Thread: Famous People From Your Area

What famous people are from your local area?

For me, here as follows:

Salinas:
~ Monica Abbott
~ John Steinbeck

Monterey:
~ Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta

Carmel:
~ Clint Eastwood

Santa Cruz:
~ James Durbin

So, what famous people are from your area?

There are a couple well known famous people from Virginia, some from around where I am.
Richmond
Eliot Yamin
Mechanicsville
Jason Mraz
Charlottesville
Dave Matthews
John Grisham
Tappahanok:
Chris Brown

There are probably alot of others but those are all the ones I know of.

The horsewoman Beezie Madden comes from my town.

Yao Ming

At least, he came from where I lived at the moment, not my hometown.

Sam worthington free up in my hometown and went to the same primary school as my boyfriend GoldenMuk. (Though a few years before Gm).

Probably nobody, but, according to certain websites, there are loads of local girls in my area waiting to talk to me.

Born in:
Leroy Fer (1990), footballer of FC Twente
Edwin de Graaf (1980), footballer of Excelsior
Suzanne Harmes (1986), gymnast
Sanne Havelte (1889-1968), writer
Ludo van der Plaat (1983), athlete
Céline Purcell (1980), actress and musical star
José Smits (1957), journalist and politician
Vicento Charlton , (1991), footballer of ADO Den Haag
Milan from Weelden (1980), musical star


Living in:
Joëlle Bastiaans (1986), figure skater
Georgie Davis (1969), singer (Kees Rietveld)
Leroy Fer (1990), footballer
Gharibi Masoud (1954), painter
Edwin de Graaf (1980), footballer of Excelsior
Roelof Hemmen (1963), newsreader
Henk de Jager (1971), singer
René van Kooten (1972), musical star
Nicky van der Kuyp (1986), musical star
Peter de la Haye (1978), singer
Bert van Leeuwen (1960), TV presenter
Hannie van Leeuwen (1926) Politics of the CDA
Jordy van Loon (1993), singer
Wilma Nanninga (1958), journalist
Hilbrand Nawijn (1948), politician
Michael Pilarczyk (1969), DJ
Propaganda (1984), rapper and actor (aka Dennis Prince Well Stehr / Mr.Probz)
Luc van Rooij (1962), DJ
January Slagter (1954), broadcasting director and TV presenter
Milan from Weelden (1980), musical star
John Williams (1969), TV presenter and actor


Used to live in:
Regi Blinker (1969), footballer
John Ewbank (1968), music producer
Suzanne Harmes (1985), gymnast
Robert Jensen (1973), TV presenter
John Barrowman (1977), comedian
Pelmelay Justine (1958), singer
Civard Sprockel (1983), footballer
Peter Storms (1954), TV presenter and journalist
Erica Terpstra (1943), swimmer, politician, president NOC * NSF
Gaston Taument (1970), footballer
Georgina Verbaan (1979), soap star

Deceased people:
Full Story (1948-2010), singer
Sacco van der Made (1918-1997), actor


Wikipedia is my friend. I don't know all of these people, but wikipedia claims they're all famous, so that means they all are.

Mary Higgins Clark (born 1927), best-selling author of suspense novels
Raymond E. Johns, Jr. (born 1955), General, Commander Air Mobility Command, United States Air Force
Jeffrey Nordling (born 1962), actor, appearing in the series Dirt
B. J. Raji (born 1986), NFL player for the Green Bay Packers.
Bob Schroeder (born 1960), former councilmember
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There's some good people in here :P (Go Wikipedia!)

Off the top of my head:

Babe Ruth
Henry Ford (yes, as in the car company)
Chris Evans (aka Captain America)
Shaquille O'Neal
Dennis Eckersley
Tyler Jewell (US Olympian)
Jarrod Shoemaker (US Olympian)

I'm sure there's a bunch more if I used the Wiki.

A small list of people from Ontario:

Margaret Atwood
Michael Cera
Alexander Graham Bell
Glenn Gould
Laura Secord (who didn't make chocolates.)

and of course

Justin Bieber

Too lazy to Wiki but Bon Jovi is from my home state.

Also Taylor Swift's brother went to my school for a year. Then he left cause we were too mean to him. ):

A Friend in London from Eurovision Song Contest 2011.