Berkeley High School. A few off the top of my head:
Rebecca Romijn (Model & Actress)
Chidi Ahanatou (NFL player)
Kevin Cadogan (guitarist from Third Eye Blind)
Jack LaLanne (Fitness guru)
Nina Hartley (Adult movie star although I think it’s a stage name)
I knew or at least met the first three when I was in HS.
My 20th reunion was just last year and there’s a number of famous graduates with plaques up on the wall in the community theatre - IIRC Robert Culp was one of them.
One of my good friends is very big in the IT world but I don’t think he’s a “famous name”.
Plenty more, I’m sure - it’s a very big school that’s been around for a long time.
Matt Stone went to my high school, but graduated before I’d arrived.
Sometimes if I concentrate real hard, I can almost feel his divine essence wafting through the vapid hallways of Heritage High… moments before I was grabbed and stuffed upside down in a locker for being too darn awesome.
Erin Daniels, actress most well known as the lesbian tennis coach from The L Word. She was Erin Cohen then, and a freshhman when I was a senior, and she also happened to be my girlfriend for a year or so.
Scott Foley, ex-husband of Jennifer Garner. Two years younger than me.
Louise Post, from Veruca Salt, who was a senior when I was a freshman.
I just realized yesterday that the Navy SEAL, Erik S. Kristensen. played by Eric Bana in
the movie Lone Survivor attended my school as a jr. schooler.
What connected it for me was a photo used in his SEAL training that was also used in our alumni periodical. :dubious:
Tim Berners-Lee, without whom, etc., etc. He would have just arrived and been running around in short trousers when I was in my final year at the school.
Kirsten Costas, victim of a murder as depicted in “A Friend To Die For,” killed by another girl’s mom because that other girl didn’t make the cheerleading squad and Kirsten did.
Various Olympic-level athletes in swimming (Carolyn Schuler), water polo (Heather Petri) & beach volleyball (Nicole Branagh).
Football players (Ken Dorsey, Drew Bennet)
Actress Dana Sparks (Falcon Crest, LA Law, JAG, Passions)
I graduated from Cuyahoga Falls HS in 1971 with about 900 other youth, one of whom is the film director Jim Jarmusch (Jim Jarmusch - Wikipedia). I know him casually, he was already operating a few degrees from reality (at least Mid-western 1970’s reality) and seems to have done well for himself.
Outside of that, wikipedia mentions a 1940’s baseball player and an 1900’s inventor.
For an academically oriented school, I find it kind of interesting that our most famous alumni are generally sports figures, with:
2 NBA players (Jake Voskuhl, Rasheed Sulaimon)
A handful of NFL players (Garth Jax, Eric Mullins, David King, Chris Darkins, Chris Ogbonnaya)
A MLS player (Nelson Akwari)
We also have a Federal judge and a handful of local (Texas/Houston) politicians, but I wouldn’t really call them “famous”.
If my family hadn’t moved away from my hometown I would’ve graduated with NBA veteran Sam Perkins. Perkins won Olympic Gold in basketball in 1984, and he had a 17-year NBA career.
Lou Williams - NBA
David Greene - NFL
Clay Cook - Songwriter with John Mayer, guitarist for the Zac Brown Band
Wendell Odum - Renowned author of many Cisco networking books
My high school has been around since the 1950’s and graduates 1,500+ per year, so that is actually a tiny list of notables! My son went to a very new, very small high school (less than 50 graduates per year) and counts among his schoolmates several touring musicians, including Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line.
Oh, I see a few have been added to the Wikipedia page. There’s the current Lord Speaker in the House of Lords and, amongst a few others, a chap called Tom Hilditch who is a journalist with UK Editor in Chief of Penthouse on his CV. Not bad for a Catholic school run by Irish priests.
My high school was only open as a high school for 13 years (it’s now a charter middle school) during the height of the baby boom, and while we number several mayors and one state governor among our alumni, we only had three individuals who reached any level of national prominence – all 3 had careers in the NBA, although none were well known.