Who is your town's most famous celebrity?

[Mr. Ected]

Cumming, Georgia is proud to claim: JUNIOR SAMPLES.



Come on, honestly, can you beat that?

[mnhtnbb]

1. James Taylor!

Chapel Hill, NC

[PRETZEL]

2. Michael Keaton's bio

has him born in Coraopolis, but when he was born most of the surrounding towns used the Cory post office. I think I heard he's actually from the Montour area.

For people who follow football Coraopolis' claim to fame would be former college and pro coach Foge Fazio.

[Mad_Dem_X]

3. Well, the town next to my hometown gave us

Bruce Willis.

[femmocrat]

4. Shirley Jones.

From a small town nearby.

From my hometown: Gene Kelly and Charles Bronson.

[SoxFan]

5. We apologize

[uncommon]

6. Hometown: the Kennedys; adopted town: Emeril Lagasse

:)

[YankeyMCC]

7. Uncle Sam, Click (of Click and Clack) , William J. McCarthy

and um Dane Cook

[mitchum]

8. Michael Stipe, Kim Basinger

[Kali]

9. Baxter Black lives near Benson now, though he isn't from there.

Rex Allen was from Willcox.

[av8rdave]

10. My hometown: Lucille Ball

Other celebrities from Jamestown, NY include Roger Tory Peterson and Natalie Merchant

[bif]

11. A few from Grosse Pointe

Anita Baker, Roger Penske, the Dodge Brothers, Edsel Ford. And the writer Jeffrey Eugenides grew up here. Tons of famous folks from the area. Robin Williams. Gilda Radner. Ellen Burstyn. Henry Ford. Thomas Eddison. Lilly Tomlin. Alice Cooper along with a huge list of musicians.

[Soylent Brice]

12. Katt Williams, and Nick Lachey.

from the same city, yet they might as well be from two different planets.

[tabbycat31]

13. can I go with a neighboring town instead?

If that is the case Bruce Springsteen.

My area has also produced Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito but none are from my town.

[Hosnon]

14. Probably James Brown. nt.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

15. No one famous where I live in Southport, NC, but nearby Wilmington

has Michael Jordan and Charlie Daniels among others.

My birth place - Bologna, Italy - has quite a few throughout the ages.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Well, we kind of claim Bill Clinton. Not bad for a small state.

Lots of folks from Arkansas listed here: http://www.arkansas.com/things-to-do/famous/

[Bucky]

17. That blonde chick who was Xena's sidekick on "Lucy Lawless"

Probably the most famous person from Houston, if you don't count the Enron geniuses.

[Tom_Foolery]

18. Johnny Depp was born in my town. n/t

[Tikki]

19. There are quite a few...today's favs are Bob and Mike Bryan...

http://www.bryanbros.com/



Tikki

[1gobluedem]

20. Bob Seger and Iggy Pop

And the unabomber although he was just a student, not a townie. Madonna went to school here too.

[Dulcinea]

21. The Indigo Girls.

They went to my kids' elementary school in Decatur, GA!

[Crystal Clarity]

122. No Way!!!! Really?

I love them! Their lyrics and harmonies both rock IMHO. Decatur, Ga may have just become my new Mecca! :-)

[KamaAina]

22. Arguably, hot dog eating champ Joey Chestnut

Also: soccer's Brandi Chastain (see, there is a reason they take their shirts off after a goal! :P ), metalhead Nikki Sixx, unsung 9/11 hero Norm Mineta, and the late Pat Tillman. :patriot:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. Elk Grove village, Il: Billy Corgan, Johnny Weismuller, and the guy who shot up NIU a few years ago.

[GoCubsGo]

29. I grew up there.

I had forgotten about Johnny Weismuller. Jerry Jenkins, who co-authored those whacko "Left Behind" novels, also is from EGV. I used to live across the street from his parents, and hung around with his kid brother occasionally.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

62. Hard to believe it takes two people to write those things...

:hi:

[GoCubsGo]

73. Heh!

That guy who shot up NIU went to my high school, but years later. So did Ian Whassisface, the Smashing Pumpkins bassist. Again, that was after my time.

