This is a list of notable people associated with Marshall, Texas.
This list is incomplete.
Phillip Baldwin, jurist Mike Barber, football player, evangelist John Burke, lawyer, soldier, and spy John Cacioppo, neuroscientist Robert Campbell (American artist), a painter, poet, and publisher Edward Clark, Texas Governor Mike Clark, NFL placekicker Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panther Party member George Dawson, author Floyd Dixon, R&B pianist Mathew Ector, jurist and legislator James Farmer, founder of CORE, organized freedom rides James L. Farmer, Sr., first Black Texan to hold a doctorate George Foreman, athlete and entrepreneur Joseph C. Goulden, best-selling author and political reporter 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 Alexander Hawthorn, lawyer, minister, and C.S. Army general James Pinckney Henderson, first governor of Texas Susan Howard, actress, writer, activist Alphonso Jackson, 13th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by President George W. Bush Walter P. Lane, Confederate General Ken Lattimore, member of the Western singing group Sons of the Pioneers (1998-current). Opal Lee, Activist promoting the Juneteenth federal holiday Fred T. Long, Wiley College football coach and athletic director Robert W. Loughery, journalist, publisher, and diplomat Ashley C. McKinley, aviator; explorer Blanche L. McSmith, Alaska state representative, activist, and businesswoman Leo Michelson, painter and sculptor John T. Mills, Supreme Court Justice of the Republic of Texas Robert Morris, former televangelist Johnny Moss, champion poker player Bill Moyers, journalist and government official Pendleton Murrah, Texas Governor 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 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 Romeo M. Williams, prominent civil rights attorney who played a pivotal role in the desegregation of Marshall, Texas.;Texas State Historical Association. "Williams, Romeo Marcus (1919–1960)." Peggy Hardman. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/williams-romeo-marcus also a U.S. Army Air Force officer and trained fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen Savion Williams, NFL Wide Receiver Andrew Wommack, conservative charismatic, tv evangelist and faith healer, Bob Young, football player
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