Who are some important or famous people from your state?
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April 9th, 2022
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It could be movie stars, singers, mathematicians, serial killers. And it can be from where you grew up or where you live now.
Chuck Yeager was born in WV. First man to break the sound barrier. Our local airport is named after him. The writer Pearl S. Buck was from WV.
Jennifer Garner, movie star, grew up in WV.
Rumor has it that Charles Manson, serial killer was born here.
Who do you have as your states claim to fame?
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My recollection is sketchy on this, but I think Auggie dined with some guy, before she discovered that he was an infamous serial killer.
I think that was when she lived in Maryland, or perhaps even WV! :-o
From Florida, the state I live in now:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Gloria Estefan, unless you want to count her from Cuba.
Wayne Brady grew up in my state.
Pitbull.
Enrique Iglesia, I think he also wasn’t born in FL, but was raised here.
I was born and raised in the DC metro area, my family lived in Maryland. Some famous people from Maryland are:
Johns Hopkins
Harriet Tubman
Thurgood Marshall
Mark Bryan (guitarist Hootie and the Blowfish, I grew up with him).
Auggie (we were in high school together, she probably knew Mark also).
Goldie Hawn
Montel Williams
There are so many more from Maryland, but I can’t seem to pull them out of my mind right now.
Edit: I lived for 8 years in NY near jca2 when I was growing up. She is answering now, and she will probably name many of the people I think of from NY. There are so many. We did not know each other before fluther.
I’m from NY, and there are a ton. Without googling, I know James Gandolfini from Sopranos is from NY.
Lots of famous athletes and politicians, including FDR.
Lots of famous mobsters.
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. He and I grew up in the same city, although he’s about 15 or 20 years older than I am.
I’ve been living in the Los Angeles area since I was 8, so here are some who were born here:
Kristen Stewart
Liza Minnelli
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jake Gyllenhaal
Chris Pine
Val Kilmer
Hailee Steinfeld
Bryce Dallas Howard
Michael Bay
Jamie Lee Curtis
Angelina Jolie
Minka Kelly
Zooey Deschanel
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Billie Eilish
Shia LaBeouf. I’m including him, even though he claims that he’s no longer famous.
Jodie Foster
Jennifer Aniston
I went to Van Nuys High school with Kim Darby. I didn’t know her but I knew her bf, Don Joyce.
George Washington
Patrick Henry
John Marshall
Nat Turner
Mary Jane Richards
Ella Fitzgerald
Henrietta Lacks
George C. Scott
Tom Wolfe
Shirley MacLaine
Warren Beatty
Mildred and Richard Loving
Wanda Sykes
Missy Elliott
Pharrell Williams
Betty White and I were born in the same hospital.
From my current state,
Johnny Carson
Ronald Reagan
James T. Kirk
Radar O’Reilly
John Wayne
Tom Arnold
Ashton Kutcher
I’m know there’s more. I will remember some later.
From my province of B.C
Ryan Reynolds. Actor
Michael J Fox. Actor
Chiliwack Rock Band.
Kamala Harris
Ted Williams
Brian Wilson
Gregory Peck
Shirley Temple
From Massachusetts:
President John Adams
President John Quincy Adams
President John F. Kennedy
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Paul Revere
Emily Dickinson
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louisa May Alcott
Susan B. Anthony
Norman Rockwell
& lots more. Here’s a list.
Herbert Hoover
Cloris Leachman
Jerry Mathers
Kurt Warner
The woman who is, or was the astronaut having spent the most time in space, but I have forgotten her name.
Brother played in same football league as Junior Seau (in high school!)
Had friends that went to school with Shaun White and Tony Hawk.
Lots of skateboarding pioneers from the area. Patti McGee, Ellen Berryman, Kim Cespedes…
@raum
“Brother played in same football league as Junior Seau.”
Do you recall which one- Pee Wee, Pop Warner, NFL?
@Brian1946 Avacado League in high school. Is that Pop Warner? (I edited my comment for clarification.)
The Carlsbad Gap was at my old high school. I’m probably forgetting a ton of names, skateboarding-wise.
Green Day is from the East Bay. A friend of mine saw them a few times at 925 Gilman.
Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Bechtle, Barry McGee, Ruth Asawa…
@raum
“Avacado League in high school. Is that Pop Warner?”
Nope- Pop Warner has almost no heart-healthy benefits, and doesn’t go with toast. ;)
@raum
“Green Day is from the East Bay.”
I really like Green Day, and my Boulevard of Broken Dreams is Bancroft Way. ;p
Jimmy Carter, Plains GA
Franklin D. Roosevelt, died in Warm Springs GA
Tyler Perry, Atlanta GA
Spike Lee, Atlanta GA
Julia Roberts, Smyrna GA
Raven-Symoné, Atlanta GA
Hulk Hogan, Augusta GA
Laurence Fishburne, Augusta GA
Alan Jackson, Newnan GA
Ryan Seacrest, Atlanta GA
CeeLo Green, Atlanta GA
Dakota Fanning, Conyers GA
Jason Aldean, Macon GA
Ralph David Abernathy, died in Atlanta GA
Kayne West, Atlanta GA
Jackie Robinson, Cairo GA
Brittany Murphy, Atlanta GA
Kelly Rowland, Atlanta GA
Chris Tucker, Decatur GA
Kim Basinger, Athens GA
Ma Rainey, Columbus GA
Ty Cobb, Atlanta GA
Margaret Mitchell, Atlanta GA
James Brown, Augusta GA
Wow, name-dropping galore, I see.
Bruce Springsteen
Danny Devito
Jon Bon Jovi
Philip Roth
Kevin Spacey
Jack Nicholson
Justice William Brennan
Whitney Houston
Frank Sinatra
Meryl Streep
Dennis Rodman
Count Basie
Buzz Aldrin
Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Stephen Crane
William Carlos Williams
Dorothy Parker….
ad infinitum or ad nauseum
Johannes Vermeer
[Mic Drop]
Missouri:
Mark Twain
Brad Pitt
Harry Truman
Yogi Berra
Chuck Barry
Jesse James
George Washington Carver
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Vincent Price
Edwin Hubble
Nelly
Bob Denver aka Gilligan from Gilligans Island retired and lived out his life in WV.
Don Knotts aka Barney Fife from Andy Griffith was from my state.
I was born in Oakland, California. So was:
Mark Hammell
Zendaya
Kamala Harris
Max Baer Jr.
My daughter Becky.
Eisenhower.
BTK (I remember that, BTW.)
Dwayne Johnson
Jennifer Aniston
Leonardo DiCaprio
Steve Jobs
Angelina Jolie
Bruce Lee
Marilyn Monroe
Snoop Dogg
Tom Brady
Tom Hanks
All Californians
@chyna Infamous in my state: Mitt Romney.
I forgot to mention Jason Momoa.
▲He loves being called JMom!▲
How can you forget Jason Momoa!?!
The inventor of calculus, Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz.
There are no important or famous people in Orgeon.
I’ve asked everyone. It took hours and I had to recharge my phone. Now the the whole state wants me to just leave them alone. Fine.
But there are some fun people who do cool things and make the world more interesting. Like this lady who I know & love, and who once made Simon Cowell blush :
Storm Large
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1CzcZYvyV50&feature=youtu.be
@ragingloli, I notice that the list of famous figures of Sachsen is alphabetized by first name. Is this usual? I don’t think I’ve seen that done before.
And why does the balloonist rate top coverage on that page? Curious.
I live near Los Angeles, and the great guy who lived here prior to his death was Don Knotts.
Prince
Judy Garland
Bob Dylan
Jessica Lange
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