Newton.
(etc)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alum chiming in.
Other alums you might have heard of, outside of athletics:
Andy Griffith
Charles Kurault (did not graduate)
Shelby Foote (did not graduate)
Jeff MacNelly
Jim Shumaker (the man on whom MacNelly based the character “Shoe”. Also did not graduate.)
Armistead Maupin
Richard McKenna (wrote The Sand Pebbles)
Thomas Wolfe
Tom Wicker
Lewis Black (the stand up comedian - Ignorance fought!)
David Brinkley (did not graduate)
Louise Fletcher
Chris Matthews (did not graduate)
Carl Kassell (NPR announcer whose voice is a prize on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me)
Roger Mudd
John Edwards (the one who speaks to dead campaigns, not dead people)
William Thorton (astronaut)
and a bunch of N.C. elected officials.
UNC-CH has had good programs in Journalism, Drama, and Law, as well as athletics, for a long time. That shows in the categories of famous alumni.
Several of the alumni who became prominent journalists did not graduate. Back in those days, one merely needed talent to get a job in Journalism, not a degree. What a good thing it is that we modern, enlightened people know that a certification is more important than actual competence. :rolleyes:
Well, it’s missing mine. 
Since U of T (my undergrad school) seems to be well-covered, I’ll put in a word for the University of Alberta, where I went to law school:
Former Canadian PM Joe Clark
Current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverly McLachlan*
Former Governor-General Roland Michener
Former NHL President Clarence Campbell
Actor Nathan Fillion
Actor Paul Gross
Author W.O. Mitchell
- Supposedly, she was on the faculty of the law school; but outside of a guest lecture she gave one day, I never saw her there.
I went to Union College in Schenectady. Some of the bigger names:
Chester A. Arthur, US President.
Jimmy Carter, US President*
Lincoln’s Secretary of State William Seward
Jefferson Davis’s Secretary of State Robert Toombs.
George Westinghouse (briefly).
John Howard Payne, author of the song “Home Sweet Home.”
Joseph Yates – Governor of NY
Phil Alden Robinson, director and screenwriter of Field of Dreams and other films (I knew him when I was there).
I work at Siena College, which is much newer. Best known alumni:
California Governor George Deukmejian
Pulitzer Prize winning author William Kennedy
Golf legend Gene Sarazen (honorary, but he took it seriously and was very involved on campus).
John Lannan, Washington Nationals pitcher.
Roberto González Nieves, Archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico
Fr. Mychal Judge. He was assistant to the president; known for his work and tragic death at the World Trade center attacks.
For graduate school, there’s the University at Albany:
Ellen Datlow, science fiction editor.
Steve Guttenberg, reputedly an actor.
Author Gregory Maguire
Havey Milk
Author Joseph Persico
*Actually, Carter only took a couple of extension courses when he was stationed here in the navy (though there is no record of who took those courses).
The most famous alum of The Evergreen State College is Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. My college has been made fun of on Futurama and in an early Straight Dope column.
There’s also Michael Richards (Cramer from Seinfeld), and a long list on the wiki page (but unless you were glued to your television during the 2007 World Beard and Moustache Championships (Full Beard with Styled Moustache division) in 2007, you won’t recognize many of them).
I used to work about a mile down the street from the War College.
I went to the University of North Texas for undergrad, which has a surprisingly good music program. Notable alums include…well, I’ll let them tell you.
Amen, brother! And they didn’t have to be taught how to write in Journalism School because they already knew when they graduated from high school, and they applied values like honesty and integrity and humanity to their work, and they worked long, hard hours for low pay because they loved the idea of informing their readers instead of just pursuing an agenda and making it to the big time, and when they did go to college they actually read Aristotle and Quintillian and Kant and Thomas Aquinas and Thomas Jefferson and anything else they could get their hands on. Yes, Typo Knig, how much better it is now that none of that appears in modern journalism practice! Imagine the horror of having to think for ourselves instead of being told what to think!
Why yes, I am a former newspaper editor, why do you ask?
Although he got his diploma from West Point, General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing attended my alma mater for a while. Pretty much everything you’ve ever seen bearing the name ‘Pershing’ is named for him, from the M26 Pershing heavy tank to the Pershing Scholarships at my old school.
I went to the same high school(South Haven HS) as Darcy from the Smashing Pumpkins(I used to drink coffee with her mom too) and although their not really well know, A few of these guys once graced the same hallways as I did.
I attended Texas State University, San Marcos (was called Southwest Texas State University when I attended). A partial list:
President Lyndon B. Johnson[2].
Country singer George Strait[2]
Country singer Randy Rogers
Country/Tejano singer Emilio Navaira
Country singer Troy Wayne Delco of The Beaumonts
Film director Thomas Carter[2]
Actor/filmmaker Richard Jones
Actor G. W. Bailey
Actor Powers Boothe[2]
Actress Tracy Scoggins
Columnist Heloise[2]
Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Monroe, John Tyler, Glenn Close, Jon Stewart. Lots of others, too, but those are the big names.
No one remotely famous went to my high school, but we have a slightly successful singer/songwriter Anais Mitchell
I imagine with the amount of people here who are into indy/folky music, someone must have heard of her. Maybe.
I went to Maine South HS with Melissa, obviously many years after
Hillary Clinton graduated.
Top 25 were recently ranked:
#1 James Madison 1771
#2 Alan Turing *38
#3 Woodrow Wilson 1879
#4 John Rawls ’43 *50
#5 John Bardeen *36
#6 George Kennan ’25
#7 Benjamin Rush 1760
#8 F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17
#9 George Shultz ’42
#10 John Foster Dulles 1908
#11 Gary Becker ’51
#12 Jeffrey Moss ’63
#13 Wendy Kopp ’89
#14 Richard Feynman *42
#15 Paul Volcker ’49
#16 Nicholas Katzenbach ’43
#17 Charles Scribner 1840
#18 Laurance Rockefeller ’32
#19 Robert Venturi ’47 *50
#20 Jeff Bezos ’86
#21 Alfred Barr ’22 *23
#22 Philip Freneau 1771
#23 John Bogle ’51
#24 Norman Thomas 1905
#25 (tie)
Ralph Nader ’55
Donald Rumsfeld ’54
http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW07-08/07-0123/features_thepanel.html
List of 250 they started with:
My oldest sister is friends with Melissa(or Missy as I knew here) Barrington. They went to Maine South together. I still remember when I was about 3 and she was dressed up as the easter bunny at Golf Mill mall.
Well I went to the W 15 years ago. Now I’m going again and it’s about to be Welty (maybe).
This is what I sit under in my computer room. 
I’m not notable YET. 
According to this, there’ve been a few “notables,” but the two names that always get tossed around are Sandra Bullock and Vince McMahon.
William O. Douglas and Adam West get tossed around most frequently. We’re quite a selective school now, but have only become so in the last thirty years or so, so the list is short. Whitman College, for the record, in Walla Walla Washington.
Better than Lewis and Clark, in Portland, which is known for producing Monica Lewinsky.
Dammit, if only I were a right-wing partisan hack I could make some clever remark about swine, but I’m a left-wing partisan hack.