Name A Famous Person From Your State!

Well, I'm from Arkansas. So, I would have to say Johnny Cash.

 

there are hunderds from my state... shit, there are about 10 or more famous people from my small home town...

we got good water!

will smith.

 

Hey how about Bill Clinton haha.......

 

Dave Navarro is from my home town

 

Uh...
I had to Google this one.

Uhhhh... Peggy Lee, a singer, is from North Dakota.
Not a lot of famous people have hailed from North Dakota.

 

G. M. (Broncho Billy) Anderson ,actor
Maya Angelou, author and poet
Helen Gurley Brown ,editor
Glen Campbell, singer

Eldridge Cleaver, black activist
Jay Hanna (Dizzy) Dean ,baseball player
Orval Faubus ,former governor
John Gould Fletcher, writer
John Grisham ,author
John H. Johnson ,publisher
Scott Joplin musician, composer
Alan Ladd ,actor
Douglas MacArthur, 5-star general
Dick Powell ,actor
Edward Durrell Stone, architect

 

I'm not American, but I'll name famous people from my country.

Tom Jones (Singer)
Anthony Hopkins (Actor)
Dylan Thomas (Poet)
Catherine Zeta Jones (Actor)
Rhys Ifans (Actor)
Bonnie Tyler (Singer)
Joe Calzaghe (Boxer)

 

Reggie and Cheryl Miller graduated from my High School

 

Ireland

W B Yeats
Oscar Wilde
Sinnead O'Connor
Bono
Steve Coogan
Michael Collins
James Joyce
Peter O'Toole
Podge and Rodge

 

*IOWA*
Bess Streeter Aldrich author, Cedar Falls
Bix Beiderbecke jazz musician, Davenport
Norman Borlaug plant pathologist, geneticist, Cresco
Donald L. Campbell inventor, Clinton
Wallace Hume Carothers inventor, Burlington
Johnny Carson TV entertainer, Corning
William Buffalo Bill Cody scout, Scott Cty
Gardner Cowles Jr. publisher, Algona
Lee DeForest inventor, Council Bluffs
Simon Estes bass-baritone, Centerville
William Frawley actor, Burlington
George H. Gallup poll taker, Jefferson
Susan Glaspell writer, Davenport
Herbert Hoover U.S. president, West Branch
Ann Landers columnist, Sioux City
Cloris Leachman actress, Des Moines
William D. Leahy fleet admiral, Hampton
John L. Lewis labor leader, Lucas
Glenn L. Martin aviator, manufacturer, Macksburg
Elsa Maxwell writer, Keokuk
Glenn Miller bandleader, Clarinda
Harriet Nelson actress, Des Moines
Nathan M. Pusey educator, Council Bluffs
David Rabe playwright, Dubuque
Harry Reasoner TV commentator, Dakota City
Donna Reed actress, Denison
Lillian Russell soprano, Clinton
Wallace Stegner author, critic, Lake Mills
Billy Sunday evangelist, Ames
James A. Van Allen space physicist, Mount Pleasant
Abigail Van Buren columnist, Sioux City
Henry A. Wallace statesman, Adair Cty
John Wayne actor, Winterset
Andy Williams singer, Wall Lake
Meredith Willson composer, Mason City
Grant Wood painter, Anamosa

also-
Elijah Wood - Cedar Rapids
Tom Arnold - Ottumwa
Lara Flynn Boyle - Davenport
Ashton Kutcher - Homestead


Not to mention - The University of Iowa, Iowa Hawkeyes!!!!
Go, Hawks!!!

 

Kurt Vonnegut

David Letterman

Florence Henderson

John Mellencamp

If I think of more I'll post..

 

doc watson still lives down the road....

 

james dean

orville redenbacher

 

katherine hepburn

noah webster

 

Barry Bonds

Don Imus

and Amy Lee

were born in my home town

 

Spiro T. Agnew and Pat Sajak.

 

Chuck Yeager Barney Fife (Don Knotts)

 

from new jersey theres
Allen Ginsberg
"The boss" himself...(phffffff)
oh ya, theres bon jovi (the guy, not the band)
Kevin Smith (obvious, i know, but i had to)
Jack Nicholson
and my favorite, Dennis Rodman
theres more, but i dont have the time/motivation to bothing finding out.

 

Bill Gates
Kurt Cobain
Jimmy Hendrix
Howard Schultz (Chairman of Starbucks)
Quincy Jones


Cant think of others, im missing lots. -.-

 

lets get the notorious out of the way.....

pee wee gaskins
strom thurmond

and the others.....
joe frazier
jesse jackson
james brown
dizzy gillespie
eartha kitt
vanna white
leeza gibbons(went to my high school)
stephen colbert
( and there's more, but I cant think of them right now!!)