Houston is the fourth-most populous city in the United States and the most populous in the state of Texas, named after Sam Houston, a 19th century Texan statesman.
Houston may also refer to:
Places
United States
- Houston, Alabama, an unincorporated community
- Houston, Alaska, a city
- Houston, Arkansas, a town
- Houston, Delaware, a town
- Houston, Florida, a place in Suwannee County
- Houston, Georgia, an unincorporated community
- Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois
- Houston, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Houston, Minnesota, a city
- Houston Township, Houston County, Minnesota
- Houston, Mississippi, a city
- Houston, Missouri, a city
- Houston, Nebraska, an unincorporated community
- Houston, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
- Houston Street, Manhattan, New York City
- Houston, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Houston, Pennsylvania, a borough
- Houston, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
- Houston station (Texas), an Amtrak intercity train station
- Lake Houston, Texas, a reservoir and primary municipal water supply for the city of Houston
- North Houston (disambiguation)
- Houston County (disambiguation)
- Houston Street (disambiguation)
Elsewhere
- Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland — village
- Canada:
- Houston, British Columbia, Canada — town
- Houston (British Columbia) railway station
People
- Sam Houston, Texan politician and statesman
- Houston (surname)
- Houston (given name)
- Clan Houston, a Scottish clan
- Houston (actress), American pornographic actress
- Houston (singer), R&B singer Houston Edward Summers IV (born 1983)
Music
- Houston (album), a 1965 album by Dean Martin
- "Houston" (song), a track on the album written by Lee Hazlewood
- Houston (I'm Comin' to See You), 1974 album by Glen Campbell, with corresponding song as its lead track
- "Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You)", a 1983 song by Larry Gatlin and The Gatlin Brothers Band
- "Houston", a song from the 1998 album El Oso by Soul Coughing
- "Houston", a 2008 song from Accelerate by R.E.M.
- "Houston", a 2008 song by Snob Scrilla
Schools
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas
- Houston Cougars the athletic teams for the university
- Houston Baptist University, Houston Texas
- Houston Community College, with campuses in Texas
- Houston High School (disambiguation)
- Houston Academy for International Studies, a charter school in Houston, Texas
Tournaments
- Shell Houston Open, a golf tournament on the PGA Tour
- Houston Open (early PGA Tour), played from 1922 to 1938
- Houston Open (darts)
Other uses
- Houston station (disambiguation), stations of the name
- USS Houston, various US Navy ships
- Houston's Restaurant, a steakhouse chain
- Houston instruments, a company
- Houston, the radio call sign for NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center
- Houston, we have a problem, a quote by astronaut Jack Swigert
- The Houstons: On Our Own, a 2012 American reality documentary television series about Whitney Houston's family
See also
- Heuston, a surname
- Hoston, Trøndelag, a village in Trøndelag county, Norway
- Lucy, Lady Houston (1857-1936), British philanthropist, suffragette and political activist
- Houstoun, a surname
- Huston (disambiguation)