Show your hometown stars some love

KEN1013
KEN1013 Posts: 182 Member
edited October 13 in Chit-Chat
:huh: so im from detroit and i have so many mfps for all over,,,so that got me to thinking WHAT ARE SO FAMOUS PEOPLE THAT CAME FROM YOUR STATE????? born and raise,,,not just rep the state but really from there:glasses: .

My List;
ARETHA FRAKLIN/MOTOWN
BIG SHAWN
KID ROCK
EMINEM
WINANS/CLARK SISTERS
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  • GoldenGirl1979
    GoldenGirl1979 Posts: 716 Member
    nc here!! & though i'm sure there are many more, the ones off the top of my head are:

    - j cole
    - clay aiken
    - fantasia
    - petey pablo :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,716 Member
    Pittsburgh:

    Mr. Rogers
    Dan Marino
    Michael Keaton
    Christina Aguilera
    Jeff Glodblum
    Zachary Quinto <----saw him having breakfast at Pamela's Diner
    Jackie Evancho
    Dennis Miller
    Billy Gardell
  • KEN1013
    KEN1013 Posts: 182 Member
    nc here!! & though i'm sure there are many more, the ones off the top of my head are:

    - j cole
    - clay aiken
    - fantasia
    - petey pablo :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    :laugh: :laugh: petey pablo
  • felice03
    felice03 Posts: 2,644 Member
    Norwalk Ia

    Brandon Routh (superman)
    Jason Mamoa (Conan)
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    THE OSMONDS! :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

    Oh, and Neon Trees.
  • Arizona:

    Frank Lloyd Wright
    The crazy woman who invented the Twilight crap
    Alice Cooper
    Gin Blossoms
    Jimmy Eat World
    Meat Puppets
    Jason Newsted (former bass player from Metallica)
    Chester Bennington (singer for Linkin Park)
  • KEN1013
    KEN1013 Posts: 182 Member
    THE OSMONDS! :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

    Oh, and Neon Trees.

    where are you from???:huh:
  • GoldenGirl1979
    GoldenGirl1979 Posts: 716 Member
    hahahaha!! i know right!! but hey, he did make a song for us!!!! "take your shirt off, twist it round your head, spin it like a helicopter" :laugh:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHnA94-hTC8&amp;ob=av2e
    nc here!! & though i'm sure there are many more, the ones off the top of my head are:

    - j cole
    - clay aiken
    - fantasia
    - petey pablo :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    :laugh: :laugh: petey pablo
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    THE OSMONDS! :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

    Oh, and Neon Trees.

    where are you from???:huh:
    My buddy told me about a site called Google. It's pretty rad.
  • KEN1013
    KEN1013 Posts: 182 Member
    THE OSMONDS! :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

    Oh, and Neon Trees.

    where are you from???:huh:
    My buddy told me about a site called Google. It's pretty rad.


    show your hometown some love????:huh:
  • blink1021
    blink1021 Posts: 1,115 Member
    nc here!! & though i'm sure there are many more, the ones off the top of my head are:

    - j cole
    - clay aiken
    - fantasia
    - petey pablo :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    don't forget Jaime Presley
  • Minnesota,
    Bob Dylan
    Atmosphere
    Hubert Humphry
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Judy Garland
    Garrison Keilor
    Jessica Lange
    John Madden
    Walter Mondale
    Prince
    Jesse Ventura
  • rmsrws
    rmsrws Posts: 639 Member
    Michigan

