Famous people from your city or town.........

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staropeace

Richard Bachman's love child
Nov 28, 2006
15,210
48,848
Alberta,Canada
Edmonton has quite a few....notice Michael J. Fox, Tommy Chong, and Leslie Neilson in this group.
  • Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian-born American actress, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong[14]
 

Grandpa

Well-Known Member
Mar 2, 2014
9,724
53,642
Colorado
The Balloon Boy.

Disneyland's Main Street. No, it's true. It was modeled after our downtown.

Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Not this town exactly, but just down the road. Close enough.

Jeremy Bloom, the skier.

Tom Sutherland, the hostage in Lebanon who came out the healthiest.

New Belgium Brewery, home of Fat Tire and other fine malt beverages.

Jake Lloyd. You may have forgotten him. He played the young Anakin Skywalker in "The Phantom Menace."

Dr. Temple Grandin. Her articles and references have appeared in national publications, and Clair Danes starred in a movie about her. (I have met Dr. Grandin, and she looks nothing like Clair Danes.)

Jon Heder a/k/a Napoleon Dynamite. Our town looks nothing like the town in that movie.

Ryan Sutter. I'm told he was a famous bachelor. Shrug.

I hear the Subdudes have been popular in some quarters. They started here.
 

staropeace

Richard Bachman's love child
Nov 28, 2006
15,210
48,848
Alberta,Canada
The Balloon Boy.

Disneyland's Main Street. No, it's true. It was modeled after our downtown.

Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Not this town exactly, but just down the road. Close enough.

Jeremy Bloom, the skier.

Tom Sutherland, the hostage in Lebanon who came out the healthiest.

New Belgium Brewery, home of Fat Tire and other fine malt beverages.

Jake Lloyd. You may have forgotten him. He played the young Anakin Skywalker in "The Phantom Menace."

Dr. Temple Grandin. Her articles and references have appeared in national publications, and Clair Danes starred in a movie about her. (I have met Dr. Grandin, and she looks nothing like Clair Danes.)

Jon Heder a/k/a Napoleon Dynamite. Our town looks nothing like the town in that movie.

Ryan Sutter. I'm told he was a famous bachelor. Shrug.

I hear the Subdudes have been popular in some quarters. They started here.
A goodly list, too.
 

blunthead

Well-Known Member
Aug 2, 2006
80,755
195,461
Atlanta GA
Famous people from Atlanta GA include...

Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Chloë Grace Moretz (Actress and model; best known for her roles in Kick-Ass 1-2, Let Me In, Hugo, If I Stay, The Equalizer, Carrie (2013), (500) Days of Summer, Dark Shadows, and Hick. Won 14 awards, two Saturn Awards among them for Carrie and Let Me In.)

Toni Braxton (Singer, actress and reality TV star)

Jeff Foxworthy

Oliver Hardy

DeForest Kelley (Star Trek)


Brittany Murphy

Robert Patrick (Terminator 2)

Tyler Perry

Victoria Principal

Julia Roberts

Chris Tucker

Spike Lee (Film director)

Steven Soderbergh (Film director)

Margaret Mitchell (Author, Gone With the Wind)
 

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
The only one I know of (and there could be others) is Gedde Watanabe (Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles). He's my friend Shane's Uncle Gary--lol. Oh wait! Just thought of another! Jim McMahon (Chicago Bears QB from the 80s). His sister went to school with me. Looked just like him. Not a good look for a high school girl.
 

Out of Order

Sign of the Times
Feb 9, 2011
29,007
162,154
New Hampster
The only one I know of (and there could be others) is Gedde Watanabe (Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles). He's my friend Shane's Uncle Gary--lol. Oh wait! Just thought of another! Jim McMahon (Chicago Bears QB from the 80s). His sister went to school with me. Looked just like him. Not a good look for a high school girl.

Did she wear that headband all the time too?
 

