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Anyone famous from your region? From s.w. Pa we've had Albert Gallatin, George Blanda, Joe Montana, Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath I think Flacco. George Blanda's niece spent Easter Sunday with us today.
 
I live in Scotland County, MO. A couple of our famous folks are Ella Ewing (world's tallest woman at 8' 8" tall) and Tom Horn. Mike
 
Harry Ferguson?? Some of your Presidents, John Boyd Dunlop, (invented the pneumatic tyre) Liam Neeson, Sam Neill (both actors) Rory McElroy (golfer) I am sure there are more......
Sam
 
Jesse James from Missouri.
You can tour Meramac Caverans in Stanton Mo which was his hideout. His secret getaway was an underground river out of the cave. It's about 2 hrs from our house. Nice place to visit.
 
Gerald Ford was born in Omaha, we have the birthsite park to prove it! Problem is, when you read some of the stuff there, he only lived here for a few months!
 
Well yes, but not real proud. I hate to say it, but Illinois is my home state. I think most people know our famous people.
 
Minnesota Fats lived in downtown Dowell, Illinois, about 15 miles from me. I used to enjoy driving past his house at night. He had a big picture window - the curtains would be open showing a nice pool table, and on the wall behind it was a big lighted picture of Fats chalking a pool cue. Folks called him Fats, but his name was Rudolph Wanderone(sp).
 
Most famous ones that I can think of are the one that go though the hardships of life but still keep a smile on their face and respect other people, Also the one that come home from the hell of all the wars and go on about theirs lives and raiseing their familys
 
Lots of them I'm sure, but my brain is only coming up with recent performers.
Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Bob Seager, Kid Rock, Eminem.....
And even though I don't know all there names, there's all the veterans.
 
My dad's cousin, James Best, grew up in my hometown of Corydon, IN...Corydon High School Class of 1944. Dad was CHS Class of 1948.

You probably remember James Best as Dewey Barksdale from the movie, "Ode To Billy Joe"...or from "Ma and Pa Kettle At The Fair"...or about a hundred western movies and TV shows...or the cult-classic B-movie, "The Killer Shrews" [1959].

Or you may remember him as the guitar-playing kid with an attitude, Jim Lindsay, on two episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show."

Oh, yeah...he spent a few years playing the role of Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrain on "The Dukes of Hazzard," but I doubt anyone remembers that role...
 
In the Rochester, NY area we had a few...Irving Crane, the great pool player.....Lou Gramm, singer from Foreigner, Mitch Miller..if you remember Sing Along with Mitch on TV, Chuck Mangione, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Foster Brooks,Cab Calloway, Susan B Anthony, Gearge Eastman (Eastman Kodak), Rod Serling (Twilight Zone), George Selden (invented automobile electric starter).......Thats a few that I can think of................
 
John McEwan(?) of Three Dog Night is from Olathe Co,10 miles from me.Newt Rockne was killed in a plane crash 2 miles from my fathers home at Baazar(Cottonwood Falls) Kansas.
 
If Your a Michigan basketball fan,
Mitch McGary is from Here.
He's a real good Kid.
And He did deliver His paper route on a unicycle!
Tallest unicycle I've ever seen.

Steve A W
 
Sharon Stone went to the next school south of the one I went to, and went to college in the next town north.

That college is the one that you go to if you can't afford anything else, or can't get in anywhere else.
 
Leseur,Mn. about 20 miles from me. W.W. Mayo house. Birthplace of the Mayo brothers who founded The world famous Mayo clinic in Rochester,Mn.
 
Oh yea I do, he was the best one on there. Him and Flash, that is. Weelllll, I do kinda remember Daisy...
 
Duh!!!My mother-in-law,Phoebe Cranor,World 'famous'Christian author and lecturer,several books published in at least 5 languages.From Gunnison Co.How could I forget her????
 
Gretchen Wilson (country singer)- Michael Stipe (band named REM, also went to high school with him) and oh yah! Mr. external_link (aka The commander and chief)
 
Michael Moore, Flint Mi. Nobody really claims him though.

Kid Rock lives not too far.

There are others, cant think of them at the moment.
 
Frank W. Woolworth, Viggo Mortensen, supermodel Maggie Rizer, porn star Savanna Samson, actor Richard Grieco, singer John Gary. All within 20 miles of here.
 
Our small city has produced quite a few famous folks.

