Who Is The Most Famous Person Your Hometown Has Ever Produced?

[THUNDER HANDS]

For me, having grown up in Elmont, New York, I think the most famous person who ever came out of my hometown was former Heisman Trophy winner, Tampa Bay Bucs, Cleveland Browns and NY Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde.

A player who has so much physical talent it's unbelievable. If he hadn't started his career with those god-awful Bucs teams of the 1980s he could have been the greatest quarterback of all-time.

So who's famous from your neck of the woods?

[Andy_Stephenson]

1. Gene Roddenberry

Omar Bradley
Debbie Reynolds
Sharon Tate
Anna Alicia (I knew her in High School back then she was Anna Alicia Ortiz)

[MoonGod]

94. Wasn't Gene Roddenberry from El Paso?

I just realized I forgot him in my post down below...

[Andy_Stephenson]

122. Yes he was from

El PAso

[Darth_Kitten]

2. Monty Hall!!!

Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman (Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive)

Winnie the Pooh was named after my city. :)

[petersjo]

3. Couple people from Humboldt, Iowa

Frank Gotch was the world champion wrestler back in the early 1900s--famous not just in this country but around the world. Another one was Harry Reasoner who used to be on 60 minutes and other news programs of note. Both are now buried in Humboldt's Union cemetery.

[Catshrink]

4. Jimmy!

Hendrix that is.

[Andy_Stephenson]

5. Bellevue?

wasn't it?

[Catshrink]

7. Seattle.

[Andy_Stephenson]

10. there is a statue

of him on Broadway at pike or is it pine? Been here 13 years and I still get the 2 mixed up.

[Catshrink]

17. Hmmm, not sure

I would guess Pike. I think that's the corner where Seattle Comm. Coll. is. I've been gone from the Emerald City for 17 years.

Do you know the mneumonic for remembering the names of streets?

Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest.

Jefferson-James, Columbia-Cherry, Marion-Madison, Seneca-Spring, Union-University, Pike-Pine. Somethings we never forget. I may have it twisted within the pairs, but at least have the first letters correct.

[Andy_Stephenson]

23. Yes I do know that and try it when driving through

downtown but always forget it

[1a2b3c]

113. but he was from Renton.

[listenup]

6. Nancy Lopez - golf

Her dad repaired my car when I was a teenager. He had a body shop on 2nd street.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. Kent Benson

and Steve Alford

ever heard of'em?

didn't think so

[listenup]

15. Hoosiers

Indiana U
I thought Steve Alford sounded familiar.

[petersjo]

16. Of course I've heard of Steve Alford

He coaches basketball these days about 15 miles from my house. Go Hawks!

[Alenne]

8. Alonzo Mourning

[shanti]

11. marlin brando

and diane keaton both graduated from my h.s.

[noiretextatique]

12. i'm from LA

too many to count. i did go to high school with Freeman McNeal and Vince Ferragamo, among others. I was in a community band with two of the Busboys too.

[LWolf]

88. San Fernando Valley.

I could count a lot there; I responded below with where I live now; not that many.

If I just listed those I had personal contact with:

Those twin girls who played Tabitha on Bewitched; I can't remember their names.

Bob Newhart

Bob Eubanks

Ricky Nelson

James Stacey

Danny Bonaduce

Maureen McCormick

Dick Van Dyke

Bobby Sherman

Geoffrey Lewis

One of the beach boy's sons...I don't remember his name. Even though he visited my house for 2 weeks and we went on vacation together.

[rock]

13. Harlan Sanders- that's Colonel to you

From Corbin, Ky. What a unique thread.

[kentuck]

154. Hey!

I used to work in Corbin, down on 1st St, many years ago....And I ate at the very first Ky Fried Chicken... Corbin = nibroc spelled backwards...that's not where your name comes from, is it?? :)

[bicentennial_baby]

14. Penn of Penn & Teller

Greenfield, Ma...It's funny to see him jogging down Main St. when he comes home to visit. :P

[rucky]

18. Ethel Mertz

Yeah, I know she's a fictional character...but she IS from Albuquerque.

[huckleberry]

19. Wolf Blitzer - Kenmore, NY

x(

[liberalnurse]

20. Dayton, Ohio hails to the following:

Phil Donahue

Martin Sheen

Rob Lowe and Chad Lowe

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Erma Bombeck

Cathy Guisewite; cartoonist: "Cathy"

Gary Sandy; actor: "WKRP in Cincinnati"

Annie Oakley...just up the steet in the next town of Greenville

Paul Lawrence Dumbar; African American Author/Poet

Johnathan Winters; next little town up the road in Springfield

[TheBigGuy]

157. wasnt Gordon Jump a Dayton native.

also an actor in WRKP in Cincinatti.

[nuxvomica]

21. Charles Evans Hughes and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan

In case you didn't know, Hughes was SCOTUS chief justice in the '30s.

[NightTrain]

Norman Lear

Born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, ya joik ya!

