Below follows a list of notables from the metropolitan area of San Antonio, Texas, United States.
Politics
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- Glenn A. Abbey, U.S. diplomat
- Hope Andrade, Secretary of State of Texas, member of the Texas Transportation Commission
- William P. Atkinson, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- David Berchelmann, Republican judge of two district courts and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, San Antonio native and resident
- Claude W. Black, Jr., Baptist minister, civil rights leader, City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tempore
- Bill Blythe, state representative from Harris County; born in San Antonio, c. 1935
- Robert Lee Bobbitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, state attorney general, and chairman of the Texas Highway Commission
- Mario Cantu, Chicano activist
- JoaquÃn Castro, U.S. Representative from Texas's 35th congressional district since 2013; member of the Texas House; brother of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro
- Henry E. Catto, Jr., Ambassador to the United Kingdom
- John Cornyn, U.S. Senator since 2002; attended Trinity University and St. Mary's University Law School in San Antonio
- Frank Corte, Jr., Republican State Representative from San Antonio, 1993 to 2011
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America; stationed at Fort Sam Houston in 1916
- Rick Galindo, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Bexar County; born in 1981 and reared in San Antonio
- Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General under President George W. Bush
- Henry B. Gonzalez, U.S. Representative for Texas' 20th congressional district, the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio is named in his honor.
- John W. Goode, attorney and Republican politician; lost the 1961 special election for Congress to Henry B. Gonzalez
- Doug Harlan (1943â€"2008), Republican political consultant, author, lawyer, educator, public official
- Maria L. de Hernández (1896â€"1986), Mexican-American rights activist
- Barbara Hervey, Place 7 judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
- Rita Jenrette, wife of U.S. Congressman John W. Jenrette, Jr., of South Carolina, posed for Playboy magazine in 1981, dated country singer Mickey Gilley
- Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States, retired to San Antonio
- Cyndi Taylor Krier, state senator and Bexar County administrative judge
- Lyle Larson, member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 122 since 2011; member of the Bexar County Commissioners Court and the San Antonio City Council
- Hall Lyons (1923â€"1998), Louisiana oilman and politician, lived in San Antonio in the early 1950s while engaged in business
- Nathan Macias (born 1960), Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Comal County; businessman and retired Lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force
- Ruth McClendon (born 1943), Democrat member of the Texas House of Representatives from San Antonio since 1996; former member of the San Antonio City Council and Mayor Pro Tem from 1993 to 1996
- Tom Mechler, Texas Republican Party state chairman since 2015; oil and gas consultant in Amarillo, former San Antonio resident
- Susan Pamerleau, retired United States Air Force major general and the Republican sheriff of Bexar County, first woman elected, 2012
- Kae T. Patrick, attorney and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1981â€"1988
- David Peeples, judge of the 4th Judicial Administrative Region based in San Antonio, former judge of two state district courts and the Texas Court of Appeals
- George Boyd Pierce (born 1941), Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1979 to 1993; president of Texas and Southern Railroad, Inc.
- Bert Richardson (born 1956), member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; native and resident of San Antonio
- Tom Rickhoff (born 1944), state court, appeals court, and probate court judge
- Joe Rollins (1918â€"2008), Houston attorney, graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio in 1934
- Joe Sage (1920â€"1977), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Bexar County from 1973 to 1975
- Mario Marcel Salas (1949), City Councilman District 2, Judson Independent School District Vice-President