    Stevie Wonder
    Madonna
    Ted Nugent
    Taylor Lautner
  • Hobb3s
    Hobb3s Posts: 119 Member
    Ottawa.
    Paul Anka, singer
    Dawn Askin, curler, now lives in Winnipeg
    Margaret Atwood, writer
    Eva Avila, 4th season Canadian Idol champion
    Dan Aykroyd, actor, comedian
    James Baker, former NHLer
    Brendan Bell, NHL hockey player
    Billy Boucher, NHL hockey player
    Matt Bradley, NHL hockey player
    Fred Brathwaite, NHL hockey player
    Rod Brind'Amour, NHL hockey player
    Dave Brockie, known as Oderus Urungus, frontman for metal band GWAR
    Tom Butler, actor
    Claudette Cain, former mayor of Gloucester
    Noah Cantor, Canadian Football League player
    Bruce Cassidy, NHL Hockey Player
    Tom Cavanagh, actor
    Sarah Chalke, actress
    Keshia Chante, singer
    Bob Chiarelli, politician
    King Clancy, hockey player, coach and referee
    Catherine Clark, daughter of former PM Joe Clark
    Bruce Cockburn, singer
    Bryan Cochrane, curler
    Eldon Coombe, curler
    Alex Cullen, politician
    Barry and Brian Cullen brothers and former NHLers from Ottawa
    Jack Darragh, professional ice hockey forward
    Bruce Delaney, curler
    Paul Dewar, Member of Parliament
    Clive Doucet, author
    Kathleen Edwards, singer/songwriter
    Ben Eager, NHL hockey player
    John Fauquier, RCAF bomber pilot
    Jeremy Gara, drummer for The Arcade Fire
    Chris Gardner, curler
    Igor Gouzenko, Cold War Soviet defector
    Tom Green, comedian
    Lorne Greene, actor
    Jenn Hanna, curler
    Elisabeth Harvor, novelist
    David Hoilett, association football player
    Diane Holmes, city councillor
    Jessica Holmes, actress, comedian
    Rachel Homan, curler
    Peter Hume, city councillor
    Kira Isabella, country music singer-songwriter
    Russ Jackson, profesional football player (CFL), teacher
    Wilbert Keon, cardiac surgeon
    Brian Kilrea, hockey player, coach, general manager
    Terry Kilrea, politician
    Bernie LaBarge, musician
    Brent Laing, curler
    Craig Lauzon, actor, comedian
    Rich Little, comedian
    Steven MacLean, astronaut
    Monkey Majik, J-pop band
    Elizabeth Manley, Olympic silver medalist in figure skating.
    Peter Mansbridge, journalist
    Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (sister of the queen)
    Terry Matthews, entrepreneur
    Trevor Matthews, film producer, actor
    Derek McCulloch, comics writer
    Frank McGee, hockey player
    Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario
    David McGuinty, MP
    Earl McRae, award-winning journalist
    Jean-Michel Ménard, curler
    Anne Merklinger, curler
    Hugh Millikin, Australian curler, trained in Ottawa
    Emma Miskew, curler
    Rich Moffatt, curler
    Alanis Morissette, singer/songwriter
    Earle Morris, curler
    John Morris, curler
    Alex Munter, city councillor
    Yasir Naqvi, MPP
    Larry O'Brien, former mayor, Founder Calian Technologies Ltd
    Sandra Oh, actress known for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey's Anatomy
    Jesse Palmer, NFL football player
    Frank Patrick, hockey player and builder
    David John Pearson, computer scientist, founder of Orcatech Inc
    Matthew Perry, actor best known for his role as Chandler Bing on Friends
    Simon Pulsifer, prolific contributor to Wikipedia
    Bob Rae, former Premier of Ontario
    Nancy Greene Raine, Olympic skier
    Melanie Robillard, German curler trained in Ottawa
    Shelagh Rogers, journalist
    Kelly Rowan, actress.
    Derek Roy, NHL hockey player
    Joëlle Sabourin, curler
    Marc Savard, NHL hockey player
    Craig Savill, curler
    Andrew Scott, drummer for Sloan
    Barbara Ann Scott, figure-skating Olympic gold-medalist of the 1940s.
    Melinda Shankar, actress
    Trevor Smith, NHL hockey player
    Bruce Stuart, hockey player
    Linda Thom, Olympic gold medalist
    Christian Tolusso, curler
    Rick Vaive, NHL hockey player
    Jeff Waters, musician
    Ken Watkin, Brigadier General and former Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces
    Jim Watson, politician, elected Mayor effective December 1, 2010
    Jason Young, curler
  • KEN1013
    KEN1013 Posts: 182 Member
    Michigan

    Stevie Wonder
    Madonna
    Ted Nugent
    Taylor Lautner

    yes,,,we have sooooo many:love:
  • KimmieBrie
    KimmieBrie Posts: 825 Member
    MA:

    Tom Glavine
    Mark Wahlberg
    Matt Damon
    JFK and all the Kennedys

    Whitey Bulger... yes FBI most wanted counts
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    Carson, CA:

