YOUR CHANCE TO CREDIBLY NAMEDROP! Cite famous people who went to your school(s):

Sid Cesar (sp?)

College:

Walter Cronkite
Sarah Weddington
Lady Bird Johnson
Janis Joplin
Kinky Friedman
Farrah Fawcett
Richard Linklater

(forgetting tons and tons I'm certain)

High School:
School A: that guy who helped the habs win the cup in the 80s.
this really hot girl who was in gr. 12 when I was in gr. 9, but I had met her the summer before gr. 9 and I had sideburns at 14, so I told her I was 17, and we almost kissed, and then I show up for gr. 9 and there she is, only she's in gr. 12! What a disaster! I asked her out at the end of the year though. After she'd graduated. Surprise surprise, she said no. But I know that she did like me when she thought I was the same age as her.
School B: the dude who directed Wayne's World 2.
the guy who runs the Irish bar downtown that I like to go to

Univ:
the Canadian Something Or Other to NYC

undergrad college:
paul robeson
milton friedman
alexei lalas
sista souljah
james gandolfini
jeff torborg
martin agronsky
avery brooks
calista flockhart
david stern
selman waksman

jd law school:
bob torricelli
louis freeh

llm law school:
ed rendell

College was an improvement: Philip Roth, Mike Nichols, a shitload of hotshot economists.

Jack Kerouac
William Carlos Williams
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Elliott Carter
Robert Caro
Robert L. Heilbroner
Barry Scheck
Edward Koren
Anthony Hecht
Allard Lowenstein
Alvin M. Josephy and Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Anthony Lewis
Andrew Tobias
Andrew Hacker
Bill Green
Morris Lasker
Ben Yagoda
Ken Pollack
Nicholas Christopher
Mark Penn and Doug Schoen
James Murdoch

*dies*

Hi-Fashion Ironic Vintage Metal/Punk Kitsch

Anyway, um, sorry about the pic. It's just I've been on a Sopranos binge since the beginning of the year; I'm rewatching the whole series from start to finish. I'm about at the end of season three right now.

Lessee, my college had a buncha killjoys like Susan Sontag, Philip Glass, Carl Sagan, John Paul Stevens, etc. My high school had nobody famous because I grew up in a corn field.

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And how could we forget your contributions to....

Shania Twain's Ramones T-shirt: C/D?

My mum went to school with Bettina Arndt but that'll mean nothing to anyone but Australians I suspect.

The holders of the patent for Rollerblades
Joel and Ethan Coen
Al Franken
Thomas L. Friedman
'Doctor' Matt Fink
Bobby Z. Rivkin
(locally famous)
Paul and Ron Magers
Mark Rosen
Allan Fingerhut and Byron Frank (duelling owners of First Avenue)
Mei Young

College:

Alice Walker
Lee Radziwill
Sigourney Weaver
Yoko Ono
Jane Alexander
Meredith Monk
Katharine Houghton (K Hepburn's niece, in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner)
Kyra Sedgwick
Cary Elwes
Julianna Margulies
Guinevere Turner
Joanne Woodward
Brian de Palma

College = UCLA = the list goes on.

Grad School = UCI = er, Jon Lovitz.

College:
Denzel Washington
Alan Alda
Mary Higgins Clark
Donald Trump
Vince Lombardi
Charles Osgood
Susan Lucci

College:

Barbara Walters

college:
steve zahn (briefly)
peter krause
kurt elling
(john denver got married in the chapel)

grad school:
shitloads, i'm sure. otoh:
bobby jackson
bob dylan (dropout)
garrison keillor (dropout)

YOU! :)

Upper school: Either Crick or Watson, one of them (the guys who discovered DNA)
"Whispering" Bob Harris
Jim Dale
Spencer Percival
One of the winning England rugby World Cup team.

University:
Alan Millburn
Finchy from The Office
The Vice-President of ICI

Dominik Diamond
Colin Montgomerie
some Olympic skier (Ronnie Duncan?) or other

University:

loads of prominent Scottish people.

Craig Kilborn
ME!!! (heh)

College (abridged; thank you search engine):

Tommy Lee Jones
Jack Lemmon
Mira Sorvino
Matt Damon
Al Gore
Tatjana Ali
Natalie Portman
Elisabeth Shue
Rivers Cuomo
Ted Kazcynski
Leonard Bernstein
Tom Morillo
Matt Birk
Yo-Yo Ma
John Adams
e.e. cummings
Margaret Atwood
Bonnie Raitt
John Lithgow
Steve Ballmer
Stockard Channing
Elliot Carter
William Christie
Michael Chrichton
T.S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
William Gaddis
Bill Gates
Fred Gwynne
John Harbison
Rutherford Hayes
William Hearst
JFK
Ted Kennedy
Henry Kissinger
Ursula K Le Guin
Tom Lehrer
Norman Mailer
Conan O'Brien
Masaka Owada
Tom Ridge
FDR
Teddy Roosevelt
Carlos Salinas
David Souter
Johnathan Taylor Thomas
John Updike

Larger list (including graduate school attendees; also not complete) here

Uni:
Far too many to mention.

forgot about these two:
Maggie Smith
Miriam Margolyes

Maggie Smith hated it, and won't do anything associated with it, while Miriam Margolyes came back for the 125th anniversary of the school was lovely.

university: NELSON MANDELA, robert sobukwe

Lenny Bruce
These people, sadly.

College:

Charles Van Doren (the quiz-show scandal guy)
Ahmet Ertegun
Jac Holzman
Francis Scott Key

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Charles Lamb
Leigh Hunt
Edmund Blunden
Keith Douglas
Barnes Wallis
Constant Lambert
Bryan Magee
John Snow
Colin Davis
Con Coughlin
Julian Garner
Attila The Stockbroker
Mark Thomas

CS Forester
VS Pritchett
Kelvin MacKenzie
Prof. RV Jones (the wartime scientific genius, it says here)
Dr Stuart Blanch, Archbishop of York
Sir Ronald Leach, Chairman of KPMG
Some of the Beloved and the Chemical Brothers, I think
Julian Glover
Simon Ward
Sam West
and Jude Law.

Our PE teacher once told us that Marc Bolan was there for a short time, before getting expelled, but I've never found anything to confirm this.

University:

Loads, I guess, but it doesn't feel like anything.

Uni:
Mick Jagger
Carlos the Jackal
that British extremist who killed Daniel Pearl
the son of Colonel Gadaffi

George Soros

Even after the medical reports and other confessions? Hm. I will enjoy imagining these men drinking their lives away and dying in cold corners.

That's all I can think of.

i think gabbneb's one is colombia (i deduced this via julia stiles- she mentioned colombia during her jonathon ross interview).

vengadan's is harvard (deduced from conan o'brien)

jellybean went to cheltenham ladies?

im crap at this game.

jel, i couldnt guess your uni, i had to google. google reveals that it was pete townsend who went to TVU, not roger!

the son of spoonbender Ur1 gell4r was in my class at university- he was very nice and claimed he inherited some powers from his father.

