The "FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM YOUR AREA" Thread

[Uwe]

Ant and Dec, The lighthouse Family, Antony Hutton [BBwinner] and I cant think of any more.

[Jamie!]

Who wouldn't...? ^ :]

Erm..shes out of Emmerdale, all I can think of at the moment?

[nets]

Derren Brown, Massive Attack, Portishead, Banksy, Justin Lee Colins and James May (Top Gear). There's more who I can't think of.

[crans]

V beckham.

[FlyingJesus]

Dave Benson-Phillips lives in Worthing (what a legend) and Billy Idol grew up here too.

[nets]

V beckham.

She's from Essex, Richard Branson's from Surrey though..

[BL!NKEY]

A lot.

Here is what Wikipedia sais

The most famous would probably be like Opra, Ty Warner, Tom Cruise, Ellen DeGeneres, Jack Johnson, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, Brad Pitt or Kelly Slater.


Notable residents

Santa Barbara is the birthplace of:
Anthony Edwards, American actor
Ryan Church, Major League Baseball player, outfielder for the Washington Nationals
Jeffrey Peterson, famous technology entrepreneur
Randall Cunningham, former National Football League player
Kathy Ireland, supermodel
Michael Kling, Jr., Owner and Founder of The Dining Car
Chuck Liddell, Ultimate Fighting Championship Light Heavyweight Champion
RKL, punk rock band
Patricia Soltysik, aka Mizmoon, member of the Symbionese Liberation Army
Toad The Wet Sprocket, folk rock band
Sugarcult, rock band
Dishwalla, post-grunge alternative rock band
Jim Rome, sport-talk radio and TV personality
The following notable people were not born in Santa Barbara, but grew up there:
Karch Kiraly, volleyball player

Celebrities who have or had owned homes in Santa Barbara and the surrounding communities include:
Douglas Adams, author
Dame Judith Anderson, actress
Jennifer Aniston, actress
Marc Anthony, singer
Rona Barrett, columnist
Henry Brant, composer
Jeff Bridges, actor
Mary Brunner, Manson Family member
Ashleigh Brilliant, writer, cartoonist, columnist
Charles Champlin, columnist
Charlie Chaplin, actor, film-maker
Julia Child, chef, television personality
Thor Nis Christiansen, serial killer
Warren Christopher, statesman
John Cleese, actor
Gary Collins, actor
Kevin Costner, Actor
Fred Couples, golfer
David Crosby, musician
Tom Cruise, actor
Doug Davidson, actor
Ellen DeGeneres, talk show host
Bo Derek, actress
Kirk Douglas, actor
Jane Fonda, actress (1977 to 1991) [7]
John Forsythe, actor
Anne Francis, actress
Dennis Franz, actor
Peter Racine Fricker, composer
Lynette Fromme, attempted assassin, Manson Family member
Andy Granatelli, race car owner
Martha Graham, dancer
Martin Gore, musician Depeche Mode
Maggie Grace, actress
Sue Grafton, novelist (whose Kinsey Millhone "alphabet series" books are set in a fictionalised version of Santa Barbara)
Lena Horne, actress, singer
Jack Johnson, surfer, musician, film-maker
Bruce Johnston, musician
Carole King, musician
Lora Knight, heiress, believed to be the wealthiest woman in the United States in the 1930s
Cheryl Ladd, actress
Avril Lavigne, singer
Shannon Leggett, show producer
Charles Lloyd, jazz saxophonist
Christopher Lloyd, actor, producer
Kenny Loggins, musician
Jennifer Lopez, singer, actress
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
Mike Love, musician, The Beach Boys
Rob Lowe, actor
Ross Macdonald, author
Karl Malden, actor
Charles Manson, leader of murder cult
Steve Martin, actor
George Michael, Musician, Wham
Dennis Miller, comedian
Robert Mitchum, actor
Mary Ann Mobley, actress
Peter Noone, singer (Herman's Hemits)
Jack Palance, actor
Brad Pitt, actor
Ronald Reagan, actor, politician
Ivan Reitman, director
Jane Russell, actress
Laura Schlessinger, radio talk show host, author
Charles R. Schwab
Edie Sedgwick, model, actress, and companion to Andy Warhol
Joshua Seth, voice actor and comedy hypnotist
Kelly Slater, surfer
George Washington Smith, architect (renouned for his Spanish Colonial Revival masterpieces throughout Southern California)
Alan Thicke, actor
Cheryl Tiegs, model
John Travolta, actor
Eddie Vedder, musician
Paul Walker, actor
Ty Warner, entrepreneur, real estate tycoon
Stuart Whitman, actor
Brian Wilson, member of the Beach Boys
Oprah Winfrey, TV host
Jonathan Winters, comedian
**** Wolf, producer
Robert Zemeckis, director

[womanizer]

Orlaith from BB

[kasi]

umm
gary beals & anne murray.

& all of the cast from "trailer park boys"

[Janeisntpleased]

the verve.
ian mckellen [spelling?]
starsailor
andy farrell
wallace & gromit are from here *nods*

can't think of anymore. lol

oh & kim marsh who was in hearsay.