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List of people from Houston

This is a list of people who were born, were raised, or have lived in Houston, Texas.

Entertainment, arts, and media personalities

Business, government, law, and military

Religion

Science

Athletics

Other

  • Ahmed Ajaj, Palestinian convicted of participating in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
  • Franklin DeWayne Alix, Serial killer; executed in 2010
  • Suzanne Basso, convicted murderer and ringleader in the 1998 torture-murder of 59 year old Louis “Buddy” Musso, whom was mentally disabled; executed in 2014
  • Danny Bible, serial killer known as "The Ice Pick Killer"; executed in 2018
  • Elmer Wayne Henley, accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll, aka "The Candyman", whom he later killed
  • Steven Hobbs (murderer), convicted murderer and suspected serial killer
  • Ronald Ray Howard, convicted cop killer; executed in 2005
  • Frances Newton, woman convicted of killing her husband and two children in 1987; executed in 2005
  • Ronald Clark O'Bryan, convicted murderer executed in 1984 for the murder of his son Timothy O’Bryan with poisoned Halloween candy
  • Robert Lynn Pruett, convicted murderer executed in 2017 for the 1999 murder of TDCJ Correctional Officer Daniel Nagle at the McConnell Unit
  • Shaka Sankofa, murderer executed in 2000 for a murder committed at age 17
  • Anthony Allen Shore, serial killer and child molester nicknamed “The Tourniquet Killer”; executed in 2018
  • Karla Faye Tucker, convicted murderer who was the first woman executed in Texas since 1863
  • Coy Wayne Wesbrook, convicted mass murderer; executed in 2016
  • Garcia Glen White, convicted murderer and suspected serial killer; executed in 2024
  • Ponchai Wilkerson, convicted murderer; executed in 2000
  • Andrea Yates, woman who murdered her five children by drowning them in the bathtub; currently institutionalized
  • Busby quintuplets, set of quintuplets
  • Rama Duwaji, animator, illustrator, ceramist; 112th first lady of New York City

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