famous people from your area

[Zannies]

just got this idea from seeing a post by slipknot in another thread.

post some famous celebrities from your town.

go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) and search your town and state it should say somewhere on that page

from mine:
kurt russell
wayne gretzky
amanda bynes (i played handball with her a few times haha)
will smith(ive seen him so many times at baseball games watching his son)

[thcbongman]

Dave Grohl
Tom Dolan
Katie Couric
One of the guys who died on the Challenger.

Yeah, that's about it.

[ganjzilla]

haha i kno i dont evn have to look on there im from a town in bumfuck usa and am pretty sure no one from this town of 10000 has made it big time, if neone did we'd have heard about it by now

[Piff Smoker]

Did see where it said on there but Tupac live here in baltimore and went to the baltimore school for the arts

[thcbongman]

Oh I forgot, Sandra Bullock also grew up here.

[Lankan Lion]

LOL i used to go to school with Michael Cera, the kid from superbad and arrested development. Music director Little X (director, of among others..'No sex in the champagne room' video) is my boys older brother.

lol, My brother used to sell chron to the iceman kid from the xmen movies too

[JD1stTimer]

Roy Orbison, Bowling For Soup, Rev. Horton Heat, The Toadies, The Baptist Generals, Ann Sheridan, Brave Combo, Norah Jones, Mandarin, Mark Dalton, Pat Boone, Peter Weller (Robocop), Phyllis George, Slobberbone, the Von Erichs.

[Blitzed]

Ken Norton

[The Colonel]

i know bob marley lived here in Wilmington for part of his life

[FoSho]

Pat Benatar, Guitarist Ryan Curry and drummer Shane Curry of Seventh Dagger recording artists The World We Knew, indie film icon director Hal Hartley, game show host Jack Barry, and actor Dan Lauria of The Wonder Years. The 90's ska band "Edna's Goldfish"


Yepp, that's it =]

[birdgirl73]

Roy Orbison, Bowling For Soup, Rev. Horton Heat, The Toadies, The Baptist Generals, Ann Sheridan, Brave Combo, Norah Jones, Mandarin, Mark Dalton, Pat Boone, Peter Weller (Robocop), Phyllis George, Slobberbone, the Von Erichs.
JD1stTimer, you and I are from the same place! Denton?

Brave Combo played at my wedding. There are lots of other good folks from this general area. I'm too lazy to list them.

[Matt the Funk]

Shit load of celebs live all around me. Some that live in the same neighborhood are Tom Cruise, Alyssa Milano, Sarah Silverman, and the accused murderer Jesse James Hollywood. I actually know people who knew Jesse lol. And people who were friends with the kid who got killed.

[420budtoker420]

nelly furtado, thats a bout it

[slipknotpsycho]

Renée Zellweger
Chris Cagle
Joe Tex
Charissa Chamorro
Macey Cruthird
Gary Busey
Rocky Bernard
Bobby Fuller
Rodney Crowell
Clint Stoerner
Kenneth Callaway
Leeland Mooring
J.D. Wilkes

only ones i know of.

[slipknotpsycho]

Shit load of celebs live all around me. Some that live in the same neighborhood are Tom Cruise, Alyssa Milano, Sarah Silverman, and the accused murderer Jesse James Hollywood. I actually know people who knew Jesse lol. And people who were friends with the kid who got killed.

that was one fucked up story man =/... i never get sad over movies really and that shit made me sick-to-my-stomach sad...

[Matt the Funk]

that was one fucked up story man =/... i never get sad over movies really and that shit made me sick-to-my-stomach sad...Yeah from first hand stories as far as I can telll jese was a complete dick. And he would show up at parties and basically stop them by shooting for no reason. The movie had a lot of comedy though lol.

[Psycho4Bud]

Mary Theresa Brunner is usually considered to be the first member of the Manson "Family.":
From my home city.....

Ed Gein:
Home State....

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[The Dude Of Life]

Isaac Stout (dude on new real world)
Marc Cohn (folk singer)
Krayzie, Layzie, Wish, and Flesh...

[smokingskeleton]

err nobody...But we do have a catherdral that was built in 1079 (oo yeah baby)

[WeeDIndeeD420]

DOLEMITE!!!hahhaa and priest holmes, couple other famous ppl i was suprised in this shithole FT.SMITH ARK. DOLEMITE!!!!!!!!