It's a small world...

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

24. Probably Amedeo Modigliani, the painter and sculptor...

There's also Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (President of Italy until 2006) and of course Cristiano Lucarelli! :evilgrin:

The town, by the way, is Livorno, Italy.

[CBR]

25. Hometown: Bluefield, WV

John Nash --


played by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind

[kimi]

26. Right off the top of my head

I know that F. Scott Fitzgerald is buried at the corner of Rockville Pike and - um, I think, Viers Mill Rd - in Rockville MD.

Does that count?

[Swede]

27. Roddy Piper.

Roddy Piper (Roderick George Toombs) was born on Saturday, April 17, 1954 in Saskatoon.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

31. Did he ever make you put on the glasses?

I would just go ahead and put on the glasses. Really.

[Swede]

32. Yes,he did.

I put up a fight,but in the end........

[GoCubsGo]

28. Lee Atwater

Yes, my town is as nasty as he was.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

30. Tom Clancy

Actually, he didn't live techinically in my town, but I didn't really have a "town" but instead a zip code. But he was the closest big name celebrity living in my area.

[kentauros]

33. Howard Hughes, from Houston, Texas :)

Also Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bill Hicks, Molly Ivins, Lyle Lovett, Dennis and Randy Quaid, Patrick Swayze, Barbara Jordan, Dr. Denton Cooley.

At least, those are the ones I know. I'm sure there are more :)

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

[ceile]

38. Don't forget Beyonce and Brent Spiner! n/t

[kentauros]

40. I considered Brent, but wasn't sure if he was "most famous"

;)

Didn't even think about Beyonce, mainly because I never think about Beyonce :P

[Lucian]

34. Director Stephen Sommers and Academy Award Winner Gig Young.

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

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

[Callalily]

35. Many famous people

from my town. Just to name a few;
Harry Houdini
Willem Dafoe
Maury Laws
Senator Joseph McCarthy (sorry about that one)
Edna Ferber
John Bradley
Rocky Bleier
Gerry Davis
Greta Van Susteren (sorry about that one too)

[ceile]

36. There's several

Matthew McConaughey
Lance Armstrong
Sandra Bullock
The Wilson Brothers
Wes Anderson
Drew Brees
Terence Malick
Andy Roddick

[pink-o]

37. Suzanne Sommers

from San Bruno, Ca. It's not really my hometown, I was brought up in the town just south of there, Millbrae. But Suzanne went to my high school, graduating a few years ahead of me. Her alcoholic Irish dad used to hang out in the dive bars with my best friend's alcholic Irish dad. Fun times!

[dana_b]

99. small world

my uncle knew her in high school (was it Capucino?). Said her dad wasn't too nice. I can't remember what he told me her real name was but he said she was nice.

[Inchworm]

39. Doc Watson

I'm sitting on the TOP of the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1q4Eb34mwM

:)

[jobycom]

118. Now THAT's something to proud of.

:)

[ChoralScholar]

41. Since I now teach in North Little Rock, I will claim ...

Joey Lauren Adams!

[Captain Boomerang]

42. Kirstie Alley, Don Johnson, Joe Walsh...

Charles Koch - of Koch Industries
Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech - Hawker Beechcraft (B-17...)
Clyde Vernon Cessna - Cessna Aircraft
Stearman Aircraft
Mooney Airplane Company
Lear Jet
Mentholatum
Coleman (Coolers and camping stuff.)
Dan and Frank Carney - Pizza Hut
White Castle
Antoine Carr - Basketball
Dan Glickman
Hattie McDaniel - (Gone With the Wind)
Rick Mears - Race car Driver
Roger Mears - Race car Driver
Vera Miles - (The movie "Psycho.")
Dennis Raider - BTK serial killer
Barry Sanders - NFL
Nate Robertson - Baseball
Lynette Woodard - First Female Harlem Globetrotter

There's more, but that is all I can think of...

