What famous groups/performers are from your city/area?

[YeahWhatever]

I looked some of these up:

Gwen Stefani/No Doubt
Diane Keaton
Michelle Pfeiffer
Steve Martin
Will Ferrell
Kobe Bryant
Tiger Woods
John Wayne
Bonnie Raitt
Zach de la Rocha and Tim Commerford from Rage Against the Machine
Mark McGwire
The Offspring
Cold War Kids
Mike Ness from Social Distortion
Dita von Teese
Dave "Phoenix" Farrell from Linkin Park
Milo Ventimiglia
Steven Seagal
Jeff Buckley
Richard Nixon
Melinda Clarke
Keri Russell
Mark McGrath
Nicolas Cage
Lauren Bacall

I'm not gonna include the ladies from Real Housewives or the kids from Laguna Beach.

 

[Overated]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke-On-Trent

Robbie Williams
Nick Hancock
Neil Morrisey
Slash from Guns and Roses
The twins on BB8UK

LOADS of famous people come from here...

 

[tze100]

Geri Halliwell and Wham! didn't come from too far down the road from me.

 

[versa39]

i'm origianlly from detroit...enough said.
here in phoenix there are a few, dirks bentley to name one...alice cooper is here also

 

[CountryJohn]

We got stuck with Bryan Adams. *sigh*

 

[Flaming Pop Tart]

Here in Minnesota, our list is short but sweet.

Judy Garland (Friend of Dorothy!)
Prince (best live performer alive)
Bob Dylan
Husker Du/Bob Mould (he played at a Pride block party this year!)
The Replacements/Paul Westerberg
Soul Asylum
Brother Ali
Morris Day and The Time
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

We've had quite the collection of actors hail from MN, too.

 

[Flaming Pop Tart]

Athens,Georgia: Population 80,000

REM
B-52's
Widespread Panic
Kim Bassinger
Kenny Rodgers
Vic Chesnutt

amongst others.

Don't forget RuPaul!

 

[maxpowr9]

well I'm from Massachusetts....so there are QUITE a few bands/singers and actors from here:

Aerosmith
New Kids on the Block
Marky Mark(Mark Whalberg)
Carly Simon
James Taylor
Extreme
Donna Summer
JoJo
Tracy Chapman
The Click Five
Amerie(just found this out and i'm listening to her right now...she's from like 2 exits up from me apparently!)
Bobby Brown
Mike Ness
Frank Black
Paula Cole
Godsmack
Kay Hanley(Letters to Cleo)
Mary Lou Lord
JoDee Messina
Andrew McMahon of Something Corporate was born here
Linda Perry
American Hi-Fi
Boys Like Girls
Buffalo Tom
The Cars
Damone
The Dresden Dolls
Dropkick Murphys
Guster
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones(duh can't believe it took me that long to remember them..haha)
The Lemonheads
Powerman 5000
Receiving End of Sirens
Shadows Fall
The Sheila Divine
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers



Actors/Actresses
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon
Chris Evans
Eliza Dushku
Kate Bosworth
Bette Davis

and so many more but i'm kinda bored listing right now...haha

you forgot three musicians. the sexy (atleast I think so) Matt Nathanson, State Radio and Smoke or Fire.

and the only "actor" you missed was Dane Cook.

 

[Nonimus]

The Stereophonics

The Manic Street Preachers

GLC.

 

[David DeVour]

I used to live 1/2 mile away from Ted Nugent. It's the little house in the Behind The Music special.

Mitch Ryder
MC5
Parliament-Funkadelic
Iggy Pop
Bob Seger
Rare Earth
Lene Lovitch
Anita Baker
The Supremes
Aretha Franklin
Insane Clown Posse
Marvin Gaye
Berry Gordy
Kid Rock
Madonna
Suzi Quatro
Martha Reeves
Smokey Robinson
Jackie Wilson
Stevie Wonder
The Winans

 

[swmjck]

Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba grew up right here in my hometown of West Hartford, Ct. Also James and David Naughton went to one of the public high schools here in town. I believe Jessica Hecht (one of the lesbian lovers on FRIENDS) grew up one town over in Bloomfield.

 

[PickYrPoisn]

Aston Kutcher is from the same city that I am originally from,
the painter Grant Wood is from a city very close by (under 30 miles or so)...

 

[januaryguy]

Michelle Yeoh of Tomorrow Never Dies and Sunshine is from my hometown Ipoh, Malaysia

 

[Pushyourluck]

Only the Beatles.

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr.

