Just a thought. What famous people have come from your hometown?

For me, Peter North (Pornstar, married to Nicole Sheridan).

Woot! Halifax!

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Originally posted by diehard993:
Just a thought. What famous people have come from your hometown?

For me, Peter North (Pornstar, married to Nicole Sheridan).

Woot! Halifax!

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chris eubank

Hmm, that andrew flintoff the england cricketer comes from preston *shrugs*

Nick parks the guy who did walace and gromit, his daughter went to my old school and he once opened a summer fate ^^

*shudders*

Michael Moore was a Flintoid.

Joss Stone from here.

I'd love to poop her.

Matt Morris, Paul Senior

Larry Byrd, Cyrus Vance, Frank Loria, Ken Shrader, Kathy Mattea, Anna Jarvis(started Mother's Day), Stonewall Jackson

EDIT: i didn't read the thread starter well enough to notice that he said famous people FROM our town. So i tried to look up a bunch but i couldn't find any so i'm leaving it the way it is. I know the rappers i listed are from here, and houston is a big place so i'm sure there's quite a few.

Houston:

Well during the superbowl in '04 and the last world series (even though the 'stros lost every game) and the NBA all star game in Feb. we had a shit load of celebrities come here.

We have tons of country singers, larry the cable guy, and other poeple like that down here right now entertaining everyone at the houston livestock show and rodeo, we have rappers and gangsta's like chamillionaire, mike jones, lil flip and all their rapper buddies.

We have any actor thats been in a film including nasa pretty much (since we have JSC like 3 minutes away from my house)

Oh and we have George Bush, Sr. who has a house in River Oaks ( a really, really nice rich area of town)

and i can't think of any other specifics. But it's houston, tx. I'm sure we have a shit load.



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John Candy

Me.

Dave Thomas

Don't know any actors from here but a few bands are; Shinedown, Cold(broken up), Lynyrd Skynrd

Henry Ford had a cottage here.

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Originally posted by BatteriesNotIncluded:
Larry Byrd, Cyrus Vance, Frank Loria, Ken Shrader, Kathy Mattea, Anna Jarvis(started Mother's Day), Stonewall Jackson

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Are any of those meant to be famous?

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Originally posted by among_the_living:

Are any of those meant to be famous?

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Larry Bird is famous as a mofo, fool.

Jenny Thompson comes from my town... The olympic swimmer... hooray.

I was born in the same hospital as DIO.

Gene Simmons

beat that guys

Sean connery, he went to school with my gran.

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Originally posted by KingCheez:
Gene Simmons

beat that guys

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Dude, who do you think has a bigger cock?
Peter North of Course. But I suppose Gene's tongue makes up for it...so, I guess I self-owned, didn't I?

Lord Nelson and Tim Westwood. And Alan Partridge (sort of).

Norwich is a fucking joke.

charles dutton

Charles Darwin

At some point, one of the U.S. vice presidents (19th Century) lived in my town.

I don't remember who it was at the moment.

Madonna, I went to the same middle school as her.

Alice Cooper. He went to the High School a bunch of my friends go to.

Dimebag Darrel Abbot of Pantera and Damage Plan.

rip Dimebag

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Originally posted by Jiimy8me:

rip Dimebag

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It kinda loses its significance when you figure out that people are still saying RIP Kurt Cobain.

I dont know if we have any gear heads in here, but if you watch the Discovery channel any you'll know that bike builders are pretty big these days, any way I went to high school with Kendall Johnson's son and daughter (she has some of the biggest tit's i've ever seen, and she's hot as fuck). His kids used to throw parties at his house all the time, he's house is fucking huge. His daughter was homecoming queen and for the pep rally at which we had to vote for them he donated 8 choppers for the contestants to ride in on, it was pretty badass seeing a bunch of custom choppers riding across your football field.

Bill gates....Paul allen...Bruce lee.. Kurt kobain...

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Originally posted by diehard993:
It kinda loses its significance when you figure out that people are still saying RIP Kurt Cobain.

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The sentiment is still the same as he was from my home town and such

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Originally posted by Jiimy8me:
The sentiment is still the same as he was from my home town and such

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I see. You guys probably have a billboard.

Dennis Rader

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Originally posted by diehard993:
I see. You guys probably have a billboard.

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::sarcastic:: why yes we do. we have many actually..."rip dimebag, rip kurt, rip layne, rip etc..

i went to school with chris eubank's son.
god he was a cock.

the guy that did the voice for the crab in the disney movie little mermaid. he's a real prick he's a jamacan(sp). he calls the cops on you if you walk near his house. and he is always raking his yard year round.

and we have matt morris the pitcher for the cardinals. he went to my school and everything


edit: Orange county choppers are like 3 miles from my house too. and george washington used to hang out in these parts of towns back in the day.

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M.G.R
Rajini
Kamal Haasan

Well, Luis Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nuno Gomes, Pauleta.
All football players

The guy who played MacGyver. W00t roseville, minnesota!

Elizabeth Fry.
Lord Nelson. (the guy on the column in London)
J J Coleman. (Colemans mustard)
John Sell Cotman.

Well as I was born in Damascus, it's got to be the Salaudin(spelling?) who was the guy who got Jerusalem back from the Christians during the crusades.

Stephen Hawking
Syd Barrett

We had an astronaut, piano player with the last name Barto (or Bartko his son is mentally retarded and goes to our school though) and some shitty band. I don't remember any names.

William Shatner

oh and i went to the same boarding school last year that Cher's daughtor went to... The Hyde School.
http://tinyurl.com/l7s5r

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Over the years, the boarding school has attracted the children of Cher, Paul Newman, Barbara Walters and basketball great Julius Irving.

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hayden christenson

the guy who plays aniken in the starwars clonewars or w.e its called

THORNHILL ONTARIO CANADA REPRESENT


OH AND ME

Dick Van Dyke

Gene Hackmen

Jerry Van Dyke

Bobby Short (jazz musician)

Joe Tanner (astronaut)

Abraham Lincoln had a few houses here.
Probably forgetting a few but that's off the top of my head.

People like to brag about it like it's some sort of bragging right.

"Man. Dick Van Dyke was born and raised here".

Kelly Clarkson owns a house here. I hope it burns with her in it. She went to a neighboring high school (burleson) and they have a shrine dedicated to her in the enterance.

I know it's kinda gay but I went to school with Bow wow for like 8 years in reynoldsburg before he dropped out after he got big in 7th grade. Fucking douche

Oh yeah and as a side note I saw Dimebag get shot at the Alrosa Villa...I was having a great fucking time until that one fucker had to shoot the place up.

Saddam Hussain but im not talking about the loopy one

David from corrie