# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/81 "2018-12-14T21:14:58Z")
[Too damned many](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Pittsburgh). 😃 Coolest, in my opinion: -Michael Keaton -Gene Kelly -Joe Maganiello -George Romero -David O. Selznick -Andy Warhol -Nellie Bly -Honus Wagner -Joe Namath -Dan Marino -Johnny Unitas -Joe Montana -Neil Walker -Brandon Saad -Mike Weber -Bruno Sammartino -Rachel Carson -Steve Byrne (he went to my high school! Graduated the year before I got there, but his brother was a year below me) The Heinz Family, the Rooneys, the Mellons, etc. And last be certainly not least: Mister Rogers. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/82 "2018-12-14T21:24:32Z")
After a long history of not much we have had a surprising amount of successful professional athletes in the last couple of decades. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/83 "2018-12-14T21:43:39Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [Too damned many](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Pittsburgh). 😃 But which ones were _born_ there? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/84 "2018-12-14T21:49:59Z")
The only famous person I know of from my hometown (Ormond Beach, Florida) is Brian Kelley, the ‘Florida’ half of Florida Georgia Line. Vince Carter (NBA player) is from neighboring Daytona Beach. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/85 "2018-12-14T23:16:04Z")
Well, Chicago is my home town, so that’s gonna be a gazillion folks. I’m guessing perhaps Walt Disney is the most famous of the ones actually born here (a lot of your first-thought-of Chicagoans were not born here.) But narrowing it down to, say, somebody who was born here and went to my high school, I think The Lord of the Dance himself, Michael Flatley, may well be the most famous. Or if I narrow it down to people who lived or worked in my neighborhood, that may be Jenny McCarthy (she worked at a deli in my neighborhood, but was technically from a neighborhood or two over.) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/86 "2018-12-14T23:30:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > “Stretching the term”? :dubious: \*\*Carrol Baker isn’t famous enough? \*\*Tim Kazurinsky isn’t famous? If I mentioned Steve Ditko to you, you’re not going to associate him with one of the most popular super heroes ever created? Anybody who’s ever watched more than a handful of Three Stooges films has seen Emil Sitka. “Hold hands, you lovebirds.” Ray Scott, Jack Ham, and Pete Vuckovich may not be familiar to you if you’re not a sports fan, but still, their names are widely enough known. > > “Stretching it” my eye. Bolding mine. I remember when she whacked Charlton Heston in the chops in _The Big Country_. And when she held a gun on Ahnuld and ordered him to “give me my grandson!” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/87 "2018-12-15T00:11:31Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > But which ones were _born_ there? 😉 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/88 "2018-12-15T00:41:03Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > When I first read the OP I assumed it was asking for people born in the town I live in. I don’t know of anyone born in El Cerrito, CA It’s kind of an interesting question to me - what is a home town? I mean I was born in Ithaca, NY. But my parents moved before I was even aware of my surroundings. I never lived more than two consecutive years in any town between birth and 8th grade. From that pointI was in one place for ~10 years. Later after an interregnum I put in another ~10 years in that same place as well. But that was still less than half my life. Do I have a home town? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/89 "2018-12-15T00:43:02Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > “Stretching the term”? :dubious: Carrol Baker isn’t famous enough? Tim Kazurinsky isn’t famous? If I mentioned Steve Ditko to you, you’re not going to associate him with one of the most popular super heroes ever created? Anybody who’s ever watched more than a handful of Three Stooges films has seen Emil Sitka. “Hold hands, you lovebirds.” Ray Scott, Jack Ham, and Pete Vuckovich may not be familiar to you if you’re not a sports fan, but still, their names are widely enough known. > > “Stretching it” my eye. Honestly, I have no idea who any of those people are. I’m not one of those people who avoids pop culture, either–I just haven’t heard of any of those people. Perhaps it’s generational. I’m 43. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/90 "2018-12-15T00:48:27Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > It’s kind of an interesting question to me - what is a home town? I mean I was born in Ithaca, NY. But my parents moved before I was even aware of my surroundings. I never lived more than two consecutive years in any town between birth and 8th grade. From that pointI was in one place for ~10 years. Later after an interregnum I put in another ~10 years in that same place as well. But that was still less than half my life. > > Do I have a home town? Do feel like you have a home town? No one is keeping score. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/91 "2018-12-15T00:58:12Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > It’s kind of an interesting question to me - what is a home town? I mean I was born in Ithaca, NY. But my parents moved before I was even aware of my surroundings. I never lived more than two consecutive years in any town between birth and 8th grade. From that pointI was in one place for ~10 years. Later after an interregnum I put in another ~10 years in that same place as well. But that was still less than half my life. > > Do I have a home town? As has already been said, a hometown is what you think it is. For Kansas, Dwight Eisenhower said "the proudes thing I can say is that I am from Abilene(Kansas)’ Yet he was born in Texas and came to Kansas as a months old infant. It’s where he grew up and went to school, the place he identified with… It’s where he is buried, where the Presidential Library is. That make it his hometown, no matter where he was born. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/92 "2018-12-15T02:34:59Z")
MLB player Joey Hamilton, Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, judge Avant Edenfield, and Raelette Margie Hendrix. Due to the local university, several other famous-ish folks are associated with my hometown. But the biggest source of local fame is a little ditty written by a fellow from Thomson, Georgia, and recorded by some guys from Macon (among others.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mCtjnvGNPAU/maxresdefault.jpg "Gregg Allman with Taj Mahal | Live at Telluride Blues & Brews Festival") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCtjnvGNPAU) (The place where I was born, and lived until I was a teenager, is a couple of hours south. It’s not home. I expect I’ll go back for a couple of funerals. Its only claim to fame is a cousin who has written a couple of nice books, and a seventies-era nuclear power plant.) ---
**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:** [December 15, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/93 "2018-12-15T02:53:01Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [Too damned many](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Pittsburgh). 😃 > > Coolest, in my opinion: > > -Michael Keaton > -Gene Kelly > -Joe Maganiello > -George Romero > -David O. Selznick > -Andy Warhol > -Nellie Bly > -Honus Wagner > -Joe Namath > -Dan Marino > -Johnny Unitas > -Joe Montana > -Neil Walker > -Brandon Saad > -Mike Weber > -Bruno Sammartino > -Rachel Carson > -Steve Byrne (he went to my high school! Graduated the year before I got there, but his brother was a year below me) > > The Heinz Family, the Rooneys, the Mellons, etc. > > And last be certainly not least: Mister Rogers. Impressed that you included Bruno. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/94 "2018-12-15T02:55:18Z")
Our oldest son is a native of Brooklyn, the famous people capital of the world. ---
**Author:** ![UCBearcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/77aa72/32.png) [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241/95 "2018-12-15T05:13:38Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > Impressed that you included Bruno. Except, Bruno was born in Italy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-in-your-home-town/813241.md?page=4)