Anyone famous from your hometown?

[Connonym]

The stellar list from my hometown includes Ashton Kutcher, Elijah Wood and Cal Eldred. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

[Aristus]

1. Puyallup, Washington: Megan Quann, gold medal Olympian from 2000.

:woohoo:

[DBoon]

31. Wow. My youngest brother moved there

nt

[Aristus]

33. If I see him, I'll say 'hi'.

B-)

[AlCzervik]

2. Michael Bloomberg, Elizabeth Short The black dahlia, Amelia Earhart lived there for awhile.

Medford, ma.

[Call Me Wesley]

Thomas Mann, C. F. Meyer, Golo Mann,

and a few others. :hi:

[av8rdave]

3. Jamestown, NY

Natalie Merchant, Lucille Ball, Roger Tory Peterson

[Tyler Durden]

4. Thomas E. Dewey was born here.

Owosso, Michigan. His house is just down the street from me. Nice house; it's for sale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thomas_e_dewey2.jpg


We're also the home of the locomotive digitized to be "The Polar Express" in the film:


Shit that was a lot of effort for not so much.

[5thGenDemocrat]

150. I didn't know you were from Owosso

Heck, we're practically neighbors.
John
James Oliver Curwood was from Owosso, too.

[Bicoastal]

5. Considering my hometown is Santa Monica...

..there's quite a list.

Jay Adams, famous skateboarder
Ben Affleck, actor with wife Jennifer Garner and daughter Violet Affleck
Tony Alva, famous skateboarder
Tom Anderson, founder of MySpace
Kenneth Anger, film-maker, author
Sean Astin, film-actor, director, and producer
Steve Blum, voice actor
Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
Scott Davis, former tennis player
Elonka Dunin, game-developer and writer
Dwight Evans, former Major League Baseball player
Ed Fallon, Iowa politician
Miguel Ferrer, actor
Bobbi Fiedler, congresswoman
Bonnie Franklin, actress
Lynette Fromme, criminal
Sara Gilbert, actress
Adam Goldberg, actor
Helen K. Garber, photographer
Wesley Humpston, famous artist dogtown skateboarder,surfer
Anjelica Huston, actress
Tommy Kendall, NASCAR driver
Apollonia Kotero, actress, model, dancer, and singer
Lorenzo Lamas, actor
Tim Leary, former MLB baseball player
June Lockhart, actress
Mark Loretta, Boston Red Sox second baseman
Lorna Luft, entertainer
Tobey Maguire, actor
Teena Marie, singer, songwriter, producer
Chris Masters, professional wrestler
John Nash, Nobel prize, arrested when lived here, subject of Beautiful Mind
Gunnar Nelson, musician
Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
Stacy Peralta, famous skateboarder, film maker
Robert Redford, motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, and philanthropist
Randy Rhoads, guitarist
Christina Ricci, actress
Mike Scott, former MLB baseball player
Bobby Sherman, singer and actor
Gloria Stuart, actress, artist
Amber Tamblyn, actress
Shirley Temple, diplomat and former film child actress
Robert Trujillo, musician
Suzanne Vega, songwriter and singer
Syrus Yarbrough, model and reality TV star of The Real World
Debbe Zenter, Famous beach girl,Owner of Z Sports,consultant for the movie Lords Of Dogtown
Trifun Zivanovic, figure skater
Jeanne Mas, singer, actress
Young Carvelli, rapper, producer, dj, entertainer

[hfojvt]

11. Ed Fallon is way cool

but is it really necessary to include 'famous' skateboarders and a no-name tennis player, when you have such a long list? But I suppose if you start excluding people that Ed Fallon would be on the chopping block too.

[Bicoastal]

16. Meh, I just cut and pasted off of Wikipedia.

Incidentally, this list used to have an pompous, obnoxious dude from my High School class on it, someone I always considered my enemy--until someone figured out he wasn't actually that famous or notable and deleted his Wiki entry.

Heh heh heh....:evilgrin:

[hfojvt]

24. I guess I could have included Mike Busch from my town

since he played quarterback for the NY Giants, sort of. He was a scab, and thus not included, although he was on national tv for a few weeks in that role.

[hfojvt]

6. Cal Eldred? Is he famous?

Why, for having an ERA of 6.4?

(Okay, he pitched a few good games for the Brewers, but tanked more than once too)

My famous list is Hubert H. Humphrey (sorta) and Cheryl Ladd and Rod DeHaven

You may have to google that last one
http://www.letsrun.com/dehaven.html
But that says he was born in Sacramento, although he graduated from my high school (and also did not do well at the Olympics)

Gladys Pyle, who is not very famous, was the first woman to win an election to the US Senate.

[Callalily]

7. Harry Houdini

and Willem Dafoe.

[sammythecat]

8. I'm still looking.

There's gotta be somebody from New York City!

Gimme another minute.

[mcscajun]

54. Definitely. Start with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart

You can't get more stellar than that. :)

[sammythecat]

64. I'm a big fat liar

I didn't even begin to look. :(

I just figured the list would have to be huge.

But you're right about Cagney and Bogart. Doesn't get much more stellar than those two.

