Peyton Manning, Clyde Drexler, Fats Domino, DJ Khaled, Bryant Gumbel, Carl Weathers, Harry Shearer, Tyler Perry, Lee Harvey Oswald, Tennessee Williams, Anne Rice, Louis Armstrong, Ellen DeGeneres,Tyler Perry, Reese Witherspoon, Truman Capote...
General Famous people from your home town or area
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Without even looking I know you missed Stevie Wonder and Matthew Lillard.
Also... “Magic” fuckin’ Johnson.
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Is it true your nickname as a kid was Dummybean?
Haus Cartwright.
Maiquel Falcão. He was standing there on the mat at the gym I was once and I got scared at the thought of training with him but thank God he had already finished his session.
I was going to list Ken Griffey Jr - the greatest swing ever. But that's sort of cheating because he was only born here because his dad played for the Reds. Although he was raised here rhrough high school so I guess it counts.
I could have listed Barry Larkin as well. Arguably the best shortstop of all time.
@HEATH VON DOOM
I doubt many will know who these are....but they were our claims to fame!
Steve Nagel - Astronaut in the 1980s with over 700 hours logged in space. There used to be a big mural of him on the town square.
Tim Drummond - Bass guitarist who recorded with many notable artists such as Conway Twitty, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, JJ Cale, Miles Davis, BB King, etc.
William Cook - medical device entrepreneur, co-founded the equipment manufacturer Cook Group (the largest family-owned medical device manufacturer). @Splinty and
@SC MMA MD may be the only ones that are familiar with these....but his notable products were (from wiki):
the Spectrum antibiotic-impregnated catheter (Rifamphin/Minocycline); the Gianturco-Roubin coronary stent, the first coronary stent approved for use in the USA; the first paclitaxel-coated drug-eluting stent, the Supra-G, tested in Asia; and the V-Flex, tested in Europe.
Needles to say, he made a whole bunch of money.
Ian Wolfe - WW 1 veteran, and actor with over 400 film credits from 1919 until his last film credit in 1990.
Steve Nagel - Astronaut in the 1980s with over 700 hours logged in space. There used to be a big mural of him on the town square.
Tim Drummond - Bass guitarist who recorded with many notable artists such as Conway Twitty, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, JJ Cale, Miles Davis, BB King, etc.
William Cook - medical device entrepreneur, co-founded the equipment manufacturer Cook Group (the largest family-owned medical device manufacturer). @Splinty and
@SC MMA MD may be the only ones that are familiar with these....but his notable products were (from wiki):the Spectrum antibiotic-impregnated catheter (Rifamphin/Minocycline); the Gianturco-Roubin coronary stent, the first coronary stent approved for use in the USA; the first paclitaxel-coated drug-eluting stent, the Supra-G, tested in Asia; and the V-Flex, tested in Europe.
Needles to say, he made a whole bunch of money.
Ian Wolfe - WW 1 veteran, and actor with over 400 film credits from 1919 until his last film credit in 1990.
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One more, I just learned about this one...maybe some of you car guys will know a bit of this history.
Charles Duryea - he and his brother produced and road-tested America's first gasoline powered car (1893) and formed Duryea Motor Wagon Company. Their "motor wagon" was a used horse drawn buggy that they installed a 4 HP single cylinder gasoline engine. The buggy had a friction transmission, spray carburetor and a low tension ignition. Duryea was inducted into the Automobile Hall of Fame in 1973, and the annual "Duryea Hillclimb" even is named in his honor.
Charles Duryea - he and his brother produced and road-tested America's first gasoline powered car (1893) and formed Duryea Motor Wagon Company. Their "motor wagon" was a used horse drawn buggy that they installed a 4 HP single cylinder gasoline engine. The buggy had a friction transmission, spray carburetor and a low tension ignition. Duryea was inducted into the Automobile Hall of Fame in 1973, and the annual "Duryea Hillclimb" even is named in his honor.
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Steve Alford -Olympic gold medalist, NCAA national champ, nba player that coached all over..
Kent Benson famously for beat up by Kareem..
Robert Indiana-Famous artist that created the LOVE symbol in pop art..
Peter malnati-PGA golfer
Tom Allen-Current IU head football coach
Major general Omar Bundy-Fought in Spanish-American war
Dakota Armstrong-professional racecar car driver
Trey Ball-first round draft pick to Boston Redsix
William grose Civil war general
Vern Huffman-One the best big ten RBs winning the conference player of the year.. Played for the Detroit lions in the and in IU Hall of fame .
