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MattK 22-11-2002 15:49

Anyone famous come from your town
 
Has anyone that is famous come out of your town or small city (think smaller than NY or Boston)?

Manchester NH is kinda lucky, we have had


1. Adam Sandler (Adam and I both had the same 1st grade teacher and now I have the same Vice Princible as he had Mr. Clemons. There is reference to Mr. Clemons in Billy Madison. Billy and his friends put a "Flaming bag of poop" on "Old Man Clemons" front porch)
And Manchester is also in alot of his movies, falling under varius names including
Mandrake Falls NH- In Mr. Deeds
Dukeberry- In 8 Crazy Nights

Never named but understood by street names and places- The audio Skit Whitey, This skit is also the premis for 8 Crazy Nights

2. Seth Myers (Currently on SNL)
3. Robert Frost
4. Former President Franklin Pierce
5. hmmm some guy who invents stuff.... his name esacpes me

Joe Matt 22-11-2002 15:52

Haily Berry :cool:
Lots of sports stars (can't remember them all)
And other, I just can't remember them all.

BTW, I'm from Cleveland, OH. :D

Jon K. 22-11-2002 16:08

Rockville had some pro football player.



OHH does our robot/Ogre count.

Brandon Martus 22-11-2002 16:16

um..

Madonna - Rochester, MI
Kid Rock - Romeo, MI
Eminem - Warren, MI (and then down the street from my wife for a small time, before we were married)
Allyha (sp)
Elizabeth Berkley (saved by the bell)
Ted Nugent


thats all I can think of, offhand.

MattK 22-11-2002 16:24

Quote:

Originally posted by Brandon Martus

Eminem - Warren, MI (and then down the street from my wife for a small time, before we were married)


I would be deathly Scared of living near eminem.

Although, really I think its all a act.

Brandon Martus 22-11-2002 16:40

Quote:

Originally posted by MattK



I would be deathly Scared of living near eminem.

This was when he lived in Clinton Township or Sterling Heights, or something. .. not Warren or Detroit..

DanLevin247 22-11-2002 16:40

Quote:

Originally posted by Brandon Martus
um..

Madonna - Rochester, MI
Kid Rock - Romeo, MI
Eminem - Warren, MI (and then down the street from my wife for a small time, before we were married)
Allyha (sp)
Elizabeth Berkley (saved by the bell)
Ted Nugent


thats all I can think of, offhand.




Don't forget almost all of the MOTOWN stars, a kid i know lives next to aretha franklin

George1902 22-11-2002 17:35

Judge Reinhold -- think Beverly Hills Cop movies (the straight laced cop) and and The Santa Clause (the step-dad)

he graduated from Martin County High School (the "M" in SPAM)

we also had a couple of professional athletes from our area... Cleveland Gary, a football player, graduated from South Fork High School (the "S"), and Rusty Meecham, a baseball player, graduated from Martin Co.

there's also a semi-famous lawyer named Willie Gary who's offices are in Stuart.

if i think of any more i'll post them.

George
S.P.A.M.
Team 180

Josh Hambright 22-11-2002 17:39

chike okiefa (i know i butchered the spelling) went to my high school back in 94...and like went on to play for purdue...now he's playing for the 49'ers

Axle rose went to jefferson high school on the other side of the river in lafayette...

Shannon Hoon (blind melon) grew up in dayton which is like a 5 minute drive from lafayette...still in this county...he grew up here...our teams coach who is also the wrestling coach coached when he was wrestling for mc cutcheon high school and said he was really really good.

i cant think of any others...i think another older member of GNR came from here too...but i dunno


Shannon hoon is buried in dayton now btw...people like make pilgramages to his grave..

MattK 22-11-2002 17:39

O yes, I beleave that Adam Sessler from TechTV's Extended Play is from Manchester

D.J. Fluck 22-11-2002 17:44

Lets see..

MLS Soccer Star of the LA Galaxy, Ezra Hendrickson (didnt go to KHS, although his uncle was my soccer coach)

Ryan White- the first famous AIDS case in a child (he went to another school outside of kokomo, but people commonly mistake him for being from Kokomo)

Madison 22-11-2002 18:10

Re: Anyone famous come from your town
 
Quote:

Originally posted by MattK

5. hmmm some guy who invents stuff.... his name esacpes me

It's unfortunate that Dean is from Long Island, not Manch-vegas.

He attended South Side HS.

