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Mike D DIY Guy

Posts: 1842
Age: 28 Location: Maine Humor: You can't offend me
 | Subject: Famous people from your state. Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:35 pm | |
| List famous people from your state
Maine Steven King Patric dempsey Judd Nelson John Ford Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chester Greenwood (invented earmuffs) Leon Leonwood Bean aka L.L. Bean |
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dirtydawg10 Global Moderator

Posts: 2987
Age: 39 Location: Connecticut Favorite Fish: Severum
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:40 pm | |
| Too many from Connecticut to type...Here's a link...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Connecticut |
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Wyomingite Fish Wrangler

Posts: 1678
Age: 44 Location: Wonderful Windy Wyoming Humor: "I drank what?" - Socrates Favorite Fish: I won't choose and ya can't make me!
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:08 pm | |
| Famous Wyomingites:
Curt Gowdy Tom Horn Dick Cheney Jim Bridger "Buffalo Bill" Cody Nellie Tayloe Ross Chief Washakie Esther Hobart Morris James Cash Penney Gerald Spence Harrison Ford _________________ One can never have too many fish tanks.
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dirtydawg10 Global Moderator

Posts: 2987
Age: 39 Location: Connecticut Favorite Fish: Severum
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:28 am | |
| OK...I had a bit more time today. Here's some of the better known famous people from CT.
* Kevin Bacon (Sharon) * Ed Begley (Hartford) * Richard Belzer (Bridgeport) * Ernest Borgnine (Hamden) * Glenn Close (Greenwich) * Michael J. Fox (Sharon) * Paul Giamatti (New Haven) * William Gillette (Hartford) * Katherine Heigl (New Canaan) * Katharine Hepburn (Hartford) * Ted Knight (Terryville) * David Letterman (New Canaan) * Christopher Lloyd (Stamford) * Kevin Nealon (Bridgeport) * Paul Newman (Westport) * Fred Norris (Willimantic) * John Ratzenberger (Bridgeport) * Meg Ryan (Bethel) * Kyra Sedgwick (Sharon) * Christopher Walken (Wilton) * Joanne Woodward (Westport) * James Blake (Fairfield) * Scott Burrell (Hamden) * Marcus Camby (South Windsor) * Dwight Freeney (Bloomfield) * Dorothy Hamill (Greenwich) * Bruce Jenner (Newtown) * Tebucky Jones (New Britain) * Joey Logano (Middletown) * Dan Orlovsky (Shelton) * Jerry Nadeau (Danbury) * Carl Pavano (New Britain) * Bill Romanowski (Vernon) * Mike Tyson (Farmington) * Mo Vaughn (Norwalk) * Steve Young (Greenwich) * William F. Buckley, Jr. (New York City and Stamford) * Arthur Miller (Roxbury) * Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield) * Dr. Benjamin Spock (New Haven) * Mark Twain (Hartford and Redding) * Noah Webster (present-day West Hartford) * P.T. Barnum (Bethel) * Samuel Colt (Hartford) * Charles Goodyear (New Haven) * Henry Lee (Orange) * J. P. Morgan (Hartford) * Frederick Law Olmsted (Hartford) * Igor Sikorsky (Stratford) * Martha Stewart (Westport) * Eli Whitney (New Haven) * Dana White (Manchester) * Chris Berman (Greenwich and Cheshire) * Ann Coulter (New Canaan) * Kenny Mayne (Bethel) * Dan Patrick (Milford) * Andy Rooney (Norwalk) * Joan Rivers (New Preston) * Morley Safer (Chester) * Ethan Allen (Litchfield) * Benedict Arnold (Norwich) * Nathan Hale (Coventry) * James Wadsworth (Durham) * 50 Cent (Farmington) * Michael Bolton (New Haven) * Karen Carpenter (New Haven) * Richard Carpenter (New Haven) * Jose Feliciano (Westport) * Meat Loaf (Redding) * John Mayer (Fairfield) * Mark McGrath (Hartford) * Moby (Darien) * Diana Ross (Greenwich) * George W. Bush (New Haven) * Ralph Nader (Winsted) |
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Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist

Posts: 4517
Age: 32 Location: New Mexico USA Favorite Fish: Jaguar Cichlid
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:25 am | |
| Famous Coloradans Tim Allen actor, Denver Zachery Ty Bryan actor, Aurora M. Scott Carpenter astronaut, Boulder Lon Chaney actor, Colorado Springs William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey boxer, Manassa Ralph Edwards entertainer, Merino Douglas Fairbanks actor, Denver Eugene Fodor violinist, Turkey Creek Gene Fowler writer Lawrence H. Gipson historian, Greeley Ruth Handler toy maker, Denver Erick Hawkins choreographer Homer Lea soldier, writer Ted Mack TV host, Greeley Ouray Ute Indian chief, Colorado Territory Robert J. Seiwald inventor, Fort Morgan Byron Raymond White jurist, Fort Collins Paul Whiteman conductor, Denver
My favorite: William Harrison (Jack Dempsey) _________________ "There he goes - one of God's own prototypes - a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die".
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Wyomingite Fish Wrangler