- Sally Shelton-Colby, Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica; Minister to St Lucia; Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St. Vincent, 1979â€"1981, under Jimmy Carter
- John Shields, state representative from San Antonio
- Bill Siebert, state representative from San Antonio
- John Thomas Steen, Jr., San Antonio lawyer and 108th Secretary of State of Texas
- G. J. Sutton, state representative, first black elected official in Texas
- Lou Nelle Sutton, wife of G. J. Sutton; succeeded him in the Texas House
- Percy Sutton, Manhattan borough president in New York City; civil rights attorney with such high-profile clients as Malcolm X; owner of the Apollo Theater in Harlem and several radio stations
- Lawson Swearingen, born in San Antonio in 1944 but reared in Ruston, Louisiana; member of the Louisiana State Senate and president of his alma mater, the University of Louisiana at Monroe
- Susan Weddington, state chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 1997 to 2003; since a resident of Fredericksburg
- Jeff Wentworth, state senator from San Antonio; unseated in 2012 by Donna Campbell
- John H. Wood, Jr., federal judge in San Antonio until 1979, when he was assassinated by convicted murderer-for-hire Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson
- John C. Woods, executioner of the Nuremberg Trials; master sergeant in United States Army
- Kevin Patrick Yeary, Place 4 judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; San Antonio lawyer
- Lou Zaeske, born in San Antonio in 1941, began English-only movement in Texas; advocate for Czech ethnic causes
Notable mayors
- Julian Castro, 2009â€"2014, 16th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama
- Phil Hardberger, 2005â€"2009
- Howard Peak, 1997â€"2001
- Nelson Wolff, 1991â€"1995
- Henry Cisneros, 1981â€"1989, Secretary of HUD under President of the United States Bill Clinton
- Lila Cockrell, 1976â€"1981, 1989â€"1991
- Maury Maverick, Sr., 1939â€"1941
- Juan Seguin, 1841â€"1842
- Sam Maverick, 1839â€"1840
Artists
- Bryan Willis Hamilton, music producer
- Carl Hoppe
- Julian Onderdonk, landscape painter
- Porfirio Salinas
- Todd White, former lead character designer for SpongeBob SquarePants (John Marshall High School)
- Verner Moore White
Architects
- O'Neil Ford
- Alfred Giles (1853â€"1920), designed many historic homes and courthouses, including the Pershing House
- Robert Hugman, designed the horseshoe section of the San Antonio River Walk
Film and television
- Poni Adams, actress
- Kevin Alejandro, actor (True Blood)
- Jesse Borrego, actor (Blood In Blood Out)
- Taylor Ball, actor (Still Standing)
- Gil Birmingham, Comanche actor (Twilight film series)
- Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter (Milk)
- Pat Boyette, KENS-TV news anchor, comic book artist, actor, composer, film director
- Lara Flynn Boyle, actress (Twin Peaks), married San Antonio businessman Donald Ray Thomas in 2006
- Carol Burnett, Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian
- Wendell Burton, actor (The Sterile Cuckoo)
- Cass Ole (d. 1993), Arabian stallion from films The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns; buried at his owner's home in San Antonio
- Ricardo Antonio Chavira, actor (Desperate Housewives)
- Jessica Collins, actress (Heroes)
- Joan Crawford (1904â€"1977), Academy Award-winning film actress (Mildred Pierce)
- Dayna Devon, TV presenter
- Jade Esteban Estrada, actor, comedian
- Al Freeman, Jr., Emmy Award-nominated actor (One Life to Live)
- Thomas Gibson, actor (Criminal Minds)
- Summer Glau, actress (Firefly)
- Nicholas Gonzalez, actor (Resurrection)
- Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, actor (Rio Bravo)
- Jackie Earle Haley, Academy Award-nominated actor (Little Children)
- Armie Hammer, actor
- Ann Harding, actress
- Daisy and Violet Hilton, British-born conjoined twins (Freaks)
- Tommy Lee Jones, Academy Award-winning actor; his ex-wife Kimberlea Moser is the daughter of San Antonio's former mayor, Phil Hardberger
- Jana Jordan, adult film star
- Callie Khouri, Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Thelma and Louise)
- Jim Lehrer, anchor of PBS NewsHour
- Hal LeSueur, actor; brother of Joan Crawford
- Chris Marrou, TV personality and news anchor at KENS
- Bruce McGill, actor (MacGyver, National Lampoon's Animal House)
- Ashley Austin Morris, actress (The New Electric Company)
- Pola Negri, silent-film actress
- John Allen Nelson, actor (24)
- Derek Lee Nixon, actor (When in Rome)