:hi:

[AllegroRondo]

9. Kenosha, Wisconsin

has

Orson Welles
Don Ameche (went to high school with my Grandma!)
Daniel J Travanti (of Hill Street Blues)
Lucien Cailliet, (composer)
Nick van Exel (basketball)

[xmas74]

70. Mark Ruffalo.

My family knew the Ruffalo family (just aquaintances) when they lived there.

(Dude-I just noticed you didn't mention Big Al! How could you miss him? Al Molinaro once mooched some of my aunt's birthday cake in a restaurant back home.)

[Kerrytravelers]

72. Hello! I love love love Ruffalo!

Mr. kt likes his acting. I was too busy drooling to notice that he was talking and acting and stuff!

:rofl:




:loveya:

[xmas74]

74. He's originally from my hometown,

as is Allegro from above. Families know each other, vaguely-aquaintance thing. I didn't know him, though. I know he moved at a relatively young age and is a few years older than I am.

(The "discovery" came up when I was watching a movie w/ an aunt. He was on the screen and I said to her "He's from Kenosha." She asked his name, I said it, she asked his age and then she said "That can't be-I know someone w/ that same name but-well, he'd be an adult now.")

[AllegroRondo]

103. is he related to the Ruffalo family that owns the pizza places?

Ruffalo's has the BEST pizza in Kenosha.

I didnt mention a lot of other Kenoshans, theres just too many.

[xmas74]

115. He might be.

Sooner or later they are all related in Kenosha. (Hell, I'm one of the few multigenerational non-Italians from Kenosha and even I'm related into a few of the families by marriage.) And Ruffalo's has awesome pizza.

But still-how could you forget about Big Al? He was numero uno in the seventies in Kenosha, what w/ his plugs for Kenosha on Happy Days!

[PVnRT]

10. Tommy John, Eugene Debs, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Dresser

n/t

[hfojvt]

13. survey says:

Terra Haute, Indiana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terre_Haute%2C_Indiana#Famous_Residents

But you left out Larry Bird??!!1?? :wtf: :spank: :wtf:

[PVnRT]

26. Larry Bird is from French Lick, about an hour and a half away

He only played college ball here (Indiana State).

...and there are some inaccurate entries on that list, which I've tried to correct in the past, but have long since given up on.

[Hobarticus]

12. Kate Mulgrew from Star Trek: Voyager...Dubuque, IA

Probably more famous was Mary Regina Hayford, "the little old lady from Dubuque".

http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/iowans/hayford.html

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. John Steinbeck

Former Vikings QB/Cal coach Joe Kapp, Pirates first baseman/outfielder Xavier Nady, a motorcycle racer from years past named Kenny Roberts.

[Squatch]

15. The Fuggers

Leopold Mozart
Bertolt Brecht
Squatch
Hans Holbein

[JVS]

116. don't forget Roy Black

[SecularMotion]

17. Ed Wood Jr.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. Joplin, MO: Dennis Weaver

[cloudbase]

19. A ton of 'em

Mary Cassatt
Andy Warhol
Stephen Foster
Martha Graham
Fred Rogers
Barbara Feldon
Gene Kelly
John Unitas
Frank Gorshin

among others.

See? Some good things do come from Pittsburgh.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. Jim Henson graduated from my high school

[hellbound-liberal]

40. Did you go to Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, MD?

I taught there for the last three years!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

55. Small world...

I graduated in 1976

Are you still there? What do you think of the new supe?

[hellbound-liberal]

98. No, I'm in Virginia now. We wanted to buy a house and everything was too expensive in MD

so we moved to Virgina. For an extra $100,000, we moved from a two-bedroom condo to a 2200 sg. ft, 3-bedroom house with a 4-car garage and a 1/2 acre of land. Are you still living near Hyattsville? Do you remember any favorite teachers from NW? I think one or two of them might still be there. I didn't get to deal with the new superintendant but most of us were excited about his coming. He has a tough job!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

145. My favorites are probably all gone now...

or at least retired...It's been 30 years; and I don't recall having any teachers under age 40.
Oh wait...There was an Algebra teacher...Walter Welch. He was a nice guy; but not a favorite teacher. I used to fall asleep in his class!

I'm surprised it's cheaper in VA than in PG County. We're in Riverdale.

[Burma Jones]

21. Lifted from Wikipedia....Gary, Indiana

Entertainment

* Avery Brooks - (born in Evansville) actor, director, best known for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* Mike Epps - actor, comedian
* Morgan Freeman - (born in Memphis) Academy Award-winning American actor and film director
* The Jackson Family - singers, musicians
o Michael Jackson
o Janet Jackson
o Jermaine Jackson
o LaToya Jackson
o Tito Jackson
o Marlon Jackson
o Randy Jackson
o Jackie Jackson
o Rebbie Jackson
o The Jackson 5
* Barney Liddell - big-band trombonist best known on The Lawrence Welk Show
* Derek Bailey - singer and songwriter
* Karl Malden - actor, best known as General Omar Bradley in Patton
* William H. Marshall - film actor, director, opera singer
* Kym Mazelle - soul singer
* James McCracken - opera singer
* Karen McDougal - actress, model, 1998 Playboy Playmate of the year
* Ralph McQuarrie - Academy Award-winning conceptual designer, best known for his work on the Star Wars films
* Jesse Powell - soul singer
* Ronnie Rancifer - original keyboardist for The Jackson 5
* Jimmy Reed - a major player in the field of electric blues
* Robert Rhymes - famous jazz saxophonist
* The Spaniels - were an American R&B doo-wop group, best known for the hit "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight".
* Herschel Sparber - actor, voice over artist and Broadway performer, best known for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* Jevetta Steele - African American gospel music singer
* Ernest Lee Thomas - actor famous for his role as Roger on the sitcom What's Happening!! and its sequel, What's Happening Now!!
* Victor Varnado - standup comedian and actor
* Deniece Williams - singer and songwriter

