List famous people from your state

Maine
Steven King
Patric dempsey
Judd Nelson
John Ford
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Chester Greenwood (invented earmuffs)
Leon Leonwood Bean aka L.L. Bean

Too many from Connecticut to type...Here's a link...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Connecticut

Famous Wyomingites:

Curt Gowdy
Tom Horn
Dick Cheney
Jim Bridger
"Buffalo Bill" Cody
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Chief Washakie
Esther Hobart Morris
James Cash Penney
Gerald Spence
Harrison Ford

OK...I had a bit more time today. Here's some of the better known famous people from CT.

* Kevin Bacon (Sharon)
* Ed Begley (Hartford)
* Richard Belzer (Bridgeport)
* Ernest Borgnine (Hamden)
* Glenn Close (Greenwich)
* Michael J. Fox (Sharon)
* Paul Giamatti (New Haven)
* William Gillette (Hartford)
* Katherine Heigl (New Canaan)
* Katharine Hepburn (Hartford)
* Ted Knight (Terryville)
* David Letterman (New Canaan)
* Christopher Lloyd (Stamford)
* Kevin Nealon (Bridgeport)
* Paul Newman (Westport)
* Fred Norris (Willimantic)
* John Ratzenberger (Bridgeport)
* Meg Ryan (Bethel)
* Kyra Sedgwick (Sharon)
* Christopher Walken (Wilton)
* Joanne Woodward (Westport)
* James Blake (Fairfield)
* Scott Burrell (Hamden)
* Marcus Camby (South Windsor)
* Dwight Freeney (Bloomfield)
* Dorothy Hamill (Greenwich)
* Bruce Jenner (Newtown)
* Tebucky Jones (New Britain)
* Joey Logano (Middletown)
* Dan Orlovsky (Shelton)
* Jerry Nadeau (Danbury)
* Carl Pavano (New Britain)
* Bill Romanowski (Vernon)
* Mike Tyson (Farmington)
* Mo Vaughn (Norwalk)
* Steve Young (Greenwich)
* William F. Buckley, Jr. (New York City and Stamford)
* Arthur Miller (Roxbury)
* Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield)
* Dr. Benjamin Spock (New Haven)
* Mark Twain (Hartford and Redding)
* Noah Webster (present-day West Hartford)
* P.T. Barnum (Bethel)
* Samuel Colt (Hartford)
* Charles Goodyear (New Haven)
* Henry Lee (Orange)
* J. P. Morgan (Hartford)
* Frederick Law Olmsted (Hartford)
* Igor Sikorsky (Stratford)
* Martha Stewart (Westport)
* Eli Whitney (New Haven)
* Dana White (Manchester)
* Chris Berman (Greenwich and Cheshire)
* Ann Coulter (New Canaan)
* Kenny Mayne (Bethel)
* Dan Patrick (Milford)
* Andy Rooney (Norwalk)
* Joan Rivers (New Preston)
* Morley Safer (Chester)
* Ethan Allen (Litchfield)
* Benedict Arnold (Norwich)
* Nathan Hale (Coventry)
* James Wadsworth (Durham)
* 50 Cent (Farmington)
* Michael Bolton (New Haven)
* Karen Carpenter (New Haven)
* Richard Carpenter (New Haven)
* Jose Feliciano (Westport)
* Meat Loaf (Redding)
* John Mayer (Fairfield)
* Mark McGrath (Hartford)
* Moby (Darien)
* Diana Ross (Greenwich)
* George W. Bush (New Haven)
* Ralph Nader (Winsted)

Famous Coloradans
Tim Allen actor, Denver
Zachery Ty Bryan actor, Aurora
M. Scott Carpenter astronaut, Boulder
Lon Chaney actor, Colorado Springs
William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey boxer, Manassa
Ralph Edwards entertainer, Merino
Douglas Fairbanks actor, Denver
Eugene Fodor violinist, Turkey Creek
Gene Fowler writer
Lawrence H. Gipson historian, Greeley
Ruth Handler toy maker, Denver
Erick Hawkins choreographer
Homer Lea soldier, writer
Ted Mack TV host, Greeley
Ouray Ute Indian chief, Colorado Territory
Robert J. Seiwald inventor, Fort Morgan
Byron Raymond White jurist, Fort Collins
Paul Whiteman conductor, Denver


My favorite: William Harrison (Jack Dempsey)

Didn't know Jack Dempsey was from Colorado.

I try not to claim Cheney, but I have to be honest.

WYite

Ya know I have no idea? I have never kept up with the "famous" LMAO!

Wyoming...Jack Dempsey is a cool one to have!!!

Colorado LG Colorado!

Ok so I did a search and came up with these...

Don Ameche actor, Kenosha
Roy Chapman Andrews naturalist and explorer, Beloit
John Bardeen inventor, Madison
Carrie Catt woman suffragist, Ripon
Ellen Corby actress, Racine
William Defoe actort, Appleton
Tyne Daly actress, Madison
August Derleth author, Sauk City
Jeanne Dixon seer, Medford
Chris Farley actor, Madison
Zona Gale author, Portage
Eric Heiden speed skater, Madison
Woody Herman band leader, Milwaukee
Loretta Sell Hildegarde singer, Adell
Harry Houdini magician, Appleton
Thomas Hulce actor, Whitewater
Pee Wee King singer, Abrams
George F. Kennan diplomat, Milwaukee
Robert La Follette politician, Primrose
Liberace pianist, West Allis
Allen Ludden tv host, Mineral Point
Alfred Lunt actor, Milwaukee
Frederic March actor, Racine
Jackie Mason comedian, Sheboygan
Charles and John Ringling circus entrepreneurs, Baraboo
Pat O'Brien actor, Milwaukee
Georgia O'Keeffe painter, Sun Prairie
Amy Pietz actress, Oak Creek
Charlotte Rae actress, Milwaukee
William H. Rehnquist jurist, Milwaukee
Gena Rowlands actress, Cambria
Tom Snyder newscaster, Milwaukee
Spencer Tracy actor, Milwaukee
Thorstein Veblen economist, Cato Township
Orson Welles actor and producer, Kenosha
Laura Ingalls Wilder author, Pepin
Thornton Wilder author, Madison
Charles Winninger actor, Athen
Frank Lloyd Wright architect, Richland Center
Bob Uecker baseball player, Milwaukee
Les Paul musician, Waukesha

Guess I knew about Charles and John Ringling since the circus museum is about 5 minutes from my house and we have gone there. And Chris Farley, he had come to a place I use to work when I lived up here before (about 10 yrs ago) cause he was home visiting his home town or whatever, and he came in there and signed a poster they hung on the wall.

LMAO...I was replying to Wyoming(ite) silly!!!!

Les Paul....Cool!

Isn't there a guitar called a less paul?

u must b from around baraboo huh

Lady G wrote:

Isn't there a guitar called a less paul?

Its named after him