title: List of people from Amarillo, Texas
text: This is a list of Amarilloans, notable current and former citizens of Amarillo, Texas.
  
  Arts and entertainment
  Jennifer Archer, author
  Art Bell, radio host and author
  Lacey Brown, folk singer and American Idol finalist
  Gail Caldwell, Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic
  Derek Cecil, actor (Push, Nevada)
  Cyd Charisse, dancer and actress (The Band Wagon, Brigadoon)
  Ann Doran, actress (Rebel Without a Cause)
  Joe Ely, country and folk singer
  Ron Ely, actor (Tarzan)
  Todd English, celebrity chef
  Kevin Fowler, country music singer
  Blair Garner, country music radio host
  Jimmy Gilmer, rock singer ("Sugar Shack")
  Jimmie Dale Gilmore, country music singer
  Clyde Kenneth Harris, soldier and interior decorator
  Kimberly Willis Holt, author
  Mitchell Hurwitz, TV writer
  Sterling Hyltin, ballet dancer
  Carolyn Jones, actress (The Addams Family)
  Grady Nutt, comedian (Hee Haw)
  Hayden Pedigo, musician 
  John Rich, guitar player
  Eck Robertson, musician
  Ben Sargent, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
  George Saunders, writer, winner of Macarthur Fellowship Genius Grant
  J.D. Souther, country rock singer
  Terry LaVerne Stafford, songwriter
  Francie Swift, actress
  Jodi Thomas, author
  Paula Trickey, actress (Pacific Blue)
  Aaron Watson, country music singer
  Trent Willmon, country music singer
  Jack Wrather, television director
  M. K. Wren, mystery and science fiction writer
  Roger Miller, country music singer
  Arden Cho, actress
  
  Business
  T. Boone Pickens, Jr., oilman and philanthropist
  
  Law and government
  James R. Beverley, governor of Puerto Rico
  Teel Bivins, United States Ambassador to Sweden
  Beau Boulter, United States Congressman
  James Nathan Browning, Texas lieutenant governor
  Odell M. Conoley, USMC; Deputy Director for Operations, Plans, Policies and Operations Division, Staff of the Commander in Chief, United States European Command 
  Jake Ellzey, United States Congressman
  Howard D. Graves, Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, later Chancellor of Texas A & M system of universities
  John Marvin Jones, United States Congressman and Chief Judge of the Court of Claims
  Walter Thomas Price, IV, Amarillo attorney and Republican nominee for the District 87 seat in the Texas House of Representatives
  Mary Lou Robinson, United States federal judge
  Kel Seliger, mayor and Texas state senator
  
  Sports
  Rex Baxter, professional golfer and NCAA champion
   Trevor Brazile, PRCA All Around Cowboy
  Brad Bryant, professional golfer
  Paul Buentello, mixed martial artist
  Steve Butler, racecar driver
  Ron Clinkscale, professional Canadian football player
  Michael Cobbins (born 1992), basketball player for Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
  Tucker Davidson, professional baseball player
  Bobby Duncum Jr., professional wrestler 
  Dory Funk, professional wrestler
  Dory Funk, Jr., professional wrestler
  Terry Funk, professional wrestler
  Heath Herring, mixed martial artist
  Mike Hettinga, aka Mike Knox, professional wrestler
  Ziggy Hood, professional football player
  Wildcat Monte (born Monte Deadwiley; 1905–1961), professional boxer
  Alex O'Brien, professional tennis player
  Barry Orton, professional wrestler
  Ryan Palmer, professional golfer
  Bum Phillips, professional football coach
  Cody Pfister, mixed martial artist
  Chris Romero, professional wrestler
  Mark Romero, professional wrestler
  Ricky Romero, professional wrestler
  Steven Romero, professional wrestler
  Hurles Scales, professional football player
  Mike Scroggins, professional bowler
  Brandon Slay, gold-medal Olympic wrestler
  T.A. "Amarillo Slim" Preston, professional poker player
  Evan Tanner, professional mixed martial artist
  William Thomas, professional football player
  Devonte Upson (born 1993), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
  Ken Vinyard, professional football player
  Erik Watts, professional wrestler
  Gene Wiley, professional basketball player
  
  Others
  
  Charles Albright, serial killer
  George Hendricks Beverley, U.S. Air Force general
  Thomas E. Creek, U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
  Brittany Holberg, convicted murderer who was sentenced to death row
  Rick Husband, astronaut
  Paul Lockhart, astronaut
  Leroy Matthiesen, local Catholic bishop
  Grady Booch, software engineer
  
  Amarillo, Texas
   
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