What Famous Person is from your Hometown

[MNNHFLTX]

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.

Oh that is cool, Mel! You are two degrees of Colin Firth!

[Hammer]

St. Petersburg, Florida native (we need a palm tree smiley)!

Many MLB players are from St. Pete, most notable being Dwight Gooden. Dan Wheldon, the Indy driver who was killed, Nicole Haislett, Olympic Gold medal swimmer, Megan Fox and Billy Corrigan (Smashing Pumpkins) are all also from there.

[tundramom]

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.

Big Joel Otto from tiny Bmidji State was one of my faves!!!

Canton, Ohio claims President Wm McKinley, Dan Dierdorf, Thurmon Munson (born in Akron, raised in Canton and made his home here), Alan Page, Phil Hubbard, Eric Snow, Chris Speilman (even tho he defected to play at hated Massillon), Mike Doss, Charles MacCauley Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, John A Scali- famous for negotiating solution to Cuban Missile crisis during Kennedy presidency, Jack Parr, Brannon Braga (Star Trek 1st Gen writer/producer, co wrote new movies) not to mention we have the Pro Football HOF!
We do not claim Marilyn Manson or Macy Gray even though they are natives

[NJGIRL]

Hey wait, that makes two of you claiming Mike Trout. He gets around.

Haha....I stole it from Bern.....Millville is right next door to Vineland....Millville doesn't have a hospital...He probably was born in the Vineland hospital, but he did live/grow up in Millville.

[NJGIRL]

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.

Lucky you Beth....he was good looking...he played for the Flyers for a few years and I met him at one of their events. He was really nice.

[NJGIRL]

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.

So many good ones!

Joe, if you get a chance read the story of Charles Landis, the person that founded Vineland. Very strange.

[kakn7294]

There have been a couple of congressmen that probably nobody would know. There have also been a few professional athletes but again, most people wouldn't know them. Supposedly Andre Previn and Mia Farrow lived in the area in the '70's when he conducted for the Pittsburgh Orchestra. I have no idea if that's really true. The most recent and probably famous resident was Amber Brkich, a winner on Survivor in the early seasons.

[VWL Mom]

Nutley NJ was home to Annie Oakley and her husband when they were traveling with the Wild West Show and Martha Kostyra aka Martha Stewart.

[Renfairwedding]

My Home Town is Scarsdale NY Here is a few I can think of.

Some connection (most a stretch)
Linda McCartney, of Beatles fame and Robert Pine, Sargent on tv show ships CHiP’s both graduated with my mom from SHS
Robert Hanssen, Soviet spy. Lived two blocks from my house. Nice guy for a spy
Herman Tarnower, author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. He was a doc in my medical group Lynne Tryforos the” other woman” Lived a block away.
David Stern, current Commissioner of the National Basketball Association. Was a customer of mine
Jeffrey A. Hoffman, astronaut Spoke at our graduation.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Installed the water main to their house. We also share that we both have Scarsdale Marriage Licences.
Liza Minnelli We had the same drama teacher.

Some others
Susan Lucci, star of soap TV series All My Children
Judy Garland, lived at 1 Cornell Street
Yoko Ono, singer. Her family moved to Scarsdale in the early 1950s;
Rob Reiner,
Al Jolson, 30's film star owned a house on Fenimore Rd.
Allie Sherman (Head Coach of the New York Giants,
Frank Gifford

Mobsters
Bugsy Siegel,
Joseph DiNapoli,

Historical
Daniel D. Tompkins, sixth Vice President of the United States,
James Fenimore Cooper His classic book The Spy is set in a Scarsdale historical home.


AND ME! Well maybe not so famous

[Arielfan98]

My Home Town is Scarsdale NY Here is a few I can think of.

Some connection (most a stretch)
Linda McCartney, of Beatles fame and Robert Pine, Sargent on tv show ships CHiP’s both graduated with my mom from SHS
Robert Hanssen, Soviet spy. Lived two blocks from my house. Nice guy for a spy
Herman Tarnower, author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. He was a doc in my medical group Lynne Tryforos the” other woman” Lived a block away.
David Stern, current Commissioner of the National Basketball Association. Was a customer of mine
Jeffrey A. Hoffman, astronaut Spoke at our graduation.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Installed the water main to their house. We also share that we both have Scarsdale Marriage Licences.
Liza Minnelli We had the same drama teacher.

Some others
Susan Lucci, star of soap TV series All My Children
Judy Garland, lived at 1 Cornell Street
Yoko Ono, singer. Her family moved to Scarsdale in the early 1950s;
Rob Reiner,
Al Jolson, 30's film star owned a house on Fenimore Rd.
Allie Sherman (Head Coach of the New York Giants,
Frank Gifford

Mobsters
Bugsy Siegel,
Joseph DiNapoli,

Historical
Daniel D. Tompkins, sixth Vice President of the United States,
James Fenimore Cooper His classic book The Spy is set in a Scarsdale historical home.


AND ME! Well maybe not so famous

Westchester County is home to many famous celebrities. I know the OP said no neighboring towns but I thought it'd be ok to list one: I live a 5 minute drive to Dobs Ferry, NY and that is where Mark Zuckerberg grew up....yep Facebook history for ya folks

[Maleficent_vf]

Jamestown, NY - home to Lucille Ball, Roger Goodell, Natalie Merchant (and all of the original 10,000 Maniacs), Roger Tory Peterson, Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Robert H. Jackson (Supreme Court Judge and chief US prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trails following WWII), Nick Sirianni, and B.F. Goodrich.

Also nearby is Westfield, NY - one-time home to the corporate headquarters of Welch's Grape Juice! (still lots and lots of grapes produced up there)

[disneymom15]

Greta Van Susteren, William DeFoe were born here.
Harry Houdini moved here with his family as a child.

[NJGIRL]

Wow, Scarsdale NY is the place to be if you want to be famous someday. Maybe something in the water.

[Altair]

My only claim to fame is that I know Kate Capshaw. Went to High School and College with her.

[Katzateer]

Don Mattingly and Halston....others I would have to look up. Also not people, but I think the first Hooters was in Evansville, Indiana and The Shoe Carnival got its start on Green River Road.

[NJGIRL]

Evansville, Indiana and The Shoe Carnival got its start on Green River Road.

What is a shoe carnival

[sportsguy2315]

Among the list:

• Lea Thompson, actress (I recently had an awkward run-in on Twitter with her informing her that her childhood home was torn down recently for a gas station car wash. She lived in a motel that was about a quarter mile from my house.)
• The Mayos who founded the Mayo Clinic.
• We have several famous athletes, but the most notable is Eric Butorac who is a top doubles tennis player alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands who won a doubles title at the Australian Open this year.
• Igor Vovkovinskiy, America's tallest man at 7'9". When I was a kid, I saw him play HS basketball. Needless to say it was pretty easy for him.

[RedSoxFan]

Dustin Brown (LA Kings) is local and lives 3 houses down the street during the summer!!

[Katzateer]

What is a shoe carnival

Large shoe store that had really obnoxious commercials and great shoe prices that has grown into a big chain. You play carnival like games to win a lower price on your shoes- spin a large wheel and get a good deal.

[TheDuckRocks]

I could not for the life of me think of even one person from my hometown that I grew up in being famous. So I did a Google search and came up with a list of about 40 people - have never heard of any of them. Further Google searching and half of them had no other info and as for the rest of the lot have done things like be on a baseball farm team for part of 1 season or graduated 1st in their community college class. No authors. No well known politicians. No movie stars. No computer gurus. I guess on the plus side there were no axe murderers.