Greensboro NC:
[ul]
[li]Dolly Madison (wife of Pres. James, and reknown as a hostess)[/li][li]Edgar R. Murrow (pioneering radio war correspondent 1939ff)[/li][li]Kay Hagan (D) US Senator 2009-present[/li][/ul]Also, NBA Rookies of the Year & several-time All-Stars
[ul]
[li]Lou Hudson and[/li][li]Robert McAdoo[/li][/ul]played HS ball here.
This. Having said that, not that many famous people are actually from Orlando.
The Backstreet Boys
N’Sync (except the talented one)
Jack Kerouac
Wesley Snipes
Tiger Woods (kinda)
Johnny Damon
Carrot Top
Mandy Moore
NFL RB Chris Johnson
Just one from this area: George Reeves – TV’s Superman and one of the Tarleton boys in Gone With the Wind – was born in my little town.
The little house where he was born was just torn down a couple weeks ago. A local group tried to raise money to restore it but the effort failed, for lots of reasons.
I was born in Paisley, Scotland. Same place as David Tennant.
Where I live now, in Lanarkshire, I can think of David Livingston and Sheena Easton. Interesting combination.
Lived near here:
Richard Dawkins
JRR Tolkien
CS Lewis
Sir Roger Bannister
Lewis Carroll
Tim Henman
Jeremy Clarkson
Rowan Atkinson
Radiohead
Supergrass
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill
And hundreds of others who have studied here including:
Margaret Thatcher
Benazir Bhutto
Bill Clinton
and far too many more for me to list. Here’s more…
And I live in London. So I have even less idea!
But if we restrict it to the Chiswick area, a little googling gives me:
Oliver Cromwell
Tommy Cooper
EM Forster
William Hogarth
Bernard Montgomery
Donald Pleasance
Alexander Pope
William Thackeray
WB Yeats
Baseball great Harmon Killebrew, who left us yesterday (R.I.P.)
Walter (Big Train) Johnson…another baseball noteable from 'way back
Footballer Jerry Kramer lived on a ranch about ten miles from here for a long time, but has since moved out of state. (and a couple of local bars closed for lack of business).
Paul Revere (the rock-n-roller, not the midnight rider)
Acter George Kennedy is retired here
Bandsman Doc Severinsen is said to have a retirement home nearby, but if so he’s very reclusive…no one I know has ever seen him.
Awesome username/post combo.
Are you quite sure the impassioned Irishman Yeats would appreciate
being indentified as a Londoner?
Also, I thought Cromwell was a country squire from East Anglia or some
such place before he took up politics and war.
Yeats moved to England when he was two, and never left.
From my town:
Joanne Worley
From my town of birth:
No one
From my area:
Jean Shephard
Michael Jackson
Karl Malden
Alex Karras
What he said.
Southern California has never produced anyone famous.
Gerry Rafferty was also from Paisley.
I had to check the Wiki, but apparently Alex Trebek was born here. Also a whack of hockey players, but that’s nothing of note; pretty much any town in Ontario can lay claim to that one.
A whole bunch - you decide who’s most notable
From the city I live in: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; George Mitchell; Judd Nelson.
From the city I was born in … not much: Rashad Evans; Tommy Tedesco; Kerry Von Erich.
From the town I grew up in … basically nobody: Clarence White, co-inventor of the StringBender.
From my hometown (where I still currently reside):
Jerry Lucas
Cris Carter
Susie Hatton (well, kinda sorta famous fer about three minutes back in the eighties)
Brooklyn Decker
The McGuire Sisters
Clarence Page
From the large(-ish) city to the north of my hometown:
Nancy Cartwright
Martin Sheen
Allison Janney
Rob and Chad Lowe
Katt Williams
Roger Clemens
Cris Collinsworth
Cathy Guisewite (ugh)
Kim Deal
Robert Pollard
John Scofield
Roger Troutman
Strobe Talbott
Hugh Downs
From the larger city to the south of my hometown:
John Boehner (BOO!)
Kathleen Sebelius
Charles Keating
Ted Turner
Henry Heimlich
Albert Sabin
Doris Day
Carmen Electra
Stephen Geoffreys (YES!)
Annie Oakley
Sarah Jessica Parker
Roy Rogers
Jerry Springer
Steven Spielberg
Andy Williams
Bootsy Collins
Charles Manson
(Many thanks to Wikipedia for a lot o’ these.)
Where I live now: Gordon Pinsent
Where I grew up is more of a toughie, but Blackbeard lived and died in the area, will that do?
Tom Hanks
Billie Joe Armstrong
Brandon Lee
Russ Meyer
En Vogue
John Lee Hooker
Sly Stone
Jack London
Ishmael Reed
Mark Hammill