title: Tex (nickname)
text: # Tex (nickname)
  
  Tex is a nickname, sometimes used for someone from the U.S. state of Texas.
  
  ## People
  
  * Robert Allen (actor) (1906–1998), American film actor
  * Tex Austin (1886–1938), American rodeo promoter
  * Tex Avery (1908–1980), American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons
  * Tex Banwell (1917–1999), British Second World War soldier and decoy for General Bernard Montgomery
  * Tex Beneke (1914–2000), American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader
  * Tex Brashear (born 1955), American voice actor, previously in radio
  * Tex Carleton (1906–1977), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  * Tex Clevenger (1932–2019), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  * Randall "Tex" Cobb (born 1950), American boxer and actor
  * Tex Coulter (1924–2007), American National Football League lineman
  * Tex Erwin (1885–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher
  * Tex Hill (1915–2007), American World War II flying ace and brigadier general
  * Tex Hughson (1916–1993), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  * Tex Irvin (1906–1978), American football player
  * Tex Jeanes (1900–1973), American Major League Baseball player
  * Alvin M. Johnston (1914–1998), American test pilot
  * Tex Maule (1915–1981), American football writer for Sports Illustrated magazine
  * Tex McDonald (1891–1943), America Major League Baseball player
  * Tex Morton (1916–1983), New Zealand singer
  * Tex Perkins (born 1964), Australian rock musician
  * Tex Rickard (1870–1929), American boxing promoter, founder of the New York Rangers hockey team and builder of the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden
  * Tex Ritter (1905–1974), American country singer and actor
  * Tex Schramm (1920–2003), original president and general manager of the U.S. National Football League's Dallas Cowboys franchise
  * Tex Shirley (1918–1993), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  * Mark Teixeira (born 1980), Major League Baseball player
  * Taylor Walker (footballer) (born 1990), Australian rules footballer
  * Tex Watson (born 1945), American murderer and former member of the Manson Family
  * Tex Williams (1917–1985), American country musician
  * Tex Winter (1922–2018), American basketball coach
  * Tex Wisterzil (1888–1964), American Major League Baseball player
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Tex Murphy, the main character of five adventure games from Access Software
  * Tex Randall, a 47-foot tall cowboy figure constructed in 1959 in Canyon, Texas
  * Tex Sawyer, villain from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise
  * Tex Thompson, a DC Comics superhero
  * Tex Willer, a character in an Italian comic book of the same name
  * Tex Dinoco, a character from the 2006 film Cars, a personified Cadillac Coupe de Ville
  * Tex Richman, the main antagonist of the 2011 film The Muppets
  * The title character of Tex Granger, a 1948 movie serial
  * Tex, a penguin villager from the video game series Animal Crossing
  * Tex, the mascot for THX
  * Tex (Red vs. Blue), in the webseries Red vs. Blue
  