What Famous People Are From Your Hometown NT?

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• Aaliyah - (1979-2001), R&B singer, Dancer, Fashion Model and Actress
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - basketball player
• George Abernethy - (1807-1877), first provisional governor of Oregon[sup][1][/sup]
• Bella Abzug - feminist activist and politician
• Garnett Adrain, (1815-187, member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey[sup][1][/sup]
• Cornelius Rea Agnew, (1830-188, noted ophthalmologist [sup][1][/sup]
• Eliza Agnew, (1807-1883), noted American Presbyterian missionary[sup][1][/sup]
• Christina Aguilera - singer
• Danny Aiello - actor
• Marv Albert - sports announcer
• Alan Alda - actor, author, activist, director and screenwriter
• Anne Revere Aldrich - (1866-1892), noted poet and author[sup][1][/sup]
• Ira Aldridge - (1805-1867), stage actor[sup][1][/sup]
• William Alexander (aka Lord Stirling), (1726-1783), American major general in the American Revolutionary War[sup][1][/sup]

• Andrew Jackson Allen, (1776-1853), noted actor, theatre director, and costumer [sup][1][/sup]
• Woody Allen - film director
• Rafer Alston - basketball player
• Charles Anthon, classical scholar[sup][1][/sup]
• Carmelo Anthony - basketball player
• Diane Arbus - photographer
• Kenneth J. Arrow - economist; Nobel laureate (Economics, 1972)
• Beatrice Arthur - actress
• William H. Aspinwall - railroad promoter[sup][1][/sup]
• William Backhouse Astor, Sr. - businessman and member of the Astor family[sup][1][/sup]
• Red Auerbach - basketball coach
• Hank Azaria
• Aventura

• Lauren Bacall - actress
• William Bliss Baker - painter
• Anne Bancroft - actress
• Jeff Barry - songwriter and record producer
• Harry Belafonte - actor and singer
• Pat Benatar - singer
• Moe Berg - baseball player and spy
• Big L - Rapper
• Des Bishop - comedian
• David Blaine - magician
• Yasmine Bleeth - actress
• Humphrey Bogart - film actor

• Margaret Bourke-White - photographer
• Clara Bow - actress
• Riddick Bowe - boxer
• Barbara Boxer - Senator from California
• James J. Braddock - boxer (aka 'Cinderella Man')
• Matthew Broderick - actor
• Mel Brooks - film director
• Julia Brown - madam and prostitute
• Larry Brown - basketball player and coach
• Steve Buscemi - actor

• James Caan - actor
• Joseph A. Califano - former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
• Maria Callas - opera singer
• Al Capone - gangster
• Benjamin Cardozo - Supreme Court Justice
• Hugh Carey - governor of New York
• Mariah Carey - grammy award winning singer
• George Carlin - comedian
• John Cassavetes - actor
• Phoebe Cates- actress
• Jeff Chandler - actor
• Frank Chanfrau - actor
• Paddy Chayefsky - author
• Maury Chaykin -actor
• Julie Chen - anchorwoman

• Edmund A. Chester - television executive & journalist
• Shirley Chisholm - politician
• Jennie Jerome Churchill - Mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
• Schuyler Colfax - Vice President of the United States
• Anderson Cooper - CNN anchorman
• Peter Cooper - inventor
• Aaron Copland - composer
• Bob Costas - sports announcer
• Bob Cousy - basketball player
• Ann Coulter - political pundit
• James Creighton, major league baseball player[sup][2][/sup]
• George Cukor - film director
• Mario Cuomo - governor of New York
• Tony Curtis - actor

• Charles Patrick Daly, judge
• Claire Danes - actress
• Lloyd Daniels - basketball player
• Ron Dante - singer, songwriter, and record producer
• Bobby Darin - singer, entertainer, actor, songwriter
• Marion Davies - actress
• Al Bummy Davis - boxer
• Sammy Davis, Jr. - singer and entertainer
• Rosario Dawson - actress
• Al D'Amato - politician
• Dorothy Day - Catholic social activist
• Robert De Niro - actor
• Eamon de Valera - Prime Minister and President of Ireland

