List of people from Fayetteville, Arkansas explained

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

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

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

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

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

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^[1]
Donald Roller Wilson, artist