Awarded the Medal of Honor on Aug. 9, 1943 for gallantry in action over Ploesti.

Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism at Iwo Jima.

Governor of Texas 1957-1963 and U.S. Senator from 1953-1957

Governor of Texas 1921-1925 and later president of Baylor University

Governor of Texas 1991-1995

Governor of Texas 1887-1891

Governor of Texas 1983-1987

President and CEO of Comstock Resources and the 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year

President and CEO of Baylor Health Care System

Named one of the "50 Most Influential Women in Law" in America by the National Law Journal

President of Publix Supermarkets, Inc.

President and COO of Leap Wireless

President and CEO of Western Refining

CEO of Transwestern

CFO of Belo Corp.

Founder of Pangea Bottles

Chairman, President and CEO of AMR Corp. and American Airlines, Inc.

President of Oracle Corp.

Co-founder and chairman of Keller Williams Realty International

Chairman of McLane Group and the former CEO of the Houston Astros Baseball Club

Editor-in-chief of The Gallup Poll

Founder and CEO of The Perryman Group; nominated for 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics

Founder and Chairman of First Preston HT

CEO and Chairman of Robinson Media Co., LLC

First woman to head a top 100 firm on the London Stock Exchange, and current board chairwoman of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Co-chairman of the Texas Rangers and co-Founder of XTO energy

A founder of the Web search engine Lycos, Inc.

Former CEO of Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group

Lt. Governor of Texas 1991-1999

First Vietnamese American elected to Congress

Judge, United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit

United States House of Representatives (South Carolina)

Baylor Law School, special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal and one of the first partners of the major international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski

Former national president of the American Board of Trial Advocates

Judge, United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit

United States Senator for Kentucky

Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court (1988-2004)

Former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (1987-1993)

Senior managing partner at Provost and Umphrey Law Firm in Beaumont

Managing partner of Williams Kherkher Hart Boundas Law Firm L.L.P. of Houston

Co-author of the movies "Wanted," "3:10 to Yuma" and "2 Fast, 2 Furious"

Film and television producer, director and writer

Managing editor of Entertainment Weekly

Founder and publisher, Texas Football Magazine

Headline News anchor

Award-winning Christian recording artist

Grammy-winning trumpet player

Award-winning ventriloquist and comedian

Co-author of the movies "Wanted," "3:10 to Yuma" and "2 Fast, 2 Furious"

Director and writer of "The Blind Side" and director of "The Rookie"

Best-selling author of Silence of the Lambs

Actress, The Office

Recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Music

Former senior editor of Life magazine and a founder of People magazine

Host of ESPN's NFL Live and NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament

Member of the Harlem Globetrotters

2011 Heisman Trophy Winner, 2011 Davey O'Brien Trophy Winner, 2nd pick overall in 2012 NFL draft by Washington Redskins

2007 NBA Finals participant - assistant coach, Cleveland Cavaliers

General Manager of the Miami Dolphins

Olympic gold medalist

Texas Rangers outfielder

Seattle Mariners catcher

NFL Hall of Famer and former NFL head coach, San Francisco, Minnesota Vikings LBS Coach and Special Assistant to the Head Coach

New Orleans Saints Offensive Tackle

2011 1st Round NFL Draft Pick, DL for the Cleveland Browns

Milwaukee Bucks power forward

3rd round pick in the 2010 NFL draft by Denver Broncos

Olympic gold medalist

2011 1st Round NFL Draft Pick, OL for the Philadelpia Eagles

2012 1st Round NFL Draft Pick, WR for the Tennessee Titans

All-Star forward for the San Antonio Silver Stars