El Paso, Texas

El Paso is the county seat of El Paso County in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 563,662. El Paso — second only to San Diego, California, in size among all U.S. cities on the U.S.-Mexico border — lies opposite Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The two cities form a bi-national metropolitan area of approximately two million people, divided by the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte).

Notable Denizens

• Ted Bender
• Jimmy Carl Black
• Omar Bradley
• Lydia Cornell
• Norma Crane
• Sam Donaldson
• Adam Duritz
• Bobby Fuller
• Eddie Guerrero
• Sherman Hemsley
• John Wesley Hardin
• Don Haskins
• Juan Lazcano
• Tom Lea
• Cormac McCarthy
• Phil Ochs
• Sandra Day O'Connor
• Gary Perkins
• John J. Pershing
• Richard Ramirez
• John Rechy
• Debbie Reynolds
• Nolan Richardson
• Gene Roddenberry
• Irene Ryan
• Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor
• Lee Trevino
• Sergio Troncoso
• The Mars Volta
• Captain John L. Chapin
• Sparta