Just figured we could do some name dropping here. Are there any famous people (past or present) from your home town. And have you had the opportunity to meet any of them?
Here is my list:
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Teddy Geiger (a new young singer..your teen may have heard of him)
Chuck Mangione ....met him when we were both on the same flight out of Rochester.
Susan B Anthony
George Eastman (the Kodak guy). Went out on a date once with a distant reletive of his.
Taye Diggs (the actor)
Lou Grahamm. Musician
I know there are others, just cannot remember names. One was an older African American actor whose name escapes me. He was in one of the versions of the movie Show Boat. He sang Old man River. I will look up his name and post it.
Anyone famous from your home town??
Anyone famous from your home town??
My home town is so small if you blink whilst driving you've missed it, judging the amount of people in the garden most days, im likely the most famous person from here :p
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Betty Boop
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Sir Humphry Davy inventor of the Davy Lamp.
Thandie Newton starred in Mission Impossible 2, Crash, The Truth about Charlie and lots more.
Jan Harvey aka Jan Howard in Howards Way.
Jean Shrimpton aka 'The Shrimp' ok she wasn't born here, but lives here now.
Thandie Newton starred in Mission Impossible 2, Crash, The Truth about Charlie and lots more.
Jan Harvey aka Jan Howard in Howards Way.
Jean Shrimpton aka 'The Shrimp' ok she wasn't born here, but lives here now.
Anyone famous from your home town??
Born in San Diego, California
Blalock, Jolene
Brody, Adam
Duvall, Robert
Mickelson, Phil
Seymour, Stephanie
Williams, Ted
Peck, Gregory
Mario(Who just lost on dancing with the Stars)
Jewel
The guy who won the Tour de France this year
Annette Bening (Warren Beatty's wife)
Greg Louganis (Olympic diver)
That is all I can think of for now.
Blalock, Jolene
Brody, Adam
Duvall, Robert
Mickelson, Phil
Seymour, Stephanie
Williams, Ted
Peck, Gregory
Mario(Who just lost on dancing with the Stars)
Jewel
The guy who won the Tour de France this year
Annette Bening (Warren Beatty's wife)
Greg Louganis (Olympic diver)
That is all I can think of for now.
ALOHA!!
MOTTO TO LIVE BY:
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming.
WOO HOO!!, what a ride!!!"
MOTTO TO LIVE BY:
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming.
WOO HOO!!, what a ride!!!"
Anyone famous from your home town??
Chris Shivers, the professional bull rider. I went to school with him 
We also have a basketball player but I can't remember his name.
We also have a basketball player but I can't remember his name.
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RedGlitter
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How about "infamous" instead?
Can't recall names but a guy in my neighborhood was hiding out here. He had been featured on "America's Most Wanted."
In the 70's, two little boys were locked up in an abandoned miner's shed and it was set on fire. It was on Unsolved Mysteries. They still don't know who did it.
Can't recall names but a guy in my neighborhood was hiding out here. He had been featured on "America's Most Wanted."
In the 70's, two little boys were locked up in an abandoned miner's shed and it was set on fire. It was on Unsolved Mysteries. They still don't know who did it.
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Hank Williams, Jr. - country music legend
NFL QB Terry Bradshaw
NBA Center Robert Parish
Van Cliburn - concert pianist
Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn
PGA Golfers Hal Sutton and David Toms
Kenny Wayne Sheppard - Blues guitarist
William Joyce - Rollie Polie Ollie children's author
Blues legend Heddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter
Legendary guitarist James Burton
Johnny Cochran "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
NFL QB Terry Bradshaw
NBA Center Robert Parish
Van Cliburn - concert pianist
Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn
PGA Golfers Hal Sutton and David Toms
Kenny Wayne Sheppard - Blues guitarist
William Joyce - Rollie Polie Ollie children's author
Blues legend Heddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter
Legendary guitarist James Burton
Johnny Cochran "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
Anyone famous from your home town??
Actually this list is from the state of Minnesota.
