College - University of Oklahoma
Sam Bradford
Brian Bosworth :rolleyes:
Blake Griffin (if he graduated)
James Garner
Ed Harris
Dennis Weaver
Fred Haise
Michael Price
Here is the list for The University of Texas. Some very famous folks attended but never graduated like Farrah Fawcett and Janis Joplin. There is an Apollo astronaut and a space shuttle pilot in there though.
This is the list I got from the wikipedia entry of High Point Central High School:
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[li]Drew Weaver- professional golfer[/li][li]Heather Richardson- member of US Olympic Speedskating Team[/li][li][[Comedian t-ray sanders-appearances on b.e.t comic view,the robert townsend show and eddie murphys documentary…Murphys law[/li][/ul]
High school: Rachael Harris. She was in the class behind me. Never knew her at all, but I remember her from when she had the lead role in the school’s production of Brigadoon.
College: Alberto Gonzales. You know, GWB’s pro-torture, the-Geneva-Convention-is-“quaint” Attorney General. We’re so very, very proud.
College: Earl Warren, Jimmy Doolittle, Alice Waters, Gregory Peck, Steve Wozniak (Apple), Scott Adams (Dilbert), Stephen Chu (Sec’ of Energy and Nobel Laureate) and Aaron Rodgers.
According to Wikipedia, these people (who I have never heard of) graduated from my high school:
Josh Banks, San Diego Padres pitcher
* Steve Bisciotti, owner of the Baltimore Ravens
* James W. Campbell, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
* Tracey Adams, AVN award-winning adult film actress
* Ronald Malfi, horror novelist
* Billy Martin, guitarist and keyboardist for Good Charlotte
Antioch College, on the other hand, has a bunch of notable alums. The most famous from the list:
* Jorma Kaukonen (1962), guitarist/vocalist Jefferson Airplane
* Cliff Robertson (1946), Academy Award-winning actor
* Eleanor Holmes Norton (1960) Congressional Delegate, representing the District of Columbia
* Mario Capecchi (B.S. 1961), co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007eer
* Clifford Geertz (1950), anthropologist
* Stephen Jay Gould (1963), biologist, author
* Coretta Scott King (1951), human rights activist
Present! But I aint famous. Jimmy Carter went to GT, didn’t graduate. [del]Jeff Foxworthy[/del] Oops did not mean to mention that. golfer Bobby Jones. Astronauts Dick Truly and John Young
And ESPN CFB analyst Mark May graduated from my High School. A couple years before me.
Cyclist Tyler Farrar was born and raised here in Wenatchee, WA, so I assume he graduated from Wenatchee HS (I see he was actually born a week or two after I graduated).
Chris DeGarmo, former Queensryche guitarist, was born here, but I can’t verify that he remained here long enough to attend my high school. He’s only three years older than me, but I moved to this town the summer before my senior year of HS so wouldn’t have met him even if he did attend the same HS. Not to mention that, at the time I graduated, it was only a 3-year school (10-12) so I would have still been at the junior high school (7-9) when he was a senior and probably wouldn’t have know who he was.
Central College in Pella, Iowa. A small, out-of-the-way private college which had about 1500 students when I was there in the 1980s. Yet, three graduates I can think of that a lot of people may have heard of.
First, Harry Smith, senior correspondent for CBS News.
Also, former television news anchor Steve Bell, whom I got to meet personally at a communications department event 25-some years ago.
And sports-wise, there’s Vern Den Herder, who played both basketball and football for the Central Flying Dutchmen (and was actually of teammate of Harry Smith’s!). Den Herder went on to play 11 seasons for the Miami Dolphins, including their undefeated season of 1972.
Less famous, but perhaps a familiar name to those who know small-college football (I realize there’s not a whole lot of those people out there) is Ron Schipper, who coached the Dutch for 35 years and is in the top ten for lifetime victories over all NCAA divisions. I hung out with his son now and then during my college years (we were in the same class).
It occurred to me after I posted that he probably did graduate from my high school — several musician friends of mine (fellow HS seniors) who had actually grown up here were Queensryche fans when all the band had released so far was their debut EP and they were still relatively unknown.
ETA: And I just remembered that one of the guys I graduated with, and I still have contact with, was three years older than the rest of us, so would be Chris’ age. I’ll have to ask him.
Not very famous, but some football player. Can’t remember the team he played for even.
He’s from Service HS and his name is Mark Schlereth (sp?). A few years behind me so I didn’t really know him, but my little sister was in 4-H with his sister.
Very famous, if a football player can be such a thing. He won a 3 super bowls with the Redskins and the Broncos, and is now a prominent figure in NFL broadcasting with ESPN.
But I aint famous. Jimmy Carter went to GT, didn’t graduate. [del]Jeff Foxworthy[/del] Oops did not mean to mention that. golfer Bobby Jones. Astronauts Dick Truly and John Young