This is a list of the people born in, residents of, or associated with the city of
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fayetteville () is the second-largest city in Arkansas, the county seat of Washington County, and the biggest city in Northwest Arkansas. The city is on the outskirts of the Boston Mountains, deep within the Ozarks. Known as Washington until ...
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Television and movies
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Lisa Blount
Lisa Suzanne Blount (July 1, 1957 – October 27, 2010) was an American film and television actress, and Academy Award-winning producer.
Early life
Blount was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Margaret Louise Martin and Glen Roscoe Blount, ...
, actress and Oscar-winning producer
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Brent Bradshaw Brent Bradshaw is a television writer and performer who has contributed to such programs as The Man Show, The MTV Movie Awards, Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, The Andy Milonakis Show, Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, and NBC's Last Call with Carson ...
, writer and performer
* TJ Holmes, CNN anchor
* Jason Moore, director of 2004 Tony Award Best Musical ''
Avenue Q
''Avenue Q'' is a musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty. It won Best Musical, Book, and Score at the 2004 Tony Awards. The show's format is a parody of PBS' ...
''
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Mary Kate Wiles
Mary Kate Wiles (born March 28, 1987) is an American film and web series actress. She is known for her award-winning portrayal as Ally in the film ''The Sound and the Shadow'', in web series such as Lydia Bennet in the Emmy-winning ''Pride and ...
Ronnie Brewer
Ronnie Brewer (born March 20, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player. Brewer played collegiately at the University of Arkansas, where his father Ron Brewer was a star in the late 1970s. Brewer is known for having an unorthodo ...
, former Arkansas Razorback and NBA player
* Blake Parker, former Arkansas Razorback and MLB pitcher
* Wallace Spearmon, former Arkansas Razorback and Olympic sprinter
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Payton Willis
Payton Terrell Willis (born January 31, 1998) is an American basketball player for Hapoel Gilboa Galil in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores, the Minnesota Golden Gophers of the Big T ...
(born 1998), basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making ...
Authors and poets
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Fleda Brown
Fleda Brown (born 1944 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson.
Biography
Fleda Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 1978 she joined the Universi ...
Ellen Gilchrist
Ellen Gilchrist (born February 20, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories, ''Victory Over Japan''.
Life
Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, a ...
E. Lynn Harris
E. Lynn Harris ( Everette Lynn Jeter; June 20, 1955 – July 23, 2009) was an American author. Openly gay, he was best known for his depictions of African-American men who were on the down-low and closeted. He authored ten consecutive books th ...
Douglas C. Jones
Douglas Clyde Jones (December 6, 1924 – August 30, 1998) was an American author of historical fiction, including alternative history fiction. As a boy, he had lived for a time in Fort Smith, Arkansas, adjacent to former Indian territory.
Dougla ...
John Edward Williams
John Edward Williams (August 29, 1922 – March 3, 1994) was an American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels ''Butcher's Crossing'' (1960), '' Stoner'' (1965), and ''Augustus'' (1972),Miller Williams, poet
Musicians
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Cate Brothers
The Cate Brothers are an American singer-songwriter-musician duo of twin brothers from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Earl and Ernest "Ernie" Cate (born December 26, 1942). In the mid-1960s, they became performers of country soul music at clubs and da ...
Lance Eads
Lance Ronaco Eads (born August 5, 1968) is an American politician who served as a member of the Arkansas Senate for the 7th district from 2017 to 2021.
Education
After graduating from Prairie Grove High School, Eads earned a Bachelor of Scien ...
Arkansas House of Representatives
The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the ...
for Washington County since 2015; former resident
* J. William Fulbright, former U.S. Senator
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John W. Grabiel
John Willington Grabiel (March 17, 1867 – April 13, 1928) was an attorney in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1922 and 1924.
Background
Grabiel was one of nine children born to John Grabiel (1815 ...
, 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 from 1868 to 1874, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Washington County from 1854 to 1856
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Grant Hodges
Grant Hodges is an American politician. He served as a Republican member for the 96th district of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
Born in Ozark, Missouri. Hodges attended the University of Arkansas, where he earned a bachelor's degree an ...
, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Benton County since 2015; former Fayetteville resident
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Jim House
James William House (September 14, 1948 – December 5, 2018) was an American farmer and a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas.
Biography
House was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and moved in 1957 to Washington County, Arkans ...
, Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
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Ben Hulse
Benjamin Harrison Hulse (1894–1961) was a California politician. He represented the 39th district in the California State Senate for 12 years, including two years (1955–56) as Senate President Pro Tem. He was a Republican.
Personal l ...
, member of the
California State Senate
The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature, the lower house being the California State Assembly. The State Senate convenes, along with the State Assembly, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, Cal ...
, born and reared near Fayetteville
* Dustin McDaniel, former
Attorney General of Arkansas
The Attorney General of Arkansas, usually known simply as the Attorney General (AG), is one of Arkansas's seven constitutional officers. The officeholder serves as the state's top law enforcement officer and consumer advocate. Since January 1 ...
* David Pryor, former Arkansas governor and former U.S. senator
* Mark Pryor, former U.S. Senator
Other
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David A. Bednar
David Allan Bednar (born June 15, 1952) is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). A former educator, Bednar was president of Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho) fro ...
George W. Bond
George William Bond (April 6, 1891 – May 14, 1974) was president of two public universities in Louisiana, Louisiana Tech in Ruston and Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, in the first half of the 20th century.
Background, educat ...
Boogie2988
Steven Jay Williams (born July 24, 1974), better known by his online alias Boogie2988 or just Boogie, is an American YouTuber best known for his video rants about video games and nerd culture as a character named "Francis".
Early life and edu ...
Richard O. Covey
Richard Oswalt Covey (born August 1, 1946) is a retired United States Air Force officer, former NASA astronaut, and a member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Early life
Born August 1, 1946, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he considers Fo ...
SubGenius
The Church of the SubGenius is a parody religion that satirizes better-known belief systems. It teaches a complex philosophy that focuses on J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, purportedly a salesman from the 1950s, who is revered as a prophet by the Church. Sub ...
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E. Fay Jones
Euine Fay Jones (January 31, 1921 – August 30, 2004) was an American architect and designer. An apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright during his professional career, Jones is the only one of Wright's disciples to have received the AIA Gold Medal (19 ...
John H. Pruitt
John Henry Pruitt (October 4, 1896 – October 4, 1918) was a United States Marine during World War I and is one of only 19 people who have received two Medals of Honor.
Biography
John Henry Pruitt was born on October 4, 1896, in Fayette ...
Martin R. Steele
Martin R. Steele (born 15 September 1946) is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. He served in combat during the Vietnam War and in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He served for 35 years in the Marine Corps be ...
, served 35 years in the Marine Corps, now president and CEO of the
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
The ''Intrepid'' Sea, Air & Space Museum is an American military and maritime history museum in New York City with a collection of museum ships. It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street, along the Hudson River, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhoo ...
in New York City
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Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone (March 9, 1902 – August 6, 1978) was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. His works include the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, the Museo de A ...
Donald Roller Wilson
Donald Roller Wilson (born 1938) is an American artist, known for his paintings of people and anthropomorphized chimpanzees, orangutans, cats, and dogs, set in southern gothic
Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of fiction, country m ...