Can you tell me about any famous people from your state or area?  

Im in Wisconsin. I have Ed Gein and Jeffery Dahmar. That exciting. Kinda scary.

The actress Marisa Tomei (from the movie "My Cousin Vinny")was from Brooklyn, NY. In fact her mother was my English teacher in High School. Marisa Tomei came to my school, but I never got to meet her because she came to speak to the drama class. I was never in the drama class. Darn it LOL.

Howie Mandel and Getty Lee from the band Rush lived in the same neighborhood as my husband when he was growing up, and yep we are in Toronto, other than that.. can't think of anyone else right now lol

There are many famous people from my area. There are the Baldwin brothers, Billy Crystal, Eddie Murphy, Natalie Portman, Howard Stern, Billy Joel and the list goes on. The one that stands out the most for me is Joey Buttafuoco because I live down the block from the auto shop where he met Amy.

Famous people born in New Hampshire:
Robert Frost, author
Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher to go into space
Bob Montana, creator of Archie
Franklin Pierce, 14th President
Daniel Webster
Adam Sandler
Chris Carpenter
Mandy Moore

Remember the poem IN Flanders Fields? Most Americans and EVERY CANADIAN know that poem. John McCrae, the man who wrote the poem, was born and raised in my hometown of Guelph Ontario Canada. His house, which is now a museum, is just a block from my apartment.

There are so many, GG, that I hardly know where to start. There's Annie Oakley, John Glenn, Edwin C. Moses, Presidents Grover Cleveland, Howard Taft(and I believe there are more), the Martin Sheen family, Rob and Chad Lowe, Dorian Harewood, etc., etc. Our state has been blessed with many famous sons and daughters as I'm sure yours has.

Well I live in the Bay State of Massachusetts. Here's what I found.

Famous Bay Staters

John Adams 2nd U.S. president, Braintree
John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president, Braintree
Samuel Adams patriot, Boston
Jack Albertson actor, Malden
Horatio Alger author, Revere
Susan B. Anthony woman suffragist, Adams
F. Lee Bailey defense attorney, Waltham
Clara Barton American Red Cross founder, Oxford
Leonard Bernstein conductor, Lawrence
Forrest M. Bird inventor, Stoughton
Harold Stephen Black inventor, Leominster
Rachel Fuller Brown inventor, Springfield
William Cullen Bryant poet, editor, Cummington
Luther Burbank horticulturalist, Lancaster
George Bush 41st U.S. president, Milton
John Chapman / Johnny Appleseed nurseryman, Leominster
William D. Coolidge inventor, Hudson
John Singleton Copley painter, Boston
E. E. Cummings poet, Cambridge
Bette Davis actress, Lowell
Cecil B. DeMille film director, Ashfield
Emily Dickinson poet, Amherst
Ralph Waldo Emerson philosopher, poet, Boston
Brian Evans singer, Haverhill
Ann Smith Franklin printer, almanac publisher, Boston
Benjamin Franklin statesman, scientist, Boston
Buckminster Fuller architect, educator, Milton
Robert Hutchings Goddard rocketry, Worcester
John Hancock statesman, Braintree
Nathaniel Hawthorne author, Salem
Oliver Wendell Holmes poet, Cambridge
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. jurist, Boston
Winslow Homer painter, Boston
Elias Howe inventor, Spencer
Helen Hunt Jackson writer, Amherst
John F. Kennedy U.S. president, Brookline
Amy Lowell poet, Brookline
Percival Lowell astronomer, Boston
James Russell Lowell poet, Cambridge
Robert Lowell poet, Boston
Horace Mann educator, Franklin
Cotton Mather clergyman, Boston
Sharon Christa McAuliffe teacher, astronaut, Framingham
Samuel F. B. Morse painter, inventor, Charlestown
Leonard Nemoy actor, Boston
Albert Pike pioneer teacher, lawyer, Boston
Edgar Allan Poe writer, Boston
Ella Raines actress, Snoquaimie
Paul Revere silversmith, Revolutionary War figure, Boston
Robert H. Rines inventor, Boston
Dr. Seuss Theodore Geisel author, illustrator, Springfield
Lucy Stone woman suffragist, West Brookfield
Louis Henry Sullivan architect, Boston
Henry David Thoreau author, Concord
Max Tishler inventor, Boston
James McNeill Whistler painter, Lowell
Eli Whitney inventor, Westborough
John Greenleaf Whittier poet, Haverhill
Eli Whitney inventor, Westboro
Jo Dee Messina country singer, Holliston

Brightest Blessings, Mari

Famous Missourians
Yogi Berra baseball player, Saint Louis
Bill Bradley basketball player, Crystal City
Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane) frontierswoman, Princeton
George Washington Carver educator, agricultural chemist, Diamond Grove
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) author, Florida
Walter Cronkite TV newscaster, Saint Joseph
T. S. Eliot poet, Saint Louis
Eugene Field author, poet, Saint Louis
Redd Foxx actor, comedian, Saint Louis
John Goodman actor, Affton
Betty Grable actress, Saint Louis
Rush Limbaugh communicator, Cape Girardeau
Jesse James outlaw, Centerville
James C. Penney merchant, Hamilton
Vincent Price actor, Saint Louis
Ginger Rogers dancer, actress, Independence
Harry S. Truman U.S. president, Lamar
D*ck Van D*ke actor, West Plains (myLot would not let me post the whole name)

Lets see,
Maine is vacationland for just about everybody, but Stephen king lives in Bangor, EB white was from Brooklin, Ann Rivers Siddons(author) vacations in Brooklin, Don McLain (bye bye miss american pie)has a couple houses in Maine.
Martha Stewart also has a home up this way, and lets not forget the Bush's retreat in Kennebunkport.
Thats all I can think of right now.