Elementary school:
Bebe Neuwirth (Lilith on Cheers, and on Broadway now, I think)
College:
James K Polk
Andy Griffith
Charles Kuralt
Michael Jordan, Marion Jones, Mia Hamm, and a bazillion other athletes
As far as I know, my high-school’s only claim to fame is producing several years of North Carolina state bricklaying champions.
We had most of the local mayors, and that’s about it.
Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and Michael Richards (Kramer on Seinfeld) went to my college.
I went to my school, and Bill Smitrovich.
The closest thing to a celebrity to have emerged from the high school I attend is a Columbia County 4-H Cattle Champion…
Wait a few years. When I hit it big in racing, future graduates can list me.
At my HS in Rochester, Michigan, about 10 years befoe I got there, a girl named Madonna Ciccone(sp?) had an urban legend started about her cheerleading (Dude, she didn’t wear panties!). Later she dropped her last name became a world known slut.
I’m not aware of anybody famous having attended my high school, although I would bet that the children of a number of varyingly famous physicists attended during or after WWII (I went to school in Oak Ridge, TN, which was created by the Manhattan Project).
People who attended my college: Steve Jobs (dropped out); Peter Norton (of Norton’s Utilities fame; also dropped out. One of my physics profs has funny stories about Peter sending him letters from India after he dropped out asking questions about field theory–he was trying to create a theory of the “Universal Love Field” or some such nonsense); and Dr. Demento (who comes back every year to give shows and who is a raging alcoholic). Pretty lame, eh?
Beverly Mitchell (of 7th Heaven fame) went to my High School. Graduated in the same year that I did ('99). Man, that girl is SKINNY.
So did Johnathan Taylor Thomas (although that’s not his real name) did too, but he was in the class of '00.
And so did the son of Bruce Boxleitner, Sam Boxleitner, although he probably isn’t very “famous” in the classical sense of the word.
The ONLY famous person that graduated from my undergraduate institution (Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX) is…
Dan Blocker
You ask: Who? Why, it’s Hoss Cartwright of Bonanza!
Baylor University has had a few, but none can beat Dan Blocker.
One of the “Normal Guys” in People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful People” issue…the neurosurgeon, Sanjay Gupta…was two years ahead of me. And he was a sweetheart.
That’s the only remotely famous person I can think of.
Winona Ryder.
The Beach Boys went to my home school, the one in my city that I was supposed to go to, but this is only CAMS’s 11th year, no one famous yet.
Kitty
David Robinson went to my HS. The first article I ever had published was an interview with his brother Chucky, who was a Freshman when I was a senior there.
David was our special speaker at our graduation too.
Had I known that a decade or so later, he was going to take my Knicks out of the MBA Finals, I woulda broke his legs…
Yer pal,
Satan - Commissioner, The Teeming Minions
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High school: (I just cut and pasted this off the internet)
Cotton Mather
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Charles Bulfinch
Edward Everett
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Francis Gardner
Wendell Phillips
Edward Everett Hale
Charles William Eliot
Charles Sumner
Phillips Brooks
Henry Lee Higginson
Edward Charles Pickering
John F. Fitzgerald
George Santayana
Howard Lindsey
Joseph P. Kennedy U.S.
Roy E. Larsen
Paul A. Dever
Elliot Norton
Ralph B. Rodgers
John Cardinal
Dr. Paul Zoll
Vincent Learson
Theodore H. White
Leonard Bernstein
Wade McGee, Jr.
Brig. General Robert McDermott
Raymond D. Nasher
Sumner M. Redstone
Thomas L. Phillips
Rev. John E. Brooks
Aaron Fuerstein
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.
Marshall S. Cogan
Most Reverend William Murphy
Thomas Ryan, Jr.
Charles I. Clough, Jr.
Thomas Finneran
OK, most of those guys aren’t really famous.
College:
The guy that designed the Brooklyn Bridge
The guy Kevin Bacon played in Apollo 13
Adam Oates
Joe Juneau
The guy that invented the ferris wheel (one of the founders of my fraternity as well)
xizor, you’re young. Madonna started first grade at my elementary school the year after I left it as an eighth grader. (My kid brother probably knew her–he was one year ahead of her–but he won’t admit it.)
Don’t forget Antoine Bugle Boy, and one of the two brothers from RI that directed The Big Lebowski, and IIRC, Dumb and Dumber.
Damn…also, NHL goalie Darrin Puppa.
Unfortunately, nobody famous went to my HS, that I’m aware of, but if you’d like a pretty large list of people who DID, you can click here. And no, I have no idea why you’d want to click there.
Marisa Tomei graduated from my High School the year before I started there. I transfered to another school junior year, and there was a rumor that Andrew Dice Clay had gone there, but I’m not sure if that’s true.
Michael Baldalucci(sp?) from ‘The Practice’ went to my elementary school, and lived down the street.
Rose
Martin Lawrence.
In the suburb next to the one I grew up in, Kathie Lee Gifford. According to a friend of mine who went there, she was the school’s only past homecoming queen who refused to attend a special bash they held for all their past kings and queens. Because she doesn’t like to admit publicly that she’s from Bowie, Maryland.
Actually I don’t blame her …
I loved Charlie Sexton. I still listen to Pictures for Pleasure.