List of people from Arkansas

Individuals on this list are either native-born Arkansans or emigrants who have chosen Arkansas as their permanent home.

Table of contents

1 Actors/Actresses 2 Artists 3 Athletes 4 Authors 5 Business Leaders 6 Celebrities 7 Legal Leaders 8 Military Figures 9 Musicians 10 Poets 11 Political Figures 12 Social Figures 13 Other Arkansans

Actors/Actresses

• Ladd, Alan, (1913-1964), actor
• Powell, Dick, (1904-1963), actor
• Steenburgen, Mary, (1953- ), actress
• Thornton, Billy Bob, (1955- ), actor

• Washburn, Edward - (1831-1860), painter of 'The Arkansas Traveler'

• Brock, Lou, (1939- ), professional athlete (baseball)
  
• Broyles, Frank, (1924- ), football coach
  
• Bryant, Paul 'Bear', (1913-1983), football coach
  
• Daly, John, (1966- ), professional athlete (golf)
  
• Dean, Dizzy, (1910-1974), professional athlete (baseball)
  
• Jim Hines, (1946- ), amateur athlete, track and field
  
• Hunter, Torii, (1975- ), professional athlete (baseball)
  
• Moncrief, Sidney, (1957- ), professional athlete (basketball)
  
• Pippen, Scottie, (1965- ), professional athlete (basketball)
  
• Switzer, Barry, (1937- ), football coach

• Brown, Dee, (1908-2002), author, historian
• Brown, Helen Gurley, (1922- ), author, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine
• Nancy A. Collins, author
• Grisham, John, (1955- ), author
• Simon, Charlie May, (1897-1977), children's author
• Woodward, C. Vann - (1908-1999), historian

• Walton, Sam, (1918-1992), founder of Wal-Mart Inc.
• Wilson, Kemmons, (1913-2003), Holiday Inn hotel founder

• Gracen, Elizabeth Ward, (1960- ), Miss America, actress
• Hicks, Bill, (1961-1994), comedian

• Jones, Scipio Africanus, (1863-1943), African-American attorney

• Beall, William N.R, (1825-1883), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• Borland, Solon, (1808-1864), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• Cabell, William L, (1827-1911), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• Churchill, Thomas J, (1824-1905), Confederate Major General
  
• Clark, Wesley, (1944- ), US Army General, NATO Commander
  
• Cleburne, Patrick, (1828-1864), Confederate Major General
  
• Conway, James, ( - ), US Marine Corps Lieutenant General
  
• Dockery, Thomas P, (1833-1898), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• Fagan James F, (1827-1893), Confederate Major General
  
• Govan, Daniel C, (1829-1911), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• Hawthorn, Alexander T, (1825-1899), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• Hindman, Thomas, (1828-1868), US Congressman and Confederate Major General
  
• Holbrook, Lucius Roy, (1875-1952), US Major General
  
• Izard, George, (1776-1828), US Army General, War of 1812
• Kindley, Field E, (1896-1920), World War I flying ace
• MacArthur, Douglas, (1880-1964), US General of the Army, MOH recipient
  
• McNair, Evander, (1820-1902), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• McRae, Dandridge, (1829-1899), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• Pike, Albert, (1809-1891), Confederate General, Freemason
  
• Thach, John, (1905-1981), US Navy Admiral, WWII flying ace
  
• Roane, John S, (1817-1867), Brigadier General
  
• Rust, Albert, (1818-1870), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• Tappan, James C, (1825-1906), Confederate Brigadier General
  
• Yell, Archibald, (1797-1847), Brigadier General, killed at Buena Vista during Mexican War

• Campbell, Glen, (1936- ), country singer, songwriter, and actor
  
• Cash, Johnny, (1932-2003), country singer and songwriter
  
• Driftwood, Jimmy, (1907-1998), folk musician/songwriter, wrote The Battle of New Orleans
• Faulkner, Sanford, (1806-1874), wrote fiddle tune 'Arkansas Traveler'
• Green, Al, (1946- ), singer
  
• Jordan, Louis - jazz musician and bandleader (1908-1975)
• Lockwood, Robert Jr, (1915- ), blues musician
• Moorman, Charlotte, (1933-1991), cellist, performance artist
• Nancarrow, Conlon, (1912-1997), composer
  
• Still, William Grant, (1895-1978), composer
  
• Taylor, Johnnie, (1938-2000), vocalist
• Williamson, Sonny Boy, (abt 1908-1965), Blues musician

• Angelou, Maya, (1928- ), author, poet
  
• Fletcher, John Gould, (1886-1950), poet

• Borland, Solon, (1808-1864), US Senator
  
• Caraway, Hattie, (1878-1951), first woman US Senator
  
• Clinton, Bill, (1946- ), President of the United States
  
• Conway, Henry W, (1793-1827), Territorial Delegate
  
• Fulbright, J. William, (1905-1995), US Senator
  
• Heiskell, John, (1872-1972), US Senator and newspaper publisher
  
• Johnson, Robert W, (1814-1879), US and CS Senator
  
• Faubus, Orval, (1910-1994), Governor of Arkansas
  
• Garland, Augustus H, (1832-1899), U.S. Attorney General
  
• Lincoln, Blanche, (1960- ), current US Senator
• McClellan, John L, (1896-1977), Chairman Senate Appropriations Committee
  
• Mills, Wilbur, (1909-1992), Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee
  
• Murphy, Isaac, (1799-1882), Governor of Arkansas
  
• Pryor, Mark, (1963- ), current US Senator
  
• Snyder, Vic, (1947- ), current US Representative
  
• Robinson, Joseph T, (1872-1937), Senate Majority Leader and Vice Presidential candidate
  
• Rockefeller, Winthrop, (1912-1973), Governor of Arkansas
  
• Sevier, Ambrose H, (1801-1848), US Senator, Father of Arkansas Statehood
  
• Witt, James Lee, (1944- ), FEMA Director

Social Figures

• Bates, Daisy, (1914-1999), civil rights leader
• Cleaver, Eldridge, (1935-1998), activist
• Elders, Joycelyn, (1933- ), US Surgeon General
• Hill, Robert L, (1892-?), black leader at Elaine Race Riot
• Thaden, Louise, (1905-1979), aviation pioneer
• Washburn, Cephas, (1793-1860), Indian missionary

• Members of Evanescence, Goth metal band