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| Topic: Who is famous from your area (particularly U.S. states)? | |
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geddy lee went to high school just around the corner from me. |
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Dominic Rhodes. (Football player) is from Abilene. So was Randall (Tex) Cobb...heavy weight boxer. John Lackey...World Series winning pitcher. Billy Olsen...Olymic pole vaulter and former record holder. Graham Steadman...(Oprah's old man) and the Dude who set the world record by walking backwards around the world...his name is on the tip of my tongue.. Oh crap! From the whole state? Got enough from my home town! Jessica Simpson is from Abilene for that matter I was born in Abilene and I'm famous in some bars and strip clubs in Abilene, Lubbock, and Odessa |
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The only one I know is Ernest and Tova Borgnine,
I met them Oct.10, at the book store. Thats him with me in the pictures. They were the nicest couple I ever met. Pat |
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I'm from Southern California. I could probably fill the whole thread!
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I realize the larger states (Texas, California, etc.) will have a lot of names, and that's fine.
Let's see what you've got! 
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Edited by
ladyliz1417
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Fri 11/28/08 09:44 AM
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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 **** 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 **** Van Dyke actor, West Plains Dennis Weaver actor, Joplin Pearl White actress, Greenridge Roy Wilkins civil rights leader, Saint Louis Jamie McMurray race car driver, Joplin Jeff Speakman actor, Springfield Asia'h Epperson American Idol runner up, Joplin |
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Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh...we also have the Proclaimers and JK Rowling...we also have Billy Connolly and Texas (Charlene Spitteri) from Glasgow, and Ewan Mcgregor from Crieff....just to mention a few :)
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All I can remember off the top of my head is Amelia Earhart
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Just type in "famous people from Colorado" (or wherever you are) in your browser. You should get a ton of sites.
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Edited by
martymark
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Sat 11/29/08 01:45 AM
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Way too many musicians too list. Garth Brooks probobly the most current!Owasso OK.
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Will Rogers..Oolagah,OK.
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William Paca – Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Signer of the Declaration of Independence Samuel Chase - Signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Stone - Signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Kennedy - served as a member of the House of Delegates representing Hagerstown. He believed in religious freedom for all people. Lt. Colonel George Armistead - defended Fort McHenry during the battle in 1814 when the “Star-Spangled Banner” was written. Francis Scott Key Johns Hopkins George Peabody Enoch Pratt Frederick Douglass Harriet Tubman John Wilkes Booth Thurgood Marshall Spiro Agnew Edgar Allen Poe Eubie Blake F. Scott Fitzgerald Billie Holiday |
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Good GAWD...I could fill a whole page with those guys who "go fast and turn left" alot...
Richard Petty Dale Earnhardt...Sr. & Jr. Dale Jarrett Junior Johnson I'll toss a few notable athletes out here that may ring a bell for some of us "elderly crowd": MICHAEL JORDAN!!! Sugar Ray Leonard Meadowlark Lemon Ric Flair Walter Davis "Catfish" Hunter (WHOOT!) oh, and Kristi Yamaghuchi! We have also had a few Presidents reside here as well: Andrew Jackson Andrew Johnson Richard Nixon (*ahem*) James Polk James Madison A few of my personal favorites: JAMES TAYLOR (MAJOR WHOOOOT!) Doc Watson (OH YEAH!) David Wilcox (the FOLK artist...NOT the rock artist) Ben E. King!! Earl Scruggs (HECK YEAH!) ... and JOHN COLTRANE!!! 
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Edited by
catwoman96
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Sat 11/29/08 03:36 AM
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james whitcomb riley grew up here.
tony stewart was raised in the county i used to live in. |
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From Nebraska: Johnny Carson, Fred Astaire, Marge Helgenburger (shes sooo hot), Marlon Brando, Warren Buffet, others im forgettin atm.
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Dominic Rhodes. (Football player) is from Abilene. So was Randall (Tex) Cobb...heavy weight boxer. John Lackey...World Series winning pitcher. Billy Olsen...Olymic pole vaulter and former record holder. Graham Steadman...(Oprah's old man) and the Dude who set the world record by walking backwards around the world...his name is on the tip of my tongue.. Oh crap! From the whole state? Got enough from my home town! Jessica Simpson is from Abilene for that matter I was born in Abilene and I'm famous in some bars and strip clubs in Abilene, Lubbock, and Odessa Ahhhhhh one of the blessed from the promised land.....Yes, we have some world class strippers for sure. |
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Birmingham Alabama
Amber Benson (1977) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 1/8/1977 Courteney Cox Arquette (1964) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 6/15/1964 Rebecca Luker (1961) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 4/17/1961 Mary Badham (1952) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 10/7/1952 Nell Carter (b. 1948 - d. 2003) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 9/13/1948 Kate Jackson (1948) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 10/29/1948 Tim Rooney (b. 1947 - d. 2006) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 1/10/1947 Gail Strickland (1946) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 5/18/1946 Fannie Flagg (1944) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 9/21/1944 Louise Fletcher (1934) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 7/22/1934 George Schlatter (1932) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 12/31/1932 David F Friedman (1923) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 12/24/1923 Frances Bergen (b. 1922 - d. 2006) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 9/14/1922 Mary Anderson (1920) Born: Birmingham, Alabama R G Armstrong (1917) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 4/17/1917 Walker Percy (b. 1916 - d. 1990) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 5/28/1916 Hugh Martin (1914) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 8/11/1914 Gail Patrick (b. 1911 - d. 1980) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 6/20/1911 Lynne Carver (b. 1909 - d. 1955) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 9/13/1909 Dorothy Sebastian (b. 1903 - d. 1957) Born: Birmingham, Alabama on 4/26/1903 |
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George Bush, Clint Black The Bush family is from CT. They moved to TX later. |
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There are tons of Alabama people that are famous.
Carl Lewis Condolezza Rice Emmylou Harris Brett Butler etc |
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Okay, we've heard from about a dozen or so states, two countries and a province in a third. That means there's a whole lot more people we haven't heard from yet.
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