Famous celebrities from your hometown

[Variance]

I decided query Internet Movie Database to see how many celebrities out there hail from my hometown of Bridgeport. The only ones I'm familiar with are Richard Belzer (must be why I'm a big Law and Order: SVU fan), John Ratzenberger and Brian Dennehy.

Full Bridgeport list (73):

http://www.imdb.com/BornWhere?Bridgeport,%...necticut,%20USA

Search for your hometown here:

http://imdb.com/BornWhere?[Insert city],%20[Insert State],%20[Insert Country]

[Satty]

Brad Pitt and Payne Stewart (he was a golfer, but he was on Home Improvement that one time) are from Springfield, thats close enough. And if you've ever seen The Bourne Supremacy, right at the end when the chick tells him his real name and place of birth, yeah it turns out he's from the town I live in. So not a real person, but my backwards, redneck, podunk, hich town was mentioned in a major motion picture.

[NOS2006]

1 for Chesterfield, MI Hells of a lot for Detroit I know of a few from the area that are famous (or getting there) now though. Kid Rock, Eminem, Uncle Kracker, Jo Caine, Xzibit, a member of ICP, and there's another band too (but I can't think of who they are)...

[Cory Wolfe]

None according to that. :D

Um... to my knowledge, though, there's golfer Nathan Smith. I don't think he's well known, but there are a few banners with his name of them for 1994 in my school. That and he's always in the newspapers... Another is "Pork" George McElhinny. He's an artist... as in music. He sings and plays the guitar. He usually played old rock songs, but he put out a country music CD this past summer, "Long Way To The Top". His site is: http://www.porkm.com/bio.html. He's friends with my family and plays at the local bars around here...

I doubt any of you guys have heard of either... :P

[NOS2006]

Karaoke singers don't count, lmao.

[zoomtm]

Micheal Jordan.

[sciguy_0504]

For Philadelphia (closest major city), I was only able to get up to 250 because it was only up to the "C's" and I didn't feel like doing the whole list. For Fairless Hills (my actual town), you get 1: me.

[Cory Wolfe]

Karaoke singers don't count, lmao.

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He's not a karaoke singer... :P He writes his own songs, just, when I saw him (years ago, mind you...), I remember him singing those. I think he has (or had) his own band. Jeesh... :D

[Black and Blue Landscaper]

Bam Margera, and most of the CKY (some jackass) crew The guy who plays Angel on Buffy The Blood Hound Gang Live "The Gay Guy" from Dawson's Creek

[Justin Bimmer]

Ok, so famous people from Fresno, CA Some of these are off the top of my head and I am going to try to give you the best list I can think of.... Cher William Sayroan (pulitzer prize winner and oscar winner) Tom Seaver Kevin Federline (brittany spears wife... err i mean husband) Audra McDonald (brodway actress) Jerry Tarkanian Tim McDonald (former SF 49er) Kirk Kerkorian (yes.... him) David Seville AKA Ross Bagdasarian (who was alvin and the chipmunks) Philip Levine (famous poet) thats all i can think of right now P.S. Fresno is the site of the first ever sanatary dump in america... it's a national historic landmark!! LOL

[Sixty8panther]

Andover, Mass. (lived there from 1991 to 1997)

-- Jay Leno (some of his teachers taught me..... 28 years later)

-- Current prez. went to Phillips Academy in Andover.

-- The peoiple who founded Smuckers Jam




Haverhill, Mass (lived there from 1997 to 2002)

-- Rob Zombie of White Zombie fame (also "House of a Thousand Corpses"...)



Current hometown:

-- Absolutely no one... since my burnout photos in Car Craft my Camaro is more famous (infamous) than all the residents combined.



My inlaws live next door to the guy who wrote the script for 'Who Framed Rodger Rabbit'. He jogged past their house this summer when we were pulling in for the 4th of July BBQ.

Jessica Rabbit is the sexiest animated female ever! :wub:

[z28luvr01]

Noone in that database comes from my hometown, but quite a few people are from LI: Billy Joel The Baldwins Lindsay Lohan Ashanti Ashley Massaro (WWE diva search winner) Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci from Dream Theater

[C.H.U.D.]

From the "I thought they used a robot to play that guy" files... I lived beside the bully from "A Christmas Story" when I was four years old. All I remember about him is that he had a brand new blue Ford Escort that he wrecked while driving drunk. After that, he owned an older Chevy Monza, grey in colour. Let's just say this car lasted him a week. I've been a car nerd all my life.

