Bobby Vinton (same town as Perry Como; home of Sarris Chocolate — go there now!)
New Hampshire.
Adam Sandler
John Shea
Triple H
Bill Alfonso
G.G Allin
Sarah Silverman
Some Wisconsin additions:
John Muir (born in Scotland but moved to Wisconsin at 11)
Infamously Joseph McCarthy
Aldo Leopold is associated with Wisconsin, but later in life.
FYI Houdini was born in Budapest, though did grow up in Appleton, WI
Brian
Oregon had a couple of pretty well-known US Senators during the Vietnam war, both strongly opposed to it, Mark Hatfield and Wayne Morse. They overlapped by 2 years, so for 1967 and 1968 they were both in the news a lot.
Sally Struthers went to the same high school I did; she was 2 years ahead of me, as I recall, the same graduating class as my sister, but it was a big school and they passed no acquaintance.
Doing Colorado from my head, so I’ll miss lots of people, and get details wrong. Copy and pasting from Wikipedia seems boring.
- John Denver — not originally from Colorado, but his fame is intrinsically tied to his later association with the state
- Matt Stone & Trey Parker — kind of the opposite, they’re originally from Colorado, and are most famous for making a show set in Colorado, but haven’t lived here in a very long time
- John Elway — maybe only remains famous here?
- Scott Carpenter, and some other astronauts — he was in the Mercury program, a few others not famous enough for me to remember
- Mikaela Shiffrin, and some skiers and snow boarders I can’t remember — some actually from here, others just moved to train here
- Neil Gorsuch — maybe better if he’d never left?
- Condoleeza Rice — seems nice enough, so have to remind myself how she associated herself with evil people
He’s still well-known to football fans in general, and is probably still the Broncos player who is most closely identified with the team.
If we’re limiting this to people actually born in the state, then here are some from Connecticut. Note that given that restriction, you’d have to leave me off the list.
Glenn Close
Paul Giamatti
Katharine Hepburn
Norman Lear
Vincent Scully (not the baseball guy)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Noah Webster
P. T. Barnum
Samuel Colt
Charles Goodyear
Eli Whitney
J. P. Morgan
Nathan Hale
John Brown (the abolitionist)
Karen and Richard Carpenter
Michael Bolton
Robert Moses
I would consider Molly Brown as “from” Colorado, even though Missouri also claims her.
Iowa, off the top of my head
Herbert Hoover ( I attended Herbert Hoover elementary school and we took a field trip to his birthplace)
Grant Wood
Johnny Carson
John Wayne
Ashton Kushner
Bix Beiderback (not as well known as the others, but was a noted Jazz musician in the 1920s. Died young)
Colorado has her house.
Colorado also has William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s grave, and I presume also his bones and stuff, but it’s been 150 years since he was an A-list celebrity, and I don’t think of him as being from Colorado. Similarly, John “Doc” Holliday, who also decided to die and get buried here, but I don’t know if he has any other association with the state.
Living in the UK I am from a “state” as such though the definition of state can mean a country and England is both a country and a subdiviosion of the UK and where I am from I will do with famous people from England:
- Alfred the Great
- Henry VIII
- Queen Victoria
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Winston Churchill
- Francis Bacon
- William Shakespeare
- Isaac Newton
- Francis Drake
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- George Stephenson
- William Wilberforce
- Florence Nightingale
- Adam Smith
- JRR Tolkein
- Stephen Hawking
- Tim Berners-Lee (Maybe not as famous as he should be but the WWW must be the most influential invention of the last 100 years)
- David Beckham
- Lewis Hamilton
- Paul McCartney
- John Lennon
- Lawence Olivier
- Rowan Atkinson
- Daniel Craig (had to include him as my dad was proud he went ot school with Paul McCartney so I had to include someone I went to school with)
Florida can claim Jim Morrison, Tom Petty, Bob Ross, and Sidney Poitier, among others.