(Peoria, Illinois)
Richard Pryor
Ray Lahood (US Secretary of Transportation)
Jim Thome (baseball player)
From the town where I was born… Scranton, PA.
Joe Biden
P. J. Carlesimo
Karen Anne Quinlan
And not famous in his own right, Hugh E. Rodham, Hillary’s daddy.
Southeast Ohio:
Clark Gable (Cadiz)
Cy Young (Gilmore)
John Glenn (Cambridge)
…oh, where Born?
Calgary:
Ken Taylor (Cdn ambassador to Iran who helped rescue American Hostages from US Embassy in Iran)
James Gosling (JAVA creator)
…and I’ll cherry-pick Chris Phillips as the token NHL’er (of many)
Annie Oakley - Darke County, OH
Phillis Diller - Lima. OH
Neil Armstrong - Wapakoneta, OH
I don’t know the first two, but Nitro is over 200 miles from Wheeling!
I was born in the Bronx, so I have tons of choices.
Let’s go with:
Edgar Allan Poe
Stanley Kubrick
Colin Powell
San Jose, California (though I only lived there for three months)
- Figure skater Peggy Fleming
- Football player Jim Plunkett
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
I was born in Carrollton, IL, close to Springfield, IL & St. Louis, MO.
Let’s grab a few:
Ken Norton, Jr., Professional Boxer from Jacksonville, IL
Miles Davis, Jazz Musician from Alton, IL
Robert Wadlow, World’s Tallest Man from Alton, IL
I live in southwest MO, between Springfield, MO and Tulsa, OK
Here’s a few from there:
Marlin Perkins, Naturalist from Carthage, MO
George Washington Carver, Botanist from Diamond, MO
Langston Hughes, Poet from Joplin, MO
Harry Truman, Lamar, MO
Billy Graham, Ric Flair, and Kathy Reichs were all born in Charlotte.
I was not.
Shalom Harlow, actress/model
Jerry Edmonton, member of Steppenwolf
and quite a few former NHL players.
In addition to the 3 I mentioned:
Actress Debra Winger was born here and went to my high school (10 years after me).
Bridgeport, CT
John Mayer
Charles Nagy
Edwin H. Land
Same hospital as me:
Former MLB pitcher Tom Glavine
Actor Steve Carell
Spencer Tracy, actor
Gene Wilder, actor
Don Ameche, actor
Joe Thomas, left tackle for the Cleveland Browns
Regards,
Shodan
Bobby Vinton (Canonsburg PA)
Perry Como (Canonsburg PA)
Michael Keaton (Coraopolis PA)
All Edinburgh - there’s lots, to cut it down here’s some that are usually referred to by a three part name:
James Clerk Maxwell
Alexander Graham Bell
Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert Louis Stevenson
William Topaz McGonnagall
Danville, IL
Gene Hackman*
Dick Van Dyke
Jerry Van Dyke
Robin Yount
- Although he was actually born elsewhere, he considers Danville, IL his hometown
Dublin (within cycling distance of my place to narrow it down)
Oscar Wilde
Gabriel Byrne
Bram Stoker
and less impressively…
Bono
Colin Farrell
Zachary Quinto was born in the same hospital I was and raised 15 minutes away, Jeff Goldblum was raised about 15 minutes in the opposite direction, Bob Trow (known to my generation as “Bob Dog” on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood) was born and raised not even a mile from where I sit as I type. Bonus: Broadway choreographer/director Kathleen Marshall was born here, her more famous brother Rob (who directed Chicago and Nine) was not, but both attended my grade school.