The Most Famous Person From Every Arizona County

The most famous person from every Arizona county, all 15 of them, under one rule that throws out some of the biggest names born here: raised here, not born here. Arizona has a problem most states don't. So many people here were born somewhere else, and so many people born here grew up somewhere else, that a birth certificate tells you almost nothing. Stevie Nicks was born in Phoenix and grew up in other states. Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch on the New Mexico line. So this video runs on one rule: where you were raised is what counts. We go county by county through all 15, in five regions: the North Country, the East, the Southeast, the River West and the Valley. Each region sends one champion to a final five, and the final is decided on a plain yardstick: how many people outside Arizona would recognize them, by name or by face. It opens on a red-orange entrance beside the Phoenix Art Museum with a man's name on it, and it closes on whose name that is. Along the way you get the stories behind the names. An eleven-year-old who went out at midnight to cut down billboards on a Flagstaff highway. A future mayor of New York who played cornet in his father's Army band at Fort Whipple. A frontier historian who carried Arizona's electoral votes in a dress made of copper. A ranch girl who changed a flat tire alone in the desert at fourteen and grew up to sit on the Supreme Court. A Pima Marine from Sacaton in the most famous photograph of the Second World War. And one county we honestly couldn't fill, so we're asking you. Subscribe:    / @arizonarevealed   Watch Next:    • 10 Places in Arizona the Mob Used to Control   Which county did we get wrong? Put your county and your name below. Informational only. Names, dates and details are drawn from public records, published interviews and biographies. #Arizona #ArizonaHistory #ArizonaRevealed PHOTO CREDITS (CC BY 2.0/2.5/3.0/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / Flickr) — photos by: • davidpinter, Altus Photo Design, Billy Hathorn, CGP Grey, Chris Kirkman, Los Angeles Times, Maryland GovPics, Rob Dicaterino, Alan Light, ASU Department of English, Benjamin Thomas, BFS Man, Bjzq8, Bjzq8 (assumed), Chief National Guard Bureau, chief_huddleston, Christine Ring, David Wiley, derivative work: Shereth Historic_Navajo_County_Courthouse_and_Museum.jpg: Richie D, Doc Searls, G. Edward Johnson, Jennifer Zambrano, Joel Levine, John Malmin, Los Angeles Times, Larry D. Moore, Mark Leschinsky, Mel Melcon, Los Angeles Times, Mike Fitzpatrick, Mike McBey, Montclair Film, Pancho Medrano Papers, PCHS-NJROTC, Ralph Arvesen, Raph_PH, sean horan, Thank You (24 Millions ) views, US Department of Labor, "AZ State Capitol Building 80635". Public-domain archive photos and film: Wikimedia Commons, public-domain archives, destockd / FedFlix, Moving Image Archive, Internet Archive. Original score composed for this video. No AI-generated images or video.