[DODI]

82. Go Hartford!

We also had Todie Fields and Louie Nye. Not to mention Willie Pep and Mark Twain, sort of. Harriet Beecher Stowe born and raised! Samuel Colt, J.P. Morgan, Somebody Pope -- bicycle inventor.

[thom1102]

139. How could you guys leave out Kate!

Katherine Hepburn grew up in Hartford. Her dad was a Doctor at Hartford Hospital.

[Catshrink]

22. Hey Rat -- is that from Brian Jacques?

looks like it might be from one of his Redwall books.

[THUNDER HANDS]

29. i don't honestly know

I did a google search for magic + rat and this is what it gave me.

:)

[Catshrink]

30. He's pretty nasty looking.

[MisterP]

65. title gives "skaven" and "magic"(ian)

recognized as a species from a friend of mine's Warhammer(?) game set.

[GOPEC]

24. Brookline, MA

JFK, RFK...
Mike Dukakis
Mike Wallace
David Suskind
Conan O'Brien

[-..__...]

95. Ditto

BHS class of 74... hanging with the boys from the Point.

[ForrestGump]

25. Me

It was a really small town (if you're talking about my actual birthplace).

[tridim]

26. I went to highschool

with Paul Rudd in Overland Park, Kansas. He's somewhat famous now. I think I heard Ed Asner and Walt Disney are from my hometown as well.

[jmm]

27. I was born in Boston.

There are too many famous people born here to pick one.

[dodger501]

28. Richard Dean Anderson

MacGuyver and Stargate SG-1.

Roseville, MN

[diplomats]

31. President James Buchanan (Lincoln's predecessor)

and Civil War general John F. Reynolds (he was killed at Gettysvurg).

[caledesi]

32. Harry Anderson (Night Court - sitcom) and Van Johnson (old actor)

[Catshrink]

33. Wasn't Van Johnson in Singin' in the Rain?

and "Last Time I Saw Paris"? I'll google him and see.

[Castilleja]

34. How about the most heinous and vile??!!

This year I found out that Tom Delay graduated from our local Highschool! *****REETTTTCCCHH****** Then moved off to East Texas, hopefully to take his foulness with him. x( :hurts:

On higher notes, I guess it would be Farrah Faucett, Freddie Fender or Selena.

[demnan]

35. Jim Morrison of the Doors

went to the same high school as my brother and graduated a year earlier. There's a picture of him in my brother's yearbook with a crew cut. His father was a General which wasn't unusual for Alexandria, VA.

Another famous person was Willard Scott who grew up right down the street from me and was actually very good friends with a cousin of mine.

[DFLforever]

42. F Scott Fitzgerald - great American novelist

Charles Schultz - Peanuts
Roy Wilkins - NAACP (not born here but grew up and went to school)

I'm referring to Saint Paul, MN

[eyesroll]

36. Ron Goldman grew up a couple of blocks from me...

But until the OJ thing, the most famous person from my high school was Andrea Jaeger.

My adopted hometown, is, of course, the hometown of Les Paul.

[bandy]

37. Burt Reynolds

his dad was chief of police (I think).

[alfredo]

38. Muhammed Ali

[tarkus]

60. Yeah.

[WyLoochka]

39. Gilda Radner

is one of my favorites of the many Famous People From Detroit.

[5thGenDemocrat]

117. Robin Williams and Lily Tomlin are also from Detroit

Detroit's a great place.
John
The music scene is pretty good, too.

[magnolia]

148. Adding to the general vicinity....

...the very small, farm town north of Detroit where I grew up...gave us Kid Rock.

The town just west, Rochester, where I lived most of the adult life...gave us Madonna and Eminem.

Richmond, Virginia...where I live now...I think it gave us a couple of presidents. I don't know if they were born there, but they did die there.

[maveric]

171. Robin Williams is from Ca.

The Bay area to be exact.

[VelmaD]

40. Audie Murphy...

most decorated soldier of World War II is from a little town that is like the suburb of the slightly bigger little town I'm from.

Darth Velma

[wyldwolf]

41. Little Richard, James Brown, Mike Mills, Bill Berry, Otis Redding...

Allmann Brothers,

[Dr Fate]

58. Nossir- JB stays in Augusta G-A!

HOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! GOODGOD!

[wyldwolf]

63. (ahem) well, if you want to get technical...

...he wasn't born in Augusta, he was most definitely born in Macon, Georgia May 3, 1933.

He was sent to Augusta, Georgia at the age of five to live at an aunt's brothel.

He returned to Macon in 1952 and cut his first record at Macon's WIBB in 1955.

Macon has a very rich musical legacy and I'm proud to call it my hometown.

[Dr Fate]

64. Nossir, he stays in Augusta G-A!

And it was certainly no knock against Macon- there must certainly be somthing good in the water there...

"He was born James Joe Brown, Jr. on May 3rd, 1933 in Barnwell, SC. His father, Joe Garner Brown was black and American Indian. His mother, Susie Behlings Brown was black and asian. James was a stillborn baby delivered by his aunts. His Aunt Minnie did not give up after he was born, blowing into his lungs until he finally started crying. His parents were very poor.

