People

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Stephen F. Austin

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(1793-1836)

Father of Texas

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Edward Burleson

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(1798-1851)

Texas soldier, general, and statesman

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David G. Burnet

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(1788-1870)

Interim President of the Republic of Texas

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Lorenzo de Zavala

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(1788-1836)

First Vice-President of the Republic of Texas and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence

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Sam Houston

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(1793-1863)

First President of Republic of Texas, later US senator from Texas and Governor of Texas

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Anson Jones

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(1798-1858)

Last president of the Republic of Texas, called the “architect of annexation”

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Mirabeau B. Lamar

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(1798-1859)

Second president of the republic of Texas

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Jose Antonio Navarro

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(1795-1871)

Texas statesman, revolutionary and politician

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Thomas Jefferson Rusk

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(1803-1857)
Secretary of War between Texas and Mexico, Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas and Senator from Texas after admission to the union

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Edwin Waller

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(1800-1881)

Judge, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence

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Dick Dowling

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(1838-1867)

Commander at Sabine Pass and famous Houstonian

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John “Rip” Ford

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(1815-1897)

Texas Rangers legend and commander at the battle of Palmito Ranch

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John Bell Hood

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(1831-1879)

Commander of Hood’s Texas Brigade and Confederate General

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Albert Sidney Johnston

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(1803-1862)

Confederate general and commander of the Confederate western forces

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John B. Magruder

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(1807-1871)

Confederate General at the Battle of Galveston

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Pleasant Tackitt

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(1803-1886)

Confederate Officer and county official at Fort Belknap, Texas. One fort the founders of Parker County, Texas

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Charles S Wes

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(1829-1885)

Confederate officer and judge advocate general for the Trans-Mississippi Department

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Louis T Wigfall

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(1816-1874)

Confederate General and Senator from Texas, secured the surrender of Fort Sumter

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Jim Bowie

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(1796-1836)

Frontiersman, died at the Battle of the Alamo

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Davy Crockett

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(1786-1836)

Frontiersman and US Congressman, Died at the Alamo

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James Fannin

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(1804?-1836)

Key figure during the Texas Revolution

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Benjamin McCulloch

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(1811-1862)
Soldier in the Texas Revolution, Texas Ranger, US Marshal, and brigadier general in the Army of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

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Henry Eustace McCulloch

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(1816-1895)
Soldier in the Texas Revolution, Texas Ranger, and Brigadier general in the army of the confederate states during the american civil war

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Juan Seguin

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(1806-1890)

Tejano hero during the Texas Revolution

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William B Travis

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(1809-1836) | Commander of Texas forces at the Alamo

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Logan Vandeveer

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(1815-1855) | Hero of San Jacinto

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Denton Cooley

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(b 1920) | Pioneering heart surgeon

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Michael E DeBakey

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(b 1908) | pioneering heart surgeon

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Chu Ching-wu

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physicist

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Robert Dennard

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(B 1932) | Computer scientist

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Bryce DeWitt

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physicist, co-developed Wheeler-DeWitt equation ("wave function of the universe")

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Leonard Eugene Dickson

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Mathematician

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G. B. Halsted

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Mathematician

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M. King Hubbert

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(1903-1989) | geophysicist

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Jack Kilby

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Electrical Engineer

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Hermann Joseph Muller

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geneticist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

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Ilya Prigogine

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Physicist and chemist, nobel laureate in chemistry

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John Tate

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Mathematician, Wolf Prize in Mathematics

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Beatrice Tinsley

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astronomer

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Karen Uhlenbeck

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mathematician, National Medal of Science

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Harry Vandiver

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Mathematician

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Steven Weinberg

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Nobel Laureate in Physics