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
From my teeny area are these beauties.
1) Thomas Paine
2) Oliver Cromwell
3) Guy Pearce
Famous people from your area.
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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
Not many notable people from Peterborough, which isn't far from you
From near me: 1) Isaac Newton 2) Colin Dexter ( wrote Inspector Morse) 3) Margaret Thatcher ( just within the 30 miles) 4) Robert Webb 5) Jennifer Saunders
Madonna, Stevie Wonder, and the lady that draws 'Cathy.'
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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. RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 7:21 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2012 at 7:36 pm by Jackalope.)
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.
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.
Self-authenticating private evidence is useless, because it is indistinguishable from the illusion of it. ― Kel, Kelosophy Blog
If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside? The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
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.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
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
well ... I'm from here ... and I'm pretty hot shit.
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