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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe most famous person from each state.
Guess they didn't include politicians.
https://littlethings.com/lifestyle/famous-person-by-state/3410896-2
Some of these I'm having a hard time swallowing, particularly:
Florida - Sidney Poitier (Burt Reynolds, easily)
Maryland - John Waters (Babe Ruth, easily)
Minnesota - Judy Garland (tough one, but I think Prince beats her out)
Oregon - Beverly Cleary (how about River Phoenix, instead?)
South Carolina - Eartha Kitt (no, it's Dizzy Gillespie)
Virginia - Patsy Cline (nope, that would be Ella Fitzgerald or Edgar Allen Poe)
Bayard
(22,063 posts)Muhammad Ali. Much better than Colonel Sanders or Mitch (ugh) McConnell.
Goodheart
(5,321 posts)Bayard
(22,063 posts)ColinC
(8,291 posts)Is it really fair to say she is from Minnesota when she grew up in California?
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Goodheart
(5,321 posts)House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)I'll go with Hank Aaron over Hank Williams.
Goodheart
(5,321 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)Goodheart
(5,321 posts)MLAA
(17,288 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,643 posts)Goodheart
(5,321 posts)Ray Charles was the BEST singer ever.
CurtEastPoint
(18,643 posts)One of my favorite scenes: (language)
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...a whole galaxy of movie stars--if this is *residents*, and not people born there--Hearst, Tom Brady, Bing Crosby, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, and God knows who else?
rurallib
(62,411 posts)GPV
(72,377 posts)Diamond_Dog
(31,989 posts)Paul Newman ....
Although we also have Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, LeBron James .....
Goodheart
(5,321 posts)CincyDem
(6,355 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)IA8IT
(5,554 posts)Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)Washington State.
Coventina
(27,115 posts)Fla Dem
(23,656 posts)Lot more famous people than movie and tv stars.
Obviously a click bait site.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Response to Goodheart (Original post)
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skypilot
(8,853 posts)...David Lynch.
Coventina
(27,115 posts)But all this stuff is subjective anyway....