• Willy DeVille (1950-), singer
• Samuel R. Delany - author and critic
• Don DeLillo - author
• Jerry Denny, major league baseball player[sup][2][/sup]
• Neil Diamond - singer and composer
• P. Diddy - rap artist
• Vin Diesel - actor
• Phoebe Doty - prostitute and madam
• Kirk Douglas - actor
• Joseph Dunninger - mentalist
• Richard Dreyfuss - actor
• De La Ghetto - Spanish rapper

• Gertrude Ederle - swimmer
• Mario Elie - basketball player
• Duke Ellington - jazz musician

• Emmy Rossum - Singer/Actress
• Eru - Singer (Korea)
• Emma Roberts - Singer/Actress

• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - actor
• Louis Farrakhan - Leader of the nation of islam
• Morton Feldman - Composer
• Richard Feynman - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• 50 Cent - rap artist
• Harvey Fierstein - actor
• Hamilton Fish - governor of New York and Secretary of State
• Jane Fonda - actress
• Peter Fonda - actor

• Malcolm Forbes - publisher
• Davy Force - major league baseball player[sup][2][/sup]
• Anthony Franciosa - actor
• Al Franken - comedian and radio host
• Milton Friedman - economist
• John Frusciante - musician, artist
• Bobby Flay - Chef
• %%%%%% Ford - pitcher for the New York Yankees

• John Garfield - actor
• Art Garfunkel - songwriter
• Lou Gehrig - baseball player
• George Gershwin - composer
• Ira Gershwin - lyricist
• Vitas Gerulaitis - tennis player
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Supreme Court Justice
• Rudolph Giuliani - mayor of New York
• Jackie Gleason - comedian
• Whoopi Goldberg - comedian and actress
• Daniel S. Goldin - NASA director

• Cuba Gooding Jr. - actor
• Doris Kearns Goodwin - author
• Victor Gotbaum - labor leader
• Elliott Gould - actor
• Rocky Graziano - boxer (real name Thomas Rocco Barbella)
• Hank Greenberg - baseball player
• Alan Greenspan - economist, former Federal Reserve Chairman
• Melanie Griffith - actress
• Bob Guccione - publisher
• Peggy Guggenheim - art collector
• Maggie Gyllenhaal - actress

• Armand Hammer - industrialist and philanthropist
• Oscar Hammerstein II - composer
• Frank Hankinson - major league baseball player[sup][2][/sup]
• W. Averell Harriman - diplomat and governor of New York
• Francis L. Hawks, reverend
• Susan Hayward - actress
• Rita Hayworth - actress
• Anthony Hecht - poet
• Carol Heiss - Olympic figure skater (silver 1956, gold 1960)
• Joseph Heller - author

• Jim Hellwig - (Warrior) pro wrestler
• Lance Henriksen - actor
• Peter Cooper Hewitt - inventor
• Hildegarde - American cabaret singer
• Gregory Hines - dancer and actor
• Judd Hirsch - actor
• Lena Horne - singer
• Edward Everett Horton - actor
• Tab Hunter - actor
• Moe, Curly and Shemp Howard - the Three Stooges

• Washington Irving - author

• Wolfman Jack - aka Robert Weston Smith, radio personality
• Michael Jackson- singer, actor
• Henry James - author
• William James - philosopher
• John Jay - governor of New York and Supreme Court Chief Justice
• Jay-Z - rap artist
• Ja Rule - rap artist
• Billy Joel - singer

• David Johansen - singer, songwriter, actor
• Scarlett Johansson - actress
• Kimberly Denise Jones (Lil' Kim) - rapper
• Nasir Jones - rap artist
• Norah Jones - singer
• Michael Jordan - basketball player
• William Joyce - Nazi broadcaster (Lord Haw-Haw)

• Philip Mayer Kaiser - U.S. Diplomat
• Danny Kaye - actor and comedian
• Lenny Kaye - guitarist
• Thomas Kean - governor of New Jersey
• Harvey Keitel - actor
• Jerome Kern - composer
• Alicia Keys - R&B singer
• Calvin Klein - fashion designer