Sports

* Dick Barnett - NBA player
* Brian Blair - aka "B. Brian Blair", professional wrestler
* Wallace Bryant - former basketball player, coach Jackson Wildcats
* Vic Bubas - former Duke University basketball head coach
* Harry Flournoy - college basketball player
* Joseph Gates - former baseball player, first base coach Gary SouthShore RailCats
* Tom Harmon - Heisman trophy-winning football player
* LaTroy Hawkins - baseball player, currently with the Baltimore Orioles
* Tank Johnson - NFL, Chicago Bears defensive tackle
* Wallace Johnson - former baseball player, third base coach Chicago White Sox
* Alex Karras - football player, with Detroit Lions
* Ron Kittle - baseball player, with Chicago White Sox
* Bob Kuechenberg - former NFL, Miami Dolphins offensive lineman
* Angel Manfredy - boxer
* Lloyd McClendon - baseball coach; bullpen coach for the Detroit Tigers
* Brandon Moore - football player for the New York Jets
* Dan Plesac - baseball player, pitcher
* Glenn Robinson - American basketball player in the NBA, currently inactive
* Hank Stram - NFL coach best known for his tenure with the Kansas City Chiefs
* Sharmell Sullivan - better known as Queen Sharmell a Diva and manager for the WWE
* Fred Williamson - star defensive back in the AFL
* Tony Zale - "the man of steel" an American boxer

Academic, science and technology

* Frank Borman - Astronaut on Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, CEO of Eastern Air Lines
* Myron W. Krueger - computer graphics pioneer
* Paul Samuelson - economist, recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1947) and the Nobel prize (1970)
* Joseph Stiglitz - economist, recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1979) and the Nobel prize (2001)

Politics and law

* Joseph E. Finerty - former mayor of Gary
* Richard G. Hatcher - former mayor of Gary, first black mayor in Indiana
* Michael King - black conservative commentator, columnist and television producer
* Pete Visclosky - U.S. Representative from Indiana's First Congressional District

Other fields

* Walter Hellman - born in Sweden and lived in Gary; checkers champion
* Christopher Peterson - convicted serial killer; he has maintained his innocence
* Todd Wagner - billionaire entrepreneur who co-founded Broadcast.com and now owns 2929 Entertainment
* Dan Barreiro - Radio Talk Show Host

[jobycom]

22. I didn't grow up in a town, but in my general area: Brett Favre, Jimmy Buffet, Matthew Lawton.

And yes, I met Brett Favre a couple of times when he was a bratty junior high kid (he wouldn't remember, we didn't talk, he was just this guy my best friend's sister pretended she didn't have a crush on), and I knew Matt Lawton's brother a little (Marcus also played baseball, but was injured and never made it in the majors, aside from a couple of weeks with the Mets. He spent a lot of time in the minors, though). Buffet had moved on before I started school.

[ceile]

23. Carl Lewis, Woody Harrelson, Patrick Swayze,

Destiny's Child, Sean Patrick Flannery, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite (sp)...there's more, but that's all I can think of for now.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

25. Delaware Celebs!

Sean Patrick Thomas (1970)
Born: Wilmington, Delaware on 12/17/1970
Raul Esparza (1970)
Born: Wilmington, Delaware
Andrew Shue (1967)
Born: Wilmington, Delaware on 2/20/1967
Elisabeth Shue (1963)
Born: Wilmington, Delaware on 10/6/1963
Valerie Bertinelli (1960)
Born: Wilmington, Delaware on 4/23/1960
Judge Reinhold (1957)
Born: Wilmington, Delaware on 5/21/1957
Susan Stroman (1954)
Born: Wilmington, Delaware on 10/17/1954
Estelle Taylor (b. 1899 - d. 1958)
Born: Wilmington, Delaware on 5/20/1899
Guy Bolton (b. 1885 - d. 1979)
Born: Wilmington, Delaware on 11/23/1885
Michael Gibson
Born: Wilmington, Delaware
Herta Ware
Born: Wilmington, Delaware


ETA:

Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver, was born in Wilmington, Delaware.
Eldridge Reeves Johnson, Inventor - born in 1867 in Wilmington DE, grew up in Dover DE. Inventor of the phonograph and founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company, now known as RCA. He died in 1945.

[azmouse]

27. Jordin Sparks (AI contestant) is from Glendale, AZ

And many professional athletes live here such as Tony Clark from the Dbacks.

[lost-in-nj]

28. Tom Cruise

lived here when he was about 5 or so and only for a little while.
Oh yeah and Washington Slept Here!!!!!

