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Rugger08 on 14 March 2008

I will limit it to People from my town that I personally know or have met:

Ron Howard, Producer/Former Actor
Richard Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers
Richard Zannino, Recently stepped down as CEO of Dow Jones
Hugh Jessiman, Drafted by the Rangers Hockey Team first round, twelfth pick overall

I am from Greenwich, CT. Actually Hugh is from Darien, but he went to school with me in Greenwich so I will count him anyway.



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Ishy on 14 March 2008

@ highwaystar... what about Gareth Barry... England International Footballer :P



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TWRoO on 14 March 2008
highwaystar101 said:
TWRoO said:

Try this guy for size.

Considering I live in a rather small town (about 10,000 now, but it used to be much smaller) it's quite impressive)

Other than Patrick Stewart, all we have is the grave of Robin Hood.


So are you from huddersfield then? My best mate lives there.


Nope, Mirfield, which is much much smaller than Huddersfield (Huddersfield is the largest town in Europe)

Patrick Stewart was lived in a house about 3 streets away from me when he was a kd, and he went to my school.

Robin Hood as far as I know only seems to have been buried here (near a pub called the "Three Nuns" who apparently had something to do with it)

I was born in Leeds hospital though, and lived in Horseforth, part of Leeds, till I was 2 (though I don't remember it) and have lived in Mirfield since then.



akuma587 on 14 March 2008

Buddy Holly.



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SnesTea on 14 March 2008

Big Daddy Arthur P. (Radio DJ for 101 WRIF in the Detroit area)



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kasillas88 on 14 March 2008

ummm.....Will Smith has family here, Oscar De la Hoya has a house here, Richard Nixon graduated from my high school, Monkey from KoRn got a tatto at a tat parlor here called "Monkeys to go" and probably what my city (of almost 100.000) is most famous for is.........My High School!!! :)
My high school (Whittier High School) is where a great movie titled Back to the Future was filmed (all the school/dance portions)

More movies were shot in my city (Father of the Bride/Terminator3) but Back to the Future is more popular.



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elgefe02 on 14 March 2008

This girl:

 

 

 

And this boy 

 



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Auron on 14 March 2008

This dumb asshole:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Chrebet



CDiablo on 14 March 2008

Im up in Albany NY and at the moment the most famous person from up here is Elliot Spitzer. Other than that I heard "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan used to be an hour from here.



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fkusumot on 14 March 2008

I'm not sure. I think the band Firefall came from around here.

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