Famous People from Your City.
 

Here is a list of famous people from Bakersfield, CA pretty amazing considering the population is only about 300,000. Who is from your area?

Kevin Harvick - Nascar
Rick Mears - 4 time Indy Champ
Joey Porter - NFL
David Carr - NFL
Casey Mears - Nascar
Phillip Dumatrait - MLB
Colby Lewis - MLB
Ronnie Mullings - UPCI
Jerry Jones - UPCI
Frank Gifford - NFL
Jeremy Staat - NFL
Cory Hall - NFL
Jack Palance - Actor
KORN - Band
Buck Owens - Singer
Merle Haggard - Singer
Robert Swift - NBA
Chris Childs - NBA

I know I am missings some, Dizzy help me out

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I am the only famous person I know from my town.........:toofunny

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Looks like you got it covered, I don't know half of those names. I think your pop. count is off though, you are only including city limits, and we know how convoluted that is!

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Carl Perkins....Author and singer of Blue Suede Shoes
Isaac Tigrett...Founder of Hard Rock Cafe and House of Blues
M. D. Anderson....Cancer research center founder
Casey Jones...Railroad Legend
W.S. Holland...Drummer and Road Manager for Johnny Cash
Steve Patterson,,,,a Legend in his own Mind....LOL

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okay 350,000

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Man...I hope im not convoluted....that sounds PAINFUL!!!!! :boxing

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:toofunny :toofunny Did you get your coffee fix??

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Not yet......waiting for the wifey to get home and bless her with a cappacino!!!!!!!
Blessings!

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More like:

The greater Bakersfield area has a population of around 468,000, including unincorporated areas, according to local municipal sources. It is California's third largest inland city, after Fresno.

Get it right dude!!!

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There are a lot of twists and turns in that word.........:toofunny

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somebody has been checkin out the latest census online:tissue

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[QUOTE=cneasttx;466941]There are a lot of twists and turns in that word.........:toofunny[/QUOT
Funny!!!!!:bliss

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Emmett Kelly, Jr. - clown, born in Dyersburg, TN

most other "celebrities" that D'brg is known for are in prison I think.

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:blah :blah :blah :toofunny :toofunny

BTW, don't you mean, New Yawker?

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Michael Jackson. Ha! Take that! :D














Actually, I don't live in Gary anymore. Neither does he, for that matter. It is, however, my home town.

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You forgot Eddie & Sherri Cupples!!!!!!:tissue

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Absolutely and ...

Darcie, JC, Jaden and Jaeili Marti.

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Of course....what was he thinking?????????

