A number of people named Booker T have been well-known throughout history:

• Booker T. Washington, author
• Booker T Jones, musician and frontman of Booker T. & the M.G.'s
• In the novel Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein, Mr. Booker T. W. Jones was an astronaut who died on the planet Mars.
• Booker Huffman, professional wrestler, uses the stage name Booker T.