List of people from Marshall, Texas

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

This list is incomplete.


 * Phillip Baldwin, jurist
 * Mike Barber, football player, evangelist
 * John Burke, lawyer, soldier, and spy
 * Robert Campbell (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