Name A Famous Person From Your State!

Edie Sedgwick.
Strangly enough, not only was she born in my hometown, she was born in the same hospital I was born in.

 

how about an 'ifamous' person from texas? george 'dubu' bush. (everyone get your pitch folks and tourches and HAVE AT HIM!)

 

Greg Jennings

Went to high school a mile down the road from me (same as Derek Jeter) and went to the samecollege as me, a mile down the other way. I used to talk to him on AIM back in the day and I know one of his cousins...

 

Too many from cal---but hometown-Perry from Journey ,Tommie Smith(raised fist,68 olympics) and one of the astronauts.

 

How about Alabama (besides football)...

Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Hugo Black, Hellen Keller

Hank Williams, Lionel Richie, Nat 'King' Cole, Percy Sledge

Harper Lee, Jim Nabors, Kate Jackson

Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Bo Jackson

 

Johnny Depp, Hunter S Thompson, Wendell Berry, George Clooney, Ashley Judd and Abe Lincoln...what a state

 

Radar from M*A*S*H

 

u forgot chelsea handler
btw i love her shes coming to atlantic city soon

 

i didnt know that whitney was from newark but it all makes since now

 

List of slew of people from the entertainment field: http://www.imdb.com/BornWhere?Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA .

 

Gene Roddenberry the creator of Star Trek graduated from my high school.

 

KENTUCKY!!! My favorites...

Stanley Owsley (LSD extraordinaire, manufactured most of the LSD in the sixties)
Hunter S. Thompson ('nuff said)
Edgar Cayce (famed medium, healer, psychic, famous for predicting when and where the Dead Sea Scrolls would be found)

 

Jimi Hendrix
November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970 died at 27
wow man one year older than me.
Seattle, Washington, United States

R.I.P

 

James Dean!!!! The original badass... Oh yeah! ps...im moving to arkansas!

 

Kansas hmmm

Dennis Hopper, BTK, Emilia Erhardt, Dwight Eisenhouser, James Naismith(invented basketball)... hometown people.... Barry Sanders, Don Johnson, Kirsty Alley, Joe Walsh

 

i'm from montana... and the only people i can think of are

dirk benedict- a scotch drinking virulent republican who was on the A-Team and the original Battlestar Gallactica
peter fonda- he is an actor of course
dana carvey was born in missoula
brad bird, who animates the simpsons, is from here
those crazy white supremacist twins live here (lamb and lynx)
and evil knievel

 

I lived in Jersey one time....Jack Nicholson is from there.
Love him.

 

Marshall Mathers. Detroit baby!
Muhammid Ali (spelling?) Actually around my own town.


Neither of them were actually born here I dont think, but they both lived here. If that counts. Im sure there are more Idr right now

 

I am not sure there is anybody famous from California.