Tracy Hines-nascar truck series driver
Trevor chowning-famous artist and Hollywood agent .
Rex peckinpaugh my coach aka Indiana Hall of famer has over 1000 wins aka most wins by a HS wrestling coach in the country, ever.. Only half dozen HS have a 1000 wins in their schools history across the US.
And a dozen or so pro fighters who between them all have fought in almost every major org there is...
Rory the The frisbee dog aka first ever animal to have a baseball card who placed 3rd on America's got talent..
Cig Newtown Hollywood makeup artist that won tv show FACE OFF on scifi channel..
Walker county the country music group with few decent looking chicks that are getting a buzz lately.
We only have 18k ppl in our town. And also have the world largest HS gymnasium with over 10k seats...
Fun fact, my great uncle is one of the more well known Western stars and over 100 movies to his credit, Forrest one bad mother fucker Tucker
Kent Benson famously for beat up by Kareem..
Robert Indiana-Famous artist that created the LOVE symbol in pop art..
Peter malnati-PGA golfer
Tom Allen-Current IU head football coach
Major general Omar Bundy-Fought in Spanish-American war
Dakota Armstrong-professional racecar car driver
Trey Ball-first round draft pick to Boston Redsix
William grose Civil war general
Vern Huffman-One the best big ten RBs winning the conference player of the year.. Played for the Detroit lions in the and in IU Hall of fame .
Tracy Hines-nascar truck series driver
Trevor chowning-famous artist and Hollywood agent .
Rex peckinpaugh my coach aka Indiana Hall of famer has over 1000 wins aka most wins by a HS wrestling coach in the country, ever.. Only half dozen HS have a 1000 wins in their schools history across the US.
And a dozen or so pro fighters who between them all have fought in almost every major org there is...
Rory the The frisbee dog aka first ever animal to have a baseball card who placed 3rd on America's got talent..
Cig Newtown Hollywood makeup artist that won tv show FACE OFF on scifi channel..
Walker county the country music group with few decent looking chicks that are getting a buzz lately.
We only have 18k ppl in our town. And also have the world largest HS gymnasium with over 10k seats...
Fun fact, my great uncle is one of the more well known Western stars and over 100 movies to his credit, Forrest one bad mother fucker Tucker
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Tom Arnold, Ashton Kutcher, and Slipknot are from my neck of the woods. Wyatt Earp was born up in Pella. All places I played HS sports against, banged a couple chicks from Ottumwa, couple friends played in bands that opened for Slipknot early on.
When Joseph Smith, Mormon kid-fucker, hid from justice he fled directly across the Mississippi River and hid in Montrose, IA . 3 small towns, including Montrose, made up my elementary/High School. Smith's wife wrote him a letter and told him no one is going to follow a pussy so he went back to Nauvoo. Nauvoo is where Smith was killed, causing the Mormons to flee west.
Fun Fact: Smith was duped in to buying a bunch of swampland in Iowa/Illinois by investors who showed him a tiny little piece up river in Lee County IA, then told him the whole spread was like that. Smith didn't bother to survey the rest of the land, just bought it. Then claimed it was "revealed" as promised land to be named Zarahemla. In the last decade or so, Mormons have put a shitload of $$ in to Nauvoo and re-writing their history there.
The Mormons were actually received with open arms in that area at first, but when they tried to make the local government a religious institution, they ran afoul of all the Europeans who had fled state-sanctioned religious persecution in Germany/Sweden/Denmark in the mid-1800s
Obviously Dan Gable, Frank Gotch, and Martin "Farmer" Burns (greatest wrestlers to ever live) are from Iowa. Burns and Gable grew up pretty close, Gotch was more North-Central Iowa.
Kurt Warner is from the same town as my Dad. Kurt, Dad, my brother and I both worked at the same local grocery chain - HyVee Foods.
When Joseph Smith, Mormon kid-fucker, hid from justice he fled directly across the Mississippi River and hid in Montrose, IA . 3 small towns, including Montrose, made up my elementary/High School. Smith's wife wrote him a letter and told him no one is going to follow a pussy so he went back to Nauvoo. Nauvoo is where Smith was killed, causing the Mormons to flee west.
Fun Fact: Smith was duped in to buying a bunch of swampland in Iowa/Illinois by investors who showed him a tiny little piece up river in Lee County IA, then told him the whole spread was like that. Smith didn't bother to survey the rest of the land, just bought it. Then claimed it was "revealed" as promised land to be named Zarahemla. In the last decade or so, Mormons have put a shitload of $$ in to Nauvoo and re-writing their history there.
