Who famous comes from your town?

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A porn star.

We still don't know whether or not we should take pride in her accomplishment.

John Oates graduated at my High School (I think). He came back for a visit once.

Linking the two posts above me together; John Oates would be a really amusing pornstar name.

Loads of famous people have residences in my area. Mostly actors.

Günter Grass, writer, Noble prize winner.
Lech Wałęsa, politician, ex President of Poland, man who destroyed the Communism, Noble prize winner.
Donald Tusk, politician, Polish Prime Minister.
Erika Steinbach, controversial politician.
Nergal, leader of metal band Behemoth.
Daniel Fahrenheit, some of you use his scale.

Tom Waits was born in Pomona, CA... the town where I grew up. Of course he had the sense to move away.

I don't know of anyone famous who comes from La Jolla,CA.I don't even live there .

My little village is too small to produce anyone of notice, but there is a little town just over the next hill (some 2km from where I live) that is called Engelskirchen. It's named after the Engels family that used to be the most prominent family in that town. They used to produce wool and cloth and their factory provided work for a lot of people in Engelskirchen.
The most famous person from Engelskirchen is probably Friedrich Engels, the son of the man who established that wool factory. Friedrich Engels helped Karl Marx figure out many of the ideas that he wrote down in his Communist Manifesto.

Linda Ronstadt. Her family goes back several generations here. They were quite prominent. Her father owned the biggest hardware store in the city for many years.

doing research..apparently Cameron Crowe,Lew Ayres,Ted Danson,Cameron Diaz,Wyatt Earp,Gregory Peck (choosing the most selective haha) are from San Diego as well.haha

I once knew a man from Nantucket... never mind.
My little hometown Village is the birthplace of professional football (the American kind). Not of the game, but of the concept of having pro football players. Jim Thorpe played on their team, though he wasn't from there.
The bigger town nearby (where everybody went to get groceries) is the hometown of Axl Rose and Shannon Hoon.

famous people from tacoma, washington [my hometown]:

Pat Austin auto racing, Tacoma *
Dyan Cannon actress, Tacoma *
Derrike Cope auto racing, Spanaway * [unincorporated town abutting Tacoma]
Bing Crosby singer, actor, Tacoma *
Sugar Ray Seales boxer, Tacoma *
Freddy Steele boxer, Tacoma *
Darrin McGavin, Tacoma*

Rick James, b***h!
The GooGoo Dolls
The woman who played Tony Soprano's mother.
Wolf Blitzer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tim Russert
Cannibal Corpse
Green Jelly
Don Majkowski
Lex Luger
Christine Baranski (she played Dr. Beverly Hofstadter on the Big Bang Theory)
Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazzard)
William Fichtner
Vincent Gallo (Stared in Brown Bunny and was a well known pervert who got caught exposing himself to women many times)
Jeffrey Jones (Principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.)
Chad Michael Murray
Buffalo Bob Smith (Howdy Doody)
Ani DiFranco
Spain Rodriguez
Tom Toles
Baby Joe Massey
The .22 caliber killer Joseph Christopher

Mark Twain lived here for a little while.
A lot of retired hockey players move to Orchard Park and Amhearst NY (Wealthy parts of Buffalo). When I did landscaping we did a lot of their lawns. They were nice guys a lot of them lets us use their pools on rea;;y hot days.

I think Mary Somerville was supposed to have lived in my town for a number of years.
It's a small place, unfortunately.

On a happier note, the frontman from Jethro Tull was born just up the road.

Taylor Swift came from right around where my relative lives....but I can't think of anyone from my area.

As a college town, Gainesville has (or had) some famous residents, but not always for good reasons. These include
-Tom Petty (musician)
-Tim Tebow (famous for obvious reasons)
-Andrew Meyer (the "Don't Tase Me Bro" guy)
-Terry Jones (the crazy pastor who threatened to burn Korans)

Growing up, I lived in a small town of around 1500 people that was once home to Peter Jackson, director of Lord of the Rings. I believe that I may have been to the same school that he went to.