Rumour has it - and does it still? - that Holly Robinson and Robin Givens had a catfight in Bates. Also whoever it was that played the nerd school paper girl on 90210 attended said school.

The president of my university is the chairman of the 9/11 Commission.

European Union president Pat Cox
Some players on the Irish Rugby Team (fuck if I know which ones)

gerald ford and whizzer white at my college, probably more too since it is a big school.

college: Dan P. covered it I think, although let's add some on: Naomi Yang (Damon & Naomi, Galaxie 500, I saw her in the dining hall a lot), Clay Tarver (Bullet LaVolta, etc.), the Hudlin Bros., Alek Keshishan (that Madonna documentary, see note below), Jesse Peretz (many great videos, I borrowed his car from his mom a lot and helped him move shit), Donal Logue (Jimmy the cab driver, many tv shows/movies, great drinking partner), Soledad O'Brien, Suzanne Malveaux (newswoman, her twin sister lived in my freshman dorm and was LOVELY), Daniel Zelman (Mr. Debra Messing, I hung with him a lot).

Note: Alek K. directed a $5000 play at school that told Wuthering Heights except that all the characters kept breaking into lipsynched versions of pop songs: Billy Idol, Kate Bush, Madonna. It was feckin' lovely. My wife tried out for this play but didn't make it, her lipsynching wasn't good enuf or something. It was total ILM action.

wasn't that the order I put them in? i always have to struggle to remember whether or not it was Linklater or Robert Rodriguez who actually went there (maybe both did but only one graduated?)

Robert's little brother was in my dorm and Lisa Loeb's brother was in my Holocaust in Film and Lit seminar course.

Indeed it was, and I meant only that my list would've looked a lot like yours.

If my film lore serves me, Linklater graduated and Rodriguez dropped out. That's okay, though -- The Faculty is genius. No, really.

Do we really want to talk about the indie-rock heritage of Oberlin College, though?

University: loads. Gordon Brown, Daisy Donovan, Dr. Hastings Banda, plenty of other people I can't remember right now.

so i am to stick to high school, where its going to be more unusual and impressive

right, er, no one. perhaps i shall investigate later today, and try and uncover someone of some description

Ben Jonson, John Dryden, John Locke, Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke,
Henry Purcell, Edward Gibbon, A. A. Milne, John Gielgud, Peter Ustinov, Tony Benn, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Helena Bonham Carter, Dido.

University:

Would be silly.

Ethan Buckler (Slint, King Kong), Dave Pajo (for a day or two - Slint, Tortoise, Papa M, Zwan, etc.), Drew Daniels (Matmos), Kip McCabe (Dianogah)

college:

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen (Steely Dan - Becker didn't graduate), Larry Hagman, Nick Zinner (yeah yeah yeahs), Chevy Chase

Also, Brad Pitt, Sheryl Crowe, and myself all have the distinction of being University of Missouri drop-out's.

Jon Williams

Ummm Zandra Rhodes and Kelly Brook. That's it, I think.

University:

Would be silly.

I second the boy Gregory on this.

Uni:
Six By Seven
The guy who cloned Dolly the sheep

Nottingham really don't advertise their alumni.

GET. THE. FUCK. OUT. OF. TOWN!

That is entirely fuckin' awesome.

1500

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Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
Poet and dramatist.

Charles Chauncy (1592-1672)
President of Harvard 1654-72.

George Herbert (1593-1633)
Poet & public orator, Cambridge 1619-27.

1600

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John Dryden (1631-1700)
Poet and dramatist. Poet Laureate.

John Locke (1632-1704)
Philosopher.

Christopher Wren (1632-1723)
Original fellow of the Royal Society. Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College and Oxford Architect.

Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
Inventor, mechanic, architect, astronomer. Spiral spring to regulate watches, principle of the arch. Author of Micrographia.

George Jeffreys, 1st Baron (1648-1689)
Lord Chief Justice of the Bloody Assize. Lord Chancellor. Died a prisoner in the Tower.

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Composer

Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
Orator and financier. Originator of the Bank of England and the National Debt.

Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768)
First Lord of Treasury 1754-6. Prime Minister.

Henry Pelham (1696-1754)
First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1743-54. Prime Minister.

1700

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Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Methodist preacher and writer of over 6000 hymns.

James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl (1715-1763)
First Lord of the Treasury. Prime Minister for five days in 1757.

Thomas Gage (1721-1787)
General. C in C North America. Governor of Massachusetts 1774.

John Burgoyne (1723-1792)
Lieutenant-General. Dramatist. Surrendered British Army at Saratoga.

Richard, Earl Howe (1726-1799)
Admiral of the Fleet.

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (1730-1782)
Prime Minister.

Warren Hastings (1732-1818)
Governor-General of Bengal.

Edward Gibbon, FRS (1737-1794)
Historian.

William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809)
Prime Minister.

Arthur Middleton (1742-1787)
Signatory of Declaration of Independence.

Charles Pinckney (1746-1825)
ADC to Washington 1777. Defeated by Jefferson in 1804 in contest for Presidency.

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Philosopher.

Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841)
Ambassador to Constantinople. Bringer of the Elgin Marbles to Britain.

Henry Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (1768-1854)
Cavalry and horse artillery at Waterloo, where he lost a leg.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Poet Laureate 1813.

Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855)
Lost his right arm at Waterloo. C in C in the Crimea.

John Russell, 1st Earl (1792-1878)
Introduced the Reform Bill 1831. Prime Minister.

1800

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Benjamin Hall (1802-1867)
Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings. ‘Big Ben’ named after him in 1856.

George Henty (1832-1902)
Author of over 80 popular books for boys.

A A Milne (1882-1953)
Author and journalist.

1900

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Henry Tizard (1885-1959)
Scientist and inventor.

Adrian Boult (1889-1984)
Conductor.

John Gielgud (1904-2000)
Actor and director.

H A R (Kim) Philby (1912-)
Journalist. Defected to USSR 1963.

Angus Wilson (1913-)
Novelist.

Norman Parkinson (1913-)
Photographer.

Sir Andrew Huxley(1917-)
Scientist.

Sir Peter Ustinov (1921-)
Actor, writer and director.

Michael Flanders (1922-1975)
Writer and entertainer.

Donald Swann (1923-)
Musician and entertainer.

Tony Benn (1925-)
Politician.

Peter Brook (1925-)
Theatre director.

Nigel Lawson (1932-)
Politician.

Anthony Howard (1934-)
Journalist.

Roger Norrington (1934-)
Musician.

Dan Topolski (1945-)
Rower

Andrew Lloyd-Webber (1948-)
Composer and producer.

John Brown (1953-)
Publisher.

Stephen Poliakoff (1952-)
Playwright.

Imogen Stubbs (1961-)
Actress.

Matt Frei (1963-)
TV journalist.

Gavin Rossdale (1965-)
Lead singer of Bush.

Helena Bonham-Carter (1966-)
Actress and model.

Ruth Kelly MP (1968-)
Treasury minister

Joe Cornish (1968-)
TV comedian/presenter.