- Oliver North, Fox News commentator and presenter, Marine colonel who assisted opponents of Nicaragua's Sandinista government
- Norah O'Donnell, CBS News correspondent
- Jared Padalecki, actor (Gilmore Girls, Supernatural)
- Fred Parker Jr., actor (The Best Man, I Saw the Light)
- Grace Phipps, actress (Fright Night (2011), The Nine Lives of Chloe King (2011), The Vampire Diaries (2012), Teen Beach Movie (2013), and Teen Beach 2 (2015))
- Ann Prentiss, actress, died in prison
- Paula Prentiss, actress (The Stepford Wives, What's New, Pussycat?), wife of actor-director Richard Benjamin and sister of Ann Prentiss
- John Quiñones (b. 1952), TV journalist and presenter
- Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor (Heroes)
- Kevin Reynolds, film director and screenwriter (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
- Emilio Rivera, actor (Lie to Me)
- James Roday, actor (Psych)
- Michelle Rodriguez, actress (Lost)
- Robert RodrÃguez, film director (Spy Kids)
- Jayne Walton Rosen, entertainer with Lawrence Welk
- Karen Sharpe, actress and wife of producer-director Stanley Kramer
- Ginny Sims, singer with Kay Kyser orchestra from 1938â€"1942
- Kim Spradlin, TV personality (Survivor: One World)
- Andy Stahl (b. 1952), actor
- Henry Thomas, actor (Gangs of New York, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
- Peter Weller, actor (RoboCop, Star Trek Into Darkness)
Other
- Joe Ball, serial killer; born in San Antonio
- José MarÃa Jesús Carbajal, military officer in the Mexicanâ€"American War; born in San Fernando de Béxar, present-day San Antonio
- Mitch Clem, cartoonist and writer, lives outside San Antonio, in Kirby
- Mariana W. de Coronel, collector
- Davy Crockett, frontiersman; fought in the Battle of the Alamo
- King Fisher, rancher and gunfighter from Eagle Pass, was murdered in the Vaudeville Theater Ambush in 1884
- Joseph Gottschalk, "Thong Man"
- Ray Keck, president of Texas A&M International University in Laredo; born in San Antonio in 1947
- Vivian Liberto, former wife of country music legend Johnny Cash; mother of Rosanne Cash
- Charles Schreiner, Sr., cattle baron who lived in San Antonio from 1852 to 1857; endowed the future Schreiner University in Kerrville
- Charles Schreiner, III, founded in 1964 of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America; born and died in San Antonio; resided in Kerr County
- Deaf Smith, frontiersman noted for his part in the Texas Revolution and the Army of the Republic of Texas, died In Richmond, Texas in 1837
Scientists
- Elsa Salazar Cade, educator, entomologist
- Robert Cade, medical doctor and inventor of Gatorade
- William H. Cade, insect behaviorist, cricket expert
- Marie Charlotte Schaefer, physician
Sports
Basketball
- Jordan Clarkson, guard, currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers, graduated from Karen Wagner High School
- Fennis Dembo, forward, played for the NBA world champion Detroit Pistons in 1989 and graduated from Fox Tech High School
- Keith Edmonson, forward, played for several NBA teams in 1982â€"83 and graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School
- Jeff Foster, center, Indiana Pacers, since 1999 and who graduated from James Madison High School
- Askia Jones, guard, played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, graduated from John Marshall High School
- Wesley Matthews, guard for the Portland Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz and currently the Dallas Mavericks
- Shaquille O'Neal, center, Basketball Hall of Famer, graduated from Robert G. Cole High School, Fort Sam Houston, after leading his team to a 36â€"0 record and state championship; four-time NBA world champion with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat
- Bo Outlaw, forward, played for several NBA teams between 1994 and 2006, graduated from John Jay High School
- Trent Plaisted, forward, drafted 46th overall in the 2008 NBA Draft, plays overseas for K.K. Zadar in Croatia; graduated from Tom Clark High School
- André Roberson, guard/forward, plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder, graduated from Karen Wagner High School
- Ben Uzoh, guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers and New Jersey Nets; graduated from Earl Warren High School in 2006
Football
- Scott Ankrom (John Jay High School)
- Patrick Bailey (Alamo Heights High School)
- Glenn Blackwood (Churchill)
- Lyle Blackwood (Churchill)