[MiddleFingerMom]

43. I'm sorry. I'm so very very VERY sorry.

.
My "growin'-up hometown" was Jackson, Michigan -- thought it was
50,000 in the 70's. It is shrinking... 36,000 in the 2000 census,
down from 37 in the 1990 one.
.
.
Hometown to Ted Nugent now (was originally from around Ann Arbor,
MI... I think).
.
.
And in 1854, it was considered "The Birthplace of the Republican
Party" -- their first convention being held there.
.
.
.
.
My only possible defense is that 6 years later, THAT Republican
party gave us Abraham Lincoln.
.
.
.
To balance things off, Jsckson gave the world MiddleFingerMom and
the Ritz Cracker.
.
The original lyrics to the song were:
.
Now, if you're blue
And you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
MiddleFingerMom
...
Puttin' on the Ritz.
.
.
.
.
.
I had THOUGHT we were home to not just one, but TWO of the Apollo
astronauts in the 60's -- but I couldn't find anything about that
on quick glance research.
.
.

[bif]

44. I forgot Meg White

Is from Grosse Pointe. Also Fred "Sonic" Smith and Patty Smith lived here for a bunch of years.

[Bennyboy]

45. Sacramento: Dusty Baker....

Jackie Green, Kevin Johnson, Lynn Anderson, Joan Lunden, Tesla, The Deftones, Kevin Johnson (I know he wishes he was higher on the list for sure), Craig Chaquico, Tiny (the guitar player for Merle Haggard), Russ Woody (Producer/director of sitcoms, went to my school and was in my class)

[Bennyboy]

71. Add, Timothy Busfield and (sort of) Tom Hanks...

Tom has family here and at times called Sac his home town. I once had dinner with him at a Chinese buffet. He was at the same communal table were were at. Gump had just come out then...Nice guy...He was there with his family...

[BurtWorm]

46. Lady Gaga

At the moment. There have been others.

[FarLeftRage]

47. Dylan Ratigan and Garry Trudeau...

Trudeau was born in NYC, he was raised here.

And Ratigan still has family here.

[mcctatas]

48. I had to google "famous people Oshkosh WI"

slim pickings, Hornswoggle the wrestler http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornswoggle

the lead singer of "Tuff" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Rachelle

and for some reason our city is laying claim to Jon Gosselin even though his official bio says nothing of the sort http://oshkosh-wisconsin-wi.com/notable-people-oshkosh.htm

Oh and one of my friend's grandfathers is Howie Koplitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Koplitz

[kentauros]

50. You should look at your city's Wikipedia entry then,

under "Notable People" ;)

[mcctatas]

53. I did that!

none of them jumped out at me! :P

[kentauros]

54. None of them jumped out at me, either.

But when I looked at the page for Lewis Hine I think you should include him as a famous artist person :D

[nuxvomica]

49. "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Rachel Ray, Charles Evans Hughes

Take your pick as to who is most famous.

[underpants]

51. Warren Beatty - Richmond VA

[BarenakedLady]

52. Hometown? James Woods.

We graduated from the same high school. Of course, I am MUCH, much younger. *cough cough*

[hippywife]

55. Leon Russell.

And he still keeps a home and studio here so at least he didn't let the door hit him in the ass on they way out as so many do.

:hi:

[elana i am]

56. well i'm from a kansas city suburb

but since we consider ourselves part of the kansas city area, i'll say eric stonestreet, dianne wiest, paul rudd, david cook, dee wallace stone, ed asner, melissa ethridge, don cheadle, chris cooper, maurice green, pat metheny, calvin trillin. and deceased...charlie parker, jean harlow, buck o'neil, robert altman and walter cronkite. george brett, joan crawford and eminem all lived here for a while but i don't know where they were born. i take that back, eminem is from st. joseph, mo. but lived in kc for many years. does that count?

independence, mo is kinda considered part of the kc area too and ginger rogers and harry truman are from there.

[Kat45]

57. Eliza Dushku grew up in my town.

I'm not sure, but I think my cousin knew her.