Charles Bender (1883 - 1954) The first pitcher in baseball to win six World Series games; born in Crow Wing County.
Patty Berg (1918 - ) One of the greatest female golfers ever, founded the U.S. Ladies’ Professional Golfers’ Association; born in Minneapolis.
William O. Douglass (1898 - 1980) The Longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice; born in Maine.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) Author famous for his characters and sense of style as in The Great Gatsby; born in St. Paul.
Judy Garland (1922 - 1969) Singer and Actress most famous for her role as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz; born in Grand Rapids.
J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976) Richest man in the world when he died; born in Minneapolis.
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) The first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, he wrote of small town life such as Main Street; born in Sauk Centre.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978), U. S. senator and vice president of the U. S. (1965 - 1969); Democratic candidate for president, 1968; Minnesota Senator.
John S. Pillsbury (1827 - 1901) A leader in flour milling, he helped found the family company in Minneapolis in 1872; three-time Republican governor of Minnesota (1876 - 1882). Garrison Keillor (1942 - ) Author and host of "A Prairie Home Companion"; born in Anoka.
Roger Maris (1934 - 1985) Baseball player that while playing for the Yankees made history hitting 61 home runs in a single season; born in Hibbing.
Winona Ryder (1971 - ) Actress named after her birthplace, Winona, known in movies The Age of Innocence and The Crucible.
Charles Schulz (1922 - 2000) Cartoonist that created the comic strip Peanuts about Charlie Brown; born in Minneapolis.
Richard W. Sears (1863 - 1914) Founder of the Sears, Roebuck and Company; born in Stewartville.
DeWitt Wallace (1889 - 1981) Founder of the Reader’s Digest magazine; born in St. Paul.
John Madden (1936 - ) Emmy Award winning sport analyst and commentator and former coach of the Oakland Raiders; born in Austin.
Bob Dylan (1941 - ) Songwriter and singer whose songs of protest made him a hero to the civil-rights and student movements of the 1960s; born in Hibbing.
Charles H. Mayo (1865 - 1939) and
William J. Mayo (1861 - 1939) Physicians who founded the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
Walter Frederick Mondale (1928 - ) 42d vice-president of the United States (1977 - 1980); Democratic candidate for president of the United States in 1984.
Eugene McCarthy (1916 - ) U.S. Senator from Minnesota. Professor, author, and poet; born in Watkins.
Charles Bender (1883 - 1954) The first pitcher in baseball to win six World Series games; born in Crow Wing County.
Patty Berg (1918 - ) One of the greatest female golfers ever, founded the U.S. Ladies’ Professional Golfers’ Association; born in Minneapolis.
William O. Douglass (1898 - 1980) The Longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice; born in Maine.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) Author famous for his characters and sense of style as in The Great Gatsby; born in St. Paul.
Judy Garland (1922 - 1969) Singer and Actress most famous for her role as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz; born in Grand Rapids.
J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976) Richest man in the world when he died; born in Minneapolis.
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) The first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, he wrote of small town life such as Main Street; born in Sauk Centre.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978), U. S. senator and vice president of the U. S. (1965 - 1969); Democratic candidate for president, 1968; Minnesota Senator.
John S. Pillsbury (1827 - 1901) A leader in flour milling, he helped found the family company in Minneapolis in 1872; three-time Republican governor of Minnesota (1876 - 1882). Garrison Keillor (1942 - ) Author and host of "A Prairie Home Companion"; born in Anoka.
Roger Maris (1934 - 1985) Baseball player that while playing for the Yankees made history hitting 61 home runs in a single season; born in Hibbing.
Winona Ryder (1971 - ) Actress named after her birthplace, Winona, known in movies The Age of Innocence and The Crucible.
Charles Schulz (1922 - 2000) Cartoonist that created the comic strip Peanuts about Charlie Brown; born in Minneapolis.
Richard W. Sears (1863 - 1914) Founder of the Sears, Roebuck and Company; born in Stewartville.
