by Ciera Ware

Created on: November 08, 2009

You wouldn't think that many actors and actresses, musicians, and politicians would come from Texas. Well, boy, will you be surprised!

MUSICIANS - Willie Nelson (Abbott), Usher (Dallas), Demi Lovato (Dallas), Bob Wills (Kosse), sisters Ashlee Simpson-Wentz (Waco) and Jessica Simpson (Abilene), George Strait (Poteet), Lyle Lovett (Klein), Kelly Clarkson (Burleson), Beyonce Knowles (Houston), Buddy Holly (Lubbock), Janis Joplin (Port Arthur), Waylon Jennings (Littlefield), and many others!

Tidbits - Buddy Holly was killed tragically in a plane crash.

Willie Nelson was one of the first people to record and write "outlaw country" music.

Kelly Clarkson won the first season of "American Idol".

Counting all charts, George Strait has had 57 number one hits shattering the record previously set by Conway Twitty.

Demi Lovato's first album reached #2 on Billboard 200 selling more than 89, 000 copies the first week.

ACTORS and ACTRESSES - Tommy Lee Jones (San Saba), Matthew McConaughey (Uvalde), Jamie Foxx (Terrell), brothers Luke and Owen Wilson (Dallas), Patrick Swayze (Houston), Carol Burnett (San Antonio), Renee Zellweger (Katy), Joan Craword (San Antonio), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Waco), Steve Martin (Waco), Jennifer Garner (Houston), Eva Longoria Parker (Corpus Christi) and many others!

Tidbits - Joan Crawford's adopted daughter, Christina wrote a tell-all book, Mommie Dearest, after Crawford's death.

Patrick Swayze died September 14, 2009 of pancreatic cancer. He was well known for his role in Dirty Dancing.

Jennifer Love Hewitt sang "The Greatest Love of All" at the age of three at a livestock show.

Matthew McConaughey lived in Warnervale, New South Wales, Australia for a year as a Rotary exchange student.

Eva Longoria Parker reached #14 in the FHM "Sexiest Women 2008" poll.

POLITICIANS - Lyndon Baines Johnson (near Stonewall), Dwight Eisenhower (Denison), Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Galveston), Jim Hogg (Rusk and others! George W. Bush was born in Connecticut, but grew up in Texas.

Tidbits - Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th president of the United States.

Kay Bailey Hutchinson was a cheerleader at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dwight Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army before he became the 34th president.

George W. Bush was the head cheerleader at his high school in Massachusetts.

MODELS - Anna Nicole Smith (Mexia), Chandra North (Dallas), Ali Michael (Colleyville), Jerry Hall (Gonzales), Brooke Burns (Dallas) and others!

Tidbits - Brooke Burns moved with her family to Europe at the age of sixteen.

Jerry Hall was once married to Mick Jagger.

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