Got Any Famous People From Your Home Town ?

[GOPAPA]

Or nearby?
Across the river from me is Longview Washinton 5 miles away .

Bud Black manager of the San Diego Padres
Jason Schmitt Pitcher for the Dodgers
And Sara Jean Underwood who was Playmate of the year in 2007
she is selling a cooper on ebay for $34 ,999 I was able to copy and paste the picture for Denice ,,LOL




This car was given to Sara Jean Underwood at the 2007 Playmate of the Year Luncheon at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, CA for becoming Playboy's 2007 Playmate of the Year !!!

[Ernie]

$34,000....and the headlights don't even look real to me.

[ga.spyder]

They have done magnificent work on the front end enhancements!!
Craig

[TulsaSpider]

That model gets my engine running! Grrrr Baby!
Does Leon Russell count? The GAP band is from Tulsa too, and those annoying Hanson brothers, Paul Harvey, Roy Clark... I am sure I have missed some, Garth Brooks lives here now but he is from Yukon..

[sjmst]

Port Washington, NY
None of ours look that good, but:

Bobby Ojeda, Lenny Dykstra, Darryl Strawberry, Ron Darling, Dwight Gooden, Sid Fernandez, Ed Hearn, Rick Aguilera, David Cone, Keith Miller, Roger McDowell and about half of the 1986 Mets all used to live in Port Washington during their time with the New York Mets.[3][4]
Marv Albert, sportscaster
Carlos Beltran, New York Mets baseball player
Len Berman, TV Newsanchor
John Cassavetes, (1929-1989), actor and director.[5]
Perry Como (1912-2001), entertainer.[6]
Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Built the Indianapolis Speedway, Developed Miami Beach and Montauk, Long Island.
Leroy Grumman
W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986), diplomat, Governor of New York
John Philip Sousa, famous conductor
Turk Wendell, former New York Mets baseball player

[wengr]

Mary Jo Kepechne - got into a car with the wrong drunk back in the late sixties

[mdrburchette]

Nice looking car LD, but I hope that poor girl takes some of the profit to buy a dress that hasn't got busted seams!

[pope]

I didnt know you had to supply your own air-bags with a Mini Cooper

how appropriate...mini air bags for a mini Cooper.

[Gunsmith]

Well nobody is born here in Florida but everybody that lives here is famous now just ask them. Everybody's favorite crook Madoff and his brother have nice little houses here in Palm Beach.

[ga.spyder]

People have been taking their dirty laundry to Palm Beach County for many years,just to air it out.Anyone remember the Kennedy's? There have been too many world class atheletes from SoFla to list them.Gunsmith,the link to DixieFiatFest is back up now,apparently the entire FLU website was down. http://www.flu.org/carolinaflu/
Craig

[Spiddy]

Just about every British Prime Minister has lived at Chequers, their country residence, which was just around the corner from where I lived in the UK. I never saw a single one of them, but I did see President Clinton arriving to meet Blair. Wow, does life get any better than that?

[SpiderHead]

Partial list of famous people born in Long Beach

* Chris Andersen: current NBA player
* David Bacani, baseball player
* James Robert Baker, author
* Brice Beckham, actor: ABC's "Mr. Belvedere"
* James Blaylock: fantasy/science fiction author
* Julia Bond: female pornstar
* Jeff Burroughs: baseball player, 1974 American League MVP and Little League World Series Championship coach
* Bobby Burgess: one of the original Mouseketeers
* Nicolas Cage: actor
* Eva LaRue Callahan: soap opera actress, ABC's All My Children, now currently on CBS' CSI: Miami
* Antoine Cason: NFL Cornerback who plays for the San Diego Chargers
* Don Coscarelli: film director
* Lana Clarkson: B-movie actress
* Percy Daggs III: UPN's Veronica Mars
* William E. Dannemeyer: Orange County politician
* Zack de la Rocha rapper/rocker/founder of the band Rage Against the Machine
* Bo Derek: actress
* Daz Dillinger: rapper
* Nate Dogg: rapper
* Snoop Dogg: rapper
* John Dykstra: 1978 Visual Effects Oscar Winner (for Star Wars)
* Floyd "Bud" Gaugh: drummer for bands Sublime, Long Beach Dub Allstars, and Eyes Adrift
* Warren G.: rapper
* Renee Griffin, actress
* Crooked I, rapper
* Sinful (El Pecador), rapper
* Dave Hansen: Major League Baseball player
* DeSean Jackson: NFL player
* Spike Jones: bandleader and comedian
* Jason Kapono: NBA player
* Sally Kellerman: actress
* Terry Kennedy: Pro Skateboarder
* Billie Jean King: tennis player
* Vania King: tennis player
* Jason Leffler: NASCAR driver
* Andrea Lowell: model
* Leah Luv, porn star
* William Joseph Levada, current Pro-Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Roman Catholic Church
* Dan Lungren: Republican politician
* Craig MacIntosh, artist of the syndicated comic strip Sally Forth
* Jennette McCurdy, child actress and singer
* Willie McGinest: NFL Linebacker
* Bradley Nowell: founder and vocalist of the band Sublime
* Michelle Phillips: singer and actress
* Sheldon Rampton: editor of PR Watch
* Tim Salmon: Major League Baseball player, 1993 Rookie of the Year
* Brian Scalabrine: NBA player
* Scout Taylor-Compton: actress
* Tiffani-Amber Thiessen: actress
* Julieta Venegas: Mexican pop singer[1]
* Eric Wilson: bassist of the bands Sublime, Long Beach Dub Allstars, and Long Beach Shortbus
* Adrian Young, drummer of band No Doubt
* Anthony Zerbe: actor

