Notable Residents in your Town.

[CrazyChik]

The famous British experimental filmmaker, writer and poet Jane Arden (director) was born in *place*.
Members of the influential band, Manic Street Preachers Richey James Edwards, James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore were also born there.
Poet Myfanwy Haycock and opera singer Dame Gwyneth Jones were also born in the area.
Actor Anthony Hopkins attended *my school in it's boys grammar days* as a boarder for a brief time.
Politicians Joan Ruddock and Roy Jenkins were born and educated in the area.
Other notable people born or brought up in the area include screenwriter Keri Collins, actress Jennifer Daniel, comedian Elise Harris, footballer Marcus Ebdon, model and presenter Annabel Giles, author David Llewellyn and Lee Dainton of Dirty Sanchez.

Oh and obviously they packed up and left as soon as they could. Lucky them.
Fun town Eh?

 

[Tinkerbell424]

I'd tell you who, but then you'd know where I live.

Same, but my sister's friend/ex-boyfriend served Vanilla Ice at the restaurant he worked at, or saw him there eating.
&& uhm the dolphins train around here.

 

[ChoirBoy]

Here's mine. Check out the last one:

Ben Bledsoe - Musician
Diana DeGarmo - 2004 American Idol Runner-Up
Jason Elam - Kicker, Atlanta Falcons
David Greene - Quarterback, New England Patriots
Matt Lindahl - 2004 Nashville Star Contestant
David Pollack - Defensive End, Cincinnati Bengals
Sound Tribe Sector 9 - 5 piece band now located in the Bay Area of California
Amanda Weir - Swimmer, Olympic Medalist, 2004 Summer Olympics
Louis Williams - Guard, Philadelphia 76ers
Mike Mercer - Guard, University of Georgia
Vertigo Lounge - Four Piece band, now located in Los Angeles, California
Bobby Byrd - Musician. Wrote "sex machine", sung by James Brown
Clay Cook - Singer/Songwriter. Written songs for John Mayer.
Jordan Pruitt - Mucisian. Disney Channel Singer

I actually went to elementary school with Jordan Pruitt. We were in the same class in 3rd and 5th grade. She played Cinderella in our 5th grade play.

 

[MrsSparrow..]

It is also reputed that it was on the platform of *place* railway station that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first agreed to form a band, which later became the Rolling Stones.

I've heard that before, I think I know which *place* your on about

Noone currently resides in my area I *think*. But Russel Brand (English actor/comedian) was born and 'raised' *here*.

Only other interesting things about my area is that a few famous films were shot here.

 

[BandGeek911]

Noone famous lives or came from where I live, but New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked my town as its 2nd best place to live in its 2008 rankings.

 

[DramaQueen]

only my future boyfriend...

MICHAEL CERA
(note* my dad works with his dad....therefore the possibility of meeting him & being swept of my feet and taken in a golden carriage to Hollywood is a great pooosibility......probably not. but I DID get a signed arrested development script from him (not him personally, his dad gave it to my dad for me lol)
OH! AND once my sister got to meet him because she used to work @ a gad statin donut shop and he went through the dirve-thru (I HATE HERRR!)


Also Shawn Ashmore (and his brother Aaron Ashmore...form Smallville)

Paolo Costanzo (who played Joey's nephew on Joey)

A bunch of musicians nobody's ever herad of lol.

Comedian Russell Peters

And probably a bunch of people from Degrassi lol.

 

[DramaQueen]

I've heard that before, I think I know which *place* your on about

Noone currently resides in my area I *think*. But Russel Brand (English actor/comedian) was born and 'raised' *here*.

Only other interesting things about my area is that a few famous films were shot here.

GAH!! Loooove Russel Brand!!

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

only my future boyfriend...

MICHAEL CERA
(note* my dad works with his dad....therefore the possibility of meeting him & being swept of my feet and taken in a golden carriage to Hollywood is a great pooosibility......probably not. but I DID get a signed arrested development script from him (not him personally, his dad gave it to my dad for me lol)
OH! AND once my sister got to meet him because she used to work @ a gad statin donut shop and he went through the dirve-thru (I HATE HERRR!)


Also Shawn Ashmore (and his brother Aaron Ashmore...form Smallville)

Paolo Costanzo (who played Joey's nephew on Joey)

A bunch of musicians nobody's ever herad of lol.

Comedian Russell Peters

And probably a bunch of people from Degrassi lol.

YES RUSSEL PETERS. *squee*
He owns.


My city always has filming crews.. A few months ago they were filming the hulk downtown with Edward Norton.

Part of Hairspray was filmed here too.

And some XMEN was filmed in the city I live beside. I recognized the dock and was like, OMG SQUEE, HUGH JACKMAN WAS WITHIN LIKE 30 KILOMETERS OF ME XD

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

Apparantly these were filmed here too..

Death to Smoochy (2002) Robin Williams

The Man (2005) Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy

Man of the Year (2006) Robin Williams

A movie about toronto filmed in hamilton? hmm...
Plague City: SARS in Toronto (2005)

Zoom (2006) Tim Allen

And the movie Four Brothers.. and Exit Wounds.. And.. yeah XD

It's because we have a really dirty downtown metropolis looking core.
So... movies looking for a metropolis can drive 45 minutes to Toronto too and film. But Toronto is prettier than Hamilton. Which is probably why they film dirty downtown scenes here XD

 

[xXTierneyXx]

these people lived in my town, or in the villages near by:

Joseph Priestley (discovered Oxygen)
David Hemmings (actor)
Julian Cope ( singer, songwriter, author)
Saint Edmund
Walter Goodall George (athlete)
John Pym

my town has like 13,606 people in it. So is quite small!
near by though, alot of films have been made. For example the Harry Potter films. I hope to go and see them next time they are filming there!