Adam Buxton (1969-)
TV comedian/presenter.

Louis Theroux (1970-)
Broadcaster.

Dido Armstrong (1971-)
Pop singer.

Martha Lane-Fox (1973-)
Founding director of lastminute.com.

Of that list Robert Hooke is the one that impresses me the most.

Tim Russert
Don Shula

(And, you know, it's still a thesis for a Bachelor's, after all. I'm on my second Master's, and I still haven't had a class as demanding as the most demanding ones at Hamp.)

This sounds similar to the expereince I had in my undergrad Honors program. It was a separate major so we didn't have to declare anything else, instead we chose a "concentration" which was pretty much whatever the hell we wanted. This lead to our thesis which was needed to graduate. Very demanding but rewarding in the end. I don't have much Grad coursework to compare to it yet but so far, that thesis was the most demanding thing I've ever done. (My adviser wanted me to try and turn into a journal article. She was convinced I could get it published pretty much writing my ticket into grad school. But, fortunately, I wasn't prepared to take an English Ph.D path then.)

College: what Tad said. I never met James Gandolfini (I think he graduated before I got there) or Calista Flockhart, but I remember Sister Souljah well. She was heavily involved in the Rutgers anti-apartheid protests. PE has a lyric that goes "we in the Rutgers program with that question." I've always wondered if that had something to do with Souljah.

This is a funny question from my perspective, since a lot of people go to my alma mater to get famous (actors coming out of Northwestern) - too many to mention, I lost count. Also some journalism and film people.

suzy, my girlfriend went to Sarah Lawrence.

Pete Townshend of The Who, Freddie Mercury of Queen, Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones, and members of Radiohead, Reef and Tricky all attended. Also Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans.

Janick Gers of Iron Maiden!!!!

William Barnsley Allen VC
Awarded Victoria Cross 1916

Sir Donald Bailey
Inventor of the famous World War II "Bailey Bridge"

Carol Barnes
Newscaster

The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP
Secretary of State for the Home Department

The Hon Sir Sze-yuen Chung
Hong Kong politician

Stephen Daldry
Director of films "Billy Elliott" and "The Hours", Artistic Director of Royal Court Theatre (1992-1998)

David Davies
Director of Public Affairs at the Football Association

Martin Fry
Lead singer with 80's pop band ABC

Nicci Gerrard
Author

Stephen Grabiner
Apax Partners, formerly Chief Executive of ONdigital

Joanne Harris
Award winning author of books including "Chocolat"

Frank Hayes
Former England and Lancashire Cricketer

Penny Hughes
Past-President, Coca-Cola Great Britain and Ireland

Eddie Izzard
Comedian, Actor

Amy Johnson
Pioneering aviator of the 1930s

Sir Hans Kornberg
Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (1982- 1995), world-famous biochemist

Sir Harry Kroto
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1996

Sir Peter Middleton
Chairman of Barclays PLC (also Chancellor of the University of Sheffield)

John O'Leary
Editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement

Richard Roberts
Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology 1993

Tim Robinson
Former England and Nottinghamshire Cricketer

Jack Rosenthal
Playwright

Helen Sharman
Britain's first astronaut

Linda Smith
Comedian

The Rt Hon Ann Taylor MP
Former Chief Whip, Chair of Intelligence and Security Committee

David Weatherall
Former Premiership footballer at Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday and Bradford City

Howard Wilkinson
Former manager of Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland Football Clubs

Said hello to Kate Thornton though.

I'll let you be the judge of which is the most impressive.

college:plenty of jazzers
kim gandy(NOW president)

Jon Stewart
Ben Johnston (microtonal composer)
Glenn Close
Travis Morrison (from Dismemberment Plan -- famous? nah.)
NA
George Washington

School : no-one
Univ : Suzanne Charlton (Bobby's Daughter and weather lass), Rupert Graves, Rory Bremner, Chris Sheasby (England Rugby player).

College: Sting, Timmy Mallet.

University = No one famous I know of, as of yet.

University: Anthony Burgess, Louis de Berniere, Adrian Edmonson, Rik Mayall, Anna Ford, Ben Elton, Meera Syal, Louise Wener, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alex Garland, Mark Radcliffe, The Chemical Brothers

Famous alumni include: Kieron Dyer, Ezra (from Vinyl Dialect), WAS (sometime touring drummer with Extreme Noise Terror and Cradle of Filth), er, that's it.

When I lived in Leeds I went to the same school as David Batty and Brian Deane. (Not quite Marc Bolan, I admit)

College:
Jon Lovitz

Given that I don't watch daytime TV or BBC London, this has passed me by, but she seems to be a wee bit famous.

so not a great haul. they should do the league tables by celebrity rather than grades...

college:

President of the United Nations General Assembly (1948-1949), Dr H.V. Evatt
Governors-General of Australia - Sir John Kerr, Sir William Deane
Prime Ministers of Australia - Sir Edmund Barton, Sir William McMahon, Gough Whitlam and John Howard
Chief Justices of Australia - Murray Gleeson, Sir Anthony Mason
Justices of the High Court - Dr H.V. Evatt, Michael Kirby, William Gummow, Susan Crennan, Dyson Heydon
Governors of New South Wales - Sir Roden Cutler, Professor Marie Bashir AC,
Premiers of New South Wales - Neville Wran, Nick Greiner, Morris Iemma
Chief Justice of New South Wales - James Spigelman
Lord Mayors of Sydney - Frank Sartor
Nobel Laureates - Sir Robert Robinson (Sydney's first Professor of Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry 1912 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1947), Sir John Cornforth (graduated with BSc 1938 and University Medal and MSc 1939 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1975), John Harsanyi (graduated with Masters in Economics 1966 - Nobel Prize in Economics 1994)
President of The Royal Society - Lord Robert May
President of the World Bank (1995-2005) - James Wolfensohn
Archaeologists - Vere Gordon Childe (1913), Basil Hennessy (1950), Stephen Bourke, Alison Betts, Karin Sowada, Paul James Cowie (1991)
Writers - Christopher Brennan, Kate Grenville, Les Murray, Dr Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes and Clive James
Film Directors - Jane Campion, Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford
Geologist and Antarctic explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson
Aboriginal leaders Charles Perkins and Noel Pearson
Opera divas Dame Joan Sutherland and Yvonne Kenny
Federal Members of Parliament - Tony Abbott
From December 2, 2003 to January 28, 2005, the leaders of Australia's four largest political parties were all Sydney alumni.

