Famous people from your state

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

I believe Jessica & Ashlee Simpson are from Texas too..Although..Jessica..

 

[ShaneHelms]

Tennessee

Kathy Bates
Johnny Cash
June Carter Cash
Kenny Chesney
Mark Collie
David "Davy" Crockett
Billy Ray Cyrus
Miley Cyrus
Shannen Doherty
Ric Flair
Nathan Bedford ForrestMegan Fox
Aretha Franklin
Morgan Freeman
Bill Frist
Albert Gore, Jr.
Alex Haley
Isaac Hayes
Andrew Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson
Andrew Johnson
David Keith
Johnny Knoxville
Jerry "The King" Lawler
Sterling Marlin
Cormac McCarthy
Bettie Page
Dolly Parton
Minnie Pearl
Carl Perkins
James K. Polk
Annie Potts
Elvis Presley
Brad Renfro
Cybill Shepherd
Steve Spurrier
Quentin Tarantino
Three 6 Mafia
Fred Dalton Thompson
Justin Timberlake
Tina Turner
Usher
Darrell Waltrip
Reggie White
Oprah Winfrey
Reese Witherspoon
Alvin York

 

[DBella]

Douglas Dorland Anderson archaeoligist, Olympia
Earl Anthony bowler, Kent
Bob Barker TV host, Darrington
Dyan Cannon actress, Tacoma
Chester F. Carlson inventor, Seattle
Carol Channing actress, Seattle
Kurt Cobain grunge rock icon, Aberdeen
Judy Collins singer, Seattle
Bing Crosby singer, actor, Tacoma
Bob Crosby musician, Spokane
Merce Cunningham choreographer, Centralia
Howard Duff actor, Bremerton
Frances Farmer actress, Seattle
Bill Gates software executive, Seattle
Jimi Hendrix guitarist, Seattle
Robert Joffrey choreographer, Seattle
Gypsy Rose Lee entertainer, Seattle
Kenny Loggins singer, songwriter, Everett
John Walker Kendall scientist, Bellingham
Hank Ketcham cartoonist, Seattle
John Knowles author, Faumont
Mary McCarthy author, Seattle
Guthrie McClinticproducer, director, Seattle
John McIntire actor, Spokane
Phil Mahre skier, Yakima
Robert Motherwell artist, Aberdeen
Patrice Munsel soprano Spokane
Jimmie Rogers singer, Camas
Francis Scobee astronaut, Cle Elum
Seattle Dwamish Suquamish chief
Smohalla Indian prophet and chief
Adam West actor, Walla Walla
Martha Wright singer, Seattle
Audrey Wurdemann poet, Seattle

The Batman's from my state! HA!
The ones bolded are really the famous ones coz I don't know who the rest are. If I don't know them, they're not really famous.

 

[Mike_D202]

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

Dont forget Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell Michigan rules.

 

[Badger]

Famous Folk from Missouri:

Robert Altman film director, Kansas City
Burt Bacharach songwriter, Kansas City
Josephine Baker singer, dancer, Saint Louis
Wallace Beery actor, Kansas City
William Bent fur trader, pioneer, Saint Louis
Robert Russell Bennett composer, Kansas City
Yogi Berra baseball player, Saint Louis
Thomas Hart Benton painter, Neosho
Bill Bradley basketball player, Crystal City
Omar Nelson Bradley five-star general, Clark
Grace Bumbry soprano, Saint Louis
William Burroughs writer, Saint Louis
Sarah Caldwell opera director, conductor, Maryville
Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane) frontierswoman, Princeton
Dale Carnegie teacher of public speaking, Maryville
George Washington Carver educator, agricultural chemist, Diamond Grove
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) author, Florida
Walter Cronkite TV newscaster, Saint Joseph
Robert Cummings actor, Joplin
Jane Darwell actress, Palmyra
Charles Stark Draper inventor, Windsor
Jeanne Eagels actress, Kansas City
T. S. Eliot poet, Saint Louis
James Fergason inventor, Wakenda
Eugene Field author, poet, Saint Louis
Redd Foxx actor, comedian, Saint Louis
James W. Fulbright senator, Sumner
John Goodman actor, Affton
Betty Grable actress, Saint Louis
Dick Gregory comic, activist, Saint Louis
Jean Harlow actress, Kansas City
Edwin Hubble astronomer, Marshfield
Jack S. Kilby inventor, Jefferson City
James Langston Hughes poet, Joplin
William Lear aviation inventor, Hannibal
Rush Limbaugh communicator, Cape Girardeau
John Huston film director, Nevada
Jesse James outlaw, Centerville
Bernarr MacFadden physical culturist, Mill Springs
Mary Margaret McBride TV hostess, Paris
Robert D. Maurer inventor, St. Louis
Marianne Moore poet, Saint Louis
Geraldine Page actress, Kirksville
James C. Penney merchant, Hamilton
Marlin Perkins TV host, zoo director, Carthage
John J. Pershing army leader, pershing rifles, Linn County
Vincent Price actor, Saint Louis
Ginger Rogers dancer, actress, Independence
Charles M. Russell painter, artist St. Louis
Nellie Tayloe Ross first woman elected governor of a state, Saint Joseph
Ted Shawn dancer, choreographer, Kansas City
Casey Stengel baseball player, Kansas City
Gladys Swarthout soprano, Deepwater
Sara Teasdale poet, Saint Louis
Virgil Thomson composer, Kansas City
Harry S. Truman U.S. president, Lamar
Mark Twain author, Florida
Dick Van Dyke actor, West Plains
Dennis Weaver actor, Joplin
Pearl White actress, Greenridge
Roy Wilkins civil rights leader, Saint Louis

