Tex

Tex or TEX may refer to:

People and fictional characters

• Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname
• Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer Joseph Arrington Jr.

Arts and entertainment

• Tex (novel), a 1979 novel by S. E. Hinton
• Tex (film), a 1982 film based on S.E. Hinton's novel, starring Matt Dillon
• Tex, an Italian comic book series by Sergio Bonelli Editore

Computing

• TeX, a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth and released in 1978
  • .tex, a file extension for TeX and LaTeX
• Text Executive Programming Language, introduced by Honeywell in 1979

Other uses

• TEX (explosive), an explosive chemical compound
• Tex (unit), a unit of measure for the linear mass density of fibers
• Nestlé Tex, a South African chocolate bar
• Tex, the robot mascot for the American audio company THX
• Enochian magic §§ The Thirty Æthyrs​ and TEX, the lowest spiritual plane or realm in the Renaissance Enochian magic system
• IATA airport code for Telluride Regional Airport

See also

• Big Tex, the icon of the annual State Fair of Texas
• Textainer Group Holdings, whose shipping containers are labeled "tex"
• Tekes (disambiguation)