Simon Adler, born in Bavaria in 1832 (according to his tombstone), was one of the first Jewish immigrants to s...

Edwin Alderson Jr. became a prominent lawyer, jurist, and businessman in Arkansas in the late twentieth centur...

Gerald Byron Alley is the founder of Con-Real, LP, which is the leading black-owned construction and real esta...

Glen Daniel Andrews Sr. is considered one of the all-time great professional bass anglers. Bobby Murray, two-t...

Mary Ann Ritter Arnold became president of E. Ritter & Company, one of the most successful family-owned bu...

Chester Ashley was prominent in territorial and antebellum Arkansas. He was involved in the dispute over owner...

Jacob Barkman is known as the father of Clark County. An early settler along the Caddo River, Barkman eventual...

Frederick Wallace Bartell was a Siloam Springs (Benton County) merchant, church leader, and Circuit Chautauqua...

Colonel Thomas H. Barton, a pioneer El Dorado (Union County) oilman and philanthropist, launched his small Lio...

George F. Baucum was a Confederate officer and a Little Rock (Pulaski County) businessman. He served in many m...

Roswell Beebe was the first benefactor of the city of Little Rock (Pulaski County); the town of Beebe (White C...

Alvin Silas (Al) Bennett was a recording industry executive best known for his tenure as president and directo...

Adolph Bertig, a Jewish immigrant, was one of the leading merchants and financiers in northeastern Arkansas an...

Sylvanus Walker Blackburn is noted for building the first gristmill in Benton County, locating his mill on War...

Gus Blass was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Arkansas and became one of the state’s most successful merch...

Josiah Homer Blount was a successful African-American businessman who, in 1920, became the first Black per...

Scott Winfield Bond was a successful landowner, farmer, and businessman at a time when the total number of Afr...

Prominent businessman and entrepreneur Ulysses Simpson (U. S.) Bond, like his father and brothers, was a membe...

William Harvey Bowen was a senior partner in Arkansas’s largest law firm, president of the state’s largest...

John F. Boyle Jr. was a Little Rock (Pulaski County) businessman and philanthropist whose name survives in the...

Jay Bradford is an Arkansas businessman and government official. A longtime member of the Arkansas General Ass...

Benton Douglas Brandon Jr. was a legislator, businessman, and civic leader who brought a business presence int...

Jacob Brown was an important but often overlooked figure in Arkansas’s territorial and early statehood perio...

Samuel Thompson Busey was a 1920s oil speculator and promoter of the Arkansas oil industry. While originally t...

John Edward Bush, a chairman of the Republican Party in Arkansas, rose from poverty to national prominence whe...

Lewis Williamson Cherry was an important businessman in Little Rock (Pulaski County) who founded several enter...

Faye Clarke co-founded the Educate the Children Foundation, which was created to support rural and impoverishe...

John C. Claybrook was a lumberman, farmer, baseball team owner, and one of the most successful African America...