Famous people who graduated from your high school

[RedRalph]

I can top all of them, I went to Mount Temple Comp, as did U2

 

[CCRunner]

Pat Tillman went to the school I would have gone to if I hadn't moved a while ago.

But the school I go to now isn't old enough to have any famous people. It's less than ten years old

 

[Theige]

I can top all of them, I went to Mount Temple Comp, as did U2

Why are you saying that like its a good thing?

 

[Harbringer]

Aberdeen hi school, kudos if you know who dropped out of it.

 

[Orange Seeds]

Joe Sakic!

If you're not a Canadian or a hockey fan you won't know who he is. Actually, the former GM of the Vancouver Canucks went to my high school as well. Come to think of it, i have a friend who slept with Cliff Ronning's daughter. So i guess if it wasn't for hockey my high school wouldn't have any alumni.

 

[Jan H]

high school:
Stijn Coninx, one of Belgium's best film directors, nominated for an oscar for best foreign language movie
primary school:
Belle Perez, popular singer in Belgium, the Netherlands and a couple of other places. She used to live in my street

 

[LucyDuke]

I can top all of them, I went to Mount Temple Comp, as did U2

I'm so sorry.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

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There we go, that was my list of famous people who've graduated from any of my schools.

Same here. I've got nothing to brag about.

 

[Red Door]

You can have him back. He costs us an arm and a leg.

And he will also get you millions in boosted alumni donations once you make the tournament. Seems like a fair trade-off to me.


From my school:
Roman Oben (All-Pro Offensive Tackle)
John Thompson III (Head Coach for Basketball at Georgetown)
Pat Buchanan
Martin O'Malley (Governor of Maryland)

A couple of former Senators and two people involved in Lincoln's assassination.

If I went to the local school, it would have been:
Katie Couric
Eric Schmidt
Paul Wellstone

 

[Verbose]

Former alumni, apart from myself:

Gustaf I Wasa (1496-1560), king, according to legend ended his schooldays rather badly by driving his dagger into the Latin grammar before turning to his teacher with the words: "May the Devil take you and your grammar!" Never displayed anything but utter contempt for education (the only use he claimed to have found for a book was to ram it down the barrel of a gun to keep the ball an dshot in place), but did well regardless.

Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), Nobel Prize Laureate for chemistry 1903

Kai Siegbahn (1918-2007), Nobel Prize Laureate for physics in 1981

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961), UN Gen. Secr.

Hans Blix (192, ex Swedish Foreign Sec., but internationally mostly of IAEA-fame.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Same high school?

 

[carmen510]

