List of people from Fayetteville, Arkansas
This is a list of the people born in, residents of, or associated with the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Television and movies
- Lisa Blount, actress and Oscar-winning producer
- Brent Bradshaw, writer and performer
- Don Elkins, Jr., journalist and broadcaster
- Bill Fagerbakke, award-winning actor
- TJ Holmes, CNN anchor
- Kelley Limp, wife of actor Scott Wolf and cast member on The Real World: New Orleans
- Jason Moore, director of 2004 Tony Award Best Musical Avenue Q
- Mary Kate Wiles, award-winning actress and producer
- Ed Wilson, President of FOX Television
Sports
- Lance Alworth, wide receiver, Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Mike Anderson, head basketball coach, University of Arkansas
- Ronnie Brewer, Chicago Bulls player
- Frank Broyles, player and coach, College Football Hall of Fame
- Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican Olympic multiple medalist sprinter
- Mike Conley, Sr., Olympic gold and silver medal-winning triple jumper
- Mike Conley, Jr., NBA player with the Memphis Grizzlies
- Alistair Ian Cragg, Irish Olympic distance runner
- John Daly, winner of two PGA major titles
- Butch Davis, former head football coach, University of North Carolina
- Jimmy Dykes, UA basketball player, ESPN analyst
- Tyson Gay, sprinter, 100 and 200 meters, U.S. Olympian and 3-time world champion
- Dan Hampton, defensive lineman, Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Jimmy Johnson, NFL head coach, two-time Super Bowl champion, TV commentator
- Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys
- Matt Jones, former wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars
- Cliff Lee, pitcher, 2008 AL Cy Young Award winner
- Darren McFadden, football player, 2006 and 2007 Heisman Trophy runner-up, Dallas Cowboys running back
- Tom Pagnozzi, professional baseball catcher
- Nolan Richardson, UA coach, College Basketball Hall of Fame
- Billy Ray Smith, football player, San Diego Chargers linebacker (1983–1992), radio co-host of The Scott and BR Show on XX Sports Radio
- Wallace Spearmon, sprinter, ranked third in the world by Track and Field News in 200 meters for 2006
- Pat Summerall, NFL placekicker and television sportscaster
- Barry Switzer, coach, College Football Hall of Fame, head coach of Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys
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, African-American gay 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 who graduated from Fayetteville High School and later died in Fayetteville
- 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, legendary rockabilly 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, former Arkansas governor, lived in Fayetteville while on the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School
- Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, former First Lady and U.S. Senator
- Lance Eads, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Washington County since 2015; former Fayetteville 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
- Grant Hodges, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Benton County since 2015; former Fayetteville resident
- 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
- Willis Ricketts, Republican candidate defeated by a landslide in the 1962 re-election of Governor Orval Faubus
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, former president of Louisiana Tech University[1]
- Maurice Britt, decorated World War II Veteran
- Sarah Caldwell, opera director, impresario, and stage director
- Admiral Vern E. Clark, Chief of Naval Operation, United States 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
- D.L. Dykes, Jr., United Methodist Church pastor and theologian
- E. Fay Jones, architect
- John H. Pruitt, World War I soldier, one of only nineteen men to receive the Medal of Honor twice
- 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[2]
- Donald Roller Wilson, artist
References
- ^ "George W. Bond". findagrave.com. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
- ^ Hacker in AT&T-iPad Security Case Arrested CBS News, Elinor Mills. June 15, 2010