Famous People From Your Place of Residence / Hometown

[STDzRus]

I just found out that Twista is from my city. Thought that was pretty cool.

[insanity]

Matt Groening (creator of the Simpsons) went to highschool across the street from my current house.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Ozzy Osbourne used to live 5 minutes from me when he was a kid.

[endo..jay]

there are alot of famous people from jersey but none from around here

the rock (wwf) was 20 mins from me, my old coach played football against him

doug e doug (cosby show, and cool runnings guy) his mother live here
I see him every now and again at the store

[Nochowderforyou]

In the city I live in now, Olympic skater Jeremy Wotherspoon is from here.

Plus newscaster Ron McLean is from here as well.

Musician KD Lang went to college here, but is not from this city, which is good, because her music sucks :D

[endo..jay]

here is a list of ppl form jersey, no one from my home town tho...boo!!!!


Famous People from New Jersey
Bud Abbott Comedian Asbury Park
Jason Alexander Actor Linvingston
Charles Addams Cartoonist Westfield
Edwin Aldrin Astronaut Montclair
James Avery Actor Atlantic City
William Count Basie Band leader Red Bank
Joan Bennett Actress Palesades
Yogi Berra Yankees Baseball Legand Montclair
Judy Blume Author Elizabeth
Jon Bon Jovi Musician Sayreville
William J. Brennan Jurist Newark
Aaron Burr Political leader Newark
Grover Cleveland President Caldwell
Lloyd H. Conover Inventor Orange
Tom Cruise Actor Glen Ridge
James Fenimore Cooper Author Burlington
Lou Costello Comedian Paterson
Stephen Crane writer Newark

Danny DeVito Actor Asbury Park
Helen Gahagan Douglas Representative Boonton
Thomas Edison Inventor West Orange
Daisy Fuentes Newscaster/Actress/Model Newark
Allen Ginsberg Poet Newark
Savron Glover Choreographer Newark
Leslie Gore Singer Tenafly
William Frederick Halsey Jr. Admiral Elizabeth
Lauryn Hill Rapper South Orange
Whitney Houston Singer/Actress Newark
Donald Fletcher Holmes Inventor Woodbury
Ice-T Rapper Newark
Jon Bon Jovi Musician Sayreville
Alfred Joyce Kilmer Poet New Brunswick
Alfred C. Kinsey Zoologist Hoboken
Ernie Kovacs Comedian Trenton
Dorothea Lange Photographer Hoboken
Huey Lewis Singer Livingston
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 Teaneck
Gil McDougald Yankees Baseball Legend Nutley
Jay Mohr Actor Verona
Eger V. Murphree Inventor Bayonne
Ricky Nelson Actor/Singer Teaneck
Jack Nicholson Actor Neptune City
Shaquille O'Neill NBA Basketball Star Newark
Tommy Page SInger Caldwell
Dorothy Parker Author West Bend
Joe Pesci Actor/Comedian
Zebulon Mongomery Pike Explorer/Soldier Lamberton
Joe Piscopo Actor/Comedian Passaic
Paul Robeson Singer/Actor Princeton
Edward J. Rosinski Inventor Gloucester
Philip Milton Roth Author Newark
Ruth St. Denis Dancer/Choreographer Newark
Antonin Scalia Jurist Trenton
Norman Schwarzkopf Army General Trenton
Brooke Shields Actress Englewood
Frank Sinatra Singer/Actor Hoboken
Kevin Spacey Actor South Orange
Steven Spielberg Movie Director/Producer Montclair
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 Restauranteur Atlantic City
John Travolta Actor Englewood
Frankie Vallie Singer Newark
William Henry Vanderbilt Financier New Brunswick
Sarah Vaughan Singer Newark
Dionne Warwick Actress/Singer East Orange
Denzell Washington Singer Mt. Vernon
William Carlos Williams Physician/Poet Rutherford
Edmund Wilson Literary Critic/Author Red Bank

[mr pink06]

Leicester is famous for Gary Lineker (Ex Leicester City and England football star) er.....that bloke from Big Brother, that rapper who got chucked in prison!! er.........and me! :)

[digweed]

The beatles, L.F.C.,The zootons,Frankie goes to hollywood,the farm,,.

[spatte21]

im from Cincinnati and I think George Clooney is from there, Carmen Electra, Nick Leche or however you spell that douches name, i think thats about it

[Fan o KmK]

the band Trapt graduated from the highschool in my town, i dont go to it tho. Dredg also went to the same school as trapt but graduated more recently. haha its kinda cool, i know chicks that are like "yea i used to date taht guy, he was cool until they released headstrong then it was like 'im too cool for your pussy, i got groupies now'" lol

[patten]

Hank von hell from turboneger grew up in my hometown in north norway, and i think he lives in my neighbourhood here in oslo cus i see him alot outside the pubs smoking, in this area..

[Smpthy4TheDevil]

cesar chavez was from my hometown, san jose.

[Powder Puff]

I dunno.. No one famous around the world..

But, there are alot of musicians here that are very good... You just haven't heard about them!:p

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

cesar chavez was from my hometown, san jose.

LOL :D

[friendowl]

oscar de la hoya
cheech from cheech and chong
some guy from black eye peas

[beachguy in thongs]

Well, there are a lot from Virginia Beach, but my hometown (Amsterdam, NY) is where Kirk Douglas is from.