..........The three of them decided to move across the Savannah River to Augusta so Joe could find a better job. They moved in with his aunt, Handsome Washington, known as Honey. Joe soon left and never lived with James again but was still around.


http://www.soul-patrol.com/funk/child.htm

[wyldwolf]

68. Some say Barnwell, Brown himself says Macon.

"James Brown was born in Macon, GA and currently is counted amongst the living dead in Augusta, GA."

http://www.rru.com/~meo/ga-folk/ga.4.html

'May 3, 1933 - Singer James Brown, "The Godfather of Soul" is born in either Macon, Georgia or Barnwell, SC'

http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/chronpop/629

Facts :
Date of Birth: May 3, 1933
Place of Birth: Macon, GA, USA

http://www.funky-stuff.com/jamesbrown/biography.htm

What's interesting is some sources say Barnwell, SC but add that James Brown himself says Macon, GA.

GUD GAWD!

OWWWWWWWW!

But Augusta can still claim Amy Grant!

http://www.delafont.com/music_acts/Amy-Grant.htm

[Dr Fate]

78. Your sources have flaws:

this source says two different things...

Date of Birth: May 3, 1933
Place of Birth: Macon, GA, USA

May 3, 1933
James Brown is born in Barnwell, South Carolina. He is raised in poverty in Augusta, Georgia, 40 miles away.

http://www.funky-stuff.com/jamesbrown/biography.htm

I could not find the quote of JB saying he was born in Macon...

The other info about his famous Christmas displays are extremely dated- he stopped doing that in the 70's or early 80's.

[wyldwolf]

110. More sources... are they all flawed?

I'm usually suspicious of anyone who calls sources "flawed" when those sources make claims counter to one's position, but since this is merely a friendly turf war and not a political discussion, I'll let it go. :-)

"Brown claims he was born in 1933 in Macon, Georgia."

http://music.lycos.com/artist/bio.asp?QT=A&QW=Brown%2C+James&AN=James+Brown&MID=3404&MH=

"1928 Soul-singer James Brown was born in Macon, Ga. ... he grew up in Augusta."

Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-jun/jun17.htm

"Mr. Brown states he was born in 1933 in Macon, Georgia."
This from godfatherofsoul.org, the official music liscensing site of James Brown.
http://www.godfatherofsoul.org/biography.htm

"James Brown, the future "Godfather of Soul" is born in Macon, GA. Although he claims this date as his birthday, many dispute it and say he was born May 3 1928, in Barnwell, South Carolina."

http://www.africana.com/research/thisday/rc0502.asp

:-)

[Dr Fate]

112. Possibly, mabey born in Macon- but certainly "from" Augusta!

...And just to clear up what is a silly flame on both of our parts-

there is nothing to be suspicious about my claim- your 1st sources did not counter my position at all- that was the problem!! - they contridicted themselves- in one paragraph they say he is from Macon, in another they say he is from Barnwell (Located in the CSRA (Central Savannah River Area), where Augusta and North Augusta S.C. are basically the seats of the area...)

Your other source gave extremely dated info and seemed to have a bias against Augusta anyway (they called it the asshole of the South or something, right?)- so yes, those sources were indeed flawed.

J.B. is a regular fixture in Augusta (I now live in San Franciso, BTW), many people know him and most people who hang around musicians at least wind up meeting him! A good buddy of mine plays guitar in his touring band (he still hires local musicians & dancers from the CSRA). My old boss at the Medical College played bass for him for years. My girlfriends mother teaches his Grandchildren-etc, etc.

Believe it or not, I'm not willing to take J.B's own word for many things!!!!- I've heard way too many stories about the state that his mind is in. I could tell you stories all day- but that would be gossip and that aint nice!!!

But- I'll concede that it is possible that he is from Macon- I'll look into it!

I've never heard both versions of his birth place until now- but he certainly grew up around the Augusta area, and he makes it his permanent home now.

The best point is that we both apparently love this great man!!!!!

[soleft]

43. Bruce Springsteen and Danny Devito

And not too far down the road, Jack Nicholson went to high school

[BigMcLargehuge]

44. Herman Melville, Tavares, Fredick Douglass

Well, to be fair all of them (even Tavares) were born elsewhere, but it was their experiences in New Bedford that made them famous.

Moby Dick was writen in Fairhaven, across the harbor from New Bedford.
Tavares actually live in Dartmouth, a suburb of New Bedford.
Fredick Douglass orated frequently in New Bedford upon his escape from slavery

[Bossy Monkey]

45. Hootie y los Blowfish

although I doubt any of them are actually from Columbia. Alex English, astronaut Charles Bolden. Leeza Gibbons is from Irmo.

[JohnKleeb]

46. well no one really

next town over Reston, Grant Hill lol hes a joke now lived there.