Thats about it


:shrug:

lost

[CottonBear]

29. REM, B-52s, Pylon, Fran Tarkenton, Kim Basinger, Herschel Walker & Leo Kottke

among many other who hail from Athens, GA! Lots of current NFL players played for the UGA Bulldogs.

Athens, GA is not my hometown but I've lived here on and off since 1981!

One of the guys (not the lead singer) from Gnarls Barkley used to live here for a while as well.

[DBoon]

30. D Boon (the real one), Charles Bukowski, Joe Hill

Upton Sinclair was arrested for free speech though wasn't from there

Sharon Tate and Eric Erlandson from Hole also can from there. BTW my sister was good friends with Mary Agnes Erlandson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro%2C_Los_Angeles%2C_California

[otherlander]

43. Cool.

[SaveElmer]

32. Al Franken and Thomas Friedman...

One good, one not so good!

[geardaddy]

133. You in SLP?

[Nicole]

34. Oklahoma City: Johnny Bench, Bobby Murcer, Tisha Campbell and Wayne Coyne

were all born in OKC.

[1gobluedem]

35. Iggy Pop

Also Bob Seger and Ken Burns, plus Jeff Daniels lives just 15 miles away.

I know there are others but my brain is very tired today.

[Ishoutandscream2]

36. Okay, don't kill me

But that dork in the Bush administration, Dan Bartlett, is from my hometown and graduated high school with my brother in 1989. And yes, this town is full of Bushbots.

[SteppingRazor]

37. My hometown's Los Angeles, so off-hand, I'm guessing yes...

but I don't know anyone specifically.

[trof]

38. Nat "King" Cole, Zelda Fitzgerald, Toni Tennille, Brett Butler

Montgomery, AL.
City of my birth.

[Chan790]

39. Well...I live in rural CT now, and consider DC to be home, but

I've spent the largest block of my life living in Hartford, CT.

Hartford's famous residents include (I used Wikipedia and removed the people I'm unfamiliar with,as well as the ones that are technicalities. I left the ones that shame me but I put :-( next to them):

L. Paul Bremer :-(
Oliver Butterworth
Marcus Camby
Ann Corio
Dominick Dunne
Katharine Hepburn
Laura Ingraham :-(
George Keller
Stephen Cole Kleene
Eriq La Salle
Norman Lear
Rick Mahorn
Eric Mangini
Frederick Law Olmsted
Wallace Stevens
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mark Twain

[hellbound-liberal]

41. Several celebrities from Bridgeport, CT

John Mayer (1977),
Kevin Nealon,(1953),
Richard Belzer (1944)(I was born in his 14th birthday)
Brian Dennehy (1938)
Tony Musante (1936)
Robert Mitchum(1917)

[KamaAina]

68. Tack on John Ratzenberger (1947)

and, of course, ex-mayor P.T. Barnum. That's quite a haul for a smallish (peaked around 160,000) New England city, huh?

[otherlander]

42. A certain notorious white-collar criminal

[Blue_In_AK]

44. Bob Oefelein,

the love interest of ex fellow astronaut Lisa Nowak, is the first one who comes to mind.

[YankeyMCC]

45. Marvelous Marvin Hagler

and Rocky Marciano

The High School team is "The Boxers" ;)

[ronnykmarshall]

46. Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, KORN

Rick Mears, Frank Gifford, Jerry Quarry

[blockhead]

47. Josh Duhamel

He even brought his girlfriend Fergie down to the pub around Christmas time. My buddy got to meet her.

[Qanisqineq]

83. Is he from Williston?

or somewhere near there? Nobody is famous from my tiny hometown of LaMoure, ND.

[blockhead]

84. Minot

I think his mom and sisters still live here.

[MedleyMisty]

48. Guess the town

Andy Griffith

[doc03]

118. Mount Airy, NC

[Left Is Write]

49. Does Mean Gene Okerlund count? I went to high school with his kids.

[mr blur]

50. William Wordsworth and

Fletcher Christian

[friendly_iconoclast]

51. Keith Jarrett, Lee Iacocca, paralympian Aimee Mullins

and a bunch of trucks with dogs for hood ornaments

[mcscajun]

52. The Bronx has a slew of 'em.

The Bronx has a long, long list of celebrities born in it from Comedy, Stage, Screen, and Music:
(and I probably left out a couple)

Ace Frehley (KISS)
Adam Pascal (Actor/Singer: Rent, Aida)
Alan J Pakula (Producer, Director)
Anne Bancroft (Actor)
Bobby Darin (Singer, Actor)
Brad Grey (Producer)
Bruce Jay Friedman (Writer, Actor, Producer)
Carl Reiner (Writer, Actor, Producer)
Carroll O'Connor (Actor)
Charles Nelson Reilly (Actor, Director, Writer)
Chazz Palminteri (Actor, Writer, Director)
Connie Sellecca (Actor)
Cuba Gooding Jr. (Actor)
Daryl Chill Mitchell (Actor, Hip-Hop artist)
Diahann Carroll (Actor)
Dion DiMucci (of Dion & The Belmonts)
Dominic Chianese (Actor)
Ellen Barkin (Actor)
Garry Marshall (Producer, Director, Writer, Actor)
George Carlin (his mother and siblings moved to Manhattan early on) (Writer, Actor, Comedian)
Hal Linden (Actor)
James Caan (Actor)
Jennifer Lopez (Singer, Actor)
Jerry Orbach (Actor)
Joey Bishop (Comedian, Actor, Talk-Show Host)
Judd Hirsch (Actor)
Linda Lovelace (porn star)
Liz Torres (Actor)
Martin Balsam (Actor)
Neil Simon (Writer, Producer)
Paddy Chayefsky (Writer, Actor, Producer, Composer)
Paul Williams (Composer, Singer, Actor)
Penny Marshall (Producer, Director, Actor)
Peter Riegert (Actor)
Red Buttons (Composer, Actor, Comedian)
Richard Donner (Producer, Director, Actor)
Richard Mulligan (Actor)
Robert Clohessy (Actor)
Rob Reiner (Producer, Director, Writer, Actor)
Robert Klein (Writer, Actor, Comedian)
Sal Mineo (Actor)
Stanley Kubrick (Director, Producer)
Steve Landesberg (Actor)
Tony Curtis (Actor)
Vic Morrow (Actor, Director, Writer)

