Too many to count. I'll choose this time Sid Luckman and Billy Cunningham both HOF athletes. And Al Davis and Jerry Reinsdorf as sports owners. Dozens of actors and musicians including Barbra Streisand.
A guy I knew in school, Jason Brown, became a Tony award winning Broadway composer. He was one of those kids where you knew he was going to really succeed.
Actually, a neighbor of mine, (can't remember his name) also became a Tony winning composer. i guess there was something in the water in that area.
Marc Blucas is literally the only notable alumni listed on Wikipedia for my school district. He was a few years ahead of me. His dad was the superintendent.
Oh, and my brother's friend who also went to that school, Marc Bomback, wrote Live Free Or Die Hard and a few of the Planet of The Apes movies, if that counts for anything.
10 or 11 sports figures - Olympic medalists and pro baseball and basketball players. Probably the most famous is Justin Gatlin, multi-Olympic medalist.
Jason Varitek (Boston Red Sox), Rob Thomas (singer Matchbox 20) & Mandy Moore. Jason was a friendly, kind & good hearted person. Rob was super shy & was in choir with my sister. Mandy was after I graduated but rumor has it she thought very highly of herself even back then.
Roky Erickson - Psychedelic-rock cult legend Rusty Weir - Country music singer/songwriter Ken Boswell - Former Major League Baseball player David Lindsey - executive editor at National Geographic Joel Reyes - Powderburn drummer
Junior high, not high school - Earvin "Magic" Johnson. He's three months older than me, and we went to Junior high together. He was bussed in. Busing was about as popular as the bubonic plague. There were riots at our junior high all the time, the police called in, students left, but Earvin NEVER would get involved with the rioting thugs, even though they wanted him to. He said he had nothing against anyone and wouldn't get involved in that insanity. He was and is a true Christian. He did not ever try to fit in, he did not give in to peer pressure, thank God. God was looking out for him. He was the tallest kid in the school. Even then, he was such a special person. No one knew how great he would be until high school basketball, when it was VERY evident. That's when he was nicknamed "Magic", by the local paper. He is such an amazing, wonderful person. He comes back home all the time, I can't tell you what a hero he is. A class act all the way. God bless him forever.
Not from my high school, but Aisha Tyler went to MacAteer with my high school boyfriend. Margret Cho was two years ahead of me at another all girls high school, Mercy. Aisha was always boring to me.
Brandon Routh and Jason Momoa both went to high school at the school the next town over. I think for my school, Luke from the KIOA 93.3 morning show. (Although, he may have moved away at the end of middle school before high school.)
Allan Thicke’s brother, Todd, He’s the guy who developed America’s Funniest Home Videos. Should have made a better impression on him when I was handing him his costumes and he was he lead in every school play....
@unknown, you must have went to my school at one point! we also had Buckshot Jones (a year behind me) low grade NASCAR driver, and Mark B. Perry, writer/producer for Wonder Years among many other shows. He lived across the street from me but was a bit older. I knew his younger brother a bit better. We had a lot of guys that went on to play for the NFL at one point or another. We had a fantastic football program, not that i cared1
And it speaks for itself the level of spoiled kids i went to school with. Buckshot had his own racing team (presumably financed by Daddy) right out of high school.
Probably Harry Connick Jr... id say hes def bigger than the Duplas Brothers these days.. but for a minute it looked like the brothers were on a meteoric rise
Yes Paris i did, your mom may have also known Neil Diamond because he was there at the same time, but he moved to Coney island or the Bay and graduated Lincoln, not Erasmus.
Terry Serpico-actor and Adam McKay - director. Terry I knew, he was a great guy in high school. He was on the show Army Wives etc. Adam i did not know. He is about 5yrs younger. But,I can quote Talladega Nights and Stepbrothers like a pro. LOL And i love that his toddler daughter was Pearl in the Will Farrell Landlord videos.
BRAD PITT. Same city, different high school. But my brainy lunch buddy had a crush on him - he being the cross town speech and debate cutie. My sister escorted little Brad safely to the bano at Vacation Bible School many years before that. I was at the same High School Party once, but the true party peeps were out back and I was raiding the refrigerator with my best friend inside. Tennis and Ice Cream defined my High School years. At University I sat behind him in an auditorium class, he with his Tri Delt girlfriend who had very similar hair and features to Jennifer Anniston. I always remembered him because my lunch girlfriends crush on him was SOOOOO hard. She might bat for the other team now though. In grad school I called her up after a long disconnect and said "Hey, your crush Brad is on Dallas.." and she said "Who?" Yep.