 

[Badger]

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 . . .

Since I was born in Wisconsin, some more famous people:

Don Ameche actor, Kenosha
Roy Chapman Andrews naturalist and explorer, Beloit
John Bardeen inventor, Madison
Carrie Catt woman suffragist, Ripon
Ellen Corby actress, Racine
William Defoe actort, Appleton
Tyne Daly actress, Madison
August Derleth author, Sauk City
Jeanne Dixon seer, Medford
Chris Farley actor, Madison
Zona Gale author, Portage
Eric Heiden speed skater, Madison
Woody Herman band leader, Milwaukee
Loretta Sell Hildegarde singer, Adell
Harry Houdini magician, Appleton
Thomas Hulce actor, Whitewater
Pee Wee King singer, Abrams
George F. Kennan diplomat, Milwaukee
Robert La Follette politician, Primrose
Liberace pianist, West Allis
Allen Ludden tv host, Mineral Point
Alfred Lunt actor, Milwaukee
Frederic March actor, Racine
Jackie Mason comedian, Sheboygan
Charles and John Ringling circus entrepreneurs, Baraboo
Pat O'Brien actor, Milwaukee
Georgia O'Keeffe painter, Sun Prairie
Amy Pietz actress, Oak Creek
Charlotte Rae actress, Milwaukee
William H. Rehnquist jurist, Milwaukee
Gena Rowlands actress, Cambria
Tom Snyder newscaster, Milwaukee
Spencer Tracy actor, Milwaukee
Thorstein Veblen economist, Cato Township
Orson Welles actor and producer, Kenosha
Laura Ingalls Wilder author, Pepin
Thornton Wilder author, Madison
Charles Winninger actor, Athen
Frank Lloyd Wright architect, Richland Center
Bob Uecker baseball player, Milwaukee
Les Paul musician, Waukesha

 

[danoyse]

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 Springsteen!!! t:

Also Jon Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Bon Jovi, Derek Jeter, Bruce Willis.

Jane Krakowski (from 30 Rock) went to my high school.

 

[Downhere]

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

To add to the Florida list...

Sydney Poitier
Catherine Keener
Brittany Snow
Eva Mendes
Wesley Snipes
Mimi Rogers
Faye Dunaway
Fred Durst
Janet Reno
Tom Petty

 

[BlackLantern]

Connecticut:

Katherine Heigl
Stephanie McMahon
Meg Ryan
Chloe Sevigny
Christopher Walken
Treat Williiams
Katherine Hepburn
Justin Long
Seth MacFarlane (yea thats right, thanks to Connecticut you all have Family Guy)
Paul Newman


and Connecticut is also the home state of ESPN and Subway

 

[Kelly]

TEXAS
Red Adair firefighter

Marvin Lee Aday (Meat Loaf) singer

Alvin Ailey dancer, choreographer

Wes Anderson filmmaker

Lance Armstrong seven-time tour de france winner

Mary Kay Ash founder Mary Kay Cosmetics

Gene Autry actor, entrepreneur

Tex Avery cartoonist, animator

Stephin F. Austin "father of texas"

