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Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Name a few famous people from your area, give or take 30 miles.
From my teeny area are these beauties.
1) Thomas Paine
2) Oliver Cromwell
3) Guy Pearce
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Madonna, Stevie Wonder, and the lady that draws 'Cathy.'
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Harry Morgan (Col. Potter from MASH)
Jim Baker (the disgraced televangelist)
Pop Evil (the band)
Anthony Keetus or however you spell that dude's name (RHCP)
Ted Nugent
Bob Seger
Kid Rock
Madonna
El DeBarge
President Gerald R. Ford
And many, many more.
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 7:21 pm
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Linus Torvalds works a couple of blocks from where I work. I met him by chance on a scuba dive charter up on Puget Sound in 2010.
Mel Blanc
Matt Groening
William Hurt
The Kingsmen
Phil Knight
Courtney Love
Linus Pauling
Gus van Sant
...and lots more.
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Brian Johnson (AC/DC)
Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music)
Ridley Scott (Director - Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator)
Sting (The Police)
Lots of others who I'm too embarassed to mention.
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Well, just a couple famous people from the Chicagoland area:
* Warren Zevon
* Billy Corgan (and most of the members of the Smashing Pumpkins)
* Benny Goodman
* Kanye West (unfortunately)
* Edgar Bergen (no news on Charlie McCarthy, though)
* Stephen Colbert
* Walt Disney
* David Mamet
* Bob Newhart
* Nelson Algren
* Ray Bradbury
* Raymond Chandler
* Roger Ebert
* Gary Gygax
* Ernest Hemingway
* Anton LaVey
* Shel Silverstein
* Hugh Hefner
* Studs Terkel
No-one else famous from Skokie, but I did learn that Evanston is the hometown of Charlton Heston and Eddie Vedder.
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Steven Tyler
Samuel Adams
James Otis
John Adams
Mercy Otis
Paul Revere
John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Onassis (technically just lived here, but she was a Kennedy, so we claimed her)
Robert Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
Matt Damon
Mark Wahlberg
Don Wahlberg
Ben Affleck
Louisa May Alcott
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Prescott
Joseph Warren
John Hancock
Benjamin Franklin
. . . I could go on