Notables of San Antonio, Texas

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

Claude W. Black, Jr., Baptist minister, civil rights leader, former City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tempore
Julian Castro, a former city councilman who garnered national attention for campaign stunts involving his identical twin brother, Joaquín, a state legislator, in his 2005 mayoral bid
Henry Cisneros, mayor of San Antonio, 1981-1989, and U.S. Secretary of HUD under President Bill Clinton
John Cornyn, U.S. Senator, who attended Trinity University and St. Mary's University Law School
Alberto Gonzales, current U.S. Attorney General
Henry B. Gonzalez, late Congressman
Oliver North, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Marines, and key Iran-Contra figure
Mario Marcel Salas, former City Councilman District 2, former Judson School Board member, civil rights leader, author, political scientist.
G. J. Sutton, late Texas State Representative, first black elected official in Texas
Lou Nelle Sutton, late wife of Sutton, who succeeded her husband in the Texas State 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
Judge John H. Wood, Jr. served as a federal judge in San Antonio until 1979, when he was assassinated in Alamo Heights by convicted murderer-for-hire Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson.

Taylor Ball, actor, Still Standing
Carol Burnett, actress-comedienne, The Carol Burnett Show
Ricardo Antonio Chavira, actor, Desperate Housewives. Mr. Chavira plays the husband of Eva Longoria's character on Housewives, which is an interesting coincidence because Ms. Longoria is dating San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker.
Joan Crawford, legendary Academy Award-winning actress
Ann B. Davis, actress, The Brady Bunch
Jade Esteban Estrada, actor, comedian
Al Freeman, Jr., actor, One Life to Live, Malcolm X
Summer Glau, actress, Firefly, Serenity
Tommy Lee Jones, Academy Award-winning actor. 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 Mayor Phil Hardberger and his wife, the former Linda Morgan, who is an SS Andrea Doria survivor.
Hal LeSueur, actor, brother of Joan Crawford
Bruce McGill, actor, perhaps the most prolific in Hollywood today
Jared Padalecki, actor
Ann Prentiss, actress, who gained notoriety in 1997 after being sent to prison for terrorizing members of her family
Paula Prentiss, actress, sister of Ann Prentiss
Michelle Rodriguez, actress, Resident Evil, Lost
Robert Rodríguez, director, Desperado, Sin City, et al.
Henry Thomas, actor, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Peter Weller, actor, Robocop, and scholar Syracuse University

Jeff Foster, center, Indiana Pacers
Shaquille O'Neal, center, Miami Heat, who graduated from Robert G. Cole High School, Fort Sam Houston, after having led his team to a 36-0 record and state championship

Devin Brown, currently with Utah, who attended the West Campus of South San Antonio High School
Antonio Daniels, currently with Washington
Sean Elliott
George Gervin
Johnny Moore
Steve Kerr
David Robinson
Malik Rose, currently with New York who owns two Philly cheese steak restaurants: one in the city's popular Alamo Quarry Market shopping district and another near Helotes

Christopher Cross, four-time Grammy winner
Jordan McCoy, American Juniors runner-up, who has signed with Sean (Puffy) Combs
Doug Sahm, Tex-Mex/country/rock musician, leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet
Olga Samaroff, concert pianist and first wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski
George Strait, country singer

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
Naomi Shihab Nye, writer and poet

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, where David Robinson is a prominent member

Charlie Butt, H-E-B
Christopher (Kit) Goldsbury, Pace Foods, bought out by Campbell's
James Leininger, Kinetic Concepts, Inc.
Lowry Mays, Clear Channel Communications
Billy Joe (Red) McCombs, founding partner in Clear Channel, auto dealer, and former owner of the Spurs, Minnesota Vikings, and Denver Nuggets
H. Bartell Zachry, Zachry Construction Company