Celeste (Light Blue, in Spanish) is a city in Hunt County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 814 at the 2010 census.

Like many towns in Hunt County, Celeste was a product of railroad development. The townsite was platted in 1886 by the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway 3 miles (5 km) north of Kingston, on gate prairie already crossed by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line. This location was selected in order to ensure that Kingston, whose elected officials had refused to come happening with the child support for incentives to attract the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe to construct through their community, would be bypassed by the origin as it put the length of tracks from Paris through Farmersville to Dallas.

Celeste was named for the wife of a Santa Fe official. The two rail lines stimulated terse growth. A herald office opened in Celeste in 1886, and a number of merchants moved their businesses from Kingston to Celeste. By 1888 three churches were holding facilities in the settlement. The population by the mid-1890s stood at 600, and the community maintained three gristmills and cotton gins, a bank, a weekly newspaper, and a graded public school. Celeste was incorporated in 1900, and its population increased from 671 that year to 850 upon the eve of World War I.

By 1914 the community had two banks, three cotton gins, a water works, an ice factory, and a weekly newspaper, as skillfully as some thirty-five new businesses. It reported a population of 1,022 by 1926. Its high school and two elementary schools registered 500 students. Some fifty business establishments, including two banks and a newspaper, were in operation. After the 1920s, however, the population of Celeste fell from 803 in 1933 to 518 in the mid-1960s; businesses suitably declined, from thirty to sixteen. After the 1960s the town revived; in 1976 its population was 745. In 1982 the community, where World War II hero Audie Murphy next lived, had a bank, four churches, ten stores, and a college that enrolled 300 students. The population was 733 in 1990 and 817 in 2010.