[Colin Ex]

47. Quite a list...

My town produced the man, the myth, the legend: Dave Thomas.

-C

[44wax]

48. Daniel Goleman Chris Isaak Janet Leigh Melvin Belli Maxine Hong

Eddie Guardado Flip Duran Pavement Rupert Garcia and many anonymous doctor's, lawyers, engineers, teachers and artists who used their talent as a ticket out of town and let us not forget the DUer known as Jack Rabbit are all from Stockton, CA.

[Kellanved]

49. Goethe

Only persons born there, or is growing up there sufficent to qualify?

In the latter case I'd add Joschka Fischer.

[mitchum]

50. Joe Jackson

[HEyHEY]

51. Depends

Being a metropolis it has produced quite a few. BUt there is Paul Kariya, Joe Sakic, Jason Priestly, Bryan Adams, and Joshua Jackson...to name a few.

[Sapphocrat]

52. Mr. Hewlett & Mr. Packard n/t

[blondeatlast]

53. If fictional characters count; it's

Mary Anne from Gilligan's Island.

Blondie is a proud, but wyaward, native of (yes, it really exists) Winfield, KS!

:toast: to my favorite fellow citizen!

http://www.poster-pictures.com/665-Poster-Pictures-Dawn-Wells---Gilligans-Island.html

[izzie]

54. If you mean where I was born it is

Whisler, Betty Davies, and on the Road writer. Can not spell the last name. Where I grew up I can not think of anyone. Guess it was to small.

[Susang]

55. I was born in Detroit

There are too many of them to mention, but here's a short list:

Lily Tomlin
Gilda Radner
Diana Ross
Eminem
Fred "Sonic" Smith and the MC5
The White Stripes (Jack White and Meg White)
Martha Reeves

And many more.....

[GalleryGod]

56. NBC News Richard Valeriani.

:bounce:

[Dr Fate]

57. James Brown

from "Augusta G-A!!!"....

[jus_the_facts]

59. Tim McGraw.....Chuck Finley....David Toms.....Bubby Brister....

....are all from Monroe...dunno which ones the most famous...depends on what you like the most I suppose...

on edit...Jim Halssell is also from here...he was a pilot on several Atlantis missions for NASA. :)

[Name removed]

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[jus_the_facts]

150. HEY...anybody see what this disruptor had to say about my homeboys?

...uhm...or ME....before *it* got tombstoned? :evilgrin:

[JVS]

151. He said Bubby Brister was a piece of shit candy-arm! He was right!

Sorry he's your boy, but as a Steelers fan I am compelled by tradition to hate our QB's. :evilgrin: We haven't had a good one since Bradshaw. :evilfrown:

Actually, I don't know what the tombstoned poster said.

[jus_the_facts]

152. LOL...well Terry is from Louisiana too...in fact...I went to the same...

...church as he did in Shreveport when I was 5 yrs. old but remember vividly my Mom pointing him out to me during services...and he went to Louisiana Tech which is only 25 miles west of here!

I agree about Bubby...he never was a strong QB...but he went to High School with my b/f at Neville where he was a super star :puke: he played with Tobi Caston who went on to play line backer for the Detroit Loins....Odessa Turner(NYGiants) and Sammy White(Vikings) are also from here too!! :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

61. Probably Gwen Stefani

and she was my neighbor too. (Her aunt still is)

[ProfessorGAC]

136. Anaheim, Right?

Gwen's from Anaheim, right?

Not going to come out your way this year, but first quarter next year, for sure. Those folks at that site don't need my help or my prodding as much as some of the other places. So, no reason to come out this year. But they've asked me to visit next year, early.

So, maybe we'll get together for dinner or a drink with some other SoCal Du'ers. I'll keep you posted, if that's ok.
The Professor

[Breezy du Nord]

62. We were a target during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Does that count? :shrug: :P

[SiobhanClancy]

66. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Stephen King

...both Portland,Maine,natives.

[maveric]

67. Leonard Bernstein and Robert Goulet both from Lawrence MA.

Although they were only born there, Bernstein moving to NY when he was 2 and Goulet moving to Canada when he was 4.

Remember the movie "The Great Impostor" with Tony Curtis? Well the real impostor whom the movie was made from was also a Lawrence boy.

I lived in Salem NH too and John Sununu :puke: spent a great deal of his adult life there.

[MoonGod]

69. I grew up in Encino/Los Angeles, so I'll go with El Paso

Too many celebs from Encino/Los Angeles to think of/mention..

From El Paso, where I lived for a couple years, the two most famous people I'm aware of are Sandra Day O'Connor and Richard Ramirez ("Night Stalker")... I'm not sure which is worse. :eyes:

[camero]

70. Doug Flutie

He lived in my hometown of Manchester, MD for 7 yrs .

[stlsaxman]

71. The St. Louis Walk Of Fame lists quite a few...

http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/

my faves... Maya Angelo
William Burroughs
Miles Davis
Scott Joplin
Tina Turner
T.S. Elliot
Tennessee Williams
Dwight Davis (the original Davis Cup was held here for years and I
have played played on that court)
Al Hirschfeld
John (ugh what a pig!) Goodman (but yes he had some brilliant roles)
Buddy Epson
Yogi Berra ...

