Famous people from your state

[Immortalfire]

So, who's from your neck of the woods?


Georgia...

Laurence Fishburne
Alan Jackson
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ray Charles
Evander Holyfield
Jeff Foxworthy
Burt Reynolds
Dana Ivey
Ty Cobb
Herschel Walker
Fran Tarkenton
James Brown
Truett Cathy
Raven Symone
Jeff Francoeur
Lewis Grizzard
Trisha Yearwood
Otis Redding
Margaret Mitchell
DeForest Kelley
Jimmy Carter
Little Richard
Gladys Knight
Oliver Hardy
Julia Roberts
Michael Stipe
Travis Tritt
Champ Bailey

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I'm from Illinois, plenty of famous people from there, but I'm most proud that the voice of Homer Simpson went to my high school.

 

[Symbiotic]

Edit.

 

[Immortalfire]

I'm from Illinois, plenty of famous people from there, but I'm most proud that the voice of Homer Simpson went to my high school.

Neato

 

[cerealkiller182]

Massachusetts:

From my hometown:
Jack Kerouac
Michael Chiklis
Mickey Ward
Ed MacMahon went to my highschool

Rest of the state:
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon
Casey Affleck
Anthony Clark
Mike O'Malley
Dennis Lehane
Denis Leary
Lenny Clarke
Mark Wahlberg
Donnie Wahlberg
Aerosmith
Jay Leno
Conan O'Brian

I know theres more but I cant think of the them off the top of my head

 

[Colossus rules!]

not really sure iknow a few...
madonna
ted nugent
kid rock
eminem
derek jeter
bob segar
chris webber
jeff danials
gary hogeboom went to my high school haha

 

[X-Chick]

Vanna White

That's all I can think of.

Edit: Oh yeah, most people know Strom Thurmond, too.

 

[Krypton Girl]

New Mexico:

All I can think of is Freddie Prince Jr.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Zach Braff and Kevin Smith?

Is there like a site that lists this stuff? I know a bunch of people come from Jersey, I just don't know who.

 

[Showtime]

Massachusetts:

Jack Kerouac
Michael Chiklis
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon
Casey Affleck
Anthony Clark
Mike O'Malley
Mickey Ward
Dennis Lehane
Denis Leary
Lenny Clarke
Mark Wahlberg
Donnie Wahlberg
Aerosmith
Jay Leno
Conan O'Brian
I know theres more but I cant think of the them off the top of my head

Mass is filled with the famous.

 

[SpideyVille]

[FONT=arial,helvetica]NEW YORK

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Lucille Ball
Humphrey Bogart
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Sean Combs Puff Daddy
Tom Cruise
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Henry Louis Gehrig
Sarah Gellar
Jackie Gleason
Edward Hopper
Washington Irving
John Jay
Billy Joel
Michael Jordan
Frank Langella
Vince Lombardi
Chico, Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo Marx
Herman Melville
Rosie O'Donnel
Christopher Reeve
John D. Rockefeller
Norman Rockwell
Mickey Rooney
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Rise Stevens
Barbra Streisand
Tupac Shakur
Martin Van Buren
Frank Winfield Woolworth
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[JP]

[FONT=arial,helvetica]NEW YORK

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Lucille Ball
Humphrey Bogart
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Sean Combs Puff Daddy
Tom Cruise
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Henry Louis Gehrig
Sarah Gellar
Jackie Gleason
Edward Hopper
Washington Irving
John Jay
Billy Joel
Michael Jordan
Frank Langella
Vince Lombardi
Chico, Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo Marx
Herman Melville
Rosie O'Donnel
Christopher Reeve
John D. Rockefeller
Norman Rockwell
Mickey Rooney
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Rise Stevens
Barbra Streisand
Tupac Shakur
Martin Van Buren
Frank Winfield Woolworth
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Yeah, that ^

 

[DV8]

I know of the following off the top of my head:

James Lovell
Jeffrey Dahmer
Ed Gein
Chris Farley

I'm sure there are less infamous people too, but . . .