John Anderson, National Party of Australia leader (resigned July 2005)
Bob Brown, Australian Greens leader
John Howard, Liberal Party of Australia leader
Mark Latham, Australian Labor Party leader (resigned January 2005)

Erica Beeney, film writer (The Battle of Shaker Heights)
Chris Claremont, writer (X-Men)
Blythe Danner, actor
Ronan Seamus Farrow graduated in 2004 at age 15, making him the youngest student in Bard's history.
Theodore J. Flicker, director and sculptor
Adrian Grenier, actor (Entourage) (listed as alumni but this dude dropped out our sophomore year)
Christopher Guest, actor/director (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman)
Todd Haynes, filmmaker
Anthony Hecht, poet
Gaby Hoffmann, actress
Rhoda Levine, director, choreographer
Susan Mernit, Netscape and America Online executive
Roger Phillips, sculptor
Daniel Pinkwater, novelist and NPR commentator
Herb Ritts, photographer
Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic
Peter Stone, playwright
Sherman Yellen, playwright

Notable Dropouts

Larry Wachowski, filmmaker (The Matrix)
Adam Yauch, musician (Beastie Boys)
Matt Taibbi, journalist (The Nation, The eXile, The NY Press)

Dr. Rihab Taha, Iraqi Biological Weapons Chief, AKA Dr. Germ

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* Joe Craig, Novelist
* Alex Garland, Novelist
* Arthur Edwin Kennelly, American electrical engineer
* Dairoku Kikuchi, Japanese mathematician and Minister of Education
* David Katz, Music Journalist
* David McCallum, Actor
* Dick Rubenstein, Major
* Dirk Bogarde, Actor (Junior School only)
* G.W. Knox (OG 1856-59), President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
* Frank Holl, English painter
* Frederic George Stephens, 'Nonartistic' member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood & Art critic.
* Hayashi Tadasu, Japanese Foreign Minister, and Ambassador to the Court of St James.
* Ingram Bywater (OG 1853-56), Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University
* Joseph Chamberlain (OG 1850-52), Colonial Secretary, leader of the Imperialist Liberals and father of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
* Judge Jules, Dance music DJ
* Julian Lloyd Webber, Cellist
* Max Minghella (OG 1999-2004), Actor
* Nicolas Bentley, illustrator
* Richard Holt Hutton (OG 1835-41), Editor of "The Spectator"
* Ronald Neame, British screenwriter and director
* Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (OG 1873-74), Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India
* Stephen Spender, Poet
* Thom Gunn, Poet
* Tom Hood, Humourist
* Will Self, Writer
* Walter Sickert A.R.A. (OG 1870-71), Artist and critic
* 1st Viscount Samuel, Herbert Samuel (OG 1884-88), Leader of the Liberal Party, Home Secretary and High Commissioner for Palestine
* His Excellency Viscount Hayashi (OG 1867-68), Japanese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's
* Professor Karl Pearson F.R.S. (OG 1866-73), Founder of Department of Applied Statistics of University College London which was the first statistics department in the world. He was a major contributor to the development of statistics. Contemporary and close friend of Kikuchi Dairoku.
* Professor William Edward Ayrton, F.R.S., (OG 1859-64), Physicist
* Sir Alfred Yarrow, Bart., F.R.S.(OG 1855-58), Ship building industrialist and philanthropist
* Sir Angus Prevost, Bart., (OG 1847-52), Governor of the Bank of England
* Sir Chris Bonington (OG 1944-52), Mountaineer
* Sir Claude Phillips (OG 1856-58), Keeper of the Wallace Collection
* Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart., G.C.M.G (OG 1835-39), Speaker of Assembly, New South Wales
* Sir Francis Seymour Haden, English etcher, writer and surgeon
* Sir Frank Crisp (OG 1857-59), Eminent Company Lawyer
* Sir George Faudel-Phillips, Bart. (OG 1853-55), Lord Mayor of London 1896-97
* Sir Henry Greenway Howse M.S., F.R.C.S. (OG 1856-58), President of the Royal College of Surgeons
* Sir Hamo Thornycroft R.A., (OG 1863-68), Artist and sculptor
* Sir John Ambrose Fleming, Electrical engineer
* Sir Josiah Rees, (OG 1835-38), Chief Justice of Bermuda
* Sir Julius Vogel K.C.M.G, Two-time Prime Minister of New Zealand
* Sir Michael Foster K.C.B., F.R.S., M.P. (OG 1849-52), Psychologist, Professor and MP
* Sir Nathaniel Nathan (OG 1851-58), Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, 1901-1903
* Sir Philip Magnus, Bart., (OG 1854-58), English educationalist and MP
* Sir Roger Bannister (OG 1944-46), Runner and Neurologist
* The Rev. Canon Ainger, Alfred Ainger (OG 1847-49), Master of the Temple
* The Rev. Joseph Estlin Carpenter (OG 1854-60), Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford of Oxford University.
* The Rt. Hon. Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (OG 1839-43), Artist and President of the Royal Academy
* The Rt. Hon. Nathaniel Lindley, 1st Baron Lindley, P.C., (OG 1837-45), Master of the Rolls, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
* The Rt. Hon. William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby, P.C., Q.C., (OG 1848-49), Speaker of the House of Commons
* The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Braddon K.C.M.G., (OG 1843-44), Premier of Tasmania
* The Rt. Hon. John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, P.C., O.M., [ (OG 1853-54), Secretary of State for India
* The Most Rev. Arthur Sweatman (OG 1848-50), Archbishop of Toronto and Primate of all Canada
* The Most Rev. E.G. Bagshawe (OG 1836-38), Archbishop of Selucia
* The Rt. Rev. Edward Steere (OG 1842-44), Bishop of Central Africa.
* The Very Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler (OG 1852-54), Chief Rabbi of UK
* Sir Julius Vogel K.C.M.G, Julius Vogel, (Chairman of Old Boys Dining Society 1877), two time Premier of New Zealand
* Sir Barrow Ellis K.C.S.I,(OG 1883-37), Member of Governor-General's Council and of the Council of India
* J.G. Greenwood, (OG1835-37) Principal of Owens College, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University (UK) and possibly founded it
* Sir John Heathcote-Amory, Bart (of Tiverton)(OG 1843-45), Textile Baron, builder of Knightshayes Court
* The Rt. Hon. Lord Romilly, (OG 1843-50), There seems to be some confusion in Internet sources. It may have had something to do with the 1867 Reform Act.
* The Rt. Hon. Lord Burnham, Baron Burnham (OG 1847-50), Principal proprietor of The Daily Telegraph
* The Rt. Hon. J.W. Mellor K.C., M.P. (OG 1844-51), Chairman of Committees, House of Commons
* Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bart. (OG 1847-52), Professor at University College London. There is to this day a Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at UCL, and the main hall at UCS is officially known as the Durning-Lawrence Hall.
