Any famous people studied at your university ?

[Avonrepus]

I go to University of York (UK)

Greg Dyke(ex-governor general of BBC and current chancellor of York uni)

Harry Enfield (comedian)

Adam Hart-Davis (TV Historian)

Theres more but i can't think who atm

[Stevendsmith]

1. Tom Hanks

Sacramento State

[Superfly]

2. Edward R. Murrow

WSU

[Superfly]

12. Oh, and Drew Bledsoe, Ryan Leaf, and Jason Gesser

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. Simon.

You know, from "Simon and Simon."

You'd think Beloit College would have more famous alums than that.

But you'd be wrong.

Hell, "Vince Whitacre, former primary candidate for U.S. House" is probably one of Beloit's most famous grads.

[eyesroll]

11. The reporter that asked Candidate W. about the leaders of important

countries (and he really had no idea) was a Beloiter as well.

[fudge stripe cookays]

28. One of my great great uncles was valedictorian there in 1861...

John Lloyd Taylor. He became an Episcopalian rector in Pennsylvania.

[On the Road]

4. Dean Rusk

Davidson College.

[On the Road]

5. Dean Rusk

Davidson College.

[SCDem]

6. Pat Conroy's brother....

committed suicide jumping off a high apartment building just at the edge of my campus at the University of South Carolina... kind of gives me the creeps when I walk by the building... real sad I think but at the foot of the building there is a Greek fast food resteraunt I like so I try not to think of it but still it is sad.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Brazilian congressman Jorge Bittar (nt)

[Fenris]

8. LBJ

[GOPisEvil]

9. Henry Cisneros, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen....

to say nothing of the athletes...

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. SAL-ute!

[Parrcrow]

10. Most of the folks from Second City (TV Show)

Doug Henning
Ivan Reitman
others too just can't remember.

McMaster University

[matcom]

13. Lenny Bias

R.I.P.

[Avonrepus]

17. nice responses

But i don't know who most of them are, I guess they aren't known here in the UK, except LBJ and Tom Hanks. lol

[GoddessOfGuinness]

60. My sister went to high school

with Len.

My biology teacher from 6 years before was his basketball coach.

[ret5hd]

14. The University of Hard Knocks...

has plenty of famous alumni.

on edit: and that makes 700

[KamaAina]

15. John Kerry, Howard Dean, Jodie Foster,

Sara Gilbert, Ari Meyers, Jennifer Beals, Sarah Hughes (currently), Samuel F.B. Morse, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton (law school), Angela Bassett (undergrad and drama school), Jake Weisberg, Fareed Zakaria, Garry Trudeau, Maya Lin (a new trustee)...

and, back when anyone with the right connections could get in, a couple of shlubs named Bush*.

Oh, right, it's Yale, duh.

Edit: Ex-candidate Joe Lieberman gets relegated to a footnote once more. That's right, we once had three candidates in the race!

[Laughing Mirror]

112. you're leaving out somebody

you know who: GWB

[Richardo]

16. Tim Robbins, Jim Morrison, H. R. "Bob" Haldeman...

UCLA

(Just off the top o' me pointy head.)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

20. University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Orrin Hatch (BARF)

Richard Thornburgh (ANOTHER BARF)


As for undergrad (Wichita State), all I can think of are baseball players (Joe Carter, Eric Wedge, Pat Meares, Darren Dreifort) and basketball players (Xavier McDaniel, Antoine Carr).

[regularguy]

18. Juan Epstien(Ron Hedges), Patti Smith

Go Profs!

[Jokerman]

19. Ball State - David Letterman, Joyce DeWitt

Did production work in the studio's donated by letterman. Had a prof who had pictures of DeWitt all over his office because she was his assistant. I live just a few blocks from her parents.

[felonious thunk]

21. Jeanne Shaheen, Dean Koontz

That's all I know off the top of my head from Shippensburg University

[Syrinx]

22. University of Alabama

John Cochran of NBC news.

Writer Gay Talese.

Timothy Leary.

Seinfeld director, Tom Cherones.

Actress Sela Ward (she was a cheerleader.)

And a whole lot of famous football players.

Off the top of my head.

[11 Bravo]

23. Andy Griffith, Charles Kuralt, James K. Polk ...

from UNC-Chapel Hill. (Also some basketball player named Jerden or Jordan or something like that.)

[ncrainbowgrrl]

88. Also some senator dude named "John Edwards"

And me.