[MistressOverdone]

53. Paul Robeson went to my high school with my dad in NJ.

[undeterred]

56. West Wing star Bradley Whitford is from Madison WI

which is my adopted hometown and he always calls at election time to tell me how to vote (which is always how I would have voted anyway). He introduced Gore at the rally in 2000.

[El Fuego]

57. Burt Reynolds, Diedre Hall, Mark Foley, and... Carrot Top

Nothing to brag about here.

[femmocrat]

58. Gene Kelly

(JOhnstown, PA)

[Bassic]

59. Country musician Charlie Major

was born in the next town over, and is my mother's cousin.

Also, Dan Ackroyd lived next door to my mother when she was young.

[Wetzelbill]

60. my parent's love Charlie Major! nt

[Bassic]

63. Cool!

:D

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I've never heard any of his songs though.

[Wetzelbill]

65. he is a bit obscure

but we're Montana farm hicks, and go to Canada often too. His best song is "The Other Side."

[Bassic]

66. I'll try to find that

He's probably the closest family I have who also plays music.

[mvd]

61. Bloodhound Gang

Not proud of that fact, but some here like them.

[nosillies]

62. Nope, not unless you count Sweet Lou Dunbar as famous

I guess we specialize in flamboyant hoopsters. He does have a bobble-head doll though.

[mentalsolstice]

67. Courtney Cox & a couple of AI winners and runner-ups

And a blond gone missing in Aruba.

[madrchsod]

69. ronny raygun,luella parsons.

and me

[QMPMom]

71. James Wooten, ABC News Correspondent.

Was from my hometown of Owensville, IN and graduated with my mother.

[KamaAina]

73. Original one: John Waters, Barry Levinson, Nancy Pelosi,

Carmelo Anthony (since grade school), H.L. Mencken, Mama Cass Elliott, and many others (though one of the best-known of all, Edgar Allan Poe, moved there later in life).

[smtpgirl]

86. Baltimore!!

[Saphire]

75. Janice Joplin, Edgar and Johnny Winter, the big Bopper......

[Ptah]

76. Gustafson's voice yodelling "Yahoo!" in several commercials for Yahoo, Inc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wylie_Gustafson

[kwassa]

77. since I am from Detroit ..... most of Motown?

[xmas74]

78. My dad's from Aberdeen, WA

(my hometown was listed earlier).

painter Robert Motherwell,
Nobel-winning physicist Douglas Osheroff,
photographer Lee Friedlander,
choreographer Trisha Brown,
artist Elton Bennett,
former Detroit Lions and St. Louis Cardinals Defensive End Mike Melinkovich,
former Denver Broncos quarterback, John Elway (had no clue since he's referred to as a motherf*cker by nearly everyone in my family but wikipedia says it's so)
former Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston Texans tight-end Mark Bruener,
pollster Jack Elway (father of John Elway, the football hero),
novelist Robert Cantwell,
professional wrestler "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson,
software engineer Peter Norton and
Jeff Burlingame, author of Kurt Cobain: Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind.
Victor Grinich, who was born in Aberdeen in 1924 was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley.
Robert Arthur, radio presenter
Violet Blue, porn star
Colin Cowherd, radio presenter
Helena Shipman, actress
Clarence E. Vammen, Jr., aviator
Daniel A. Stanard, Genius
Mark Bruener, pro football player, currently playing for the Houston Texans
Bryan Danielson, pro wrestler.

And finally onto the musicians:

Kurt Cobain
Krist Noveselic
Dale Crover
Kurdt Vanderhoof

(that's a pretty good list for a town of 16,000!)

