What Famous People Come From Your Home Town?

In My Humble Opinion
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Famous people born in Omaha, Nebraska

Fred Astaire; dancer, actor
Max Baer; boxer
Marlon Brando; actor
Warren Buffett; investor
Montgomery Clift; actor
Bob Gibson; baseball player
Gerald Rudolph Ford; U.S. president
Susette La Flesche; artist
Francis La Flesche; ethnologist
Malcolm X; civil rights advocate
Dorothy McGuire; actress
Nick Nolte; actor
Inga Swenson; actress
Paul Williams; singer, composer, actor
Julie Wilson; singer, actress

From elsewhere about my home state:

Johnny Carson; entertainer, tv host, Norfolk
Grace Abbott; social worker, Grand Island
Bil Baird; puppeteer, Grand Island
Henry Fonda; actor, Grand Island
Grover Cleveland Alexander; baseball pitcher, Saint Paul
Darryl F. Zanuck; film producer, Wahoo
George Beadle; geneticist, Wahoo
Dick Cavett; TV entertainer, Gibbon
James Coburn; actor, Laurel
Sandy Dennis; actress, Hastings
Mignon Eberhart; author, Lincoln
Roscoe Pound; educator, legal scholar, Lincoln
Don Wilson; announcer, Lincoln
Harold Edgerton; inventor, Fremont
Ruth Etting; singer, actress, David City
Jay W. Forrester; inventor, Climax
Hoot Gibson; actor, Tememah
Howard Hanson; composer, conductor, Wahoo
Leland Hayward; producer, Nebraska City
David Janssen; actor, Naponee
Frank W. Leahy; football coach, O’Neill
Irish McCalla; actress, Pawnee City
Red Cloud; Indian rights advocate, leader
Mari Sandoz; author, Sheridan Cty
Standing Bear; Indian rights advocate, leader
Robert Taylor; actor, Filley

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I just came back to the thread to add him.

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Although I don’t believe he was born there, John Howard Paine lived in East Hampton, NY. He’s most famous for a little ditty he penned, whose refrain is “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.” The house he lived in is called “Home Sweet Home,” and is open to the public, so stop on by! :slight_smile:

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The following came from my hometown:

John Maynard Keynes
Sir George Thomson
Richard Attenborough
Frank Ramsey
Ronald Searle
Douglas Adams
Christopher Cockerell
Dame Margaret Cole
Phillipa Pearce
Oliver Cromwell (20 miles away)
Sir John Cheke
Douglas Hartree

and not forgetting Thomas Hobson, now immortalised in “Hobson’s Choice”!

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D’oh! I missed the part about guessing your hometown. Jimmy Doohan did it for me - Vancouver?

86

I have two home towns.

For the first, a bunch of Navarrese kings, mostly. We’ve had famous visitors (including Sinatra, Ava Gardner and some dude who wrote some book) and one famous clergyman at the cathedral, none of which were born in town. Kind of funny whenever I meet someone from Japan and they ask about the clergyman, it’s happened a surprising number of times.

For the second, Juda Levi and Benjamín de Tudela are the two that get named most frequently, along with Sancho VII of Navarra and Miguel Servet (discoverer of blood circulation, he mapped the small circuit going heart-lungs-heart and hypothesized a second circuit for the rest of the body; Henry verified Servet’s report and his hypothesis; he was actually born in Saragossa but went to school in my hometown and always signed as being from it).

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No one.

But my aunt went to high school with the Smucker boys (the jelly people) and Bobby Knight.

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Not sure about “born there,” but notible residents of Ipswich MA include:

John Updike (author of some note. His A&P story was about a supermarket in town that is now a CVS pharmacy)
Dick Berggren (FOX Sports NASCAR TV reporter, and publisher of Speedway Illustrated)

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Fred Rogers aka “Mr Rogers”
George A Romero
Heinz Family, the ketchup moguls
Andrew Carnegie
Dennis Miller
Jimmy Stewart
Dan Marino
Michael Keaton
Rachel Carson, author of “Silent Spring”
Michael Chabon, director
Zillions of sports legends…
Sharon Stone
Jeff Goldblum
George Westinghouse
Andrew Mellon, the banker

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South River?

No one of note grew up in my hometown that I know of.

A couple of noteables in the town I currently live in. Lets just say its not safe to be a chauffeur.

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Answer: Ames, Iowa (from the Mesquakie for “Nobody Gives Two Shits”).
Bob Bartley lived in the frat house across the street from my dad at Iowa State in 1957 and later went on to edit The Wall Street Journal.
Michael Gartner used to edit the local paper and be president of NBC News at the same time.

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Yeah, and I screwed up – Stephanie Plum was the character Janet Evanovich is the author (who’s moved from NH, I understand, and is now in Florida IIRC).
There are a couple of other football players of note from my hometown, but I never followed football closely. Drew Pearson, Troy Hill, “Scotty” Scarzinsky.

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The only one I know of that was born here is:

Don Knotts.

94

Gotta be Pittsburgh.

95

Don’t worry, it went right past me. I knew it from Theisman.

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Without google, I only know of one famous person from my hometown:

Denis Leary

Anyone want to take a guess?

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Waco, and I had no idea Steve Martin was born there! I’m from Houston, so I’m not even going to bother, but I’ll tell you that I took dance classes from Patrick Swayze’s mother, and have met him a few times, and no man should be able to move that gracefully. Like an angel in pantyhose.

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Boston? Nah. That’s too easy.

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Billy Bob Thornton…also Frank Bonner…and I don’t know if this counts or not, but Jerry Van Dyke has a farm here.

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Um. Really not many people. The Monster Raving Loony Party used to be based in a pub in my town, but it’s not any more. The “London nailbomber” also grew up down my road and went to my school. That’s it I think!