Photo: Richard N Horne · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people from Payson
No entry yet names Payson as a birthplace. Mesa has the most of any town in Arizona: 54. After Mesa, the next longest list in Arizona is Tucson’s, with 36. 93 towns in Arizona have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Payson), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Payson has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Payson 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.