• Owen Kline- actor/filmmaker
• Ed Koch - mayor of New York City
• E. L. Konigsburg - author
• C. Everett Koop - physician
• Lenny Kravitz - singer
• Stanley Kubrick - film director
• William Kunstler - lawyer
• Tony Kushner - playwright

• Fiorello La Guardia - mayor of New York
• Veronica Lake - actress
• Jake LaMotta - boxer
• Burt Lancaster - actor
• Martin Landau - actor
• Diane Lane - actress
• Cyndi Lauper - singer
• Ralph Lauren - fashion designer
• Emma Lazarus - author and poet
• Steve Lawrence - singer
• Madeleine L'Engle - author

• Joe E. Lewis - comedian
• Roy Lichtenstein - artist
• John Lindsay - mayor of New York
• Peggy Lipton - actress
• Robert R. Livingston - Founding Father and diplomat
• Vince Lombardi - American football coach
• Robert Loggia - actor
• Lindsay Lohan - actress and singer
• Jennifer Lopez - singer and actress
• Lucky Luciano - gangster
• Sid Luckman - football player and coach
• Frankie Lyman - Singer
• Derek Lee - baseball player
• Andy LoCascio - TV personality

• Frank McCourt - author
• Bernard Malamud - author
• Melissa Manchester - singer
• Barry Manilow - singer, songwriter, musician
• Mike Mansfield - Senator from Montana
• Stephon Marbury - professional basketball player
• Constantine Maroulis - American Idol finalist
• Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and Gummo Marx - the Marx Brothers
• Walter Matthau - actor
• John Cardinal McCloskey - first American Cardinal, Archbishop of New York
• Herman Melville - author
• Yehudi Menuhin - violinist
• Ethel Merman - singer and actress
• Robert Merrill - singer

• Adeline Miller - prostitute and madam
• Arthur Miller - playwright
• Marcus Miller - bassist and composer
• Sienna Miller - actress
• Harvey Milk - gay activist and politician
• Sal Mineo - actor
• John Joseph Mitty - Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco
• Isaac Mizrahi - fashion designer
• Mary Tyler Moore - actress and producer
• Tom Morello - guitarist
• Henry Morgan - American radio & television personality
• Gouverneur Morris - Founding Father and Senator
• Zero Mostel - actor and comedian
• Chris Mullin - basketball player
• Charlie and Eddie Murphy - actors and comedians

• Nordstrom Sisters - American sister act, international cabaret singers
• Dagmar Nordstrom - American composer, pianist, one of The Nordstrom Sisters

• Naresh Goyal - Chairman of Jet Airways based in India

• Keith Olbermann - MSNBC anchor
• Eugene O'Neill - playwright
• Robert Oppenheimer - physicist; 'father of the atomic bomb'

• Bill O'Reilly - Fox News anchor
• Jerry Orbach - actor

• Al Pacino - actor
• Joe Paterno - football coach
• James Patterson - novelist
• Amanda Peet - actress
• Richard Pelham - blackface performer
• Claiborne Pell - Senator from Rhode Island
• Sam Perkins - basketball player

• Lip Pike - major league baseball player[sup][2][/sup]
• Chaim Potok - author
• Bud Powell - jazz pianist
• Colin Powell - army general and Secretary of State
• Priscilla Presley - actress
• Tito Puente - band leader
• Mario Puzo - author

• Johnny Ramone, Joey Ramone and Marky Ramone - punk rock musicians
• Lou Reed - rock musician, songwriter
• Christopher Reeve - actor
• Paul Reiser - actor
• Ed Rendell - former Mayor of Philadelphia, Governor of Pennsylvania
• Charles E. Rice - legal scholar, university professor
• Buddy Rich - jazz drummer
• Burton Richter - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Thelma Ritter - actress
• Laurance Rockefeller - conservationist and philanthropist
• Winthrop Rockefeller - governor of Arkansas
• Norman Rockwell - artist

