* Nicholas A. Peppas-Chaired Professor in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology.

* Charles R. Floyd, Democratic State Senator who served three four-year terms ; pioneer of the Texas Farm-to-market road system and an original founder of Paris Junior College

In 1839, a small pioneer settlement situated on the Colorado River in central Texas was chosen as the republic's seventh and final capital.

** In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

A restored pioneer house at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas ， USA.

Johnson was maternally descended from a pioneer Baptist clergyman, George Washington Baines, who pastored eight churches in Texas, as well as others in Arkansas and Louisiana.

The county was named in honor of Dr. William E. Throckmorton, an early north Texas pioneer and the father of James W. Throckmorton, who later became governor of Texas.

Oldham County was formed in 1876 and organized in 1880, and named for Williamson Simpson Oldham, a Texas pioneer and Confederate Senator.

* 1846Joshua Brown ( Texas pioneer ) becomes first settler.

The new airfield was dedicated on 31 May 1935 and named in honor of Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam, a distinguished aviation pioneer who was killed in an aircraft accident the previous November 5 when his Curtiss A-12 Shrike, 33-250, hit an obstruction during night landing practice on the unlighted field at Fort Crockett in Galveston, Texas and overturned.

In 1845, William and Lydia Ann English Guyler, pioneer settlers of Bovine Bend in Texas ( later to be called Wallis, Texas ), were proud new owners of some of land marked only by the posts in the prairie.

Among the pioneer railroads was the Texas and Pacific which stretched its steel ribbons across the vastness of the State of Texas to the Arkansas line.

* Gordon McLendon, pioneer of American commercial broadcasting who attributed his beginnings in radio to Atlanta, Texas.

Texas also has a " Heritage Appreciation Monument " which honors pioneer families who came to settle the land.

* Betty Holekamp ( 1826 – 1902 ) German colonist and pioneer woman, called the Betsy Ross of Texas.

The Big Spring Heritage Museum contains pioneer and Indian artifacts, art exhibits, and the largest collection known of Texas Longhorn steer horns.

* Betty Holekamp ( 1826-1902 )-Texas pioneer, called the Betsy Ross of Texas.

The Texas radio pioneer Clint Formby and his wife Margaret Clark Formby, founder of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, lived for a time early in their marriage in Colorado City and actually rented their residence from the Mahons.

In 1855, Parker County was created by the Texas State Legislature and named for pioneer and State Representative Isaac Parker.

The barbershop in Fluvanna, Texas, has been restored as part of a pioneer village in Snyder, Texas | Snyder in Scurry County, Texas | Scurry County in West Texas.

* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.

William Frederick Schelter ( 1947 – July 30, 2001 ) was a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and a Lisp developer and programmer.

Paramount Records paid for the return of his body to Texas by train, accompanied by pianist William Ezell.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a campus in Houston, Texas, United States.

Starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez and Edmond O ' Brien, the film detailed a gang of veteran outlaws on the Texas / Mexico border in 1913 trying to exist within a rapidly approaching modern world.

William Marsh Rice ( March 14, 1816 – September 23, 1900 ) was an American businessman who bequeathed his fortune to found Rice University in Houston, Texas.

In 1891, Rice decided that he would not establish an Orphans Institute at the Dunellen estate, but would instead found the William M. Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art in Houston, Texas.

* January 20 – William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer, southern statesman ( b. 1825 )

* Davis, William C., Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic, Free Press ( 2004 ) ISBN 0-684-86510-6

Waylon Jennings was born in Littlefield, Texas, the seat of Lamb County, the son of Lorene Beatrice ( née Shipley ) and William Albert Jennings.

The extreme pro-slavery " Fire-Eater " William Lowndes Yancey and the Alabama delegation first left the hall, followed by the delegates of Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, three of the four delegates from Arkansas, and one of the three delegates from Delaware.

Porter has elementary schools named for him in Greensboro, North Carolina ( William Sydney Porter Elementary ) and Garland, Texas ( O. Henry Elementary ), as well as a middle school in Austin, Texas ( O. Henry Middle School ).

* Paul H. Carlson, William R. Shafter: Military Commander in the American West, unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1973

* John William Calhoun, mathematics professor, University of Texas comptroller and president

General William S. Harney assumed command of the Department of Texas and ordered Major Ripley A. Arnold to find a new fort site near the West Fork and Clear Fork.

* William Jacob Covington ( 1838 – 1910 ), first district court clerk of the Camp County, Texas

Attending the Convention of 1833 as representative for Nacogdoches, Houston emerged as a supporter of William Harris Wharton and his brother, who promoted independence from Mexico, the more radical position of the American settlers and Tejanos in Texas.

* The Texas Revolution ; Brinkley, William ; Texas A & M Press: ISBN 0-87611-041-3.

In 1913 Texas, Pike Bishop ( William Holden ), the leader of a gang of aging outlaws, is seeking retirement with one final score, namely the robbery of a railroad office containing a cache of silver.

* Robbins, William G. Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the U. S. Lumber Industry, 1890-1941 ( Texas A.