* The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Charles,P.C., (OG 1848-54), Judge of the High Court
* William Frend De Morgan (OG 1849-55), may or may not be William De Morgan, possibly not because his entry in the register says he was a novelist.
* Edwin Waterhouse (OG 1855-57), President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and very probably the Waterhouse in PricewaterhouseCoopers, the largest professional services firm in the world
* The Rt. Hon. Lord Wandsworth Sidney James Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth, (OG 1857-58), Reason for Peerage unknown, but later founded the Public School Lord Wandsworth College
* Sir G.C.T. Bartley (OG 1852-59), M.P.
* Sir Edward Henry Busk, M.A., LL.B (OG 1852-59), Vice-Chancellor of the University of London
* Augustus Pulszky LL.D (OG 1858-60), Professor of Law, University of Buda-Pesth
* Numa E. Hartog (OG 1857-61), First Jewish Senior Wrangler, prominent figure in the movement to remove Jewish disabilities. His evidence before a committee of the House of Lords helped considerably to secure the passing of the Universities Tests Act in 1871.
* Sir Boverton Redwood, 1st Baronet Boverton (OG 1857-61), Prominent chemist and petroleum expert, co-founded the B & R Redwood consulting practice. He also co-founded, and became the first President of, the Institution of Petroleum Technologists, now known as the Institute of Petroleum, in 1913. He was instrumental in persuading the Royal Navy to change from coal fired ships to oil fired ones.
* Gottfried Kinkel (OG 1859-62), Professor of Greek, University of Zurich. May be a relation of Gottfried Kinkel
* Admiral Sir Percy M. Scott, Bart., K.C.B. (OG 1865-66), Often regarded in the Royal Navy as "the father of modern gunnery". Scott was also instrumental in developing other equipment for the fleet such as the masthead flashing lamp (and possibly the masthead semaphore) and the shutter "for the emission of signs" to put on the searchlights so they could be used to send Morse Code. He was Military Commandant of Durban when martial law was declared during the Boer War. In a controversial letter to the Times he foresaw the vulnerability of battleships to new technology such as submarines. He was made Head of the anti-submarine department of the Admiralty months into the First World War. He is one of three Naval officers who (working independently) are credited with the development of depth charges. [1], [2], [3]
* Professor E.A. Sonnenschein, Litt.D. (OG 1867-68), Philologist, Professor of Classics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the University of Birmingham
* Sir D. Brynmor Jones, P.C., Q.C., M.P. (OG 1862-69), writer of parliamentary reports
* Sir C.A. Russell Q.C., (OG 1862-71), was probably Charles Russell Q.C. who defended at least one of the three social campaigners in the famous case of Eliza Armstrong (1885): social campaigners proved the existence of under age prostitution by "buying a girl", they were then prosecuted
* Alexander Hill M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S. (OG 1870-72), Master of Downing College, Cambridge
* Lt.-General Sir Robert I. Scallon K.C.B., K.C.I.E., D.S.O. (OG 1869-73)
* Sir Wilfred Collett K.C.M.G. (OG 1870-73), Governor of British Guiana 1914-1918
* Justin H. McCarthy M.P. (OG 1871-73), Member of Parliament and author and possibly son of Justin McCarthy
* Lucas Barrett, English Geologist and naturalist - Can someone confirm this??
* The Rt. Rev. J.E. Hine D.D., M.D. (OG 1870-74), Bishop of Zanzibar, Archdeacon of Lincoln
* Professor F.C. Montague M.A. (OG 1871-74), Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Historian
* H. Clarence Bourne C.M.G. (OG 1872-75), Colonial Secretary of Jamaica
* Sir William J Collins K.C.V.O, M.D., M.S., F.R.C.S., M.P. (OG 1869-76), Member of Parliament and Chairman of L.C.C
* Sir A.G. Bourne K.C.I.E., F.R.S. (OG 1872-76), Director of the Indian Institute of Science
* Marion H. Spielmann (OG 1872-66), Historian of "Punch"
* Maurice Greiffenhagen R.A. (OG 1872-76), Artist
* Professor S.J. Hickson F.R.S. (OG 1873-76), Victoria University
* Professor D.S. MacColl (OG 1873-76), Keeper of the Wallace Collection
* Sir W.S. Meyer G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I. (OG 1873-76), Member of the Governor-General's Council, First High Commissioner for India
* Leonard Huxley LL.D. (OG 1872-77), Editor of "The Cornhill Magazine"
* Professor W.D. Halliburton M.D., F.R.S. (OG1872-77), Professor of Physiology, King's College London
* Sir Theodore Morison K.C.S.I, K.C.I.E., C.B.E. (OG 1874-77), Member of the Council of India, Principal of Armstrong College
* Sir E.W. Moir Bart. (OG 1875-77), Engineer
* André Chevrillon (OG 1876-77), member of the French Academy
* Sir Edward Manville M.Inst.E.E., (OG 1874-78), Chairman of the Imperial Council of Commerce
* Robert Anning Bell R.A. (OG 1876-78), Important painter and illustrator
* Percy Flemming M.D., F.R.C.S. (OG 1872-79), Professor of Ophthalmology, University College Hospital
* Sir A. E. Shipley F.R.S. (OG 1877-79), Master of Christ's College, Cambridge
* Arthur Berry (OG 1877-79), Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge
* Sir Walter Raleigh (OG 1877-79), Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
* Sir Philip J Hartog K.B.E., C.I.E. (OG 1874-80), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dacca
* Sir John Rose Bradford Bart., K.C.M.G., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. (OG 1875-80), President of the Royal College of Physicians
* Sir W. Phené Neal (OG 1876-80), Lord Mayor of London 1930-31
* Walter Ashburner D.C.L. (OG 1877-80), Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
* H. W. Halton (OG 1877-80), Vice-President Court of Appeal, President Mixed Tribunal, Cairo
* Sir Joseph Duveen, Bart, later Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank (OG 1877-80), One of the most influential art dealers of all time and a philanthropist
* Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Hill, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O., F.R.C.S., (OG 1871-81), Director-General of the Admiralty Medical Department, Hon. Surgeon to H.M. the King
* Sir Harry Haward (OG 1877-81), Controller of the L.C.C., Electricity Commissioner
* Maj.-Gen Sir T. Fraser K.C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G. (OG 1876-82)
* Professor O. K. Willaimson M.A., M.B. (OG 1876-82), University of Witwatersrand
* Maj.-Gen. Sir E. D. Swinton K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O. (OG 1878-83), Chichele Professor of Military History, University of Oxford

