# Famous classmates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994 "2003-10-07T03:42:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/21 "2003-10-07T17:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aaaaaarrgg \* > \*\*danny tamberelli, little pete from ‘pete and pete’ went to my middle school and was my brother’s lab partner one year in high school. he works at the bagel store in my town in the summers. > \*\* Huh. The guy who played big Pete graduated from my first high school a year before I got there. ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/22 "2003-10-07T17:40:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by karomon \* > \*\*Huh. The guy who played big Pete graduated from my first high school a year before I got there. \*\* I think you went to the same high school as my fiance’s sisters boyfriend… He is 22 or 23 right now… and has mentioned going to the same school as the celebs you mentioned above… His name is John Brera(ton? I can’t spell it… ) do you know him? ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/23 "2003-10-07T17:46:06Z")
Nobody terribly famous in their own right, but a guy I went to high school with is Alicia Silverstone’s boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/24 "2003-10-07T17:56:03Z")
> [@](#): > > I think you went to the same high school as my fiance’s sisters boyfriend… > He is 22 or 23 right now… and has mentioned going to the same school as the celebs you mentioned above… > > His name is John Brera(ton? I can’t spell it… ) > do you know him? Well, there were several Johns in the two grades above me, which is where he would have been, and I don’t know any of their last names. > [@](#): > > …and has mentioned going to the same school as the celebs you mentioned above… Which celebs? Because they’re compiled from three different high schools that I attended. The big Pete was at Hunter College High School, and most of the previous celebs were from Stuyvesant. Mos Def was from City-as-School. ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/25 "2003-10-07T17:58:11Z")
Oh, wait! I just remembered someone! I was somewhat friendly with Alex Weisendanger, the kid who played Little Buddha in the film “Little Buddha”. ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/26 "2003-10-07T19:27:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by karomon \* > \*\*Which celebs? Because they’re compiled from three different high schools that I attended. The big Pete was at Hunter College High School, and most of the previous celebs were from Stuyvesant. Mos Def was from City-as-School. \*\* I think he said that Tim Robbins, and Lucy Liu… and I think he also said the beastie boys… ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/27 "2003-10-07T19:31:16Z")
Then he went to Stuyvesant. Lots of people in Stuy. I think I remember two or three of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/28 "2003-10-07T19:41:26Z")
I forgot one: Oliver North’s daughter was in one of my high school English classes. This was before Iran-Contra broke, and I recognized her in a Life magazine article about Oliver North. OK, that was a daughter of a famous person, and not a famous person. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/29 "2003-10-07T20:46:25Z")
A lot of my good friends had P.E. classes in HS with Drew Gooden of Kansas Jayhawks and Orlando Magic ‘fame’. He was a year behind me at El Cerrito High School. That’s approximately it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/30 "2003-10-07T22:43:48Z")
One of the contestants on “The Mole” (I never saw it!) was in my class in high school. My college cranks out big names all the time, so I won’t go there, cause I didn’t know any of them, unless you count my buddy who works for city government in a southern california beach town. May be mayor some day. You never know. He is the kind of guy you would want in government. He is honest and has a lot of integrity. Come to think of it, the poor slob hasn’t got a chance in politics! * * * Delta-32 Skee-doo! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/31 "2003-10-07T22:46:32Z")
Oh, wait! I forgot… I did my freshman year of college at UNLV and had classes with Freddie Banks. He attended class and was a pretty nice guy. He was on the team that played for the championship. * * * Email: Obfuscating communication for over a decade! ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/32 "2003-10-07T22:48:04Z")
Nobody. My high school used to have their big successful graduate come and speak on motivation and whatnot–she was a Laker Girl. I forget her name. But that was as great at it ever got for my school. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/33 "2003-10-07T22:57:52Z")
The rest of the story… [John Marshall High School, Los Angeles, California](http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Marshall_HS/) **Lance Ito** , Superior Court Judge (the judge in the O.J. Simpson case) **Rosemary La Planche** , 1949 Miss America **Julie Newmar** , actress **John Browning** , pianist **Michael Haynes** , 1997 NFL Hall of Famer of the Los Angeles Raiders **David Ho, MD** , Magic Johnson’s physician **Michael Antonovich** , Los Angeles County Supervisor **Barnett Cooperman** , Judge **Carter Powell** , Admiral **Leonardo Di Caprio** , Actor **John Paul DeJoria** , the CEO of Paul Mitchell Systems hair care products **Michelle Phillips** , actress and one of the original “Mamas” in the 60’s rock group The Mamas and the Papas \ **Dejoria and Phillips** were caught talking in class by their business teacher (Mr. Wachs) and were told that if they didn’t pay attention, they wouldn’t amount to anything. \ [Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California](http://www.lacc.cc.ca.us/) **James Coburn** , Actor **Michael Antonovich** , Los Angeles County Supervisor **Rick Tuttle** , former Los Angeles City Controller **Dianne Watson** , former State Senator **Bernard Parks** , Los Angeles Police Department Chief [Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah](http://www.byu.edu) I bet there are more then this, but their site wasn’t very friendly about finding famous alumni. I had to rely on my memory. YIKES :eek: **Jim McMahon** , colorful quarterback for the Chicago Bears **Steve Young** , stupendous quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. A sportscaster since his retirement. He also has a JD degree. The dude is an Attorney. :wally **Andy Reid** , Head coach for the Philadelphia Eagles I was a couple years ahead of Andy. He also attended 2 other schools I did… Thomas Starr King Jr. High [it’s now a middle school] and John Marshall High School. [University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah](http://www.utah.edu/) Honest! I deleted some that I had no clue who they were nor did I understand what made them so famous. A _very_ user friendly alumni site. 