Famous people who went to your otherwise unheralded school

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. :smiley:

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.
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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.

I just found out that a girl who went to my high school a number of years after I graduated is now a porn star. On her website, she says she was AVN Best New Starlet of 2002 and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the first to be filmed having sex on top of a moving car. There are also photos of her stripping out of her cheerleading outfit from our school.:eek:

Considering that the school has about 200 students in all 4 grades combined, one barely famous person is pretty good. We also had one alumnus go on to be elected State Auditor.

JFK went to my HS but only until Easter breeak of freshman year then he left. There are letters in the library that he wrote home to his family saying how much he hated it. It was a Boarding school.

Rowdy “Roddy” Piper the Pro wrestler went to my middle-school in Toronto.

John Kenneth Galbraith the famous Economist got his first degree at my alma mater in Ontario.

Laura Bertram of Ready or Not and Andromeda attended University at the same time as me.

It’s a fairly short list, but then Hendrix College is a fairly small (~1000 students) school:
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[li]Sarah Caldwell, former director of the NY Metropolitan Opera, is a graduate[/li][li]actress Mary Steenburgen attended Hendrix for one term before her drama professor essentially told her that she’d be better off moving to New York, as there wasn’t anything they could teach her[/li][li]actor William Ragsdale (Fright Night, Mannequin 2, the TV series “Herman’s Head” and “My Brother’s Keeper”) was a senior my freshman year[/li][li]actress Natalie Canerday (best known as Linda Wheatley, the mother of the young boy befriended by Billy Bob Thornton’s Karl Childers in Sling Blade; also as Homer Hickam’s mother Elsie Hickam in October Sky) was a contemporary of mine at Hendrix[/li][li]TV garden show host P. Allen Smith was there just before my time (I’m told he’s famous, though you couldn’t prove it by me).[/li][/ul]

Then there’s the people who probably ought to famous, or who are close to famous, like Dr. Harry Meyer, who developed the vaccine for German measles; Harvard history professor Steven Ozment, who’s published several readable and well-regarded books on renaissance life; Craig Leipold, the owner of the NHL Nashville Predators, etc.

I’ll be darned. Do you know what years she was there? I was class of '83.

Mark David Chapman, the wastrel that shot John Lennon, went to
the rival school in Atlanta that was just across district lines from mine. He was about 3 or 4 years behind my class and a total loser but his school (Columbia High) was a big rival of ours. Decatur, Ga’s most shameful product.

Dan Marino and Gene Kelly - The University of Pittsburgh, but waaaaaay many more years before I got here.

Unfortunately, I am still stuck here, but it’s only been two years. Sigh…:frowning:

My family has this thing about NFL quarterbacks whose careers flame out early.

Rick Mirer went to my high school 10 years after I did (Goshen High School, Goshen IN) Rick’s dad was one of my teachers, FWIW.

Jeff George went to my son’s high school (Warren Central, Indianapolis).

I used to go to Fort Street High School in Sydney. Edmund Barton, the first prime minister of Australia went there.

Bob Knight graduated from Orrville High School in Orrville, Ohio, in 1958.

Hey, I went to Drew too. But I’m not famous. And I graduated even before Woody was casting a lustful eye upon Soon-Yi. OK, maybe not.

People that came from my high school include.

Max Weinberg - (E street band, Connan O’Brien)

Roy Schieder - Jaws

Zack Braff(sp?) Scrubs

Andrew and Elizabeth Shue

Lauren Hill

The voice…(and body in some scenes) of Jar Jar Binks…
I forget his name…

I think there are a few others that I forget now…
I am still waiting for someone to turn up in porn somewhere on the internet… in a school with over 1600 people… it is bound to happen eventually…

I forgot about my grad school…
University of Tennessee

Peyton Manning
Chamique Holdsclaw
Ali Hussein Abu Ragheb, Prime Minister of Jordan

Astronauts:
Jeff Ashby
Alex Dunlap
Joe Edwards Jr.
Dominic Gorie
Chris Hadfield
Henry Hartsfield
Charles Hobaugh
Scott Kelley
Donald Peterson
Rhea Seddon
Barry Wilmore

My high school doesn’t have many people of note, but the guy who played the principal on Saved by the Bell is an alumnus.

Oh yeah, I forgot about her. And yes, she was at Porter.

Fellow graduates of Stuyvesant High School in NYC include:

James Cagney
Tim Robbins
One of the Beastie Boys…um, Adam Horowitz I think.
Lucy Liu

Frank McCourt was my English teacher.

There are other notables, but that’s all I can think of for now.

I’ve been told that Sheryl Crowe attended the college in my hometown, although I don’t believe she graduated from there.

Also WWE wrestler Cain went to college in my hometown. He actually worked at Golden Corral with my aunt!

Skelji I just read your post.

I just finished Frank McCourt’s book 'tis about a month ago! Have you read his books? Did you find them to be true at all? When was he your teacher??

How INTERESTING!!!

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Don’t you mean Kane???

The 7’0" redhead?

or as some of you may have previously known him as

Dr. Isaac Yankem DDS, or the new Diesel?

I am a dork…

Yes, I meant Kane!