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

[AnnaMarie]

Stephen Amell (Arrow)
Margaret Atwood (author)
Frederick Banting (medical scientist & doctor, co-discoverer of insulin, Nobel Laureate
Billy Talent (rock band)
Liona Boyd (musician)
Neve Campbell (actress)
John Candy
Jim Carrey
Cowboy Junkies (band)
William B. Davis (actor)
deadmou5 (electronic music producer)
Fefe Dobson (singer....my son went to school with her)
Drake
Joe Flaherty (comedy actor)
Dave Foley (comedian)
Megan Follows (actress Anne of Green Gables)
Jeff Healy (musician)
Dan Hill (singer, songwriter)
Norman Jewison (producer)
Rush (musical group)
Eugene Levy (comedic actor)
Norm Macdonald (comedic actor)
Martha and the Muffins (musical group)
Kids in the Hall (comedy troupe?)
Rick Moranis (actor comedian, writer)
Colin Mochrie (comedian, actor, improvisation)
Mike Myers (actor comedian)
The Nylons (accapella group Lion Sleeps Tonight)
Catherine O'Hara (SCTV, Beetlejuice)
Our Lady Peace (rock band)
Mary Pickford (actress, co-founder of United Artists)
Christopher Plummer (actor)
Sarah Polley (actress)
Jason Priestly (actor)
Royal Canadian Air Farce (comedy troupe)
Elvis Stojko (figure skater)
Trish Stratus (wrestler)
Sum 41 (punk band)
Billy Van (comedian, actor)
Johnny Wayne (of Wayne and Shuster)

And more hockey players than you can shake a stick at.

 

[staropeace]

Stephen Amell (Arrow)
Margaret Atwood (author)
Frederick Banting (medical scientist & doctor, co-discoverer of insulin, Nobel Laureate
Billy Talent (rock band)
Liona Boyd (musician)
Neve Campbell (actress)
John Candy
Jim Carrey
Cowboy Junkies (band)
William B. Davis (actor)
deadmou5 (electronic music producer)
Fefe Dobson (singer....my son went to school with her)
Drake
Joe Flaherty (comedy actor)
Dave Foley (comedian)
Megan Follows (actress Anne of Green Gables)
Jeff Healy (musician)
Dan Hill (singer, songwriter)
Norman Jewison (producer)
Rush (musical group)
Eugene Levy (comedic actor)
Norm Macdonald (comedic actor)
Martha and the Muffins (musical group)
Kids in the Hall (comedy troupe?)
Rick Moranis (actor comedian, writer)
Colin Mochrie (comedian, actor, improvisation)
Mike Myers (actor comedian)
The Nylons (accapella group Lion Sleeps Tonight)
Catherine O'Hara (SCTV, Beetlejuice)
Our Lady Peace (rock band)
Mary Pickford (actress, co-founder of United Artists)
Christopher Plummer (actor)
Sarah Polley (actress)
Jason Priestly (actor)
Royal Canadian Air Farce (comedy troupe)
Elvis Stojko (figure skater)
Trish Stratus (wrestler)
Sum 41 (punk band)
Billy Van (comedian, actor)
Johnny Wayne (of Wayne and Shuster)

And more hockey players than you can shake a stick at.

WOW

 

[morgan]

Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles

 

[morgan]

And more hockey players than you can shake a stick at.

 

[TheRedQueen]

You can't find my hometown on a map, it's so damned small. But Chuck Norris dropped into the local gas station once...no joke.
I've seen David Hasselhoff--he's nowhere near as buff as you'd think--and, thanks to my job, I've made sandwiches for Colin Kaepernick and the really tall alien from the diner scene in MIB. No clue what that guy's name is, but he doesn't look much different in real life.

 

[Alexandra M]

Colm Feore (played in Storm of the Century --Andre Linoge)
and ....
wait for it .....
Justin Bieber

 

[skimom2]

He is an odd man. Nice, but odd.

 

[skimom2]

Colm Feore (played in Storm of the Century --Andre Linoge)
and ....
wait for it .....
Justin Bieber

And I thought Colm Feore was Irish! Learn something new every day

 

[fushingfeef]

I live in Pittsburgh so a full list would be pretty long, but here's a few that I can think of:
Andy Warhol
Stephen Foster (wrote Oh! Susannah, Camptown Races, My Old Kentucky Home, Beautiful Dreamer, etc.)
Gene Kelly
Arnold Palmer
Jimmy Stewart
Fred Rogers
Christina Aguilera
Jeff Goldblum
Dennis Miller
Bobby Vinton
George Romero
Henry Mancini
Honus Wagner
Joe Montana
Joe Namath
Johnny Unitas
Michael Keaton
Mike Ditka
Sharon Stone
Shirley Jones
Heinz
Mellon
Carnegie
Warner Bros

Also the Big Mac was invented here!

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

The guy who ran out on Custer and lived to tell the tale lived and is buried here. Frank Finkel (1854 - 1930) - Find A Grave Memorial

A few people from town made it on reality shows. My dad was on Oprah once.

Also, Art Garfunkel visited the town once and my friend who is now also buried here was his waitress. That's about it!

 

[Tazz26]

Nelson Mandela,Charlize Theron and Arnold Vosloo(he was the mummy lol)

 

[Tazz26]

The guy who ran out on Custer and lived to tell the tale lived and is buried here. Frank Finkel (1854 - 1930) - Find A Grave Memorial

A few people from town made it on reality shows. My dad was on Oprah once.

Also, Art Garfunkel visited the town once and my friend who is now also buried here was his waitress. That's about it!

Why was your dad on Oprah?

 

[misery chastain loves co.]

 

[Neesy]

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

# 15 (gulp) - Miley Cyrus!

 

[Neesy]

Burton Cummings (from the Guess Who) and Randy Bachman - went on to form Bachman Turner Overdrive

Nia Vardolos (main character in My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

Monty Hall - was the original host of Let's Make a Deal

Anna Paquin (actress) - born here but moved to New Zealand when she was 4 - she won an Academy Award for her role in a movie called "The Piano" with Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel

 

[mal]

Linus Westburg. He was a news guy from my area. Once he came to town for a bowling tournament and sat on my coat. I was very proud.

 

[not_nadine]

I read that as "He sat on my cat"

 

[staropeace]

Burton Cummings (from the Guess Who) and Randy Bachman - went on to form Bachman Turner Overdrive

Nia Vardolos (main character in My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

Monty Hall - was the original host of Let's Make a Deal

Anna Paquin (actress) - born here but moved to New Zealand when she was 4 - she won an Academy Award for her role in a movie called "The Piano" with Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel

How about Neil Young? I always think about Michael J Fox when I go to the Royal Alex for surgery. If it was good enough for Michael, it is good enough for me lol. Can you imagine Leslie Neilson here as a boy cutting up in class LOL?

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Famous Folks from the town I currently live in:

Abigail Adams
Hal Holbrook
George Jung (well, infamous anyway)
Nate and Rob Coddry

 

[not_nadine]

Someone was tried as a witch in my hometown. (Margret Madson 1683)

She was accused by a few neighbors and even her own daughter of making threats, bewitching cattle and witnesses testified that she appeared to them in spectral form. As if that isn’t interesting enough… she was actually found guilty, but not of being a witch, but for having a reputation of a witch. Boy, if some of us were charged of having a bad reputation- there’d be a lot of pending trial dates.

They dismissed the charges that she had killed livestock. She was released with fines and a promised of 6 months of good behavior. There are myths that claim the charges were dismissed because she had a legal right to fly on a broomstick- but there are no court records that confirm this.