[InvisibleTouch]

79. That would be quite a trick.

I don't have a hometown. :)

[Wapsie B]

80. And don't forget Zach Johnson, winner of The Masters this year.

[FloridaJudy]

81. Gainesville, Florida

Tom Petty
River and Joaquin Phoenix
Sister Hazel
Less than Jake
Harry Crews
Stephen Stills

...oh, and a lot of professional athletes, but I'm asportual so I don't give a hoot.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

82. Minneapolis:

The Andrews Sisters
Ann Sothern (1950s actress)
golfer Patty Berg
Prince
Nobel Prize winning chemist Peter Agre
John Paul Getty
Harrison Salisbury (journalist)
Mike Todd (movie producer, one of Elizabeth Taylor's husbands)
Jesse Ventura
Charles M. Schultz (creator of Peanuts)
Richard Dean Anderson (of McGyver)
James Arness (of Gunsmoke)
Lew Ayres
Joel and Ethan Coen (film directors)
Dr. Demento
Julia Duffy
Terry Gilliam (of Monty Python)
Jon Hassler (author)
Sharon Isbin (classical guitarist)
Linda Kelsey (actress, was a regular on Lou Grant)
Dr. C. W. Lillehei (first surgeon to perform open heart surgery)
Noel Neil (played Lois Lane on original TV Superman)
Briana Scurry (soccer player)
Anne Tyler (novelist)
Also the members of the groups Husker Du and The Replacements

[geardaddy]

132. You forgot:

Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver)
Mo Collins
James Arness
Peter Graves

[smtpgirl]

85. Maryland

Frank Zappa - Baltimore
Joan Jett - Wheaton
Billie Holiday - Baltimore
Edgar Allen Poe - Baltimore
Dominique Dawes - Silver Spring (gymnast)
Ed Norton - Columbia
Toni Braxton - Savage
Goldie Hawn - Takoma Park
Babe Ruth - Baltimore

All from the B/W Corridor

Linda Hamilton - Salisbury (Ocean City, MD)
Cal Ripkin, Jr. - Havre De Grace
Annie Oakley - Cambridge

[BarenakedLady]

87. James Woods

Graduated from the same High School too.

That's about it.

[SKKY]

88. Muhammad Ali, Johnny Unitas, Tom Cruise, Diane Sawyer...

...Louisville, Kentucky

[mopinko]

124. hey, i was in louisville last month

strange town, i thought.

[SKKY]

134. Strange? How so?

[mopinko]

138. just an odd mix

of faded glory, good intentions, desperate measures, and good old grit. i was there for a ceramics conference, and spent time in all the little art galleries. and that restaurant, proof- have you been there? crazy art. just crazy.
locals were a little chilly to us invading potters and teachers. i guess we were an odd lot, easily identifiable.
but it was a unique experience.

[SKKY]

140. If you ever go back, I recommend you hang around the Bardstown Road area...

...you'll feel right at home there. It's my favorite part of Lousville.

[mopinko]

143. i did go to a brewpub out there.

there was lots of cools stuff. i did mostly have a good time.

[RushIsRot]

89. Monroe, Louisiana, of all places:

Ivory Joe Hunter (50s pianist and singer) and Clare Lee Chennault (Flying Tigers WWII).

[Art_from_Ark]

90. Nobody famous from my home town

Although the Thursday Bridge Foursome of Fern, Grace, Mae and Mabel were once honored on one of MAD Magazine's Obscure Commemorative Stamps in the "Ides of MAD"

[Broken_Hero]

91. Nope, none that I know of....nt

[bridgit]

92. well let's see there's...

Joan Didion, Molly Ringwald & Tom Hanks for openers :thumbsup:

[u4ic]

93. Three women athletes

who may not be known beyond their respective sports.

Silken Laumann (rowing), Angela James (who has a gazillion gold medals with the Canadian women's hockey team) and Carrie Serwetnyk (women's soccer). I knew the latter as a child, she lived only a few houses down from me.

[VelmaD]

94. I hadnt' heard Silken's name...

in a long time. That's really cool. :)

[u4ic]

97. Are you a rowing fan?

:hi:


If there was someone who deserved an Olympic gold, it was her.

[VelmaD]

100. I'm a sports nut

All sports. Even the ones they only ever show during the olympics...heck, especially the ones they only ever show during the olympics. Rowing is fun to watch. I'm still just amazed how they get up to 8 people to move in perfect unison like that.

[u4ic]

129. It's a shame that most sports don't get

a lot of coverage, except in the Olympics.

It's one of the few times I can watch fencing, or ski jumping. :)

[mark414]

95. Tony Romo...Bill Kazmaeir (world's strongest man)

um...Miss Wisconsin 2007 (not really famous...)

and the guy who played the evil president on 24 (Greg Itzin)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Wisconsin#Famous_people

[usaftmo]

96. Arlington, Virginia

Roberta Flack, Warren Beatty, Eric Metcalf, Cris Collinsworth, and Batista(pro wrestler).

[DrDan]

99. Brad Pitt

Springfield Mo -

[NMDemDist2]

101. they say Glenn Campbell went to high school here

not sure where that ranks on the 'famous' list

:rofl:

[PRETZEL]

102. Michael Keaton is claimed to be from my home town

but not many people say that. The little town of Coraopolis has had a couple of people who have been successful in the NFL and NCAA, not as players, but coaches. Foge Fazio had a very successful NFL coaching career and Ron Dickerson has been a college coach for many years.

[slj0101]

106. Hey, I grew up across the river from you!

Wasn't Dan Marino from Cory? :hi:

[PRETZEL]

108. Marino's from the city somewhere.

can't remember exactly where though.

what town are you from?

[slj0101]

109. Leetsdale.

So Sewickley by proxy. I think Marino lived in Cory, but went to school at Central Catholic.

