This is a list of notable people associated with Marshall, Texas .
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- Phillip Baldwin, jurist
- Mike Barber, football player, evangelist
- John Burke, lawyer, soldier, and spy
- 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.; [1] also a U.S. Army Air Force officer and trained fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen [2]
- Andrew Wommack, conservative charismatic, tv evangelist and faith healer,
- Bob Young, football player