Tex

Tex may refer to:

People

Tex is often used as a nickname for someone from the U.S. state of Texas.

• Joe Tex (1933–1982), American soul singer most popular during the 1960s and 1970s
• Robert (Tex) Allen (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 (born 1932), American retired 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
• David Lee "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
• Tex Maule (1915-1981), longtime lead American football writer for Sports Illustrated magazine
• Tex McDonald (1891-1943), America Major League Baseball player
• Tex Morton (1916-1983), New Zealand singer, a pioneer of New Zealand and Australian country music
• 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
• Charles "Tex" Watson (born 1945), American murderer and former member of the Manson Family
• Tex Williams (1917–1985), American country musician
• Tex Winter (born 1922), American basketball coach, innovator of the triangle offense
• Tex Wisterzil (1888-1964), American baseball player

Entertainment

• Tex (novel) (1979), by S.E. Hinton
• Tex (film), a 1982 film based on S.E. Hinton's novel, starring Matt Dillon
• Tex (Red vs. Blue), a fictional character
• Tex (THX), a red and silver robot appearing in some animated THX trailers
• title character of Tex Granger, a 1948 movie serial
• Tex Murphy, the main character of five adventure games from Access Software
• Tex Thompson, a DC Comics superhero
• Tex Willer, a character in an Italian comic book of the same name
• Tex Dinoc, a character from the 2006 film Cars, a personified Cadillac Coupe de Ville

Other

• Tex (unit), a unit of measure for the linear mass density of fibers
• TeX, pronounced "tech", a typesetting system created by Donald E. Knuth
• Text Executive Programming Language
• .tex, a file extension for TeX and LaTeX
• IATA airport code for Telluride Regional Airport
• Nestlé Tex, a South African chocolate bar

See also

• Big Tex, the icon of the annual State Fair of Texas
• Tekes (disambiguation)