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Tex is a nickname, sometimes used for someone from the U.S. state of Texas.

Contents

• People
• Fictional characters
• See also

People

• Robert Allen (actor) (1906–1998), American film actor
• Tex Austin (1886–1938), American rodeo promoter
• Tex Avery (1908–1980), American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons
• Tex Banwell (1917–1999), British Second World War soldier and decoy for General Bernard Montgomery
• Tex Beneke (1914–2000), American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader
• Tex Brashear (born 1955), American voice actor, previously in radio
• Tex Carleton (1906–1977), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Tex Clevenger (1932–2019), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Randall "Tex" Cobb (born 1950), American boxer and actor
• Tex Coulter (1924–2007), American National Football League lineman
• Tex Erwin (1885–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher
• Tex Fischer, American politician
• Tex Hill (1915–2007), American World War II flying ace and brigadier general
• Tex Hughson (1916–1993), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Tex Irvin (1906–1978), American football player
• Tex Jeanes (1900–1973), American Major League Baseball player
• Alvin M. Johnston (1914–1998), American test pilot
• Tex Maule (1915–1981), American football writer for Sports Illustrated magazine
• Tex McDonald (1891–1943), America Major League Baseball player
• Tex Morton (1916–1983), New Zealand singer
• Tex Perkins (born 1964), Australian rock musician
• Tex Rickard (1870–1929), American boxing promoter, founder of the New York Rangers hockey team and builder of the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden
• Tex Ritter (1905–1974), American country singer and actor
• Tex Schramm (1920–2003), original president and general manager of the U.S. National Football League's Dallas Cowboys franchise
• Tex Shirley (1918–1993), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Mark Teixeira (born 1980), Major League Baseball player
• Taylor Walker (footballer) (born 1990), Australian rules footballer
• Tex Watson (born 1945), American murderer and former member of the Manson Family
• Tex Williams (1917–1985), American country musician
• Tex Winter (1922–2018), American basketball coach
• Tex Wisterzil (1888–1964), American Major League Baseball player

Fictional characters

• Tex Murphy, the main character of five adventure games from Access Software
• Tex Randall, a 47-foot tall cowboy figure constructed in 1959 in Canyon, Texas
• Tex Sawyer, villain from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise
• Tex Thompson, a DC Comics superhero
• Tex Willer, a character in an Italian comic book of the same name
• Tex Dinoco, a character from the 2006 film Cars , a personified Cadillac Coupe de Ville
• The title character of Tex Granger , a 1948 movie serial
• Tex Hex, a character from the 1987 animated series BraveStarr
• Tex Richman, a character from the 2011 film The Muppets
• Tex, a penguin villager from the video game series Animal Crossing
• Tex, the mascot for THX
• Tex (Red vs. Blue), in the webseries Red vs. Blue
• Vortex "Tex", in the animated series Helluva Boss , voiced by James Monroe Iglehart

See also

• Tex (disambiguation)