The most famous person from your town?

since it's the claim thread.....

this guy's my neighbor, hate it when he comes over.
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St. thomas US Virgin Islands - Tim duncan Niyorah and so on

Grand Rapids Michigan - Floyd Mayweather, Gerry Ford, anthony keedis, josh kalis (skate boardin) and Chris van alsburg (jumanji)
 
the trews

shane corosen (sp)

one of the burton guys has a cottage real near my house, with a full hockey rink on his front lawn

for cereal
 
bill cower(sp?) steelers excoach. he lived in the house that my one buddy lives in and was a health teacher for two years at my high school
 
o and alot of smart people like...

* Hans Bethe, resident, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, Cornell Professor, head of theoretical division of the Manhattan Project

* Alex Haley, native, author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the Autobiography of Malcolm X

* Mary McDonnell, native, actor in Dances with Wolves, Independence Day, Battlestar Galactica, and others

* Vladimir Nabokov, resident, Cornell Professor, author (most famously of Lolita)

* Roy H. Park, resident, media executive, founder of Park Communications and the Park Foundation

* Carl Sagan, resident, astronomer, Cornell Professor, popularizer of science, and author and host of Cosmos

* Rod Serling, resident (of nearby Interlaken, NY), Ithaca College Professor, screenwriter, creator and host of The Twilight Zone

* Steve Squyres, resident, astronomer, Cornell Professor, Principal Investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

* E.B. White, resident, novelist, author of Charlotte's Web and co-author of The Elements of Style

* Paul Wolfowitz, native, academic, Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005), former President of the World Bank (2005-2007)

* Dustin Brown, NHL player for the Los Angeles Kings

* Josh Bard. MLB baseball catcher for the San Diego Padres

 
hmmm... ryan simonetti (sp?) T-Hall lived like 3-4 hours from where i do.. thats practically like being my next door neighbor..
 
Oh I almost forgot....Geoffs sister is from here...but you probably only heard ofher if youre into some pretty freaky shit

just kidding love you goeff
 
According to wikipedia... just a few notibles. i live in Belmont MA, about 20 min outside boston, in the lovely 617.

[*]Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Nobel Prize 1973 - Peace

[*]Former Director of CIA John Deutch (funny story, my buddy accidentally broke into his house and fell asleep in his bed when he was drunk. no lie, hes on probation)

[*]Red Sox Pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee

[*]Cellist Yo-Yo Ma

[*]New York Rangers defenseman Paul Mara

[*]MIT economics professor Franco Modigliani, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, 1985

[*]Crown Princess of Japan Masako Owada

[*]Author Tom Perrotta

[*]San Jose Sharks Forward Patrick Rissmiller (played hockey with his brother for years)

[*]Former Massachusetts Governor and 2008 Republican candidate for Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney

[*]Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist James Taylor

[*]Dr. Paul Dudley White, Founder of American Heart Association

AND former candidate in the Republican Party, Mitt Romney, pretty dank, i sold raffle tickets to his house once haha
 
aw damn your lucky. my neighbors a leprauchan and he pisses me off sometimes, all cheery and tippin his hat, and 'top o' the mornin' to ya. damn happy people.
 
philip seymour hoffman

tyson beckford (seen zoolander?)

uhh tim russel

ahmet dadali is from my home mountain

kristen wig from SNL

teddy gieger
 
ludacrus

outkast

jermaine dupri

TI

lil scappy

kayne west

atlanta just has rappers and some baseball players

oh yeah

TO has a condo near where I live at georgia tech, michael vick was gonna have one there too, but he decided to do dog fights.

 
The one and only U representin Ken Dorsey one of the best college qb's of all time. I might be partial since I went there but........
 
i saw buddy lazier last saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He had to chose between being an olympic ski racer or a race car driver
 
Osama Bin Laden has a brother that goes to UNH, other than that Tom Bergeron from americas funniest home videos
 
Chris Chandler-ATL Falcons QB

Patrick Duffy-Scuzzlebutts leg and the dad from Step by Step

Chris Cornel's Dad

Henry Jackson-Senator

 
eddie murphy used to come down to my town from NYC for like a urban suburban program during the summer when he was like 10 my dad told me
 
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