Ok everyone do this and see what you find you never know what you will find out that is interesting.Look what I found I have a famous porn star from my hometown & a serial killer from where I live now 1.Google your town you were born in and for me I was born and raised in Radford Va so I did that and from the list that comes up click on the Wikipedia link for the place you googled then look in the contents block and click on (notable people from what ever town you are doing and this will give you a list of people.
My list of notable people from Radford
- John Dalton, former Virginia governor
- Mike Williams, Major League Baseball relief pitcher
- John Ripley, United States Marine Corps colonel
- Kevin Hartman, Major League Soccer goalkeeper
- Dorthea Hundley - aka: Seka, adult film star
- Shayne Graham, NFL kicker
- Margaret Skeete, oldest living American 1993-1994
- Gary Clark, Pro Bowl wide receiver
- Michael, Evan and Andrew Gregory of The Gregory Brothers and Auto-Tune the News
Then choose the most interesting one in my case it's Dorothy Hundley -aka Seka adult film star so I click her name and get the info and copy & paste it for everyone to see.
Seka (born Dorothea Patton
[1]) is an American pornographic actress who has appeared in many XXX-rated films during the late 1970s and the 1980s.
Dorothiea H. Patton was born and raised in Radford, Virginia.
[3] She attended high school in Hopewell,
where, as a teenager, she won a number of beauty pageants, including
"Miss Hopewell High School" and "Miss Southside Virginia."
[3] Under the influence of Ken Yontz, her second-husband-to-be, she ran several adult bookstores in the 1970s, until they moved to Las Vegas. While there, she did her first nude layout before eventually returning to Virginia.
[3] The layout brought an offer to shoot her first short film of pornography in Baltimore while she was still a teenager. Patton and Ken Yontz subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where she devoted herself to the pursuit of her career in porn, initially using the name "Sweet Alice",
[3] as well as "Linda Grasser."
[4]She eventually adopted the screen name
Seka, after a female blackjack dealer in Vegas she knew.
[5] She went on to star in more than 200 adult videos
[2] with "a break" in 1982, when, she stopped shooting sex movies, claiming "they wouldn't pay her what she wanted,"
[5] and turned to stripping and nude modeling while also running her own fan club. Subsequently, she also admitted that the HIV
epidemic in the mid-1980s contributed to her decision to avoid the
hardcore sex scene ("That's why I don't make movies any more...I like
to live").
[6] By the early '90s, she had returned to the porn industry to perform in a few final movies, her last being
American Garter.Jamie Gillis, who performed with Seka numerous times, believed that she was "a bit above porn" describing her as a "white trash queen."
[7] Of her fellow performers, Seka lists her favorite male screen partners as John C. Holmes, Mike Ranger, Paul Thomas and Jamie Gillis.
[6] In terms of female screen partners, she rates her favorites as Veronica Hart, Aunt Peg, Kay Parker and Candida Royalle.[
Ok after you find the most interesting one from where you were born & raised and if now you live in another city or town for example myself I'm in Blacksburg Va now so I do the same thing for Blacksburg Va Blacksburg's notable natives
- Eric Schmidt, Chairman & CEO of Google, former CEO of Novell [26]
- George C. Herring, historian, author, inter alia, of From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 ISBN 978-0-19-507822-0 (Oxford 2008)
- Bob Roop, American heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler
- Brandon Stokley, NFL wide receiver for the Denver Broncos
- Thomas M. Price, American architect
- Jason Randolph, American artist
- Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer
Looks like Henry Lee Lucas would be very interesting he is a serial killer
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936
[1] – March 13, 2001
[2]) was an American criminal, convicted of murder in 11 different cases and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer; he later recanted his confessions, and flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady.
[3]Lucas confessed to involvement in about 600 murders, but a more widely
circulated total of about 350 murders committed by Lucas is based on
confessions deemed "believable" by a Texas-based Lucas Task Force, a group which was later criticized by then-Attorney General of Texas, Jim Mattox, and others for sloppy police work and taking part in an extended "hoax."
[4]Beyond his recantation, some of Lucas' confessions have been
challenged as inaccurate by a number of critics, including law
enforcement and court officials. Lucas claimed to have been initially
subjected to poor treatment and coercive interrogation tactics while in
police custody, and to have confessed to murders in an effort to
improve his living conditions. Amnesty International
reported "the belief of two former state Attorneys General that Lucas
was in all likelihood innocent of the crime for which he was sentenced
to death."
[5]Lucas's sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1998 by then-Governor George W. Bush.
It remains the only successful commutation of a death sentence in Texas
since the re-institution of the death penalty in Texas in 1982. Lucas
died in prison of natural causes. Lucas still maintains a reputation,
in the words of author Sarah L. Knox, "as one of the world's worst
serial killers—even after the debunking of the majority of his confessions by the Attorney General of Texas."
[6]Lucas was born in a one-room log cabin in Blacksburg, Virginia, the youngest of nine children. His mother, Viola Dixon Waugh, was an alcoholic prostitute.
His father, Anderson Lucas, was an alcoholic and former railroad
employee who had lost his legs after being hit by a freight train. He
would usually come home inebriated, and would suffer from Viola's wrath
as often as his sons.
Lucas claimed that he and his brother were regularly beaten by Viola, often for no reason. He once spent three days in a coma
after his mother struck him with a wooden plank, and on many occasions
he was forced by his mother to watch her having sex with men. Lucas
also claimed that his mother would often dress him in girls' clothing.
His sister Almeda Lucas supports his story, and she claims that she
once had two pictures of Henry as a toddler dressed in girls' clothing.
Lucas described an incident when he was given a mule as a gift by his
uncle, only to see his mother shoot and kill it. Lucas also claimed
that, at the age of eight, he was given a teddy bear by one of his
teachers, and was then beaten by his mother for accepting charity.
When Lucas was 10, his brother accidentally stabbed him in the left
eye while they were fighting. His mother ignored the injury for four
days, and subsequently the eye grew infected and had to be replaced by
a glass eye.
In December 1949, Anderson Lucas died of hypothermia, after going home drunk and collapsing outside during a blizzard. Shortly after, Henry dropped out of school in the sixth grade and ran away from home, drifting around Virginia. Lucas claimed that he first practiced bestiality and zoosadism
while he was a runaway, and also began committing petty thefts and
burglaries around the state. Lucas claimed to have committed his first
murder in 1951, when he strangled 17-year-old Laura Burnsley, who
refused his sexual advances. As with most of his confessions, he later
retracted this claim. On June 10, 1954, Lucas was convicted on over a
dozen counts of burglary in and around Richmond, Virginia,
and was sentenced to four years in prison. He escaped in 1957, was
recaptured three days later, and was released on September 2, 1959.
In late 1959, Lucas traveled to Tecumseh, Michigan to live with his half-sister, Opal. Around this time, Lucas was engaged to marry a pen pal with whom he had corresponded while incarcerated. When his mother visited him for Christmas,
she disapproved of her son's fiancée and insisted he move back to
Blacksburg. He refused, and they argued repeatedly about his upcoming
nuptials.