People

Eugene Hardeman Abington (1873–1965)
Eugene Hardeman (E. H.) Abington, a physician, practiced medicine and pharmacy in Arkansas and Oklahoma for mo...
William Henry Abington (1870–1951)
William Henry (W. H.) Abington, a physician and a Democratic politician, served as a state senator and a state...
Lucien Abraham (1902–1960)
Lucien Abraham was an Arkansas educator and military officer who rose to the rank of adjutant general of the A...
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams (1931–)
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams is a retired educator and a political, social, civic, and community activist in Li...
Benjamin Frank Adair (1852–1902)
Benjamin Frank Adair, born a slave in Phillips County, established a legal practice in central Arkansas in the...
Charles William Adams (1817–1878)
Charles William Adams served as a Confederate general in Arkansas. A planter and lawyer from Helena (Phillips ...
Elizabeth Lucille (Betty Lu) Hunter Sorensen Adams (1926–)
Elizabeth Lucille (Betty Lu) Hunter Sorensen Adams was a pioneer occupational therapist at Arkansas Children�...
Joey Lauren Adams (1968–)
Joey Lauren Adams, a North Little Rock (Pulaski County) native, is an actress, writer, and director. Adams has...
Julie Adams (1926–2019)
aka: Betty May Adams
Betty May “Julie” Adams was an actress who made more than fifty...
Samuel Adams (1805–1850)
Samuel Adams served as acting governor of Arkansas from April 29, 1844, to November 9, 1844. As president of t...
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins (1884–1973)
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins devoted most of her considerable energy and talents as a teacher, writer, composer, ...
Homer Martin Adkins (1890–1964)
Governor Homer Martin Adkins stands as a symbol of many Arkansans’ ambivalence about the growing power of th...
Richard B. Adkisson (1932–2011)
Richard B. Adkisson was a prominent figure in the Arkansas legal community in the latter part of the twentieth...
Cyrus Adler (1863–1940)
Cyrus Adler was a scholar, editor, and Jewish leader with a lifetime commitment to the study of Jewish history...
Simon Adler (1832–1904)
Simon Adler, born in Bavaria in 1832 (according to his tombstone), was one of the first Jewish immigrants to s...
Sarah Edith Sonneman Agee (1946–)
Sarah Agee of Prairie Grove (Washington County) served as a state representative in the Eighty-second, E...
Tony Alamo (1934–2017)
aka: Tony Alamo Christian Ministries
Tony Alamo was a well-known evangelist who, after a radical convers...
Edwin Boyd Alderson Jr. (1940–2017)
Edwin Alderson Jr. became a prominent lawyer, jurist, and businessman in Arkansas in the late twentieth centur...
Harold Edward Alexander (1909–1993)
Harold Edward Alexander was a conservationist and stream preservationist who was a proponent of conservation a...
Henry McMillan Alexander (1905–1969)
Henry McMillan Alexander brought the city manager plan to Arkansas and served as an adviser to many state agen...
John Hanks Alexander (1864–1894)
John Hanks Alexander was the second African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Po...
Larry Dell Alexander (1953–2021)
Larry Dell Alexander was a visual artist, writer, and Bible teacher best known for his elaborate pen-and-ink d...
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. (1934–)
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. represented the state of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives fro...
Boyce Alford (1923–2002)
Boyce Alford was a well-respected optometrist who also had a long career in public service. Active at both the...
Thomas Dale Alford (1916–2000)
Thomas Dale Alford was a prominent Arkansas ophthalmologist, Episcopalian, radio announcer, civic leader, and ...
Charles Wilson Allbright (1929–2015)
Charles Wilson Allbright was one of the best-known and most widely read newspaper columnists in Arkansas. Allb...
Al Allen (1925–2008)
aka: Alvin Lee Allen Jr.
Alvin Lee (Al) Allen Jr. was a painter whose contributions to Arkan...
Dick Allen (1942–2020)
aka: Richard Anthony Allen
Richard Anthony “Dick” Allen—or “Richie” Allen, as the me...
Dorathy N. McDonald Allen (1910–1990)
Dorathy N. McDonald Allen was the first woman to serve in the Arkansas Senate, serving from 1964 to 1974 in th...
Gerald Byron Alley (1952–)
Gerald Byron Alley is the founder of Con-Real, LP, which is the leading black-owned construction and real esta...
Richard Allin (1930–2007)
Richard Allin was a journalist and humorist who for thirty years wrote the popular “Our Town” column for t...
Luther Allison (1939–1997)
Blues guitarist and singer Luther Allison was born in Arkansas, but like many of his contemporaries in the rur...
