Are there any famous people from the place where you live?

lady_charlie · Post by **lady_charlie** » 20 May 2013, 19:51

Hello!

I was going to ask about authors or musicians and then I thought, well, why not actors or other famous people?

I am from a very small town in a state that is famous for, well, corn. And that is fading as fast as the farm ground.

But we also are the home of Gene Stratton Porter, James Whitcomb Riley, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, John Cougar Mellencamp, Paul Dresser and Theodore Dreiser, not to mention Michael Jackson and James Dean, David Letterman, Shelley Long, Bill Blass and Kurt Vonnegut.

Abraham Lincoln lived here as a boy.

Maud Fitch · Post by **Maud Fitch** » 21 May 2013, 06:44

Lady Charlie, what is the actual name of your State?

Some famous writers and journalists born in Queensland but I doubt if many people outside Australia know them:

Thea Astley
Nick Earls - I've met him and he's a nice man
Hugh Lunn - I've met him and he's also a nice man
David Malouf
George Negus
Kath Walker
Judith Wright
Benjamin Law

There's others like musician Keith Urban (married to actress Nicole Kidman) but the one I remember the most because his plane is displayed at the airport, is pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith who made the first flight across the Pacific in his aircraft "Southern Cross" from San Francisco, California USA, to Brisbane, Queensland Australia, in 1928. Scary stuff back then!

Ant · Post by **Ant** » 21 May 2013, 14:32

Like many places there are some famous people born not too far away, but one of the most famous was born very close to me.......William Shakespeare.

lady_charlie · Post by **lady_charlie** » 21 May 2013, 15:20

Maud Fitch wrote:Lady Charlie, what is the actual name of your State?

oops! Indiana

Some famous writers and journalists born in Queensland but I doubt if many people outside Australia know them:

Thea Astley
Nick Earls - I've met him and he's a nice man
Hugh Lunn - I've met him and he's also a nice man
David Malouf
George Negus
Kath Walker
Judith Wright
Benjamin Law

There's others like musician Keith Urban (married to actress Nicole Kidman) but the one I remember the most because his plane is displayed at the airport, is pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith who made the first flight across the Pacific in his aircraft "Southern Cross" from San Francisco, California USA, to Brisbane, Queensland Australia, in 1928. Scary stuff back then!

-- 21 May 2013, 15:24 --

Ant wrote:Like many places there are some famous people born not too far away, but one of the most famous was born very close to me.......William Shakespeare.

Wow. That is really awesome.

This should be a competition with a prize, like a trip to England or some mothballs.

I thought James Dean would win, but who is going to top Shakespeare?

-- 21 May 2013, 15:26 --

Maud Fitch wrote:Lady Charlie, what is the actual name of your State?

Some famous writers and journalists born in Queensland but I doubt if many people outside Australia know them:

Thea Astley
Nick Earls - I've met him and he's a nice man
Hugh Lunn - I've met him and he's also a nice man
David Malouf
George Negus
Kath Walker
Judith Wright
Benjamin Law

There's others like musician Keith Urban (married to actress Nicole Kidman) but the one I remember the most because his plane is displayed at the airport, is pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith who made the first flight across the Pacific in his aircraft "Southern Cross" from San Francisco, California USA, to Brisbane, Queensland Australia, in 1928. Scary stuff back then!

Well you are right, I don't know those, but you probably never heard of most of mine either.
And I am just discovering Australian Lit, isn't the Book Thief Markus Zusak from Australia?

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 21 May 2013, 19:23

Heres a list from Utah, where Im from.
King Sisters - Singing Trio
Red Nichols - Jazz musician
Ned Miller - Country singer
Raymond F. Jones -Sci-fi author
Gene Fulmer - Prizefighter
Moroni Olsen - Actor
Marie Windsor - Actress
Butch Cassidy - Bank and train robber
Anthony Geary - Actor -Was Luke from General Hospital
Marie Osmond - Singer
Donnie Osmond - Singer

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 11 Jun 2013, 06:10

yes, tons of them from my birth place in Manhattan....

i know of two in my mountain town here in Western North Carolina...

1- Ann Tatlock ( author of "Sweet Mercy " and " Promises to Keep " )
2- Andie MacDowell ( LOreal spokesperson, ....movies:.... sex lies and videotape, groundhog day, and four weddings and a funeral )

Carpe Diem!

Suzy...

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 30 Jun 2013, 21:38

Lauryn Hill went to the local high school and Stephen Colbert lives a few towns over...would LOVE to run into him in the market, probably be too tongue tied to talk

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 01 Jul 2013, 03:10

didja ever notice that he resembles that uzzuh fave of mine, Tina Fey? a bit of sarcasm here, he's just not my kinda guy on various levels..

Loveabull wrote:Lauryn Hill went to the local high school and Stephen Colbert lives a few towns over...would LOVE to run into him in the market, probably be too tongue tied to talk

i'd love to run into him too in the market, only w/a cart at full speed leaving HIM unable to talk ( it's a tad difficult w/o teeth...

too bad i don't have an opinion...well, you know what they say " chacun son gout "

daughter just informed me that Bernie Madoff of the investment scandal attended the same high school as i did along w/wife Ruth...

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 01 Jul 2013, 14:56

No worries...we all have our opinions...me? I'd happily mow down Glenn Beck...

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 01 Jul 2013, 15:49

surprise! i would too...i'll even help ya run him over...sooo obnoxious! i call him the pillsbury dough boy

p.s. i'm soo dumb, how could i have forgotten Thomas Wolfe ( the T.W. house is a major attraction here ) and F. Scott Fitzgerald...........when Zelda went cuckoo she was hospitalized here....

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 01 Jul 2013, 16:05

Sooo cool, I'll warm up the Hummer and we can find him together

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 01 Jul 2013, 16:18

let's go! we're on a mission!...a hummer no less...hot damn!...( i knew i met you for a reason )

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 01 Aug 2013, 20:07

I thought of a couple more from my birthplace, Spokane Washington.
Bing Crosby - Singer
Bob Crosby - Singer and bandleader
John Stockton -Basketball player for the Utah Jazz
Patrice Muncel - Opera singer
Curt or Kirk Barrow - Was Golden Gloves champ for a time
Dr. David Cowan - Had one of the first assembly line dentistry clinics in the country
Sonara Smart Dodd - She founded Fathers Day

AliceRose · Post by **AliceRose** » 02 Aug 2013, 08:11

There are a few from my birthplace, Nottingham in the UK. D. H. Lawrence is one of the most notable ones, and I am actually related to him (through marriage, not by blood unfortunately!)

I currently live in Salisbury in the UK, where Paul Di'Anno lives (ex lead singer of Iron Maiden). He wasn't born here, but lives here now and has been into my workplace a few times. I didn't know who he was until somebody told me, as I can't say I'm an Iron Maiden fan!

gsmergss · Post by **gsmergss** » 09 Sep 2013, 20:55

I'm not too sure about FROM but I know of a few that live here in CT, USA.

Rob Zombie has a house in Woodbury,CT
and the rapper 50 cent used to have a house in farmington
The Rock also has a house in CT