Music-makers born here (or within 30 or so miles) include Jim Reeves, Johnny Horton, Tex Ritter, Claude King, Kix Brooks, Trace Adkins, Floyd Kramer, Hank Williams, Jr., D.J. Fontana (Elvis's drummer), James Burton (Elvis's guitarist), Huddie Leadbetter (Leadbelly--black blues guitarist in the 30s), and concert pianist Van Cliburn.

To the sports world we contributed a raft of quarterbacks (Terry Bradshaw, Joe Ferguson, David Woodley, Stan Humphries), RB Jacob Hester, golfers Hal Sutton and David Toms; basketballer Robert Parish, baseballer Todd Walker and motorcycle racer Freddie Spencer. Lots of others from the surrounding area, including Karl Malone, Willis Reed, Buck Buchannan, Willie Davis.

Other local boys were playwright Josh Logan and lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Cochran's famous client Orenthal J. Simpson also lived here for a time as a child.

Gun enthusiasts may know the names of gunsmith Jim Clark (he attended my church), his daughter and son-in-law Kay and Jerry Miculik (sp?).



There's others but that's all I can think of now.
 
Famous? Famous to me are two of my relatives.
One died in the Normandy invasion.
The other was on the USS Indianapolis which was torpedoed, sank, and the survivors who made it to the water
were left floating for five days while the sharks took them one by one.
Sorry, no movie stars or sports heros, just real heros.
 
From Idaho there is, Wilson Rawls (author), Vardis Fisher (author), Philo T Farnsworth (inventor, cathode ray tube) Patrick McManus (humorist) and Gary Sinise (actor) probably others also just cant think of them right now.
 
Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon) from Grinders Switch. She was actually from Shipps Bend which is a mile or so from Grinders Switch. These little communities are a couple miles outside of Centerville, TN.

I never knew Ms. Cannon but folks thought highly of her. I knew her first cousin well. He was a good man.
 
Two guys we're most proud of are LTC Jonas Kelsall and CPO Robert James Reeves. They were born here, went to school here and were best friends. They remained friends until they and some 17 other Navy Seals were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan about a year ago.
 
We have Agnes Macphail, first female Member of Parliament. Also have Billy Bishop, top Canadian air ace of WW1. Also have a bunch of NHL players. Even had the infamous Sean Avery play on the local OHL team. There's one other famous 'musician' who comes from a place 2 hours away (Stratford), but we'll pretend he came from the other side of the country.
 
So I did. In my view he's very forgetable. He should hope that the parish district attorney will forget the dope charge that has been laid on him.
 
The drag racer Don Prudhomme (The Snake) lives near me. Saw him just a couple days ago. He was getting a couple cuttings from our large cactus plant. Then there's me. Well anyway my dog thinks I'm famous. Stan
 
Went to School and was in the Drama Club with Currie Graham's older sister, she use to have some good parties when her parents were away on vacation. He would be wandering around, nice skinny litte kid. He has been in many tv shows and movies. Most memorable would probably be station commander in the final season of the TV program NYPD Blue, or as the husband of House's ex girlfriend on House.
Within 60 miles Dan Aykroyd-Ghost Busters, Blues Brothers, he has a long list of shows. Avril Lavigne- younger singer. Lorne Greene - Bonaza, Rich Little, Paul Anka, a whole host of hockey players, about all I can think of off the top of my head, is a long list from the Kingston-Ottawa area.
 
I own the farm that Brock Lesnar grew up on.

ESPN film crew even tresspassed on the place to get some footage for promotion video.
 
From right around here in central Missouri....Up around California there was Sara Evans. I understand she"s some sort of singer. Then from over around Sedalia/Ionia area comes the world"s most famous auctioneer, Leroy VanDyke.
 
Barn storming aviator Roscoe Turner who died in 1970. He spent his last 20 years on the west side of Indianapolis, about 5 miles from my Indy house. His mansion has been repossessed countless times. It needs at least $100,000 worth of repairs and upgrades. Neat looking place! He started Roscoe Turner Airlines which eventually became Lake Central. That I believe was absorbed by US Air.
 
Waylon Jennings is from Littlefield, TX, my wife Dad played piano for Waylon in the early days. Probably more from this area but that is all I can think of right now.
 