[PRETZEL]

110. I know that area well,

my brothers and I have played alot of softball in that area many many years ago. Is Mike's Place stil around. I know the owner died a little while ago but that was one hell of a bar.

[slj0101]

111. He sold the bar right before I moved, some time in the late 90's.

And yes, he died about a year and a half ago.

[PRETZEL]

112. My oldest brother and Mike were real real good friends

but then again my brother knows a whole lot of people in that area. He's been a mailman over in Sewickley for the last 30 years so I guess that's expected.

[nuxvomica]

104. Charles Evans Hughes and Hacksaw Jim Duggan

Had a long period in between with nobody becoming famous.

[slj0101]

105. Wentworth Miller (Prison Break), Dan Cortese, Chuck Knox.

That's about it.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

107. Me and some other cool folks.

But seriously ... O Henry (Samuel Porter) , and Edward R. Murrow are from my town. And Joey Cheek. I don't know him but we went to the same high school. He was a year ahead of me. I only remember seeing him once because he was already training for the Gold. It felt so good seeing him win because he was working for it so long.

[jakefrep]

113. Sam Hornish, Jr. (winner of the Indy 500) lives here...

...Napoleon, Ohio.

You're from Cedar Rapids? One of my college buddies teaches at Prairie HS.

[Mad_Dem_X]

114. Near my hometown - Bruce Willis

He went to high school in the Carney's Point/Penns Grove area of NJ, about 15 minutes from my hometown, Pennsville.

[doc03]

117. The area's most famous would be Dean Martin,

Clark Gable and Charlie Manson. I live in the country and don't really have a home town.
On Edit: I forgot Brad Paisley, John Corbett and the paint huffer guy on the smoking gun. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0721051gold1.html

[TOhioLiberal]

119. Toledo Ohio...

...Danny Thomas, Jamie Farr and the 'Kat' part of TomKat: Katie Holmes.

[Mendocino]

154. Also from Toledo and nearby

Art Tatum-Jazz pianist
Teresa Brewer-singer
Charlie Weaver-comedian
Tom Scholz-Boston guitarist
Johnny Paris-Johnny and the Hurricanes
Madelyn Murray O'Hair-famous atheist
Jim Leyland-Manager of the Detroit Tigers
Jerry Glanville-former NFL head coach
Jim Jackson-NBA star
Gloria Steinem-feminist
Scott Hamilton-Olympic skater
P.J. O'Rourke-writer, satirist
Anita Baker-singer
Roger Bresnahan-Baseball Hall of Fame Catcher
Denise Fleming-childrens author

[AshevilleGuy]

120. Thomas Wolfe, O'Henry (lived here), Nina Simone, Andie McDowell. n/t

[Gatchaman]

121. nope

I don't think anyone from my home town has even met anyone famous.

[Digit]

122. Wow, Paul Wellstone...I had no idea! Arlington, Va

*David Batista (Professional Wrestler, b. 1969), Wakefield High School
*Warren Beatty (Actor, b. 1937, Washington-Lee High School 1955)
*Sandra Bullock (Actress, b. 1964, Washington-Lee High School 1982)
*Adrian Cronauer (Disc jockey, b 1938)
*Paul Wellstone (Senator,MN 1944-2002 Yorktown High School)
*Katie Couric (Media Personality, b. 1957 Yorktown High School 1975)
*Ian Mackaye (Rock Singer/Guitarist, b. 1962)
*Shirley MacLaine (Actress, b. 1934, Washington-Lee High School 1952 )
*Alexander Ovechkin (Professional Ice Hockey player (Washington Capitals), b. 1985 in Moscow, USSR. Currently makes residence in Arlington due to the Capitals' plans to build a new practice facility there in the near future.)
*Tom Dolan (Gold Medal Olympic Swimmer 1996 Atlanta Games) Yorktown High School 1993

I then changed in my teen years to Alexandria and
Cass Elliott (Momma Cass) came from there
and Shirley MacLaine

[vixengrl]

123. I'm from Philadelphia--

Wikipedia has an embarrassingly rich page of famous Philadelphians--except some are from the suburbs (and some are just famous here, not *from* here): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Philadelphia

There's an awful lot of 'em.

(wow, Michelle Malkin's from here. I say the Dead Milkmen cancel any negative karma. Hall & Oates puts us in the plus column...)

[last_texas_dem]

125. There's a handful from Orange, TX

Bum Phillips, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (blues singer who died a couple years back), and Bobby Kimball from Toto. I looked on Wikipedia and they include Edgar and Johnny Winter, but I don't count them 'cause they were actually born in Beaumont, and if I included everyone from Beaumont that would be cheating. If I included Port Arthur I'd get to say Janis Joplin but I'm trying not to cheat! (Although I already kind of am by including Brown who was born in nearby Vinton, Louisiana, but grew up in Orange.)

[Nica-Libre]

126. Aside from me?

no.

[MassLiberal]

127. Anita Shreve

She wrote "The Pilot's Wife."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

128. Not me but my ex mother in law.

My ex mother in law (the biggest tall and fat white woman I've ever seen)
was two years ahead of Johnny Carson in high school.

Norfolk (pronounced Nor-fork) Nebraska.

[noonwitch]

130. Gerald Ford, Roger B. Chaffee, El DeBarge,

Grand Rapids, MI. Also, Loy Vaught went to my high school (I didn't know him, he was a freshman when I was a senior) and so did Mike Knuble (after I graduated).

