The Most Famous Person From Every Oklahoma County

🤠 Brad Pitt was born in Shawnee. Sam Walton was born in Kingfisher County. Under the one rule of this video, neither of them counts. Oklahoma has 77 counties, and every one of them believes it raised somebody special. This video crowns the most famous person RAISED in each county: a childhood there counts, a birth certificate doesn't. Some counties come up empty and get an open seat, and small towns like Erick, Bug Tussle, Commerce and Binger turn out people far bigger than the town. 🕒 CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:44 Panhandle and northwest counties 3:34 Southwest from Quanah to Bench 5:39 North-central and Jim Thorpe 8:09 Garth Brooks and central Oklahoma 10:08 South-central and Reba McEntire 12:48 Carl Albert to Carrie Underwood 15:34 Northeast, Mantle and Rogers 🔎 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN 🎬 Why Brad Pitt, Ron Howard and Sam Walton lose their counties 🦆 The Watonga man who was the voice of Donald Duck for half a century 🚀 The county that raised Gordon Cooper, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts 🎤 The cattle ranch near Chockie where Reba McEntire roped and rode before she sang ⚾ Why Mickey Mantle belongs to Ottawa County, not the town where he was born 🐎 The Oologah ranch kid so famous that the whole country stopped when his plane went down in Alaska 🔔 Subscribe to Oklahoma Backstory for the laws, places and stories behind the state. #Oklahoma #OklahomaHistory #FamousOklahomans