Nah. In our little town, we kinda frown on the idea of trying to be famous - also known as trying to get above your raising! We all have done a pretty good job of avoiding fame - except when the ANOINTED ONE made an offhand remark about people who clung to their guns and religion. We knew he was referring to us ("cept maybe not the religion part!)

Well, we did have one individual that was one of the original writers for Playboy magazine. He once reminenced that his hometown was founded right after the Civil War by a group composed of war prisoners, army deserters, and the usual "camptown ladies" that had hung around the prison and the army camps. He left out the former slaves and a few Native American Indians, but that kinda prejucial attitude happens when you get above your raising. Just sayin......
 
On Long Island, in Franklin Square I grew up down the block from Sean Hannity. We were friends in early teens till he went to a different school. I do still speak to him occasionally and about once every other year stop by his show to say hello.
We no longer live in NY. Here in York Maine, Chris Cassidy of NASA is a local. I do not know him personally but have heard him speak at the local HS.
Local Astronaut
 
It hauled "Little Boy" to Tinian and then proceeded toward Leyte. Top Secret mission that it was on prevented it being reported overdue. Sailors were left to sink or swim. She sank in 12 minutes.
 
Ashton Kutcher was a classmate of my daughter.

The stories I could tell about him---

Gary
 
Whitey Herzog, from New Athens, IL.. We went to the same High school, although I was 20 years later then him
 
The only one I can think of right now is US Senator Joseph McCarthy. A most controversial figure in our history and yet is thought of by many locals as a true patriot. Yes, there were many communist spies in our government. Some of them at the highest levels of the departments of State and Defense. Anyway, he managed a grocery store in a little town about 7 miles from me. He had never gone to High School so that was arranged locally. He completed High School in one year and then, with financial backing from a local gazillionaire, graduated from Marquette University, became an unsuccessful lawyer and joined the Marines. Many claim he never flew a combat mission but he actually flew 12 but claimed it was 32 and thusly was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. He defeated Robert LaFollette for the US Senate which resulted in Robert LaFollette committing suicide. Not a great loss. The rest as they say: "Is History". (;>))
 
This area did not produce him but Hank Williams Jr lives next door. He moved here about 25 years ago and is a pretty good neighbor.
 
James Best wuz raised in Corydon, Indiana.
He is remembered by being Sherrif Roscoe P. Coaltrane on the Dukes of Hazard
 
Jeff Daniels, Chelsea, MI
Del Shannon, Coopersville, MI "My Little Runaway"
Henry Ford, Greenfield Township, MI
 
Not really. EJ Potter,the "Michigan Madman" who raced a V8 powered motorcycle and pulled Allison powered tractors was from just east of here.

It's rumored that Jack Benny was in town visiting a local woman one night many,many years ago. I don't remember the old woman but I remember the house,and it's gone now. But the story was that this woman had been in show business at one time. They say a big black car pulled up out front one evening and Jack Benny got out and went inside. Stayed a few hours and left. That's about as close to fame as anybody ever got here in town.
 
Spade Cooley lived in my home town , as well as Laura Scudder (peanut butter / potato chips )
 
Lefty Frizzell and 641Dave

Other than that, Corsicana is known for it's high number of fruit cakes. ...Collins Street Bakery fruit cakes that is!
 
Numerous sportsmen and women, none resemble me at all for some strange reason...

Doctor Suess. The real guy, Theodore Giesel, not the cat

Don Pardo, Saturday Night Live's announcer

Carl Bean, Red Sox announcer, recently killed in a car accident

Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher, but no one can decide if the birthplace is the original house

And General Creighton Abrams, from Battle of the Buldge and Viet Nam fame.
His famous last words were - 'if that town ever names anything after me, I'll sue them to thier last nickel'!
Soon after he died... the town named a dead end road to a bolt and screw factory after him...
 
John Conlee, about 2 miles away, couple years behind me in school. He worked as an undertaker before his singing took off. They still own the farm he was raised on here (Versailles) but John has a farm near Nashville now.
 
Sparky Anderson Cincinatti Reds, Dick Green, Oakland A's World Series Champs.
George McGovern. Lyle Alzedo.
 
We had a bunch of famous old guys down our way not many now.