 

[Babyjustrun]

Russ Howard (two time world champion and Olympic gold medallist men's curler.)

Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick (1987-1997), former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America.

That's all.
Seriously nobody ever comes from here.
So let's do my province! xD :

Donald Sutherland.
Roch Voisine.

 

[tinkerbelle22]

My town has a few:

Anne Hyde Choate-an early leader in the Girl Scouts
Johnny Craig-comic book artist
Morgana King-singer and actress
Kyle Lowder-soap opera actor
Sean Maher-actor
Janet Maslin-film critic
Steven C. Rockefeller, Jr.
Kurt McKinney-actor on Guiding Light (he works at Home Services, and just came to my house the other day to fix the kitchen sink)

And Vanessa Williams lives in the neighboring town, but she's here all the time.

 

[DisneyGirl421]

Here's my list:

Piper Perabo (actress... eldest daughter in the Cheaper by the Dozen movies, Jersey in Coyote Ugly)
Darian Barnes (fullback for the Buffalo Bills)
Todd Frazier (minor league baseball player, #34 draft pick overall for 2007 Cincinatti Reds)
Pavle Jovanovic (bobsledder for the 2006 Winter Olympic team)
Mark & Al Leiter (brothers, both played on the NY Yankees)

...that's about it. We are mostly known for baseball in my town, haha

I know both Piper and Todd.

 

[imabrat]

Nobody. And when I say nobody, I MEAN nobody.
Well, all the racers are a few towns over for the Pocono 500. And 50 cent had a home up here with his GF and kid. And Gloria Estefan got in a bus crash here and broke her back!

AHA!
We've got alot of pro football players! From NEPA!
And Breaking Benjamins from Wilkes-Barre. Not too far.
Vannesa Carlton - Milford.
Taylor Swift - Wyommissing.
Jon & Kate plus 8 - Wyommissing.

They're all like under 1 1/'2 hours from here.

 

[STOPxmickeytime]

Oh, I forgot.
They used to film that old Nickelodeon show "Pete & Pete" here, too.

They were always filming in my school when I was in kindergarten.

 

[Princess victoria]

Terry Fator - Singer and Ventriloquist, Winner of America's Got Talent in 2007[10]

that's the only one that came up

but
my town was home to the first enclosed shopping mall in the southwest
and town east mall (my local mall) was used by director Ron howard to film
parts of a movie called " Cotton Candy"

 

[AmandaSparks730]

RI? Are you kidding?

OH WAIT!!

The makeup artist or set designer or something like that from WICKED is from here!

LOL.

But really, IIII'M a celebrity in my town

It's cuz I won an award last year. So they gave me a day. Randomly. Yeahh.

 

[theodorechipmunkluvr]

I got Mitchell Musso and Jason Castro living in my town of Rockwall Texas (rowlett/rockwall/garland all the same in our leetle world)

 

[Princess victoria]

You live in Rockwall? ^^^
i live in mesquite!
hhaha

 

[Talons]

Seen as I'm borderline Holland Landing/Newmarket I'm going to combine both..

Jim Brennan, Canada men's national soccer team member, first player signed to Toronto FC soccer club

Herb Cain, former NHL hockey player, 1944 NHL scoring champion

John Candy, actor and comedian

Jim Carrey, actor and comedian

Dit Clapper, Hall of Fame hockey player

Clarknova, alternative rock band

Vince Corazza, actor

Steve Downie, NHL Hockey player, Philadelphia Flyer, Former Peterborough Pete

Glass Tiger, rock band

Curtis Joseph, born in Keswick, grew up in Sharon (northeast of Newmarket) and went to high school in Newmarket

Mike Kitchen, former head coach for the St. Louis Blues

Corey Locke, AHL hockey player and NHL Draft pick

Wes Jarvis, AHL and NHL hockey player (Washington Capitals, Minnesota North Stars, Los Angeles Kings, and Toronto Maple Leafs) Jarvis was the head coach of the Newmarket Hurricanes of the OPJHL and was an assistant coach with the Barrie Colts for three seasons.

Chuck Luksa, former WHA hockey player with Cincinnati Stingers

H.R. MacMillan, CBE, C.C., forestry specialist and industrialist, wartime administrator, philanthropist

Jamie Macoun, former NHL hockey player

William Mulock, former Cabinet Minister and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario

Joe Murphy, member of the 1990 Stanley Cup champion Edmonton Oilers

Peter Orr, Olympic baseball player and Atlanta Braves infielder

Mazo de la Roche, author of the Jalna series

The Salads, punk rock band

Tyler Stewart, drummer for Barenaked Ladies

Elvis Stojko, former figure skating world champion

Belinda Stronach, Canadian Member of Parliament

Andrew Tite, actor

Tokyo Police Club, rock band

Serial Joe, rock band

Marcel de Jong, a Dutch Canadian soccer player for Roda JC

Teresa McDonnell Orr, three-time Olympian competing in the ’68, ’72 and ’76 Olympic Games on Canada’s Gymnastics team. Technical Program Coordinator for Rhythmic Gymnastics & Dance and a Rhythmic Coach at Seneca College

Rob Dyer, Skate 4 Cancer founder