This should have labels :( I don’t recognize these people
Who can help? Copy the list and add who you recognize:
Long list
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida: Pitbull Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi: Oprah Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina: Aziz Anzari South Dakota Tennessee Texas: Beyonce? Utah Vermont Virginia Washington: Dwight Shrute West Virginia Wisconsin WyomingI think this is the source (which includes names for everyone): https://www.businessinsider.com/most-famous-celebrities-from-each-state-2013-8
I copied the names below for anyone that doesn’t want to click through:
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Alabama: Channing Tatum Alaska: Jewel Arizona: Emma Stone Arkansas: Billy Bob Thornton California: Kim Kardashian Colorado: Tim Allen Connecticut: Seth MacFarlane Delaware: Ryan Phillippe Florida: Pitbull Georgia: Julia Roberts Hawaii: Bette Midler Idaho: Aaron Paul Illinois: Harrison Ford Indiana: David Letterman Iowa: Ashton Kutcher Kansas: Kirstie Alley Kentucky: George Clooney & Jennifer Lawrence Louisiana: Britney Spears Maine: Patrick Dempsey Maryland: Julie Bowen Massachusetts: Mark Wahlberg Michigan: Madonna Minnesota: Prince Mississippi: Oprah Winfrey Missouri: Jon Hamm Montana: Michelle Williams Nebraska: Hilary Swank Nevada: Jimmy Kimmel New Hampshire: Adam Sandler New Jersey: Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen & Jon Bon Jovi New Mexico: Neil Patrick Harris New York: Jay Z North Carolina: Zach Galifianakis North Dakota: Josh Duhamel Ohio: Halle Berry Oklahoma: Carrie Underwood Oregon: Lisa Rinna Pennsylvania: Will Smith & Tina Fey Rhode Island: Elisabeth Hasselbeck South Carolina: Aziz Ansari South Dakota: January Jones Tennessee: Miley Cyrus & Justin Timberlake Texas: Beyoncé Utah: Julianne Hough Vermont: Zosia Mamet Virginia: Sandra Bullock Washington: Rainn Wilson West Virginia: Jennifer Garner Wisconsin: Mark Ruffalo Wyoming: Matthew Fox
Dwight is more famous than Kurt Cobain? Hendrix?
I can’t tell who like ten of the people are
I got like 5.
So quirky!
Define famous. Taylor Swift would be on here. Ashton Kutcher is right for Iowa because that’s all they could talk about there
TIL Tina Fey is more famous than Taylor Swift and Will Smith.
I was hoping to see how they’d decided that - maybe using Google searches, or some Wikipedia metadata.
Also, is this famous in the USA or internationally? E.g. there will be some NFL or baseball players who are household names in the states but are virtually unknown elsewhere in the world.
I’m guessing based on Louisiana’s (Britney Spears), they used search traffic and there’s a bias toward people who have scandals that drive periodic spikes in search traffic. There’s bigger celebrities from Louisiana than her but they aren’t really tabloid fodder.
Peyton Manning is probably more famous in the U.S. He’s constantly doing commercials and won multiple Super Bowls. Reese Witherspoon was the highest paid Hollywood actress in 2023. She’s gotta be more famous globally or Hollywood studios wouldn’t be giving her bags of money. I’m sure they both have way higher Q-scores than Britney Spears but are pretty much scandal-free.
I hadn’t heard of Q-Scores, thanks for the link. Interesting to think about infamy vs appeal, and how some for some people+issues they can be the same.
I suppose that they could use something like Google Ngram which might give similar results to search results - particularly how tabloids will exhaustively cover scandals and drive up their “fame”.
Who is that in Tennessee, and why isn’t it Dolly Parton?
What?! How is someone from Delaware more famous than Aubrey Plaza?!
Biden?
Parasocial relationships are weird and fucked up.
Stephen King isn’t more famous than Patrick Dempsey?
I’m a big Parks and Rec fan. I’m just finding out that Tom Haverford and the actor who played him, Aziz Ansari, are both from South Carolina. That’s great!
