LB Les Baxter
1922–1996 American musician, singer, composer
Daniel Wayne Smith
1986–2006 Son of Anna Nicole Smith
Kelvin Beachum
born 1989 American football player
Adrian Burk
1927–2003 American football player
Ralph P. Cousins
1891–1964 US Army general
Richard Hawkins
born 1961 American painter
Tommy Taylor
1892–1956 American baseball player
Bill Crider
1941–2018 American writer
John F. Forrest
1927–1997 U.S. Army officer and combat commander during the Korean War and Vietnam War era.
Michael Brown
1920–2014 American writer, composer, and musician
Ray Rhodes
born 1950 American football player and coach
William B. Murphy
1908–1970 American film editor
Everett Gee Jackson
1900–1995 American painter
Diedrick Brackens
born 1989 American textile artist
Goose Curry
1905–1974 American baseball player
Perry Cossart Baird Jr.
1903–1959 American physician
Porter Charleston
1904–1986 American baseball player
A.W. McDonald
African-American educator
Aidan Kavanagh
1929–2006 American Benedictine monk, theologian
Billy Wayne Smith
born 1968 American actor and cook
Jack Dennis
1894–1964 American film editor
Retta Murphy
1886–1981 Oral history project participant; college professor at Southwest Texas State Teachers College
S. O. Parrish
African-American educator
Also called Mexia home
Garrett Augustus Hobart Sheppard
1897–1965
Willie Levi
1946–2020 Victim of the COVID-19 pandemic