king family fan

Prolific member
Jul 19, 2010
33,133
117,741
south
hn Adams 1825 Brigadier General during the American Civil War
Duane Allman 1946 Guitarist and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band
Gregg Allman 1947 Singer, keyboardist and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band
Casey Atwood 1980 NASCAR driver
Frank Maxwell Andrews 1884 Important figure in U.S. military aviation
Alfred Bartles 1930 Composer
Bill Belichick 1952 Football coach
Madison Smartt Bell 1957 Novelist
Julian Bond 1940 Civil rights activist
Robert Earl Bonney 1882 US Navy Medal of Honor Recipient 1910
Linn Boyd 1800 Member of Congress from Kentucky and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Beverly Briley 1914 Mayor of Nashville, 1963–1975
Young Buck 1981 Rapper
Kitty Cheatham 1864 Singer and actress
James Craig 1912 Actor
Miley Cyrus 1992 Actress and singer
Anne Dallas Dudley 1876 Women's suffrage activist
Colin Ford 1996 Actor
Bill Frist 1952 Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Red Grooms 1937 Artist
Noodles Hahn 1879 Major League Baseball player
Bobby Hamilton 1957 NASCAR driver
Les Hunter 1942 Center of 1963 Loyola Ramblers basketball national championship team
Thomas Setzer Hutchison 1875 Military officer, police commissioner, civil reformer, author, inventor
Lillian Jackson 1919 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League founding member
Randall Jarrell 1914 Poet and writer
Jeff Jarrett 1967 Professional wrestler
Lucille La Verne 1872 Actress
Margaret Landis 1890 Silent Screen Actress
Mary Louise Lester 1921 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League founding member
Kathy Liebert 1967 World Series of Poker bracelet winner
Beth Littleford 1968 Comedian and actress
Ron Mercer 1976 Professional basketball player
Bettie Page 1923 Pin-up model
Keith Paskett 1964 Professional Football Player for the Green Bay Packers
James B. Pearson 1920 U.S. Senator
Annie Potts 1952 Actress
Shelton Quarles 1971 Professional Football Player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Emily J. Reynolds 1956 Former Secretary of the U.S. Senate
Robert Ryman 1930 Visual artist
John Seigenthaler 1927 Journalist, writer, and political figure
Nate Simpson 1954 Football player
Samuel Stritch 1887 First American member of the Roman Curia
Phillip Supernaw 1990 NFL player
Andrea True 1943 Pornstar and disco singer
Eric Volz 1979 Magazine publisher convicted of murder in Nicaragua
Lark Voorhies 1974 Television actress
Charlie Wade 1950 Football player
Chuck Wagner 1958 Actor
William Walker 1824 Journalist, adventurer, and briefly the President of Nicaragua
Kitty Wells 1919 Musician and singer, commonly referred to as the Queen of Country Music
Hank Williams III 1972 Singer and musician
Del Wood 1920 Ragtime, gospel, and country music pianist
 

HollyGolightly

Well-Known Member
Sep 6, 2013
9,660
74,320
54
Heart of the South
Whew - we got quit a list, I'll name drop first:
Isaac Hayes - I am friends with one of his children and she looks just like him - only glamorous and gorgeous
Cybil Shepherd
Elvis
Shelby Foote
Al Green
BB King
Kathy Bates (cockdoodie!)
Booker T
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lawler
Danny Thomas
Justin Timberlake (actually I think he's from Millington, but that's right over there)
Rufus Thomas
Tennessee Williams
Sam & Dave
Carl Perkins
Wink Martindale (this was a surprise!)
Ginnifer Goodwin (my sister in law went to school with her)

How about a spin off: famous people I have actually seen in my town:
Mickey Rourke
Sean Penn
Tom Cruise
Susan Sarandon - can I just say she was the coolest, sexiest, most at ease celebrity I have ever seen in person?
 

blunthead

Well-Known Member
Aug 2, 2006
80,755
195,461
Atlanta GA
Whew - we got quit a list, I'll name drop first:
Isaac Hayes - I am friends with one of his children and she looks just like him - only glamorous and gorgeous
Cybil Shepherd
Elvis
Shelby Foote
Al Green
BB King
Kathy Bates (cockdoodie!)
Booker T
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lawler
Danny Thomas
Justin Timberlake (actually I think he's from Millington, but that's right over there)
Rufus Thomas
Tennessee Williams
Sam & Dave
Carl Perkins
Wink Martindale (this was a surprise!)
Ginnifer Goodwin (my sister in law went to school with her)

How about a spin off: famous people I have actually seen in my town:
Mickey Rourke
Sean Penn
Tom Cruise
Susan Sarandon - can I just say she was the coolest, sexiest, most at ease celebrity I have ever seen in person?
No you can't.
 

GNTLGNT

The idiot is IN
Jun 15, 2007
87,651
358,754
62
Cambridge, Ohio
Famous people from Atlanta GA include...

Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Chloë Grace Moretz (Actress and model; best known for her roles in Kick-Ass 1-2, Let Me In, Hugo, If I Stay, The Equalizer, Carrie (2013), (500) Days of Summer, Dark Shadows, and Hick. Won 14 awards, two Saturn Awards among them for Carrie and Let Me In.)

Toni Braxton (Singer, actress and reality TV star)

Jeff Foxworthy

Oliver Hardy

DeForest Kelley (Star Trek)


Brittany Murphy

Robert Patrick (Terminator 2)

Tyler Perry

Victoria Principal

Julia Roberts

Chris Tucker

Spike Lee (Film director)

Steven Soderbergh (Film director)

Margaret Mitchell (Author, Gone With the Wind)
...no they aren't....