• Alex Rodriguez - baseball player
• Sonny Rollins - jazz saxophonist
• Ray Romano - actor
• Mickey Rooney - actor
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt President of the United States
• Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady and human rights activist
• Theodore Roosevelt - President of the United States
• Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg - convicted spy
• Julius Rosenberg - convicted spy
• Mercedes Ruehl - actress
• Art Rust Jr - Sportcaster
• Louis Rukeyser - business columnist; economic commentator

• Carl Sagan - physicist and astronomer
• J. D. Salinger - author
• Jonas Salk - medical researcher
• John Salley - basketball player
• Adam Sandler- actor, comedian
• Claudio Sanchez - Musician
• Francesco Scavullo - photographer
• %$%% Schaap - journalist
• Vincent Schiavelli - actor
• Sandra Schnur - Disability rights activist
• Rick Schroder - actor
• Charles Schumer - Senator
• Julius Schwartz - comic book editor
• Martin Scorsese - film director
• Vin Scully - sports radio announcer
• Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
• Maurice Sendak - author and illustrator
• Malik Sealy - basketball player
• John Serry, Sr. - Concert Accordionist, Organist, Composer, Arranger
• Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton - Catholic nun, founder of the Sisters of Charity, first native-born United States citizen canonized, widow mother
• Tupac Shakur - rap artist
• Artie Shaw - band leader
• Sean Smith - designer
• Judith Sheindlin - judge (aka 'Judge Judy')
• Daniel Sickles - Civil War general

• Bugsy Siegel - gangster
• Jules Siegel - author
• Beverly Sills - opera singer
• Ron Silver - actor, radio show host
• Robert Silverberg - author
• Carly Simon - singer, songwriter
• Neil Simon - playwright
• John Slidell - Senator from Louisiana and Confederate diplomat
• Al Smith - governor of New York and presidential candidate
• Phoebe Snow - singer, songwriter
• Stephen Sondheim - songwriter
• Mickey Spillane - author
• Eliot Spitzer - governor of New York State
• Sylvester Stallone - actor
• Barbara Stanwyck - actress
• Joe Start - major league baseball player[sup][2][/sup]
• John Stevens - delegate to Continental Congress for New Jersey
• Jon Stewart - comedian; born in New York City and raised in Lawrenceville, New Jersey
• Julia Stiles - actress
• Henry L. Stimson - politician and diplomat
• Oliver Stone - film director
• Susan Strasberg - actress
• Robert Strassburg - Composer, Musicologist, Conductor
• Barbra Streisand - singer and actress

• Studs Terkel - author
• Irving Thalberg - film producer
• Johnny Thunders - rock musician
• Gene Tierney - actress
• Louis Comfort Tiffany - artist
• Bill Todman - game show proudcer
• Marisa Tomei - actress
• Joe Torre - baseball player and coach

• Donald Trump - businessman
• Barbara Tuchman - historian; author
• Gene Tunney - 1926-28 heavyweight boxing champion
• John V. Tunney - former U.S. Senator
• John Turturro - actor
• William Tweed - politician
• Mike Tyson - professional boxer

• Leslie Uggams - singer; actress

• Hikaru Utada - musician

• Andrew Vachss - lawyer and author
• Cornelius Vanderbilt - businessman

• Luther Vandross - singer

• Christopher Walken - actor
• Jimmy Walker - mayor of New York City
• Christopher Wallace - rapper
• Eli Wallach - actor
• Fats Waller - jazz pianist
• Vera Wang - fashion designer
• Sigourney Weaver - actor
• Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize-winning physicist

• Leslie West - rock musician
• Mae West - actress
• Nathanael West - author
• Edith Wharton - author
• Billy Whitlock - blackface performer
• Charles Wilkes -naval officer and explorer
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - sculptor and art patron
• Lenny Wilkens - basketball player and coach
• Vanessa L. Williams - singer and actress

• Tony Yayo - rap artist

Originally Posted by Lunatic 809

Washington Heights

Don "Magic" Juan, A-Rod, Manny Ramirez, Rod Carew, Mims, Charlie Chaplin, Taki (1 of the originators of new york graffiti), Pedro Alvarez.. just to name a few

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Originally Posted by marionthebarberian

is Michael Jordan considered to be from brooklyn or north carolina?

