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?
Nobody terribly famous in their own right, but a guy I went to high school with is Alicia Silverstone’s boyfriend.
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.
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.
Oh, wait! I just remembered someone! I was somewhat friendly with Alex Weisendanger, the kid who played Little Buddha in the film “Little Buddha”.
I think he said that Tim Robbins, and Lucy Liu… and I think he also said the beastie boys…
Then he went to Stuyvesant. Lots of people in Stuy. I think I remember two or three of 'em.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
The rest of the story…
John Marshall High School, Los Angeles, California
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
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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.
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Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California
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
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
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 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
Oh yeah, the woman in that reality show where she picks guys wearing masks was from my high school.
Lucinda Cowden 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!
Wow, all them in the same class?
I was in a college broadcasting program at WKU with Michael Rosenbaum, Lex Luthor of “Smallville” fame.
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
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.
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.
I took a Fox News correspondent to the junior prom.
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.