Famous people from your country?

So, any famous people from your country?

We have:

• Junkie XL
• Rembrandt van Rijn (painter)
• Vincent van Gogh (painter)
• Johan Cruijff
• Marco van Basten
• Esmée Denters

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Ansel Adams
Edward Hopper
Jackson Pollock
John Singer Sargent
Andy Warhol
Entrepreneurs

John Jacob Astor
Andrew Carnegie
William C. Durant
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
H. L. Hunt
J. P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Filmmakers

Frank Capra
Walt Disney
Max Fleischer
John Frankenheimer
William Friedkin
John Ford
David Wark Griffith
Ron Howard
Stanley Kramer
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg
Orson Welles
Billy Wilder
Inventors

David Bruce -- Pivotal typecaster 1838
George E. Clymer -- Columbian Printing Press 1813
Thomas Edison -- phonograph, many others
Philo Farnsworth -- Television
Benjamin Franklin
Buckminster Fuller-- Dymaxion house
Cyrus McCormick -- Mechanical reaper
Samuel F. B. Morse -- Telegraph
Eli Whitney -- Cotton gin, interchangeable parts
A. Baldwin Wood -- Pumps
Wright brothers -- Airplane
Military leaders

Omar Bradley
George Armstrong Custer
Robert E. Lee
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Oliver Hazard Perry -- war of 1812 naval officer "We have met the enemy and they are ours"
John J. Pershing
William T. Sherman
Military leaders who were also politicians

P.G.T. Beauregard
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ulysses S. Grant
William Henry Harrison
Sam Houston
Andrew Jackson
Colin Powell
Zachary Taylor
George Washington
Music

Louis Armstrong
Irving Berlin
Leonard Bernstein
Garth Brooks
Dave Brubeck
Karen Carpenter
Johnny Cash
Van Cliburn
Nat King Cole
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Stephen Foster
Aretha Franklin
Jerry Garcia
George Gershwin
Benny Goodman
Lionel Hampton
Fletcher Henderson
Jimi Hendrix
Buddy Holly
Robert Johnson
Scott Joplin
Gene Krupa
Jerry Lee Lewis
Meade "Lux" Lewis
Glenn Miller
Jelly Roll Morton
Charlie Parker
Elvis Presley
John Philip Sousa
Frank Sinatra
Clarence "Pinetop" Smith
Teddy Wilson
Politicians

Hattie Caraway
Henry Clay
Benjamin Franklin
Barry Goldwater
Hubert Humphrey
Thomas Jefferson
Jack Kemp
John F Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Daniel Webster
Scientists

Robert Oppenheimer
Linus Pauling
Jonas Salk
Writers

Isaac Asimov
Orson Scott Card
Tom Clancy
Michael Crichton
Emily ****inson
T.S. Eliot
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Frost
Allen Ginsberg
Emily Hahn
Jack Kerouac
Francis Scott Key -- wrote The Star-Spangled Banner
Ken Kesey
Stephen King
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
Arthur Miller
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Rice
J.D. Salinger
William Saroyan
Upton Sinclair
John Steinbeck
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry David Thoreau
John Kennedy Toole
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Ezra Vogel
Kurt Vonnegut
Walt Whitman
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Tennessee Williams
Other Notables

Susan B. Anthony
Daniel Boone
John Brown (abolitionist)
George Washington Carver
Noam Chomsky
Davy Crockett
Melvil Dewey
Frederick Douglass
W. E. B. DuBois
Isadora Duncan
William Lloyd Garrison
Robert Ingersoll
Bernard Kerik
Martin Luther King Jr.
Cotton Mather
Rosa Parks
Paul Revere
Eleanor Roosevelt
Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth)
Benjamin Spock
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Booker T. Washington
Noah Webster
Malcolm X

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I hate you...

US does not count :lol:

Well mine'd be US.
But since I'm in China...
President Mao
Jackie Chan
Jet Li
Bruce Lee (All I can remember)

I got an idea, how about if in US, we go with State.
I speak for many here,

Henry Ford,
Eminem,
and many more, late and can't think

vern troyer(mini-me), henery ford, eminem, joe gherna(played for Minnesota twins(also used to be my neighbor :D), Travis key(married to one of my old teachers(also, a member of the colts))

Johan Helsingius – The Penet remailer
Jarkko Oikarinen – Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Linus Torvalds – Linux kernel
Michael Widenius – MySQL
Tatu Ylönen – SSH

Oh cool, lots of open source stuff.

Jean Sibelius, composer
Martti Ahtisaari, The president of the republic 1994-2000, The Nobel Peace Price in 2008
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim - commander-in-chief, regent, president 1944-1946, marshal of Finland
Darude - musician
Tanja Poutiainen - athlete
Teemu Selänne - Ice hockey
Kimi Räikkönen - F1

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    * Edmund Hillary - Mountain climber. First man to conquer Mt Everest with Nepalese Sherpa Tensing Norgay.

