One of the best players ever to play in the NFL celebrates his birthday today. Joe Montana,despite an unassuming draft and a slow start developed into one of the best quarterbacks ever to play the game. His ability to lead a team at the end of the game is unrivaled. I could go on and on, but it would be fair just to let you read about him at Wikipedia (Joe Montana)
So for today’s list, we are going to look at other famous people with the names of states. No, not people like George Washington who states are named after, that would be too easy; but fictional and real people who share their names with the maps of the US.
- George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington are fine representatives for the state of Washington, or was it the city? George Carver is known for his work with peanuts while Booker was an influential politician in his day.
- Johnny Utah – Kaneau Reeves role in Point Break
- Dakota Fanning – Actress known for her roles in I am Sam and The secret life of bees.
- Georgia O’Keefe – a fascinating, innovative American artist
- Virginia Woolf – a tragic writer from England during the last 1800′s. Interestingly enough, there is no appearance of Virginia Wolf in the play (and movie) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
- Minnesota Fats – legendary fictional pool player
- Indiana Jones – Role made famous by Harrison Ford, although technically named after the dog.
- Tennessee Williams – American Playwright who wrote such classics as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar named Desire.
- Neveda Smith – A character played by Steve McQueen in a movie with the same name.
- Joe Montana, whose birthday we celebrate today.
These are just the relatively famous ones. At one of the BEST high schools in America, (warning, writers bias alert), Santa Teresa High School in San Jose, there was a less famous but appropriately named California Bowersmith..
