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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Band T-shirt Etiquette

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.

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.)