DeWitt Wallace (1889 - 1981) Founder of the Reader’s Digest magazine; born in St. Paul.
John Madden (1936 - ) Emmy Award winning sport analyst and commentator and former coach of the Oakland Raiders; born in Austin.
Bob Dylan (1941 - ) Songwriter and singer whose songs of protest made him a hero to the civil-rights and student movements of the 1960s; born in Hibbing.
Charles H. Mayo (1865 - 1939) and
William J. Mayo (1861 - 1939) Physicians who founded the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
Walter Frederick Mondale (1928 - ) 42d vice-president of the United States (1977 - 1980); Democratic candidate for president of the United States in 1984.
Eugene McCarthy (1916 - ) U.S. Senator from Minnesota. Professor, author, and poet; born in Watkins.
I AM AWESOME MAN
Anyone famous from your home town??
Upper Marlboro
* Dr. William Beanes (1749 - 1828): indirectly responsible for precipitating the situation in which the American national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was written. (See also HMS Tonnant (1792) and Francis Scott Key for detailed accounts.) Today Dr. Beanes and his wife are buried in a brick-walled and iron-fenced plot off Governor Oden Bowie Drive, on a hill overlooking Schoolhouse Pond [citation needed].
* John Carroll, S.J. (1735 - 1815): first Roman Catholic Bishop and Archbishop in the United States and founder of Georgetown University.
* Thomas J. Claggett (1742 - 1816): first Episcopalian Bishop consecrated in the United States.
* Lansdale Sasscer: U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District, born in Upper Marlboro in 1893.
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Baltimore
* Carmelo Anthony – professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets
* Eubie Blake – composer of ragtime, jazz and popular music
* Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues – former professional basketball player with the Charlotte Hornets
* Charles Joseph Bonaparte – former United States Attorney General and Secretary of the Navy
* David Byrne – songwriter for the New Wave and Talking Heads bands
* Cab Calloway – jazz singer and bandleader
* Ben Carson – neurosurgeon
* Tom Clancy – author, born in Baltimore County
* Elijah Cummings – politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th District of Maryland
* Angela Dawson – community activist murdered along with her family on October 16, 2002
* DMX – hip hop performer/rapper and actor
* Frederick Douglass – abolitionist, statesman, orator and author
* Anna Faris – actress, best known for her role in Scary Movie
* Cass Elliot – singer, best remembered as member of The Mamas and the Papas
* Derek Frazier, pro wrestler
* Rudy Gay – former highly praised college basketball player at the University of Connecticut
* Philip Glass – composer
* Dorothy Hamill – figure skater
* David Hasselhoff – actor
* Billie Holiday – jazz singer
* Johns Hopkins – businessman, Quaker, abolitionist and philanthropist
* Marcie Jones – author and journalist
* William Henry Cardinal Keeler – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore
* Stacy Keibler – WWE Diva and actress
* Francis Scott Key – lawyer and amateur poet; wrote the Star Spangled Banner
* Bucky Lasek – Professional Skateboarder
* Barry Levinson – screenwriter, film director, and producer of film and television
* Laura Lippman – author of detective fiction
* Morris Louis - abstract expressionist painter
* Thurgood Marshall – first African American United States Supreme Court Justice
* Jim McKay – television sports journalist
* H.L. Mencken – journalist and social critic
* Kweisi Mfume – former CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
* Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson – television and film actress
* Ric Ocasek – former vocalist and frontman for The Cars
* Jim Palmer – former Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
* Nancy Pelosi – Speaker-elect of the United States House of Representatives and representative from the state of California
* Michael Phelps – Olympic swimmer and world-record holder
* Jada Pinkett-Smith – actress
* Edgar Allan Poe – poet, short story writer, editor and critic
* Parker Posey – actress, best known for her work in Scream 3 and Blade: Trinity
* Greg Puciato – singer and musician, best known as the singer for experimental metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan
* Robin Quivers – sidekick of Howard Stern
* Adrienne Rich – feminist, poet, teacher, and writer
* Cal Ripken, Jr. – professional baseball player; former shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles
* Ruckus, professional wrestler
* Babe Ruth – professional baseball player for the New York Yankees and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
* Pam Shriver – former professional tennis player and current sports broadcaster
* Tupac Shakur – hip hop performer and rapper
* Sisqó – R&B and pop singer
* Evan Taubenfeld – Avril Lavigne's former guitarist
* Anne Truitt – minimalist sculptor
* Anne Tyler – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
* Johnny Unitas – former professional football player for the Baltimore Colts
* Nikolai Volkoff – WWE hall of fame professional wrestler
* John Waters – filmmaker
* Montel Williams – famous television talk-show host
* Frank Zappa – singer, guitarist, composer and satirist
* Dr. William Beanes (1749 - 1828): indirectly responsible for precipitating the situation in which the American national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was written. (See also HMS Tonnant (1792) and Francis Scott Key for detailed accounts.) Today Dr. Beanes and his wife are buried in a brick-walled and iron-fenced plot off Governor Oden Bowie Drive, on a hill overlooking Schoolhouse Pond [citation needed].
