Who put my town on the map?

[Roto13]

I have no idea who the vast majority of these people are.

[smittenkitten]

William Wallace's mother was born and lived in Galston.

[Jessweeee♪]

Farrah Fawcett - Actress
Selena Quintanilla-Perez - Late Tejano Superstar
Eva Longoria - Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives
Bobby Labonte - NASCAR Nextel Cup driver and 2000 champion
Terry Labonte - NASCAR Nextel Cup driver and 1984 + 1996 champion
Lou Diamond Phillips - Actor
Lori Singer - Actress
Priscilla Iden - Actress
Marc Singer - Actor
Dabney Coleman - Actor
Terrence McNally - Playwright
Paula DeAnda - Musician
Larry Norman - Musician, songwriter
Brooks Kieschnick - Baseball player
Amy Acuff - Athlete (High jump)
Pepe Serna - Actor
Freddy Fender - Musician
Barbara Barrie - Actress
Johnny Canales - Musician
Burt Hooton - Baseball Player
Allen Ludden - Game Show Host
Todd Oldham - Fashion Designer and Host
Raymond Berry - NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver
Brian Leetch - NHL Defenseman
Roger Creager - Country music singer and songwriter
Johnny Roland - NFL Player / Coach
Helen Donath - opera singer

Selena died here, too! Shot by her best friend! Her little shop is still running, though. I heard the hotel room she was shot in is closed off...I don't know that for sure, though. It's soooo saaaaad, have you ever seen the movie Selena?

[Lawr]

Mahammad Ali.
And the KKK were about to come to a town near us.

[~*~Celes~*~]

Famous ones from Toledo, Ohio? Well...

Theater and film

* Cliff Arquette - actor and comedian
* Jonathan Bennett - film actor
* Joe E. Brown - actor and comedian
* Daws Butler - voice actor
* Josh Costell - actor and model
* John Cromwell - American actor, film producer and director.
* Jason Dohring - actor
* Jamie Farr - actor
o Maxwell Klinger - fictional character in the television series M*A*S*H
* Philip Baker Hall - film actor
* Katie Holmes - actress and model, wife of Tom Cruise
* Eric Kripke - television writer, director and producer
* Adrianne Palicki - television and film actress
* Alyson Stoner - actress and dancer
* Danny Thomas - actor and father of Marlo.
* Marlo Thomas - actress, daughter of Danny, wife of Phil Donahue
* Bonnie Turner - Creator of That '70s Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun.

[edit] Music

* Anita Baker - R&B singer
* Teresa Brewer - singer
* Stanley Cowell - pianist and composer
* Jon Hendricks - member of the jazz group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
* Chester "Lyfe" Jennings, singer
* Shirley Murdoch - platinum selling R&B singer in the 1980s
* Tom Scholz, guitarist and founder of the rock band Boston (Ottawa Hills).
* Scott Shriner - bassist of the rock band Weezer
* Art Tatum - jazz pianist

[edit] Modelling

* Cynthia Myers - Playboy Playmate model and actress
* Jan Roberts - model featured as centerfold and Playmate of the Month in Playboy magazine's August 1962 issue.

[edit] Journalism

* Amy Braunschweiger - Freelance journalist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
* Christine Brennan, USA Today sports columnist, ESPN, ABC Sports and NPE sports analyst, and author of six books.
* Janet Cooke - journalist with The Toledo Blade and The Washington Post
* David Ross Locke - journalist and early political commentator during the American Civil War under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby
* P. J. O'Rourke - political satirist, journalist, and writer
* Gloria Steinem - founder of Ms. magazine, feminist icon, journalist, and women's rights advocate

[edit] Literature and poetry

* Paul Lawrence Dunbar - African-American poet, originally from Dayton, Ohio
* Edward Eager - Author of many children's books
* Mari Evans - author & dramatist
* Christopher Moore - novelist
* Scott Nearing - conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer. Father of writer John Scott.
* Elizabeth Witherell - editor-in-chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
* Allen Saunders - cartoonist and creator of Mary Worth and Steve Roper comic strips.

[edit] Politics and government

* James Mitchell Ashley - abolitionist and author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
* Walter Folger Brown - United States Postmaster General 1929-1933, president of Toledo Humane Society 1911-1961
* Stephen Hadley - National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush
* Kristina Keneally - first American-born member of Australia's New South Wales Parliament
* Thomas Noe - former Ohio Republican Party fundraiser. Center of the Coingate scandal.
* John W. Snow - United States Secretary of the Treasury
* Morrison Waite - Seventh Chief Justice of the United States
* Kiernan Sanders - esteemed theological scholar of the Church of Christ, Scientist

[edit] Science and technology

* Eugene F. "Gene" Kranz - retired NASA flight director who served during the Gemini & Apollo space programs, known for his role in the rescue of Apollo 13
* Michael S. Witherell - particle physicist, president of Fermilab

[edit] Sports

[edit] Baseball

* Roger Bresnahan - Baseball Hall of Fame
* Addie Joss - Baseball Hall of Fame
* Jim Leyland - manager of Detroit Tigers major league baseball team
* Doug Mientkiewicz - major league baseball player
* George Mullin - major league baseball player
* John Lee Richmond - baseball player who pitched the first perfect game in major league history

[edit] Basketball

* Don Donoher - former University of Dayton head basketball coach
* Jim Jackson, basketball player
* Tony Peyton - last of the original Harlem Globetrotters
* Kelvin Ransey - collegiate and professional basketball player
* Steve Mix - retired American professional basketball player
* Dennis Hopson - American former professional basketball player
* Todd Mitchell - retired American professional basketball player

[edit] Football

* Jim Harbaugh - former National Football League football quarterback
* Curtis Johnson - #45 of 1971 undefeated Miami Dolphins "no-name defense".
* Ron McDole - Professional football player, attended DeVilbiss HS
* Jim Parker - Professional Football Hall of Fame, attended Toledo Scott HS
* Rick Upchurch - Professional football player

[edit] Ice Hockey

* Pat Jablonski - NHL hockey goaltender
* Bryan Smolinski - NHL hockey player from suburban Genoa, Ohio. Attended Cardinal Stritch High School, Oregon, Ohio

[edit] Golf

* Arthur Hills - golf course designer
* Frank Stranahan - professional golfer

[edit] Wrestling

* Allen Sarven - professional wrestler with World Wrestling Entertainment & Extreme Championship Wrestling, formerly of Lima, Ohio
* Greg Wojciechowski - Olympic wrestler unable to compete due to the United States boycott. Alternate on the 1984 and 1988 U.S. Olympic wrestling teams

[edit] Other sports

* Paul Chamberlin - professional tennis player
* Edmund Coffin - saddlemaker & equestrian
* Mark Kerr - MMA fighter and subject of HBO documentary The Smashing Machine
* Scott Hamilton - American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist

[edit] Other notoriety

* Martin Frankel - former financier convicted in 2002 of insurance fraud, racketeering and money laundering.
* Ernest M. McSorley - captain of the ill-fated lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald
* Gerald Robinson - Roman Catholic priest convicted of the murder of nun Margaret Ann Pahl on April 5, 1980

[TyphoonThaReapa]

New Orleanians are responsible for making themselves popular from being crime capital of the U.S in 1998 and 1999. Not to mention things like Mardi Gras and Hurricane Katrina....