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Originally Posted by Chicityk7

Im from tha Chi so.......
what i can think of right now
kanye
chi mcbride
twista
shawnna
ludacris
i know im missing alot CHI NT'er help a brotha out......

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Originally Posted by YDBoUnCe

Originally Posted by Lunatic 809

Washington Heights

Don "Magic" Juan, A-Rod, Manny Ramirez, Rod Carew, Mims, Charlie Chaplin, Taki (1 of the originators of new york graffiti), Pedro Alvarez.. just to name a few

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Not even Manhattan son?
U really gonna do a section of a section?

WOW

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• Masta Killa, rapper, member of seminal hiphop collective the Wu-Tang Clan.
• AZ, rapper best known for being the rhyme partner of Nas and being a member of the hip hop super group The Firm.
• Uncle Murda, rapper, signed to Jay-Z's Roc-a-fella Records
• John Brockington, football player with Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs.
• A-LEX-ANDER THE GREAT Hip-Hop Artist, best known for his performances on BET's 106 & Park.
• Lil Mama, is an MTV Music Award-nominated American rapper currently signed to Jive Records.
• Eddie Sanchez, hip-hop lyricist and drummer for the now-defunct Chasing Penguins.
• Martín Espada, award-winning Puerto Rican poet
• Jeru the Damaja, hip-hop artist, prominent in the mid-1990s.

Originally Posted by AntBanks81

Chicago...

BernieMac
Mike Wilbon
Coach K
R Kelly
Kanye West
Twista
Jeremy Piven
Jeremih


I'll let some other Chicagoans contribute

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• Allison Janney (Actor)
• Brian Carter (Comedian)
• Carl Lindner (Entrepreneur, Philanthropist)
• Cathy Guisewite (Cartoonist)
• Ce Ce Peniston (Model)
• Chad Lowe (Actor)
• Charles Anderson (Ohio governor)
• Charles Kettering (Inventor)
• Clement Vallandigham (Politician, Activist)
• Cris Collinsworth (Football Player)
• Damian Chapa (Actor)
• Dorian Harewood (Actor)
• Edwin C. Moses (Runner)
• Erma Bombeck (Newspaper Columnist, Author)
• Frank Daniels (Actor, Captain Jinks)
• Gary Sandy (Actor)
• Gordon Jump (Actor)
• Hawthorne Heights (Band)
• Howard Dwight Smith (Architect)
• J. Paul Boehmer (Actor)
• James M. Cox (Governor, Media Mogul)
• Jess Robbins (Actor)
• Jim Paxson (Basketball Player)
• Joe Estevez (Actor)
• John H. Patterson (Industrialist)
• John Hockenberry (Broadcaster)
• John Paxson (Basketball Player)
• Junie Morrison (Ohio Players)
• Katt Williams (Comedian, Actor)
• Ken Jenkins (Actor)

• Kim & Kelley Deal (Musicians)
• Lou Barlow (Musician)
• Lucille Ward (Actor)
• Marco Coleman (Football Player)
• Marion Byron (Actor)
• Mark N. Brown (Astronaut)
• Martin Sheen (Actor)
• Mel Epstein (Film Producer)
• Milton Caniff (Cartoonist)
• Mystro Clark (Actor)
• Nancy Cartwright (Voice Performer)(AKA Bart Simpson)
• Natalie Barney (Author)
• Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright (Inventors)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (Poet)
• Phil Donahue (Talk Show Host)
• Rob Lowe (Actor)
• Robert C. Schenck (Civil War General, Politician)
• Robert Pollard (Composer)
• Roger Clemens (Baseball player}
• Ron Harper (Basketball Player)
• Sherri Saum (Actor)
• Steve Arrington & Slave (Band)
• Ted Ross (Actor)
• The Ohio Players (Band)
• Tina Bockrath (model)
• Toccara Elaine Jones (America's Next Top Model)
  
• Tom Aldredge (Actor)
• Tommy James (Musician)
• Walter Miller (Actor)
• Woody Brown (Actor)

Originally Posted by asilva23

KIDFLY SniperElite007 wrote:

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Well lets see

Craig
Day day &
Uncle Elroy

Rancho Cucamonga

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