[11 Bravo]

96. We also forgot Paul Wellstone.

n/t

[caledesi]

24. Christiana Amapour - University of Rhode Island

I love her and am proud she went to URI!

[MissMillie]

25. Tons!

Al Gore, John F. Kennedy, among others


oh yeah, and Bush* got his MBA here.

[ursacorwin]

29. john ashcroft

and credible ahmed, to name a few.

[fudge stripe cookays]

26. Mean Joe Green, Phyllis George, Larry McMurtry

University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.

Formerly North Texas State University. :bounce:

Go Eagles!

[regularguy]

42. Great Jazz program at (the former) North Texas State.

Almost went there.

[fudge stripe cookays]

108. Yup-- art, music, and business.

No wonder our football team sucked for so many years. They've been much better the last few years, I've heard.

[thelocalkgb]

27. I go to KU

Our biggest claim to fame is Bob Dole and discovering helium. I'm sure there's other famous people, but Bob Dole is the one who sticks out the most considering there are 2 buildings on campus named after him. :puke:

[underpants]

Most famous person to go to Virginia Commonwealth University

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[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. I'll bet that there is no one remotely famous from Glasgow Caledonian Uni.

I will bet good money. No one famous whatsoever.

[Whitacre D_WI]

33. What's that soothing sound?

Oh, that's right! It's the sound of crickets chirping!

;)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

44. Told you.

Lamest. University. Ever.

[Lars39]

32. Like, in formaldahyde or something?

Couldn't resist. :evilgrin:

[greatauntoftriplets]

34. Rock Hudson and Ann Margret.

Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).

Oh, Charlton Heston, too. :puke:

[GOPisEvil]

37. Mike Wilbon of the Washington Post sports page, too.

Mike's on Pardon the Interruption on ESPN as well. :-)

[5thGenDemocrat]

62. Rock, Ann and Chuck all went to the same high school, too

New Trier HS. Don Rumfilled also attended NTHS (so did Liz Phair).
John
Barging in any old place here.

[fudge stripe cookays]

109. New Trier was also famous for...

Lori Wasserman, the whackjob that killed all those kids at that elementary school in Winnetka, I believe.

FSC, reads entirely too much true crime

[Rich Hunt]

71. me, too

...more celebrities than you could possibly name.

Dick Gephardt, too.

I heard Heston on the radio complain that NU is 'one of the most left-wing universities in the country'.

[veganwitch]

93. Bernadette dorn (weather underground) teaches law there.

they have a nice library. i snuck in there on a saturday once.

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[Richardo]

40. The guy who plays "Oswald" on the Drew Carey show?

:D

(I know it's Diedrich Bader)

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. No, silly - the protestor killed by Nazis

:P

But I know you knew that.

[Kellanved]

54. well?

Tübingen, Berlin or New York ?

[Rabrrrrrr]

63. Neues York

:-)

[JVS]

36. Gene Kelly majored in economics at the University of Pittsburgh

Just like me.

[jburton]

38. Several right-wingers - Texas A&M

Gov. Rick Goodhair Perry (R-TX)

Lowry Mays (the owner of Clear Channel, he has a building on campus named after him)

[GOPisEvil]

41. Wow...another Aggie!

:hi:

See my list of non-right-wingers above.

[jburton]

52. howdy

I missed your list the first time...

John Sharp and several non-wingnuts went to A&M too, it's just that they aren't as visible in the current regime.

[GOPisEvil]

55. howdy!

You got that right...

By the way, I'm class of 1990. Glad to know ya. :hi:

There are a few of us around these posts.

[durutti]

39. Probably, but I can't think of any.

I go to Pitt.

[GOPisEvil]

45. Tony Dorsett and Mike Ditka...if you're into football.

:shrug:

[JVS]

46. Gene Kelly went to Pitt dude! Dan Marino too.

Hail to pitt! What do you study?

[Catholic Sensation]

61. Larry Fitzgerald

Antonio Bryant

[no_arbusto]

104. The O, Forbes Ave.

What happened to the Beehive?

[Kat45]

47. William Hurt

One of the Lawton/Kennedy kids was in my class, as was Nancy Glass, that woman who anchors some entertainment show. There are some graduates that the university makes a big deal of, but I can't think of who they are right now. (I remember that one was an astronaut.)

[Richardo]

48. and the school is....?

