I was born in Los Angeles, just down the street from Elvis Cole’s fictional A-frame. Without putting together a list, I’m just gonna assume that more than a few celebs were born there.
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.
Al Capp, Walt Kelly, John Ratzenberger, and me.
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.
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.
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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?
Gerald Ford
Fred Astaire
Marlon Brando
Malcolm X
Warren Buffet
Angelo Rossitto (The Master half of Master/Blaster In Beyond Thunderdome)
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.
How could you miss Bob Gibson?
Lou Costello and Uncle Floyd. I got to know Uncle Floyd.
Yeah, I was born in DC, in George Washington Memorial, so…probably far too many to list.
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)
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…
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.
Anchorage, Alaska:
Mario Chalmers, NBA
Scott Gomez, NHL
Valerie Plame, CIA
Margaret Hamilton, actress
Joel Grey, actor
Dean Martin, singer, actor
Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatrician
Debra Winger, actress
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.
couple members of Cheap Trick.
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.
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.