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Posted on 01/20/2007

I just thought this might be an interesting thread and maybe a little fun too!

Don Henley was born and raised here in Linden Texas!



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Posted on 12/31/1969

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Here's some Famous People from Long Island & New York City......

Billy Joel - born in the Bronx, NY then moved to Levittown, NY
Ashanti - Glen Cove, NY
Alec Baldwin - Massapequa, NY
Mariah Carey - Greenlawn, NY
Bill Crystal - Long Beach, NY
Eddie Murphy - born in Brooklyn, NY then moved to Roosevelt, NY
Rosie O'Donnell - Commack, NY
Vinny Testaverde (NY Jets Quarterback) - Elmont, NY
Dee Schneider (twisted sister)
Jerry Seinfeld
Brian Setzer (Stray Cats)
Gene Simmons, Gene Klein, Paul Stanley and Stanley Eisen (KISS)
John Gotti (Mob Boss)
Pat Benatar - (singer) Lindenhurst
Danny Aiello (actor)
Woody Allen
Anne Bancroft (actress)
Harry Belafante (singer)
Humphrey Bogart (actor)
Matthew Broderick (actor)
Mel Brooks
James Caan (actor)
Al Capone (Gangster)
George Carlin (comedian)
Bobby Darin (singer/actor)
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Robert De Niro (actor)
Neil Diamond (singer)
P. Diddy (rap)
Richard Dreyfus (actor)
50 Cent (rap)
Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda
Jackie Gleason
Whoopi Goldberg
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Elliott Gould (actor)
Rocky Graziano (boxer)
Melanie Griffith
Cyndi Lauper
Al Pacino
Priscilla Presley
Joey Ramone and Marky Ramone (The Ramones)
Lou Reed (singer)
Christopher Reeve
Ray Romano
Mickey Rooney
Barbra Streisand

Ritchie Blackmore(Deep Purple)

  


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Posted on 06/19/2011

Oconomowoc, WI - home of "The Trashmen"!

You know the words!

"Bird bird bird, bird is the word ...".
Yup, Surfin Bird is from rural Wisconsin
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Posted on 02/29/2008

i don't remember too many famous people being born and raised in philly but i do know that sylvester stallone lived in lower kensington and bill cosby lived around north philly and went to college at temple university. i also remember mom telling me that one of the oakridge boys or the lettermen graduated from frankford high school. i remember her telling me that donny pike's (the lettermen) mom was also a nurse in one of the area hospitals. *blush*



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Posted on 01/08/2008

Hmm let's see? Ah yes, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (The Beatles) , Billy Fury, Frankie Vaughan Kim Catrall, Rita Tushingham, The McGann brothers too many to think of.



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Posted on 07/15/2007

Carmen Electra, who looked nothing like she does now and was considered a geek....(Cincinnati)

easy listening singer Andy Williams (Cincinnati)

Nick Lachey (Cincinnati)

Sarah Jessica Parker (Cincinnati)

painter Frank Duveneck (Covington, KY)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Toms Cabin (Cincinnati)

Neil Armstrong, astronaut(Cincinnati & Wapokenta)

silent film actress Theda Bara ( Cincinnati)

actor George Clooney (Northern KY)

Singer and Aunt of George, Rosemary Clooney (Northern KY)

Doris Day (Cincinnanti)

singing group The Isley Brothers (Cincinnati)

actor Tyrone Power (Cincinnati)

singing cowboy Roy Rogers (Cincinnati)

film maker Steven Speilberg, born in Cincinnati

talk show host and ex-Cincinnati mayor(really!) Jerry Springer

media mogul Ted Turner

President Ulysses S.Grant

President Benjamin Harrison

President William Howard Taft

football player Anthony Munoz

baseball player Pete Rose

basketball player Oscar "Big O" Robertson

football playr Roger Staubach

rocker Peter Frampton currently resides in Cincinnati with his wife and child



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Posted on 03/28/2007

Well I am originally from Queens, NY so there are a ton of people from there. so the same list as sicilianangelny listed Now I live in Winchester, Va and the only one I know of is the late Patsy Kline who was born and raised in Winchester, not that I am into her music. Oh and come to think of it Robert Duvall is from VA.

