List of people from Marshall, Texas
This is a list of notable people associated with Marshall, Texas.
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- Phillip Benjamin Baldwin – jurist
- Mike Barber – football player, evangelist
- John Burke – lawyer, soldier, and spy
- Edward Clark – Texas Governor
- Mike Clark - NFL placekicker
- Kathleen Neal Cleaver
- George Dawson – author
- Floyd Dixon – R&B pianist
- Mathew Ector – jurist and legislator
- Chris Elrod – Christian comedian and writer
- James L. Farmer, Jr. – founder of CORE, organized freedom rides
- James L. Farmer, Sr. – first Black Texan to hold a doctorate
- George Foreman – athlete and entrepreneur
- Brea Grant – actress
- Ben Z. Grant – playwright, Texas legislator, state judge
- Homer Hailey - Church of Christ preacher and author, born in Marshall in 1903
- Sam B. Hall, Jr. – former congressman and federal jurist
- James Pinckney Henderson – first governor of Texas
- Susan Howard – actress, writer, activist
- Alphonso Jackson – member of George W. Bush's cabinet
- Lady Bird Johnson – First Lady and environmental activist
- Walter P. Lane – Confederate General
- Fred T. Long – Wiley College football coach and athletic director
- Robert W. Loughery – journalist, publisher, and diplomat
- Ashley C. McKinley – aviator; explorer
- Leo Michelson – painter and sculptor
- John T. Mills – Supreme Court Justice of the Republic of Texas
- Johnny Moss – champion poker player
- Bill Moyers – journalist and government official
- Pendleton Murrah – Texas Governor
- Gertrude Nelson
- Lucy Holcombe Pickens – 19th-century Southern socialite
- William Henry Pope – politician, self-described "Jim Crow Senator"
- Horace Randal – Confederate brigadier general
- Wendy Russell Reves – fashion model, philanthropist
- Henry Roquemore – 20th-century actor
- Max Sandlin – former congressman and House Minority Whip
- I. B. Scott – Methodist Episcopal cleric, newspaper editor, and educator
- Franklin Barlow Sexton – Confederate Congressman
- Terrance Shaw – NFL cornerback
- Kendrick Starling — NFL wide receiver
- James Harper Starr – politician
- Kaley Tibbetts - doctor, entrepreneur
- Y.A. Tittle – football Hall of Famer
- Melvin B. Tolson – author, poet, and politician
- Isaac Van Zandt – statesman of both Republic and State of Texas
- James Wheaton – actor
- Peter Whetstone – pioneer leader, city father
- Louis T. Wigfall – U.S. Senator, later Confederate Senator
- Kevin Williams – NFL running back
- Bob Young – football player
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