- Chris Bordano (Southwest)
- Quincy Butler (Roosevelt)
- Cody Carlson (Churchill)
- Keith Cash (Holmes)
- Kerry Cash (Holmes)
- Bruce Collie (Robert E. Lee)
- Tony Darden (Holmes)
- Trey Darilek (Robert E. Lee)
- Quintin Demps (Roosevelt)
- Ty Detmer (Southwest)
- Ronald Flemons (John Marshall High School)
- Erik Flowers (Roosevelt)
- Philip Gaines (Judson)
- Darryl Grant (Highlands)
- Derwin Gray (Judson)
- Gary Green (Sam Houston)
- Cedric Griffin (Holmes)
- David Hill (Highlands)
- Carlyle Holiday (Roosevelt)
- Priest Holmes (John Marshall High School)
- Moton Hopkins (Randolph High School)
- Rob Housler (Judson)
- Weldon Humble (Brackenridge)
- Sam Hurd (Brackenridge)
- A.J. Johnson (Clemens)
- Randy Johnson (Sam Houston)
- N.D. Kalu (John Marshall High School)
- Wade Key (Edison)
- Tommy Kramer (Robert E. Lee)
- Keith Lee
- Travis Lewis (Robert E. Lee)
- Wane McGarity (Clark)
- Warren McVea (Brackenridge)
- Primo Miller (Brackenridge)
- Willie Mitchell (Brackenridge)
- Sammy Morris (Jay)
- Tommy Nobis (Jefferson)
- Joe Pawelek (Smithson Valley)
- Robert Quiroga (Holmes)
- Reggie Rivers (Randolph)
- Corey Robinson (San Antonio Christian)
- Aaron Ross (Fox Tech)
- Kyle Rote (Jefferson)
- Tobin Rote (Harlandale)
- Greg Schorp (Churchill)
- Corey Sears (Judson)
- Andrew Sendejo (Smithon Valley)
- Scott Solomon (John Marshall High School)
- Jim Strong (Sam Houston High School), San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints, Florida Blazers, San Antonio Wings
- Mykkele Thompson (Stevens)
- Michael Toudouze (East Central)
- Alex Van Pelt (Churchill)
Baseball
- Randy Choate, MLB relief pitcher
- Alva Jo Fischer, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player inducted into the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame and the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame
- Jerry Grote, MLB two-time All-Star catcher
- Bob Heise, MLB player for the Mets, Giants, Brewers, Cardinals, Angels, Red Sox and Royals
- Joe Horlen, MLB All-Star pitcher for Chicago White Sox and Oakland A's
- Cliff Johnson, MLB catcher
- Brandon Larson, MLB player for the St. Louis Cardinals
- Boone Logan (born in Helotes), MLB pitcher for the Yankees, White Sox and Braves
- Jeff Manship, MLB player for the Minnesota Twins
Professional bodybuilding
- Heather Armbrust
- Vickie Gates
Professional wrestling
- Tully Blanchard
- Shoichi Funaki
- Jose Lothario
- Shawn Michaels
- Dusty Wolfe
Swimming
- Josh Davis (Churchill High School), Olympic gold medalist
- Jimmy Feigen (Churchill High School), Olympic gold medalist
Tennis
- Wilmer Allison, member of International Tennis Hall of Fame
Track & field
- Jennifer Gutierrez (Holmes), Olympic triathlete
- Anjanette Kirkland (Holmes), World Championships gold medalist in 100-meter hurdles
- Darold Williamson (Oliver Wendell Holmes High School), Olympic gold medalist in 4x400-meter relay
Professional rodeo
- Gene Lyda, professional bull rider from Somerset, Texas; National High School Rodeo Association champion bull rider; member of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association; Top 15 Bull Riders at 1967 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; current partner/manager of La Escalera Ranch; son of San Antonio general contractor and rancher Gerald Lyda
Music industry
- Jay Boy Adams, singer, songwriter, guitarist; businessman in Comfort
- Moe Bandy, country singer from San Antonio area, Lone Oak, Texas; brother of professional bull rider Mike Bandy; recorded "Bandy the Rodeo Clown" and other hits for Columbia Records; regularly performs in Branson, Missouri
- Aaron Barker, country singer/songwriter
- Ally Brooke, singer and member of girl group Fifth Harmony
- Johnny Bush, country singer, performed with Ray Price's Cherokee Cowboys and Willie Nelson's Record Men band, wrote and had a smash RCA Victor single with "Whiskey River", lives in San Antonio, wrote autobiography Whiskey River, Take My Mind
- Vikki Carr, pop and Latin singer, recorded for Liberty Records, provided background vocals for Bob Wills during his Liberty Records sessions; lives in San Antonio
- Bill Cody, host for WSM-AM morning show in Nashville; country music radio personality from 1987â€"1994 in San Antonio at KKYX-AM, host of Great American Country's Classic country Weekend With Bill Cody and Great American Country's Master Series
- Christopher Cross, Oscar Award-winning singer/songwriter and four-time Grammy Award winner
