List of people from Orlando, Florida
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This is a list of notable people natives and residents of Orlando, Florida:
- AK1200 - musician/record producer
- Casey Anthony - notable criminal suspect
- Lance Bass - singer; former member of boy band 'N Sync
- Wayne Brady - actor, singer, comedian and television personality
- Delta Burke - television and film actress
- Carrot Top - comedian
- Johnny Damon - professional baseball player
- Howie Dorough, member of the Backstreet Boys
- Buddy Dyer - present mayor of Orlando
- Charles McArther Emmanuel - the son of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor[1][2]
- Joey Fatone - singer and former member of boy 'N Sync
- Zack Greinke - professional baseball player
- Glenda Hood - former mayor
- Jack Kerouac - author, poet and painter
- Brian Kendrick - professional wrestler
- A.J. McLean, member of the Backstreet Boys
- Brody Murakami - record producer
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg - Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and geneticist
- A.J. Pierzynski - professional baseball player
- Robert Pierre - Christian singer/songwriter
- Tyra Sanchez - drag performer and winner of the second season of reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race
- Warren Sapp - former professional football plater
- Chuck Schuldiner - "Godfather of Death Metal", frontman of band Death
- Derrick Sharp - American-Israeli professional basketball player
- Wesley Snipes - film actor and producer
- There For Tomorrow - rock band
- Daniel Tosh - comedian, Host of Tosh.0 On Comedy Central
- Trivium, heavy metal band
- Tiger Woods - professional golfer[3]
- John Watts Young - astronaut
- Jan Mulder (musician) - pianist, composer, and conductor
[edit] References
- ^ "Ex-prisoner: Taylor's son laughed at torture." CNN. September 30, 2008.
- ^ Weimar, Carrie. "Liberian torture case traces back to Orlando." St. Petersburg Times. February 6, 2007.
- ^ "Voter registration not out of Woods." Akron Beacon Journal. September 10, 2008.