• The Cuellars, owners of El Chico Restaurants
• John Summerfield Griffith
• Actor and Comedian Jamie Foxx
• William P. King
• Charles Earnest Lee Nash, aka Ted Healy, Creator of "The Three Stooges"
• Jonathan O. Terrell
• Harry L. Whittenberg aka "Vinegar Roan" -- an early actor/stuntman in westerns

The Handbook of TX OnLine lists the following people as having ties to Kaufman County:

• ADAMS, JED COBB (1876-1935)
• ALLEN, FRANCES DAISY EMERY
• BECKWORTH, LINDLEY GARRISON
• CUELLAR, ADELAIDA (1871-1969)
• DAUGHERTY, JACAMIAH SEAMAN (1849-1919)
• DILLARD, JAMES ELIZER (1830-1913)
• GREEN, EDWARD HOWLAND ROBINSON
• GRESHAM, ISAAC NEWTON (1858-1906)
• GRIFFITH, JOHN SUMMERFIELD (1829-1901)
• KING, WILLIAM P. (ca. 1801-1841)
• NOBLES, MILLARD CLINTON (1856-1943)
• PERRY, LOUIS CLAUSIEL
• QUAESTAD, CARL ENGEBRETS
• RAINS, JAMES SPENCER
• REAUGH, CHARLES FRANKLIN
• TERRELL, CHESTER H.
• TERRELL, J. O. (1856-1923)
• TULLIS, CORAL HORTON
• WARE, WILLIAM
• WOOTEN, MATTIE LLOYD IRVIN
• WYNNE, ANGUS GILCHRIST, SR.