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Bruce Aven - retired Major League Baseball player

Brinkley Bass - Naval aviator

Bill Bailey - entrepreneur

G.W. Bailey - actor

Jack Brooks - Politician, served more than 40 years in the U.S. House of Representatives

Keith Carter - Photographer

Charles Cutler - inventor of Model-based Multi-variable Process Control

Trevor Dodds - Namibian golfer

Charles Garrett - inventor of metal detectors for security purposes as well as treasure hunters

Clay Hensley - Pitcher, San Diego Padres

Janis Joplin - Musician

Chuck Knipp - comedian, famous for his alter ego Shirley Q. Liquor

Nick Lampson - Politician, Served in the U.S. House of Representatives from two Texas districts

Danny Mason -- Golfing coach at Texas Tech University, 1969-1980

Wayne Moore -- retired NFL player

Bill Macatee - TV Sports Announcer

Kevin Millar - MLB World Champion, Boston Red Sox; currently with Baltimore Orioles

Bill Paradoski / Huston - Mass Communications, 1973; retired award winning TV News Director & Anchor at KFDM 6 and KBMT 12 (where he hired Bill MacAtee) in Beaumont, KARK 4 in Little Rock, WNGE 2 in Nashville, and KRBC TV in Abilene

Bum Phillips - former NFL coach

Jiles Perry Richardson - "The Big Bopper," a radio DJ and early Rock and Roll star, died in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Richie Valens

Colin Ridgeway - former NFL player, first Australian to play in the NFL.

Chris Stroud - Currently Touring Professional Golfer

Billy Tubbs - College Basketball Coach

Jen Wyatt - Canadian LPGA golfer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_University

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