Infamous? James Comey and Lawrence Taylor. Famous? Bruce Hornsby. His mom and mine were besties, my ex was a buddy and my friend and neighbor married him.
A classmate and her mom were first runners up in a Mother Daughter International Pageant that was televised in the late 80s. Much younger alumni: Anthony Castonzo - Colts (lived across the street from me). Sarah VonderHaar - America's Top Model. Songwriter Justin Tranter. Jack Lynn - Falcons. Hannah Ford - drummer.
David Soul (Hutch from the TV show Starsky & Hutch), Mary Hart TAUGHT at my high school, long before I went there, sportscaster Pat O'Brien graduated from my high school, January Jones graduated from my son's high school, Nathan "Nate" Gerry (current linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles), and, although he didn't graduate from my school, he DID go there for a while, Bob motherfuckin' Dylan! Also, former governor of South Dakota and 1st commissioner of the American Football League, Joe Foss. Cheryl Ladd went to high school with my great uncle in Huron SD.
Most of these were LONG before me going there, and a couple of them are after me, I graduated in 83.
There are a few other famous people from South Dakota (Brock Lesnar, Bob Barker, Tom Brokaw, Tom Daschle, Mike Miller from the Denver Nuggets), but none of them are from my hometown.
My high school - one guy who is in the witness protection program, which is like the opposite of being famous, another guy wrote the school song for a very big university.
And Troy Donahue, if you are looking for people whose name you might have heard of.
A handful of Olympians and a pop singer turned metal singer Skye Sweetnam who now goes by Sever. https://canadiancontentmachine.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/from-sweet-to-cyco/
Several state politicians and some athletes. The really interesting thing is that I went to 7th grade at the same high school where my Mom and my Grandmother attended. It was built in 1904 and would probably have remained the high school except part of the third floor collapsed onto the second floor one day while school was in session. It was one of the hallways. No one was hurt but there was a student protest when the town didn't immediately approve money to build a new school. We eventually got a new high school and I graduated there in 1978. It was a little freaky to be a little 7th grader in a building with seniors, some of whom were married and had kids. Very weird vibe.
Denver East High: Don Cheadle Mark'Norman'Readus Pam Greier Earth Wind and Fire Eleanor Roosevelt, Joni Mitchell and many more. Don Cheadle was the year ahead of me and Norman Readus sat behind me in German class, and was an absolute hoot.
Rusty Wallace - Nascar Driver
ReplyDeleteA guy in my class was on a season of The Bachelorette about 10 years ago.
ReplyDeleteKristy Swanson before my time and a bunch of pro athletes.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Johnson - Blame it on Rio ...
ReplyDeleteGo Lions!
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ReplyDeleteMe, of course.
ReplyDeleteToo many to count. I'll choose this time Sid Luckman and Billy Cunningham both HOF athletes. And Al Davis and Jerry Reinsdorf as sports owners. Dozens of actors and musicians including Barbra Streisand.
ReplyDeleteIn that case you forgot Neil Diamond.
DeleteA guy I knew in school, Jason Brown, became a Tony award winning Broadway composer. He was one of those kids where you knew he was going to really succeed.
ReplyDeleteActually, a neighbor of mine, (can't remember his name) also became a Tony winning composer. i guess there was something in the water in that area.
Jason Lezak and Amanda Beard. Both Gold Medal Swimmers.
ReplyDeleteSome DB that was on wife swap.
ReplyDeleteI need more info on the gay astronaut.
ReplyDeleteIrvine High represented @Natalie
ReplyDeleteCynthia Bailey
ReplyDeleteHey, @sandybrook, way to go Brooklyn HS!
ReplyDeleteAs for my HS, no one is famous as far as I can tell.
David Hasselhoff / Jeff Hornacek
ReplyDelete@Dena oops, i meant guy, not sure of the rest!
ReplyDeleteyep and one of the oldest HS in existence too..
ReplyDeleteOriginal members of Trans Siberian Orchestra.
ReplyDeleteU mean the Savatage guys, Unknown? That's awesome!
DeleteDaria Werbowy
ReplyDeleteCatherine hickland (soap opera actress and the hoff’s first wife)
ReplyDeleteMarc Blucas is literally the only notable alumni listed on Wikipedia for my school district. He was a few years ahead of me. His dad was the superintendent.
ReplyDeleteIf I answer that then you’ll know where I live.
ReplyDeleteLead guitarist from The Killers
ReplyDeleteOh, and my brother's friend who also went to that school, Marc Bomback, wrote Live Free Or Die Hard and a few of the Planet of The Apes movies, if that counts for anything.
ReplyDeleteBill Cohen former Secretary of State under Clinton
ReplyDeleteTracy McGrady AKA T-Mac, we were in the same grade.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Goodman, last amateur golfer to win the U. S. Open and a bunch of gymnasts and NFL players in more recent times.
ReplyDeleteMarilyn Manson :/
ReplyDeleteWe're from the same area then, JWood. Not the same school tho.
Delete10 or 11 sports figures - Olympic medalists and pro baseball and basketball players. Probably the most famous is Justin Gatlin, multi-Olympic medalist.
ReplyDeleteJason Varitek (Boston Red Sox), Rob Thomas (singer Matchbox 20) & Mandy Moore. Jason was a friendly, kind & good hearted person. Rob was super shy & was in choir with my sister. Mandy was after I graduated but rumor has it she thought very highly of herself even back then.
ReplyDeleteRoky Erickson - Psychedelic-rock cult legend
ReplyDeleteRusty Weir - Country music singer/songwriter
Ken Boswell - Former Major League Baseball player
David Lindsey - executive editor at National Geographic
Joel Reyes - Powderburn drummer
Show runner for a long long standing crime drama. As in “You’re kidding,that show is still on the air?”
ReplyDeleteSanjay Gupta, MD
ReplyDeleteChristine Taylor (actress)
ReplyDelete@JD My high school was one of your rivals...
ReplyDeleteI think the most famous graduate from my school (who graduated a couple years after me) played in the NFL for a few years.
I am not really sure, because I went to 4 HS's, but it may be Brendan O'Brien, producer for Stone Temple Pilots, et al.
ReplyDeleteJunior high, not high school - Earvin "Magic" Johnson. He's three months older than me, and we went to Junior high together. He was bussed in. Busing was about as popular as the bubonic plague. There were riots at our junior high all the time, the police called in, students left, but Earvin NEVER would get involved with the rioting thugs, even though they wanted him to. He said he had nothing against anyone and wouldn't get involved in that insanity. He was and is a true Christian. He did not ever try to fit in, he did not give in to peer pressure, thank God. God was looking out for him. He was the tallest kid in the school. Even then, he was such a special person. No one knew how great he would be until high school basketball, when it was VERY evident. That's when he was nicknamed "Magic", by the local paper. He is such an amazing, wonderful person. He comes back home all the time, I can't tell you what a hero he is. A class act all the way. God bless him forever.
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DeleteEllen. 1 year in common.
ReplyDelete@MyDogSmiles Yes!
ReplyDeleteMichelle Pfeiffer. Fountain Valley High.
ReplyDeleteNot from my high school, but Aisha Tyler went to MacAteer with my high school boyfriend. Margret Cho was two years ahead of me at another all girls high school, Mercy. Aisha was always boring to me.
ReplyDeleteBrandon Routh and Jason Momoa both went to high school at the school the next town over. I think for my school, Luke from the KIOA 93.3 morning show. (Although, he may have moved away at the end of middle school before high school.)
ReplyDeleteMe of course!
ReplyDeleteDanny Marino!
ReplyDeleteI'd say Laurie Anderson.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellaire_High_School_(Texas)#Notable_alumni
ReplyDeleteI had Trig class with Chuck Knoblauch (MLB All-Star second baseman).
@Todd - So you were there when Westbury's grayhole gang bageled Bellaire! (I am Parker, Johnston, Westbury -1984, and UT-Austin. And you?)
DeleteBilly wood fae the Bmx Bandits...mid 80's, short arse wi a floppy fringe. And that's it really.
ReplyDeleteRicky Prohl - NFL
ReplyDeleteForrest Gregg, NFL player and coach.
ReplyDeleteGreta Gerwig. She was after my time
ReplyDeleteAnna Kendrick, Linda Lavin, and the all time great Andrea Martin.
ReplyDeleteRand Paul.... :-/. A few years before me and went by Randy which is his real name.
ReplyDeleteI could tell ya but I'd have to kill ya!
ReplyDeleteBryan Cranston
ReplyDeleteAllan Thicke’s brother, Todd, He’s the guy who developed America’s Funniest Home Videos. Should have made a better impression on him when I was handing him his costumes and he was he lead in every school play....
ReplyDelete+1 420, for Jason Varitek and Rob Thomas, that must have been awesome :)
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ReplyDeletePat Tillman, Leland High, San Jose CA
ReplyDeleteMark Wystrach, lead singer of Midland.
ReplyDeleteShannon Hoon from Blind Melon
ReplyDeleteAtherton High School in Louisville KY.