The Mormons were actually received with open arms in that area at first, but when they tried to make the local government a religious institution, they ran afoul of all the Europeans who had fled state-sanctioned religious persecution in Germany/Sweden/Denmark in the mid-1800s
Obviously Dan Gable, Frank Gotch, and Martin "Farmer" Burns (greatest wrestlers to ever live) are from Iowa. Burns and Gable grew up pretty close, Gotch was more North-Central Iowa.
Kurt Warner is from the same town as my Dad. Kurt, Dad, my brother and I both worked at the same local grocery chain - HyVee Foods.
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i watched that video expecting Johnny Winter to jump out of the singer's shirt and choke Seagal until he shit himself.
Hmmmm not sure if it counts but when I was in oostende I used to drink in the bar Marvin gaye owned.
Oostende is a cool town, I can see why he wound up there in his last days.
Oostende is a cool town, I can see why he wound up there in his last days.
Hah, I remember when they built a Hy-Vee in my town. Early 90s. Other than the Walmart a few years prior, that was one of the first big shops to open up there. All the other grocery stores were mom-n-pop shops. Well, the Kroger was decent size, but nothing like the Hy-Vee. A bunch of the high school stoner kids worked at Hy-Vee
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@Filthy Did you guys also have a Ben Franklin store?
did they have a green sign with a liberty bell? I think there was one up by Des Moines...maybe Quad Cities...but wasn't one where grew upHah, I remember when they built a Hy-Vee in my town. Early 90s. Other than the Walmart a few years prior, that was one of the first big shops to open up there. All the other grocery stores were mom-n-pop shops. Well, the Kroger was decent size, but nothing like the Hy-Vee. A bunch of the high school stoner kids worked at Hy-Vee
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I doubt many will know who these are....but they were our claims to fame!
Steve Nagel - Astronaut in the 1980s with over 700 hours logged in space. There used to be a big mural of him on the town square.
Tim Drummond - Bass guitarist who recorded with many notable artists such as Conway Twitty, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, JJ Cale, Miles Davis, BB King, etc.
William Cook - medical device entrepreneur, co-founded the equipment manufacturer Cook Group (the largest family-owned medical device manufacturer). @Splinty and
the Spectrum antibiotic-impregnated catheter (Rifamphin/Minocycline); the Gianturco-Roubin coronary stent, the first coronary stent approved for use in the USA; the first paclitaxel-coated drug-eluting stent, the Supra-G, tested in Asia; and the V-Flex, tested in Europe.
Needles to say, he made a whole bunch of money.
Ian Wolfe - WW 1 veteran, and actor with over 400 film credits from 1919 until his last film credit in 1990.
All Cucks.
That logo description doesn’t ring a bell, it was was like this key logo. This is close to what ours looked like. I think their stores were only in the Midwest. I liked going there as a kid, but it didn’t last a year once the Walmart opened up. The Walmart closed a number of small shops in town.
From the general vicinity of Albany, NY:
- Uncle Sam hailed from my wife’s hometown (10min drive from where we live now)
- Mike Tyson spent a good number of years in NY’s capital region
- Megyn Kelly went to my high school
- Sam Perkins went to my kids’ high school
- Dion Lewis (NFL player) went to my kids’ elementary school
- Scott Ritter (former Marine major and United Nations weapons inspector who made international news for getting caught in a sex sting operation) was living in the town I grew up in when shit hit the fan
- Mickey Rourke (actor)
- David Hyde Pierce (actor from Kramer)
- Paul Krugman (economist curmudgeon)
- Ann B Davis (Alice from the Brady Bunch)
- Rachel Ray
- President Martin Van Buren
- Kirk Doiglas
- Uncle Sam hailed from my wife’s hometown (10min drive from where we live now)
- Mike Tyson spent a good number of years in NY’s capital region
- Megyn Kelly went to my high school
- Sam Perkins went to my kids’ high school
- Dion Lewis (NFL player) went to my kids’ elementary school
- Scott Ritter (former Marine major and United Nations weapons inspector who made international news for getting caught in a sex sting operation) was living in the town I grew up in when shit hit the fan
- Mickey Rourke (actor)
- David Hyde Pierce (actor from Kramer)
- Paul Krugman (economist curmudgeon)
- Ann B Davis (Alice from the Brady Bunch)
- Rachel Ray
- President Martin Van Buren
- Kirk Doiglas