Gillian Anderson and Anthony Keidas both spent some of their childhoods in Grand Rapids. Kim Zimmer of soap opera fame is also from the area-my violin teacher knew her.

[monmouth]

131. Bruce Springsteen, Freehold, NJ and Danny DeVito used to cut

my hair at his dad's shop in Asbury Park....

[SiobhanClancy]

135. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Stephen King,John Ford...

Portland,Maine:)

[Gormy Cuss]

137. Joan Benoit, Judd Nelson, Linda Lavin

Hi SiobhanClancy!
:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

136. There will be, as soon as they find all the bodies. VERY famous, indeed.

Yes. FAMOUS.

(cackling voice while I put my hands together, finger tips to finger tips, and pull the cloak over my head...)

[dysfunctional press]

139. does tom shales count?

the tv critic from the washington post is also from elgin IL.

and also- olympic and PRO shot-putter brian oldfield. he was a guest on johnny carson, so he counts as famous.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

141. No. n/t

[HEyHEY]

142. Jason Priestly, Raymond Burr, Joshua Jackson, Douglas Coupland

Yvonne De Carlo, Neve Campbell The guy who played scotty on Start Trek.... Joe Sakic, Cam Neely, Paul Kariya, Michael J. Fox. There's a ton more.
Vancouver, BC

[Rhythm]

144. First, i have to define "home town"...

I was born in Hialeah FL, but only lived there until i was 5.
Famous people from Hialeah:
Harry Casey - KC and the Sunshine Band
Bucky Dent - former shortstop for the Yanks
Ted Hendricks - NFL Hall-of-Famer (Oakland Raiders), whom my mom dated in high school

I grew up in Charlotte NC
a few of the local celebrities:
Randolph Scott
Harry Golden
Ric Flair
Si Kahn - whose son i was friends with in the '80's
Rich Hall (The "Sniglets" guy)
Hugh McColl (the head of Bank of America)
Billy Graham - the evangelist, not the pro wrestler
and
Carrot Top - he was a frequent shopper in the store i managed, and when he came in, we NEVER got anything done, because everything he picked up was funny

[On the Road]

146. I Haven't Lived There Since Preschool,

but I was born in Newark, New Jersey, home of a surprising number of famous people, including:

Aaron Burr - Vice President
William J. Brennan - Supreme Court Justice
Shaquille O'Neal - Professional Basketball Player
Paul Simon - Singer/Songwriter
Jerry Lewis - Actor
Jason Alexander - Actor
Connie Francis - Singer
Allen Ginsberg - Poet
Whitney Houston - Singer
Edward Koch - Former New York City Mayor
Brian De Palma - Film director
Joe Pesci - Actor
Queen Latifah - Actor/Rapper
Philip Roth - Author
Eva Marie Saint - Actor
Wayne Shorter - Jazz Composer/Musician
Frankie Valli - Singer/Actor
Sarah Vaughan - Jazz singer

[bicentennial_baby]

147. Penn Jillette

[Ediacara]

148. Not my hometown, but where I live now (Bozeman MT): Gary Cooper and Sara Vowel

I grew up in Redmond WA. I couldn't think of anyone famous from Redmond, and wikipedia seems to agree with me....

[5thGenDemocrat]

149. Stevie Wonder, Sonny Stitt, S Epatha Merkerson

Saginaw, Michigan.
John
Jason Richardson of the Golden State Warriors and Oakland As Pitching Coach Curt Young both went to my high school (Arthur Hill), as did Alfonso Boone of the Chicago Bears.
Question Mark and the Mysterians ("96 Tears") are from Saginaw, too -- they're actually in concert at my neighborhood bar tonight.

[zanne]

151. Adam Sandler

My brother in-law was his teacher in Junior High. Said he wasn't funny then.

[Kerrytravelers]

159. Is he funny now?

:shrug:

[greendog]

152. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. n/t

[Connonym]

156. :'(

[Just-plain-Kathy]

153. The Bronx... Regis Philbin, J-lo and Son Of Sam ...n/t

[reyd reid reed]

155. Lon Chaney

I think. Doc Holliday lived here for a while and Brandon McCarthy is from here. Goose Gossage, too.

Couple of others...can't think right now. Apollo Ono lives here.

[Decruiter]

157. Jim Otis from Celina Ohio

http://imgred.com/
Otis was a fullback for the Ohio State University Buckeyes from 1967-69. He led the team in rushing every year of his college career.
In 1969 he was as a consensus first-team All-America selection, and was seventh in the vote for the Heisman Trophy.
Otis was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in 1970. The following year he was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Otis' most successful year as a professional was in 1975, when he rushed for 1,076 yards and was selected to the Pro Bowl.


His dad, Dr. Jim, delivered me into this world. As well as my brothers and my mother.
My mother knew that she could not count on Dr. Jim if the Bucks were playing. He would be at the game.
Subsequently, I was born on a Wednesday.

[Redstone]

158. Kate Hepburn, the old bitch. People around her revere her, even though every time she

came downtown, she was more rude than you'd believe, and to everyone.

But folks around here seem to think that was cute instead of arrogant. Go figure.

Redstone