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Posted on 03/24/2007

Don't know about anyone who's from Hollywood, FL......But I know someone famous who left.....Anna Nicole Smith



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Posted on 02/28/2007

YES ME THE BEATLES HO! AND ME LOL



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Posted on 01/10/2007

I grew up in Liverpool so the Beatles came from there too. Also Moody Blues, Gerry and ... It was kinda fun going on vacation and being a princess by assocation with the town - got the best dates and you know.



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Posted on 11/25/2006

Hmmm... Not from Anaheim specifically though a few did but from Orange County...Kevin Costner, Richard Nixon, Jackson Browne, Cuba Gooding Jr., both the Righteous Bros, can't remember which one was from Anaheim, Jennifer Warnes, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofey, et al,..Eric Stoltz, hmmm..can't remember the rest.
BTW,
Linda Ronstadt was from Tucson,Az.



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Posted on 11/14/2006

San Jose California...

Safest Big City in America

Tom Hanks went to school here
MC Hammer Rapper (fremont)
Sarah Winchester (Heir to WInchester Rifles)
Elbert Botts
Inventor of Botts dots, was a professor of chemistry at San Jos? State University before he moved to Caltrans and developed what led to the reflective paint markers that bear his name

Brandi Chastain
Women's soccer player/coach. Born July 21, 1968, San Jos?.

Cesar Chavez
Latino labor movement leader; moved to San Jos? in 1939; founder of United Farm Workers of America

Doobie Brothers
Musical group; founded in San Jos?, California in 1970

Peggy Fleming
U.S. Figure Skater; 1068 Olympic Gold Medalist; born in San Jos?

Ernesto Galarza
First U.S. Latino to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature: An intellectual, civil rights and labor activist and scholar, he was a pioneer during the decades when Mexican Americans had few public advocates.

Rudy Galindo
U.S. Figure skater. Born Sept. 7, 1969, San Jos?.

Jim McMahon
Former Chicago Bears quarterback. Born in New Jersey but raised in San Jos?. Attended Andrew Hill High School and was starting Quarterback for the school's football team.

Norman Mineta
U.S. Secretary of Transportation. First entered politics in San Jos?, serving as a member of City Council from 1967 to 1971 and then Mayor from 1971 to 1974, becoming the first Asian Pacific American Mayor of a major U.S. city.

Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac Attended San Jos? State University

Peter Ueberroth
former US Olympics President and former Baseball Commissioner; former candidate for California Governor; Alumni of San Jos? State University.

Stephen Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. Born in San Jos?.

Plenty more, someone else can add...



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Posted on 10/23/2006

Since I am new to the Tampa, Fl area, I can't answer that question.. But I can do so for my hometown area of Greenup, Kentucky..

Keith Whitley
The Judds
Billy Ray Cyrus
Loretta Lynn
Patty Loveless



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Posted on 10/18/2006

good charlotte



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Posted on 10/08/2006

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HELL YEAH, I DID... HEY, DON'T PICK ON ME I AM A LEGEND IN MY OWN MIND!!!!

I live in my own little world, everyone knows me here and I like it that way! LOL!



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Posted on 09/29/2006

LOL...I live in St. Petersburg FL. Famous people aren't born here...this is where they come to DIE!!



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Posted on 09/07/2006

Well, from the Birmingham area...just from American Idol LOL
Taylor Hicks (soul patrol)
Bo Bice (go Bo)
Ruben Studdard

I'm sure there are more than that though.



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Posted on 07/13/2006

lowell ma- jack kerouak



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Posted on 07/03/2006

me!
My name has been at the top of the page.



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Posted on 06/18/2006

Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits); Ian McShane (Actor); Jay Kay (Jamiroquai); Morrissey; LS Lowry; Lester Hunt (Climax Blues Band)..



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Posted on 06/05/2006

President Wilson,James Areness,Amy Grant,Joe Penny,Julia Roberts(down the road a little bit) ,Tresa Yearwood,Abbot(Abbot and Costello),Victora Princpal(my cousin Margret and her still best friends from school).
Oh ya,that noisey guy down the street James Brown.



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Posted on 05/26/2006

Rescue1 write:
HarleyChic1 write:
Here's some Famous People from Long Island & New York City......

