Seth MacFarlane is an American animator, writer, director, and voice actor who is famous for creating several animated TV shows. He created Family Guy in 1999 and voices many of the characters. He also created American Dad in 2005 and The Cleveland Show. MacFarlane was born in 1973 in Connecticut and studied animation at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has been a cartoonist and animator since childhood.

1. Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane has read made a few very famous animated TV shows and read
voices for them. He was born October 26, 1973 in Connecticut and finished the Rhode Island
School of Design, where he studied animation. He was an animator for Hanna-Barbera and
several other known TV shows. He made the most famous of his shows in 1999 witch is called
Family Guy and has done voicing for them since he made them. He made his second animated
TV show in 2005 with Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, witch is called American Dad and his
third animated TV show with Mike Henry , witch is called The Clevelad show and he does
voices for them too.
MacFarlane was born in Kent, Connecticut. His parents, Ann Perry (née Sager, 1947-2010) and
Ronald Milton MacFarlane (1946- ), were born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He has a
younger sister, Rachael MacFarlane. He is of Irish, Welsh, English, and Scottish descent, partly
by way of Canada. During his childhood, MacFarlane developed an interest in illustration and
began drawing cartoon characters Fred Flintstone and Woody Woodpecker, as early as two years
old. By the age of five, MacFarlane knew that he would want to pursue a career in animation,
and began by creating flip books, after his parents found a book on the subject. Four years later,
aged nine, MacFarlane began publishing a weekly comic strip entitled "Walter Crouton" for the
local newspaper in Kent, Connecticut, which paid him five dollars per week. In one anecdote
from the time, MacFarlane said in a 2011 interview he was "always like just weirdly fascinated
by the Communion ceremony so I did a strip that had a guy kneeling at the altar taking
Communion and saying 'Can I have fries with that?' And to my 11-year-old brain that was
comedy ...." The paper printed it and he got "an angry letter from our local priest .... It created
sort of a little mini-controversy in our little town."
MacFarlane received his high school diploma in 1991 from the Kent School. MacFarlane went
on to study film, video and animation at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he
earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. At RISD, MacFarlane created a series of independent
films, eventually meeting future Family Guy cast member Mike Henry, whose brother Patrick
was MacFarlane's classmate.