Photo: Finetooth · CC BY-SA 3.0Clarkdale has yet to put a famous person on the list
Next door, Cottonwood lists 4, led by Junior Brown. The longest list in Arizona is Mesa’s, with 54 names. Tucson has the second-longest list in Arizona, after Mesa, with 36. In Arizona, 95 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Clarkdale), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Clarkdale has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Clarkdale
Cottonwood leads the towns around it, with 4 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Clarkdale and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (1)
- Junior Brown: Ron Baker, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons