Who’s Your School’s Most Famous Alumni?

[revo]

Elementary School - PS 206, Brooklyn NY - Vince Lombardi. The keynote speaker at my 5th grade graduation in 1980 was our local assemblyman, some guy named Chuck Schumer. Wonder what happened to him?

High School - Abraham Lincoln HS, Brooklyn NY — so many: Neil Diamond, Marv Albert, John Forsythe, Lou Gossett Jr., Joseph Heller, Harvey Keitel, Arthur Miller, Buddy Rich, Neil Sedaka, Stephon Marbury, Lee Mazzilli. My alma mater became a national basketball powerhouse shortly after I graduated — Marbury, Lance Stephenson, Sebastian Telfair all became 1st rd NBA draft picks — so much so that it was featured in the movie “He Got Game” with the protagonist as a student athlete there. One of my friends there co-wrote the “Ice Age” movies, and another former good friend is Todd "Fritzy" Fritz from the Dan Patrick Show.

College - Stony Brook — Pat Benatar, Joe Nathan, Travis Jankowski, Adrien Brody, Colin Quinn.

[umjewman]

Elementary school - no idea.

High school - Bill Parcells, probably. Unless you count the porn star (sorry, “alternative film actress”) that graduated by year.

College - Michigan so, uhhh, Tom Brady? James Earl Jones? Gerald Ford? Lots to choose from.

[revo]

Elementary school - no idea.

High school - Bill Parcells, probably. Unless you count the porn star (sorry, “alternative film actress”) that graduated by year.

College - Michigan so, uhhh, Tom Brady? James Earl Jones? Gerald Ford? Lots to choose from.

Yeaahhh, you were who I was thinking of when I decided to include colleges in this. Bahhhh

And who was that porn star?

[Ken]

HS - Myles Garrett
College - Myles Garrett

What can I say, he follows me around.

[Todd Zola]

Me?

j/k

I went to high school with actress Nancy Travis, NFL WR Billy Brooks and Shara Aranoff who was Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission under Pres. George W. Bush.

ETA -- He will only be known to hardcore jazz fans (maybe) but drummer Marty Richards was in my graduating class and he could play the skins ridiculously well back then too.

[DMT]

High School (Creighton Preparatory, Omaha, NE) - in my class of '94, ESPN baseball announcer and former MLB pitcher Kyle Peterson. Others: musicians Connor Oberst (Bright Eyes) and Tim Kasher (Cursive), pro wrestler Ted Dibiase, producer/director/writer Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election, Descendents, Nebraska), Book of Mormon star Andrew Rannells, and Mount Rushmore sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum.

College (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) - actor/writer/producer Harold Ramis (Animal House [which was partly based on events that happened at Wash U and specifically in the ZBT fraternity which a couple of my friends were members of] Ghostbusters, Stripes, Groundhog Day), playwright Tennessee Williams, actor Peter Saarsgard (The Killing, Green Lantern, Garden State), poker pro Chris Moneymaker, adventurer Steve Fossett (1st solo round-the-world balloon flight), Men's Wearhouse founder George Zimmer, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, conservative activist Phyllis Schafly (barf).

[swampdragon]

My high school in Columbus Ohio had the Golden Bears as the mascot.
Alum Jack Nicklaus got his nickname from the mascot
Not sure of other famous alums but I graduated with Wendy - they were already successfully rich at that time and the fast food joint was only in Ohio and Indiana then
And Orange county house of Representatives member Harley Rouda was in that same class

Those are the three most interesting ones

[umjewman]

Yeaahhh, you were who I was thinking of when I decided to include colleges in this. Bahhhh

And who was that porn star?

I think she’s still performing. Joanna Angel. She’s listed on the notable alumni of our High school Wikipedia. Also had NBA/ABA player Billy Paultz

[joncarlos]

HS - Jumbo Elliott (former NY Giants O-lineman) or Sal the Stockbroker from Howard Stern. Shouts to Neal Heaton (former Pittsburgh Pirate) as well.

College - too many to name. I'll take Fred Rogers. You could go with Mike Ditka, Mark Cuban, Dan Marino, Andy Warhol, Jonas Salk... the list goes on and on.

[In the Corn]

High School - Former Olympian and Women's Soccer great Brianna Scurry or Former Olympian wrestler Brandon Paulson or Former Olympian Nordic Skier John Bauer (Bauer was a classmate and friend, so I had to add him). Three others, Garrison Keillor, Gretchen Carlson and (I hate to admit) Michelle Bachman.

College - Adam Thielen, Gov. Tim Walz, hockey player David Backus and TWolves owner Glen Taylor

[madducks]

High School: Former heavyweight boxing champion Michael Moorer, who i've known since we were in first grade together and Oscar winning actress Frances McDormand.

College: None that i know of from my small community college.

[Gregg]

No one from High School

John Belushi - UW Whitewater.

From Whitewater blog:

John Belushi Attending UW-Whitewater
Ok, so a lot of people do know this. However, did you know that some scenes from Animal House were inspired by John Belushi’s attendance at UW-Whitewater? If you visit the Hamilton House Bed & Breakfast, they can confirm the rumors. Remember the scene where the character D-Day rides down the stairs on his motorcycle through the Delta Tau Chi house? That actually happened years ago in the Hamilton House. To this day, the staircase still has large dents where the motorcycle came through.

[Moonlight J]

HS: Marcy Darcy from Married with Children, Billy Gardell from Molly & Me, and Austin Rivers from the NBA

College: actress Cheryl Hines, Daniel Tosh, co-founder of WhatsApp, former Cleveland GM John Hart, future HOF kicker Matt Prater

[Sam]

High School - Rancho Bernardo (in San Diego) - alot of baseball talent, most notably Cole Hamels, but also Hank Blalock and Trevor Williams. A few NFL fringe players (Eugeno Amano and Aaron Wallace), and Tom DeLonge from Blink-182 (for a year or two).

College - UCLA - too many to name!

[BuckyBuckner]

High School (Creighton Preparatory, Omaha, NE) - in my class of '94, ESPN baseball announcer and former MLB pitcher Kyle Peterson. Others: musicians Connor Oberst (Bright Eyes) and Tim Kasher (Cursive), pro wrestler Ted Dibiase, producer/director/writer Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election, Descendents, Nebraska), Book of Mormon star Andrew Rannells, and Mount Rushmore sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum.

College (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) - actor/writer/producer Harold Ramis (Animal House [which was partly based on events that happened at Wash U and specifically in the ZBT fraternity which a couple of my friends were members of] Ghostbusters, Stripes, Groundhog Day), playwright Tennessee Williams, actor Peter Saarsgard (The Killing, Green Lantern, Garden State), poker pro Chris Moneymaker, adventurer Steve Fossett (1st solo round-the-world balloon flight), Men's Wearhouse founder George Zimmer, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, conservative activist Phyllis Schafly (barf).

When I saw that you went to high school in Omaha my first thought was Connor Oberst. I used to know a few guys who lived in Boston that went to high school with him.

As for the question, no one from either my high school or college. The headmaster from my high school for senior year was arrested in a pedophilia sting where he was messaging online with teenage girls (got busted cause of the "girls" was a cop). That kind of made him famous as it was in the news; but I guess that doesn't even count as he didn't attend the high school. Nevermind