Who are the most infamous people who went to your high school?

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

I have two (Jamaica High School, Queens, NY):

Scumbag Brooklyn Dodger owner Walter O'Malley;

Watergate bastard John N. Mitchell.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Loni Anderson (not that she's actually infamous).

She was two years ahead of me. And she's not blonde.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Jane Byrne....

Former mayor of Chicago.

[Redstone]

3. The famous asshole "Werner Erhard" of "est" fame. Though "Werner Erhard" was NOT

his name in high school.

Redstone

[Esra Star]

57. Wasn't it Jack Rosenberg? What did he do, specifically,

that made you not like him?

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. Sam Alito

I think he counts as infamous...at least around these parts

[XemaSab]

5. Anton LaVey and Tupac Shakur.

:D

[SOteric]

6. The college coed involved in that Italian sex murder.

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

7. Is she from Seattle or somwehere near there?

She's in a load of trouble.....

[sasquatch]

34. What's happening in that case now?

[Skittles]

8. Marlon Brando

my favorite teacher is the mother of Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine :D

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

9. Brando? No shit.....

That's cool.....

[Skittles]

11. well, not the actual building

a new one was built later but the town's high school, yes :)

[AlCzervik]

10. Michael Bloomberg.

[Bicoastal]

12. Believe or not--Robert Downey Jr, Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn, Rob Lowe, and all of their brothers.

Man, the 80's were good to Santa Monica High.

Also John Ehrlichman one of the SOBs in Nixon's cabinet who went to jail because of Watergate.

Also Daryl Dragon. (The Captain in "Captain and Tennille")

Also Carson Daly

[rockymountaindem]

13. Nobody but me

And I'm not even that infamous :)

[Cabcere]

19. Same in my case.

Did we go to the same high school? :P :hi:

[Richard Steele]

22. Same here- and my infamy was strictly local.

MAN do I come from an uninteresting area!

[legaltender]

14. Austin St. John

Who, you ask? Why, the original Red Power Ranger on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, that's who!

(And Chris McCandless, who wandered off into the Alaska wilderness without supplies and died, Sean Penn made a movie about him but I don't remember the name.)

[underpants]

56. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[alarimer]

15. Ty Pennington

The guy from Home Makeover.

Also Travis Tritt. Both of them in the same year I think, 4 years or so before me.

[Nailzberg]

31. Ty Pennington? Infamous?

Okay, guess I can see that.


(The finger isn't directed at you. Please take no offense, I just find the picture funny.)

[eyesroll]

16. Ron Goldman.

The guy who died with Nicole Brown Simpson.

[Generic Brad]

17. No one

And it is surprising because I attended the Millard Fillmore Academy of Mediocrity.

[yourout]

18. Dave Lesar.....Halliburton CEO.

Good family......not sure what went wrong.

[johnnie]

20. Jimmy Zero of the Dead Boys

They were infamous...no? :)

[Nailzberg]

21. Some folks might consider Hillary Rodham infamous.

:hide:

[RetroLounge]

43. You go to East or South?

I went to East.

We had Harrison Ford too...


:hi:

RL

[Nailzberg]

54. East.

Go Demons!

[RetroLounge]

58. Me Too!

Class of '79...

:hi:

RL

[Writer]

23. Let's see... John Hinckley - the man who shot Reagan...

Angie Harmon - Law and Order

Stephanie March - Law and Order SVU

I know there are others, but I can't think of them now.

~Writer~

[RushIsRot]

24. Me. I'm not famous in the least.

So far, I've managed to avoid the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and prison.

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. I guess it'd be Ernie Camacho

We graduated in the same class ('74) and played some basketball during lunch. Once during gym in junior high, he was slap-boxing with another kid, and I guess the kid hit Ernie on a button somewhere, because all of a sudden he went, "Ohhhh, now you DIE!" and just tore into the kid.

Anyway, he pitched for Oakland, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Houston, the Giants and had a cup o' coffee with St. Louis before his arm wouldn't hold up anymore. (He had about 800 elbow surgeries — guess that's what happens when you throw 90 mph in high school.)

Last I heard, he was chief custodian in the elementary school district where we grew up.

Another sad note: Some of you may remember Dave Dravecky, the Giants pitcher who lost his throwing arm to cancer. In 1989, after his "miraculous" comeback from surgery on it (before it was amputated), the arm was broken a second time in the celebration after the Giants clinched the NL pennant. Camacho broke it when he jumped on him.

[kath]

26. uhhh, how many people here know the definition of the word "infamous"??