Ian W. 22-11-2002 18:14

Re: Re: Anyone famous come from your town
 
Quote:

Originally posted by M. Krass


It's unfortunate that Dean is from Long Island, not Manch-vegas.

He attended South Side HS.

doesn't his brother (Mitch?) teach at sachem? the fact that he most likely has a segway would make him famous too, no? :p

Clark Gilbert 22-11-2002 18:28

Famous, but not because of their name......
 
In addition to DJ's posts, a few famous/not-so-famous people created and invented quite a few important products that many of us use on a daily basis today...

Kokomo is known as "The City of Firsts"
July 4, 1894
*Elwood Haynes* road tested his invention... the first commercially constructed automobile on Pumpkinvine Pike.
October 1894
D.C. Spraker, President of Kokomo Rubber Tire Company, invented the first pneumatic rubber tire.
1895
William Johnson invented the aluminum casting process at the Ford & Donnelly Foundry.
1902
George Kingston developed the first carburetor.
1906
*Elwood Haynes* discovered the first Stellite cobalt-based alloy while searching for a metal appropriate for flatware.
1912
*Elwood Haynes* invented stainless steel that would provide rust free medical instruments.
1918
The first Howitzer shell was used in warfare. It was developed by the Superior Machine Tool Company.
1918
The Liberty Pressed Metal Company developed the first aerial bomb with fins.
Early 1920'S
John Powell developed the first mechanical corn picker.
1928
Kemp Brothers Canning Company developed the first canned tomato juice at the request of a St. Louis doctor who was searching for baby food for use in his clinic.
1938
The *Delco* Radio Division of G.M. developed the first push-button car radio.
1941
The first all metal-lifeboat was developed by Globe American Stove Company.
1943
The Globe American Stove Company developed the first all-metal life raft, nicknamed "The Kokomo Kid"
1947
The *Delco* Radio Division of G.M. developed the first signal-seeking car radio.
1957
The *Delco* Radio Division of G.M. developed the first all-transistor car radio.
NOTE: Delco is now DELPHI

Source: In Kokomo

Jnadke 22-11-2002 18:31

Re: Anyone famous come from your town
 
Quote:

Originally posted by MattK
5. hmmm some guy who invents stuff.... his name esacpes me

Dean Kamen was born in New York.
Robert Frost was born in California.
Franklin Pierce wasn't born in Manchester.
Adam Sandler was born in Brooklyn, NY.

Man, you're an idiot. Just don't talk anymore. I believe I've also proven that Manchester, NH is worthless.


Appleton, Wisconsin...
Willem DaFoe (the Green Goblin in Spider-Man)
Senator Joseph McCarthy

Ricky Q. 22-11-2002 20:51

Cudahy & Oconomowoc.....
 
I come from 2 "famous" (not really) WI cities so I'll list both of them:

Cudahy, WI (10 miles south of Milwaukee):
Not really anybody too famous (yet) but there are some;
-John Navarre, Starting Quarterback for Michigan
-Lamar Gordon, Back-Up RB for the St. Louis Rams, started for Marshall Faulk the last 2 weeks

Thats really it from there, and there is only 1 from Oconomowoc that I know of:
-Craig Counsell, of the Arizona Diamondbacks (his cousin lives across the street from me)

:cool:

IsabelRinging 22-11-2002 21:41

This probably doesn't count, but if you happen to watch THE AMAZING RACE on CBS you'll see the parents of our team's current driver (well, not the official driver... yet). That's famous enough for me.

So remember: THE AMAZING RACE, Wednesday nights on CBS, 9:00 PM EST. Their names are Teri and Ian.

It's kinda funny because they're the most hated people on the show. Editing makes them look really mean. I've been witness to them in real life and they don't seem that bad...

But they're still great fun to bastardize. :D

MattK 22-11-2002 21:57

Re: Re: Anyone famous come from your town
 
Quote:

Originally posted by M. Krass


It's unfortunate that Dean is from Long Island, not Manch-vegas.

He attended South Side HS.


Yes I know he wasnt born in manch-vegas, but he has lived in NH since his 20's and most of his inventions where created here.

MattK 22-11-2002 21:59

Anyone live in or near Arora Ill.?

Thats where Wayne's World took place!

Ian W. 22-11-2002 22:13

i thought of another person.

my mom runs a lot (going outside, eww :p), and she has different friends that she runs with. one of them is this lady Christy (i think that's how you spell it) Lyons (spelling again?) who is apparently the wife of some football player (i don't know football at all, so don't ask me who he is) on the Jets i think. since football isn't my thing, i have no idea if he's famous, but i figured it was worth mentioning.