 

[tzarinna]

Famous Marylanders


Spiro T. Agnew vice president, Baltimore
Benjamin Banneker mathematician, astronomer, Oella/Ellicott City
John Barth writer, Cambridge
Eubie Blake musician, Baltimore
John Wilkes Booth actor, Lincoln assassin, Harford County
Francis X. Bushman actor, Baltimore
James M. Cain writer, Annapolis
Samuel Chase jurist, Sumerset Cty
John Dickinson statesman, Talbot Cty
Frederick Douglass abolitionist, Tuckahoe
Christopher Gist frontiersman, Baltimore
Philip Glass composer, Baltimore
Matthew Henson explorer, Charles Cty
Billie Holiday jazz-blues singer, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins financier, Anne Arundel Cty
Reverdy Johnson lawyer, statesman, Annapolis
Thomas Johnson political leader, Calvert Cty
Francis Scott Key laywer, author, Carroll Cty
Thurgood Marshall jurist, Baltimore
H. L. Mencken writer, Baltimore
Charles Willson Peale painter, naturalist Queen Annes Cty
Babe Ruth baseball player, Baltimore
Upton Sinclair author, Baltimore
Roger B. Taney jurist, Calvert Cty
Harriet Tubman abolitionist, Dorchester Cty
Leon Uris author, Baltimore
Frank Zappa singer, Baltimore

 

[cerealkiller182]

Zach Braff and Kevin Smith?

Is there like a site that lists this stuff? I know a bunch of people come from Jersey, I just don't know who.

Bruce Willis i believe is from Jersey

 

[Untilteld]

I'm in Canada/Ontario/Windsor and there's not many famous people here, the guy who created the Blackberry went to my high-school.

 

[Malice]

Texas

Everyone wishes they were from Texas!

 

[tzarinna]

Some more from Maryland, some duplicates.



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William Paca (1740-99) of Annapolis – Signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) of Annapolis - Signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Samuel Chase (1743-1811) of Annapolis - Signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Stone (1743-87) of Port Tobacco- Signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) of Ellicott City was a surveyor, astronomer, watch repairer, and almanac printer. In 1791 he and Major Andrew Ellicott were appointed by President George Washington to survey the District of Columbia, which became the capital of the United States.

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Tench Tilghman (1744-86), born near Easton, was aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. The sword that he wore at the battles of Valley Forge and Yorktown, and when delivering news of the War’s end, is on display at the State House in Annapolis.

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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) founded the Sisters of Charity in Emmitsburg. She was the first native-born North American to be canonized by the Catholic Church.

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Thomas Kennedy (1776-1832) served as a member of the House of Delegates representing Hagerstown. He believed in religious freedom for all people.

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Lt. Colonel George Armistead (1780-1818) defended Fort McHenry during the battle in 1814 when the “Star-Spangled Banner” was written. He is buried at St. Paul’s Cemetery in Baltimore.

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Francis Scott Key (1780-1843), born in Frederick, wrote the “Star-Spangled Banner”, our National Anthem, during the bombardment of Baltimore in 1814. He also penned the phrase “In God We Trust” which is used on the United States currency.

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Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) born in Anne Arundel County was a philanthropist and financier. Before his death he bequeathed $7 million to found a free hospital, now Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins University, both located in Baltimore.

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George Peabody (1795-1869) was a financier and philanthropist. He established the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. He also lived in London and was only one of two Americans to have been honored with the “Freedom of the City of London” medal.

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Enoch Pratt (1808-96) founded and was president of the Maryland School for the Deaf and Dumb in Frederick. He later established a free circulating library, the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, in 1886.

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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a famous abolitionist (against slavery) and author, was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. At age eight he was sent to Baltimore where he learned to read and write. He spoke out against slavery in the United States and Europe. After the Civil War he fought for the rights of African-Americans and women.