😃 **Rocky Anderson** , Mayor of Salt Lake City. **Alan Ashton** , Co-founder of WordPerfect Corp. **Terrel H. Bell** , Acting U.S. Commissioner of Education 1970-71, U.S. Commissioner of Education 1974-76 and U.S. Secretary of Education 1981-85. **Nolan Bushnell** , The father of the video game industry as co-founder of Atari and inventor of Pong. Founder of Chuck E. Cheese pizza and video game restaurants. **Ed Catmull, PhD** , Co-founder and president of Pixar Animation Studios. **Jim Clark, PhD** , Co-founder of Silicon Graphics Inc. and Netscape, and founder of Healtheon (which later merged with WebMD), [Shutterfly.com](http://Shutterfly.com) and MyCFO Inc. **Stephen Covey** , Business consultant, best-selling author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” founder of the former Covey Leadership Center, and vice-chairman of FranklinCovey Co., a management and leadership development firm. **Keene Curtis** , Tony Award-winning actor **Kevin Dyson** , University football player, wide receiver who started in the 2000 Super Bowl for Tennessee. **LaVell Edwards** , Brigham Young University head football coach 1972-2000. I think this is the funniest thing I have learned this week! I had no idea he attended the U. For those of you who don’t understand, the U of U and BYU have a cutthroat rivalry. Who woulda thunk it? The school colors for BYU are blue and white. U of U is red and white. 😛 **David Evans** , Founded the computer graphics department at the University of Utah, and later co-founded Evans & Sutherland, a pioneer in computer graphics, aircraft flight simulators and other virtual reality products. Evans and Ivan Sutherland are credited for building the foundation for modern computer graphics. **Arnie Ferrin** , basketball player for the Minneapolis Lakers. **E.J. “Jake” Garn** , Republican U.S. Senator from Utah, 1975-93, and first public official to fly aboard the space shuttle - a seven-day flight of Discovery in November 1984. **E. Gordon Gee** , Former president of the University of Colorado, the Ohio State University and Brown University, and chancellor of Vanderbilt University. **Wilbert (Bill) Gore**, A DuPont chemist (now deceased) who founded W. L. Gore & Associates in 1958 and invented GORE-TEX fabric. **Gordon B. Hinckley** , President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. **Mickey Ibarra** , Served as White House director of intergovernmental affairs and an assistant to President Bill Clinton. **Robert K. Jarvik, MD** , Inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. **Alan Kay, PhD** , Kay played a major role in the development of the personal computer while at Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s. He also has been credited for the concept of the first laptop computer, known as the Dynabook, and as an architect of the now ubiquitous “graphical user interface” in which overlapping windows appear on a computer screen, making PCs easy to use. Earlier, Kay was a member of a University of Utah team that developed 3-D graphics. He participated in early design of ARPANet, which became the Internet. **Missy Marlowe** , Gymnast, 1992 NCAA All Around Champion. **J. Willard Marriott** and **J. Willard Marriott, Jr.**. The senior Marriott, who died in 1985, founded Marriott International, Inc. J. Willard Marriott, Jr. succeeded his father as chief executive officer of Marriott Corp. in 1972. **Andre Miller** , University basketball player and 1999 NBA draft pick for the Cleveland Cavaliers. **John Naisbitt** , Author of the best-selling “Megatrends” and other books. **Keith Van Horn** , University basketball player and, in 1997, the NBA’s No. 2 draft pick for the Philadelphia 76ers. Now with the New Jersey Nets. **John Warnock, PhD** , Co-founder and board chairman of Adobe Systems Inc., developer of Postscript software that helped launch desktop publishing by enabling desktop computers to handle graphics and page layouts for the first time. **Evelyn Wood** , Speed-reading innovator. Kathy ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/34 "2003-10-07T23:27:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > **One of the contestants on “The Mole” (I never saw it!) was in my class in high school.** Oh yeah, the woman in that reality show where she picks guys wearing masks was from my high school. ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/35 "2003-10-07T23:27:34Z")
[Lucinda Cowden](http://www.one4review.com/comedy_01/lucinda_cowden.htm) left my high school at the end of form 5 to go to some wanky alternative school to fulfil her artistic dreams. She and I did not get along in any way shape or form before she left. A quick google shows that she is still trying to live off the 5 minutes she spent on the soap Neighbours a long long time ago. I fear the UK lets her. I do not know why. I should really be able to let this go, it has been over 20 years but she was such a bitch! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/36 "2003-10-07T23:31:12Z")
Wow, all them in the same class? I was in a college broadcasting program at WKU with **Michael Rosenbaum** , Lex Luthor of “Smallville” fame. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/37 "2003-10-07T23:52:39Z")
Andrew Mavis, who’s on the Team Canada basketball team last I heard. I always had a friendly relationship with him… we joked around about going out, but of course it never happened. Content just to stay as friends, of course. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/38 "2003-10-08T00:23:01Z")
I can’t remember her name but I had a classmate in second grade that ended up being an olympic skater… I’m at a loss for her name. And my neighbor who was a few years older than I was got bronze in the most recent olympics for something in skiing. ---
**Author:** ![dinoboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dinoboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinoboy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/39 "2003-10-08T01:17:40Z")
Ok, any of you hear of the three Cub fans who went down to Houston, brought a goat to the stadium, and proceeded to reverse the Cubs curse of generations ago? no? I’m not surprised, but for those who said yes - I went to college with Dave T. (yeah, one of them). Sadly (not really), I don’t think I went to school with anyone currently famous. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994/40 "2003-10-08T01:59:46Z")
I took a Fox News correspondent to the junior prom. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52495,00.html](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52495,00.html) We certainly didn’t have much in common politically or socially, but she really was a sweet girl. She is also the single celebrity or pseudo-celebrity from our tiny suburban high school. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-classmates/205994.md?page=3)