... oh yeah- Chuck Berry

on edit: some are "from" here or nieghboring towns like Alton, Illinois. Born here?
Well check it out! ;)

[kutastha]

72. Gwen Stefani

from Anaheim, CA

[SmileyBoy]

73. Roger Maris (Fargo, ND).

I don't know of anyone else.

[saline]

74. Bill Waterson

The creator and cartoonist of Calvin and Hobbes fame. He's from Chagrin Falls Ohio, as evidenced by the back of "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes".

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0836218051/ref=lib_rd_ss_TBCV/102-2806272-7552133?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=8#reader-link

Calvin is destroying Chagrin in the picture, he's holding a building called the popcorn shop walking over the bridge that covers the falls of Chagrin Falls.

[Bombero1956]

166. and another

Tim Conway is also from Chagrin Falls, at least he's said so on TV.

[StaggerLee]

75. Magic Johnson

n/t

[FloridaJudy]

76. Tom Petty and River Phoenix

[DoYouEverWonder]

86. Welcome to DU

You most live near Gainesville? Me too.

[DoYouEverWonder]

87. Christopher Walken went to my grammer school

His parents owned a bakery in neighborhood and made the best black and white cookies.

[FloridaJudy]

155. Gainesville, FL

Yup.

You've got it.

I've been a Gainesville transplant for over thirty years.

Before that I lived in Berkeley, California for twenty years.

I still consider Gainesville my home town. I remember going to the drive-in to watch "A Boy and His Dog" when I had to hang the speakers on the windows of my Datsun 210...

[ulysses]

77. Will Rogers

Actually, he was born a little ways up the road, but he adopted Claremore as his home later. :)

http://www.willrogers.org/memorial.html

We used to go sledding down the hill at the memorial...

[LWolf]

79. Frank Zappa.

He started his first band while attending a local high school.

He wasn't born here, just spent some of his growing up years locally. Two others who also lived here as children:

Marion Morrison

Frances Ethel Gumm

[zekeson]

80. Fred L. Maytag

the man who started the Maytag washing machine company was from my hometown of Newton Ia. He was born elsewhere but he started the business there and there it's workd headquarters remains. Later, Charles Murray, who wrote the venimous and incredibly inaccurate Bell Curve in 1992 or so. My parents knew his parents - which'll happen when there are 15k folks in town. A flock of atheletes who achieved regional success. Oh yea, Emerson Hough - western writer and biographer, enjoyed the peak of his success around 1910-1920.

[Salviati]

81. Benjamin James Johnson

From Coon Rapids, MN who you all may know as the faux technician who tried to smuggle a couple of paintings in from Iraq...

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-smuggledpaintings0829aug29,0,1517998.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia

[1a2b3c]

83. Barry Sanders

best running back of all time.

[peekaloo]

84. Joanne Woodward

I was born in Thomasville, Ga.


Damn fine actress who married some guy whose name escapes me.......;-)

[roguevalley]

85. No one, really. Unless you count my Dad

who is pretty damned revered around here. <BURSTS WITH PRIDE!>

:-D

RV, bursting.

[AntiBushRepub]

89. Marylin Manson

is Brian Warner who went to Taravella high school in COral Springs, FL. (I am from Ft Lauderdale)

He worked at Peaches Records-n-Tapes and laughed under his breath at me for buying the beastie boys "check your head" album.

used to be Marylin Manson and the spooky kids and they used to pay small clubs around here like the Treehouse.

I never paid much attention to him back then.(I still dont, really).... friends band played with them a few times but I never really met them.

-An

[St. Jarvitude]

90. Not too many

My hometown (Arlington Heights, IL) is home of Chris Nowinkski, who apparently is a professional "wrestler."

Arlington Heights is more well known for the prestigious Arlington Park racecourse. The Arlington Million race is held here.

[ikojo]

91. Vincent Price

Stan Musiel
Nelly
Tina Turner
Chuck Berry
Charles Lindbergh

[RedEarth]

92. Shannon Miller.....gold medal winner

Vince Gill...my brother-in-law went to high school with him
Garth Brooks
Toby Keith...boo

[Torgo Johnson]

93. Lorain Ohio

Toni Morrison
Admiral Ernest J King
.
.
.
. (signifies large dropoff)
Father Guido Sarducci aka Don Novello

Father Guido's father used to be our family doctor when I was little. I don't ever remember meeting Guido though.

Our former longtime mayor Alex Olejko is somewhat infamous for calling Ted Koppel a candyass on live national television.

[Ladyhawk]

96. Produced?

Dan Pastorini.

Slim Pickens used to live here, but he didn't grow up here.

LOL...I bet most of you don't even know who Dan Pastorini is.

