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 who has used the ring name Booker T.