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Harriet Tubman (1819?-1913) was born into slavery in Dorchester County. When she was thirty she escaped to freedom to Philadelphia where she learned about the Underground Railroad. After receiving her freedom she helped over 300 slaves escape through the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War she worked as a spy, soldier and nurse. In 1995 the United States Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor.

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John Wilkes Booth (1838-65) was born near Bel Air. He began his acting career in Baltimore. Mr. Booth assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington in 1865.

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Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), born in Baltimore, became the first African-American Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson appointed him United States Solicitor General. Two years later he was appointed to the Supreme Court. The Baltimore Washington International; Airport was renamed “Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington International Airport” by Governor Robert Ehrlich in 2005.

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Spiro Agnew (1918-96), the 39th Vice-President of the United States and fifth Republican governor of Maryland, was born in Towson. He was the first person of Greek descent to serve as Vice President and Governor of a state.

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Edgar Allen Poe (1809-49) lived in Baltimore. He was a well-known author of poems and short fiction. Among his notable works are The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher.

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H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) of Baltimore was a newspaper writer, political commentator, and author of A New Dictionary of Quotations.

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Eubie Blake (1883-1983), born in Baltimore, was a ragtime composer and performer.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was a well-known author who lived in Baltimore while his wife was a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He wrote The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, and several other popular novels.

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Billie Holiday (1915-59) born in Baltimore made her name as a jazz singer in New York City. Her statue is located at the corner of Lafayette and Pennsylvania Avenues.

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Jim Henson (1936-1990) grew up outside Washington and attended the University of Maryland. He is best known for the children’s show “Sesame Street.” In 2003 the University of Maryland unveiled a statue of Kermit the Frog and Mr. Henson on a marble bench.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

William H. Macy
Wilmer Valderrama
Dwyane "The Rock" Johnson
Brett Ratner

 

[Malice]

Famous Texans

Red Adair fireman oil well fires, Houston
Alvin Ailey choreographer, Rogers
Mary Kay Ash cosmetics entrepreneur, Hot Wells
Steven Fuller Austin founding father of Texas, Austinville,VA
Gene Autry singer, actor, Tioga
Kathy Baker actress, Midland
Clyde Barrow outlaw, Telico
Carol Burnett comedienne, San Antonio
Cyd Charisse actress, dancer, Amarillo
Henry Cisneros politician, San Antonio
Denton A. Cooley heart surgeon, Houston
Joan Crawford actress, San Antonio
Robert Dennard inventor, Terrell
Dwight David Eisenhower U.S. president, general, Denison
A. J. Foyt auto racer, Houston
Larry Hagman actor, Fort Worth
Ben Hogan golfer, Dublin
Buddy Holly musician, Lubbock
Howard Hughes industrialist, film producer, Houston
Jack Johnson boxer, Galveston
Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. president, Stonewall
Michael Johnson olympic sports, Dallas
George Jones singer, Saratoga
Janis Joplin blues singer, Port Arthur
Tommy Lee Jones actor, San Saba
Trini Lopez singer, Dallas
Mary Martin singer, actress, Weatherford
Roger Miller singer, songwriter, Fort Worth
Spanky McFarland actor, Fort Worth
Audie Murphy actor, war hero, Kingston
Willie Nelson singer, Abbot
Chester Nimitz admiral, Fredricksburg
Sandra Day O'Connor jurist, El Paso
Roy Orbisonsinger, Vernon
Buck Owens singer, Sherman
Bonnie Parker outlaw, Rowena
H. Ross Perot philanthropist, Texarkana
Katherine Anne Porter author, Indian Creek
Wiley Post aviator, Grand Saline
Dan Rather TV newscaster, Wharton
Robert Rauschenberg painter, Port Arthur
Tex Ritter singer, Murval
Eugene Wesley Gene Roddenberry screenwriter, El Paso
Tabitha Soren TV journalist, San Antonio
Rip Torn actor, director, Temple
Ernest Tubb country music, Crisp
Tommy Tune dancer, choreographer, Wichita Falls
Kathy Whitworth golfer, Monahans
Dooley Wilson actor, musician, Tyler
Babe Didrikson Zaharias athlete, golfer, Port Arthur

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Wow...Lots of famous people from Texas then.

