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__FORCETOC__ The following are notable people who were either born, raised or have lived for a significant period of time in the U.S. state of Texas. ==Founders and early settlers of Texas== * Augustus Chapman Allen (1806–1864) and John Kirby Allen (1810–1838), the founders of Houston * Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), the "Father of Texas" * Padre José Nicolás Ballí (c. 1770 – 1829), grantee, settler, and namesake of Padre Island * John Neely Bryan (1810–1877), the founder of Dallas * Moses Austin Bryan (1817–1895), early settler of Texas * David G. Burnet (1788–1870), interim President of the Republic of Texas * Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels (1812–1875), established colonies of German immigrants in Texas * Henri Castro (1786–1865), Jewish empresario * Jesse Chisholm (1806–1868), Indian trader, guide, interpreter, namesake of the Chisholm Trail * Jao De La Porta (''fl.'' 1810s), trader, financed settlement of Galveston Island * Johann Friedrich Ernst (born Friedrich Diercks) (1796–1848), first German to bring his family to Texas, benefactor to German immigrants * Warren Angus Ferris (1810–1873), early surveyor of Dallas * Henry Francis Fisher (1805–1867), German settler, explored and colonized San Saba area * Sam Houston (1793–1863), the first and the third President of Republic of Texas, later a U.S. Senator from Texas and the Governor of Texas * Anson Jones (1798–1858), last President of the Republic of Texas, called the "Architect of Annexation" * Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), second President of Republic of Texas, One of the strongest proponents of the Texas Navy * Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long (1798–1880), considered to be "the Mother of Texas" * Collin McKinney (1766–1861), a drafter of the Texas Declaration of Independence; both Collin County and its county seat, McKinney, are named for him * Jose Antonio Navarro (1795–1871), Texas statesman, revolutionary and politician * Robert Neighbors (1815–1859), Indian agent, soldier, legislator * Cynthia Ann Parker (1826–1870), kidnapped in 1836 and raised by Comanche Indians. Mother to Quanah Parker, the last Comanche Chief * Emily Austin Perry (1795–1851), early settler of Texas * Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson (1820–1879), early settler, translator, lawyer, postmaster * Sterling C. Robertson (1785–1842), empresario, colony founder; signed Texas Declaration of Independence * Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803–1857), Secretary of War of Republic of Texas, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, U.S. Senator from Texas after its admission to the United States * Charles Schreiner, Sr. (1838-1927), "father of the Texas Hill Country," rancher, businessman, banker, philanthropist in Kerrville * Edwin Waller (1800–1881) a judge and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence * Frank E. Wheelock (1863–1932), a founder and first mayor of Lubbock, with service from 1909 to 1915 * Lorenzo de Zavala (1788–1836), first vice-president of the Republic of Texas and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of people from Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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