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I'm a vagabond, but here are some....

Town: Naperville, IL (where i grew up)
Famous person: i don't know any off the top of my head, but the adjacent town, Wheaton, is where the Belushis are from (my parents were good friends with Jon)
Athletes: Glenn Earl (ND, Houston Texans)
Chris Brown (CU, Tenn Titans)
Justin McCareins (NY jets) all three of these guys played on my HS football team at the same time, pretty good.
Jerry Hairston Jr (Texas Rangers)
Scott Hairston (Arizona Diamondbacks) they were my neighbors growing up, good people
candace parker (that girl bball player on Tenn. who wins all those dunk competitions), i think her brother is tony parker (Spurs) but not sure.

i now live in indianapolis, and there are only two famous people here that matter: Kurt Vonnegut and some guy named Svodoba (pretty good company svo)
 
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Hobart, IN

Bob Kuechenberg (NFL), Larry Bigbie (MLB), Craig Osika (NFL), Angel Manfredy (boxing)

Of course we're surrounded by hotbeds of athletics, Merrillville, Valpo, Gary, and so on. Which is why we had to switch conferences in football and basketball. It was getting ugly.
 
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Town: Cape Girardeau, MO

Famous person: Rush Limbaugh III

Athlete: There may be one, but I certainly don't know of him or her.
 
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Town: Ocean Township, NJ
Famous person: Wendy Williams - bitchy radio host, kind of a wannabe shock jock. show on VH1 these days i think
Athlete: Phil Villapiano - former Oakland Raider, clipped during the Immaculate Reception.

Hey JerseyBorn, how about OT breaking Middletown South's streak this year? We'll have to hang our hat on that for the year.
 
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Town: Modesto, CA
Famous Person: George Lucas, Scott Peterson (infamous), Mike Allsup (guitarist for Three Dog Night)
Athlete: Gino Marchetti (Hall of Fame NFL DE), Chuck Hayes (rookie on the Houston Rockets), Chidi Ahanotu (former NFL DE), Kenny Roberts (3x Motorcycle World Champion), Mark Spitz (Olympic swimmer), Carter Williams (K1 Kickingboxing World Champion), and Ray Lankford (MLB OF).
 
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NDAlumSon said:
I kinda liked the first.
Me...I have no idea. If somebody cares to inform me, it's Englishtown, NJ and Fort Wayne, IN.
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Town: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Famous Person: Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy's), Shelley Long (actress), Fred Zollner (founder of the NBA)
Athlete: Jason Fabini (NFL OL), Rod Woodson (one day Hall of Fame NFL DB), DaMarcus Beasly (US Soccer National team)
 
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Hometown: Lewisburg, PA
Famous Person: Steve Kline MLB middle inning pitcher, pitched for alot of teams mostly Cards
Famous Athlete: Christy Matthewson Hall of fame pitcher from the 1920's went to Bucknell University which is in Lewisburg.
 
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reneg said:
Town: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Famous Person: Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy's), Shelley Long (actress), Fred Zollner (founder of the NBA)
Athlete: Jason Fabini (NFL OL), Rod Woodson (one day Hall of Fame NFL DB), DaMarcus Beasly (US Soccer National team)
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Oh, good man ! Thanks bud. So I got all that goin' for me now too.
Played against Woodon in high school. An old Snider boy, he.
MMmmmmm........Big Bacon Cheese Classic !
 
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Town: Vacaville CA
Famous Person: ME!! actually i would have to say Papa Roach the band was a garage band here for a lot of years.
Famous Athlete: Thomas Williams made a big splash when he went to SC a couple years back
 
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Rick Mirer, Former VP of NBC Sports (I can't remember her name), and Bill Doba isn't from my city but he's from the area and he did live here for a while and was the former Head Coach of Goshen High School. (1967-1970 He was my dad's football coach)
 
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Small town people always seem to have nothing else to talk, about except other small town people :eek:)
 
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Hometown: Cerritos California
Person/Athlete: Troy Aikman (He was actually on my little league baseball Team)
 
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Scranton Pa

Athletes: HOF Mike Munchack, Tim Ruddy and Gerry McNamara Syracuse BB seems to be popular now.
Actor: Jason Miller Exorcist

And of course home of "The Office".
 