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Johnny Ace – musician
Stephen Adams – United States Congressman and United States Senator[2]
Richard "Pistol" Allen, drummer who was one of the Funk Brothers that played on the Motown hits in the 1960s
The Bar-Kays – musicians
Kathy Bates – actress
Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin – poet
Big Daddy V; Wrestler
Chris Bell – musician
Bobby "Blue" Bland – musician
Elizabeth Bolden – oldest person in the world during most of 2006
Charles Boyce – syndicated cartoonist
Craig Brewer – film director
Judge Joe Brown – politician
Isaac Bruce – NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers
Dixie Carter – actress
Bob Caruthers – major league baseball player[3]
Johnny Cash – musician
Kellye Cash – Miss America 1987
David Catching – musician
Alex Chilton – musician
George Coleman – musician
Hank Crawford – musician
Steve Cropper – musician[4]
Miley Cyrus Celebrity
John Daly – professional golfer
Rick Dees – former disc jockey
Shannen Doherty – actress
Donald "Duck" Dunn – musician
Johnny Dowd – musician
Johanna Edwards – author
Eightball & MJG – musicians
Ben Ferguson – nationally- syndicated talk radio host
Shelby Foote – author
Aretha Franklin – singer
Morgan Freeman – actor
Ginnifer Goodwin; actress
The Gentrys – 1960's Rock band with Larry Raspberry and Larry Wall
Richard Halliburton – explorer and author
George Hamilton – actor
W.C. Handy – musician
Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway – professional basketball player
Jon Hassell – musician
Isaac Hayes – Academy Award-winning musician
John Lee Hooker – blues musician
Howlin' Wolf – blues musician
Al Jackson, Jr. – musician
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson – Mixed martial arts fighter
Michael Jeter – actor
Ashley Jones – actress
Booker T. Jones – musician
B.B. King – musician
Jerry Lee Lewis – musician
Booker Little – musician
Charles Lloyd – musician
The Mar-Keys – musicians
Wink Martindale – disc jockey and television personality
Tim McCarver – professional baseball player and broadcaster
Hilton McConnico – designer & artist
Kenneth D. McKellar – long-serving U.S. Senator
The Memphis Horns – an American horn section
Shaun Micheel – professional golfer
Memphis Slim – musician
Dr. Cary Middlecoff – professional golfer
Willie Mitchell – musician
Chips Moman – music producer
Sputnik Monroe – professional wrestler
Charlie Musselwhite – blues musician
Phineas Newborn, Jr. – jazz musician
Nights Like These – Victory Records metalcore band
Woody Paige- sports writer and guest on ESPN's Around the Horn
Cindy Parlow – athlete
Chris Parnell – actor
Gilbert E. Patterson – bishop of the Church of God in Christ
Luther Perkins – musician
Elliot Perry – professional basketball player
Dewey Phillips – early rock 'n' roll disc jockey
Sam Phillips – founder of Sun Records
Abe Plough – businessman
David Porter – musician
Elvis Presley – musician and actor
Tommy Prothro – former football coach at UCLA
Lisa Quinn – actress, author, designer
Michael Ramirez – Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
Otis Redding – musician
Charlie Rich – musician
Loren Roberts Professional Golfer
Steve Ross – actor
Lance Russell – pro wrestling announcer
Saliva – musical group
Sam and Dave – Sam Moore and David Prater, musicians
Sam the Sham – musician, leader of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
William Sanderson – actor
Clarence Saunders – inventor and businessman, founder of the world's first self-service supermarket, Piggly Wiggly
Josey Scott – musician
Dan Schneider – actor
Will Shade – musician
Cybill Shepherd – actress & model
Fred Smith – Founder and Chairman FedEx
Lane Smith – actor
Andrew Stevens – actor
Stella Stevens – actress
Jim Stewart – record producer and co-founder of Stax Records
Bobby Sowell – musician
Carla Thomas – musician and daughter of Rufus Thomas
Danny Thomas – entertainer and founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Rufus Thomas – musician
Fred D. Thompson – actor and former U.S. Senator (alumnus of the University of Memphis)
Justin Timberlake – musician and actor
Ike Turner – musician
Anita Ward – Disco/Dance singer and school teacher; Became famous in 1979 for her number one Billboard Hot 100 single "Ring My Bell."
Ida B. Wells – civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
Junior Wells – musician
David West – former baseball player
Red West – actor
Kirk Whalum – musician
Reggie White – NFL player; began his career with the Memphis Showboats of the USFL [/B]
Maurice White – musician
Bobby Whitlock – musician, keyboardist in Derek and the Dominoes
Tennessee Williams – playwright
Kemmons Wilson – businessman, founder of Holiday Inn
Roy Yeager – musician
Shawn Lane – musician
Three 6 Mafia – Academy Award-winning rap musicians
Garrett Wang – actor
Louis Williams – NBA player
Egypt Central – musicians

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You forgot your favorite group....Kings of Leon! LOL!

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Bragger! :toofunny :toofunny

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Buford Pusser........:bolt

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LOL - I had nothing to do with it.

It is amazing though how many famous people are from here!

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This is a family friendly forum.

:happydance:happydance

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It really is, because if I remember correctly from the one time I was there, it isn't that big of a town? What is your population?

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That was our only claim to fame for many many years!!

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Wow...how could I forget the 2 of you!!!!!
You both are well known and well respected!
Blessings!

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Thanks! Hey, remind me again. Where do you go to church? PM me if you want.

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I am spiritually schizo....LOL
Im the worship leader at First United Methiodist Church for the contemporary service ...but I attend/ (or am a member of) The Promise Church..
Blessings!

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Oh yeah, I remember that now. You'll have to come introduce yourself one of these days!

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Do you have a wed. evening service?

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Yes! We have 7 pm on Wednesdays and that's our most awesome service! That's when it's less visitors and we just plug into the power of God. The past several Wednesday nights have been amazing times in the presence of God.

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I may see you this wed evening then!!!!!
Thanks~!
Blessings!~

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Do you Jackson,TN folks know who Carl Perkins is ?

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1M

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Dallas - The Southfork Ranch :)

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Milwaukee, WI

William Rehnquist - former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Spencer Tracy — Notable film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 through the 1960's.
Bob Uecker — Major League Baseball (MLB) player, actor, and award-winning Hall of Fame sportscaster.

There are more..

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He was a (distant) relative of Eddie's.

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James Whitcomb Riley was born here I think... his childhood home is here...and we have "Riley Festival" every year.. we claim him anyway... we celebrate the drunk poet.

James Whitcomb Riley (Greenfield, Indiana, October 7, 1849 - July 22, 1916) was an American writer and poet. Known as the "Hoosier Poet" and the "Children's Poet," he started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal. His verse tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one-thousand poems that Riley published, over half are in dialect. Claiming that “simple sentiments that come from the heart” were the secret of his success, Riley satisfied the public with down-to-earth verse that was "heart high." Although Riley was a bestselling author in the early 1900s and earned a steady income from royalties, he also traveled and gave public readings of his poetry.

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Also Jaycie Phelps:
1996 Olympic Gold Medalist
1996 Individual Event World Championships Finalist
1995 World Championships Bronze Medalist
1994 Team World Championships Silver Medalist

Hometown: Greenfield, Ind.


Not too bad for a city of only 16,000 people.