    Forest Whitaker
    Brandy & Ray J.
    The Game
    Dr. Dre
    Boo-Yaa TRIBE
    Bishop Lamont
    Ras Kass
  • KEN1013
    KEN1013 Posts: 182 Member
    Ottawa.
    Paul Anka, singer
    Dawn Askin, curler, now lives in Winnipeg
    Margaret Atwood, writer
    Eva Avila, 4th season Canadian Idol champion
    Dan Aykroyd, actor, comedian
    James Baker, former NHLer
    Brendan Bell, NHL hockey player
    Billy Boucher, NHL hockey player
    Matt Bradley, NHL hockey player
    Fred Brathwaite, NHL hockey player
    Rod Brind'Amour, NHL hockey player
    Dave Brockie, known as Oderus Urungus, frontman for metal band GWAR
    Tom Butler, actor
    Claudette Cain, former mayor of Gloucester
    Noah Cantor, Canadian Football League player
    Bruce Cassidy, NHL Hockey Player
    Tom Cavanagh, actor
    Sarah Chalke, actress
    Keshia Chante, singer
    Bob Chiarelli, politician
    King Clancy, hockey player, coach and referee
    Catherine Clark, daughter of former PM Joe Clark
    Bruce Cockburn, singer
    Bryan Cochrane, curler
    Eldon Coombe, curler
    Alex Cullen, politician
    Barry and Brian Cullen brothers and former NHLers from Ottawa
    Jack Darragh, professional ice hockey forward
    Bruce Delaney, curler
    Paul Dewar, Member of Parliament
    Clive Doucet, author
    Kathleen Edwards, singer/songwriter
    Ben Eager, NHL hockey player
    John Fauquier, RCAF bomber pilot
    Jeremy Gara, drummer for The Arcade Fire
    Chris Gardner, curler
    Igor Gouzenko, Cold War Soviet defector
    Tom Green, comedian
    Lorne Greene, actor
    Jenn Hanna, curler
    Elisabeth Harvor, novelist
    David Hoilett, association football player
    Diane Holmes, city councillor
    Jessica Holmes, actress, comedian
    Rachel Homan, curler
    Peter Hume, city councillor
    Kira Isabella, country music singer-songwriter
    Russ Jackson, profesional football player (CFL), teacher
    Wilbert Keon, cardiac surgeon
    Brian Kilrea, hockey player, coach, general manager
    Terry Kilrea, politician
    Bernie LaBarge, musician
    Brent Laing, curler
    Craig Lauzon, actor, comedian
    Rich Little, comedian
    Steven MacLean, astronaut
    Monkey Majik, J-pop band
    Elizabeth Manley, Olympic silver medalist in figure skating.
    Peter Mansbridge, journalist
    Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (sister of the queen)
    Terry Matthews, entrepreneur
    Trevor Matthews, film producer, actor
    Derek McCulloch, comics writer
    Frank McGee, hockey player
    Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario
    David McGuinty, MP
    Earl McRae, award-winning journalist
    Jean-Michel Ménard, curler
    Anne Merklinger, curler
    Hugh Millikin, Australian curler, trained in Ottawa
    Emma Miskew, curler
    Rich Moffatt, curler
    Alanis Morissette, singer/songwriter
    Earle Morris, curler
    John Morris, curler
    Alex Munter, city councillor
    Yasir Naqvi, MPP
    Larry O'Brien, former mayor, Founder Calian Technologies Ltd
    Sandra Oh, actress known for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey's Anatomy
    Jesse Palmer, NFL football player
    Frank Patrick, hockey player and builder
    David John Pearson, computer scientist, founder of Orcatech Inc
    Matthew Perry, actor best known for his role as Chandler Bing on Friends
    Simon Pulsifer, prolific contributor to Wikipedia
    Bob Rae, former Premier of Ontario
    Nancy Greene Raine, Olympic skier
    Melanie Robillard, German curler trained in Ottawa
    Shelagh Rogers, journalist
    Kelly Rowan, actress.
    Derek Roy, NHL hockey player
    Joëlle Sabourin, curler
    Marc Savard, NHL hockey player
    Craig Savill, curler
    Andrew Scott, drummer for Sloan
    Barbara Ann Scott, figure-skating Olympic gold-medalist of the 1940s.
    Melinda Shankar, actress
    Trevor Smith, NHL hockey player
    Bruce Stuart, hockey player
    Linda Thom, Olympic gold medalist
    Christian Tolusso, curler
    Rick Vaive, NHL hockey player
    Jeff Waters, musician
    Ken Watkin, Brigadier General and former Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces
    Jim Watson, politician, elected Mayor effective December 1, 2010
    Jason Young, curler

