Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell was born on July 16, 1967 in Mill Valley, California, the son of Kay (née Overman), a teacher who taught at Old Mill School elementary school, and Lee Ferrell, a keyboardist for The Righteous Brothers. He has Irish ancestry from County Kerry in Ireland. He first attended school at Old Mill School Elementary, and later attended Mill Valley Middle School, both in Mill Valley, CA. He attended University High School in Irvine, CA, and was a kicker for the school’s varsity football team. He told the Orange County Register that the dullness of Irvine contributed to the growth of his humor. “Growing up in suburbia, in safe, master-planned Irvine, there was no drama so we had to create it in our heads. My main form of entertainment was cracking my friends up and exploring new ways of being funny. I didn’t have to have the survival mode instinct like other comics, who grew up in tough neighborhoods. I had the opposite. For me, I grew up in Mayberry, and the humor broke the boredom. And there was a lot to make fun of.” 
In August 2000, Ferrell married Swedish actress Viveca Paulin, whom he met in 1995 at an acting class. On March 7, 2004, their son Magnus Paulin Ferrell was born. On December 30, 2006, the couple had another son, Mattias Paulin Ferrell.
In 2006, I-Newswire.com, a site which accepts press releases from users for publication, reported that Ferrell had died in a paragliding accident. The hoax was published before its factual inaccuracy was noticed. The story was further propagated when it appeared on Google News.
Ferrell is a fan of USC Trojan football, At USC, Ferrell was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and is now an active alumnus. Ferrell has worked with head coach Pete Carroll to do motivational stunts for the players during the season.
Ferrell is also a supporter of Chelsea, an English Premier League football club. Ferrell represented Chelsea as honorary captain in the coin toss before the Chelsea v Inter Milan match at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on July 21, 2009.
In 2007, Autograph magazine named Ferrell the worst celebrity autographer. Its editor stated, “What’s so frustrating about Will Ferrell being the worst autograph signer this past year is that he used to be so nice to fans and collectors and a great signer. What makes him so bad is that he’ll taunt people asking for his autograph.” In response, Ferrell has stated, “I don’t know how I got on the list. I sign a lot of autographs,” but has admitted to taunting autograph-seekers: “I do. I really do. I’m like, ‘How badly do you want this autograph?’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘You say you’re my biggest fan, really, prove it.’ I’ll do things like that. They have to earn it.”
Ferrell had noted that, although he was well known for his SNL impersonation of President George Bush, he chose not to meet the President on several occasions, unlike his SNL predecessor Dana Carvey’s famous chummy relationship with George H. W. Bush, for both professional and political reasons: “I declined, partly out of comedic purposes, because when I was on the show Saturday Night Live at the time, it didn’t make sense to really meet the people that you play, for fear of them influencing you. And then the other side of it is, from a political standpoint, I don’t want to meet that guy.” Ferrell also appeared on an episode of Man vs. Wild, where he traveled throughout the tundras of Sweden with the show’s host, Bear Grylls. In the episode, Ferrell came across various unique situations, including having to eat an eye of a reindeer.