Gene Autry singer, actor

Erykah Badu singer

Kathy Baker actress

Ernie Banks baseball player

Clyde Barrow bank robber

Frank Beard guitarist, singer (ZZ Top)

Josh Beckett baseball player

Dan Blocker actor

Herman Brown founder Brown and Root

Carol Burnett comedian

Brooke Burns actor

Gary Busey actor

Jeb Bush florida governor

Laura Bush u.s. first lady

Lauren Bush model

Earl Campbell football player

Kate Capshaw actress

Leland Chapman bounty hunter, television personality

Cyd Charisse dancer

Claire Lee Chennault pilot, founder "Flying Tigers"

Thomas Haden Church actor

Ciara singer

Kelly Clarkson singer

Roger Clemens baseball pitcher

Randall "Tex" Cobb boxer, actor

Denton Cooley heart surgeon

Douglas Corrigan aviator ("wrong way Corrigan")

Joan Crawford actress

Ted Daffan song writer

Leonard Davis football player

Michael Dell founder Dell Computer

Sam Donaldson television reporter

Hilary Duff actress, singer

Sandy Duncan actress

Ronnie Dunn singer, songwriter

Shelley Duvall actress

Dwight Eisenhower u.s. president

Shannon Elizabeth actress

Linda Ellerbee actress, producer

Ron Ely actor

Dale Evans singer, actress

Megan Ewing model

Morgan Fairchild actress

Farrah Fawcett actress

Freddy Fender singer

Miriam "Ma" Ferguson texas governor

George Foreman boxer

Jamie Foxx actor

A. J. Foyt auto racer

Kinky Friedman humorist, politician, singer, songwriter,

Jennifer Garner actress

John Nance Garner u.s. vice president

Larry, Rudy, Steve Gatlin singers (Gatlin Brothers)

Don Gay champion bull rider

Billy Gibbons singer, guitarist (ZZ Top)

Jill Goodacre model

Larry Hagman actor

Roy Hargrove musician

Angie Harmon actress

Woody Harrelson actor

Lisa Hartman actress

Ethan Hawke actor

Don Henley singer, songwriter

Thomas Herrion football player

Jenniver Love Hewitt actress

Patricia Highsmith author

Dusty Hill singer, guitarist (ZZ Top)