    wowowowow!!!!:noway:
  • MissO﹠A
    MissO﹠A Posts: 906 Member
    Frank Miller
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Billie Holiday
    Frank Zappa
    William H. Macy
    Edward Norton
    Divine
    Babe Ruth
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    Frank Miller
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Billie Holiday
    Frank Zappa
    William H. Macy
    Edward Norton
    Divine
    Babe Ruth
    Very interesting group.
  • mrsmellymac
    mrsmellymac Posts: 236 Member
    Scotty McCreery!
  • SBelle83
    SBelle83 Posts: 18 Member
    Winnipeg, MB Canada
    Anna Paquin
    Burton Cummings
    Chantal Kreviazuk
    Fred Penner
    Nia Vardalos
    Jonathan Toews
    Justin Bieber's dad!!!! :)
  • kb455
    kb455 Posts: 679 Member
    Pennsylvania:

    Bill Cosby
    Will Smith
    Kevin Bacon
    Kerry Collins
    And... get ready to be wowed...... John and Kate (of John and Kate plus 8) :P
  • FabulouslyFitTam
    FabulouslyFitTam Posts: 70 Member
    VA!!!! :-)

    -Dave Matthews Band
    -Coko (SWV member)
    -Trey Songz
    -Chris Brown
    -The Clipse
    -Pharell (and the other members of The Neptunes)
    -Missy Elliot
    -Timbaland
    -Tim Reed
    -Bob Saget
    -Wanda Sykes
    -Michael Vick
    -Elliott Yamin

    mainly musicians and bands... but there's also a ton of presidents and athletes from VA too!
  • Chattanooga, TN (Where I live now):

    Bessie Smith
    Dennis Haskins (bka Mr Belding from Saved by the Bell)
    Reggie White
    Samuel L. Jackson
    Usher

    Alexander City, AL (my hometown):
    ** for this I am including people from AROUND Alexander City too.

    Terrell Owens
    Jamario Moon, NBA LA Clippers
    Jim Nabors
  • KEN1013
    KEN1013 Posts: 182 Member
    Chattanooga, TN (Where I live now):

    Bessie Smith
    Dennis Haskins (bka Mr Belding from Saved by the Bell)
    Reggie White
    Samuel L. Jackson
    Usher

    Alexander City, AL (my hometown):
    ** for this I am including people from AROUND Alexander City too.

    Terrell Owens
    Jamario Moon, NBA LA Clippers
    Jim Nabors
    sam jackson,,,hes my fav!!!!!:heart:
  • jojo52610
    jojo52610 Posts: 692 Member
    Ft. Lauderdale
    FL

    Chris Evert
    Nikki Taylor (model)

