Thornton, Billy Bob - Noted actor and director who achieved fame on "Hearts Afire" in the early 1990s and later as an award-winning director beginning with his movie Slingblade, which was based on a character he knew growing up in the Alpine community near Amity the first eight years of his life. He lived with his grandparents, Claude and Maude Faulkner at the time.

He later moved to Malvern. His father is buried at the Alpine Cemetery, where he and his former wife, Angelina Jolie also have plots. Thornton donated money to construct a chapel at the cemetery. Diffee, Agnes White - Noted Nazarene pastor, evangelist, and radio speaker. A native of Arkansas, Pastor Diffee was ordained in the Church of the Nazarene in 1919.

Her first full-time ministerial work was as pastor of the Amity (Arkansas) church, where a new stone church was built and paid for under her leadership. She went on to become nationally famous for her work. (See: https://web.archive.org/web/20091212101124/http://www.whwomenclergy.org/booklets/cloud_of_witnesses.php) Holloway, Rufus Emory - A noted writer, his Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative was the first biography of a major literary figure to win a Pulitzer Prize (1926).

Mr. Holloway, a native of Missouri and graduate of Hendrix College, taught English for two years at Amity High School.(See: http://www.bookrags.com/biography/rufus-emory-holloway-dlb/) Rowe, Truett E. - Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent killed in the line of duty on June 1, 1937, during an altercation with one Guy Osborne.

Rowe was born in Amity in 1904 and educated in the local schools. He joined the FBI in 1935. (See: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/hallhonor/rowe.htm) Teague, Bertha Frank - Noted high school basketball coach and member of the Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame; Oklahoma State University Alumni Association Hall of Fame; Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame; and Missouri Basketball Hall of Fame.

Born in Missouri, she attended the local public schools and graduated from Amity High School in 1924, before attending Oklahoma State University. (See: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TE002.html) ...end commented section -->