Famous celebrities born/raised in your town

[samurainoir]

Mary Pickford (1893-1979) - actress, film studio founder. Known in the Jazz Age as "America's Sweetheart"
Raymond Massey (1896-1983) - actor
Lou Jacobi (b. 1913) - actor
Frank Shuster (1916-2002) - comedian, comedy writer
Johnny Wayne (1918-1990) - comedian, comedy writer
William Hutt (1920-2007) - actor
Ann Rutherford (b. 1920) - actress
George Dunning (1920-1979) - animator, director
Norman Jewison (b. 1926) director, producer, actor
Christopher Plummer (b. 1929) - actor
Timothy Findley (1930-2002) - novelist, playwright
Morley Safer (b. 1931) - jounalist, reporter
Al Waxman (1935-2001) - actor
Peter Jennings (b. 1938-2005) - journalist, TV anchor
David Cronenberg (b. 1943) - filmmaker, director, screenwriter
Lorne Michaels (b. 1944) - producer, writer and comedian
Michael Ironside (b. 1950) - actor
John Candy (1950-1994) - actor and comedian
Colin Brunton (b. 1955) - actor, producer, director, writer
Evelyn Hart (b. 1956) - ballerina
Catherine O'Hara (b. 1954) - actress, comedian, writer
Rick Moranis (b. 1953) - actor, comedian, writer, producer
Howie Mandel (b. 1955) - actor, comedian, writer, producer
David James Elliott (b.1960) - actor
Mike Myers (b. 1963) - actor, comedian, screenwriter
Eric McCormack (b. 1963) - actor
Don McKellar (b. 1963) - actor, writer, and filmmaker
Gloria Reuben (b. 1964) - actress
James Allodi (b. 1967) - actor, director, writer
Kevin Brauch (b. 1968) - actor, writer, producer
Megan Follows (b. 1968) - actress
Will Arnett (b. 1970) - actor
Monika Schnarre (b. 1971) - model, actress
Sarah Polley (b. 1979) - actress
Stephen Amell (b. 1981) - actor

[ScottA]

All mine were from my city - Montgomery, AL

[Iron Mego]

Thank God for Wikipedia:

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I had no idea Warren Zevon lived here for a while.

[Brue]

OK I'll name names:

Boxers: Ray Boom Boom Mancini, Kelly Pavlik, Ernie Shavers, Greg Richardson, Harry Arroyo, Tommy Bell, Sonny Horne.

Mobsters: Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr., James Trafficant, Ronald The Crab Crabbia, Chuckie Porter-Lenine Strollo, Robert Poghen

oh and we do have some football fame - Lou Holtz was near youngstown and Bernie Kosar from Ytown subburb.


from my actual suburb Hubbard. No one of note. (besides me of course)

[Mark]

Chris Hemsworth grew up in my home town, I used to see him around town alot.

[Sowth]

A few more current movie peeps from Melbourne to add to Chris Hemsworth:

Emily Browning
Cate Blanchett
Eric Bana
Isabel Lucas
Geoffrey Rush
Rachel Griffiths
Guy Pearce


And a few more folks from various fields...

Andrew Bogut - NBA
Pat Cash
Germaine Greer
Colin Hay (Men at Work)
Paul Hester (Crowded House)
Barry Humphries (Dame Edna)
Steve Irwin
Richard Lowenstein - Film Director (Highlander)
Kylie & Dannii Minogue
Olivia Newton-John
Kirk Pengilly - INXS
Chopper Read
Helen Reddy
Fred Schepisi - Director
Shane Warne - Cricketer

[Mark]

I met Paul Hester once, it's a shame what happened to him.

[YANOULI]

John Cleese ( Monty Python etc ),
Jeffrey Archer ( ex-politician, author )

[txteach]

Many moons ago I taught 6th grade and had a skinny non descript kid that went on to be Paul Wall the rapper. The kids love the guy. I saw him in Target 6 years ago with his bodyguard and he remembered me. I didn't know who the heck he was. Now that was a compliment.

[palitoy]

Other than a ton of hockey players, my sister's best friend won a gold medal in the '84 olympics. During my teen years musician "K-os" lived just behind my house somewhere. He was two grades below me so I don't know him.

My wife's father was Shania Twain's music teacher in grade school.

[VintageMike]

Allison Smith who was on "Kate & Allie" is from my town and actually went to my High School. I believe she was a grade ahead of me and I did actually see her around school a few times.