Last week, we did Alabama through Montana. This week, it’s all the rest …
Nebraska
Marlon Brando
- Claim to Fame: actor
- Birthplace: Omaha
- Left: at age 6
Nevada
Andre Agassi
- Claim to Fame: tennis player
- Birthplace: Las Vegas
- Left: at age 13
- Reason: to attend tennis academy (in Florida)
New Hampshire
Sarah Silverman
- Claim to Fame: comedian
- Birthplace: Concord (family ran the clothing store Crazy Sophie's Outlet)
- Stayed: thru high school
- Reason for leaving: college (NYU)
New Jersey
Buzz Aldrin
- Claim to Fame: astronaut
- Birthplace: Glen Ridge
- Stayed: thru high school
- Reason for leaving: college (West Point)
New Mexico
Jeff Bezos (born Jeff Jorgensen)
- Claim to Fame: businessman
- Birthplace: Albuquerque
- Left: at age 4
- Reason: dad’s first job out of grad school
New York
Michael Jordan
- Claim to Fame: basketball player
- Birthplace: Brooklyn
- Left: at age 5
North Carolina
Zach Galifianakis
- Claim to Fame: actor
- Birthplace: North Wilkesboro
- Left: after college (NC State)
North Dakota
Phil Jackson
- Claim to Fame: basketball coach
- Birthplace: Deer Lodge
- Stayed: thru college (Univ. of North Dakota)
- Reason for leaving: drafted by the New York Knicks
Ohio
Stephen Spielberg
- Claim to Fame: director
- Birthplace: Cincinnati
- Left: at age 6
- Reason: dad’s new job
Oklahoma
Tony Randall
- Claim to Fame: actor
- Birthplace: Tulsa
- Stayed: thru high school
- Reason for leaving: college (Northwestern)
Oregon
Linus Pauling
- Claim to Fame: medical researcher
- Birthplace: Portland
- Stayed: thru undergrad (Oregon State)
- Reason for leaving: grad school (Cal Tech)
Pennsylvania
Kobe Bryant
- Claim to Fame: basketball player
- Birthplace: Philadelphia
- Stayed: thru high school
- Reason for leaving: to play in the NBA
Rhode Island
Cormac McCarthy
- Claim to Fame: author
- Birthplace: Providence
- Left: at age 4
- Reason: dad’s new job (lawyer for the TVA)
South Carolina
Aziz Ansari
- Claim to Fame: comedian
- Birthplace: Columbia
- Stayed: thru high school
- Reason for leaving: college (NYU)
South Dakota
Adam Vinatieri
- Claim to Fame: football player
- Birthplace: Yankton
- Stayed: thru college (South Dakota State)
- Reason for leaving: to play for the Amsterdam Admirals (European Football League)
Tennessee
Quentin Tarantino
- Claim to Fame: director
- Birthplace: Knoxville
- Left: at age 3
Texas
Wes Anderson
- Claim to Fame: director
- Birthplace: Houston
- Stayed: thru college (Univ. of Texas)
Utah
Roseanne Barr
- Claim to Fame: comedian / actress
- Birthplace: Salt Lake City
- Left: at age 18
Vermont
Ted Bundy
- Claim to Fame: serial killer
- Birthplace: Burlington (at Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers)
- Left: “shortly after birth”
- Reason: to live with maternal grandparents (who pretended they were his parents)
Virginia
Warren Beatty (and sister Shirley MacLaine)
- Claim to Fame: actor
- Birthplace: Richmond
- Stayed: thru high school
- Reason for leaving: college (Northwestern)
Washington
Bing Crosby
- Claim to Fame: singer / actor
- Birthplace: Tacoma
- Left: at age 25
- Reason: to further singing career (in LA)
West Virginia
Steve Harvey
- Claim to Fame: comedian / TV show host
- Birthplace: Welch
- Left: at age 6
- Reason: dad gave up coal mining
Wisconsin
Orson Wells
- Claim to Fame: actor / director
- Birthplace: Kenosha
- Left: at age 6
- Reason: parents’ divorce
Wyoming
Jackson Pollock
- Claim to Fame: artist
- Birthplace: Cody
- Left: before age 1
- Reason: parents’ divorce
