# Famous people born in your home town. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241 "2018-04-27T21:28:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/21 "2018-04-28T14:28:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I don’t know if we’ve done this thread before, but how many famous people have been born in the same town as you? Obviously, lots of people have been born in large cities such as New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles I was born in Los Angeles, just down the street from [Elvis Cole’s fictional A-frame](http://www.thrillingdetective.com/cole.html). Without putting together a list, I’m just gonna assume that more than a few celebs were born there. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/22 "2018-04-28T15:07:06Z")
Anne Morrow Lindberg. Our local high school is named after her father, Dwight Morrow. And former Jet Bruce Harper, who is a good friend of mine. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/23 "2018-04-28T17:23:34Z")
Al Capp, Walt Kelly, John Ratzenberger, and me. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/24 "2018-04-28T17:32:27Z")
Technically I was born in an ambulance somewhere in NW Washington, DC on the way to Sibley Memorial Hospital, but we lived in Rockville, Maryland, final resting place of F. Scott Fitzgerald and birthplace of one Mr. Spike Jonze. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/25 "2018-04-29T02:21:45Z")
I tried to think what my hometown would be. The place I was born, but have no recollection of? Childhood home from about age 3 to 7 years? Next town, where I stayed until I was 13? I don’t feel like I have a hometown. StG ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/26 "2018-04-29T02:42:27Z")
My hometown has no need for famous denizens. Its name gets spoken with great affection probably by millions of nerds every day. What more can a child of a small backwater corner not much of anywhere called Enterprise hope for? ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/27 "2018-04-29T02:46:00Z")
Gerald Ford Fred Astaire Marlon Brando Malcolm X Warren Buffet Angelo Rossitto (The Master half of Master/Blaster In Beyond Thunderdome) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/28 "2018-04-29T03:07:43Z")
The town where I grew up, Bristol TN\VA, just has Tennessee Ernie Ford to my knowledge. It’s also the Birthplace of Country Music. My birthplace, Nashville, has a whopping buttload of celebrities who were born there. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/29 "2018-04-29T03:12:15Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > Gerald Ford > Fred Astaire > Marlon Brando > Malcolm X > Warren Buffet > Angelo Rossitto (The Master half of Master/Blaster In Beyond Thunderdome) How could you miss Bob Gibson? ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/30 "2018-04-29T03:22:52Z")
Lou Costello and Uncle Floyd. I got to know Uncle Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/31 "2018-04-29T06:27:56Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Technically I was born in an ambulance somewhere in NW Washington, DC on the way to Sibley Memorial Hospital, but we lived in Rockville, Maryland, final resting place of F. Scott Fitzgerald and birthplace of one Mr. Spike Jonze. Yeah, I was born in DC, in George Washington Memorial, so…probably far too many to list. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/32 "2018-04-29T07:02:47Z")
From Green Bay: Curly Lambeau (founder of the Packers) Zack Snyder Tony Shaloub Pat McDonald (singer in 1980s group Timbuk3) Dave Pirner (singer for Soul Asylum) Red Smith (sportswriter) John Anderson (ESPN Sportscenter anchor) ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/33 "2018-04-29T12:11:42Z")
Burt Reynolds Steven Seagal Magic Johnson Timothy Busfield I had not heard that Chris Hanson, the journalist. Nor John Hughes To name just a few… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/34 "2018-04-29T12:48:37Z")
Peterborough, Ontario, can claim, among others, Roberta Bondar (first Canadian woman in space), Sir Sandford Fleming (inventor of Standard Time), Matt Frewer (played Max Headroom in the 1980s), Steve Chiasson (NHL player), Ronnie Hawkins (musician), and Lester B Pearson (former Canadian PM; won Nobel Peace Prize). But not Neil Young, who was born in Toronto even though he spent much of his childhood in Omemee, just up the road. > **[List of people from Peterborough, Ontario](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Peterborough,_Ontario)** > > Peterborough and its surrounding area is and has been home to many notable people, especially considering its relatively small size. It has been especially prolific in producing players for the NHL through the Peterborough Petes. It also has produced a number of musicians, actors and authors. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/35 "2018-04-30T00:35:11Z")
Anchorage, Alaska: Mario Chalmers, NBA Scott Gomez, NHL Valerie Plame, CIA ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/36 "2018-04-30T00:49:27Z")
Margaret Hamilton, actress Joel Grey, actor Dean Martin, singer, actor Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatrician Debra Winger, actress ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/37 "2018-04-30T01:07:29Z")
I know of famous people from El Cerrito, CA, but I don’t know of anyone who was born here. Most people are born in hospitals, and El Cerrito doesn’t have one. ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/38 "2018-04-30T01:40:05Z")
couple members of Cheap Trick. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/39 "2018-04-30T04:30:54Z")
Arcadia, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles: no one of note. There are a few names I recognize in the list of notable people from Arcadia on Wikipedia, but it doesn’t look like any of them were actually born there. With one exception: Ted Leonard. I had no idea. He’s just a few months younger than me. And I suspect you have no idea who he is. He’s the vocalist of a local SF Bay Area prog band called Enchant, and he’s also been the lead vocalist of a much wider-known prog band called Spock’s Beard for the last seven years. I first encountered Enchant when they opened for Steve Hackett at a show in San Jose in 1993. I saw them again a few months later, opening for IQ. That time, they were selling their debut CD, so I bought it directly from them. I’ve been a fan ever since. I saw them a few more times during the 90s, I think the last time was when they opened for Marillion in San Francisco. Anyway, I had no idea he was born in the same town as me, around the same time! Kinda neat. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/40 "2018-04-30T05:11:27Z")
Comedian **Patton Oswalt** is from my small town of Sterling, VA, which is about 20 miles from Washington DC. My brother remembers playing D&D with him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241.md?page=3)