# Who are the most famous and/or notable alumni from your high school? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 24, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-most-famous-and-or-notable-alumni-from-your-high-school/482751 "2009-01-24T02:49:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-most-famous-and-or-notable-alumni-from-your-high-school/482751/161 "2015-06-03T03:25:41Z")
In the decade before I graduated, my high school had Trenton Jackson, Olympian and NFL player; Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Gene Cornish of the Young Rascals; and Eliot Fintushel, prize winning science fiction writer/mask & mine artist/theramin player. They’re not the most famous bunch, but you can’t touch that for diversity. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-most-famous-and-or-notable-alumni-from-your-high-school/482751/162 "2015-06-03T04:25:53Z")
A handful of professional athletes, apparently, but only two I’ve ever heard of - Joey Hamilton was a year behind me and my husband, and DeAngelo Tyson (but I know him mainly because two of my classmates were his foster parents, plus I read the local newspaper and keep up with his charitable foundation fundraising.) Not an alum yet, but one of my son’s classmates (same school) is a published author, and one of the sweetest girls I’ve met in a while - [Maya Van Wagenen](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/04/23/maya-van-wagenen-popular-book-movie/7958877/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-most-famous-and-or-notable-alumni-from-your-high-school/482751.md?page=8)