Ben Hogan golfer

Buddy Holly musician

Howard Hughes aviator

Kay Bailey Hutchison u.s. senator

John Jefferson football player

Waylon Jennings singer, songwriter

Jack Johnson boxer

Lady Bird Johnson u.s. first lady

Lyndon Johnson u.s. president

George Jones singer

Mike Jones rapper

Tommy Lee Jones actor

Janis Joplin singer

Scott Joplin composer, musician

Tom Kite golfer

Beyonce Knowles singer, actress

David Koresh religious figure

Kris Kristofferson actor, singer, composer

Richard Linklater filmmaker

Mance Lipscomb guitarist

Eva Longoria actress

Trini Lopez singer

Lyle Lovett singer, songwriter

Natalie Maines singer

Barbara Mandrell singer

Fred Marberry baseball pitcher

Mary Martin singer

Steve Martin comedian

Johnny Mathis singer

Delbert McClinton singer

Matthew McConaughey actor

Spanky McFarland actor

Larry McMurtry author

Don Meredith football player

Ann Miller dancer, actress

Roger Miller singer, songwriter

Jim Morris baseball player

Audie Murphy war hero, actor

Willie Nelson singer, songwriter

Chester W. Nimitz sailor

Oliver North u.s. marine, political figure

Renee O'Connor actress

Sandra Day O'Connor retired supreme court judge

Roy Orbison singer, songwriter

Annette O'Toole actress

Buck Owens singer

Bonnie Parker bank robber

Fess Parker actor

Quanah Parker commanche chief

Bill Paxton actor

Ross Perot founder EDS, political figure

Katherine Anne Porter author

Ray Price singer

Dennis Quaid actor

Randy Quaid actor

Phylicia Rashad actress

Dan Rather television newscaster

Robert Rauschenberg artist

Jim Reeves singer

Debbie Reynolds actress

Ann Richards former governor, teacher

J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson singer

Tex Ritter singer

Gene Roddenberry television producer

Michelle Rodriguez actress

Kenny Rogers singer

Irene Ryan actress

Nolan Ryan baseball player

Bob Schieffer television journalist

Selena musician

Ann Sheridan actress

Willie Shoemaker jockey

Ashlee Simpson singer, actor

Jessica Simpson singer

Anna Nicole Smith model, actress

Jaclyn Smith actress

Sissy Spacek actress

Aaron Spelling television producer

George Strait singer, songwriter

Monty Stratton baseball player

Whitley Strieber author

Sheryl Swoopes basketball player

Sharon Tate actress

Rip Torn actor

Lee Trevino golfer

Ernest Tubb singer

Tanya Tucker singer

Tommy Tune actor, dancer, singer

Tina Turner singer

Stevie Ray Vaughan musician

Cindy Walker singer, songwriter

Barry White singer

JoBeth Williams actress

Bob Wills musician, songwriter

Chill Wills actor

Dooley Wilson actor

Luke Wilson actor

Owen Wilson actor

Johnny Winter guitarist, singer

Lee Ann Womack singer

Vince Young football player

Babe Didrikson Zaharias golfer

Renee Zellweger actress

 

[Alex The Great]

Vincent Lecalvier whent to my elementery school!

(montreal, quebec, thorndale elementary school)EDIT: see! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Lecavalier

 

[Logan's Runt]

Tom Arnold
Ashton Kutcher
Brandon Routh

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Tom Hanks was born in the city just over the hill from me.

 

[Badger]

Matthew McConaughey actor

My Wife went to High School with him.

 

[Badger]

Tom Arnold
Ashton Kutcher
Brandon Routh

Johnny Carson was from Iowa, not sure how I know that.

 

[The Chairman]

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.

Um, Sinatra? Jack Nicholson? Springsteen? Kevin Spacey? Frankie Valli?

In additon, Ray Liotta, John Travolta, Meryl Streep and many, many others hail from New Jersey.

 

[Logan's Runt]

Johnny Carson was from Iowa, not sure how I know that.

Oh yeah.

 

[Kelly]

NEW JERSEY

Bud Abbott comedian, Asbury Park
Charles Addams cartoonist, Westfield
Edwin Aldrin astronaut, Montclair
William Count Basie band leader, Red Bank
Joan Bennett actress, Palisades
Judy Blume author, Elizabeth
Jon Bon Jovi musician, Sayreville
William J. Brennan jurist, Newark
Aaron Burr political leader, Newark
Lloyd H. Conover inventor, Orange
James Fenimore Cooper author, Burlington
David Copperfield magician, Metuchen
Lou Costello comedian, Paterson
Stephen Crane writer, Newark
Helen Gahagan Douglas representative, Boonton
Allen Ginsberg poet, Newark
Savron Glover choreographer, Newark
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. admiral, Elizabeth
Lauryn Hill rapper, South Orange
Donald Fletcher Holmes inventor, Woodbury
Whitney Houston entertainer, Newark
Ice-T rapper, Newark
Alfred Joyce Kilmer poet, New Brunswick
Alfred C. Kinsey zoologist, Hoboken
Ernie Kovacs comedian, Trenton
Dorothea Lange photographer, Hoboken
Jerry Lewis comedian, film director, Newark
Anne Morrow Lindbergh author, Englewood
Norman Mailer author, Long Branch
James W. Marshall discovered gold in California, Hunterdon
Patricia McBride ballerina, Teanick
Eger V. Murphree inventor, Bayonne
Jack Nicholson actor, Neptune City
Dorothy Parker author, West Bend
Zebulon Mongomery Pike explorer, soldier, Lamberton
Joe Piscopo comedian, actor, Passaic
Paul Robeson singer, actor, Princeton
Edward J. Rosinski inventor, Gloucester County
Philip Milton Roth author, Newark
Ruth St. Denis dancer, choreographer, Newark
Antonin Scalia jurist,Trenton
Norman Schwarzkopf army general, Trenton
Frank Sinatra singer, actor, Hoboken
Kevin Spacey actor, South Orange
Bruce Springsteen musician, Freehold
Amos Alonzo Stagg football coach, West Orange
Alfred Stieglitz photographer, Hoboken
Meryl Streep actress, Summit
Albert Payson Terhune journalist, author, Newark
Dave Thomas restaurateur, Atlantic City
William Henry Vanderbilt financier, New Brunswick
Sarah Vaughan singer, Newark
Dionne Warwick actress, singer, East Orange
William Carlos Williams physician, poet, Rutherford
Ray Liotta actor, Newark
Edmund Wilson literary critic, author, Red Bank

 

[The Chairman]

I'm from New York, so you could list just about half the entire industry if not more.

