Alice Walton

It would be easy to reduce Alice Walton to a number, the richest woman in the world, a Walmart heiress. But what interests me is the choice she made with that fortune. By building a serious art museum in rural Arkansas, she pulled masterworks out of coastal institutions and put them within reach of people who'd never otherwise see them. Philanthropy is often vanity dressed as virtue, yet this feels like a real conviction about access. I respect a collector whose eye is as serious as her checkbook, and who bet on her hometown rather than her own prestige.

Name (English)

Alice Walton

Name (Japanese)

アリス・ウォルトン

Reading

ありす・うぉるとん

Born

October 2, 1949 (age 76)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

Origin

Newport, Arkansas, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur / philanthropist / art collector

University

Trinity University

Awards & achievements

• 2015 Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame

• Official sitehttp://alicewalton.org/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Walton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289571

Tags

• Arkansas
• entrepreneur
• philanthropist
• art collector

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.