[TrogL]

97. Jim Cameron

movie director

Chippawa, Ontario, CANADA

I played a lot with his brother and was over to the house a lot before he moved. Saw a lot of his art work and petted the iguana.

[theemu]

98. Joan Crawford or Carol Burnett

Of course, lots of famous people DIED in my hometown of San Antonio... Davy Crockett, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie...

[5thGenDemocrat]

99. Stevie Wonder (Saginaw, Michigan)

Steveland Morris moved to Detroit when he was five or so, but he was born here.
A few others: 30s-40s cowboy actor Tim McCoy, '30s actress Marie Dressler (Min and Bill, Tugboat Annie) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke, current athletes Kenyon Martin, Serena Williams, Jason Richardson, Darvin Ham and Charles Rogers. And current actress S Epatha Merkerson (Law and Order).
Question Mark and the Mysterians (96 Tears) still live here. They are in demand for summer jams locally.
John
And legendary Nebraska football coach Bob Devaney grew up on the block I live on. I can see the house from my kitchen.

[Solly Mack]

100. Jody Davis(baseball), Ingrid Arthur(gospel singer), Tommy Aaron(golfer)

Rachel & Rilla Porter, who founded the Porter House Restaurant..famous for their steaks..later to be called (you guessed it) the "porterhouse" steak.

"Mark Trail" by Ed Dodd (famous comic strip)
Michael Crocker - famous folk pottery maker
Mattie Lou O'Kelley - folk artist

[Booberdawg]

101. Gerald Ford and Warren Buffet

[5thGenDemocrat]

118. Don't forget Bob Gibson and Henry Fonda

For some reason I remember they're from Omaha (yes?), also.
John
NOT QUITE FAMOUS: Robert Armstrong was from Saginaw (he's the actor who introduced King Kong to the world in the 1933 classic film of the same name). So was Ray Harroun, who won the very first Indianapolis 500 and who is credited with inventing the rear-view mirror.
I'll shut up now.

[Booberdawg]

127. Didn't know about those

Never heard of a couple of them - but that's okay.:thumbsup:

[JVS]

102. My suburb of Pittsburgh, Penn Hills has produced

Football Player Bill Fralic

http://www.collegefootballnews.com/Top_100_Players/Top_100_Players_46_Bill_Fralic.htm

If you are familiar with the HBO show Band of Brothers. Foley came from Penn Hills

And on a sad note. Rick Santorum claims to be a Penn Hillian. http://archive.aclu.org/vote-guide/94info.html He owns a house there, but I've never seen him. Penn Hills isn't a rich suburb, so I think that he likes to claim it as his hometown as a folksy thing. He was born in Virginia. His wife is from here. The only person I know who ever seemed to bring him up was a school comrade who ended up going to the Air Force academy. I suspect that Santorum wrote the letter of recommendation for this friend of mine.

[dolo amber]

103. Well...

I was born in San Diego which has too many to mention...however, my current hometown has a few of note...not the least of which is




King of All Mullets he Surveys...Mr. Achy-Breaky himself...

Billy Ray Cyrus!!!




Not enough for ya? Well see here, we also have






Da Judds!!

(Incidentally, Naomi's mother (or *Grandma Judd-who's-last-name-really-isn't-Judd*, as the kids say) is a very active and vocal DEMOCRATIC member of the city council. ;))



Still wanting more good ol' Ashland KY celebs?
Let us not leave out the illustrious...




Yes, give it up folks, it's Mr. Gameshow, in the flesh, CHUCK WOOLERY!!
WOO-HOO!!

I am awash in local pride!

[Spirochete]

104. Tonya Harding lives here

but she's originally from Portland, I think. A few baseball players have come from here, like Randy Myers, Richie Sexson, one of the Brian Hunters...

[AntiCoup2K4]

108. Oh geezus are you in Battle Ground?? (freeper paradise)

Does Linda the Unholy Beast from Hell Smith still reside in Clark county??

[Spirochete]

109. No, I'm in Vancouver

I think Linda the Ashcroft-clone Nutcase still lives in this county, but I haven't heard about her running for any offices since Patty Murray thrashed her in the senator election. I haven't been out to Battle Ground much lately. Is that where Tonya Harding lives now? She was in Vancouver, then Camas, then back to Vancouver, from what I heard.

[AntiCoup2K4]

105. Olympia Washington, Indie-rock capitol of the world.

Of course some of the more famous people "from" here may not have actually been natives, but this is where they started the road to success or whatever. The word road being very literal in the case of Sleater-Kinney, just in case you ever wondered how they got that name (it's a literal street name, unrelated to any of the band members).

Most famous would probably be a little band called Nirvana. Though the band members themselves came from Aberdeen, it was Olympia where the band really got established before moving onto Seattle and then the rest of the known universe. Oh yeah, Kurt's wife lived here for a while as well even before she knew him, but that's a whole other story I don't even want to get into....

EDIT: and if you want to count Greeners as being "from Olympia" then you can count Matt Groening of "The Simpsons", "Futurama" and "Life In Hell" fame, and Michael Richards aka "Kramer", both Evergreen graduates.

