Anybody Famous?

Is there anybody that lived  in your town that is famous?

I have a funny story. I worked at retail store in the 1970's and I was helping this friend of mine move into her house. The girl that was living with her showed me a picture of her and this guy. Later I remarked to my friend how  much older  the guy looked than her roomate. My friend said that he was her uncle. Then she said "Didn't you recognize him?" I said no!  She then told me Mary Ann's uncle is Martin Sheen!

People from my area- Agnus Moorehead,Dave Chappel,Rob Lowe 

James Roday (actor from Psych), Carol Burnett

Katie Holmes is from Toledo.  Not that I really know who she is.

Maya Angelou, Scot Bakula, Chuck Berry, Harry Caray, Jack Buck, Bob Costas, Sheryl Crow, Miles Davis, T.S. Eliot, Redd Foxx, Scott Joplin, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Stan Musial, Vincent Price, Albert Puhols, Joseph Pulitzer, Ozzie Smith, Tina Turner, Tennesee Williams...

There are a lot more, but that's who I can think of off the top of my head.

I have no idea who any of those people are, santonacci. :(

I really hope you're joking.  Tina Turner....Chuck Berry.... seriously?

Noel Fielding

Are you from St. Louis, santonacci?  'Cuz I grew up there and I know at least a few people on that list are from the STL.  I've actually met Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Ozzie Smith! Yay for the midwest!:-)

Ok, here goes:

• Billy Graham
• Julius Peppers
• Vince McMahon
• Gallagher
• Ava Gardner
• Pam Grier
• Andy Griffith
• Matt & Jeff Hardy
• Jaime Pressly
• Evan Rachel Wood
• Clay Aiken
• Tori Amos
• Fantasia
• Shirley Ceasar
• George Clinton
• John Coltrane
• Bucky Covington
• Chris Daughtry
• Jermaine Dupri
• Sugar Ray Leonard
• Brad Hoover
• Dale Jarrett
• Roberta Flack
• Ben Folds
• Anthony Hamilton
• Warren Haynes
• Jodeci, K-Ci & JoJo
• Thelonius Monk
• Kelly Pickler
• James Taylor
• Dale Earndhart

Sheryl Crowe is from Kennett MO.  She claims STL, but she grew up in the bootheel.

 ildako, are you from Yellow Springs?  Rob Dyrdek is from Kettering.

I love my town! here we go:

• john waters,
• jada pinkett-smith (hate her!)
• billie holliday,
• babe ruth,
• dru hill,
• thomas jane (actor),
• mo'nique,
• barry levinson,
• h.l. menken,
• edgar allan poe (lived and died here, not born),
• sprio agnew,
• tori amos (lived here, not born here; see NC),
• carmelo anthony,
• john astin (gomez from the 60's addams family),
• danger mouse (sweet dj/producer),
• DMX,
• charles "roc" dutton,
• adam duritz,
• anna faris (born here),
• phillip glass,
• duff from ace of cakes (lives here, not from here),
• dorothy hamill,
• DAVID HASSELHOFF,
• dashiell hammett,
• stacy kiebler (wwe),
• thurgood marshall,
• nancy pelosi,
• parker posey,
• robin from the howard stern show,
• mike rowe (dirty jobs? discovery channel?),
• murdock from the a-team,
• tupac,
• gertrude stein, 
• montel williams,
• oprah worked here right before chicago,
• frank zappa

To add to Santonacci's list...

Shelley Winters, Ike Turner, Dred Scott!!, Randy Orton, Phyllis Diller, William S. Burroughs, Yogi Berra, Daniel Boone, Budwiser beer!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_p eople_from_St._Louis

John Waters!  I know where you're from!!

I just watched Cecil B. Demented yesterday. 

dalmalama, i don't understand: among all those people, you capitalize david hasselhoff?  why not billie holiday, the babe, gertrude stein?  and parker posey - i love parker posey!

i come from a really small town (like, 3000), but can boast paul dean from the band loverboy and several olympians.

i capped him b/c he's so ridiculously lame and shouldn't be from anywhere near me, b/c i'm so awesome you see, and i just couldn't believe my eyes when i saw his name!

I come from a pretty small town too and don't know of anyone famous from here, but Robert Downey Jr's mother lives here--in public housing! My stepson saw him in the local gym and tried to say hello. The star was rude so SS put a sticky note on his back that said 'druggie'. (Yes, I had a talk with the boy about that...and then I giggled when he was out of the room.)

Chris that's too funny!

Lucille Ball, the 10,000 maniacs. i think thats it. 

Did I miss anyone who listed Maryland?

Spiro T. Agnew vice president, Baltimore
Benjamin Banneker mathematician, astronomer, Oella/Ellicott City
John Barth writer, Cambridge
Eubie Blake musician, Baltimore
John Wilkes Booth actor, Lincoln assassin, Harford County
Francis X. Bushman actor, Baltimore
James M. Cain writer, Annapolis
Samuel Chase jurist, Sumerset Cty
John Dickinson statesman, Talbot Cty
Frederick Douglass abolitionist, Tuckahoe
Christopher Gist frontiersman, Baltimore
Philip Glass composer, Baltimore
Matthew Henson explorer, Charles Cty
Billie Holiday jazz-blues singer, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins financier, Anne Arundel Cty
Reverdy Johnson lawyer, statesman, Annapolis
Thomas Johnson political leader, Calvert Cty
Francis Scott Key laywer, author, Carroll Cty
Thurgood Marshall jurist, Baltimore
H. L. Mencken writer, Baltimore
Charles Willson Peale painter, naturalist Queen Annes Cty
Babe Ruth baseball player, Baltimore
Upton Sinclair author, Baltimore
Roger B. Taney jurist, Calvert Cty
Harriet Tubman abolitionist, Dorchester Cty
Leon Uris author, Baltimore
Frank Zappa singer, Baltimore

Susan Collins :)