[rurallib]

58. Iowa City Iowa - lots of famous have passed through and stayed a while

like Kurt Vonnegut and Tennessee Williams
I will go with Dr. James Van Allen of the Van Allen belts. Born about 50 miles south of Iowa City in Mount Pleasant. Taught and researched at the U of Iowa for a long time.
Ashton Kutcher from a small town just outside IC
Some football players have been born there.

[JTG of the PRB]

59. Jessica Biel, Kristin Davis, Tony Boselli, Scott Carpenter, and Jello Biafra are all from Boulder.

Not too shabby!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

60. Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Al Franken

[TheMightyFavog]

61. The city where i work is the birthplace of John Hubley, the creator of Mr. Magoo.

[sakabatou]

63. The founders of HP

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard.

[Chubb Rock]

64. Billy Wagner

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

[RagAss]

65. Mr. Christopher Walken of Queens, NY.

[DoBotherMe]

66. Current celebs

Shawn Johnson
Slipknot
Brandon Routh
And me! Haha. Dana ; )

[MorningGlow]

67. Philip Seymour Hoffman, I guess

Taye Diggs, Kristen Wiig, Mimi Kennedy, Garth Fagan (choreographer), Lou Gramm (Foreigner).

Nobody to be ashamed of, really.

Oh wait--Arthur Shawcross the serial killer. There. But he wasn't born here--just killed here. Whee.

[amyrose2712]

68. Welch's Grape Juice Guy

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

Edited for typo.

[Book Lover]

69. Hometown: NYC, so let's not go there. Current town: Ignored SF Suburb, Wannakeepitthatway, CA

But we boast fucking Rob Schnieder as a native. Kill me now.

[Redstone]

70. Kate fucking Hepburn. And I wish the old bitch had found

another place to live and die; harsh that might be, but it's the truth.

Redstone

[DoBotherMe]

72. Cuz of tourists?

Or her? (I love gossip.)Dana ; )

[Redstone]

84. No, not tourists; because in truth she was a mean old bitch, no matter

how the people here in town want to spin the facts.

She'd go into Walt's (our Main Street general store) and literally (and I use that word literally) shove people out of the way if they were in line in front of her and bark orders left and right to the staff...and people here thought that behavior was "cute."

Rather than considering her arrogant and bitchy as she was.

Not to try to besmirch the memory of Saint Kate, of course, since you can't do that here in Saybrook...

Redstone

[DoBotherMe]

87. I thought so

She seemed a snob. Thanks for the great gossip! Dana ; )

[w8liftinglady]

74. um...Boxcar Willie...

We have an overpass named after him :)

http://www.boxcarwillie.com/biography/

[w8liftinglady]

75. then...I guess-me?

[Roon]

76. Alice from the brady bunch lives on capitol hill in Denver

I haven't run into her,but I know she's there

[Brigid]

77. Eugene V. Debs

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

Pretty radical, especially for his day. :)

[foxfeet]

78. Mothman. As in "The Mothman Prophecies."

Well, the OP didn't specify "human."

[pamela]

105. You must be from Point Pleasant

My Dad grew up there then moved to Gallipolis. Were you around when the bridge collapsed?

[foxfeet]

107. Yep-- I was in high school.

I still remember all the brouhaha and, of course, the horror of the Silver Bridge collapse.

[kedrys]

79. William Shatner

Up next: Jay Baruchel.

[blue_roses_lib]

80. Scott Gomez

Alaska - you have to treat us like one giant small town. Also:

Trajan Langdon
Irene Bedard
Tommy Moe
Jewel (sorry folks)
Carlos Boozer

Wyatt Earp spent some time here.


And our ex-Gov, she who must not be named.

[Blue_In_AK]

86. I'd like to add Dahr Jamail to your list.

He may not be a celebrity but he's a damn fine journalist.

[blue_roses_lib]

97. DOH!!!

Forgot about him -

:hide:

In case folks aren't familiar with him:

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

He spoke on campus last fall - I couldn't go, but I heard it was a massive event.


Edited to add info-

[Blue_In_AK]

108. We saw him over there, too, but I think it was a couple of years

ago. He was an amazing source of information. I could have listened to him talk all night.

