Booker T 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 ring name Booker T.