Hey! Texas gave the world Dairy Queen, Lone Star Beer and Willy Nelson. Don’t you forget that.

We also gave the world these famous people- for better or worse.

Walter Cronkite Houston
Frances Fisher Orange
Carol Burnett San Antonio
Larry Hagman Ft Worth
Lyndon Johnson Johnson City
Lady Bird Johnson Karnack
Jamie Fox Terrell ‘86
Dwight Eisenhower Denison
John Connally Floresville
Sissy Spacek Quitman
Janis Joplin Port Arthur
Joan Crawford San Antonio
Ross Perot Texarkana
Barry White Galveston
Dan Rather Wharton
Tommy Lee Jones San Saba
Stevie Ray Vaughan Dallas
Matthew McConaughey Uvalde
Jaclyn Smith Houston
Farrah Fawcett Corpus Christi
Janine Turner grew up in Euless
Renee Zellweger Katy
Bill Paxton Ft Worth
Jennifer Love Hewitt Waco
Forest Whitaker Longview
Roy Orbison Wink
Lou Diamond Phillips Corpus
Mary Kay Place Port Arthur
ZZ Top-Dusty Hill Dallas
Frank Beard Dallas
Billy Gibbons Tanglewood
Patrick Swayze Waltrip ‘71
Randy and Dennis Quaid Houston
Edgar Winter Beaumont
Steve Martin Waco
Woody Harrelson Midland
Ethan Hawke Austin
Aaron Spelling Dallas
Jayne Mansfield raised in Dallas
Howard Hughes Houston
Debbie Allen Houston
Phylicia Rashad Houston
Boz Scaggs Dallas
Kenneth Starr Vernon
JoBeth Williams Houston
Joe Don Baker Groesbeck
Robbie Benson Dallas
Dan Blocker O’Donnell
Betty Buckley Big Spring
Gary Busey Goose Creek
Dabney Coleman Austin
Sandy Duncan Henderson
Peri Gilpin Waco
Don Henley Linden
Johnny Mathis Gilmer
Lee Horsley Muleshoe
Phyllis George Denton
Scott Joplin Texarkana
Bill Moyers raised in Marshall
Crystal Bernard Garland
Spanky MacFarland Dallas
Jerri Hall Mesquite
Morgan Fairchild(Patsy McClenny) Dallas
Audie Murphy Farmersville
Stone Phillips Texas City
Powers Boothe Snyder
Sam Donaldson El Paso
Johnny Nash Houston
Rip Torn Temple
Guy Clark Rockport
John Hillerman Dennison
Anna Nicole Smith Mexia
Irene "granny" Ryan El Paso
Lisa Whelchel Littlefield
Mike Judge Arlington
Barry Corbin Lamesa
Meat Loaf(Marvin Aday) Dallas
GW Bailey Port Arthur
L.Q. Jones Beaumont
Jessica Simpson Richardson
Norah Jones Dallas
JP Richardson Sabine Pass

And then there is Joan Severence. She's not a Native, but she grew up in Houston. Before she was in the movie "Hear no Evil, See no Evil," And before she posed for Playboy, she lived across the street from me and even babysat me.