Stan Hansen, professional wrestler Tully Blanchard, professional wrestler Ulane Bonnel, naval historian Ted DiBiase, professional wrestler Candace Camp, author Maurice Cheeks, NBA basketball player and coach Larry Combest, politician Jesse Cross, US Army general Dory Funk Jr., professional wrestler Terry Funk, professional wrestler J. Evetts Haley, historian and political activist Alondra Johnson, Canadian Football League football player Steve Kragthorpe, college football head coach Reggie McElroy, NFL American football player Jerry Logan, NFL American football player Mercury Morris, NFL American football player Georgia O'Keeffe, artist (faculty member) Kareem Larrimore, NFL American football player Ryan Leaf, NFL American football player and quarterbacks coach (faculty member) Anita Thigpen Perry, First Lady of Texas Donald Powell, former Chairman of the FDIC and Current Federal Coordinator of Gulf Coast Rebuilding Dusty Rhodes, professional wrestler Bruce Robison, hit country songwriter ("Travelin' Soldier", Angry All The Time, Desperately) and singer Marsha Sharp, women's basketball coach Stanley T. Sigman, AT&T Mobility CEO John T. Smithee, Texas state representative since 1985 Tito Santana (Merced Solis), professional wrestler Red Steagall, country singer and Western poet French Stewart, actor Duane Thomas, NFL American football player Chaun Thompson, NFL American football player John Ayers, NFL American football player