 6. Retrieved 2018-01-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  49. ^ Davis, Mary Margaret (1982-08-10). "Donor's Collection Puts a Feather in UTEP's Hat". El Paso Times. p. 13. Retrieved 2021-02-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  50. ^ López, Carlos Andres (14 March 2017). "US' First Woman Train Engineer Speaks in Las Cruces". Las Cruces Sun-News. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  51. ^ Hamilton, Nancy (21 November 1974). "Papers, Photos Add to Kern Place Founder's History". El Paso Herald-Post. Retrieved 27 April 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  52. ^ Aschoff, Susan (10 September 1978). "Ruth Kern Replace Domesticity With Outspokeness". El Paso Times. Retrieved 2018-07-30 – via Newspapers.com. and "Lawyer Overcomes Sex Discrimination". El Paso Times. 10 September 1978. p. 2–C. Retrieved 2018-07-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  53. ^ "Women@NASA » Ginger Kerrick". women.nasa.gov.
  54. ^ Weiser, Abbie (21 February 2016). "Woman's Club Members Shaped El Paso History". El Paso Times. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
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  56. ^ "Leona Ford Washington". Digie. El Paso Museum of History. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
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