Walter Cronkite
Lady Bird Johnson
Liz Carpenter
Jayne Mansfield
Farrah Fawcett
Janis Joplin
Kinky Friedman (who was in the same honors program as me)
Michael Dell
Robert Rodriguez
the wild Bush twin
Earl Campbell
Ricky Williams
and Vince Young, who's leaving. Bastard

college: Ken Burns, & the frisbee guy, plus New Radiant Storm King, Eugene Mirman, Liev Schreiber, _Elliott Smith_, this one guy formerly called happy clown boy who just made a documentary about Wild Man Fischer, etc.

Anyway,

high school:

Grand Funk Railroad(three years behind my dad)

university:

James Earl Jones
Arthur Miller
The Unabomber
Madonna(dropped out)
President Gerald R. Ford,

Larry Page(co-founded Google)
Lucy Liu
Mike Wallace
Dick Gephardt
William James Mayo (of the Clinic)

Clarence Darrow (lawyer from Scopes Monkey Trial)
Lawrence Kasdan(co-wrote Empire Strikes Back)
Several astronauts, including "the all-UM crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 15."

And innumerable bands and AMG writers

Beverly Cleary
Kitty Kelley
Hank Ketcham
Ann Rule
Tom Foley
Bruce Lee
Corey Dillon
Warren Moon
Dyan Cannon
Patrick Duffy
Anna Faris
Kenny G
Richard Karn
Kyle MacLachlan
Jean Smart
Julia Sweeney

Honorable mention: Ted Bundy

Jaclyn Smith
Gibby Haynes

How could I forget Charles Whitman, the father of modern mass murder?

He's on my university famous people list.

UMCP:
larry david
jim henson
connie chung (WMUC ALUM)
a buncha DC rock dudes
a buncha NBA players
boomer esiason
more sports

x-post: famous ILX0rs beanz AND forest pines are on mine :)

o, and alext.

i'm told the current Bachelor was there at the same time as me, but i don't know him

for the article
about lindsey lohan), yay!
bo is really cool

(xpost to GF)

kenan!

that is all.

Jerry The Nipper & Pinefox for me.

from the pix you've posted on other threads, i don't recognise you. which means that if we did meet, i was probably so horribly drunk that a) i've forgotten, and b) you've wiped the experience from your mind.

Dave Chappelle
Denyce Graves (famous Opera mezzo)
Brendan Canty of Fugazi (rumored -- he apparently bounced from school to school)

my college had renee flemming and a bunch of other people cool to me but probably insignificant to everyone else.

Typical vocalist.

Joek!

Are you from the DC area?

Milton Friedman
Mario Battali
Asia Carrere (porn star)
Calista Flockheart
Avery Brooks
I'm sure there are others but that's off the top of my head. Pardon any misspellings -- too lazy to google.

High School: Ice Cube.

'Per Angusta Ad Augusta" indeed

-- mookieproof (mookieproo...), January 11th, 2006.

wait til tonight!

# Robert Ayling - airline tycoon and endorser of infamous multicoloured tailfins on British Airways planes (Margaret Thatcher famously covered the tailfin of a BA model plane with her glove in disgust!).
# Jimmy Edwards - comedian
# Robert Graves - poet and novelist, who mentions his brief spell at the school in his celebrated biography Goodbye to All That
# Alvar Lidell - BBC radio announcer
# Roy Plomley - broadcaster and creator of the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs, the world's longest running music programme, first broadcast in 1942
# Gaby Rado - television journalist
# Dante Gabriel Rossetti - pre-raphaelite painter & second-rate poet.
# Walter Sickert - english impressionist painter, widely suspected of being the real Jack the Ripper (Patricia Cornwell is a fervent exponent of the theory, and destroyed a valuable Sickert work in her efforts to verify it).
# R. Walther Darré - German minister of food and agriculture

(xpost, you don't get sixth-form colleges in Scotland so I forgot about them)

Well at college, some sports folks.

Not at Oxbridge!

x-post, dorms? With bars in them? You Americans!

This was in England! We don't have dorms with bars in them here in the U.S., at all! This was a new and unusual development, I thought.

I see.

Is that where jed went???

What's to get?

I went to a poncey North London liberal arts sixth-form college where you couldn't do maths or sciences but you were encouraged to do sculpture or film or media studies or something like that. It was in a charming old house in Hampstead, sort of like a commune!

In England, I went to a university and lived in a college.

He told me that it was on a hill.

RJG, is the school of architecture not a faculty? Or is it a school within a faculty? Is the School of Art in Glasgow a college or a university? I never actually thought this was confusing until I thought about it properly.

Adam, we just don't have them here, what's the point of them, why can't you just do the sixth form in the school you did the first five in?

archictecture is in the faculty of engineering, usually, I think, or probably should be

the school of art is an art school but is also part of glasgow unversity for many things

xp

No, it was Lancaster.

these are often found in areas that were rural when they were founded, some of which remain rural. the distinction may be, once again, the relative size of the countries.

though some were founded as colleges for women.

(xpost to jaymc, oh, I didn't realise other universities did that outwith Oxbridge, sorry, me dumb)

at my secondary school:

me
Terry Wogan
Garret FitzGerald
Ronan from ILX
divers rich wankers
some meathead who was good at rugby
James Joyce

at my university:

everyone Irish of any consequence ever

Amazing really that the school only had 400 pupils yet had 3 kids getting professional contracts, all within two years of each other.

Sixth Form
Beverly Turner (TV Presenter, married James Cracknell); was in English class with her
Anna Friel (I used to wash her car, you know)

University
Same as Dom Passantino above, but add:
Dean Jimmy Corkhill from Brookside
Robert Fisk (Middle East Correspondent, The Independent)

kelli glover from the first season of american idol
a dude who plays/ed on the nebraska cornhuskers
carol blazejowski

college:

uh...just go here. (conspicuously absent from that list: ben "dell dude" curtis and steve "bobst boy" stanzak)

C. Everett Koop class of 1937—US Surgeon General
Nelson Rockefeller class of 1930—Vice President
Paul Tsongas class of 1962
Daniel Webster class of 1801
Dinesh D'Souza class of 1983
James Nachtwey class of 1970
Robert Frost class of 1896—US Poet Laureate
Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr. Seuss class of 1925
Norman Maclean class of 1924—A River Runs Through It
Rachel Dratch class of 1988
Mindy Kaling class of 2001 (USED TO SWEAT ME, THANX (wuz in 40yrVirgin))
Andrew Shue class of 1989
Jay Fiedler class of 1994

FICTIONAL

Michael Corleone (class of 1949) of The Godfather
Meredith Grey of Grey's Anatomy
Dan Rydell of Sports Night
Elliot Sherman of The Baxter
Caroline Swann of The Baxter
Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford) of Working Girl
Thomas Crown of Thomas Crown Affair
Capt. John Francis Xavier 'Trapper John' McIntyre of MASH

-- don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmit...), January 11th, 2006 5:46 PM. (plsmith) (later)

ahem.

and adrien brody. and dawnn lewis from a different world! and, um... there's a list of alumni on the website:

COMPOSERS
Alvin Brehm
Martin Bresnick
Cy Coleman
Raphael Crystal
Robert Dick
Robert Di Domenica
Morton Feldman*
Charles Fox
Gerald Fried
Joel Hirschhorn
Michael Kamen*
Edward Kleban*
Meyer Kupferman
Ezra Laderman
Paul Lansky
Ben Lanzarone
Mitch Leigh
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson*
Stu Phillips
Arthur Rubinstein
Seymour Shifrin*
Charles Smalls*
Mark Snow (Marty Fulterman)
Jonathan Tunick
James Yannatos

CONDUCTORS
Leon Botstein
James Conlon
Paul Lustig Dunkel
Leslie Dunner
James Gaffigan
Stephen Gunzenhauser
Eve Queler
Andrew Schenck*
Gerard Schwarz
Stanley Silver*
Jonathan Strasser
David Zinman

