Name A Famous Person From Your State!

Jim Morrison, and I can't think of anyone else.
I was born in Seattle so I have Jimi on there too.

 

andy warhol.
man ray.
bill cosby.
richard gere.
kevin bacon.
seth green.
grace kelly.
gene kelly.
sharon stone.
christina aguilera.
trent reznor.
ben franklin.
jayne mansfield.

..just some of the people from here. sadly most of them are from philly.

 

hmmm...jimi hendrix, kurt cobain, layne staley come to mind...

 

Hendrix. I WIN!
Cobain
Adam west...
Bill Gates
Hank Ketcham (creator of the dennis the menace comic strip)

just to name a few

 

Stephen King

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rudy Vallee (crooner from the 30's/40s)
Harriette Beecher Stowe
L.L. Bean
Linda Lavin *puke*
Andrea Martin
Judd Nelson *swoon*
Tim Sample

To name a few....

 

There are many from missouri...and didn't feel like googling it...but first hand exposure from the springfield area I would have to list Brad Pitt ...my brother went to school with him...and after he had made his name ...I bid on his mom's house when he built it for her...and did some of the final trim work on her house


I also went to college with Kathlene Turner

missouri has produced some significate names....both in the entertainment and arts ,and political fields

 

Adam Sandler came from the nearest big town

 

From West Virginia (My state of birth) came Don Knotts and Jerry West. Chuck Howley did too.

From Ohio (current place of residence) came John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, and William McKinley.

 

Les Paul
Harry Houdini
Loretta Swit (Hotlips from Mash)
Charlotte Rae (Facts of Life)
Don Ameche
William Defoe
Orson Welles
Spencer Tracy
Frank Lloyd Wright
Thornton Wilder
Chris Farley
and of course, Liberace

 

IDAHO.. actually has people that are from it...

Gutzon Borglum – Mount Rushmore sculptor
Gloria Dickson – Actress
A.J. Feeley – NFL quarterback
W. Mark Felt – FBI official known as Deep Throat
Jordan Gross – NFL offensive tackle
Philo Farnsworth – inventor of television
Merril Hoge – NFL running back and sportscaster
Chief Joseph – Nez Perce leader
Harmon Killebrew – baseball player
Jerry Kramer – NFL offensive guard
Vernon Law – baseball player
Rob Morris – NFL linebacker
Jake Plummer – NFL quarterback
Cody Pickett – NFL quarterback
Marjorie Reynolds – actress
Sacajawea – Lewis and Clark's Native Guide
Lana Turner – actress
Wayne Walker – NFL linebacker
Torrie Wilson – WWE Wrestler, diva, celebrity playboy model

 

From Tennessee:

Roy Acuff (1903–1992), musician; born in Maynardville
James Agee (1909–1955); Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic; born in Knoxville
Lamar Alexander (b. 1940), lawyer and U.S. Senator from Tennessee; born and raised in Maryville
Duane Allman (1946–1971); guitarist; born in Nashville
Gregg Allman (b. 1947); singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter; born in Nashville
William R. Anderson (1921-2007); naval officer and member of Congress; born in Humphreys County
Chet Atkins (1924–2001); guitarist and record producer; born in Luttrell
Howard Baker
Kathy Bates
Pat Boone
Dixie Carter
Kenny Chesney
David Crockett
Billy Ray Cyrus
Miley Cyrus
Shannen Doherty
Lester Flatt
Ric Flair
Harold Ford, Jr.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Abe Fortas
Aretha Franklin
Morgan Freeman
Bill Frist
Albert Gore, Jr., 45th Vice President of the United States, 1993-2001
Albert Gore, Sr.
Alex Haley
George Hamilton
W.C. Handy
Isaac Hayes
John Jay Hooker
Cordell Hull
Con Hunley
Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States, 1829-1837
Samuel L. Jackson
Michael Jeter
Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States, 1865-1869
Estes Kefauver
Johnny Knoxville
Wink Martindale
Patricia Neal
Bettie Page
Dolly Parton - singer
Minnie Pearl
Carl Perkins
James K. Polk, Eleventh President of the United States, 1845-1849
Jimmy Quillen
Brad Renfro
Cybill Shepherd
Dinah Shore
Bessie Smith
Pat Summitt
Quentin Tarantino
Fred Dalton Thompson
Justin Timberlake
Tina Turner
Usher
Reggie White
Reese Witherspoon(actress)
Alvin York-a World War I veteran who captured 132 Germans almost single-handedly

 

Edit: Didn't see this was a USA thread...hehe :leaving:

 

Stephen Colbert!

 

Cab Calloway
Goldie Hawn
Sargent Shriver (oh my God, somebody actually got out of this stinking town!)

Francis Scott Key (he wrote our national anthem) lived a couple towns over. Nobody from around here seems to know that, except for Jesse Glass (local historian).

Oh, and of course, JOHN WATERS.

 

Bill Gates
Heart(lead singers)
Nirvana(all band members)
Jimmi Hendrix
Bing Crosby
Greg T. Nelson

BoooYah for Washington state!!!!!!!

 

what a subtle way to find out where we're all from. Bravo!

 

yep. he is probably got all of our houses wired by now. lol.

 

the only ones i care about form my state would be

Dr.Dre
Snoop Dogg

and those are the only ones that are important to me

the game can suck it