Most Famous People From Your Area

In My Humble Opinion
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Elvis wasn’t from here but he died here and we’re famous for his mansion.
Also Kathy Bates and Cybill Shepherd and Dixie Carter were born in Memphis. And Shannen Doherty and Justin Timberlake, although I think they were born in Germantown. I know there are a bunch more but I can’t recall right now.

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Good Lord, how could you forget the Purple One?

There’s also the Coen Brothers.

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Memphis TN:
Elvis
Kathy Bates
Justin Timberlake
Dixie Carter
Johnny Cash
Shannen Doherty
Ginnifer Goodwin
Aretha Franklin
Al Green
Isaac Hayes
Howlin’ Wolf
BB King
Jerry Lee Lewis
Cybill Shepherd

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John Adams
John Quincy Adams
JFK
RFK
Teddy
The other JFK
Aerosmith
Julia Child
e e cummings
Thomas Paine
King Philip
Paul Revere
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon

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Ed Gein :eek:

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I will be after “The UN Plaza Incident” happens.
Of course it might be more accurate to say Infamous.
(We have reached the half way point in the planning stage and are on schedule.)

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Me*

[sub]*for limited definitions of “your area”[/sub]

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Henry Mancini.
Mike Ditka.

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Philadelphia, PA:

I really don’t have the energy. Ya got the whole founding of the U.S.A and all that just to start. Take your pick.

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E. E. “Doc” Smith

Jackie Mason

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From Absecon, NJ, a town of about 8000.
K-pop singer Brian Joo
Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin

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Jimmy Stewart
Jack Lambert

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John Travolta
Bruce Harper

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Since my current city is too easy for this, let’s go with the city of my birth:

Ashton Kutcher
Elijah Wood
Ron Livingston
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright

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How do you define “Area”? How do you define “Famous”? In response to Governor Goodhair’s blathering about secession, Houston writer John Nova Lomax wrote A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas. He put Houston in

One ex-President retired here; his ex-President son chose The Metroplex. But I’d rather dwell on the* important* famous people!

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The band Slipknot (maggots represent!)

From the state of Iowa in general:
John Wayne
Herbert Hoover
Ann Landers
Johnny Carson

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Bill Gates and the msft crew
A Boeing
A Weyerhaeuser
Quincy Jones

probably others.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jessica Simpson
Shannon Elizabeth
Steve Martin

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Where in Iowa? I was born in Cedar Rapids.

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It’s a long list.
List of people from Nashville, Tennessee

If you mean “my hometown” the list is much shorter (small town):

  • Senator Scott Brown, R-MA
  • Mosi Tatupu, former Patriots running back
  • Helen Keller
  • Horace Mann
  • Lofa Tatupu, Seahawks linebacker
  • Garth Snow, former NHL goalie and owner

Garth and I went to elementary school together. I remember he was a wicked little league pitcher.