Notable Alumni
- Lloyd L. Burke 1950, Medal of Honor recipient
- Osro Cobb, Republican politician and lawyer
- Lynn A. Davis, lecturer, crime author, head of Arkansas state police, former candidate for Arkansas secretary of state
- Ken Duke, professional golfer
- Neal Sox Johnson (Class of 1955), first executive director of the Arkansas Republican Party; later official with the former Farmers Home Administration
- David Kerr – World Champion Collegiate Debater
- Gus Malzahn, 1990, American football coach and current head football coach for Arkansas State University
- John P. McConnell, 1927, General and Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
- Sid McMath, two-term governor of Arkansas
- James Hollis "Jim" Morris, 1976, Republican member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives
- Aaron Owens, 1999, former AND1 Mixtape Tour basketball player
- Reggie Ritter, 1982, former professional baseball player
- G. Lloyd Spencer, United States Senator from Arkansas
- Robert Thomas, former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys
- Jerry Thomasson, state representative
- Billy Bob Thornton, (attended), Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor as well as occasional director, playwright and singer.
- C. Vann Woodward, 1959, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University; Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
- Roy Green, 1979, former American football wide receiver in the National Football League
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