A list of Notable Harvard Alumni.
Oh man, must be because of my early final today. Bardeen didn’t go to U of I, he just taught here.
I’ll use the college I went to for three years rather than the one I went to for one year.
Kate Capshaw
Brad Pitt
Sheryl Crow
Mort Walker - did Beetle Bailey. have a BB statue on campus
Edward D. Jones
Richard Kinder
Kenneth Lay
Sam Walton
Jim Lehrer
Elizabeth Vargas
Tim Kaine
Claire McCaskill
and a lot lot more
SUNY at Buffalo:
TV journalist Wolf Blitzer
Ira Flatow from NPR
Terry Gross, another radio personality
Editorial cartoonist Tom Toles
Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein
Oh, and me.
From my college–Jesus College, Oxford–there were
[ul][li]Harold Wilson, former PM[/li][li]T.E. Lawrence (“of Arabia”)[/li][li]Pixley ka Isaka Seme, founder of the African National Congress[/li][li]J.R. Green, the “father of modern history”[/li][li]Magnus Magnusson, of Mastermind[/li]Beau Nash, the Oscar Wilde of the 18th century[/ul]
Kolga.
We graduated this little skinny mixed-race dude wth big ears, forget his name just now, who ran for President this year…have to follow up and find out what happened with him…
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
I guess the most famous would be one of the Farrelly brothers (Bobby, I think)…but we don’t mention that. 
We’ve also got:
Marshall Brain (the howstuffworks guy…who was also in my fraternity!)
George Ferris (inventor of the Ferris wheel)
George Low (director of Apollo 11)
John Oliver (a MA representative)
We also have a handful of NHL players. And apparently a female NASCAR driver (though not a very good one…) who graduated a year ahead of me…I never met her, though.
So no one super-famous, really. But we’re a technical school, so obviously we aren’t going to attract people who are more likely to become actors, writers, etc…
Edit:
Oh, I guess I’ll include University of Vermont, though I only attended for one year of grad school:
Ben Affleck (he didn’t graduate)
John LeClair (a former NHL player who won the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1993)
Kerr Smith, an actor who was onDawson’s Creek and now on CSI:NY
Trey Anastasio (guitarist for Phish, also didn’t graduate.)
There’s also a small handful of other NHL players, and a few Nobel and Academy award winners, but not any names the average person would recognize.
Seattle Pacific University:
[ul]
[li]Eugene H. Peterson '54, author of The Message[/li][li]Marilyn Meberg ‘61, co-founder of Women of Faith[/li][li]Denny Rydberg ‘67, president of Young Life[/li][li]Larry Wall '76, programmer, linguist, author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987[/li][li]Dirk Been '98, Survivor contestant, season one[/li][li]Alex Thomason '00, The Apprentice (TV series) contestant, final four[/li][li]Jeff Probst, attended Autumn Quarter 1987, host of Survivor[/li][li]Jen Montzingo '05, The Littlest Groom (TV series) contestant; appears regularly on Little People Big World (TV series) as a family friend[/li][li]Kristen Eddings ’06, 2006 Miss Washington (top 10 in Miss America)[/li][/ul]
Yeah, the reality TV boom has been good for alums of my school. Which is really, really weird, I think.
In other news, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my High School, and Teri Hatcher went to my Jr. High.
Um, hello? Ed Zotti!!
For that alone, we win.
I went to Brandon University - Notable Alumni include Tommy Douglas and Stanley Knowles. (I didn’t realize that James Ennes’ degree was only honourary.)
Gérard de Nerval and Honoré de Balzac would probably be the most famous alumni of my high school. Gustave Doré, though probably much less known outside France, doesn’t deserve to be forgotten, either.
The only two really interesting ones are Francis Scott Key (though the school then bore just about no resemblance to what it is today) and Lee David Zlotoff.
Who’s Lee David Zlotoff? He’s the creator of MacGyver, so I’d like to think that what we lack in notoriety of grads we make up for in pure awesomeness.
(In our defense it’s one of the smallest schools in the country, so we don’t have many people to go off and get famous)
Unfortunately, Katherine Harris went to my alma mater.
I went to Kent State University and I don’t think any of our most famous alumni actually graduated:
- Drew Carey
- Joe Walsh
- Chrissy Hynde
- The guys from DEVO (they probably did)
- Josh Cribbs (football player, he probably did)
- Those poor kids who got shot on May 4, 1970
God bless Lee David Zlotoff and God bless MacGyver!
I didn’t look anything up, but I was friends with Ronnie Brown of the Miami Dolphins in high school.
Robert Gates, Sec. of Defense.
James Watson, discoverer of DNA ( I noticed Wallenstein claims him too)
Lots of musicians and basketball players (what IU is known for)
Indiana University.
Don’t forget Madonna and the Unabomber.
He killed my fantasy team last year when he went out with an injury after week 7!
Chad Henne, who played for Michigan and is now a backup QB for the Dolphins, went to high school five minutes from my house. Titans QB Kerry Collins also went there.