 

[threepointshooter]

Rue Machallahen (Blanche from Golden Girls) and Heather Langenkamp (Nancy from teh Nightmare on Elm Street movies) are also from Tulsa.

Rue McClanahan is actually from Healdton, Oklahoma. Home of the Healdton Bulldogs!

Brad Pitt
Dr. Phil McGraw
Ron Howard
Bill Hader (current member of Saturday Night Live cast)
Jeanne Tripplehorn (Basic Instinct, Waterworld and HBO's Big Love)
Lon Chaney, Jr. (The Wolf Man and A LOT of other monster movies)
Kristin Chenoweth (RV, Bewitched, Deck the Halls)
James Garner (The Rockford Files, Maverick, The Notebook)
Ryan Merriman (The Ring Two, Final Destination 3) He's actually kind of cute.
Chuck Norris (Walker, Texas Ranger)
Tony Randall (The Odd Couple)
Will Rogers

 

[crazieguy]

Welllp, I'm from Raleigh, NC

Some of these are just famous people in general too

so that leaves us with...

Raleigh/Local:

Clay Aiken
Ava Gardner

Statewide:

Ryan Adams
Tori Amos
Charlie Daniels
Chris Daughtry of DAUGHTRY
Fred Durst
Ben Folds
Maya Angelou (lives here now and teaches at Wake Forest U)
Charlie Rose (That guy from PBS)
Andy Griffith (ya know....Mayberry! )
The Earnhardts (Sr. and Jr.)
Michael Jordan
Richard Petty
Ben E. King (of "Stand By Me")
Jamie Pressly ("My Name Is Earl" ...and others)
James Taylor
Roberta Flack
Fantasia Barrino


We get so much flack for Clay though.....haha

 

[Auburn]

Chrissi Hynde- from the "Pretenders"
Warrant- 80's Hair Metal Band that Sang "heaven" and "cherry Pie"
Bone Thugs N Harmony
Marilyn Manson

Avant
Ray Cash

two that are also from cle.

destinys child, brooke valentine, letoya luckett, natalie, mike jones, paul wall, chamillionaire, slim thugg, lil flip, ugk.

houston has soooooo many rappers from there...

Athens,Georgia: Population 80,000

REM
B-52's
Widespread Panic
Kim Bassinger
Kenny Rodgers
Vic Chesnutt

amongst others.

doesn't Bubba Sparkxx live in Athens???

Here in Minnesota, our list is short but sweet.

Judy Garland (Friend of Dorothy!)
Prince (best live performer alive)
Bob Dylan
Husker Du/Bob Mould (he played at a Pride block party this year!)
The Replacements/Paul Westerberg
Soul Asylum
Brother Ali
Morris Day and The Time
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

We've had quite the collection of actors hail from MN, too.

Mint Condition (r and b group) is from MN

 

[bostonboy20]

you forgot three musicians. the sexy (atleast I think so) Matt Nathanson, State Radio and Smoke or Fire.

and the only "actor" you missed was Dane Cook.

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I was trying to leave on people that people may have actually heard of...but YES! for Matty Nay and State Radio(might as well add on Dispatch while we're at it...the reunion shows in NYC are this weekend!!) and I've never heard of Smoke and Fire so maybe I'll have to check them out!!!!


and yes Dane Cook....and Jimmy Tingle....and Lenny Clarke...and so many more comedians have come from Boston too!!!

 

[threepointshooter]

Rue McClanahan is actually from Healdton, Oklahoma. Home of the Healdton Bulldogs!

Brad Pitt
Dr. Phil McGraw
Ron Howard
Bill Hader (current member of Saturday Night Live cast)
Jeanne Tripplehorn (Basic Instinct, Waterworld and HBO's Big Love)
Lon Chaney, Jr. (The Wolf Man and A LOT of other monster movies)
Kristin Chenoweth (RV, Bewitched, Deck the Halls)
James Garner (The Rockford Files, Maverick, The Notebook)
Ryan Merriman (The Ring Two, Final Destination 3) He's actually kind of cute.
Chuck Norris (Walker, Texas Ranger)
Tony Randall (The Odd Couple)
Will Rogers

Another Oklahoman:

James Marsden (He was Cyclops in the X-Men movies and he is going to be in that new movie with Queen Latifah and John Travolta.)

 

[jcojax78]

How about the Osmonds...eh? eh? The Used as well. Thats about it. As for actors..Rosanne and Wilford Brimley and Jamie Bergman, former Playboy Playmate and wife of David Boreanaz Thats all I got.