List of people from Marshall, Texas

This is a list of notable people associated with Marshall, Texas.

This article is part of the Marshall series.

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James Farmer

George Foreman

Alphonso Jackson

This list is incomplete.

• Phillip Baldwin, jurist
• Mike Barber, football player, evangelist
• John Burke, lawyer, soldier, and spy
• Robert Campbell (American artist), a painter, poet, and publisher
• Edward Clark, Texas Governor
• Mike Clark, NFL placekicker
• Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panther Party member
• George Dawson, author
• Floyd Dixon, R&B pianist
• Mathew Ector, jurist and legislator
• James Farmer, founder of CORE, organized freedom rides
• James L. Farmer, Sr., first Black Texan to hold a doctorate
• George Foreman, athlete and entrepreneur
• Joseph C. Goulden, best-selling author and political reporter
• Brea Grant, actress
• Ben Z. Grant, playwright, Texas legislator, state judge
• Homer Hailey, Church of Christ preacher and author, born in Marshall in 1903
• Sam B. Hall, Jr., former congressman and federal jurist
• Alexander Hawthorn, lawyer, minister, and C.S. Army general
• James Pinckney Henderson, first governor of Texas
• Susan Howard, actress, writer, activist
• Alphonso Jackson, 13th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by President George W. Bush
• Walter P. Lane, Confederate General
• Ken Lattimore, member of the Western singing group Sons of the Pioneers (1998-current).
• Opal Lee, Activist promoting the Juneteenth federal holiday
• Fred T. Long, Wiley College football coach and athletic director
• Robert W. Loughery, journalist, publisher, and diplomat
• Ashley C. McKinley, aviator; explorer
• Blanche L. McSmith, Alaska state representative, activist, and businesswoman
• Leo Michelson, painter and sculptor
• John T. Mills, Supreme Court Justice of the Republic of Texas
• Johnny Moss, champion poker player
• Bill Moyers, journalist and government official
• Pendleton Murrah, Texas Governor
• Lucy Holcombe Pickens, 19th-century Southern socialite
• William Henry Pope, politician, self-described "Jim Crow Senator"
• Horace Randal, Confederate brigadier general
• Wendy Russell Reves, fashion model, philanthropist
• Henry Roquemore, 20th-century actor
• Max Sandlin, former congressman and House Minority Whip
• I. B. Scott, Methodist Episcopal cleric, newspaper editor, and educator
• Franklin Barlow Sexton, Confederate Congressman
• Terrance Shaw, NFL cornerback
• Kendrick Starling, NFL wide receiver
• James Harper Starr, politician
• Y. A. Tittle, football Hall of Famer
• Melvin B. Tolson, author, poet, and politician
• Isaac Van Zandt, statesman of both Republic and State of Texas
• James Wheaton, actor
• Peter Whetstone, pioneer leader, city father
• Louis T. Wigfall, U.S. Senator, later Confederate Senator
• Kevin Williams, NFL running back
• Romeo M. Williams, prominent civil rights attorney who played a pivotal role in the desegregation of Marshall, Texas.; also a U.S. Army Air Force officer and trained fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen
• Bob Young, football player