Do you know of any famous people who were born in New Mexico? There are 3 I know of off hand:

1. John Denver

"Born Henry John Deutschendorf in Roswell, NM, on December 31, 1943, he was raised in an Air Force family, and grew up in various regions of the southwestern U.S."

2. Conrad Hilton

"Born: 12/25/1887
Birthplace: San Antonio, New Mexico

Having begun his career working in his father's store, he expanded the business and after his father's death began building a hotel empire with the purchase of the Mobley Hotel in Cisco. He purchased other hotels in Texas, forming the Hilton Hotels Corporation in 1946. In the 1950s the company began to diversify into other travel-related services, including car rentals and credit cards.

Name at birth: Conrad Nicholson Hilton

Hilton founded the international chain of business hotels which bear his name. He bought his first hotel in 1919, and founded the first so-named Hilton Hotel in 1925 in Dallas, Texas. Hilton Hotels grew into the first coast-to-coast hotel chain, placing a special emphasis on the business traveller, and Hilton became one of the world's wealthiest men. He also purchased other prestigious inns, including the Sir Francis Drake in San Francisco, New York's Waldorf-Astoria, and the Palmer House in Chicago. Hilton's son Barron followed him as head of the company, which by the year 2000 had nearly 500 hotels around the world. Conrad Hilton died in 1979, leaving the bulk of his estate to his philanthropic organization, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. He also endowed the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston. His 1957 autobiography was titled Be My Guest.

Extra credit: Hilton had three sons by his first wife, Mary Barron: Conrad, Jr.; William Barron; and Eric Michael... He had a daughter, Francesca, with his second wife, the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (married 1942-47)... Hilton's son Conrad Jr. ("Nicky") was the first husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple were married from 1950-51... Hilton is the great-grandfather of party girls Paris and Nicky Hilton."

His philanthropic foundation recently donated $6,000,000 to the Katrina vistims.

3. Barry Sadler http://www.barrysadler.com/

"Barry was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico on November 1, 1940, the second son to John Sadler and Bebe Littlefield both originally from Phoenix, Arizona. His parents divorced shortly thereafter. His father remarried soon but died from a rare form of cancer involving his nervous system. He was thirty-six years old. Bebe then took Robert, Barry’s older brother, age twelve and Barry, age seven on an odyssey throughout the Southwest where she managed restaurants, bars and gambling casinos.

They lived in Ruidoso, Hobbs, Santa Fe and Las Vegas, New Mexico; in El Paso, Midland and Lubbock,Texas; in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; in Los Angeles and San Francisco and finally in Denver and Leadville, Colorado.

Barry credits a summer spent at age twelve in a logging camp in Mora, New Mexico for his introduction to music, mostly Western and Mexican songs, sung by the loggers and heard on the radio. He had no formal training but learned to make noise on a flute, harmonica, and the drums before settling on the guitar as his instrument of choice.

He learned to shoot and camp in the outdoors. Barry claims to have shot grouse on the wing with a .22 caliber pistol and said he was a better shot with a pistol at fifty yards than most men with a rifle. Barry was unaware how impactful these skills would be on his life.

Barry quit high school in Leadville, CO after the tenth grade and went hitchhiking across the country. He returned and joined the Air Force on June 2, 1958. He was seventeen and needed his mother’s authorization to enlist. Trained as a radar specialist, he shipped out to Japan before his eighteenth birthday. After a year in Japan Barry returned to the U.S.

You may remember the song he sang which made him famous:

http://www.brownielocks.com/balladofthegreenberetsWAVE.html

Demi Moore was born 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico. Her father left her mother, Victoria, before Demi was born. Her stepfather, Danny Guynes, didn't add much stability to her life, either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 times. The parents kept on drinking, arguing and beating, until Guynes finally committed suicide. Demi quit school at the age of 16 to work as a pin-up-girl. At 18, she married rock musician Freddie Moore; the marriage lasted four years. At 19, she became a regular on the TV show "General Hospital" (1963). From the first salaries, she started partying and sniffing cocaine. That lasted more than 3 years, until director Joel Schumacher fired her from the set of St. Elmo's Fire (1985) when she turned up high. She got a withdrawal treatment and returned clean after a week... and stayed clean. With determination and a skill for publicity stunts, like the nude appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair while pregnant, she made her way to fame. Since the huge commercial success of Ghost (1990) and the controversial pictures Indecent Proposal (1993) and Disclosure (1994), she's one of Hollywood's most sought-after and most expensive actresses.

Here is a website with famous people born in New Mexico.http://www.50states.com/bio/newmex.htm

Found out in 1987 when i dated a gal named Leslie L. Her cousin Kelli Sneed, who is a direct cousin to Demi told us one day in Farmington,NM. There were drug problems that plagued Demi and a few of her family members, but many of those have been sorted out in the passage of time. Most of the family still lives in Farmington and occasionally see them around. Buy or check out a used
car at Airport Auto Center and get to meet cousin Ed or aunt Carolyn.