Andy Baker 23-11-2002 00:20

zero
 
I cannot think of anyone from my hometown who is famous... Monticello, Indiana doesn't really have much.

But... it is rumored that my great-grandfather, Chester Huffman, invented that little rolled-up paper rim on the top edge of a dixie cup while living in Monticello. Or, at least that is what he told me 25 years ago. :)

On another note... I know that it's not at all my hometown, but I spent a semester in college in Grantham, England... which was the home of Issac Newton. They had an all-boys elementary school that was called "Issac Newton School". Also, they had a square in the middle of town with a statue of the man himself.

Andy B. with a fairly pointless post.

David Kelly 23-11-2002 00:38

Re: Re: Anyone famous come from your town
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Jnadke




Man, you're an idiot. Just don't talk anymore. I believe I've also proven that Manchester, NH is worthless.


that was an unnecessary comment. :mad:

Rick 23-11-2002 00:45

richard hatch. the first survivor winner. he shops in the place i work alot and drives a bmw suv. i almost hit him with my car one time at night.

Elgin Clock 23-11-2002 00:48

Quote:

Originally posted by MattK
Anyone live in or near Arora Ill.?

Thats where Wayne's World took place!

Hey, if you look on the tv when they show the weather report in the first movie you'll see my name and here them say it. Elgin is a town in Illinois where the Elgin Clock Company originated and is still today! (no my parents did not name me after the company, Elgin is a family name. Honest!) :D

Anyways, in Watertown the biggest celebrity we've had in a while would have to be Rico Brogna of NY Yankees fame!

Oh we also have a few bands likeTRIPSET & SUBMIT who hail from Watertown, CT.
And pop singer John Mayer is from CT.

Also, James Van Der Beek aka Dawson on Dawsons Creek went to school a few towns over.

Then of course we have all the people who are famous and have houses in CT, like David Letterman, Dustin Hoffman, and Martha Stewart for starters.

Oh and remember that reallly tall hockey player who was talked about in another thread, yeah well he lives or lived in West Hartford CT.

D.J. Fluck 23-11-2002 00:52

Quote:

Originally posted by Elgin Clock
Then of course we have all the people who are famous and have houses in CT, like David Letterman, Dustin Hoffman, and Martha Stewart for starters.

Letterman is a Hoosier... :)


and is that where Martha's going to jail at?? :p

MattK 23-11-2002 11:12

Re: Re: Anyone famous come from your town
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Jnadke



Dean Kamen was born in New York.
Robert Frost was born in California.
Franklin Pierce wasn't born in Manchester.
Adam Sandler was born in Brooklyn, NY.

Man, you're an idiot. Just don't talk anymore. I believe I've also proven that Manchester, NH is worthless.


Appleton, Wisconsin...
Willem DaFoe (the Green Goblin in Spider-Man)
Senator Joseph McCarthy



I realize that Adam Sandler, Robert Frost and Franklin Pierce wherent born in Manchester. But they all grew-up here and/or spent the better part of their life living here.

I dont know when Adam Sandler moved to manchester, but It must have been In or beafore he was in the 1st grade (we had the same teacher) Mrs. Kendal.

Katie Reynolds 23-11-2002 11:31

Re: Re: Anyone famous come from your town
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Jnadke
Man, you're an idiot. Just don't talk anymore. I believe I've also proven that Manchester, NH is worthless.
Jnadke,

Stop the bashing. This isn't the place to do it. If you want to make a comment like that about someone, PM or IM them about it. Don't do it here.

- Katie

Ryan Dognaux 23-11-2002 13:38

Re: Re: Re: Anyone famous come from your town
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Katie Reynolds

Jnadke,

Stop the bashing. This isn't the place to do it. If you want to make a comment like that about someone, PM or IM them about it. Don't do it here.

- Katie

I agree, that was just totally uncalled for.

Melissa Nute 23-11-2002 14:41

Fred Durst...graduated from the high school I should be going to...

All the members of Lynard Skynyrd...

Pat Boone...

James Weldon Johnson

I don't know who else...

evulish 23-11-2002 16:31

Not so much my city...since I don't live in a city...

Mark Twain (Elmira, NY)
Stephen Foster..the guy who sang Camptown Races (doo daa doo daa)
Ever hear of the French Azilum? That was located in the next town over from me.

Gadget470 24-11-2002 00:09

BHS Alumni
 
BHS Alumni:

Curtis Armstrong. If you don't know whom this is, well, you are not cultured.