* John Carroll, S.J. (1735 - 1815): first Roman Catholic Bishop and Archbishop in the United States and founder of Georgetown University.
* Thomas J. Claggett (1742 - 1816): first Episcopalian Bishop consecrated in the United States.
* Lansdale Sasscer: U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District, born in Upper Marlboro in 1893.
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Baltimore
* Carmelo Anthony – professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets
* Eubie Blake – composer of ragtime, jazz and popular music
* Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues – former professional basketball player with the Charlotte Hornets
* Charles Joseph Bonaparte – former United States Attorney General and Secretary of the Navy
* David Byrne – songwriter for the New Wave and Talking Heads bands
* Cab Calloway – jazz singer and bandleader
* Ben Carson – neurosurgeon
* Tom Clancy – author, born in Baltimore County
* Elijah Cummings – politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th District of Maryland
* Angela Dawson – community activist murdered along with her family on October 16, 2002
* DMX – hip hop performer/rapper and actor
* Frederick Douglass – abolitionist, statesman, orator and author
* Anna Faris – actress, best known for her role in Scary Movie
* Cass Elliot – singer, best remembered as member of The Mamas and the Papas
* Derek Frazier, pro wrestler
* Rudy Gay – former highly praised college basketball player at the University of Connecticut
* Philip Glass – composer
* Dorothy Hamill – figure skater
* David Hasselhoff – actor
* Billie Holiday – jazz singer
* Johns Hopkins – businessman, Quaker, abolitionist and philanthropist
* Marcie Jones – author and journalist
* William Henry Cardinal Keeler – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore
* Stacy Keibler – WWE Diva and actress
* Francis Scott Key – lawyer and amateur poet; wrote the Star Spangled Banner
* Bucky Lasek – Professional Skateboarder
* Barry Levinson – screenwriter, film director, and producer of film and television
* Laura Lippman – author of detective fiction
* Morris Louis - abstract expressionist painter
* Thurgood Marshall – first African American United States Supreme Court Justice
* Jim McKay – television sports journalist
* H.L. Mencken – journalist and social critic
* Kweisi Mfume – former CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
* Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson – television and film actress
* Ric Ocasek – former vocalist and frontman for The Cars
* Jim Palmer – former Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
* Nancy Pelosi – Speaker-elect of the United States House of Representatives and representative from the state of California
* Michael Phelps – Olympic swimmer and world-record holder
* Jada Pinkett-Smith – actress
* Edgar Allan Poe – poet, short story writer, editor and critic
* Parker Posey – actress, best known for her work in Scream 3 and Blade: Trinity
* Greg Puciato – singer and musician, best known as the singer for experimental metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan
* Robin Quivers – sidekick of Howard Stern
* Adrienne Rich – feminist, poet, teacher, and writer
* Cal Ripken, Jr. – professional baseball player; former shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles
* Ruckus, professional wrestler
* Babe Ruth – professional baseball player for the New York Yankees and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
* Pam Shriver – former professional tennis player and current sports broadcaster
* Tupac Shakur – hip hop performer and rapper
* Sisqó – R&B and pop singer
* Evan Taubenfeld – Avril Lavigne's former guitarist
* Anne Truitt – minimalist sculptor
* Anne Tyler – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
* Johnny Unitas – former professional football player for the Baltimore Colts
* Nikolai Volkoff – WWE hall of fame professional wrestler
* John Waters – filmmaker
* Montel Williams – famous television talk-show host
* Frank Zappa – singer, guitarist, composer and satirist
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Richard Bell
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Nomad;463607 wrote: Actually this list is from the state of Minnesota.
