Sentence examples for most famous native from inspiring English sources

And its most famous native son is probably Dick Vitale, the effusive basketball announcer.

Perhaps the island's most famous native, the singer talked to The Guardian about her formative years in a new interview.

Isaak Babel, Odessa's most famous native son, has a smaller display than Vera Inber, Trotsky's second cousin, who survived, then thrived, by praising Stalin.

But the name of the champion, Rulon Gardner -- the most famous native of Afton -- has been covered in silver spray paint.

Bethel's unpretentious downtown, which surrounds a small square named for P. T. Barnum, the town's most famous native son, draws as many visitors as it does residents.

In Northwest Washington stands a pretty neoclassical-style bridge named for one of the city's most famous native sons, Duke Ellington.

One of Swansea's most famous natives, the poet Dylan Thomas, once wrote of his "ugly, lovely town … crawling, sprawling … by the side of a long and splendid curving shore", and the city faced a similarly mixed reaction when it put itself forward again as a major cultural contender.

Sri Lanka topped a recent NY Times list of '31 Places To Go In 2010,' but one of the country's most famous natives doesn't agree.

Gardner cannot even say that he is the most famous Yankee native from his blink-and-you'll-miss-it-hometown.

They envisioned a museum that would showcase the works of the city's most famous living native son, the artist Dale Chihuly, and also jump-start the renewal of Tacoma's desolate downtown waterfront.

They may be the most famous Toledo natives after the actor Jamie Farr, and the investment in them has been recouped "many times over," said the team's president, Joe Napoli.