[ceecee79]

Fantasia Barrino

John Coletrane grew here but wasn't born in my city.

[xcrispi]

joe bruce - violent J
m&m
marshall crenshaw
booger -revenge of the nerds
lotsa ppl.
Crispi :jointsmile:

[fasterspider]

When I was 14 years old on Long Island I was coming away from the counter with a pack of Marlboro's when I turned and walked face first into Telly Sevalles' chest, he had a carton of Long John Silver cigarettes and a big bag of Tootsie Pops in his hands. He was doing the show "Kojack" at the time and lived in Huntington Bay. I said "Excuse me but, Who loves you baby" and walked away.
Now I live in Studio City and everybody is who is anybody lives somewhere close within 10 miles of me either in the Hills above us or over the Hill in Beverly Hills.

[TallCoolOne]

Mary Theresa Brunner is usually considered to be the first member of the Manson "Family.":
From my home city.....

Ed Gein:
Home State....

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

LOL, the thread said famous, not infamous.

[affasd]

ronald mcdonald

[TallCoolOne]

Theres way too many to list:

List of people from Atlanta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_Atlantans)
...but then again, lol. Thank you, wikipedia.

[JD1stTimer]

YES BIRDGIRL!!!! WAITAMINUTE! Was your wedding on the courthouse lawn? Cause that wedding looked more like a weeding to me! ;) Time for the CHICKENDANCE!

[Paulkishi]

Michael Jordan and Vince Vaughn attended my high school. Mr. T lived there too, I have been to a party at his house after he sold it.

[pixel]

i used to go to school, jam, and drink with teddy geiger.. then sophomore year he left for NYC and im sure you can guess the rest... by the way hes a way better musician than his albums say and his ability to improv is unbelievable

[jamstigator]

Maya Angelou
Yogi Berra
Scott Bakula
Chuck Berry
Linda Blair
Daniel Boone
Lou Brock
Albert Pujols
Jack Buck
Phyllis Diller
Max Factor
Redd Foxx
John Goodman
Ulysses S. Grant
Ryan Howard
Scott Joplin
Kevin Kline
Charles Lindbergh
Marsha Mason
Stan Musial
Nelly
Vincent Price
Dred Scott
Ozzie Smith
Ike Turner
Tina Turner
Mark Twain
Tennessee Williams
Shelley Winters
Jimmy Connors
Miles Davis
Dizzy Dean
Buddy Ebsen
Harry Caray
Bob Costas
Robert Guilllaume
David Sanborn
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Sheesh, and there are many more, these were just the most easily recognizable, for me anyway.

Now you see the famous people associated with my city, the question is, what's my city? ;)

[Diary of a Madman]

uh....Tom Petty? Lynard Skinnard, 38 special, and my least favorite........Limp Diksuk I mean Bizkit,

Im sure there are others if I cared.....(James Weldon Johnson)

[JD1stTimer]

To Birdgirl: Sorry for hijacking this forum but I can't give you a rep right now. That wasn't your wedding. Oh, and to everyone, a few of the bands I listed are actually from a few miles away.

[birdgirl73]

. . . .
Now you see the famous people associated with my city, the question is, what's my city? ;)
That'd be St. Louis, Missouri, right? Scott Joplin, Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant were the three that gave it away for me.


To Birdgirl: Sorry for hijacking this forum but I can't give you a rep right now. That wasn't your wedding. Oh, and to everyone, a few of the bands I listed are actually from a few miles away.
No problem JD1stTimer. No, that wasn't my wedding on the courthouse lawn. I grew up in one of those big houses along Oak Street not far from the NT campus. The reception was in the back yard, which I'm sure was troubling to the neighborhood, but everyone in Denton is accustomed to bands playing. That was before Brave Combo was as famous. I got married in 1983, long before you were there, I'm sure.

[JD1stTimer]

NOT TRUE! I've been a Dentonite since 1980! I just didn't know anyone back then. :D

[jamstigator]

Yep, you got it. Thanks for the welcome back, btw, Birdgirl. ;)

[DaPolarBear]

Luke Jordan (mega-kudos/cookies to anyone who knows who he is)

Gomoroah (A fairly good band, good chance of breaking big in the hardcore scene)

Ghost of a fallen age (Great local band, almost sure fire chance of breaking into the music scene in a big way, internationally Id bet)

Dismembering something or other (see above)

Jerry Falwell (Eww... I try not to hate anyone, but its hard not to hate him).