Texas (disambiguation)
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Texas is a state of the United States of America, formerly the Republic of Texas.
Texas may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
- Texas (TV series), a 1980s U.S. television program
- "Texas" (SpongeBob SquarePants episode) an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants that aired along with "Walking Small" on March 22, 2000
- Texas (1941 film), a western starring William Holden and Glenn Ford
- Texas (1994 film), a TV movie starring Benjamin Bratt and Patrick Duffy
- Texas (2005 film), an Italian movie by Fausto Paravidino
Literature
- Texas (novel), written by James A. Michener
Music
- Texas (band), a Scottish rock band
- Texas (musical), produced annually in Canyon, Texas
- Texas (album), the first full-length album by electronic/pop artist, PlayRadioPlay!
- Texas (Lasse Stefanz album), a 2010 album by Swedish dansband Lasse Stefanz
- "Texas", a song by Big Black from the EP Bulldozer
- "Texas", a Charlie Daniels single from the album Nightrider
- "Texas", a George Strait song from the album Somewhere Down in Texas
- "Texas", a Chris Rea song from the album The Road to Hell
- "Texas QLD 4385", a song by Lee Kernaghan originally released as "Texas, Qld" on the album Electric Rodeo
- Texas (When I Die), song recorded by American country music artist Ed Bruce
Historical
- Hasinai, Tejas or Texas, a Native American people after whom the state was named
- CSS Texas, a twin-screw ironclad ram of the Confederate Navy
- The Texas (locomotive), a steam locomotive involved in the American Civil War Great Locomotive Chase
- USS Texas, name of a number of ships of the United States Navy
Places
- Australia
- United States
- Texas Avenue, the Business State Highway 6-R section of Texas State Highway 6 in the College Station-Bryan metropolitan area
- Texas Canyon, a canyon in Cochise County, Arizona
- Texas District, a district of the Lutheran Church
- Texas, Mississippi
- Texas, New Jersey
- Texas, New York
- Texas, West Virginia
- Texas, Wisconsin
- Texas City, Illinois
- Texas City, Texas
- Texas County (disambiguation)
- Texas Township (disambiguation)
- Texas Valley, a valley in Georgia
People
- Einar "Texas" Ljungberg (1880–1974), Swedish Socialist leader
- John Horton Slaughter or Texas John Slaughter (1841–1922), an American lawman, Civil War soldier and gambler
- T. Texas Tyler (1916–1972), a country music singer and songwriter
- Texas Battle, an American actor
- Texas Gladden (1895–1967), an American folk singer
- Texas Ruby (born Ruby Agnes Owens), a pioneering country music female vocalist
- Texas Terri, born Terri Laird is a punk rock singer and songwriter
Terminology
- 2-10-4, a class of locomotive commonly called Texas-type
- Texas or C6 tuning, commonly used on a ten string pedal steel guitar
- Texas (steamboat) – a structure on a river steamboat containing the pilothouse and the officer's quarters
Businesses
- Texas Homecare, a former chain of DIY stores in the UK
Other
- 35352 Texas, an asteroid
- Texas transfer, a contract bridge bidding convention
- University of Texas at Austin
- Texas Longhorns, the athletic program of The University of Texas at Austin
See also
- All pages beginning with "Texas"
- All pages with titles containing "Texas"
- Tex (disambiguation)
- Texan (disambiguation)