Who is your hometown's favorite son/daughter? (neighborhood, tenant)

[censusdata]

If you're talking about the entire state of Kentucky...

both the Union (Abe Lincoln) and Confederate (Jeff Davis) presidents in the Civil War were born in KY. Another 19th Cent. icon, Henry Clay, often rated as one of the best Senators in history, was from Lexington

[CortlandGirl79]

Warren, Ohio - pop. app. 40,000:

W.D. and James Ward Packard founders of The Packard Motor Company and Packard Electric (former division of General Motors, now part of Delphi Automotive).

The National Packard Museum - Warren, Ohio

From Wikipedia:
-Roger Ailes (President of the Fox News Channel)
-Red Ames (Baseball player)
-Catherine Bach (Actress)
-Earl Derr Biggers (Novelist and playwright)
-Bud Boone (Auto racer)
-Joey Browner (Former USC and NFL Football Player)
-Keith Browner (Former USC and NFL Football Player)
-Ross Browner (Former Notre Dame and NFL Football Player, College Football Hall of Famer)
-Prescott Burgess (Former University of Michigan and National Football League player with Baltimore Ravens)
-Michael Capellas (Former CEO Of Compaq Computer Corporation)
-Chris Columbus (Filmmaker, goonies, home alone, etc.)
-Doug Datish (Former Ohio State football player, currently w/the atlanta falcons)
-Randy Gradishar (Former Ohio State and NFL Football Player)
-Dave Grohl (Former drummer for the rock band Nirvana and current leader of the Foo Fighters, b. 1969)
-David Herron (linebacker for the NFL New England Patriots)
-Hugh Hewitt (Radio talk show host)
-Sean Jones (Jazz musician, composer,educator, lead trumpeter for Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra)
-Bill Kollar (NFL assistant for 17 years)
-Mario Manningham (University Of Michigan football player)
-Mom's Apple Pie (1970's rock band)
-Ronald A. Parise (Former NASA astronaut)
-Austin Pendleton (Actor)
-Korey Stringer (Former National Football League player w/the Minnesota Vikings, 1974-2001)
-Tere Tereba (Fashion designer, actress, writer)
-Harriet Taylor Upton (1st woman vice-chairman of the Republican National Committee)
-Paul Warfield (former NFL Player, Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins; inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 1983)
-Stephanie Williams (model)

[kshe95girl]

Believe it or not, my hometown ( Ste. Genevieve, Mo) is so itty-bitty, we dont have any famous folks! I even googled it, just in case I was mistaken.
Maybe I could be the one?

[WanderingCajun]

My town claims G.W. Bush as their native son, although he wasn't born here. Midland, Texas. They have 2 of his houses preserved, and Odessa has one. I actually got to tour THE VERY BATHROOM he used when he was first married! And one of the rooms in the house has slanted wood fence pieces at a diagonal nailed to the walls. And I saw a cockroach.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Technically I live in Rockville, Maryland. F. Scott Fitzgerald is buried here, though he never lived here when he was alive...but the town officially takes a lot of pride in his being buried here.

Nearby cities....Washington, D.C. has few actual famous natives. The only one I can think of is Duke Ellington.

Baltimore - Babe Ruth, Cal Ripkin, Tom Clancy (my fav author)

[desert sun]

In Albuquerque I would say the Unser brothers and Johnny Tapia(boxer) but many others lived here at some point but we really dont hear too much about them like Steve-O(Jackass) Xzibit(rapper,Pimp My Ride),Freddie Prinze Jr,Neil Patrick Haris,Jim Morrison,the Maloof brothers(Sacramento Kings owners and Palms Casino) are from here,I think even Bill Gates lived here for a short time.

[jad2000]

New Canaan, CT -

Katherine Heigl
Anne Coulter (Yuck)
David Letterman
Paul Simon

[ekg56]

Famous Wisconsinites:

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

[desertsun41]

From birth to age 5 I lived in Hillside, New Jersey. My next door neighbor was Phill Rizzuto the Scooter from the Yankees who later became their broadcaster for so many years. My Mom knew him well. She said he was not very liked at all in Hillside High School. I guess he ended up with the last laugh huh.

As far as being proud of that being my home town.......nawwwww. I think my Mom is though. That was 45 years ago for me, I was too young to know who he was.

[JMT]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

From birth to age 5 I lived in Hillside, New Jersey. My next door neighbor was Phill Rizzuto the Scooter from the Yankees who later became their broadcaster for so many years. My Mom knew him well. She said he was not very liked at all in Hillside High School. I guess he ended up with the last laugh huh.

As far as being proud of that being my home town.......nawwwww. I think my Mom is though. That was 45 years ago for me, I was too young to know who he was.

That's so cool! I love stories like that.