List of people from Marshall, Texas

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

Alphonso Jackson, the current and 13th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Marshall Senior High School graduate Lady Bird Johnson, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's wife, helped convince Texas to plant wildflowers on state highways.

Louis T. Wigfall was served in the Senates of the United States and the Confederacy.

This list is incomplete.

• Phillip Benjamin Baldwin — American jurist
• Mike Barber — football player, evangelist
• John Burke — lawyer, soldier, and spy
• Edward Clark — Texas Governor
• George Dawson — author
• Floyd Dixon — Rhythm and Blues pianist
• Mathew Ector — jurist and legislator
• James L. Farmer, Jr. — founder of CORE, organized freedom rides
• James L. Farmer, Sr. — first Black Texan to hold a doctorate
• George Foreman — athlete and entrepreneur
• Ben Z. Grant — playwright, Texas legislator, state judge
• Sam B. Hall, Jr. — former congressman and federal jurist
• Lawrence Hamilton — NFL Wide Receiver
• James Pinckney Henderson — first governor of Texas
• Susan Howard — actress, writer, activist
• Alphonso Jackson — member of George W. Bush's cabinet
• Lady Bird Johnson — First Lady and environmental activist
• Walter P. Lane — Confederate General
• Robert W. Loughery — journalist, publisher, and diplomat
• Ashley C. McKinley — aviator; explorer
• Bill Moyers — journalist and government official
• Leo Michelson — painter and sculptor
• John T. Mills — Supreme Court Justice of the Republic of Texas
• Johnny Moss — champion poker player
• Pendleton Murrah — Texas Governor
• Lawrenece Aaron Nixon — civil rights activist
• Lucy Holcombe Pickens — 19th Century Southern socialite
• William Henry Pope — politician, self-described "Jim Crow Senator"
• Horace Randal — Confederate brigadier general
• Henry Roquemore — 20th century actor
• Wendy Russell Reves — fashion model, philanthropist
• Max Sandlin — former congressman and House Minority Whip
• Franklin Barlow Sexton — Confederate Congressman
• I. B. Scott — Methodist Episcopal cleric, newspaper editor, and educator
• Terrance Shaw — NFL cornerback
• Kendrick Starling— NFL wide receiver
• James Harper Starr — politician
• Thomas "Tommy" Reagan Tanner — Father, True Texan
• Y.A. Tittle — American 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 — Moderator Leader and City Father
• Louis T. Wigfall — U.S., and later Confederate, Senator
• Bob Young — football player

This list is alphabetical, please make sure new additions are in the correct place.