Great Ohio People

[PrincessPeach]

Or Jeffrey Dahmer.

Thought of him too, but it turns out he was actually born in Wisconsin.

 

[BB73]

William Rainey Harper (July 26, 1856 - January 10, 1906) was a noted academic who helped to organize the University of Chicago, and served as its first President.

Born on July 26, 1856 in New Concord, Ohio1, William Rainey Harper established himself as one of America's leading academics of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Very early in life, Harper displayed skills years ahead of other children his age and was labeled a prodigy. By the age of eight, Harper began preparing for college level courses; at the age of ten he enrolled in Muskingum College in his native New Concord, Ohio; and at the age of fourteen he graduated from Muskingum. In 1872, Harper enrolled in Yale University to begin his post graduate studies, which he completed in 1876. Throughout his academic life, Harper wrote numerous texts. A strong supporter of life long learning, Harper was also involved with the Chautauqua Institute and its programming.

Harper college is in Palatine, Illinois - very close to me.

 

[tyrus]

Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma on May 7, 1968), also known as Traci Elizabeth Lords and Tracy Lords, is an American film actress and singer. She first achieved notoriety for her underage appearances in pornographic films and Penthouse magazine (she was 16[1] years old in her first film), later becoming a television and B-movie actress.

Traci's Wiki page

John Curtis Estes (August 3, 1944 ? March 13, 1988) better known as John Holmes, John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character in a series of related films), was one of the most famous male adult film stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and porno feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s, including at least one gay feature film and a handful of gay loops. He was best known for his exceptionally large, uncircumcised penis, which was heavily promoted as being the longest in the porn industry; its exact dimensions are, however, uncertain and the subject of controversy. Holmes also attracted notoriety for his involvement in the brutal Wonderland Murders in 1981, and for his death from AIDS.

Born in Ashville, Pickaway County, Ohio, as John Curtis Estes, Holmes knew very little of his father Carl Estes, a railroad worker, who walked out on the family when John was three or four years old. John's mother Mary, a devout Southern Baptist, married Harold Holmes a few years later and changed the family's surname to Holmes. His new stepfather proved to be a violent alcoholic who would come home inebriated, stumble about the house, and even vomit on the children. Mary Holmes later divorced him, and moved to Columbus, Ohio, with her children where they lived on welfare for a few years. When John was age eight, his mother met and married her third husband, Harold Bowman. They moved from Columbus and settled in nearby Pataskala, Ohio. After a few years of marriage, Bowman frequently beat Holmes, the youngest of four children, according to Sharon Holmes.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holmes

I love Ohio.

 

[ScriptOhio]

The vast majority of the 8200+ people on this list:

http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/memberlist.php

 

[scooter1369]

The vast majority of the 8200+ people on this list:

http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/memberlist.php

awww. You like me. You really, really like me.

unless I'm not part of that "vast majority" thing you mentioned. If thats the case, fuck off.

 

[stxbuck]

Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 ? October 1, 1990) was a General in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of independent candidate George C. Wallace in 1968.
He is credited with designing and implementing an effective systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. After the war, he headed the Berlin airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command into an effective means of conducting nuclear war.
Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 ? October 1, 1990) was a General in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of independent candidate George C. Wallace in 1968.
He is credited with designing and implementing an effective systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. After the war, he headed the Berlin airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command into an effective means of conducting nuclear war.

Running as VP for a segregationist aside...Curtis deserves to be here-he was a Buckeye and and an alum of Columbus-East as well...

 

[stxbuck]

Philip Michael Thomas (May 26, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American actor.
Thomas' most famous role is that of detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series Miami Vice. His first notable role was opposite Irene Cara in the 1976 film Sparkle. Following his success in Miami Vice, Thomas appeared in numerous made-for-TV movies and advertisements for telephone psychic services. He served as a spokesperson for cell phone entertainment company Nextones, and he supplied the voice for the character Lance Vance on the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. He is mixed race, being of German, Native American, African American and Irish ancestry.[1]

 

[Taosman]

You're related to Armstrong, eh? Cool. How closely?

I will say, though, I was kind of hoping it was Manson.

Of course, I apparently forgot the sarcasm font when I included Manson as "Great." My bad...

