Did any famous people grow up where you live?

[Amethyst]

Well, Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes author) used to live in my town while he was writing the comic. He moved to a town near mine when he quit writing, though.

And I live near Cleveland, Ohio, and I think Macy Gray's from Cleveland...

[i_love_starburst]

This random dude from Byker Grove is from a place quite close to my town. Does that count? He's kinda famous. Slightly. An ickle bit.

[happysmileyfungirl]

Wasn't that in Benny and Joon?

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

yeah they sang that as well, I don't like them that much but people at my school keep singing their songs

[joe_malo]

Well, Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes author) used to live in my town while he was writing the comic. He moved to a town near mine when he quit writing, though.

And I live near Cleveland, Ohio, and I think Macy Gray's from Cleveland...

Ditto here. Did you see the Scene Magazine about mid-summer that had a quasi story about him? Waterson's laying extremely low, but there are still a few reported sightings of him.

*thinks of new person to add*
The only one that springs to mind is Drew Carrey.

[Albadror]

not really, but a substitite teacher lives in my neighborhood

[Kitten]

Uhhh, it's the Land of Lincoln, does that count?

Illinois then?

You know.. he was born and raised in Kentucky, even if he did start his career in Illinois ;P

Yeah, Illinois. But hey, he started his career here, isn't that good enough?

You know... we hate you guys' license plates. You guys get Lincoln, and we get some kind of demented demonic sunshine.
http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Illinois/il2002.jpg
http://www.kentuckyroads.com/images/ken ... /plate.jpg

Yes, ours are demented. The state should change them. XD

Um. Some of the BackStreetBoys were born 2 hours away...

[Nikita]

Some celebrities that were born here (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) are:

Burton Cummings - musician
Chantal Kreviazuk - musician
Terry Fox - cancer activist and national hero
Fred Penner - musician
Terry Sawchuk - NHL goalie
David Steinberg - actor, comedian
Sir William Stephenson (aka Intrepid) - spy, man on whom the character of James Bond is based
Nia Vardalos - actress and writer
Winnipeg Bear - who the character of Winnie-the-Pooh was based on (not a person but still famous)

There's a lot more...those are just the ones that I've heard of.

[fallen_enigma]

*thinks of new person to add*
The only one that springs to mind is Drew Carrey.

Halle Berry, Paul Newman, Dorothy Dandridge, and Ruby Dee are all from Cleveland

well, here's a list I found:

Neil Alden Armstrong astronaut, Wapakoneta
George Bellows painter, lithographer, Columbus
Willard H. Bennett inventor, Findlay
Erma Bombeck columnist, humorist, Dayton
Bill Boyd / Hopalong Cassidy actor, Cambridge
Milton Caniff cartoonist, Hillsboro
Nancy Cartwright voice of Bart Simpson, Kettering
Hart Crane poet, Garrettsville
George Armstrong Custer army officer, New Rumley
Dorothy Dandridge actress, Cleveland
Doris Day singer, actress, Cincinnati
Ruby Dee actress, Cleveland
Hugh Downs TV broadcaster, Akron
Thomas Alva Edison inventor, Milan
Clark Gable actor, Cadiz
James Abram Garfield U.S. president, Cuyahoga County
Lillian Gish actress, Springfield
John Herschel Glenn astronaut, senator, Cambridge
Ulysses Simpson Grant U.S. president, Point Pleasant
Zane Grey author, Zanesville
Warren Gamaliel Harding U.S. president, Morrow County
Rutherford Hayes U.S. president, Delaware
Benjamin Harrison U.S. president, North Bend
Robert Henri painter, Cincinnati
William Dean Howells author, critic, Martins Ferry
Kenisaw Mountain Landis first baseball commissioner, Millville
Maya Lin artist, sculptor, Athens
Dean Martin singer, actor, Steubenville
William McKinley U.S. president, Niles
Toni Morrison author, Lorain
Paul Newman actor, Cleveland
Jack Nicklaus golfer, Columbus
Annie Oakley markswoman, Darke County
Tyrone Power actor, Cincinnati
Judith Resnik astronaut, Akron
Steven Spielberg director, screenwriter, Cincinnati
Gloria Steinem feminist, Toledo
William H. Taft U.S. president, Cincinnati
Ted Turner broadcasting, Cincinnati
Lowell Thomas commentator, author, Woodington
James Thurber author, cartoonist, Columbus
Raymond Elwin Weber webmaster, Toledo
Orville Wright inventor, Dayton
Cy Young baseball player, Gilmore[/b]
Sarah Jessica Parker actress, Nelsonville
Luke Perry actor, Mansfield
Jamie Farr actor, Toledo
Tim Conway actor, Willoughby[/b]

[Pair0dox]

Well, I used to live in Los Angeles...

But I currently live in Baltimore, Maryland.

Soo... Baltimore!

Jada Pinkett Smith
Tom Clancy
Tupac Shakur

All these people.

I'm from Maryland too! Lol, so all those peoples already mentioned I suppose.

[Angus Young]

Washington, DC-

Buchanan, Pat
Dowd, Maureen
Drew, Charles
Ellington, Duke
Gore, Al
Hahn, Goldie
Hannigan, Alyson
Jackson, Samuel L.
Kennedy, John Jr.
Kennedy, Michael
Sousa, John Philip

[magikwishez]

Hmm I guess so since Los Angeles is a pretty well known place.

[Stephy]

Mike Myers grew up in the town next to mine
Busy from Ready or Not went to a high school in my town
Hayden Christensen went to a high school in my town

[Sock]

Plenty of people in LA, but in where I am specifically...

Well, where I am now, no one I've ever heard of. However, in Calabasas (where I went from kindergarten to fifth grade in), some of Linkin Park, or at least the drummer, lived there. Incubus went to high school there, or something like that. Jessica Simpson lives there now. Also, someone named Shiri Appleby, but I don't know who she is, she came up in a google.

[Tharkun]

smurf Cheney's lesbian daughter lives hereabouts. I think the idiot who invented South Park went to high school around here.

[plducala16]

Well.. I live in a teeny 2000 person town..

But if you count Albquerque which is right by me.. Well..

There's Al Unser, Al Unser jr. from Sports.

And I think that might be it.

Sad, really.