Kyla, Camryn Mannheim (sp?) of The Practice graduated from UC Santa Cruz (Porter College, I think).
Well, I went to college at USC and FSU (at the latter college, I was a TA and had Sebastian Janikowski and Corey Simon, both now pro football players, in Freshman English), so they’re not really “unheralded.”
However, I went to Iolani School, a fairly old and prestigious private K-12 school in Hawaii, and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen attended school there back in the late 1800’s. Still have a statue of him there to this day.
Dan Doornick went to my high school…and if you know who Dan Doornick is, you probably went to my high school as well.
Well, The American University has Willard Scott, Barry McAffrey (drug czar and current burr-up-his ass talk show dude, as well as retired Army general), and Goldie Hawn went there for a little while, but got kicked out for coke. Adrian Cronauer went there, and is pretty good about doing appearances.
Currently, the most famous recent alum is Chris Wylde, who hosts “Taboo” on TBS, and was in some commercials and a short-lived series on Comedy Central.
I went to University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX. Our famous alumni include:
Sean Patrick Flanery (of TV’s “Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” and movies like The Boondock Saints)
WWE wrestler The Undertaker
Conservative commentator Barbara Olson (killed on one of the planes in the 9/11 attacks)
Marshall Applewhite, leader of the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult, was a professor for awhile in the 1970s. I think he was in the music department. Yikes!
Capt. Scott O’Grady went to my college (Embry Riddle, AZ) and graduated about 7 years before I got there.
Nobody famous graduated from my high school, but give it time. . .
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The most famous person from my HS would probably have to be porn star Seka. I don’t know her personally, but she’s a friend of a friend.
I went to a community college with Marlee Matlin. In fact I nearly failed one class because I was so fascinated with watching her sign language interpreter that I forgot to pay attention to anything else.
My first wife went to Lakes High School too. Many years before Ms. Starbird though.
The most famous of my high school’s alumnus include a former state attorney general and a couple of guys that had short major league baseball careers.
I went to two high schools, nobody famous went to one of my high schools, although I mentioned in another thread that they seemed to do pretty well at producing Playboy models for a while, so perhaps you’ve seen some of their work?
The other school I used to play pickup basketball and hang out a bit with Wally Joyner who was a good (but not Hall of Fame material) first baseman in the majors. Neither of us graduated from that school.
For my university, Gallagher (of the single name and smashed items), Lauren Hutton (model/actress), Elaine Boosler (comedian),
Tony LaRussa (baseball manager). There were a couple of soap actors and a Miss America listed on their site, plus the odd author, Pulitzer winner, etc.
Well, not exactly, grasshopper.
True, prowess at beer drinking is part of the selection process. But it’s important not to overlook the BBQ cook-off; the air guitar play-off; the stubbies-and-thongs beauty contest; the kangaroo riding; the gumboot throwing; and the sheep shearing duels.
It’s all very complicated, but it’s important that the electoral process remains true to the roots of the country.
Adam Sandler was a year behind me in high school.
Peter Jurasik (Londo from B5) went to my college.
In NH? I think my friend Kate said she went there (of course, it’s been years since she made this theoretical comment, so I could be remembering incorrectly). She would have been several years behind him though.
Obviously a good Uni for drinkers as Rod Marsh is a graduate.
I started a similar thread some months ago when I discovered that Jackie Chan went to my high school in Canberra for a while.
Yup. I gradumacated in '83, Sandler in '84.
Bebe Neuwirth went to my grammar school, but not at the same time as me. We had the same music teacher, though.
Conrad Hilton, Sam Donaldson, Roger Staubach, Owen Wilson.
Farrah Fawcett and Charles Whitman (Tower sniper) preceded me by a few years, and Janis Joplin preceded them by a few. While I was there, Earl Campbell contributed to much revelry and Berke Breathed entertained us with his strip in the student newspaper. I had (Tachyon Man) George Sudarshan for a physics prof. and Stirling Morrison (Velvet Underground guitarist) taught English.
After my time, Michael Dell came and went.
Other names I know that preceded me are journalist Liz Carpenter, Sam Rayburn, Lady Bird Johnson, Walter Cronkite, Jayne Mansfield, Ben Crenshaw and Eli Wallach.
I was friends in high school with Olympic miler Paul Geiss and ISTR that Dan Rather went to the high school from which I graduated, but I could not verify that.
George “Goober” Lindsey of Andy Griffith Show fame graduated from my college when it was still called Florence State Teachers College (now called the University of North Alabama). Every spring the school hosts a small film festival named after him.
Goober was a football teammate with Harlon Hill who was a decent pro football player for the Chicago Bears in the 1950s before he destroyed his playing career with booze. Hill was later principal of my high school.
Former US Senator and occasional actor Fred Thompson is supposed to have attended UNA for a couple of semesters.
Pulitizer Prize winning author T.S. Stribling is also supposed to have attended the school many many years ago.
Dave Barry graduated from my future alma mater. I think that’s pretty nifty.