Performer Gene Autry is the only celebrity to have 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Roy Rogers, Bob Hope, Tony Martin, and Mickey Rooney each have stars in four categories.
Each year, an average of two-hundred nominations are submitted to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Walk of Fame Selection Committee. Only about 10% of nominees are selected.
To date, 47 percent of the stars have been awarded in the motion pictures category, 24 percent in television, 17 percent in audio recording, 10 percent in radio, and less than 2 percent in the live performance category.
Michael Jackson was inducted onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1980 as member of The Jacksons and in 1984 as solo artist.
Not only is there a star for the Beatles, but John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr all have individual stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Carol Burnett was presented a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6439 Hollywood Blvd., in front of the Hollywood Pacific Theatre where she worked as an usher in 1957.
The crew of Apollo XI have 4 stars that are shaped as the moon instead of the traditional star.
In 2004, at the age of 18, the twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, became the youngest people to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1978, in honor of his Fiftieth anniversary, Mickey Mouse became the first cartoon character to have a star.
Ronald Reagan is the only President of the United States who has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
20 to 30 new stars, on average, are added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame each year.
A popular (but false) bit of Hollywood lore is that Woodward was the first celebrity to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. More likely is that Woodward was the first celebrity to agree to pose with her star for photographers, and therefore was singled out in the collective public imagination as the first awardee.
In 1978, the City of Los Angeles designated the Hollywood Walk of Fame a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
In 1994, Sophia Loren was honored with the 2,000th star on the Walk of Fame.
There are 2 Harrison Ford stars, honoring the silent film actor (at 6665 Hollywood Blvd), and the present-day actor (in front of the Kodak Theatre at 6801 Hollywood Blvd).