Billy Joel - born in the Bronx, NY then moved to Levittown, NY
Ashanti - Glen Cove, NY
Alec Baldwin - Massapequa, NY
Mariah Carey - Greenlawn, NY
Bill Crystal - Long Beach, NY
Eddie Murphy - born in Brooklyn, NY then moved to Roosevelt, NY
Rosie O'Donnell - Commack, NY
Vinny Testaverde (NY Jets Quarterback) - Elmont, NY
Dee Schneider (twisted sister)
Jerry Seinfeld
Brian Setzer (Stray Cats)
Gene Simmons, Gene Klein, Paul Stanley and Stanley Eisen (KISS)
John Gotti (Mob Boss)
Pat Benatar - (singer) Lindenhurst
Danny Aiello (actor)
Woody Allen
Anne Bancroft (actress)
Harry Belafante (singer)
Humphrey Bogart (actor)
Matthew Broderick (actor)
Mel Brooks
James Caan (actor)
Al Capone (Gangster)
George Carlin (comedian)
Bobby Darin (singer/actor)
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Robert De Niro (actor)
Neil Diamond (singer)
P. Diddy (rap)
Richard Dreyfus (actor)
50 Cent (rap)
Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda
Jackie Gleason
Whoopi Goldberg
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Elliott Gould (actor)
Rocky Graziano (boxer)
Melanie Griffith
Cyndi Lauper
Al Pacino
Priscilla Presley
Joey Ramone and Marky Ramone (The Ramones)
Lou Reed (singer)
Christopher Reeve
Ray Romano
Mickey Rooney
Barbra Streisand

Ritchie Blackmore(Deep Purple)


Debbie Gibson
Edie Falco
Mariah Carey
lindsay lohan
Theyre from the island too..



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Posted on 05/21/2006

a guy named Earl.



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Posted on 05/18/2006

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Posted on 05/08/2006

Cheap Trick came from my hometown of
Rockford Illinois.....I went to school
with Robin Zander (lead singer) sorry I don't have my pic up yet....gonna get right on it soon.

  


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Posted on 05/03/2006

HELL YEAH, I DID... HEY, DON'T PICK ON ME I AM A LEGEND IN MY OWN MIND!!!!

  


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Posted on 05/01/2006

Anita Baker
Teresa Brewer (singer)
Joe E Brown
Daws Butler
John Cromwell (director)
Don Donoher
Jamie Farr (his character, Klinger, in M*A*S*H was also from Toledo and had a fanatical devotion to the city)
Martin Frankel
Philip Baker Hall
Jim Harbaugh
Jon Hendricks (from the jazz group Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross)
Arthur Hills (golf course designer)
Katie Holmes
Jim Jackson, basketball player
Chester "Lyfe" Jennings
Gene Kranz
Thomas Noe
P. J. O'Rourke
Kelvin Ransey
Tom Scholz
Scott Shriner
John W. Snow (United States Secretary of the Treasury)
Gloria Steinem
Alyson Stoner (dancer, actress)
Frank Stranahan (Golfer)
Art Tatum
Danny Thomas
BenFlowz (artist/musician)



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Posted on 04/30/2006

Dove1163 write:
slowride2000 write:
Bill Clinton ain't we proud....
Glad I'm not from Tx right now....lmao

Do you believe ol' Bill never inhaled? LOL! Btw, I'm not from here, just live here!

he didn't suck on it... he just held it in his mouth for a little while.. lmao

~Slim



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Posted on 04/30/2006

Richard Chamberlain, my mother used to take care of his grandmother.
Virgil 'Gus' Grissom & Kenneth Bowersox (Astronauts).
John Cougar lives on the lake where I work, we take care of his boat each year.
Within a 75 mile radius:
David Letterman
Michael Jackson
Janet Jackson
Larry Bird
James Dean
Our 23rd President Benjamin Harrison
John Dillinger
Johnny Appleseed
Steve McQueen
Red Skelton
Babyface
David Lee Roth



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Posted on 04/29/2006

Judy Dozier (former keyboard player for Billy Idol) and Vernon Grant (the guy who created Snap, Crackle & Pop)... I am sure there are more... Chris Hope (former Pittsburgh Steeler).



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