    Lots of NFL football players
    and Melanie Amarro Winner of X Factor
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,716 Member
    Ottawa.
    Paul Anka, singer
    Dawn Askin, curler, now lives in Winnipeg
    Margaret Atwood, writer
    Eva Avila, 4th season Canadian Idol champion
    Dan Aykroyd, actor, comedian
    James Baker, former NHLer
    Brendan Bell, NHL hockey player
    Billy Boucher, NHL hockey player
    Matt Bradley, NHL hockey player
    Fred Brathwaite, NHL hockey player
    Rod Brind'Amour, NHL hockey player
    Dave Brockie, known as Oderus Urungus, frontman for metal band GWAR
    Tom Butler, actor
    Claudette Cain, former mayor of Gloucester
    Noah Cantor, Canadian Football League player
    Bruce Cassidy, NHL Hockey Player
    Tom Cavanagh, actor
    Sarah Chalke, actress
    Keshia Chante, singer
    Bob Chiarelli, politician
    King Clancy, hockey player, coach and referee
    Catherine Clark, daughter of former PM Joe Clark
    Bruce Cockburn, singer
    Bryan Cochrane, curler
    Eldon Coombe, curler
    Alex Cullen, politician
    Barry and Brian Cullen brothers and former NHLers from Ottawa
    Jack Darragh, professional ice hockey forward
    Bruce Delaney, curler
    Paul Dewar, Member of Parliament
    Clive Doucet, author
    Kathleen Edwards, singer/songwriter
    Ben Eager, NHL hockey player
    John Fauquier, RCAF bomber pilot
    Jeremy Gara, drummer for The Arcade Fire
    Chris Gardner, curler
    Igor Gouzenko, Cold War Soviet defector
    Tom Green, comedian
    Lorne Greene, actor
    Jenn Hanna, curler
    Elisabeth Harvor, novelist
    David Hoilett, association football player
    Diane Holmes, city councillor
    Jessica Holmes, actress, comedian
    Rachel Homan, curler
    Peter Hume, city councillor
    Kira Isabella, country music singer-songwriter
    Russ Jackson, profesional football player (CFL), teacher
    Wilbert Keon, cardiac surgeon
    Brian Kilrea, hockey player, coach, general manager
    Terry Kilrea, politician
    Bernie LaBarge, musician
    Brent Laing, curler
    Craig Lauzon, actor, comedian
    Rich Little, comedian
    Steven MacLean, astronaut
    Monkey Majik, J-pop band
    Elizabeth Manley, Olympic silver medalist in figure skating.
    Peter Mansbridge, journalist
    Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (sister of the queen)
    Terry Matthews, entrepreneur
    Trevor Matthews, film producer, actor
    Derek McCulloch, comics writer
    Frank McGee, hockey player
    Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario
    David McGuinty, MP
    Earl McRae, award-winning journalist
    Jean-Michel Ménard, curler
    Anne Merklinger, curler
    Hugh Millikin, Australian curler, trained in Ottawa
    Emma Miskew, curler
    Rich Moffatt, curler
    Alanis Morissette, singer/songwriter
    Earle Morris, curler
    John Morris, curler
    Alex Munter, city councillor
    Yasir Naqvi, MPP
    Larry O'Brien, former mayor, Founder Calian Technologies Ltd
    Sandra Oh, actress known for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey's Anatomy
    Jesse Palmer, NFL football player
    Frank Patrick, hockey player and builder
    David John Pearson, computer scientist, founder of Orcatech Inc
    Matthew Perry, actor best known for his role as Chandler Bing on Friends
    Simon Pulsifer, prolific contributor to Wikipedia
    Bob Rae, former Premier of Ontario
    Nancy Greene Raine, Olympic skier
    Melanie Robillard, German curler trained in Ottawa
    Shelagh Rogers, journalist
    Kelly Rowan, actress.
    Derek Roy, NHL hockey player
    Joëlle Sabourin, curler
    Marc Savard, NHL hockey player
    Craig Savill, curler
    Andrew Scott, drummer for Sloan
    Barbara Ann Scott, figure-skating Olympic gold-medalist of the 1940s.
    Melinda Shankar, actress
    Trevor Smith, NHL hockey player
    Bruce Stuart, hockey player
    Linda Thom, Olympic gold medalist
    Christian Tolusso, curler
    Rick Vaive, NHL hockey player
    Jeff Waters, musician
    Ken Watkin, Brigadier General and former Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces
    Jim Watson, politician, elected Mayor effective December 1, 2010
    Jason Young, curler

    wowowowow!!!!:noway:

    Well the list contains 83 curlers, a city councilman, a heart doctor, the drummer for "Sloan" and a guy who puts a lot of stuff on Wikipedia. Which is where this exhaustive list no doubt came from.

    Also curlers from other countries who trained in Ottawa.

    Christian Bale filmed the newest Batman in Pittsburgh. That don't mean he's from Pittsburgh.
  • jacquejl
    jacquejl Posts: 193 Member
    South Dakota

    here's a few you might recognize

    Catherine Bach, actress (Dukes of Hazard)
    Russell Means, actor, activist
    Cheryl Ladd, actress
    Laura Ingalls Wilder, author best known for Little House on the Prairie
    Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota war leader
    Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Cheif
    Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota chief
    Tom Daschle, US Senator
    Hubert Humphrey, US Senator, 38th Vice President US
    Adam Vinatieri, NFL placekicker
    Bob Barker, TV Host
    Tom Brokaw, TV Journalist
    Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor Mt. Rushmore,
    Seth Bullock
    Wild Bill Hickok
    Calamity Jane
  • lizdavis07
    lizdavis07 Posts: 766 Member
    I live in Charleston, SC...

    Andy **** <-whoops guess i can't write (other word for man part) lol
    Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish)
    Thomas Gibson (Criminal Minds)
    and Bill Murray isn't from Charleston, but he has a house here

    Aziz Ansari (comedian), Kristin Davis (Sex and the CIty), Young Jeezy, and Chris Rock are also from around here
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