[blue_roses_lib]

113. This got me thinking...

Because at work I'm debating with another dept on campus about who's responsible for paying the bill for the flyers for his event. I know he was definitely here last fall. I'll have to ask at work tomorrow... was he maybe part of the Engaging Muslims series? Now I'm curious.


https://www.google.com/calendar/render?eid=XzhkOWxjZ3JmZHByNmFzamtjZGhtNHBqNTYwcGplZDluNmtxajBjaGhjbGkzNmNqNDc1aDYycDM0Y2dzNmFjajJjY29nIGxlZ2FjeWNhbEB1YWEuYWxhc2thLmVkdQ&ctz=America/Anchorage&sf=true&output=xml


A blip about his book signing last fall.

[doc03]

81. Don't have a town but in the tri-state area I would say the most

famous at this time is Brad Paisley we also have John Corbett, Dean Martin, Bobby Vinton, Christina Aguilera, Charlie Manson, William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Clark Gable and Perry Como to name a few.

[revolution breeze]

82. The town where I was born.....

Tom Waits, Tina Yothers, Jim Zorn, Oscar Del La Hoya, Richard Nixon and Nadya Suleman. The town I live in now (which is home) Clarence Gatemouth Brown and John Besh. Lee Harvey Oswald went to high school here also.

[Glorfindel]

83. Soap stars Anthony Herrera and Taylor Spreitler

Footballer Stevon Moore is a native and lives here now. Dizzy Dean lived here in retirement (his wife was a local).

[Blue_In_AK]

85. Rick Steiner's been getting a lot of air time

on Keith Olbermann. Anchorage does not claim she who shall not be named.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

88. Jack Kerouac

Lowell Massachusetts

[City of Mills]

112. and Ed McMahon, Bette Davis, James Whistler, Paul Tsongas, Micky Ward

Don't know who is the most famous, but we have a few celebs...

Honorable(?) Mention:
Ted Leonsis (AOL)
Benjamin Butler
etc...

[applegrove]

89. Alanis Morisette. Ottawa, Canada

[Iggo]

90. Eric Stoltz. Stacy Ferguson. Nomar Garciaparra.

Whittier, CA.

EDIT: Also, Lauren Tewes, Tina Yothers, Tom Waites and Vic "The Brick" Jacobs.

EDIT AGAIN: I guess the truly most famous would be one Tricky Dick Nixon (Whittier High School; Whittier College).

LAST EDIT: Stacy Ferguson = "Fergie" of the Black Eyed Peas.

[LibDemAlways]

91. No one famous from here, but more than a few famous people

live nearby - Kelsey Grammar, Will Smith, Martin Sheen, Mickey Rooney, Wayne Gretzky, Joe Montana come to mind.

[IDemo]

92. Probably Curtis Steigers

Boise, Idaho

[Withywindle]

93. Barack Obama. The only one who could have eclipsed the previous record-holder, Michael Jordan

That's the town where I live now anyway.

The most famous person from my original hometown is probably me.

[Inspired]

94. So, you're from Kenya?

:rofl:

[Glassunion]

117. +1 LOLZ!!!

[mikeSchmuckabee]

95. Academy award winner Mary Steenburgen

From North Little Rock, Arkansas. SALUTE!

[Orrex]

96. John Kiriakou

Former CIA operative who in 2007 was the first to admit that the agency used waterboarding as a form of torture.

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

My town has others, as well, but Kiriakou's no slouch.

[handmade34]

98. when I worked at the St. Johnsbury, Vermont

elementary school, Luis Guzman used to come in and pick up his kid

[complain jane]

100. Omar Kadafi

And Eddie Murphy.

[AsahinaKimi]

101. BRUCE LEE

Yes he was born in San Francisco!

[Misskittycat]

102. Reggie Jackson; Benjamin Netanyahu

Cheltenham Township, suburb of Philadelphia.