Josh Hambright 25-11-2002 09:18

Orvil redinbaucker is from indiana...so is John Melloncamp (but he's from the south part...) and umm Former President William Henry Harrison was from indiana...
He fought the battle of tippecanoe 5 minutes from my house!

Anyone who knows indiana history knows about the battle of fallen timbers (or show if you took 4th grade history) and like yah battle of fallen timbers is in my home town...

Techumseh and the prophet are from around here also...

I think some race car people are from indiana...

And alot of famous basketball types are from indiana (Shawn kemp is i think...so is larry bird)

I cant think of any more.

Mike Schroeder 01-12-2002 13:24

North Brunswick has a soccer goalie on the US Olympic team cant think of the name cause i hated every sport team when i was in High School it was Tim or Tom or somthing like that

MissInformation 01-12-2002 15:22

Not that I care about the famous or anything, but two people from Baltimore that I think are great are John Waters and Anne Tyler. Okay, so Waters' movies are pretty odd but it's fun to watch them just to see familiar neighborhoods, and hey, he was on the Simpsons, so there's fame for you. Anne Tyler's novels are always strongly based in Baltimore, and she often mentions places I've been to. She lives a block away from where I went to High School, but she's pretty much a hermit, so we never saw her.

MissInformation

<===========>
Baltimore, the city that breeds... er... reads...

Greg Ross 01-12-2002 17:29

Jnadke , I think you're too harsh.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Jnadke

Man, you're an idiot. Just don't talk anymore. I believe I've also proven that Manchester, NH is worthless.

I was born in Bakersfield; I live in Hawthorne; and my FIRST team is in Hermosa Beach(the school -- though we have built in Redondo Beach for the last two years, and Torrance the year before). So who should get bragging rights for me?

Justin 188 01-12-2002 18:01

Famous people from Scarborough, Canada:

Mike Myers
The Barenaked Ladies

Warren Boudreau 02-12-2002 13:05

Although I've been in south Florida for 22 years, I come from Baton Rouge, Lousiana. Home to the best politicians money can buy.

Amy Beth 02-12-2002 13:53

I born and raised in Hawthorne, CA. Biggest claim to fame: Beach Boys Album called Hawthorne, CA.

Hailfire 03-12-2002 19:03

In Rochester Hills Michigan, Madonna.

Nate Smith 03-12-2002 21:13

From Holland, Michigan:
-Rob Malda, Founder of Slashdot

MrsT 03-12-2002 21:27

From York. PA......

The whole group "Live".

Amanda M 06-12-2002 19:29

This makes me feel all special.

Timothy McVeigh, although he wasn't from here, he planned all of his evil doings in a hotel in Kingman.

Also, this kid who shot some other kids came from here. I don't know if it makes him famous, but if it was on the news, then it must be worth something!

Amanda Aldridge 08-12-2002 02:25

Well, L. Frank Baum, the guy who wrote wizard of oz, was from valparaiso, which is in nw indiana and incidentally has a new team this year.

Gene Shepard (I think that's his name) who wrote A Christmas Story("you're gonna shoot your eye out, you're gonna shoot your eye out") grew up in Hammond. The name of the town in the movie is Hohman, Indiana, which is really Hammond. One of the main thoroughfares in Hammond is Hohman Avenue. Hey, I live on Hohman Avenue!!

Mongoose 08-12-2002 13:09

Both a someone who hosts Survivor (never watched it) and the person who founded Voicestream actually came from my school here in Bellevue, WA. Except Voicestream isn't sponsoring us. (Hopefully that's "isn't sponsoring us _yet_".)

-Eric

Greg Ross 09-12-2002 01:09

Not born in Bakersfield, but intricately entwined with Bakersfield culture and history: Buck Owens & Merle Haggard.

SkitzoSmurf 09-12-2002 22:58

Richard Hatch seems like the best we can do.. . . .

MattK 09-12-2002 23:01

Quote:

Originally posted by SkitzoSmurf
Richard Hatch seems like the best we can do.. . . .

O man... sorry to hear that

I would keep my mouth shut if some guy from my town walked around naked on a TV show. :confused:

DanL 09-12-2002 23:47

Well according to the Billy Joel song, Billy the Kid is from Oyster Bay, which is just a few towns over to the left.
Quote:

From a town known as Oysterbay, Long Island
Rode a boy with a six-pack in his hand
And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time
East and west of the Rio Grande

Koko Ed 31-01-2003 10:14

Rochester, NY
 
Taye Diggs
Tweet
Susan B. Anthony
George Eastman
And although he wasn't born here Fredrick Douglass is buried here and has considered Rochester his home.

Yeslek50 31-01-2003 15:40

Dave Matthews (AHEM* of the Dave Matthews Band) is from here, I know a few people who went to school with him. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy is buried here as well as US Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler and over 18,000 Confederate soldiers, including JEB Stuart and George Pickett. We've got alot of history down here in good ole' Virginee, lol :)

Little Lee132 31-01-2003 17:34

Well I live right next door to Detroit and a lot of famous people have come from there. All the great Motown artists, Eminem, Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker...
Then My friend lives On Orchard Lake(West Bloomfield, MI)
and she lives next door to Jerry Stackhouse (or however you spell it) and she has met a lot of the Pistons players and a few others.

Yan Wang 31-01-2003 21:42

Well, right now I can think of Carl Sagan who's from this town, Ithaca, NY... you know, that famous astronomer guy who did stuff like write the book Contact (incredible movie too).

And umm... have to be a ton of insanely smart people who've come out of Cornell University here.

Oh yeah, and the deputy defense secretary right now is from Ithaca... the librarians are looking for a pic of him right now to send to Time magazine from old yearbooks.

srjjs 31-01-2003 22:42

Barry bonds is from somewhere around here, and that's all I know.

Da SPAMinatress 31-01-2003 22:55

Quote:

have to be a ton of insanely smart people who've come out of Cornell University
Bill Nye the Science guy graduated from CU... and I know a whole bunch of other people that go/went there... but they're not famous... not yet anyway

LBK Rules 31-01-2003 23:08

Quote:

Originally posted by Yeslek50
We've got alot of history down here in good ole' Virginee, lol :)
True. On a related note, we also have DuPont, Circuit City, CCF, and a ton of other companies here.

hixofthehood 31-01-2003 23:43

Quote:

Originally posted by IsabelRinging
This probably doesn't count, but if you happen to watch THE AMAZING RACE on CBS you'll see the parents of our team's current driver (well, not the official driver... yet). That's famous enough for me.

So remember: THE AMAZING RACE, Wednesday nights on CBS, 9:00 PM EST. Their names are Teri and Ian.

:D

Yes!! Yes!! They finished second. Not bad, not bad.

KaylaButt 01-02-2003 15:06

I found out yesterday that John Goodman lives in Palm City.

That's right... a Roseanne regular hails from my city. (*whoop*)

IBApril180 01-02-2003 21:50

WELL I don't know about people who came from my area, but a whole bunch of famous people live on Jupiter Island like Celine Dion.......my stepmom helped take care of her baby after it was born at Palms West Hospital

Mimi Brown 01-02-2003 22:10

John Glenn lives down the street from me!! :yikes: or, used to...im not sure if he still lives there...lol

torn_paperdoll 03-02-2003 02:23

ME!!!!
 
Hey hey hey.. I'm famous.. You guys just don't know it yet..

Team238-aholic 03-02-2003 19:22

MANCHESTER, NH IS NOT WORTHLESS....
that statement was rude and uncalled for...

Who cares if adam wasn't born here...he lived here all his life....
He's here all the time too...his nephew played baseball with my brother, and he was always at the games, he hangs out in manchvegas....
Happy Gilmore is based around my friend's brother, Hubie McDonough (Director of Hockey Operations for the Manchester Monarchs)

whatever...Manchvegas is not worthless...its my hometown, I wouldn't call your hometown worthless

Ken 16-02-2003 17:49

Russell Stover, and the guy that invented porky pig.:) :D ;)

Hermione692 17-02-2003 13:11

we have eddie murphie :) plus all the kings..lol

MattK 17-02-2003 13:27

Quote:

Originally posted by Team238-aholic
MANCHESTER, NH IS NOT WORTHLESS....
that statement was rude and uncalled for...

Who cares if adam wasn't born here...he lived here all his life....
He's here all the time too...his nephew played baseball with my brother, and he was always at the games, he hangs out in manchvegas....
Happy Gilmore is based around my friend's brother, Hubie McDonough (Director of Hockey Operations for the Manchester Monarchs)

whatever...Manchvegas is not worthless...its my hometown, I wouldn't call your hometown worthless

Couldent have said it better

P.s. Sorry to hear about your robot

Biggs717 17-02-2003 14:20

This is kinda random but lil bow wow is from columbus ohio!


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