Famous/Infamous Persons Where You Live?

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I grew up in Yonkers, NY which is above The Bronx so there are many notable names. Here are some of them:

Famous -
James Cagney
Adam Rodriguez - CSI Miami Hotie

Ella Fitzgerald - my Aunt Rita went to school with her!
Betty Shabazz - leader and wife of Malcolm X
Jon Voight - Yonkers actually had a parade for him after "Midnight Cowboy." Don't think he lives in Yonkers anymore.
Gene Krupa - he lived down the street from my father's cousin and we got
invited to his house to hear him play the drums!
Elisha Otis - Elevator inventor. My Mom was a bookkeeper there!

Infamous -
David Berkowitz - "Son of Sam" - Mom actually lived on the same block
as he did after he went to jail. Nice view of the Hudson
River/ Palisades, but he doesn't get to see that view now!
Linda Lovelace - think porn movie "Deep Throat" not Watergate
Lillo Brancato Jr. - actor but charged with second-degree murder of an NYC
Police Detective
 

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I've heard that the NASCAR drivers Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon have homes near where I live, but I'm not positive on that one.
 

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I am from England but currently live in Yorktown V
I used to live in an apartment that was rented by Micheal Vick, his brother Marcus was the one in it most of the time. they don't rent it anymore and we moved...

I didn't even know who they were until it was pointed out to me, and now obviously he is very publicly known for some BAD reasons.

Phil Collins used to live near my Granny and Grandad in Surrey and his wife used to buy flowers from my Grannys roadside table.

I dont know about anyone else near me though.
 

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Do famous critters count?
If so, I could look out my kitchen window and see the Groundhog Zoo in Barcley Square where Punxsutawney Phil lives!

I HATE Feb 2nd.
There are about 6,000 or so people who live here, but on Groundhog Day the population has been know to quadruple and most of them are drunk, rowdy and destructive....frankly I wish they'd just stay home
 

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Jason Priestley, John Travolta and Sarah McLoughlin all have places in the Ucluelet/Tofino area, where I am from.
 

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Someone mentioned Tony Stewart... he's from IN, I'm just not sure where. Ryan Newman grew up in my town and has a HUGE lake house on the same lake we vacation at. There one more NASCAR driver from IN but I don't remember who.

Just north of the border in St. Joe County MI is Mohhamad Ali and my brother treats his lawn!
 

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I live about an hour from stephen kings place and have visited it. (bangor ME)
And of course the bushes summer place is a few hours away too.
There is an author that just had a movie done on his book "empire falls" He lives about 45 mins from where I do (it was a movie they filmed here as well. it had helen hunt and many other people in it)
The guy that wrote the book is richard russo.
 

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Jewel lives in my town and one of the doggie stunt doubles in "Underdog" (beagle) lives nearby as well. Pssssst---Underdog was really a female in all the stunts.
 

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Well, The Osmonds of course

All of the famous grizzly bear actors since Ben from Grizzly Adams are in Park City, about 10 minutes from me.
And about a 5 minute drive up the canyon from me will bring you to Sundance, Robert Redford's mountain ranch.

J. Willard Marriot (Marriot's Hotels)
Roseanne Barr
James Woods


Those are just a few of the more notables.
 

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About 30 min from me is where Vivian Vance(I love LucY) was born and raised.


Bill Curtis(off A&E) grew up about 20 min from me
 

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Don Knotts was born in Morgantown, but we really don't have too many famous (infamous) people here now. Well, I guess for infamous, we have Coach Rod, but NO ONE around here admits to him even being WVian any more! Let's see, Mary Lou Retton is from Fairmont (I used to live there).
 

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Well, almost the entire cast of West Wing was from Dayton, the Sheens, the Lowes, etc. Couple of now-pro football players I went to high school with but never knew well, same story at OSU.

And Jeffrey Dahmer lived in Bath, Ohio where a lot of my family does.

Ohio's the kind of place a lot of people are from.
 

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Originally Posted by catloverin_ks

Bill Curtis(off A&E) grew up about 20 min from me
Ooh, he's really cool!

A few Sask. Roughriders are from my city and Mike Mintenko (Canadian Olympic swimmer) used to live on my street.
Other semi-famous people from my city: Clark Gillies (hockey player), Art Linkletter, Reed Low (hockey player), Doug Smail (hockey player), Peter Gzowski, Carrie Olver from the Weather Network, Ken Doraty (hockey player), Phyllis Dewar (Olympic swimmer), Emile Francis (hockey player and executive), Atomic Betty (cartoon character).
 

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Originally Posted by Moz

Lucky you
Ya, I know. One of my closest professors went to high school with him, like at the same time, knew him (not friends with him, of course)... I can't imagine.
 
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