 

[The Geek Vault]

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

What he said!

 

[Kelly]

Famous New Yorkers
George Abbott stage producer, Forestville
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar basketball player, NYC
George Babcock inventor, Unadilla Forks
Lucille Ball actress, Jamestown
Humphrey Bogart actor, NYC
James Cagney actor, NYC
Maria Callas soprano, NYC
Benjamin N. Cardozo jurist, NYC
Willis Haviland Carrier inventor, Angola
Paddy Chayefsky playwright, NYC
Bruce Cooper Clark general, Adams
Sean Combs Puff Daddy music, NYC
Peter Cooper industrialist, philanthropist, NYC
Aaron Copland composer, Brooklyn
Tom Cruise actor, Syracuse
Claire Danes actress, NYC
Sammy Davis, Jr. actor, singer, NYC
Agnes de Mille choreographer, NYC
George Eastman inventor, Waterville
Gertrude Belle Elion inventor, NYC
Millard Fillmore U.S. president, Locke
Henry Louis Gehrig baseball player, NYC
Sarah Gellar actress, NYC
George Gershwin composer, Brooklyn
Jackie Gleason comedian, actor, Brooklyn
Bret Harte writer, Albany
Learned Hand jurist, Albany
Chamique Holdsclaw basketball player, Flushing
Edward Hopper painter, Nyack
Julia Ward Howe poet, social reformer, NYC
Charles Evans Hughes jurist, Glens Falls
Washington Irving author, NYC
Henry James author, NYC
John Jay jurist, NYC
Billy Joel singer, composer, Hicksville
Michael Jeffery Jordan basketball player, Brooklyn
Jerome Kern composer, NYC
Rockwell Kent painter, Terrytown
Frank Langellaactor, Bayonne
Victor Lasky author, Liberty
Vince Lombardi football coach, NYC
Chico, Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo Marx comedians, NYC
Herman Melville author, NYC
Ethel Merman singer, actress, Astoria
Ogden Nash poet, Rye
Rosie O'Donnel comedian, Commach
Eugene O'Neill playwright, NYC
George Pullman inventor, Brocton
Red Jacket Seneca chief
Christopher Reeve actor, spokesperson, Manhattan
John D. Rockefeller industrialist, Richford
Norman Rockwell painter, illustrator, NYC
Mickey Rooney actor, Brooklyn
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt reformer, humanitarian, NYC
Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. president, Hyde Park
Theodore Roosevelt U.S. president, NYC
Jonas Salk polio researcher, NYC
Margaret Sanger birth control, Corning
Alfred Emanuel Smith politician, NYC
Leland Stanford railroad magnate, Watervliet
Barbara Stanwyck actress, Brooklyn
Rise Stevens mezzo-soprano, NYC
Barbra Streisand singer, actress, NYC
Tupac Shakur rapper, Bronx
Louis Comfort Tiffany painter, craftsman, NYC
Martin Van Buren U.S. president, Kinderhook
Mae West actress, Brooklyn
George Westinghouse Jr. inventor, Central Bridge
Edith Wharton author, NYC
Walt Whitman poet, West Hills
John N. Willys indrustrialist, Canandaiqua
Frank Winfield Woolworth merchant, Rodman
Linus Yale inventor, Salisbury

 

[The Chairman]

That's not even the tip of the iceberg. Hayden Panettiere, Christina Aguilera, Al Pacino, Bobby Darin, Martin Scorsese, Susan Sarandon and a wealth of others all come from New York.

 

[Kelly]

Hey I just posted what they had, I didn't make the list....

 

[The Chairman]

Hey I just posted what they had, I didn't make the list....

Oh, I know. Just saying they missed a lot (I though Pacino was common knowledge).

 

[J. J. Jameson]

Only famous PA person (living) I can think of right now is M. Night Shamalyan.

There's more, but I'm too lazy to look it up.