Reggie Jackson, Cheltenham High School, Class of '64: I was in junior high at the time; my sister was a high school cheerleader. We lived across the street from the high school. I used to go to football games to watch her cheer, and saw Reggie play football. He was, of course, the star athlete of the school, not only in baseball.

Benjamin Netanyahu, CHS, Class of '67: His father was a visiting history professor at one of the Philadelphia-area universities so Ben and his older brother Jonathan (i.e., the one who successfully led the raid at the Entebbe Airport in the 1970's to free hostages, but was killed there; a movie was made of it) went to Cheltenham High School. I knew who Ben was, but never had a class with him, and don't recall any interaction. He was a year ahead of me.

[mysuzuki2]

103. Gene Wilder, Spencer Tracy, Liberace

and me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

104. Bach. Mao Tse Tung. Geronimo. Hirohito, Pol Pot, Carmen Miranda, Cher, King Tut, Gilgamesh, and Bono

all born within a few blocks of my house.

[DFW]

109. Mighty big city blocks you have there.

The property taxes must be punishing..........

[Rabrrrrrr]

111. The city used to cover a lot more geography...

[patrick t. cakes]

106. Bob Nastanovich (Pavement, Silver Jews)

"Bob also played drums on several Silver Jews albums (recently contributing to the Tanglewood Numbers record and tour), has tour managed Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and he managed the first Silver Jews U.S tour of 2006. In addition, he has played on recordings by Palace Brothers and the Tall Dwarfs. He is currently employed as a chart caller for Equibase, America's official Horse Racing database, and works at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa and Hawthorne Racecourse in 'Chicagoland'."

Rock and Roll baby!:headbang:

[DFW]

110. Dallas has too many, and Falls Church has too few, so.....

I'll go with my third home town, and say its most famous celeb is:


Dieter Nuhr

[LeftishBrit]

114. J.R.R. Tolkien; Stephen Hawking (grew up here); C.S. Lewis; probably lots of others

Oxford (England). Lots of people are associated with it by attending the university - including Bill Clinton, and perhaps most notoriously Margaret Thatcher; but I interpreted the question as those who lived here long-term.

I was born and grew up in London. If I named all the celebrities who've lived in the entire city, it would take a very long time. Confining myself to Wimbledon, the place where I mostly lived when growing up: Robert Graves; Oliver Reed; and (the ones I'm always asked about) the Wombles!

[MissMillie]

115. The Coors Light Twins

I think

[Glassunion]

116. Too many to name... But.

Kristen Alderson and Eddie Alderson "One Life to Live"

Bill Bloom, Double Dutch Bus Composer

Władysław Bortnowski, Polish general

Christian Bauman, novelist and NPR commentator

Justin Guarini, American Idol runner-up

Irene Molloy, Grosse Pointe

Kevin Nalty, YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/nalts) a bajillion hits so far...

Dodie Smith, author (The Hundred and One Dalmatians)

Timothy Stack, actor/writer (My Name is Earl)

Stephen Susco, motion picture screenwriter (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839812/)

Erin Torpey, (One Life to Live)... What the hell is up with all the One Life to Live people?

But I guess the top of the list would be... Alicia Moore aka P!NK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Moore)

Not bad for a small little town in PA...

[jobycom]

119. Hometown--Brett Favre, sort of. Current town--Willie Nelson or Drew Brees.

I grew up on the Mississippi Coast in two towns and a rural district. Brett Favre was from the rural district just north of one of the towns and just west of the other town and of my rural district. Plus, my best friend lived by him, and I spent my summers there. So he's the most famous person from my "town."

Austin--Willie Nelson is my favorite, but Drew Brees is pretty big right now. I could also claim Stevie Ray Vaughn, since Austin claims him, but he was really from around Dallas, and just got famous here.

[Flaxbee]

120. Patsy Cline

The town is trying to raise funds to refurbish her home in the downtown area....

[LynneSin]

121. Wilmington Delaware - Joe Biden, George Thorogood and Ryan Phillippe plus...

we can lay claim to Bob Marley since he lived here for 5 years.

[LNM]

123. Loni Anderson

and I loved WKRP.