    * Ernest Rutherford - Physicist. Famous for splitting the atom and pioneering nuclear science, ironically New Zealand is a nuclear free zone.

    * Richard Pearse - First Man to 'Fly' a Mechanically Powered Aeroplane. His achievements were remarkable in that, unlike the Wright Brothers who employed skilled engineers and who later enjoyed the luxury of American Government sponsorship, Pearse designed, financed, and built everything himself. Dating suggest a first flight on 31st March, 1902. Other evidence also points to him flying in the winter of 1903 - specifically on the 10'th of July, 1903, just a few months before the Wrights' first flight. Apparently the plane 'landed' on top of one of the many 12ft. high, mainly uncut, box-thorn or gorse hedges surrounding the paddocks in the neighbourhood. He then left it there because of a heavy fall of snow. Meteorological records for that time show that snow fell on the 11'th of July 1903, but that there was no snow during any of the years immediately before or after that date.

    * John Britten - Motorbike designer extraordinaire. He built a motor bike in his backyard shed from scratch. Britten not only developed an entirely new fabrication system using space age kevlar and carbon fibre, but designed the complete engine, making the patterns for casting himself. The result was the fastest motorbike in the world. In the Daytona Battle of the Twins, the Britten team completely blitzed the opposition, including the cream of Italian and Japanese factory machines.

    * Alexander Aitken - The Human Computer. He was one of the world's most brilliant mathematical minds, able to multiply two 9-digit numbers together in his head and recite the answer in 30 seconds, or render awkward fractions into decimals to 26 places in under five seconds. His extraordinary abilities were studied by psychologists in Britain during the 1920s.

    * Harold Williams - Voice of the world. He is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's greatest linguist, said to have spoken over 58 languages fluently. He was foreign editor of The Times, "the most brilliant foreign correspondent" his generation had known. Friend of statesmen and companion of writers HG Wells and Hugh Walpole.

    * Robert Burchfield - Dictionary Don. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "the greatest living lexicographer", Dr Robert Burchfield is regarded as the pre-eminent lexicographer and linguistic scholar of our age. As editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and responsible for its revision, Burchfield has played a crucial role in the study of the sources and development of the English language.

    * Nancy Wake - The White Mouse. She was the Allies' most decorated servicewoman of WWII, and the Gestapo's most wanted person. They code-named her 'The White Mouse'. She led an army of 7,000 Maquis troops in guerrilla warfare to sabotage the Nazis. Nancy Wake was born in Wellington in 1912.

    * Keith Park - Saviour of Britain. "If any one man won the Battle of Britain, he did. I do not believe it is realised how much that one man, with his leadership, his calm judgement and his skill, did to save, not only this country, but the world." Lord Tedder - Chief of the Royal Air Force, February 1947.

    * Katherine Mansfield - Novelist. Famous for writing books in France. She revolutionised the 20th Century English short story.

    * Kate Sheppard - Suffragist. The leader and main figurehead of the suffragist movement in New Zealand, the first country in the world to grant universal adult suffrage to men and women equally. Kate was a source of inspiration to suffragists, both in New Zealand and throughout the world.

    * Russell Crowe - Actor. Movies include The Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind. Now lives in Australia.

    * Sam Neil - Actor. Movies include The Dish, Jurassic Park.

    * Peter Jackson - Film director. Films include King Kong and the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. The Return of the King" set an Oscar record by winning all 11 awards for which it had been nominated, including best picture of the year.

    * Tim and Neil Finn - Musicians. Famous for the bands, 'Split Enz' and 'Crowded House'.

    * Kiri Te Kanawa - Opera singer. Highlights of her career include singing at Prince Charles and Diana's royal wedding.

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SOURCE: www.virtualoceania.net/newzealand/culture/people.shtml
Famous new zealanders see how we have really good ones but us has many of them but tthey did nothing better then us

me
John Betjeman
William Blake
Enid Blyton
Geoffrey Chaucer
Charles ****ens
M. R. James
J K Rowling
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
Charles Darwin
Michael Faraday
Stephen Hawking
Isaac Newton
Charlie Chaplin
Liam Ridgewell
Lee Bowyer
Roger Johnson
Scott Dann
Craig Gardner
Kevin Phillips
Ben Foster
Matt Derbyshire
Stuart Parnaby
thres more
Syd Barrett
David Bowie
Elton John
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Michael
Morrissey
Dusty Springfield
Robbie Williams
David Beckham
Bobby Moore
Princess Diana
Francis Drake
Florence Nightingale

Alfred Nobel.