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    Default What Famous Person is from your Hometown

    What famous person is from or lived in your hometown. Keep it to your own town (not a neighboring town), because if not we will have a very long list of people from all over your state.


    Mine would be Thomas Welch. He moved to Vineland and invited grape juice (non-alcoholic). He is also buried here too. What is your story.

    Mike Trout was also born in Vineland.
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    Me! Just kidding. Simsbury, CT: Sigourney Weaver, Novelist Jennifer Weiner, Martin Luther King, Jr worked on a tobacco farm here in town in his youth. We've been temporary home to many figure skaters in training (Oksana Baiul, Sasha Cohen, Michelle Kwan). And my favorite, our main man, Ernie Sabella (actor, voice of Pumbaa) lives here currently. I haven't run into him yet, but I am ever hopeful. Hakuna Matata!
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    From my birthplace of Marcus Hook,PA:

    Billy "White Shoes" Johnson - NFL WR best known as a kick/punt returner for the Houston Oilers, and later the Atlanta Falcons. One of the early innovators of the touchdown dance . Made the NFL 75th Anniversary team as a punt returner and is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

    Mickey Vernon - MLB first basemen who played the majority of his career with the Washington Senators starting in 1939. He was a 7-time All Star who amassed 2,495 career hits.

    Curt Weldon - politician who served as a member of the US House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007.


    Mike Trout, who was robbed of the AL MVP last season, is from Millville, NJ where I now reside.
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    Jennifer Garner is from Charleston, WV. Her and Ben are spotted around town when they are here visiting her parents.
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    Hey wait, that makes two of you claiming Mike Trout. He gets around.
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    Kathy Matea ( I think that's how you spell her name) Country singer. Used to come over to our house and play her guitar when she was Elementary school.
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    Default Streator Illinois

    Burt Baskin - founded Baskin-Robbins with Irv Robbins.

    Doug Dieken - offensive lineman with the Cleveland Browns for 14 years.

    Clyde Tombaugh - discovered dwarf planet Pluto.

    AND MOST IMPORTANTLY!!! - Ed Plumb - musical director for Disney's Fantasia and the score for Bambi.
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    Winston-Salem, NC is my hometown!

    The most famous person from my high school (which would in turn make him from my town) is NBA player Chris Paul.

    Other sports notables - Josh Howard (NBA), MLB players Don Cardwell, Mark Grace and Dustin Ackley, NASCAR owner Richard Childress (and he has a FANTASTIC winery there as well), and sportscasters Howard Cosell and Stuart Scott.

    Entertainers - Ben Folds, Jackée Harry, Maya Angelou, George Hamilton IV, and most impressively to me - Jennifer Ehle! Funny, she's British, right? Well, she was born in the exact same hospital as I was, a little over two weeks after me. Her father is longstanding professor at the NC School of the Arts.

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    Canton MA - Bill Burr (comedian), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), Boston Rob (Survivor Show), and Bobby Witt (major league baseball player)

    There are miscellaneous New England Patriots players over the years since my town is located near Gillette Stadium.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Melanie View Post
    most impressively to me - Jennifer Ehle! Funny, she's British, right? Well, she was born in the exact same hospital as I was, a little over two weeks after me. Her father is longstanding professor at the NC School of the Arts.
    Most impressive to me, too! I had no idea she was born in the US, let alone so close to you. To think, you could have been starring in P & P with Colin Firth, had things gone a little differently.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SBETigg View Post
    Most impressive to me, too! I had no idea she was born in the US, let alone so close to you. To think, you could have been starring in P & P with Colin Firth, had things gone a little differently.


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    Paul Lauterbor who was a nobel prize winner for physiology medicine and helped invent the MRI machine. We also had Rob Lowe and his brother Chad visit many many times with thier grandparents who owned a poplar resturant called "The SPOT". They still come and visit. Also Ellen Crawford who played a nurse on "ER" Lydia was her name. Her Aunt still lives here and she lived here at one time also. Yay Sidney Ohio
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    Also my nephew's wife's Grandma is the sister to Doris Day.
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    Jon Bon Jovi and Greg Evigan


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    Tom Hanks was born in Concord, CA, but moved to Oakland as a kid. That's the only one that I know off the top of my head.
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    Goldie Hawn went to a nearby high school, and her yearbook is near the women's bathroom in Planet Hollywood in DTD.
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    Camden, NJ - Walt Whitman, Lola Falana, & Todd Mcnair. I'm sure there are others I just don't know of.

    Rita, it's actually funny you posted this because I was just reading about Thomas Welch recently in an article about Vineland. Some really interesting history there & surrounding areas. I'm actually living one town over right now in Pittsgrove.
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    Pat Summit grew up just down the road from us, though before I was born. I went to school with John Rich (Big & Rich), however being 6 years younger, I doubt we ever spoke. I do fondly remember him singing "When the Rolls Are Served up Yonder" and "I Drank a Sprite" (to the tune of "I Saw the Light") in chapel, though.
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    Ray 'boom boom, Mancini boxer, Ed O'Neill actor Shot Gun George Shuba baseball player, Paul Warfield football, Maurice Clarret football and jail those are some of them

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    My hometown of Elk Snout--er, Elk River, Minnesota, has produced four or five NHL players, the only one of which I can remember the name is Joel Otto (we went to high school together). Also went to high school with Dave Mordal, a comedien who was on Last Comic Standing twice.

    I think that's it.
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