Any famous people from your town?

matthew mcconaughey graduated from my highschool and is from my hometown. My dads friend was good friends with him back then. I hear he comes down once every so often and eats at this restaurant thats down the road from my house. Thats what one of my teachers in highschool said, he knew him too.

The comedian Rodney Carington is also from my hometown. Not really a huge town. Weve got around 73000 people

 

Weird Al, John Madden and (murderer) Scott Peterson went to school here, and Chuck Liddell and Loren Roberts are both from here.

 

wow,
thats big...
only 2500 in my town...

 

Bam Margera, Matisyahu, CKY(the band)... damn there are others but i can think right now.

 

Are you in Westchester Willy?

 

Evan Dorkin, the guy who made Milk and Cheese, is from Staten Island.


John Dehner, Martin Sheen and Ichabod Crane are from here as well, and George Harrison was treated at the Staten Island hospital. My aunt works there and treated him during his stay.

 

I have Mr. Rogers, Dan Marino (i played on the peewee league he played on), Marc Bulger, Steve Young, lots of football people. And Tarrissa Heinz.

 

steve martin went to garden grove high school. our janitor went to school with him, said he was 'WIERD.'

 

here's a little wiki entry about my "hometown" (which to me jsut means where my mom lives) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Garden_Grove,_Garden_Grove,_California

 

yep

 

From RocWiki

Famous Residents

A - F :

• Susan B Anthony
• John Ashbery
• Nicholson Baker Writer
• Philip Barry Playwright
• Kim Batten
• Eric Bauman
• John Batiste
• Joe Beard
• Tyson Beckford
• Kenneth Bianchi
• Jeffrey Boam
• Rudy Boesch
• Angelo Buono
• Chester Carlson
• Cab Calloway
• Francis Pharcellus Church
• Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, artist who painted that famous "dogs playing poker" painting
• Taye Diggs
• Richard Dolan
• Frederick Douglass
• Pete Duel Actor
• George Eastman
• Garth Fagan
• Renee Fleming
• Robert Forster
• Elizabeth Hollister frost Poet

G - M:

• Steve Gadd Drummer
• Frank Ernest Gannett
• Teddy Geiger
• Kate Gleason
• Emma Goldman
• Kim Gordon
• Lou Gramm
• Seth Green
• Nicholas Gurewich
• Walter Hagen
• Martha Matilda Harper
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Eddie James 'Son' House, Jr.
• Peter Hughes
• Reverend Thomas James
• Mary Jemison
• Mark Jones
• AJ Kitt
• Jonathan Kyle Comedian, soldier and amazing human being.
• Steven E. Landsburg
• Joanie Laurer (Chyna)
• Hudson Leick Actress/Model
• John Lithgow
• Aaron Lustig
• Chuck Mangione
• Mitch Miller

N - Z:

• Patrick O'Rorke
• Pisspot the rabbit
• Nathaniel Rochester
• Diann Roffe
• Blanche Stuart Scott
• George Baldwin Selden Automobile patent.
• Jim 'The Hammer' Shapiro
• Joseph Smith
• Julie Lynn Smith
• Hiram Sibley
• John Harry Stedman
• Henry Alvah Strong
• Margaret Woodbury Strong
• Cathy Turner
• Abby Wambach
• Danny Wegman
• Robert Wegman
• Wendy O. Williams
• Brigham Young
• Felicia Zimmermann
• Iris Zimmermann

 

you know the m&m charecters?
well, the guy that created them is from my town...
yeah, that's about it.
=]

 

Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Kevin Harvick, Rick Mears, Casey Mears and the band Korn.

 

just shirley temple black retired to there, lila prouet, maidu tribal elder, who was a friend of my mom's, and some guy named guthrie, i don't think i ever did learn his first name, or, he probably told it to me and i just don't remember it, who was some sort of retired steam ship line executive, and no relation to woodie and arlo as far as i know.

again at least as far as i know when i was growing up there. our little 'bermuda triangle' of polygonians, on the west slope of the surial nervana in northern california, being somewhat better known for odd objects and occasional occurances, i think, then for anyone living there.

less then twenty miles away in a nieghbouring county though, the grass valley and nervana silly area, is home to more then a couple of hundred damd good bands and musicians. some of them world renoun, though even more of them of course, better known locally. (more damd good musicians per square foot, or even percapita of population, then even the san francisco bay area, and i don't think even l.a., gnew york, or gnash ville tops that!).

=^^=
.../\...

 

got this list from wikipedia... most of this I didn't know:


Notable people from or residing in Mississauga

• Natalie Appleton, musician, member of All Saints
• Al Balding, (1924-2006) Pro golfer
• Billy Talent, rock band
• Johnny Bower, former goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Hockey Hall of Fame member
• Brad Boyes, current NHL hockey player St. Louis Blues
• Attila and Tamas Buday, Olympic Canoists
• Mike Bullard, comedian
• Chris Campoli, NHL hockey Player New York Islanders
• Deanna Casaluce, television actress (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
• Don Cherry, former NHL coach, commentator on CBC's Hockey Night In Canada
• Paul Coffey, former NHL hockey player
• Anthony Cosmo, NLL and WLA lacrosse player
• Rik Emmett, musician, founding member of Triumph
• Ron Fellows, race car driver
• J.D. Fortune, current lead singer of INXS
• Rick Green, comedian and writer (The Red Green Show, History Bites)
• Joel Gibb, singer-songwriter (The Hidden Cameras)
• Paul Henderson, NHL hockey player and scorer of the series-winning goal in the 1972 Hockey Summit Series
• Allison Higson, Olympic swimmer
• illScarlett, ska/punk band
• Jane Kerr, Olympic swimmer
• Silken Laumann, former rower of the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games
• Carrie Lightbound, Olympic Kayaker
• Manny Malhotra, NHL hockey player
• Grant Marshall, former NHL hockey player
• Blake McGrath, professional dancer
• Suzie McNeil, contestant on Rock Star: INXS
• The Meligrove Band, rock band
• Stefan Molyneux, anarcho-capitalist philospher
• Kevin Newman, anchor of Global National
• Ryan O'Marra, world junior hockey player
• Carolyn Parrish, former MP, Mississauga—Erindale
• Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist and composer
• Chris Potter, actor Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
• Cheryl Pounder, Olympic hockey player
• Tomasz Radzinski, soccer player for Fulham F.C. and the Canadian National Team
• John Roberts, CNN television journalist
• Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the Last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia lived in Cooksville in the 1950s.
• Adamo Ruggiero, television actor (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
• Robert J. Sawyer, science fiction writer
• Jason Spezza, NHL hockey player Ottawa Senators
• Matt Stajan, NHL hockey player Toronto Maple Leafs
• Daria Werbowy, international supermodel
• Ted Woloshyn, radio personality
• Wojtek Wolski, NHL hockey player Colorado Avalanche
• Sebastien Grainger, musician; formerly of Death From Above 1979

 

Like OMG can I have your autograph? I am sooooooo impressed that your father's friend was friends with someone famous. And that famous person even eats at a restaurant down the road from your house sometimes, says one of your teachers??
OMGOMGOMGOGM

 

:jester:




Keith Jarrett the great pianist is from around here.. many other great musicians too (mainly jazz).

 

Oh yeah, the new 12-year old girl's dream Zac Efron is from around here too.

 

You are henceforth to be known as Westchester Willy.

 

lets see in delaware?? haha um... george Thorogood and ryan philippe... that's about it