[MoonGod]

106. Didn't Matt Groening go to Evergreen?

or something like that?

[AntiCoup2K4]

107. Yeah he did (see edit)

Damn, you were quicker on that then even my drunken edit! :crazy:

[MoonGod]

111. Hehe... My Evergreen/Olywa friends...

... have mentioned it enough times that it pops to mind pretty quickly when I think of the city.

[1a2b3c]

115. You forgot to mention Courtney Love

She went to school, In Olympia ya ya ya ya.

[AntiCoup2K4]

135. I forgot to mention her on purpose

Didn't care much for her even before she had her husband murdered.

[angee_is_mad]

116. Activist and baller

Well Jesse Jackson went to college in my hometown and basketball player Bob Mcadoo(70's&80's) grew up here.

[myrna minx]

119. Russ Feingold!!

He lived in Janesville Wisconsin in the 1970's and graduated from Craig High. :toast:

[redwitch]

120. greenwich, ny

childhood home of Chester A. Arthur, Susan B. Anthony, Hal Ketchum and one of my favorite singer/songwriters Bob Warren (not as famous as I would like, go to CDBaby and buy his CDs!).Also, Kim Gannon lived here for years (wrote I'll be Home for Christmas).

[King_Crimson]

121. Several from here...

in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Probably the most popular would be Carol Lombard. Also...Shelley Long, NFL players Rod Woodson and Jason Fabini. Stephen King resided here for a while as a child, he has relatives here.
But alas, after all the city is named after General "Mad" Anthony Wayne...a proven drunkard and womanizer. Guess theres nothing wrong with that.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

123. Sam Walton

I believe Sam Walton was born in Kingfisher OK. I know he wasn't raised there, but I honestly believe I heard he was born there.
Duckie

[Doctor_J]

124. Two Granatos, two Poffos

Cammi & Tony Granato (hockey players), and Angelo Poffo and his son, Randy Savage (both pro wrestlers). And alleged comedian Emo Phillips.

[Pert_UK]

125. EarlG!!! Heh heh heh.....I win! Then Robert Plant....

Aside from EarlG, probably Robert Plant and then maybe Miles Hunt from The Wonder Stuff, but we also produced the first train to run on US railways, which is quite famous (maybe).

P.

[XNASA]

126. If I say Blue Island IL, the town I was born in then it's probably-

The guys from Enuff Z'Nuff.

If I count the town I grew up in, Posen IL, then it's probably me.

[Laughing Mirror]

128. Duke Ellington and Marvin Gaye

and me
from Washington, DC

[Fight_n_back]

129. My hometown

is San Francisco, California.

The famous are too numerous to mention.

[RetroLounge]

130. Born in Chicago, but Live in Milwaukee

So, from Milwaukee it is:

Woody Herman band leader, Milwaukee
George F. Kennan diplomat, Milwaukee
Alfred Lunt actor, Milwaukee
Pat O'Brien actor, Milwaukee
Charlotte Rae actress, Milwaukee
William H. Rehnquist jurist, Milwaukee
Tom Snyder newscaster, Milwaukee
Spencer Tracy actor, Milwaukee
Bob Uecker baseball player, Milwaukee

[newyawker99]

131. Brooklyn NY

Too many to list but I will give you one...Mary Tyler Moore.

[CO Liberal]

132. Gene Shalit (Morristown, NJ)

His family ran one of the drug stores in town.

[BurtWorm]

170. I was born in Morristown, too!

[kmla]

133. Not many. I guess Wendell Willkie would be the most famous -

ran against FDR in the 40's (back when republicans weren't as evil). And actor David Canary - (played on Bonanza in the 60's) was from my hometown, too.

Other than that, it is pretty dry as far as people of notoriety...

[Turbulence]

134. depends on which home

Flatbush NY: julius larosa
connie ingoglia AKA connie stevens
Hoboken NJ: Frank sinatra
union NJ: Ray liotta

[ronnykmarshall]

137. Buck Owens & Merle Haggard

[ElsewheresDaughter]

138. frank santra....hoboken, nj

[Aristus]

140. Puyallup, Washington. Home of:

Megan Quann, Olympic gold-medallist.

[commander bunnypants]

141. No one

DDQM

[Superfly]

142. Martin Luther (the protestant reformation guy)

Bernhard Langer
the Fugger Family
the Welser Family
Mozart's Father
Marie Antoinette stayed there once
Emporer Tiberius founded it in 15 BC


Give up?

B

[BurtWorm]

146. Worms, Germany?

[magnolia]

149. Mozart...

...is from Austria...right? That's where I was born. Also...Sigmund is from there.

[TheBigGuy]

158. Augsburg.

sister city to Dayton, Ohio.

[MiltonLeBerle]

143. Tom Shales- TV critic from the Washington Post.

hometown: Elgin, Illinois

[BurtWorm]

144. The Kienast Quintuplets

were from my original hometown of Liberty Corner, NJ.

