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 

wow, I just looked it up and my town is kinda lame!

I went to the same college as Weird Al (he signed the bathroom where he recorded his first song)....

Not too impressive

Marg Helgenburger (don't know how to spell her name--the lady on CSI!) is from my husband's tiny hometown of 1000 people.  They are so proud of her there that they named a street after her!  :-)

GUY FIERI!

Sroscoe! don't forget the county's greatest claim to fame! Zach Efron went to AGHS and lived in SLO for a while, I think.

So yeah, Zach Efron went to my high school (about 10 years after me) and Mr. Flowers the typing teacher was an extra in Teen Wolf, back in the day. My hometown was a breeding ground for talent.

 

Original Post by allydan:

Are you from St. Louis, santonacci?  

Well, I've been in St. Louis since '93, but I grew up a bit further southwest.  Famous people from where I grew up:  Kathleen Turner, Brad Pitt, Bob Barker, John Goodman, and John Ashcroft. 

Joey from N'Sync went to my highschool in Orlando. I saw him a couple years back taking his daughter to the YMCA gym for soccer.

The manager of the Backstreet Boys lives in a house in the neighborhood near mine. He always gave out great stuff at Halloween. :)

When I go on our motorboat, I can see (one of) Shaq's houses on the shore. It's huge, but pretty ugly. It has a shiny, blue roof. Yuck.

Tiger Woods lives in a neighborhood near mine. The golf tournaments go on in the neighborhood next to mine.

Orlando's full of it. Can't wait to move. :P

I live outside Nashville, country music captial. Country music stars plus  Nicole kidman now married to her country music singer hubby.

Tim Allen, Gillian Anderson(the x-files), Kristen Bell, Elizabeth Berkeley, Selma Blair, Dave Coulier(Full House), Jeff Daniels, James Earl Jones, Lee Majors, Tim Meadows, Tom Selleck, Sinbad, David Spade, Lily Tomlin, Courtney B. Vance, Dick York, Michael Moore, Casey Casem, Ed McMahon, Charles Lindbergh, the Ford family, Rosa Parks, Jack Kevorkian, Jimmy Hoffa, Diana Ross...Okay that's more than enough, sorry. I got carried away. I did not know so many people were from or lived in Michigan.(I hate it here)

mcderin, you can't have a whole state!  if i get a whole province, i can do way better than paul dean!

I've got Sarah Jessica Parker, George Clooney, Nick Lachey and Halle Berry... oh and Jerry Springer. haha

I'm sure there's more but I'm too lazy to look.

If you want to count the people that went to college around here,

Coretta Scott King,Nancy Wilson, The guy that did the voice for The Twilight Zone(Rod Serling or Sterling)

I grew up in Kettering, Curlygirl and ildako.  I live in Dayton now.  My boyfriend and his stepbrother used to skate with Rob Dyrdek.  (too bad they didn't stick with him!) He grew up in our neighborhood. 

We were watching an episode of his show and my boyfriends' kids thought it was awesome that they were at Kings Island and in our old neighborhood on the show.

Ricky Gervais and Kate Winslet were both born in Reading, England which is where I was born.

Paul Shaffer (and like the town in post #22) we named a street after him.

Bobby Curtola.

And Alice Cooper likes to golf here.  ;)

um, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, etc. are all here (whether we like it or not).

But seriously as far as famous people born here, we got Marvin Gaye, Duke Ellington, Dave Chappelle, Goldie Hawn, Samuel L. Jackson, Pete Sampras, and more...of course, none of them live here anymore.

And you remember the infomercial guy who wears the question mark suit, he's a local.

these are the famous people from my area

Jason Garrett football coach his parents were my neighbors

Sam Mils Jr (RIP) Football player The NICEST guy ever

Ashley Tisdale

Danny Devito

Bruce Springstein

Bud Abbott

William Count Basie

Norman Mailer

Bam Bam Bigelow

Kirsten Dunst lived in the next county over but went to private school with my neighbor

Kevin Smith & Jay

Can't remember anymore right now

I went to school with Christina Aguleria.  Not an accomplishment for me, but some people think it's the best thing ever. 

Nobody famous is from my home town, but I live in Green Bay now and the only person I can think of is Tony Shaloub(sp?- The guy who plays Monk)

Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Loni Anderson (moved now) Dom Deluise(sp) Burt Reynolds, Joe Namath, Jesper Parnevik, Andy Abad, Kurt Pellegrin, Celine Dion, Jack Niclaus, Perry Como. Too many more to list I think

 

 

Sara Bareilles is from Eureka, California :)

also Mike Patton of Faith No More.