Fred Allsopp (1867–1946)
Frederick William Allsopp was a newspaperman, book collector, and bookstore owner who was an important player ...
John Parks Almand (1885–1969)
John Parks Almand worked as an architect in Arkansas for fifty years, beginning in 1912. A number of his commi...
Benjamin Joseph Altheimer Sr. (1878–1946)
Benjamin Joseph Altheimer Sr. was a lawyer and philanthropist who was known as a “real trailblazer” in pro...
Joshua Altheimer (1911–1940)
Joshua Altheimer was one of the Delta’s most prolific blues pianists. Altheimer mastered the emerging boogi...
Catherine Tharp Altvater (1907–1984)
Catherine Tharp Altvater was a nationally known watercolorist whose works were shown in numerous museums, incl...
Lance Dwight "Bambi" Alworth (1940–)
An All-American football player at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County) in 1961...
Freda Hogan Ameringer (1892–1988)
Freda Hogan Ameringer was a journalist, Socialist Party official, and labor activist in Sebastian County; she...
Evelyn Ammons (1937–2017)
Evelyn Ammons was county and circuit clerk for Scott County from 1979 to 1994 and served in the 80th, 81st, an...
Ernest Guy Amsler (1895–1986)
Ernest Guy Amsler, who was born and educated in Mississippi, moved to southern Arkansas with a law degree afte...
"Broncho Billy" Anderson (1880–1971)
aka: Gilbert Maxwell Aronson
“Broncho Billy” Anderson was the stage name of Gilbert Maxwell ...
Bruce Roy Anderson (1907–1985)
Bruce Roy Anderson was a prominent Arkansas architect and watercolorist in the mid-twentieth century. Bruce An...
Daisy Anderson (1900?-1998)
Educator, author, and lecturer Daisy Graham Anderson is best known for being one of the last surviving widows ...
Frederick Tanqueray Anderson (1846–1926)
Frederick Tanqueray Anderson was an early twentieth-century Arkansas watercolorist. Categorized as a romantic ...
Joel Edward Anderson (1942–)
Joel Anderson was a major figure at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock) for over four d...
Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829–1923)
As a Union brigadier general, Christopher Columbus Andrews distinguished himself in numerous military campaign...
Glen Andrews (1931–)
Glen Daniel Andrews Sr. is considered one of the all-time great professional bass anglers. Bobby Murray, two-t...
Lloyd Andrews (1906–1992)
aka: Arkansas Slim
aka: Slim Andrews
Lloyd “Arkansas Slim” Andrews was best known for film roles as ...
Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
aka: Marguerite Annie Johnson
Maya Angelou was an internationally renowned bestselling author, po...
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. (1938–)
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. is a long-time Arkansas public servant and an alumnus of the University of Arkansas...
Joseph J. Anthony (1780?–1837)
Joseph J. Anthony, a soldier, politician, and Arkansas pioneer, fell victim to one of the most extraordinary a...
Katharine Susan Anthony (1877–1965)
Katharine Susan Anthony was suffragist, feminist, pacifist, socialist, and author of feminist and psychologica...
Richard Nott Antrim (1907–1969)
Richard Nott Antrim was a career U.S. Navy officer who received a Medal of Honor for saving the life of a fell...
Jack Appleby (1907–1974)
aka: John Tate Appleby
Arkansas native John Tate (Jack) Appleby was a biographer of Englis...
Jesse Walter Arbor (1914–2000)
Serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Arkansas native Jesse Walter Arbor became one of the first thirt...
James Arcene (1862?–1885)
James Arcene, a Cherokee man, was sentenced to death for a crime he committed years before. While aspects of h...
James Buckingham (Jim) Argue Jr. (1951–2018)
James Buckingham (Jim) Argue Jr. became a political and religious leader in Arkansas in the later part of the ...
Ralph Waldo Armstrong III (1925–2006)
Ralph Waldo Armstrong III photographed the African-American community of Little Rock (Pulaski County) for more...
David Love Armstrong (1941–2017)
David L. Armstrong was born in Arkansas but had a long and distinguished career in Kentucky law and politics, ...
Bob “Sody” Arnold (1943–2017)
Bob “Sody” Arnold was a longtime Arkansas state legislator, representing Clark County in the Arkansas Gene...
Mary Ann Ritter Arnold (1927–2017)
Mary Ann Ritter Arnold became president of E. Ritter & Company, one of the most successful family-owned bu...
Morris Sheppard "Buzz" Arnold (1941–)
Morris Sheppard “Buzz” Arnold is a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The U...