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== Notable people == === Sports === * [[Mike Dyal]], pro football player from 1989 to 1993<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=DYALMIK01 |title=Mike Dyal Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards β databaseFootball.com |access-date=17 July 2016 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411213603/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=DYALMIK01 |archive-date=11 April 2016 }}</ref> * [[Tony Lorick]], running back for the Baltimore Colts and New Orleans Saints * [[John Mahaffey]], pro golfer who won the 1978 [[PGA Championship]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mahaffey-takes-southwestern/|title=Mahaffey Takes Southwestern|website=[[CBS News]] |access-date=17 July 2016}}</ref> * [[Johnny Manziel]], football player; [[2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2012]] [[Heisman Trophy]] winner * [[Gary Phillips (basketball)|Gary Phillips]], NBA player for the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors * [[John Teltschik]], pro football player for the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] from 1986 to 1990<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=TELTSJOH01 |title=John Teltschik Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards β databaseFootball.com |access-date=17 July 2016 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412021720/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=TELTSJOH01 |archive-date=12 April 2016 }}</ref> === Entertainment === * [[Thomas Haden Church]], actor (''[[George of the Jungle (film)|George of the Jungle]]'', ''[[Sideways]]'', ''[[Spider-Man 3]]'', ''[[Heaven Is for Real (film)|Heaven Is for Real]]'')<ref name="GuardNaked">{{cite web|last=Pilkington|first=Ed|date=May 16, 2008|title=Naked ambition|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/16/usa|access-date=May 17, 2008|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name="Texas Monthly 2020">{{cite web | title=Thomas Haden Church Will Star as the Texanist | website=Texas Monthly | date=2020-10-30 | url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/thomas-haden-church-will-star-as-the-texanist/ | access-date=2022-02-11}}</ref> * [[Robert Earl Keen]], singer and songwriter<ref name="myspace">{{cite web|url=https://www.myspace.com/robertearlkeen|title=Robert Earl Keen | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos|publisher=myspace.com|access-date=2014-05-26}}</ref> * [[Ace Reid]], artist and humorist, lived in Kerrville from the early 1950s until his death in 1991<ref>[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fre50 Asa Elmer (Ace) Reid, Jr. (1925β1991)] at ''Handbook of Texas'' Online</ref> * [[Jimmie Rodgers]], the "Father of Country Music"; called Kerrville home for his family<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20070422210705/http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-bruce_0409gl.ART.State.Bulldog.3e6d576.html Bio-drama and 'blue yodeling']}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sonymusic.com/artists/JimmieRodgers/TheSongsOfJimmieRodgers/biography.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903052043/http://sonymusic.com/artists/JimmieRodgers/TheSongsOfJimmieRodgers/biography.html|url-status=dead|title=Sony Music β Jimmie Rodgers Biography|archivedate=September 3, 2009}}</ref> * [[Stacy Sutherland]], guitarist for [[The 13th Floor Elevators]], buried in Center Point Cemetery<ref name="en.wikipedia.org">[[13th Floor Elevators]]</ref><ref>[[Center Point, Kerr County, Texas|Center Point, Texas]]</ref> * [[America's Next Top Model, Cycle 14|Alexandra Underwood]], [[Wilhelmina Models|Wilhelmina]] model and contestant of ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'' * [[John Ike Walton]], drummer for the 13th Floor Elevators<ref name="en.wikipedia.org" /> === Business === * [[James Avery (jeweler)|James Avery]], owner of James Avery Jewelers (founded in 1954)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://secure.jamesavery.com/about/index.jsp|title=About Us β James Avery|access-date=17 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808004336/http://secure.jamesavery.com/about/index.jsp|archive-date=8 August 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * [[Lloyd Donald Brinkman]], owner of floor covering distributor, Brangus cattle breeder<ref>{{cite news |title=BRINKMAN, Lloyd Donald "Brink" |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/434910947/?terms=%22Brink%2BBrinkman%22 |access-date=November 10, 2018 |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=July 16, 2015|page=B4|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=registration }}</ref> * [[Florence Butt]], founder of [[H-E-B]] grocery stores in 1905<ref>[http://www.heb.com/aboutHEB/history.jsp H-E-B History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329230358/http://www.heb.com/aboutHEB/history.jsp |date=2010-03-29 }}</ref> === Others === * [[Konni Burton]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[Texas State Senate]] from [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://konniburton.com/about/#sthash.YTWlQgQR.dpuf|title=About Konni|publisher=konniburton.com|access-date=December 1, 2014}}</ref> * [[Kinky Friedman]], Texas musician, politician, and iconoclast * [[Jesse Edward Grinstead]], author of Western fiction and owner, editor of ''The Kerrville Mountain Sun'' * [[Harvey Hilderbran]], Republican [[Texas House of Representatives|state representative]] from Kerr County, 1989β2015 * Fleet Admiral [[Chester W. Nimitz]], lived in Kerrville in his youth * [[James E. Nugent]], member of the [[Texas House of Representatives]] * [[Lou Halsell Rodenberger]], Texas author; lived in Kerrville in the 1940s<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/obituary-preview.aspx?n=lou-h-rodenberger&pid=125951687&referrer=321|title=Lou H. Rodenberger's Obituary on Star-Telegram|website=[[Legacy.com]] |access-date=17 July 2016}}</ref>
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