Surrey, BC
Like the topic says, name a few people born from your town..within 30 miles. I’ll start with Pamela Anderson..Ryan Reynolds..Larry walker..and Cheech & Chong started/met in Vancouver , so I’m adding them too..
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Salem, OR
Sam Adams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Adams_(American_football)
I was actually in school / same classes with this one ^
Jim Parsons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Cooper)
Mary Lou Retton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Retton)
I'm sure there are more, not necessarily 30 miles though.
D list “celebrity” Johnny FairPlay - just played a few of my pins with him last week before everything shut down at the brewery
I live in the Seattle area so I'll be the first to claim Jimi Hendrix. Of course there are tons of other famous people from this area but for me Jimi stands above the others.
Craig Kirkman several times World Skeet Champion. Nice guy from a Sporting Family.
Lived beside Richard Petty once, still kicking and messing with hot cars. Awoke many times when they were testing
those Hemis.
Leo Fender
Mike Ness and all his cronies
Jackson Browne
Hoby Brenner
Keith Van Horne
Richard Nixon- Next town over
Gwen Stafani
Jim Edmonds
Kevin Costner adopted our town after going to the university although born in Lynwood. He likes baseball and we are 4 time national champions. Many great players came out of the system.
And a few more.
Clarkston, MI:
Kid Rock -used to see him in the restaurants often.
Tim Robinson (Detroiters, SNL) - He wrote this short film for SNL and included the line "We're gonna have some beers behind the gazebo in Depot park" (at 24 seconds), which is what the high schoolers would do. We just did it last Friday night!
Quoted from Antron77:I went to high school with Erin Andrews the sports broadcaster. Good ol Bloomingdale High school in Valrico Fl.
Oh and also Debra Lafave the hot blonde teacher that put school predators on the map.
I sure didn't have any teachers that looked like her when I was in high school. Wouldn't have ditched so many classes and hung out in the smoking area.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/hamilton-1350.php
Eugene Levy, Martin Short, and Niel Peart. Are probably the most famous.
I went to highschool with Kathleen Robertson. Of Beverly Hills 90210 fame.
Quoted from fiberdude120:John Schneider was a close friend back in school
Peter Framton came to my house a couple of times
Did you feel like he did????? 
30 mile radius covers pretty much my entire state.
Aubrey Plaza
Valerie Bertinelli
Elisabeth Shue
Ryan Phillipe
Judge Reinhold
George Thorogood
Honorable Mentions:
Teri Polo (Stiller's wife in meet the parents)
Elena Delle Donne (Female Basketball player)
Cythia Rothrock (action movie "star")
Thomas Capano (murdering Lawyer)
all the Bidens (the one biden kid married his brother's widow, gross)
Quoted from GSones:I sure didn't have any teachers that looked like her when I was in high school. Wouldn't have ditched so many classes and hung out in the smoking area.
Me either. She was a classmate of mine before all the drama lol.
Then I woke up, Mom and Dad
Are rolling on the couch
Rolling numbers, rock and rolling
Got my Kiss records out
Quoted from DK:Ray Finkle
Either Einhorn is Finkle or those are the worst hemorrhoids I've ever seen!
Benjamin Franklin, Paul revere, Samuel Adams, JFK, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Uma Thurman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aerosmith, Matt Damon...
Pro golfer Jim Furyk was one of my classmates and a teammate of mine on the 1980 MT Royals B division baseball championship team. I still have the Polaroid of our team picture. Jim, me and two other kids in class used to hang out in 4th grade together and punch each other in the balls all the time. It was some sort of sick game we played.
Quoted from GSones:I live in the Seattle area so I'll be the first to claim Jimi Hendrix. Of course there are tons of other famous people from this area but for me Jimi stands above the others.
Jimi fr sure. But, how bout Bruce lee?
I remember drew Bledsoe as a lil guy at football practice. His dad was my hs coach. I went to an autograph session yrs ago for my kids and he signed a pic of him and dad on the field
Kevin Bacon
Bradley Cooper
Kobe Bryant
Bill Cosby
Lots more from Philly area, these just off top of my head.
Randy Johnson
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Johnson
Max Baer lived here for a while
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Baer_(boxer)
Longest lasting lightbulb (yeah, it isn't a person)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
Josh Cooley:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Cooley
James DePavia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_DePaiva
Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) went to the same High School I attended (Lawrence High School in NJ) but I was long gone from the area before he was in that school system. He moved from NY to NJ about the same time as I was headed off to college.
The Edmonds brothers are from my city- they all play in the NFL, (all three brothers) they do a lot of community events like ymca and boys and girls club events. They are all genuinely nice guys.
The guy who invented "Green Stamps"....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sperry
Yeah, lets see somebody top that one!
Quoted from Budman:My 14 year old daughter; double gold medal winner and youngest ever North American Dressage Champion. I live in a town of 400, so what more do you expect ?!
Best so far!!
Dave Winfield
Paul Molitor
Prince
Larry Fitzgerald
Terrell Suggs
Josh Hartnett
Matt Birk
Steve Walsh
Rachael Leigh Cook
Jack Morris
Phil Housley
Vern Gagne
Khalid El-Amin
Kent Hrbek
Quoted from AFM95:Dave Winfield
Paul Molitor
Prince
Larry Fitzgerald
Terrell Suggs
Josh Hartnett
Matt Birk
Steve Walsh
Rachael Leigh Cook
Jack Morris
Phil Housley
Vern Gagne
Khalid El-Amin
Kent Hrbek
The Replacements!
Quoted from AFM95:Dave Winfield
Paul Molitor
Prince
Larry Fitzgerald
Terrell Suggs
Josh Hartnett
Matt Birk
Steve Walsh
Rachael Leigh Cook
Jack Morris
Phil Housley
Vern Gagne
Khalid El-Amin
Kent Hrbek
Dr. Fink gets no love?! 
Quoted from TheLaw:Hmmm.....I think every famous Ann Arbor person was born somewhere else.
My sons high school football team is sending a kid your way who I think has a legit shot at being famous. Most electric high school football player I’ve ever seen from these parts.
Quoted from Chisox:The Replacements!
I was going off the top of my head. I completely forgot about them and Soul Asylem.
Love Alex Chilton!
Quoted from Completist:Don Cherry
Gord Downie
Doug Gilmour
Bryan Adams
Me
kingston boy !
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