[avant1963]

Jon Bon Jovi - Even though IMDB says he was born in Perth Amboy - but he grew up in Sayreville, NJ. Remember when MTV gave away his boyhood home? Yeah, that made a mess of this town. Joe Thiesman grew up in the next town over, South Amboy.

[ichbinjohnk]

Luke Perry. Hot damn. What a claim to fame.

[Hudson]

The most famous person from my hometown, aside from me, is writer Dean Koontz. We had a professional baseball player back in the 1980s, but only briefly.

Bam Margera, and most of the CKY (some jackass) crew
The guy who plays Angel on Buffy
The Blood Hound Gang
Live
"The Gay Guy" from Dawson's Creek

Those folks are from different towns. Live's from Lancaster while the rest of them are from suburban Philadelphia. If you're doing the whole region, why didn't you add in the Hooters (some of us remember them) and Hall & Oates and Cheri Oteri and Tina Fey and most of the members of Poison and....

Jessica Rabbit is the sexiest animated female ever! :wub:

What about Holly Wood from "Cool World?"

[Flybrian]

Hulk Hogan lives here. He cut me off a year ago on the Memorial Bridge downtown.

[Hudson]

What about Holly Wood from "Cool World?"

My apologies...her name was Holli Would.

[Cremazie]

208 From Edmonton... (Micheal J Fox, Leslie Nielson - naked gun movies, Sale and Peltier - The skater pair that were robbed the gold in Salt Lake over a Russian mafia) 107 from the Clarenville search, but it brings up All the Newfoundland actors. Edited January 6, 2006 by Cremazie

[Sixty8panther]

WTH is cool world? :huh:

[sciguy_0504]

I remember the outrage over the 2002 Olympics medal robbery. That when on forever, it seemed like, and the skaters seemed somewhat embarassed. Speaking about the winter Olympics, they start again next month. I love the Olympics, can't wait to attend them someday. Maybe NYC? Philly? What a dream. Though, if Atlanta could get them anywhere could.

[trinacriabob]

I'm an L.A. native. The list is endless. Celebrities do not impress me whatsoever. My dad always used to say that they have "to wipe" like the rest of us.

[ichbinjohnk]

Celebrities do not impress me whatsoever.  My dad always used to say that they have "to wipe" like the rest of us.

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LIAR! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU OR YOUR OLD MAN!












(I'm bored at work...)

[NOS2006]

(I'm bored at work...)

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Watch your avatar. It is simply hilarious!

[91z4me]

Born in Owensboro but live in Louisville
17 according to this:
http://imdb.com/BornWhere?owensboro,%20KY,%20Daviess

Why the heck does it list NASCAR drivers as actors?

It says none in Louisville, KY but we have Muhammad Ali and Tom Cruise off the top of my head.

[Enzora]

Well there are only two from my hometown of Dunn, which is two more than I thought there would be. One's an actress named Debbi Morgan, the other's a composer named Link Wray. Here's a cool trivia tidbit: One of the original rockabilly artists, singer/guitarist Link Wray is credited with having invented the "power chord," which has become the basis for modern rock, heavy metal, alternative and thrash music.

[Hudson]

WTH is cool world? :huh:

If you've never seen "Cool World," how can you judge who's the sexiest animated character?

[Robert Hall]

Born in Owensboro but live in Louisville
17 according to this:
http://imdb.com/BornWhere?owensboro,%20KY,%20Daviess

Why the heck does it list NASCAR drivers as actors?

It says none in Louisville, KY but we have Muhammad Ali and Tom Cruise off the top of my head.

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Because they have been on TV?

[Robert Hall]

Dean Martin and Traci Lords were from my original hometown (Steubenville, Oh). No one came up for my other hometowns (Gnadenhutten, Oh) , Marathon, Florida. (I only consider places I lived as a kid or teenager, before college as hometowns---I wouldn't use that term for places I've lived as an adult. One movie connection I have, though, is filming location... the 1978 NBC TV Miniseries 'Centennial' was filmed some in my area in Ohio (the Amish country of Ohio standing in for 1840's Lancaster, Pa)....they filmed a number of scenes at my family's farm--the outside of the barn and house, in the house, a fight scene in the barn...I had a part as an Amish kid in the background (I was 7 when they filmed there in 1977...met a few actors--John Bennett Perry (Matthew's father), Robert Conrad, Gregory Harrison... The irony is that miniseries was about the settling of Colorado, and I now live in Colorado...