CLASSICAL MUSICIANS
Sanford Allen
Carol Stein Amado*
Cecelia Arzewski
Jerome Ashby
Ik-Hwan Bae
Isidore Cohen
Kenneth Cooper
Daniel Domb
Stanley Drucker
Eugene Drucker
Bruce Dukov
Roy Eaton
Timothy Eddy
Phillip Fath
Joyce Flissler
Bernard Garfield
Sol Greitzer*
Lesley Heller
Marian Heller
Leonard Hindell
Richard Horowitz
Allen Iglitzen
Elayne Jones
Stephen Kates*
Robert Kopelson
Karl Kraber
David Krakauer
Sung-Ju Lee
Carol Lieberman
Steven Lubin
Penayis Lyras
Barbara Stein Mallow
Tiberio Nascimento
Murray Panitz*
Murray Perahia
Matthew Raimondi
Basil Reeve
Samuel Rhodes
Joshua Rifkin
Ronald Roseman*
Henry Schuman
Bernard Shapiro
Joel Smirnoff
Conrad Strasser
Marcus Thompson
Andor Toth
Roland Vamos
Allan Vogel
Arthur Weisberg
Warren Wilson
Pinchas Zukerman

CLASSICAL SINGERS
Ladd Boris
Patricia Brooks
Lynn Brown
Jennifer Chase
Gloria Davy
Rodrick Dixon
Susan Gregory
Reri Grist
Esther Hinds
Grace Hinds
Jennifer Hines
Rhea Jackson
Catherine Malfitano
Julia Migenes
Laquita Mitchell
Jan Opalach
Lenore Sampson
Theresa Santiago

JAZZ MUSICIANS
Nat Adderly, Jr.
Dennis Bell
Walter Blanding
Don Byron
George Cabels
Sterling Campbell
Lenny Castro
Bill Charlap
Ray Chew
Pete Chivily
Billy Cobham
Eddie Daniels
Malcolm Dobbs
Charlie Drayton
Kenny Drew*
Roy Eaton
Sue Evans
Eliot Finkel
Sharon Freeman
Dave Glasser
Bernie Glow
Eddie Gomez
Andy & Jerry Gonzalez
Steve Gordon
Omar Hakim
Chuck Israels
Steve Jordan
Parker Kelly
Michael & Carolyn Leonhart
Jason Lindner
Tess Marsalis
Marcus Miller
Charnett Moffett
Frank Owens
Jimmy Owens
Noel Pointer*
Shorty Rogers*
Steven Scott
Jeremy Steig
Dave Valentin
Kenny Washington
Buddy Williams
Larry Willis
Bernard Wright

DANCERS / CHOREOGRAPHERS
Dara Adler
Jacqulyn Buglisi
Gregg Burge*
Linda Caceres Sims
Cora Cahan
Michael Callen
Christopher Chadman*
Raquelle Chavis
Gary Chryst
Starr Danias
Ruth Davidson
Altovise Gore Davis
George De La Pena
Tamas Detrich
Dennis Diamond
Kurt Douglas
Jean Emile
Lola Falana
Louis Falco*
Charles Farruggio
Eliot Feld
Lorraine Fields
Penny Frank
Darren Gibson
Miguel Godreau*
Krystal Hall
Gary Harris
Kevin Jeff
Shaun Jones
Mari Kajiwara*
Minou Lallemand
Baayork Lee
Bill Louther*
Bruce Marks
Leonard Meek
Arthur Mitchell
Tony Mordente
Scott Morrow
Eleo Pomare
Michael Peters*
Troy O'Neil Powell
Coco Ramirez
Desmond Richardson
Jonathan Riseling
Jaime Rogers
Brunilda Ruiz
Lolita San Miquel
Eddie J. Shellman
Kim Stroud
Nasha Thomas-Schmidt
Edward Villella
Norman Walker
Dudley Williams

DIRECTORS,WRITERS
Robert Brustein
James Burrows
Charles Busch
Martin Charnin
Matthew Diamond
Herb Gardner
Diana Gould
Peter Hyams
Erica Jong
Michael Kahn
Jonathan Lethem
Anisa Mehdi
Lonny Price
Esmeralda Santiago
Susan Schulman
Charles Van Doren
Art Wolff

PRODUCERS
Steven Bochco
Sean Daniel
Steven Dick
Robert Ellison
Robert Greenwald
Lynne Littman
Daniel Melnick
Stuart Ostrow
Michael Pressman
Freyda Rothstein*
Susan Schulman
David Simon
Frank Von Zerneck

LYRICISTS
Carole Bayer Sager
Marilyn Bergman
Susan Arkin Birkenhead
Roger Steinman

ACTORS
Jennifer Aniston
Ellen Barkin
Richard Benjamin
Julie Bovasso*
Adrien Brody
Charles Busch
Thom Christopher
Desiree Coleman
Victor Cook
Keith David
Michael DeLorenzo
Dom DeLuise
Thom Christopher
Dagmara Dominczyk
Omar Epps
Alvin Epstein
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Cliff Gorman*
Anna Maria Horsford
Jackee Harry
Paula Kelly
Zohra Lampert
Dawnn Lewis
Hal Linden
Priscilla Lopez
Sonia Manzano
Janet Margolin*
Annette Lieberman Miller
James Moody
Claudette Nevins
Keith Nobbs
Al Pacino
Sarah Paulson
Elizabeth Peña
Brock Peters
Suzanne Pleshette
Tony Roberts
Jennifer Salt
Helen Slater
Wesley Snipes
Susan Strasberg
Arthur Taxier
Glynn Turman
Michael Vita
Jessica Walter
Leslie Ann Warren
Marlon Wayans
Billy Dee Williams

ENTERTAINERS
Maya Azucena Newton
Priscilla Baskerville
Brenda Braxton
Northern Calloway*
Diahann Carroll
Victor Cook
Lisa Fischer
Ben Harney
Janice Ian
Jackee Harry
Eartha Kitt
Shari Lewis*
Melissa Manchester
Liza Minnelli
Peter Nero
Laura Nyro*
Freddie Prinz*
Paul Stanley
Elly Stone
Suzanne Vega
Ben Vereen
Eric Weissberg
Peter Yarrow

ARCHITECTS
Charles Gwathmey
Robert Siegel
Michael Pittas

ARTISTS
Arnold Abramson
Amy Adler
James Bama
Whitney Bender
Al Blaustein
William Blechman
Charles Bragg
Ronald Burns
Robert Conal
Harvey Dinnerstein
Byron Dobell
Seymour Drumlevitch
Will Elder
Edwin Fisher
Audrey Flack
Mary Frank
Elias Friedensohn*
Laurence Gartel
Milton Glaser
Barbara Grossman
Al Jaffee
Matt Kahn
Wolf Kahn
Allan Kaprow
Julius Kirschenbaum
Harvey Kurtzman*
Mildred Lapson
Julian LaVerdiere
Whitfield Lovell
George Lois
Mil Lubroth
Frank Mason
Norman Narotsky
Alfonse Normandia
Reginald Pollack*
Barbara Rothenberg
Erika Rothenberg
Ann Samols Sperry
Daniel Schwartz
Judith Shahn
Aaron Shikler
Burton Silverman
Ann Sperry
Beth Ames Swartz
Pat Travigno
Larry Walker
Fred Wilson
Jerome Witkin