Ooops! My apologies for dinging you Peach!
I guess I'll have to make that one up! :(

 

[Taosman]

The vast majority of the 8200+ people on this list:

http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/memberlist.php

Suck-up! :tongue2:

 

[buckiprof]

You're related to Armstrong, eh? Cool. How closely?

I will say, though, I was kind of hoping it was Manson.

Of course, I apparently forgot the sarcasm font when I included Manson as "Great." My bad...

Distant relative. If he's the first man on the moon, then he's relation; if he's a Manson (or Dahmer, Sushi ), then there's no way he's related.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

Man, I see Sherman was already mentioned, but nobody dropped the name of the other famous person from my home town.

David Graf (Eugene Tackleberry)

his cousin was the assistant coach on my high school football team.

 

[Taosman]

Thurber and The New Yorker.......................
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/09/08/030908crat_atlarge

The New Yorker was the turning point, the crucial element, in Thurber?s life, just as he was a crucial element in the magazine?s development. But at the start no one knew quite what to do with him. Ross, as always, was in search of an administrative editor who could, through some arcane magic, make sense of the chaos that he thrived on, hiring a procession of young men ill-equipped to fill this slot??Hell, I hire anybody??then quickly dumping them. Given his anarchic spirit, Thurber was undoubtedly the least plausible of these luckless candidates. Besides, he knew that he was first, last, and always a writer. Ross persisted, though, and Thurber was kept busy rewriting and processing other writers? copy, being paid a small salary without extra compensation for any pieces of his own that found their way into the magazine.
From the beginning, his model as a writer?and Ross?s?was White, for the clarity, precision, and intelligence of his prose. And Andy White went from being a colleague (who told him frostily ?I always eat alone?) to a pal to a friend to (almost) a soul mate. It was White who literally picked up Thurber?s discarded drawings of men, women, and dogs (and the famous seal) from the floor and forced them down the collective throat of the art department. But though Thurber and White wrote a book together?the successful ?Is Sex Necessary?,? in 1929?they were very unalike. Thurber was gregarious, a prankster (Ross invariably fell for his fake phone calls in bizarre accents), almost a rowdy; White was cautious, dispassionate. As one contemporary friend put it, ?Andy was fearful of life. Jim was warm and involved with life.? Nevertheless, they made a formidable, and happy, team. These early years of The New Yorker, when the course of the magazine was being set by the Founding Fathers (the two young men, together with Ross and Wolcott Gibbs and a few others) plus the Founding Mother (Katharine Angell, who was to marry White), became for Thurber, in retrospect, a golden age.

At first, he was writing Talk of the Town as well as humor?he wrote hundreds of Talk pieces in all, industriously making more out of less, and not unfrequently something out of nothing. (Typical starts to his Talk pieces from the late twenties: ?The new Reptile Hall was officially opened a few days ago in the Museum of Natural History and we visited it amidst a group of youngsters who kept crying ?Good night!? and their mothers who kept murmuring ?Mercy!? ? And ?Older residents around Gramercy Park were astonished to find one night in April no lights in Allaire?s. A padlock hung on the hospitable doors of the famous old bierhalle.?) He went on turning out this kind of thing until the mid-thirties, but by then the two main preoccupations of his writing career had emerged: the relations between men and women, and the remembrance of his past.

 

[scooter1369]

We got it, Taos. You have a man crush on Thurber.

Did you just pick up his stuff or what?

 

[SanAntonioBuck]

John Legend (born John Stephens on December 28, 1978 in Springfield, Ohio) is a five-time Grammy Award winning R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist. His debut studio album, the platinum selling Get Lifted, was released in late 2004. It features collaborations with rapper and producer Kanye West as well as rapper Snoop Dogg and the singles "Used To Love U" (US top 100, UK top 30) and "Ordinary People" (US and UK top 30). He also collaborated with Slum Village on the song "Selfish" (US top 100), also featuring Kanye West. Legend also played the piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything is Everything" and sang background vocals on Jay-Z's "Encore," Alicia Keys' "You Don't Know My Name," and Fort Minor's "High Road." His brother, Vaughn Anthony, is also a singer.

 

[Taosman]

We got it, Taos. You have a man crush on Thurber.

Did you just pick up his stuff or what?

This series/thread is an attempt to educate as well as entertain.

scooter, your not required to read every post/thread on BP!

However, you may actually raise your IQ by doing so! (if that's possible)