ReplyDeleteAmong them are Sue Grafton and Hunter S. Thompson.
Jason witczak. Football player
ReplyDeleteZach Galifianakis, he dressed up like Michael Jackson for one of the school dances.
ReplyDelete@unknown, you must have went to my school at one point! we also had Buckshot Jones (a year behind me) low grade NASCAR driver, and Mark B. Perry, writer/producer for Wonder Years among many other shows. He lived across the street from me but was a bit older. I knew his younger brother a bit better. We had a lot of guys that went on to play for the NFL at one point or another. We had a fantastic football program, not that i cared1
ReplyDeleteAnd it speaks for itself the level of spoiled kids i went to school with. Buckshot had his own racing team (presumably financed by Daddy) right out of high school.
ReplyDeleteoh and matt still, grammy award winning producer for OutKast and Elton John. He works on all of Elton's albums.
ReplyDeleteAnissa Jones who played Buffy on Family Affair. She was a friend of my friend. Later suicided.
ReplyDelete@sandybrook, you went to Erasmus HS??? Babs was in the grade before my Mom!
ReplyDeleteMy HS is Kevin Sussman, from "Big Bang Theory"!
Harry S. Truman
ReplyDeleteBebe Orgeron, National Champion LSU coach
ReplyDeleteJosh Hartnett & Rachel Leigh Cook
ReplyDeleteHarry Smith from CNBC, MSNBC
ReplyDeleteProbably Harry Connick Jr... id say hes def bigger than the Duplas Brothers these days.. but for a minute it looked like the brothers were on a meteoric rise
ReplyDeleteYes Paris i did, your mom may have also known Neil Diamond because he was there at the same time, but he moved to Coney island or the Bay and graduated Lincoln, not Erasmus.
ReplyDeleteI went to college with a famous actor, but nobody in high school.
ReplyDeleteStassi Schroeder. Many, many years after I graduated.
ReplyDeleteOh great, it appears the person I like least on this site grew up in the same home town as me. 😝
ReplyDeleteLMAO Absolutely nobody.
ReplyDeleteA corrupted politician. Ha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteAmy Jo Johnson (original pink power ranger) and Chris Lambton from Ali’s season of the Bachelorette. Sweet guy.
ReplyDeleteKaty Mixon (my best friend actually went out on a couple of dates with her!)
ReplyDeleteRoy Jones Jr., Emmitt Smith.
Jim Plunkett
ReplyDelete@TerriB - Missouri Represent!!!! Mark Buehrle (MLB pitcher) - most famous from my high school. Funny fact - he was cut from the baseball team. :-o
ReplyDeleteHines Ward was in my brother’s grade
ReplyDeleteTerry Serpico-actor and Adam McKay - director. Terry I knew, he was a great guy in high school. He was on the show Army Wives etc. Adam i did not know. He is about 5yrs younger. But,I can quote Talladega Nights and Stepbrothers like a pro. LOL And i love that his toddler daughter was Pearl in the Will Farrell Landlord videos.
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DeleteThere were many but I'll say the most famous is Diana Ross. I'd put Lily Tomlin at second. Both were way before me.
ReplyDeleteBRAD PITT. Same city, different high school. But my brainy lunch buddy had a crush on him - he being the cross town speech and debate cutie. My sister escorted little Brad safely to the bano at Vacation Bible School many years before that. I was at the same High School Party once, but the true party peeps were out back and I was raiding the refrigerator with my best friend inside. Tennis and Ice Cream defined my High School years. At University I sat behind him in an auditorium class, he with his Tri Delt girlfriend who had very similar hair and features to Jennifer Anniston. I always remembered him because my lunch girlfriends crush on him was SOOOOO hard. She might bat for the other team now though. In grad school I called her up after a long disconnect and said "Hey, your crush Brad is on Dallas.." and she said "Who?" Yep.
ReplyDelete@E.M August. I didn’t know Hasselhoff went to LT. I went to RB, your rival back in the day.
ReplyDeleteSpringfield Missouri, in case it wasn't obvi.
ReplyDeleteInfamous? James Comey and Lawrence Taylor. Famous? Bruce Hornsby. His mom and mine were besties, my ex was a buddy and my friend and neighbor married him.
ReplyDeleteOscar Winner Octavia Spencer
ReplyDeleteA classmate and her mom were first runners up in a Mother Daughter International Pageant that was televised in the late 80s. Much younger alumni: Anthony Castonzo - Colts (lived across the street from me). Sarah VonderHaar - America's Top Model. Songwriter Justin Tranter. Jack Lynn - Falcons. Hannah Ford - drummer.