Posts: 1678
Age: 44 Location: Wonderful Windy Wyoming Humor: "I drank what?" - Socrates Favorite Fish: I won't choose and ya can't make me!
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:49 pm | |
| Didn't know Jack Dempsey was from Colorado.
I try not to claim Cheney, but I have to be honest.
WYite _________________ One can never have too many fish tanks.
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dirtydawg10 Global Moderator

Posts: 2987
Age: 39 Location: Connecticut Favorite Fish: Severum
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:05 pm | |
| | Wyomingite wrote: | I try not to claim Cheney, but I have to be honest.
WYite |
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Lady G Member

Posts: 340
Age: 37 Location: WI Humor: Of course I have humor!!!! Favorite Fish: the ones in water!
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:25 pm | |
| Ya know I have no idea? I have never kept up with the "famous" LMAO!
Wyoming...Jack Dempsey is a cool one to have!!! |
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Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist

Posts: 4517
Age: 32 Location: New Mexico USA Favorite Fish: Jaguar Cichlid
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:33 pm | |
| Colorado LG Colorado! _________________ "There he goes - one of God's own prototypes - a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die".
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Lady G Member

Posts: 340
Age: 37 Location: WI Humor: Of course I have humor!!!! Favorite Fish: the ones in water!
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:33 pm | |
| Ok so I did a search and came up with these...
Don Ameche actor, Kenosha Roy Chapman Andrews naturalist and explorer, Beloit John Bardeen inventor, Madison Carrie Catt woman suffragist, Ripon Ellen Corby actress, Racine William Defoe actort, Appleton Tyne Daly actress, Madison August Derleth author, Sauk City Jeanne Dixon seer, Medford Chris Farley actor, Madison Zona Gale author, Portage Eric Heiden speed skater, Madison Woody Herman band leader, Milwaukee Loretta Sell Hildegarde singer, Adell Harry Houdini magician, Appleton Thomas Hulce actor, Whitewater Pee Wee King singer, Abrams George F. Kennan diplomat, Milwaukee Robert La Follette politician, Primrose Liberace pianist, West Allis Allen Ludden tv host, Mineral Point Alfred Lunt actor, Milwaukee Frederic March actor, Racine Jackie Mason comedian, Sheboygan Charles and John Ringling circus entrepreneurs, Baraboo Pat O'Brien actor, Milwaukee Georgia O'Keeffe painter, Sun Prairie Amy Pietz actress, Oak Creek Charlotte Rae actress, Milwaukee William H. Rehnquist jurist, Milwaukee Gena Rowlands actress, Cambria Tom Snyder newscaster, Milwaukee Spencer Tracy actor, Milwaukee Thorstein Veblen economist, Cato Township Orson Welles actor and producer, Kenosha Laura Ingalls Wilder author, Pepin Thornton Wilder author, Madison Charles Winninger actor, Athen Frank Lloyd Wright architect, Richland Center Bob Uecker baseball player, Milwaukee Les Paul musician, Waukesha
Guess I knew about Charles and John Ringling since the circus museum is about 5 minutes from my house and we have gone there. And Chris Farley, he had come to a place I use to work when I lived up here before (about 10 yrs ago) cause he was home visiting his home town or whatever, and he came in there and signed a poster they hung on the wall. |
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Lady G Member

Posts: 340
Age: 37 Location: WI Humor: Of course I have humor!!!! Favorite Fish: the ones in water!
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:34 pm | |
| LMAO...I was replying to Wyoming(ite) silly!!!! |
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Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist

Posts: 4517
Age: 32 Location: New Mexico USA Favorite Fish: Jaguar Cichlid
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:35 pm | |
| Les Paul....Cool! _________________ "There he goes - one of God's own prototypes - a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die".
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Lady G Member

Posts: 340
Age: 37 Location: WI Humor: Of course I have humor!!!! Favorite Fish: the ones in water!
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:51 pm | |
| Isn't there a guitar called a less paul? |
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eltrut420 Member

Posts: 113
Age: 35 Location: SE Wisconsin Favorite Fish: the ones that poop the least
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:53 pm | |
| u must b from around baraboo huh |
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Mike D DIY Guy

Posts: 1842
Age: 28 Location: Maine Humor: You can't offend me
 | Subject: Re: Famous people from your state. Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:29 pm | |
| | Lady G wrote: | | Isn't there a guitar called a less paul? |
Its named after him |
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