Oh, and on the news, last night, I found out that the richest person in Virginia Beach, and the whole area, is a girl whose family left her the Johnson & Johnson fortune.

[Smpthy4TheDevil]

cesar chavez was from my hometown, san jose.


.. or not?

either way i've scored a fair bit of weed in his park in san jose.

history is not my strong point. :stoned:

[bedake]

Back when i lived on army bases, my parents were stationed at the same army base Shaq O'neal's dad was stationed at, my brothers went to school with him/played football with him and all that jazz, they said he was a dick, actually threw a chair at a teacher in school.


Right now im sitting in the hall way between classes on my laptop, Marion Ohio, President Warren G. Harding was born here, I hang out at his monument where he is buried during the summer between classes for studying.

[Smpthy4TheDevil]

my stepmom went to junior high/high school with terri hatcher. they were 'enemies' of sorts. terri hatcher set my stepmom's hair on fire when they were about 12

[woscarr]

Don't know if this counts...

Year's ago I was a dj in a big dance bar. The rock band Rush came to town and we had a after hour's party for the band at the bar (we did that for all the bands that came to town).

I ended up smokin' Getti Lee (bassist) a big fat doobie of some sweet black hash I had at the time up in my dj booth.

Oh the hash was soooo good back then... :)

[imagoober]

Reggie Miller! (indiana pacers) his family still lives about five minutes away.
Adam Kennedy! (L.A. Angels of Anaheim) i was his fathers teachers assistant in high school.
Barry bonds (Giants slugger) was also born here!

[beachguy in thongs]

Don't know if this counts...

Year's ago I was a dj in a big dance bar. The rock band Rush came to town and we had a after hour's party for the band at the bar (we did that for all the bands that came to town).

I ended up smokin' Getti Lee (bassist) a big fat doobie of some sweet black hash I had at the time up in my dj booth.

Oh the hash was soooo good back then... :)
Sweet. Did ya' talk baseball with him??? Saw them live five times.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

My bro's mate's mum went to college with Frank Skinner (famous English comedian for those who don't know).

My mum used to childmind a girl whose cousin was Roy Keane (the footballer).

I saw Jeremy Beadle when I went to Blackpool ages back haha!!! He looked well angry and pissed off LOL!!!

[MRP]

david camm

[Endless Smoker]

XIBIT (he was kicked out of every high school in the city) , steve-O, bill gates BUT HONESTLY WHO REALLY CARES

[dopesmoker]

Harry Lumley who is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Billy Bishop who was a very famous WWI fighter pilot, Thomas Holmes who won the Victoria Cross in WWI, Norman Bethune who was a doctor and has monuments in China, and has monuments and schools named after him here in Canada, and Paul Henderson who scored the winning goals against the Soviet Union in the 1972 summit series and that is probably Canada's most famous sports moment.

[BizzleLuvin]

good charlotte is from near my city

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

My bro's mate's dad (same guy who's mum went to college with Frank Skinner) got his band name ripped off my Linkin Park. They were in a band called Linkin Green (a green is like a park over in merry ol' England) and were getting quite well known, well they split up and I don't know the details of what happened but they didn't copyright the name (as they weren't signed or anything) then a while afterwards they started hearing about a band called "Linkin Park."

Now I wasn't told the full details about it all and how Linkin Park had anything to do with that guy's band, Linkin Green, but it's a true story. The guy was going to take them to court for it (and for money) but as the name wasn't copywritten it would just be a waste on money hiring lawyers and such.

:)

[Lily420]

Jimmy carter :confused:

[420Toaker]

emral lagassy(sp?) no clue how to spell it and infact he went to my HS thats where he took culinary arts (its a vocational school).

And one of the members of aerosmith is from where i live.

[Ae...]

Burt Reynolds.

[GanjaSmugler]

michael jordan, ben bushwa, minny evans, they film alot shows in my town. shit like dawsons creek and one tree hil. dumb stuff. but the cast all have houses in the town during the time they film the shoes.

[esrabalamir]

bruce willis, he has summer house in my city also he is a good neighbour

[scream]

george washington carver was going to go to the college in my hometown, spent all his money to get to my hometown and when he got there they said no cus he was black

[halo]

I dont know if u guys have heard of him but

tech n9ne !!! the rapper

hes from kc

haha i can't think of anyone else famous from kc

[STDzRus]

I dont know if u guys have heard of him but

tech n9ne !!! the rapper

hes from kc

haha i can't think of anyone else famous from kc

Magic Bishop Don Juan!!!

Tech N9ne is the shit btw...

Skatterman!

[Smokey McPot]

Mushroom head went to my high school, one of the guys from jackass or cky i cant remember his name because he isnt one of the main people such as stevo or bam. The singer from the cars rico what ever. Bone thugs n harmony.

Cleveland, ohio.

[rastabill89]

jeffrey dahmer lived like 10 minuits from my old home town my sisters old teacher accualy tought him

[GanjaBob]

My good friend Has lived next door to Jeff Ament (the pearl jam bassist) for his whole life and they are kinda friends and Jeff has a skatepark in his backyard that my friend can use and bring friends to somtimes. Hmmm i think a couple actors live somewhere outside my city but i cant recall their names at this moment. Oh yeah and Jeff Ament donated like 200,000 dollars to help build a new skatepark here , hes a cool guy.

[Breukelen advocaat]

We got so many from here, FUHGEDABOUDIT!