# List of people from Fayetteville, Arkansas

This is a list of people who were born in, have been residents of, or are otherwise associated with the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas.

## Television and movies

* Lisa Blount, actress and Oscar-winning producer
* Brent Bradshaw, writer and performer
* TJ Holmes, CNN anchor
* Jason Moore, director of 2004 Tony Award Best Musical Avenue Q
* Maddy Morphosis, drag queen contestant of the fourteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race
* Mary Kate Wiles, actress and producer

## Sports

* Ronnie Brewer, former Arkansas Razorback and NBA player
* Blake Parker, former Arkansas Razorback and MLB pitcher
* Wallace Spearmon, former Arkansas Razorback and Olympic sprinter
* Payton Willis (born 1998), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League

## Authors and poets

* Fleda Brown, poet and author
* Richard Corben, comic book artist for Heavy Metal
* Ellen Gilchrist, novelist
* Donald Harington, author
* E. Lynn Harris, author of ten consecutive The New York Times Best Seller list books
* Joan Hess, author of the Claire Malloy and Arly Hanks mystery series
* George Johnson, science writer and author
* Douglas C. Jones, historical fiction author
* John Rollin Ridge, first Native American novelist
* John Edward Williams, novelist and poet
* Miller Williams, poet

## Musicians

* Cate Brothers, singer-songwriter musician duo
* Ronnie Hawkins, rockabilly musician
* Nick Shoulders, country musician
* Lucinda Williams, Grammy Award-winning songwriter and daughter of Miller Williams

## Government

* Jim Bryson, member of the Tennessee Senate from District 23
* Bill Clinton, 42nd U.S. president and former Arkansas governor
* Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State, First Lady, and U.S. senator
* Lance Eads, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Washington County since 2015; former resident
* J. William Fulbright, former U.S. senator
* John W. Grabiel, Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1922 and 1924; Ohio native, attorney in Fayetteville until his death in 1928
* Lafayette Gregg, associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court 1868–1874, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Washington County 1854–1856
* Grant Hodges, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Benton County since 2015; former Fayetteville resident
* Jim House, Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
* Ben Hulse, member of the California State Senate, born and reared near Fayetteville
* Dustin McDaniel, former Attorney General of Arkansas
* David Pryor, former Arkansas governor and former U.S. senator
* Mark Pryor, former U.S. senator

## Other

* David A. Bednar, former professor at the University of Arkansas; member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* George W. Bond, educator and former president of Louisiana Tech University
* Boogie2988, YouTuber; 2016 Game Award winner voted as Trending Gamer of 2016
* Maurice Britt, decorated World War II veteran
* Sarah Caldwell, opera director, impresario, and stage director
* Admiral Vern E. Clark, chief of Naval Operation, US Navy
* Richard O. Covey, retired U.S. Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut
* J.R. Bob Dobbs, reclusive figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius
* E. Fay Jones, architect
* James Duard Marshall, artist
* John H. Pruitt, World War I soldier, one of only nineteen men to receive the Medal of Honor twice
* Savvy Shields, Miss America 2017
* Martin R. Steele, served 35 years in the Marine Corps, now president and CEO of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City
* Edward Durell Stone, architect
* Bud Walton, Wal-Mart co-founder
* Weev, computer hacker
* Donald Roller Wilson, artist