George Washington. James Monroe, Robert E Lee all were born down here and their birthplace homes are a couple of miles as the crow flies
 
James Gahllager from Melrose Mn. was 28 years old when he was the pilot of a B52 that flew non-stop around the world. Plane was called the lucky lady the second. They refueled it in the air in the 4 day flight. It was done in secret but then made public saying we had the means to drop an A-bomb any place in the world. As a child I can remember going to see the plane in Melrose with the wings off.
 
Clayton Yeutter, secretary of agriculture (distant relation). Mick Tinglehoff,(wifes uncle) #53 center for the Vikings for years. Cris Dishman, played football for the Cardinals. This is the short list.
South central Nebraska.
 
John Wilkes Boothe came from down east of Belair. Where is he when you really need him????
 
I grew up in Mtn. View Ark. As a teen worked in the local hardware store and waited on Grandpa Jones several times. Very Friendly man. He was so common around there that no one really paid any attention.
 
Robert Goddard from a few towns over... I always THOUGHT he was famous (inventor of the first liquid fueled rocket) but - perhaps that's because I've heard of him so much.

Clara Barton's birthplace is right up the road -though I've never visited it.
(founder of the red cross)
 
I graduated high school with Albert Pujols. Harry Truman, Ginger Rogers, Paul Henning (Beverly Hillbillies), and Jesse James (original outlaw) were all from around these parts.
 

Former running back Larry csonka has a home near here,former Denver broncos kicker Rich Karlis is from here also I drive by the former home of Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett on my way to and from work.
 
(quoted from post at 21:53:01 03/31/13) Anyone famous from your region? From s.w. Pa we've had Albert Gallatin, George Blanda, Joe Montana, Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath I think Flacco. George Blanda's niece spent Easter Sunday with us today.
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Wolfman,

You named some Beaver county natives. Is that where you are from?


Marty Schottenheimer grew up on a farm about a half mile away. He helped my grandfather put up hay. Marvin Lewis was from a town 3 miles away. I don't think he has been back around here in years. Probably has something to do with all the Steeler fans.

The farm the Schottenheimers had is now a dilapidated junk yard.

Barry Alvarez grew up here, too. In fact, I graduated high school with his nephew, ate dinner at his sisters house many times. A real great family.


That's the sports end of things.





For music, We claim Jay Livingston, Bobby Vinton, Perry Como, The Four Coins, Buddy Sharpe and the Shakers, and The Vogues. For what they now claim to be music, but I don't agree that it is... We have Christina Aguilera, and Whiz Kahlifa... There are more, but that's all I can think of right now, from my immediate area. The Vogues were actually from Turtle Creek, but now some members of the band live in my area. One of which was my high school marching band director. Their tour bus used to sit not far from my house at a trucking company.



And of course, being in Washington County, PA, there are the obvious famous people who called this place home back in the days of the American Revolution. George Washington owned a couple thousand acres not far from here. he wanted to retire to that farm. There is a historic marker placed not far from here on the property. My great great great great grandfather bought this farm from a land survey done by a friend of George Washington, William Crawford.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crawford_(soldier)

I think my g-g-g-g-grandfather paid 20 pounds English for the farm, and it was the first deed recorded in what was then Westmoreland County, May 10th 1775. It didn't become Washington County until after the revolutionary war and him becoming president and all that.

Then there are all the historically famous people from here that are associated with the Whiskey Rebellion and other matters of the early days of this country.
 
Jane Adams grew up 15 miles away. John D Rockafeller's dad lived nearby under an assumed name William Avery Levingston. McKinley "Deacn" Davis played fr the Harlem Globetrotters. And Gerald McClellan, Former WBO and WBC Middleweight Boxing Champion was born here and I believe still lives here. He was the ne who nearly died in London during a fight with Nigel Benn Feb. 25, 1995. His brother is a friend of mine. Spencer Tracy spent part of his boyhood in Freeport also.
 
Justin Bieber, Rachel McAdams, Jim Carey, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Ric Moranis, Dave Thomas, bobby Orr, Bobby Hull , Wayne Gretzkey, Mike Myers.
 
I forgot about Dan Runte. Driver of BIGFOOT 14? and holds the record for the longest jump of 202" on
1999. Graduate of the Freeport Pretzels.
 
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Although I doubt many have heard of him , the World War I flying ace, William Ernest Shields comes from my little village of Lipton.
http://www.wwiaviation.com/aces/ace_Shields.html
 
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Mel Bay born in our home town and I went to school with his nieces and nephews. Music master with his own books about learning to play the guitar.
 
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