- Al Dean, country singer and bandleader of The All-Stars, recorded hugely popular "National Anthem of Texas", "Cotton-Eyed Joe", which is played at San Antonio Spurs basketball games
- Jessy Dixon, black gospel singer born in San Antonio, regular on Gaither Homecoming video series
- Holly Dunn, country singer/songwriter, radio personality
- Steve Earle, progressive country singer/songwriter, married to singer Allison Moorer, sister of singer Shelby Lynne
- Alejandro Escovedo, punk rock, roots rock, alternative country singer/songwriter, from a family that boasts several professional musicians
- Rosita Fernández, Tejano and conjunto musician
- Robert Fitzpatrick, actor, entertainment lawyer who managed such acts as Bee Gees, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Cream, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, The Buckinghams, Dick Dale & the Del-Tones, Dobie Gray, Taj Majal and Peggy Lee
- Rosie Flores, rockabilly and country music artist; toured with Wanda Jackson and Asleep at the Wheel
- Pat Green, singer/songwriter of Texas music
- Gibby Haynes, founding member and lead singer of the Butthole Surfers, a popular rock band formed at Trinity University
- Tish Hinojosa, Tejano singer, recorded for A & M Records and Watermelon Records
- Adolph Hofner, country singer, toured Texas festivals, fairs and rodeos with his band The Pearl Wranglers, had daily radio program on KMAC radio, sponsored by Pearl Beer, recorded for Okeh Records
- Bobby Jarzombek, drummer for bands such as Halford, Sebastian Bach and Spastic Ink; brother of Ron Jarzombek
- Ron Jarzombek, guitarist for bands such as S.A. Slayer (San Antonio Slayer), Watchtower, Spastic Ink and Blotted Science; brother of Bobby Jarzombek
- Flaco Jiménez, Tejano and conjunto musician, accordionist, member of Texas Tornadoes
- Paul Leary, a founding member and guitarist of the Butthole Surfers, a popular rock band formed at Trinity University
- Austin Mahone, soloist singer
- Marshall Dyllon, country vocal group consisting of brothers Paul Martin and Michael Martin, Todd Sansom, Jess Littleton and Daniel Cahoon, charted three Top 50 Billboard country songs, "Live It Up" (2000), "You" (2001) and "She Ain't Gonna Cry" (2000)
- Jordan McCoy, American Juniors runner-up, signed with Sean (Puffy) Combs
- Lydia Mendoza, Tejano and conjunto musician, first garnered fame in San Antonio.
- Augie Meyers, Tex-Mex, country and rock musician, member of The Texas Tornadoes, founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet, charted Top 100 Billboard solo country hit "Kap Pa So" (1988) on Atlantic-American Records, session keyboardist for Bob Dylan's Grammy-winning album of the year Time Out of Mind (1998) and its follow-up, Love and Theft (2001)
- Michael Morales, Grammy Award-winning pop artist who had two Billboard top-40 hits in the early 1990s; graduated from San Antonio's Oliver Wendell Holmes High School
- Mina Myoui, vocalist, member of South Korean group Twice; born in San Antonio and moved to Japan when young
- Emilio Navaira, Grammy Award-winning Tejano music and country music singer
- Michael Nesmith, singer/songwriter, member of The Monkees and co-star of their NBC-TV musical-comedy series; producer of award-winning video "Elephant Parts"; early member of band Denny Ezba and the Goldens along with Keith Allison ("Where the Action Is"; Paul McCartney lookalike bass player in Paul Revere & the Raiders), Augie Meyers and Wayne Hensley
- Offbeats, San Antonio-based garage/punk band
- Zulema Garcia Olsen, musician and composer
- Sunny Ozuna, singer for Sunny & the Sunglows
- Chris Pérez, Tejano Latin rock guitarist, married Tejano singer Selena
- Jay Perez, Tejano
- Ray Peterson, 1960s pop singer whose major hits included "Corrine, Corrina", "Missing You", "The Wonder of You" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" for RCA Victor Records
- Randy Piper, heavy metal guitarist best known for his work with W.A.S.P. from 1982 to 1986
- Red River Dave McEnery, hillbilly singer/songwriter, film, radio and recording star; in the early 1940s, returned to San Antonio and broadcast his songs on XERF radio located along Texas/Mexico border; appeared in several B-Western films, including 1944's Swing in the Saddle
- Elida Reyna, Tejano, lead singer of Latin Grammy Award-winning band Elida Y Avante
- Emily Robison, plays banjo, dobro, guitar and vocals in Grammy Award-winning country music group the Dixie Chicks