Charles Bender (1883 - 1954) The first pitcher in baseball to win six World Series games; born in Crow Wing County
I thought he invented the drinking binge.
Charles Bender (1883 - 1954) The first pitcher in baseball to win six World Series games; born in Crow Wing County
I thought he invented the drinking binge.
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Richard Bell
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Bobby Hull/Dennis Hull/ Brett Hull - NHL hockey dynasty
Farley Mowat - author, scholarly curmudgeon, champion sh!t disturber
Martin Seemungal - CBC and ABC foreign correspondent
Avril Lavigne - pop singer
Lee Aaron - '80s heavy metal queen
Farley Mowat - author, scholarly curmudgeon, champion sh!t disturber
Martin Seemungal - CBC and ABC foreign correspondent
Avril Lavigne - pop singer
Lee Aaron - '80s heavy metal queen
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Uncle Kram
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UB40
Duran Duran
The Move
ELO
Wizzard
Judas Priest
Steve Winwood
Moody Blues
Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne
Ocean Colour Scene
Dexys Midnight Runners
Joseph Lucas - Electrical component giant
Matthew Boulton - Industrialist
William Murdoch - pioneer of gas lighting
Bill Oddie - birdwatching Goodie
Neville Chamberlain - Prime minister when WW2 started
Comedian Jasper Carrott
Amy Turtle
Comedien Tony Hancock
Lord of the Rings Author JRR Tolkien
Duran Duran
The Move
ELO
Wizzard
Judas Priest
Steve Winwood
Moody Blues
Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne
Ocean Colour Scene
Dexys Midnight Runners
Joseph Lucas - Electrical component giant
Matthew Boulton - Industrialist
William Murdoch - pioneer of gas lighting
Bill Oddie - birdwatching Goodie
Neville Chamberlain - Prime minister when WW2 started
Comedian Jasper Carrott
Amy Turtle
Comedien Tony Hancock
Lord of the Rings Author JRR Tolkien
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN PUN
Anyone famous from your home town??
Small town here, so only Michael Bergin from Baywatch!
Actually, he was in our house a few times, as he is our younger daughter's best friends brother! Nice guy!
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Actually, he was in our house a few times, as he is our younger daughter's best friends brother! Nice guy!
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Accountable
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A classmate of mine came in third in the Miss Louisiana pageant. :-3
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i used to go to the same school as that mate who is barot ali g fella but i cant remember him
a few old school mates say oh you must remember him but i cant
my cousin is johny frankham the former light heavyweight boxing champ of england ,he once sparred in an exhabition match with Ali i have a photo of them in the ring together with ali on the canvas with john looking down but i think ali was just clowning , i have had some mma wresteling with a few of britons cage fighting best ok mostly i got my ass kicked but for an old guy on the most i held my own
my daughter introduced me to the girl that plays tracey beaker , she is so small
a few old school mates say oh you must remember him but i cant
my cousin is johny frankham the former light heavyweight boxing champ of england ,he once sparred in an exhabition match with Ali i have a photo of them in the ring together with ali on the canvas with john looking down but i think ali was just clowning , i have had some mma wresteling with a few of britons cage fighting best ok mostly i got my ass kicked but for an old guy on the most i held my own
my daughter introduced me to the girl that plays tracey beaker , she is so small