Shirley Abrahamson, Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice
Charles Ardai, writer & CEO of Juno
Martina Arroyo, opera soprano
Eli Attie, TV and political speechwriter
Kyle Baker, Cartoonist
Etel Billig, Actress and founder of Illinois Theatre Center
Angela Bofill, jazz singer
Michael A. Burstein, science fiction writer
Hortense Calisher, novelist
Sewell Chan, New York Times journalist
Christopher Collet, actor
Olivia Cole, actress
Jon Daniels, Texas Rangers General Manager
Lucy Dawidowicz, Holocaust historian
Manohla Dargis, New York Times film critic
Ruby Dee, actress and African American rights activist
Desmond Devlin, MAD Magazine writer
Ophelia Devore, first mixed-race model and founder-Grace Del Marco agency.
Richard (DiMasi) Fontana, free software and open source lawyer
Diane Di Prima, poet
Mark Jason Dominus, Perl programmer
Mildred S. Dresselhaus, physicist and professor of electrical engineering
Sandi Simcha DuBowski, filmmaker
Dujeous, hip-hop group
Helen Epstein, journalist and author
Brett Haber, Television Sportscaster
Evelyn Handler, President of University of New Hampshire and Brandeis University
Christopher Hayes, Syndicated journalist
Bernadine Healy, former NIH director and Red Cross president
Carrie Kei Heim, actress
Taina Hernandez, broadcaster
Jonathan Hoefler, typeface designer
Steve Hofstetter, comedian/radio personality
Ashok Bhalla (Dead Air Dave), radio personality
Adam Horowitz, TV writer/producer
Florence Howe, feminist activist
Immortal Technique, rapper/political activist
Elena Kagan, Dean of Harvard Law School
Eric Kaplan, TV writer/producer
Max Kellerman, broadcaster
Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times journalist and author
Judy Lewent, CFO of Merck
Robert Lopez, Avenue Q composer-lyricist
Audre Lorde , poet and professor
Donna Minkowitz, writer and journalist
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In The Heights writer/actor
Thisbe Nissen, novelist
Cynthia Nixon, actress
Mollie Orshansky, statistician
Cynthia Ozick, novelist
Ellen Ash Peters, Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice
Pearl Primus , choreographer/dancer
Jennifer Raab, Hunter College President
Mina Rees, mathematician
Christopher Rojas, record producer/songwriter
Bruce Schneier, security expert
Susan Sheehan, journalist
David ("Sane") Smith, influential 1980s graffiti artist, once #1 on the NYPD "hit list"
Amy Sohn, novelist
Jeannie Suk , Professor at Harvard Law School
Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist and poet
Judith Jarvis Thomson, Professor of Philosophy at MIT
Michal Towber, Singer-Songwriter
Young MC, rapper
Linda P. Fried- Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Sandy Fong , Olympic athlete (shooting)

 

[emzie]

Jack Nicklaus and Dave Thomas' daughter, Wendy, for whom the Wendy's chain is named.

 

[CaptainF]

From Wikipedia:

* Tami Maida, a homecoming princess who played quarterback for a school JV football team, and became the subject of the CBS movie Quarterback Princess, with Helen Hunt as Maida.
* Mike Thurman, major league baseball pitcher who played for the Montreal Expos and New York Yankees.
* Kevin Boss, professional football tight-end for the New York Giants

Of those three, I'd say Kevin Boss is easily the most famous.

 

[Dachs]

SR Sidarth, the guy who got called "macaca" by George Allen. Eric Froehlich, professional poker player. Also the guys who wrote The Rule of Four, Dustin Thomason and Ian Caldwell. A bunch of other people that you guys have a far higher probability of not having heard of.

 

[Kennigit]

My high school is only 4 years old (incl. this year), w/ only 2 graduating classes (3 this year).

But apparently the high schools that we split off from don't have notable alumni either (and are much older, ~60 years) according to wikipedia.

 

[Squarg]

according to Wikipedia
* Dustin Brown, hockey player, rightwinger and captain for Los Angeles Kings
* Stephen Carter '72, author and Yale Law School professor
* Caryn Davies '00, '08 Olympic rower
* Arthur Dean '16, chief international negotiator for President Dwight Eisenhower[5]
* Daniel Mark Fogel '65, President of the University of Vermont
* Mia Korf '83, actress (The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, One Life to Live)
* Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo, musician, Gym Class Heroes
* Daniel R. Mackesey, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame member
* Mary McDonnell, actress (Battlestar Galactica, Dances with Wolves)
* Hugh Troy, noted practical joker
* Paul Wolfowitz '61, Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001–2005), World Bank President (2005–2007)
Apparently my school newspaper is on of the longest running in existence and both Paul Wolfowitz and Stephen Carter wrote for it.

 

[King of Town]

Two Nobel prize winners: Robert Holley, and Edwin krebs.
Movie Critic Roger Ebert
Miss America Erika Harold
Novelist David Foster Wallace
WNBA player Latoya Bond
High Times Editor in Cheif Steven Hager

Not bad for how small the town is.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

[wiki]Pamela Melroy[/wiki] (I knew who she was but had to check Wikipedia for her name).

And Kevin Blinn, although he isn't famous yet.

 

[Bill3000]

Only ones I know are Kevin James and Mick Foley.