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Famous people from your hometown?

PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:43 am
by MouthForWar

PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:42 am
by DannyBeane
Notable natives and residents of New Carlisle, Oh

* General Frederick Funston
* Roy J. Plunkett - inventor of Teflon
* Howard R. DuFour - Author Biography of Charles Taylor "The Wright Brothers Mechanic"
* Tyler Maynard - Broadway actor
* Wayne Embry - former NBA player, 1999 inductee to Basketball Hall of Fame, former player at Tecumseh High School, former NBA General Manager for the Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Toronto Raptors.
* Amy Harber - Model/Actress[7] [8]- Former Tennis Player at Tecumseh High School
* Andrew Wright, musician

PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:07 pm
by The Top Crusader
Off the top of my head...

Al Snow, the wrestler
Phyllis Diller
Hugh Downs
Ben Rothlesberger (spelling?) was born here I think... then moved up to Findlay at a young age if I recall correctly.

...I'm probably forgetting a few others. John Dillinger's gang murdered our sherriff... not that he's from here, but that is one of our few claims to fame. ;)

PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:30 pm
by jellydonut25
Buffalo, NY:
Wolf Blitzer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tim Russert
Cannibal Corpse
Ani DiFranco
Every Time I Die
Goo Goo Dolls
Green Jelly
Brian McKnight
Snapcase
Wilson Greatbach (he invented the pacemaker in a barn in a suburb of Buffalo)
Jeremy Jacobs (owner of the Boston Bruins)
Seymour H. Knox I (founder/owner of Woolworth)
Robert Rich (owner of Rich Products - they're like deli products in case you've never heard of them but they are the 161st largest private-owned company actually bigger than Mary Kay)
Nick Bakay (voice of the cat on Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
Kyle Chandler (the guy who was Bruce Baxter in Kong '05)
Don Criqui (Football play-by-play guy)
William Fichtner
Chad Michael Murray
Beth Phoenix, The Glamazon
Buffalo Bob Smith (host of Howdy Doody)
Matt Urban (the most highly decorated American serviceman in history)
Millard Fillmore (ok, well, he's just burried there, but he was born just 4 hrs away...)
Jack Kemp
Willis Carrier (invented air conditioning and the Carrier Corp.)
John Corto (NFL Player)
Adorable Adrian Adonis
Orel Hershiser
Ron Jaworski
Patrick Kaleta
Patrick Kane
Tim Kennedy
Seymour H Knox III (original owner/founder of the Sabres)
Christian Laetner
Lex Luger
Todd Marchant
Lee Stempniak (went to high school with this guy)
oh and how about this one:
Born in Houston, TX (where I live now) rose to fame in Buffalo: Thurman Thomas


also, let's not forget, the original superfreak
RICK JAMES B*TCH!!!!

PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:27 pm
by metal_bryan

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:41 am
by The Giant Pacific Octopus

PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:43 am
by Tom R VanSlambrouck

Re: Famous people from your hometown?

PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:26 am
by MouthForWar

Re: Famous people from your hometown?

PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:06 pm
by jellydonut25

PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:51 pm
by Shonokin
Hmm from my home town, Dawn Wells was born there and went to my elementary school, Brad Pitt went to UMC and Kate Capshaw lived and worked there for years. It's a big college and journalism town (Columbia Missouri) so probably a lot of famous folks went through there.

Where I live now (San Francisco) .... too many to say. I do live two blocks from Robin Williams.

Re:Famous people from your hometown?

PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:25 pm
by dagarah

PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:39 am
by kidnicky