John Paul Capps (born April 17, 1934) is one of the longest-serving members of the state legislature in Arkansas. Capps began his career in the late 1950s as a news anchor for KTHV, the CBS affiliate in Little Rock, Arkansas. He then moved to radio, working as a news announcer, DJ, and station manager at in Searcy, Arkansas. He later started his own radio stations, KAPZ and KKSY.