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Probably unless they are from New York, Los Angeles, or Washington DC. Those cities, I think, are as or more famous than whoever the president is at any given time.
I doubt L.A is "more famous" than the current President of the United States. L.A is a decent city, in a vast country. Just because it's second in population doesn't mean someone standing in rural China is going to know what L.A is.
New York City is our flagship city, people from around the world probably attribute New York more often with the United States than D.C.
The overall fame of a person is extremely relative, as are most things that get debated to death on this site.
By the way, are you an absolute fool or do you really believe Chicago isn't known world wide? But hey, the plains of Idaho really do give one a great sample of what the rest of the world is like
There have been several famous people who have homes in small cities or small towns or were from such places.
Bill Clinton - Hope or Hot Springs, Arkansas
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Raised in Abilene, Kansas and his Presidential library is apparently there.
Morgan Freeman - From Memphis but spends part of his life in Charleston, Mississippi which is a town of about 2,200.
John F. Nash - Nobel Laureate and subject of "A Beautiful Mind" I think is better known than Bluefield, West Virginia.
Richard Nixon - Yorba Linda, California
Dolly Parton - Sevierville or Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Jimmy Stewart - Much more famous than Indiana, Pennsylvania. Granted he left it after high school.
Dick & Jerry Van Dyke - Presumably better known than Danville, Illinois.
Sam Walton - The founder of Wal-Mart. In his lifetime he was better known than both Kingfisher, Oklahoma or Bentonville, Arkansas.
Maybe we should take fame not as a function of the point in time we're at, but as an integral. Barack Obama may be known to a greater gross number of people than Chicago, but his fame is less long-lasting and more ephemeral than Chicago's.
I suggest Providence, Rhode Island for H.P. Lovecraft, though the two might be about equal. Also, Pittsburgh for Andy Warhol, Andrew Carnegie, Billy Strayhorn. I second Louisville for Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali and Minneapolis for Prince. Bakersfield for Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, perhaps?
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Maybe we should take fame not as a function of the point in time we're at, but as an integral. Barack Obama may be known to a greater gross number of people than Chicago, but his fame is less long-lasting and more ephemeral than Chicago's.
I suggest Providence, Rhode Island for H.P. Lovecraft, though the two might be about equal. Also, Pittsburgh for Andy Warhol, Andrew Carnegie, Billy Strayhorn. I second Louisville for Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali and Minneapolis for Prince. Bakersfield for Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, perhaps?
Yeah I see what you're saying, Chicago was famous world wide before Obama, right now Obama is our president he's more famous, heck he;s even more popular these days than DC, but after he's out of the office, he will be like Bush and Clinton, his popularity will drop, and Chicago and DC will pick back up.
I don't know if anybody has said it yet, and honestly I'm a little too lazy right now to go back and look but Michael Jackson was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. That might not fit the criteria though since I doubt when MJ got famous he stuck around there.
I don't know if anybody has said it yet, and honestly I'm a little too lazy right now to go back and look but Michael Jackson was born and raised in Gary, Indiana.
Someone said it on the first page.
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But hey, the plains of Idaho really do give one a great sample of what the rest of the world is like