DESIGNERS
Anne Crimmins
Isaac Mizrahi

PHOTOGRAPHERS
Beth Bergman
Neal Slavin

MEDIA
Margot Adler
Andrew Barnes
Roberta Baskin
Len Buder
Max Frankel
Michael Klare
June LeBell
Evan Lottman
Les Marshak
Marianne Mandell
Bess Myerson
Anna Perez
Marcus Raskin
Susan Levitt Stamberg

ARTIST MANAGERS
Shelly Berger
Sid Garris
Sheldon Soffer

ARTS ADMINISTRATORS
Luis Cancel
Arthur Drexler*
Cora Cabot Geister
Laura Kaminsky
Daniel Windham

and bess myerson, hubba hubba.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1893079007.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

D4n Macmill4n (man-about-town, great-grandson of Harold, J4de J4gger's ex etc)
J4ck Church1ll (great grandson of Winston)
4lex Kl3inw0rt and his little brother (sons of Kl3inw0rt-B3ns0n financial behemoth)
4ngus Br0wn (comic actor and star of "still working!" toothpaste ad)
H4rry Z4ltzman (stand-up and Radio 4 stalwart)
K34ne (the band. all of them, i think)
...er, B1ll Bruf0rd from Yes's son...

Not while i was there:

Fr3derick F0rsyth (novelist)
Chr1s and Col1n C0wdr3y (cricketers extraordinaire, apparently)
Linds4y And3rson (brilliant film director, directed If..., based on same school although filmed elsewhere)
I think WG Grace went there too!

Crikey, that's a bit lame innit.

Author Mary Gaitskill attended college at the same time as I did. She worked in a bookstore upstairs from my record store. She was the first shy skinny black-clad beatnik chick I encountered, a real anomaly in the milkfed hale & hearty cleancut midwest. Obviously somebody destined for an "interesting" life.

Other Michigan grads include Gerald Ford, Arthur Miller, who cares.

fr leavis
humphrey jennings
someone or other from pink floyd

charlie -- was that school or uni?

Well I never

University:
Arthur Brown (as in Crazy World Of)
probably some members of Slowdive/Chapterhouse/etc

One of those cuntish easy listening singers, James Cullum or Blunt, went to my uni as well I think.

My university alumni are so obscenely unfamous I'm too embarrassed to go into it.

School:
Coen Brothers
Al Franken
Thomas L. Friedman
Norman Ornstein
Bobby Z and Matt Fink from Prince's Revolution (BZ is friend's cousin)
Byron Fink and Allan Fingerhut, owners of First Avenue (and classmates of my mom)
Jeff Dachis, Razorfish founder (friend of mine, leave alone)
plus a slew of broadcasters who are famous in Minneapolis but no place else.

College:
Yoko Ono
Lee Radiziwill
Jane Alexander
Barbara Walters
Meredith Monk
AM Homes
Robin Givens
Holly Robinson
Gabrielle Carteris

when I was there:
Joanne Woodward
Guin Turner (hallmate/friend)
Amanda Foreman
Julianna Margulies (very nice girl)
Yancey Butler
Melora Hardin
plus these rich girls like Emily Oppenheimer and Illaria Bulgari

Darren Millard (sports TV guy in Canada)

High School:

TV show host K1m Carroll (she hosts some dumb home renovation show up here)
The members of hip hop group Farm Fresh (Pip Skid, McEnroe, DJ Hunnicutt)

University:

TV luminary Sean Carruthers!
Greatest Canadian Tommy Douglas
Probably a bunch of other guys...Stanley Knowles, etc.

whatsername from the first two terminator flicks went to my college years before me

College:
Michael C. Hall (David on Six Feet Under)
NPR's Andrea Seabrook and Steve Paulson
Frances Moore Lappe (Diet for a Small Planet)
Robert Quine
Wendell Stanley-Nobel Prize in Chemistry

If the mister was on ILX he would be mentioning for the x billionth time that he used to go to school with David Tennant.

o, and mark dolan, who presents stuff on channel 4 (balls of steel, and that thing where he pretended to be a boss). he was a nice guy too.

University:
- Nelson Mandela
- Johnny Clegg
- Nadine Gordimer

And now I live opposite Alanis Morrisette's old school. That probably doesn't count, but I shall speak for the people I know who knew her.

My secondary school:
Nobody that I know of.

My university:
See what the Vicar said.

Of contemporaneous alumni, the one that particularly springs to mind is Mika.

referring to an oxbridge university as 'the other place' is something i have never done; it's the worst, most insufferable kind of complacency and snobbery, and when there's about 20 other universities in the country which in certain areas have as much educational credibility (and MORE social credibility) as the 'big two', well, it's inexcusable. i appreciate that you yourself are using the term with a hint of self-deprecation, but when current students toss it off without a moment's thought my blood seethes.

as gregory henry says, university alumni might be stupid, but individual college alumni would be far more interesting. We've got Frank Whittle as well, alongside Colin Greenwood, Charles Babbage and the dude who invented the hovercraft...

One year above me at school:
Friends Again, later Love and Money/Bathers

Roughly the same time as me at Oxford:
Reynolds, Stubbs, Oldfield, Stewart Lee

Convicted may0r of pr0vidence bu|)|)y c1anci

College:

Security expert Bruce Schneier

Did anyone else here go to Warwick?

College: Barack Obama (for two years), Ben Affleck (for a year), Luke Wilson (one semester), Dude from Scissor Sisters (two years), Terry Gilliam (all four)

highschool:
bode miller

in the continuing hs series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Roy

Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger. Rumor had it he used to staple used condoms onto the ceiling of his dorm room so his cum would fall on the heads of cleaning staff. (Needless to say, this was the year before the staff went on strike for the first time ever).

Boy, my dorm room could have used a cleaning staff. I guess Miami-Ohio is highfalutin'.

i was just thinking about this thread but couldn't find it (or...there may have been another one? for people in our class who are ~known~ but not megastars?) anyway, england's representative in this was in the year below me, she was cool too.

Luke & 0wen Wi1son and Steve Miller!

Grade School:
this guy who went to jail for killing some other guy

^^ goes for jr. high and high school too

I don't think any of my primary/secondary schools have produced anyone famous...well, a friend of mine played Jared Leto's younger brother in a crap film and another friend is the daughter of a notable Irish politician, but that's really it.

My universities are the opposite but the "notable" alumni of my Cambridge college are mostly undesirables like Neil Hamilton, Simon Heffer and Francis Maude. Oh wait, I was on a sports team with 3mma P00l3y who won a medal at the last Olympics if that counts.

So I knew that we had

-the singer of Born Against / Mens Recovery Project

I did not know we had

-An Poet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yezzi

-The political director of NY1

That last one really screwed my head in, because it came up in a context I was so not expecting. (Not that you expect to run into classmates anywhere, really, but it was a Mother Jones link criticising his decisions.)