[Nailzberg]

27. In-famous is when you're MORE than famous.

This man El Guapo, he's not just famous, he's IN-famous

[Maraya1969]

35. Wondering that myself.

[CreekDog]

50. let's just say, famous for the wrong reason nt

[SacredCow]

28. The Governor-Elect of Louisiana....

Bobby Jindal.

[auburngrad82]

29. Newt Gingrich and Petra Kelly

Probably the most infamous Conservative and one of the greatest Liberals in history.

[triguy46]

30. Mary Kay Place, Gary Busey.

[BarenakedLady]

32. James Woods

He's pretty infamous. Also quite a bit older than me.

There was also an NHL goalie that was a friend of my brother, but I forgot his name now.

[MikeH]

33. Robert Zoellick and Paula Zahn

They and I went to and graduated from Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Illinois.

I knew Robert Zoellick and his older brother, and their mother; they lived less than half a block from where I did. His older brother graduated the year before I did; Robert graduated three years after I did.

Paula Zahn went to high school after I had graduated and moved from Naperville; I found out a few years ago that she had attended Naperville Central High School.

Both would definitely qualify as being infamous, given who they have worked for.

[Gonzo Gardener]

36. I ran into Eric BLACKWATER Prince in a dark parking lot outside of a high school dance.

Holland, MI. 1985ish... It was at a, Holland High School, all school dance. He attended Holland Christian... me, West Ottawa High. I met up with my group of friends there. The dance was awful so as we were leaving he was going in with his entourage. He took issue with me and my girlfriend walking arm in arm. The guy is a hater, my LGBT friends (big surprise there). He got nasty. I had words with him and had to tell him to back off. I remember his face getting really red as he walked away mumbling. I'd never met him before that and had to ask my friend who he was. She rolled her eyes and said, "Ew-ick Prince".

That's all I got. :shrug:

[ellisonz]

37. Bob Eubanks.

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. Not really infamous, and not really a student, but...

Kathy Whitman, Charles Whitman's wife, was a teacher at Lanier about 15 years before I got there.

She was murdered before he went up to the UT tower and began shooting.

[Angel]

39. Football player

Joey Gallaway and Lance Mehl

[sasquatch]

48. What High School was that?

[doc03]

59. Hi neighbor, that would be Bellaire High

School in Bellaire Ohio, we had Lou "The Toe" Groza. Remember your arch enemy the Martins Ferry Purple Riders?

On edit: Just read post again "infamous" not famous, trick question!

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

40. Iggy Pop

Also known as Jim Osterberg.

[NewWaveChick1981]

41. Not infamous, but famous...James Worthy.

:) He was a senior when I was a sophomore. We ended up at the same university too. :) He was (and I hope still is) a pretty nice guy.

[SKKY]

42. Muhammad Ali is an alum from my High School.

[graywarrior]

44. Couple of the guys from the band Boston.

[NewJeffCT]

45. Richard M. Nixon

Not that Richard M Nixon... just remember somebody with that name being on a list of National Merit Scholars in my school's history.

This was somebody that graduated high school in the 1960s, so obviously too young to be that Nixon.

Otherwise, nobody infamous that I know of.

[dropkickpa]

46. Not infamous

Romare Bearden (a great artist)
Frank John Gorshin, Jr (the riddler from the Batman series)
Gene Kelly
Billy Eckstine
Lorin Maazel
John Edgar Wideman

as for infamous, I guess I could write down all the guys who've killed people in gang violence.

[distantearlywarning]

47. Charlie from The Bachelorette with Trisha.

He graduated the same year I did, and was a total asshat. It's a good thing she picked the other guy.

Also, some of the members of SoulCracker from that VH1 reality show "Bands on the Run".

[MrScorpio]

49. Sonny Bono

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denby_High_School

[Arugula Latte]

51. Nobody that I'm aware of ... But Steve Perry of Journey went to our rival high school.

My school was filled with a bunch of snotty rich white a-holes ... Good times, good times :eyes:

[annonymous]

52. Bill Belichek Coach of the NE Patriots

He graduated from my high school 12 years before I did.

[martymar64]

53. I am

I am the only person from my high school with feature film credit.

[Darth_Kitten]

55. Brad Rigby, only 9th grader with a beard.

:)

[SaveElmer]

60. Thomas Friedman, Jim Peterson...

Thomas Friedman I assume everyone has heard of...unfortunately

Jim Peterson made it to the NBA, played for the Rockets and a bunch of other teams...kind of a middling player...

When he was with the rockets he backed up Olojuwon and Sampson, the twin towers...Peterson was the Ivory Tower...

[Forkboy]

61. Daniel LaPlante - Murdered and raped a woman and drowned her two kids here in Mass.

[Kat45]

62. None, as far as I know. But my friend went to high school with Bill O'Reilly

:puke: