where I live now
Holland,MI
# Science writer Paul de Kruif ("Microbe Hunters", etc.) retired to Holland and died there in 1971.
# Scott Baker, an ARCA driver.
# Author L. Frank Baum composed his most famous work, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while summering in the resort community of Macatawa. Several Holland landmarks are said to have inspired parts of the book and ensuing movie, including the castle at Castle Park and South Shore Drive (which in the 1920s was paved in brick and spiraled to an end at Macatawa).
# Sufjan Stevens, a singer-songwriter who attended Hope College, details the city in the song "Holland" on his 2003 concept album, Michigan.
# Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, composer, pianist, and educator (b. 1927)
# Andy Van Hekken, a professional baseball player who pitched a complete game shutout in his first professional start with the Detroit Tigers in September, 2002.
# Herman Stegeman, varsity coach and athletics director at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens.
# Hopwood DePree, director and actor of many films such as, The Last Big Attraction about Windmill Island in Holland, also owner and creator of Tic-Toc Studios in Holland.
where i lived before
Carmel, CA
* Ansel Adams, photographer
* Jennifer Aniston, actress
* Jean Arthur, actress
* Mary Austin, novelist
* Barbara Babcock, actress
* Eric Berne, psychiatrist
* Orlando Bloom, actor
* Beverly Cleary, author
* Roy Chapman Andrews, naturalist and explorer
* Mary DeNeale Morgan, painter
* Doris Day, Actress, Singer
* Clint Eastwood, actor and former mayor
* James Ellroy, author
* Joan Fontaine, actress
* Percy Gray, painter
* Robert A. Heinlein, author
* Robinson Jeffers, poet
* Sinclair Lewis, novelist
* Jack London, novelist
* John Madden, sports Announcer
* Xavier Martinez, painter
* Patrick McGoohan, actor
* Kim Novak, actress
* Brad Pitt, actor
* Jeannette Rankin, first US Congresswoman
* Ira Remsen, chemist
* Eric Schlosser, writer
* Charles Schwab, businessman
* Upton Sinclair, novelist and social reformer
* George Sterling, poet
* Robert Louis Stevenson, author
* Rick Still, radio personality
* Edward Weston, photographer
* Betty White, actress
Luke Pritchett, U.S. Navy