Did any famous people grow up where you live?

[Alex]

An actor from Neighbours went to my school.

Lauren Burns is from my town. She got a Gold Medal for Taekwandoe (sp?) in the Sydney Olympics.

Er.. I think that's about all

[Rylon]

well, apparently, my sisters PE teachers brother went to school with Orlando Bloom, erm, and I think he lives in the town next to mine, but i have never seen him

[i_love_starburst]

my sisters PE teachers brother

Hehe, that's a mouthful.

[matchbow]

But i'm sure theres famous people in Edmonton... but it depends on what you actually consider famous. Locally famous? Or... movie star famous?

My cousin in Edmonton went to the same school as Adam Gregory i think. He's a country singer if you don't know

[Tailseh]

The only person I know of is Buddy Holly.
http://imdb.com/BornWhere?Lubbock,%20Texas,%20USA

He also went to school where I'm going

[gijinkagato]

Greg Moore grew up here..
And one of the guys from Law & Order got thrown out of a local bar.
That's about it.

[Jen]

Oh dear..
Hannah Sung
Avril Lavigne
Pauline Johnson
Joe Shuster
Glenn Gould
Karen Kain
Dan Aykroyd
JIM CARREY!!!
Alanis Morissette
John McIntosh
Daniel Massey
Alexander Graham Bell
Sir William Osler
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless
Sir Frederick Grant Banting (University Of Toronto! HELLO!)
Étienne Brûlé
Joseph Brant
Sir Isaac Brock
Laura Secord
Josiah Henson
Billy Bishop
Roberta Lynn Bondar
Ned Hanlan
James Naismith
Tom Longboat
Sam Jacks
Barbara Ann Scott
Marilyn Bell (Born about 3 streets away!)
Wayne Gretzky

Some as far as Brantford, Owensound.. Around in general though, still in the province.

[fallen_enigma]

The only people I can think of is :

Jenna Jameson - Hehe yea....

*covers her mouth to stiffle a giggle*

Ok, here are a few that I know of. I think there is more, but I can't remember everyone.
.Willard H. Bennett inventor of the radio frequency mass spectrometer.

.Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers

Um, I've said before but I went to school with Gavin Creel, the guy who played Bill in the Eloise movies.

Phil Bartlett :Actor

Russel Crouse : Actor, writer, and producer

Rowland V. Lee : Actor, director, writer.

Mark Metcalf :Actor. He was in a lot of Twisted Sister videos in the 80's, and he played Mr. Beckersted in the movie One Crazy Summer and he was also in Animal House.

Chad Zerbe: Baseball Player

J.Robin Miller : Actress. She plays (or played, I don't watch the show) Lydia Karenin Cassadine on General Hospital.


And thats just people from Findlay. I didn't bother doing people from Lima, Bowling Green or Toledo.

[RayGirl]

Well, Uzi Hitman was born in my town, but you probably don't know him, but he's really well known in Israel.

http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/pe ... tman2.html

He came to my school last year... I still remember it so good. Poor guy.

[Strechii]

Nobdy from my actual town, but apperently 14 people I've never heard of are from the city right next to my town.
Pat Sajak (host of Wheel of Fortune) lives in the other town next to mine.

If you want to do my whole state, then J.C. Chasez, the band members of Good Charlotte, DMX, and a bunch of other people I've never heard of.

[The Fifth Marauder]

A few former U.S. presidents. Ho hum.

Oh, and Nick Lachey *lived* here, but I don't believe that he was actually *born* here.

[hyperflutterby]

I know it's not exactly the same, but my boyfriend has the same name as a country music star who recently hit it big. Sorta funny because I knew about the guy before my boyfriend did. About 6 months before he was big, I was doing a google search on my boyfriend's name (come on you know you've done it too) and it came up with results about this young country singer. I didn't think much about it and didn't really mention it to anyone, but 6 months later my boyfriend and his whole family are in the car and the radio says "And now _______'s new country hit ________!" And his whole family spun around kinda like "What have you been doing without telling us?" He told me about it later and I was like "Oh that guy, yeah I knew, you mean he actually hit it big?" Now whenever he starts singing off key (it happens quite frequently) I tell him "Be quiet, you're no _________!"

[happysmileyfungirl]

The Proclaimers went to the school down the road from me, they were in my uncle's class. (The Proclaimers are a scottish band and they sang (sung?) that song "I would walk 500 miles. and I would walk 500 more..." etc. I'm sure the song was in a film but I can't remember which one it was.)

[fallen_enigma]

Wasn't that in Benny and Joon?

And I think they sang "I'm on My Way" from Shrek

[Xil]

Oh dear..
Hannah Sung
Avril Lavigne
Pauline Johnson
Joe Shuster
Glenn Gould
Karen Kain
Dan Aykroyd
JIM CARREY!!!
Alanis Morissette
John McIntosh
Daniel Massey
Alexander Graham Bell
Sir William Osler
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless
Sir Frederick Grant Banting (University Of Toronto! HELLO!)
Étienne Brûlé
Joseph Brant
Sir Isaac Brock
Laura Secord
Josiah Henson
Billy Bishop
Roberta Lynn Bondar
Ned Hanlan
James Naismith
Tom Longboat
Sam Jacks
Barbara Ann Scott
Marilyn Bell (Born about 3 streets away!)
Wayne Gretzky

Some as far as Brantford, Owensound.. Around in general though, still in the province.

and what a great province it is! *waves his Ontario flag*

Well, I grew up here and an actor who was on that Animorphs show lived here for awhile as well.