- Robert Xavier Rodriguez, classical composer
- Mike Ryan, country music singer and songwriter
- Doug Sahm, Tex-Mex, country and rock musician, member of Texas Tornadoes, leader of Sir Douglas Quintet, known for "She's About a Mover" and "Mendocino"
- Olga Samaroff, concert pianist and first wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski
- John Schneider, actor and singer, best known as Bo Duke on CBS TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, had 18 Top 100 Billboard hits on the country chart, appeared as Curley in television film Stagecoach starring Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings; San Antonio resident
- George Strait, Grammy Award-winning country music superstar, has more than 60 No. 1 hits including The Chair and "All My Ex's Live in Texas"; starred in Universal Pictures film Pure Country, lives in San Antonio
- Kevin Talley, heavy metal drummer with bands such as Dying Fetus, Chimaira and Daath
- Ernest Tubb, singer/songwriter, inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame, member of Grand Ole Opry, lived in San Antonio in the 1940s
- Justin Tubb, singer/songwriter, member of Grand Ole Opry, son of country music legend Ernest Tubb, born in San Antonio
- Upon a Burning Body, deathcore band
- Worldwide (Michael Parker), rapper, emcee and producer
Writers
- Jacques Barzun, leading cultural historian
- Sandra Cisneros, author, lives in a purple house in the city's King William District
- Dan Cook, San Antonio sportswriter for more than 50 years
- Ron Franscell, true-crime author and journalist
- Marcus Goodrich, screenwriter and novelist
- Heloise, syndicated advice columnist, lives in suburb of Helotes
- Esther Hicks, San Antonio-based best-selling author and inspirational speaker, Law of Attraction, Ask & It Is Given, The Astonishing Power of Emotions
- Dolores Hitchens, mystery novelist
- Barbara Ras, San Antonio writer and publisher, The Last Skin, Bite Every Sorrow, One Hidden Self, and Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
- Rick Riordan, San Antonio-based novelist, Big Red Tequila, The Last King of Texas, Southtown, Mission Road, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, The Heroes of Olympus, The Maze of Bones, Vespers Rising
- Shea Serrano, author, The Rap Year Book, Basketball (and Other Things),
- Lynn Schooler, photographer and author of The Blue Bear and Walking Home
- Naomi Shihab Nye, writer and poet
- Whitley Strieber, writer and film producer, Communion, The Hunger and Wolfen
- Light Townsend Cummins, historian and author
Religion
- James T. Draper, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1982-1984; pastor in San Antonio in the early 1960s
- Patrick Flores (born 1929), retired Catholic Archbishop of San Antonio (archbishop from 1979 to 2004)
- José Gomez, Catholic Archbishop of San Antonio
- John Hagee, televangelist and pastor of Cornerstone Church
- Cardinal William H. Keeler, born in San Antonio; Archbishop of Baltimore
- Max Lucado, best-selling Christian author and pastor of the city's Oak Hills Church
- Samuel M. Stahl, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth-El (San Antonio, Texas)
Billionaires
- Charles Butt, H-E-B
- Rodney Lewis, oil and natural gas industrialist, worth $2.8 billion
- Lowry Mays, Clear Channel Communications
- B. J. (Red) McCombs, founding partner in Clear Channel, auto dealer, and former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Minnesota Vikings, and Denver Nuggets
Civic leaders
- Tom Benson, owner of New Orleans Saints and automobile dealer
- Ferdinand Ludwig Herff, medical pioneer
- Anna Goodman Hertzberg, founder of Tuesday Musical Club in 1901
- Peter Holt, chairman of Spurs, partner in Caterpillar, Inc.
- Herb Kelleher, chairman of Southwest Airlines
- Robert F. McDermott, chairman emeritus of USAA
- Ed Whitacre, retired CEO of SBC/AT&T
Businesspeople
- Gerald Lyda, founder and president of Lyda Inc. and Lyda Constructors, Inc.; owner of 320,000-acre (1,300Â km2) La Escalera Ranch in Texas; former owner of Ladder Ranch in Sierra County, New Mexico
- John T. Montford, businessman in San Antonio since 2001; chancellor of Texas Tech University System, state senator and district attorney from Lubbock
- Sarah Newcomb Merrick, teacher, principal, writer, businessperson, homeopath
- Jeff Smisek, President and CEO of United Airlines; graduate of Roosevelt High School