anyone as a household name from your school, town, county?

[jefhatfield]

inspired by mactastic and me getting into famous cal poly alumni, like scott peterson, do you have anyone famous from your school?

town?

county or region?

my hometown once had clint eastwood run for mayor and he's the most famous townie i can think of

in my hs, we had thyme lewis of soap star fame

doris day lives down the coast
john travolta has a house nearby in pebble beach, as did bing crosby
joan fontaine lives here
kim novak had a house in carmel highlands
and someone said brad and jennifer bought a house in town

[Giaguara]

i've had plenty of home towns. most 1-2 million so yea, lots of famous (but not in us).

there was a japanese guy a year later than me in my high school, he's quite known fashion designer now. and i know a lot did arts and architecture, some might be famous too. i can't go to searching for them though. and i can't be found. :rolleyes:

where i live now there was frank lloyd wright. and hemingway. :rolleyes:

[Stelliform]

.....

[MrMacMan]

Arg... if you want to know great Neck's famous people they are all over, but the most recent, and most notable is last winter Olympic's

Sarah Hughes.

She used to go to the high school is town, but she rarily goes to school since starting to become a skater.

:rolleyes:

[mnkeybsness]

eric traut, one of the original coders for virtual pc is my aunt's nephew :D...i believe he is still at connectix...

my mom's cousin played for the boston red socks...

[Doctor Q]

Big cities like Los Angeles don't count, so I can't play. I've lived in small towns, but nobody famous came from them.

[themadchemist]

well, I can go for my university.

Julia Louise-Dreyfus graduated from there.
Cindy Crawford dropped out.
Charlton Heston is an alumnus.

And of course, most illustrious of all, the talented and charming Mary Kate and Ashely Olsen (sp?) will be attending beginning this fall.

Wow. That's a handful.

Oh, Northwestern, thank you for being so special.

We do also have Nobel laureate in Chemistry, John Pople (Nobel 1998, I think). Maybe some chem geeks recognize him.

[jefhatfield]

that's so cool...come on, give it up...i know one of you live in the hometown of brittney spears:p

[BrandonRP0123]

I grew up in LA, so I don't count.

[BrandonRP0123]

Originally posted by BrandonRP0123
I grew up in LA, so I don't count.

Although, I've seen Fred Anderson and Steve Jobs from a distance (I was on DeAnza Blvd at Mariani and saw Fred Anderson getting out of a car on 1 Infinite Loop). I was at the (semi-new) Brewhouse built literally on the Apple campus about 2 months ago and saw Jobs and a few others walking between buildings.

This is all given, of course, that I live and work about a mile from the campus - and have made it a regular activity to go spy over there for little details.

[rainman::|:|]

ashton kutcher came from my state, that's about the best i can do. Ah, Iowa, Land of the Mediocre.

i wonder if they'd consider putting that on the state quarter...

pnw

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by paulwhannel
ashton kutcher came from my state, that's about the best i can do. Ah, Iowa, Land of the Mediocre.

i wonder if they'd consider putting that on the state quarter...

pnw

lmao...but it sounds like a friendly place overall

mediocre is better than what you find in california much of the time

while you don't find mediocre in california as a general rule and lots of famous hollywood and music industry types, on the flipside our state has an incredibly high number of psychos and urban street gangs

there must be more guns (especially concealable handguns) here than in some third country tin horn nations:rolleyes:

[eyelikeart]

hmm...where do I begin?

just a list off the top of my head...

Trent Reznor
John Goodman
Anne Rice
Ellen Degeneres
Nicolas Cage
Lenny Kravitz

Degas once lived in a house on Esplanade Ave...

Tennessee Williams had a place in the French Quarter...

[Billicus]

Originally posted by paulwhannel
ashton kutcher came from my state, that's about the best i can do. Ah, Iowa, Land of the Mediocre.

i wonder if they'd consider putting that on the state quarter...

pnw

John Wayne is from our State Paul...;)

[mactastic]

Carlos Santana has a house in my hometown. I went to elementary and high school with Trent Dilfer of NFL fame.

My sister went to Santa Clara U. with both Enrique Iglasious and Kristy Coors.

Wheeee!

[jefhatfield]

we all know there are tons of famous people from nyc...too many to list

but once i read newark, nj had/has an amazing list of really famous celebrities...amazing, but true:p

[Doctor Q]

I live near Santa Monica, where Robert Redford and Shirley Temple both lived. No, I never met either of them. But I have been to Sundance in Utah.

[themadchemist]

Originally posted by mactastic
Carlos Santana has a house in my hometown. I went to elementary and high school with Trent Dilfer of NFL fame.

My sister went to Santa Clara U. with both Enrique Iglasious and Kristy Coors.

Wheeee!

enrique iglasius went to college? wow, never would have guessed.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by themadchemist
enrique iglasius went to college? wow, never would have guessed.

and his famous musician father went to medical school, but music was his real calling

[applemacdude]

Tom Hanks went to tthe High School that I'm going to ( Skyline High)

[QCassidy352]

JFK, Conan O'Brien, and a few others that I forget.

[MontanaMacster]

God is in my pants

[RobVanDam]

Originally posted by paulwhannel
ashton kutcher came from my state, that's about the best i can do. Ah, Iowa, Land of the Mediocre.

i wonder if they'd consider putting that on the state quarter...

pnw Don't sell yourself short, you also got Tom Arnold.

Terry Porter went to the college in my town (He's the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks right now in case you guys have no idea who he is.)

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by MontanaMacster
God is in my pants

:confused:

[RobVanDam]

It's a little potty humor Macman

[Capt Underpants]

I do have one household name that I think of that is in my county. Kelly Clarkson was about 15 min. away from here. I don't know who else.....

[mactastic]

Originally posted by themadchemist
enrique iglasius went to college? wow, never would have guessed.

Apparently he didn't do so well, and often would be unable to discern what floor he was on. He lived on the floor above my sister, but was constantly seen trying to get in to the right room on the wrong floor.:D There are other, not so flattering stories of his behavior as well.

[Roger1]

Let's see
Jeff Daniels lives a few miles away from me, Bob Seger lives (or used to live) in Ann Arbor, where I go to church, and my wifes friends' friends sister (cousin?) married Tom Arnold. That's all I know of.

[themadchemist]

Originally posted by mactastic
Apparently he didn't do so well, and often would be unable to discern what floor he was on. He lived on the floor above my sister, but was constantly seen trying to get in to the right room on the wrong floor.:D There are other, not so flattering stories of his behavior as well.

I'm going to venture a guess that the occupants of the "right room on the wrong floor" were female?

[Foucault]

I went to the same high school has John Wayne, Tiffany Brissette (Vicky the Robot from Small Wonder), Hayley Carr (Dead Babies, For the Boys), Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Tim Matheson (Animal House), and DJ Joseph Hahn (DJ from Linkin park, we graduated in the same year 1995).