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
Wyoming
I 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?
Parasocial relationships are weird and fucked up.
What?! How is someone from Delaware more famous than Aubrey Plaza?!
Biden?
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!
For the map enthused!
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