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Town: Chicago
Famous Person: Al Capone
Athlete: Michael Jordan (Born in Brooklyn, Raised in North Carolina, but he's OUR guy)
 
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Born & Raised: Viola IL
Athlete: Myself

Currently Living: Cape Coral/Fort Myers FL
Athletes: Deion Sanders, Jevon Kearse, Mike Greenwell,
Person: Thomas Edison used to live down here.
 
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I grew up in New Rochelle, NY

Famous Athletes: Ray Rice of Rutgers and Lou Jones (Olympic Gold Medalist and former record-holder in the 400m)

Famous People: Richard Rountree (Shaft) and Don McLean (American Pie) were both born and raised in New Rochelle.

Also, a number of famous people have lived in New Rochelle at one point or another, but were not born there:

Lou Gehring and Willie Mays
Norman Rockwell
Dick Van Dyke (the show took place there, too)
Thomas Paine
E.L. Doctorow
 
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tchris555 said:
Town: Ocean Township, NJ
Famous person: Wendy Williams - bitchy radio host, kind of a wannabe shock jock. show on VH1 these days i think
Athlete: Phil Villapiano - former Oakland Raider, clipped during the Immaculate Reception.

Hey JerseyBorn, how about OT breaking Middletown South's streak this year? We'll have to hang our hat on that for the year.
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I didn't know that. You bastards. I went to South right when the dynasty began 86-90.

You guys also had Eric Niese from MTV's 1st season of the Real World and the short lived MTV dance show "The Grind".

I had a buddy that went to OT and was a Nationally ranked swimmer.
 
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Town: Kingston, TN
Famous Person: noone. Oak Ridge Boys are from Oak Ridge (20 mins away).
Famous Athlete: umm... Kevin Mays -- family friend. Played on the OL for Tennessee... was a first round draft pick to the Cowboys in the mid 90's, but blew out his knee in preseason and never recovered. Steve Spurrier grew up a few hours down the road.

Kingston was the capital of Tennessee for a day. Back during the civil war, Nashville was going to get invaded, so they promised to make Kingston the state capital if it sent ALL of the men from the town to help fight the battle. So, all of the men went to fight... they were victorious. Kingston was declared the new capital of Tennessee. The next day, the state government revoked the title and gave it back to Nashville, effectively shafting the entire town. I still laugh at this.
 
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Town: South Bend, Indiana
Famous Person: No one significant
Athlete: However---my uncle was good friends with Dick Butkus and Dick came to our house in South Bend in 1971. My mother was a Green Bay fan...she loved Paul Hornung...my mother offered Dick a beer and he opened with his teeth--she started calling him an animal and a monster. It was a twist off cap. My uncle and Dick thought it was hillarious...my mother didn't find it so funny.
 
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NDAlumSon said:
I kinda liked the first.
Me...I have no idea. If somebody cares to inform me, it's Englishtown, NJ and Fort Wayne, IN.
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Englishtown, NJ
Alum...there was only one prominent name listed and that was:

Martin Truex-Nascar Driver
 
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HereComeTheIrish said:
Englishtown, NJ
Alum...there was only one prominent name listed and that was:

Martin Truex-Nascar Driver
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Jim Murray that played for Boston College is from Englishtown. He's my cousin. Ironically, he played for Notre Dame HIgh School.
 
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Not too many famous live or lived in Oil City, PA.

There is a guy who works at the gas station that kinda looks like the Monopoly guy and the pizza delivery gal can touch her tongue to the tip of her nose.

That's gotta count for something.
 
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irishnd31 said:
Not too many famous live or lived in Oil City, PA.

There is a guy who works at the gas station that kinda looks like the Monopoly guy and the pizza delivery gal can touch her tongue to the tip of her nose.

That's gotta count for something.
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Marry her !!!
 
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