ReplyDeleteProbably Kristin Scott Thomas. Interestingly, one of the girls that turned Hopeless Harry down, Chelsey Davy also went there.
ReplyDeleteErnest Hemingway and Homer Simpson (voice)
ReplyDeleteTim Wakefield (Boston Red Sox and Pirates)
ReplyDeleteSadly, Ned Bolcar
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DeleteWhy sadly?
David Soul (Hutch from the TV show Starsky & Hutch), Mary Hart TAUGHT at my high school, long before I went there, sportscaster Pat O'Brien graduated from my high school, January Jones graduated from my son's high school, Nathan "Nate" Gerry (current linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles), and, although he didn't graduate from my school, he DID go there for a while, Bob motherfuckin' Dylan! Also, former governor of South Dakota and 1st commissioner of the American Football League, Joe Foss. Cheryl Ladd went to high school with my great uncle in Huron SD.
ReplyDeleteMost of these were LONG before me going there, and a couple of them are after me, I graduated in 83.
There are a few other famous people from South Dakota (Brock Lesnar, Bob Barker, Tom Brokaw, Tom Daschle, Mike Miller from the Denver Nuggets), but none of them are from my hometown.
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ReplyDeleteMy high school - one guy who is in the witness protection program, which is like the opposite of being famous, another guy wrote the school song for a very big university.
ReplyDeleteAnd Troy Donahue, if you are looking for people whose name you might have heard of.
Natalie Portman.
ReplyDeleteJudd Apatow.
Elaine Chao.
Idina Menzel.
Adam Pascal.
Michael Isikoff.
Robert Maschio, and a bunch more.
Spaulding Gray, performer, writer, actor
ReplyDeleteAuthor Dean Koontz was an English teacher at my high school (two years before I was born.)
ReplyDeleteKeifer Sutherland
ReplyDeleteMattDaddy, we're from the same neighbourhood in Canada. Keifer was in the Hood.
ReplyDeleteCatherine O'Hara for one HS and Prime Minister Stephen Harper for the other.
A handful of Olympians and a pop singer turned metal singer Skye Sweetnam who now goes by Sever.
ReplyDeletehttps://canadiancontentmachine.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/from-sweet-to-cyco/
Several state politicians and some athletes. The really interesting thing is that I went to 7th grade at the same high school where my Mom and my Grandmother attended. It was built in 1904 and would probably have remained the high school except part of the third floor collapsed onto the second floor one day while school was in session. It was one of the hallways. No one was hurt but there was a student protest when the town didn't immediately approve money to build a new school. We eventually got a new high school and I graduated there in 1978. It was a little freaky to be a little 7th grader in a building with seniors, some of whom were married and had kids. Very weird vibe.
ReplyDeleteThat girl from Beverly Hills 90210, Jennie Garth.
ReplyDeleteMr. Steve Jobs, Homestead High School in Cupertino, CA.
ReplyDeleteAnn Marie Lee, who was in The Fly II. She was our class president.
ReplyDeleteCharlize Theron
ReplyDeleteLori Loughlin went to my high school, but many years before I did.
ReplyDeleteMatthew Broderick
ReplyDeleteGeorge Stephanopoulos. His sister, Stacy, was one of my best friends.
ReplyDeleteXavier Dolan
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Same here.
I didnt know who to pick...Was going to toss out Tom Lennon, Ludacris, Kathy Griffin or Paul Harvey.
Amy Poehler
ReplyDeleteLowKey and JWood- we must all be from the NEO. I went to the same school as Manson (the secular one, not Heritage Christian).
ReplyDeleteMike Myers is the most famous. There are a few more lesser-known actors.
ReplyDeleteNo one really, or i don't remember, most of us were similar.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Carson
ReplyDeleteME
ReplyDeletePeter Capaldi. Dr Who
ReplyDeleteMark Zuckerberg, John Forte, Andrew Yang
ReplyDeleteMaria Shriver
ReplyDeleteJulian Assange went to my primary school. Poor Jules.
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ReplyDeleteDenver East High: Don Cheadle Mark'Norman'Readus Pam Greier Earth Wind and Fire Eleanor Roosevelt, Joni Mitchell and many more. Don Cheadle was the year ahead of me and Norman Readus sat behind me in German class, and was an absolute hoot.
ReplyDelete@Monkey Mich - you win! 😃
ReplyDeleteMy Dad went to the same school as Prince Charles.
ReplyDeleteThe original Morticia, Caroline Jones.
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