official portrait, 116th Congress •
Shirley "S.L." Abbott, Texas legislator and United States Ambassador •
Lucy G. Acosta (1926–2008), activist and political appointee. •
Oscar Zeta Acosta, attorney, writer •
Suzie Azar (born 1946), aviator, politician and first woman to serve as mayor of El Paso. •
Jeff Bingaman, former United States Senator •
Beau Boulter, politician •
Omar Bradley, Five Star General, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff •
Wernher von Braun, German Nazi rocket scientist •
Cornell William Brooks (born 1961), president of the NAACP •
Kathleen Cardone (born 1953), United States District Judge. •
Alicia R. Chacón (born 1938), first woman elected to office in the city of El Paso. •
Ann Day, politician •
Veronica Escobar, United States Representative. •
Albert Bacon Fall, politician •
Patrick G. Forrester, astronaut •
William J. Glasgow (1866–1967), US Army brigadier general, lived and worked in El Paso •
Mary González (born 1983), state representative. •
Ambrosio Guillen, Medal of Honor recipient, Medal of Honor recipient. •
Polly Harris (1924-1987), politician and theater enthusiast •
Victoriano Huerta, former President of Mexico •
Shoshana Johnson, POW •
Wayne Harold Johnson, Republican member of both houses, consecutively, of the
Wyoming State Legislature from 1993 to 2017; born in El Paso in 1942 •
Charles S. Kilburn. U.S. Army brigadier general •
Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo,
politician •
Thomas Calloway Lea Jr., attorney, judge, Mayor of El Paso (1915–1917) •
Barbara Lee, U.S. representative for California and mayor of
Oakland, California •
Oscar Leeser, Mayor of El Paso •
Virginia B. MacDonald, Illinois state legislator •
Adair Margo, Chairman, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities •
Susana Martinez, former Governor of
New Mexico •
Anson Mills, brigadier general, platted El Paso in 1859. •
Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. First woman to serve on the Supreme Court. •
John "Danny" Olivas, astronaut •
Beto O'Rourke, former member of the United States House of Representatives •
John "Black Jack" Pershing, General of the Armies •
Joseph C. Rodriguez, Medal of Honor recipient •
Paul Ray Smith, Medal of Honor recipient •
Gabe Vasquez, member of the United States House of Representatives •
Jack Vowell, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1995; construction company president in El Paso •
Richard C. White, member of the United States House of Representatives, WWII veteran, Marine •
Myra Carroll Winkler (1880-1963), first woman to hold elected office in El Paso County. ==Western history==