From Edmonton:
Tommy Chong
Rae Dawn Chong
Nathan Fillion
Michael J Fox
Robert Goulet
Bruce McCulloch
Leslie Neilson
kd Lang
Gordon R Dickson
Marshall McLuhan
and a whole bunch of hockey players and curlers
I grew up in a town so small that my family raised the stated population by 5% just by moving there. Don’t know anyone who was actually born there.
Ah, born in the same town as me. Fred MacMurray leads that list.
But this is a “born in the same town as you” thread. Robert Goulet was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and moved to Girouxville, Alberta at the age of 13 and spent his formative years there.
Leslie Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Oh shit, I just went off the Wiki list of “Famous people from Edmonton”
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 (the town has no hospital, so even people whose parents live in El Cerrito are usually born somewhere else).
If you want to know who was born in the same city I was born in, here are some famous people who were born in Oakland:
Amy Tan
Galen Rowell
Don Budge
Dennis Eckersley
Cookie Lavagetto
Ernie Lombardi
Dave Stewart
Dontrelle Willis
Debbi Fields (of Mrs. Fields Cookies)
Max Baer, Jr. (Jethro)
Buster Crabbe
Robert Culp
Mark Hamill
Shemar Moore
Kamala Harris
Fred Korematsu
Billie Joe Armstrong
MC Hammer
Ruth Pointer (of The Pointer Sisters)
William Howard Taft
Bernard Kroger
Ted Turner
Doris Day
Roy Rogers
Steven Spielberg
Miller Huggins
Barry Larkin
Pete Rose
Roger Staubach
Charles Manson
Russell Wilson
John Boehner
Reading, Ohio 
https://www.biography.com/people/john-boehner-20656041
This has it as Cincinnati.
Reading is a suburb of Cincinatti. It isn’t unusual to name the big nearby city instead of the actual place of birth.
From Official Congressional Directory, 2005-2006: 109th Congress:
������������������������������������ It’s Cincinnati, not Cincinatti.
I’m guessing all the question marks means you’re confused as to why I spelled it that way. It’s called a typo.
And her sisters, Bonnie, June, and Anita.
Of course, we all know that La Jolla is just part of San Diego, but we’ll allow you to continue thinking otherwise.
Speaking of which, I was born in San Diego, and outside of a few, like Peck and Robertson, not many famous people were actually born there, (considering the size of the city), and those that were, didn’t stay.
And I mean really famous. Seems like a lot of these lists are stetching the term (including the OP).
Ted Williams was born there. Is he famous enough?
Yes, he’s one of the few. There’s also Robert Duvall, and some others, but still not many for a city that size.
“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.
Cameron Diaz
Tony Romo
Phil Mickelson
Marcus Allen
Ted Danson
Shaun White
Ann Wilson
Vincent Price
Redd Foxx
Chuck Berry
James Franciscus
Linda Blair
Bert Convy
Yogi Berra
Harry Carey
Joe Garagiola
Paw Paw, MI
Charlie Maxwell, (“Old Paw Paw”), a former Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox baseball player
Jerry Mitchell, Tony Award-winning choreographer
Not sure how many were born in my home town*, but many famous people grew up and attended school in my town. For some reason, a lot of them were football players:
**Joe Theisman
Drew Pearson
Alex Wojciechowicz
Kenny Jackson
“Scotty” Scarzinsky
Elmer Stout
**
Also Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Pete Sivess and soccer player Evan Louro
There are a few writers, too. Journalist and Social Reformer Jacob Riis, who wrote the classic How the Other Half Lives, worked as a poor laborer in the clay pits behind the house where I grew up. our most famous product is mystery novelist Janet Evanovich. Mystery writer Troy Soos apparently played Little League in my town (his mysteries center on baseball). And Simpsons writer Frank Mula grew up in mu town, too.
Joe Csatari, who assisted Norman Rockwell and took over his commissions (including the Boy Scouts ones) after Rockwell died lived and worked not a mile from where I lived. I finally met him last week. Like Rockwell, he used his neighbors as models, so some of the people in the pictures are folks who live near me.
The Wikipedia page for my home town lists lots of other “famous” people who lived there that I never heard of, and don’t list some of the ones I give here. And, of course, they don’t list me. Yet.
*Actually, since the 1940s I doubt if any were actually born in the town. Most births take place in the hospitals two towns away.