I grew up in Brunswick, Maine, where Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Franklin Pierce went to school. And Robert E. Peary. And where Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a large part of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and where Gen. Joshua Chamberlain, who accepted Lee's sword at Appomatox, lived.

I now live in NYC. Can't think of any famous names from here.

[smallprint]

145. john deere and chief black hawk

are both from moline/rock island, il (i consider them to be the same place-- the illinois side of the quad cities)

i'm not sure if there's anyone from the 20th century though

[Redbear]

147. Waco, TX

As far as born here


Ann Richards - Texas Governor 1992 DNC Keynote Speaker
Steve Martin
Ladainian Tomlinson ProBowl RB for San Diego

Most Famous Baylor U. Grads

NFL Hall-of-Famer Mike Singletary

MLB Hall-of-Famer Ted Lyons

Olympic Trackster Michael Johnson

[mlawson]

153. Thomas Wolfe

But MY novel is almost finished -- I shall be the next Thomas Wolfe.

Well, MAYBE..... :-)

[TheBigGuy]

156. my hometown is Chicago, Ill.

nuff said.

[SaveElmer]

159. Al Franken

St. Louis Park, Minnesota

[LuLu550]

160. Jerry Seinfeld and the Baldwin Brothers

from Massapequa, Lawn Guyland. :toast:

[oustemnow]

161. ugh; Andy Rooney

from Albany, New York, or at least he attended Albany Academy.

He's a perfect metaphor for that place; cranky, trite and alawys looking to gripe about something.

[LuLu550]

162. now wait a minute!

I live in Albany now and I'M not cranky!:bounce:

[graham67]

163. Martins Ferry, Ohio

We're famous for Lou "The Toe" Groza and poet James Wright.

[corarose]

164. Al Capone

I think that he was from NY originally but Chicago is the place that was Al Capone's home.

[markbark]

165. Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLean and Sandra Bullock

all went to the same highschool as my sister.

.... and that and $4 will get you a cuppa coffee @ Starbucks!



--MAB

[Bombero1956]

172. from here

Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), author and illustrator
Kurt Russell, actor
Daniel B. Wesson, a founder of Smith & Wesson arms company
Travis Best, basketball player
Chloe Sevigny, she was in Boys don't cry, American Psycho,The Last Days of Disco
Jazz musician Taj Mahal
Actress Paige Turco- The Agency
Actress Maura West-As the World Turns
Actor John Ashton
June Foray-voice of Rocky J Squirrel,Nell Fenwick,Natasha Fatale
Actress Eleanor Powell

Lived here

Floyd Paterson
Natalie Cole

[Bombero1956]

181. and another one

Don Pardo- Saturday Night Live announcer

[Valerie5555]

167. The 1 I had fond regard for from Calgary was Canadian Ambassador

Kenneth "Did I put one over on Khomeini or did I put one over on Khomeini??????????????????" Taylor who snuck the 6 Americans out of Iran during the 1980 hostage incident.

On edit if he is now anywhere in Manhattan, hope he didn't get the "GROUND 0 SYNDROME" from the WORLD TRADE CENTRE ASBESTOS and stuff.

[bookman]

168. Born in Paterson, NJ

Lou Costello - my favorite

But others also.

[Valerie5555]

169. From my birthplace Toronto of which North York is a district or borough

BARRIE ZWICKER - the guy who did the documentary "9 -11 THE GREAT DECEPTION" or "9 - 11 THE GREAT BIG PILE OF BULLCRAP"

[WINEWOMAN7]

173. famous people from your area.

Paul Revere and the Raiders, Boise, Idaho

[WINEWOMAN7]

174. famous people from your area

Gene Harris, Jazz great, Boise, Idaho

[WINEWOMAN7]

175. famous people from your area

Rosalie Soreles (sp?, folk singer, Boise, Idaho

[WINEWOMAN7]

176. famous people

Frank Church, senator and presidential candidate, Cecil Andrus, Environmental Director, Boise, Idaho

[WINEWOMAN7]

177. Famous people

Erneast Hemingway, famous writer who lived in Ketchum, Idaho, committed suicide at his home in Ketchum, memorial to him is in Ketchum Idaho as are his relatives, including Muriel.

[WINEWOMAN7]

178. Famous People

Jake Plummer, quarterback of Arizona Cardinals, Boise, Idaho

[WINEWOMAN7]

179. Famous People

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Hailey, Idaho

[Lindacooks]

180. Got you all beat...

Paul Wellstone!

'Nuff said.

[Pert_UK]

184. My EarlG trumps your Paul Wellstone!

:-)

P.

[Syrinx]

182. They weren't from here but they got famous here

Bear Bryant and Joe Namath. And Ken Stabler and a lot of football guys.

[Wapsie B]

183. Walter P. Chrysler

He was born Kansas but came to work in Oelwein,Iowa. It was there that he gained the inspiration for the automotive company that bears his name.