[edit] Partial list of famous residents of Long Beach

* Lisa Fernandez: Three-time Olympic softball gold medalist
* Greta Andersen: 1948 Olympic swimming gold medalist, and long distance swimmer, originally from Denmark
* Bad Azz: rapper
* Fatty Arbuckle: actor
* Richard Bach: author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
* Theda Bara: actress
* Frank Black (aka Black Francis): leader of the Pixies rock group
* Milton Bradley: baseball player (Long Beach Polytechnic High School)
* Julia Bond: pornographic actress
* Jan Burke: Mystery author, 2000 Edgar Award for Best Novel (for "Bones")
* George Chakiris: Academy Award-winning actor
* Dorothy Buffum Chandler: Los Angeles philanthropist (wife of Norman Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times) and namesake for the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
* Nat King Cole: singer and jazz piano player
* Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan: flew unauthorized "wrong way" flight from New York to Ireland
* Lynne Cox: long-distance open-water swimmer and writer
* Jonathan Davis: lead singer for KoЯn
* Tray Deee: rapper
* George Deukmejian: Governor of California
* Cameron Diaz: actress (Long Beach Polytechnic High School)
* Don Dixon: astronomical artist
* Melissa Etheridge: rock singer
* Bobby Grich: baseball player (Wilson High School)
* Chris Gwynn: baseball player, (Long Beach Polytechnic High School)
* Tony Gwynn: baseball player (Long Beach Polytechnic High School)
* Donna Hilbert: poet
* James Hilton: author, wrote the 1937 novel "Lost Horizon"
* John Lee Hooker: Blues singer
* Marilyn Horne: opera singer (Long Beach Polytechnic High School)
* Thelma Houston: R&B singer
* Jesse G. James: West Coast Choppers & Monster Garage, custom motorcycle and car builder
* Long Gone John: entrepreneur, owner and CEO of Sympathy for the Record Industry
* Paula Jones
* DeForest Kelley: Star Trek actor
* Terry Kennedy: skateboarder
* Vicki Lawrence: comedian
* Bob Lemon: baseball player and baseball manager, Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
* Camryn Manheim: actress
* Bill Maher: comedian, talk show host
* Misty May: professional beach volleyball player
* Mike McCready: Pearl Jam's guitarist
* Willie McGinest: 3 Time Super Bowl Champion
* Robert Mitchum: actor
* Ericson Alexander Molano: Gospel singer
* Ikey Owens: Keyboardist of The Mars Volta
* Miros Ozark: Artist, Painter
* Marquez Pope: National Football League Sports Figure
* Nick Pugh: artist and designer
* Rodney Allen Rippy:actor
* Elizabeth Short (aka "The Black Dahlia"): famous murder victim
* Upton Sinclair: author
* Dylan and Cole Sprouse: teen actors Suite Life of Zack and Cody
* Chase Utley: baseball player (Long Beach Polytechnic High School)
* John Wayne: actor, (Long Beach Polytechnic High School)
* Carl Weathers: football player & actor (Long Beach Polytechnic High School)
* Wheely Willy: celebrity dog, featured in children's books, etc.

Its a famous city!

-Ryan

[pope]

Sara Underwood, Playboy Playmate of the Year 2007 celebrated her 25th birthday at Tabú Ultra Lounge in MGM Grand on Saturday where she partied until the very early hours.