 

[Monster]

Oxfordshire - England

Tim Burton

 

[Malice]

actually quite a few more on another website...we just have alot of people here

 

[cerealkiller182]

Massachusetts:


I know theres more but I cant think of the them off the top of my head

[FONT=arial,helvetica]John Adams 2nd U.S. president, Braintree
John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president, Braintree
Samuel Adams patriot, Boston
Jack Albertson actor, Malden
Horatio Alger author, Revere
Susan B. Anthony woman suffragist, Adams
F. Lee Bailey defense attorney, Waltham
Clara Barton American Red Cross founder, Oxford
Leonard Bernstein conductor, Lawrence
Forrest M. Bird inventor, Stoughton
Harold Stephen Black inventor, Leominster
Rachel Fuller Brown inventor, Springfield
William Cullen Bryant poet, editor, Cummington
Luther Burbank horticulturalist, Lancaster
George Bush 41st U.S. president, Milton
John Chapman / Johnny Appleseed nurseryman, Leominster
William D. Coolidge inventor, Hudson
John Singleton Copley painter, Boston
E. E. Cummings poet, Cambridge
Bette Davis actress, Lowell
Cecil B. DeMille film director, Ashfield
Emily Dickinson poet, Amherst
Ralph Waldo Emerson philosopher, poet, Boston
Brian Evans singer, Haverhill
Ann Smith Franklin printer, almanac publisher, Boston
Benjamin Franklin statesman, scientist, Boston
Buckminster Fuller architect, educator, Milton
Robert Hutchings Goddard rocketry, Worcester
John Hancock statesman, Braintree
Nathaniel Hawthorne author, Salem
Oliver Wendell Holmes poet, Cambridge
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. jurist, Boston
Winslow Homer painter, Boston
Elias Howe inventor, Spencer
Helen Hunt Jackson writer, Amherst
John F. Kennedy U.S. president, Brookline
Amy Lowell poet, Brookline
Percival Lowell astronomer, Boston
James Russell Lowell poet, Cambridge
Robert Lowell poet, Boston
Horace Mann educator, Franklin
Cotton Mather clergyman, Boston
Sharon Christa McAuliffe teacher, astronaut, Framingham
Samuel F. B. Morse painter, inventor, Charlestown
Leonard Nemoy actor, Boston
Albert Pike pioneer teacher, lawyer, Boston
Edgar Allan Poe writer, Boston
Ella Raines actress, Snoquaimie
Paul Revere silversmith, Revolutionary War figure, Boston
Robert H. Rines inventor, Boston
Dr. Seuss Theodore Geisel author, illustrator, Springfield
Lucy Stone woman suffragist, West Brookfield
Louis Henry Sullivan architect, Boston
Henry David Thoreau author, Concord
Max Tishler inventor, Boston
James McNeill Whistler painter, Lowell
Eli Whitney inventor, Westborough
John Greenleaf Whittier poet, Haverhill
Eli Whitney inventor, Westboro
Jo Dee Messina country singer, Holliston

Oh and of course, The Kennedys

And so many more:

Rob Zombie
Steven Wright
Steve Carrel
John Krasiniski
Well.heres the wiki page im sick of writing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Massachusetts#Entertainment

but Id like to say some of the best comics come from New England. Check out the documentary When Stand Ups Stood Up

Plus DROPKICK MURPHYS!!

 

[Byrd Man]

Vanna White

That's all I can think of.

Edit: Oh yeah, most people know Strom Thurmond, too.

Dang it. You took my two famous South Carolinians. You forgot about James Brown, Shoeless Joe, and Joe Frazier. Also, Andrew Jackson was said to have been born in SC.