Inquiring minds etc etc... :shrug:

[Kat45]

106. Sorry about that. It's Tufts. n/t

[Nailzberg]

49. Jennie McCarthy and Dennis Franz

[skippysmom]

50. Emily Dickinson

Frances Perkins (first female in the Cabinet)
Virginia Apgar (created the Apgar score for newborns)
Wendy Wasserstein (playwright)
Suzan Lori Parks (also a playwright)
Ella Grasso (late Dem governor of CT -- first female elected to a governorship in her own right)
Nita Lowey (Dem rep from NY)
Oh, and Elaine Chao, secretary of (anti)labor, unfortunately

(And me, Mount Holyoke College, class of 1993)

[Dookus]

51. hrmm...

the guy who played Rhoda's father and my freshman year dorm room had been occupied a few years earlier by Steve Gutenburg.

So no, nobody famous.

[greendog]

53. "Clifford the Big Red Dog".....

....actually Clifford's creator Norman Bridwell attended Herron School of Art.

Also painter Vija Celmins.

[BiggJawn]

67. You go to Herron?

I used to live up the street, in the green house next to "The Club"....

[Catholic Sensation]

56. John Edwards

when he studied at nc state

[spooky3]

74. Bill Clinton

[sinkingfeeling]

57. University of Arkansas...Bill Clinton taught here!! n/t

[Edge]

58. Hell no...

my college is in the middle of nowhere. I'm still suprised my parents can still find the place...

[Davis_X_Machina]

59. Clarence Thomas and Chris Matthews, more's the pity...

Also Michael The Other America Harrington, founder of Democratic Socialists of America, so it's not a total loss....

[5thGenDemocrat]

64. Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant MI.

Probably the most famous grad (at least here in the US) is sportscaster Dick Enberg. CMU is most noted for producing journalists and teachers (it began as a teachers college).
John
Fire Up, Chips!! Chip-POOOOOO-Wah!!

[BiggJawn]

65. Orville Redenbacher, R. A. Fessenden, a whole bunch of NASA guys..

Well, Fessenden actually TAUGHT here a coupla years, the NASA guys were (are) in the Astronaut Corps, and Cousin Orv learned about corn here...

[Ellen Forradalom]

66. Gillian Anderson

DePaul theater student.

[Jesus H. Christ]

68. Beat this- Linus Pauling.

Only person to be awarded a Nobel for science and a Nobel for peace.

They're building a new high school here. There's a bit of contraversy about who to name it after. Some guy named Avery who was apparently involved in founding the town, and Linus Pauling, father of modern chemistry and the dearmement of nuclear weapons movement. It's come out that Avery was a big supporter of slavery before and during the Civil War. Pauling, on the other hand and according to freeper LTTEs, was a communist traitor.

Fucking idiot freepers.

[Dudley_DUright]

69. Max Cleland

is probably our most famous graduate.

[slinkerwink]

70. Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Julia Child, Barbara Bush, etc....

they all went to Smith.

[sbj405]

72. Jimmy Carter, John McCain, Roger Staubach, Alan Shepard

Oh yeah and Ross Perot.

[VelmaD]

73. Sam Rayburn...

went to one of my undergrad schools - East Texas State University - which was East Texas Normal COllege when he went there and is now Texas A&M - Commerce. Blech.

John Denver, John Hinkley Jr, Meatloaf, and Sheryl Swoopes all went to Texas Tech - my other undergrad school.

And I went to grad school at the University of Texas. The list of their famous alums is too damn long to even get started on here.

[supernova]

75. Randall Jarrell and Fred Chapell

both poets. Plue Fred Chapell is also a novelist. They didn't study there but both were members of the English Dept.

I believe Fred Chapell has finally retired. He was my advisor.

UNC-Greensboro. I'm sure some others.

[supernova]

76. Randall Jarrell and Fred Chapell

both poets. Plue Fred Chapell is also a novelist. They didn't study there but both were members of the English Dept.

I believe Fred Chapell has finally retired. He was my advisor.

UNC-Greensboro. I'm sure some others.

[Kickin_Donkey]

77. Off the top of my head ...

Robert McNamara (undergrad)

Earl Warren

Steven Wozniak

Norman Mineta

Gregory Peck

Joan Didion

Terry McMillan ("Waiting to Exhale," "Stella Got Her Groove Back")

Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone magazine

Judge Lance Ito

Ted Kaczyinski (graduate studies)

Jason Kidd

[stanwyck]

78. Brad Pitt, Forrest Sawyer, Kate Capshaw

University of Missouri. Kate got her elementary education degree. Forrest, his journalism degree, and Brad dropped out from J-school his senior year.

[Pale Blue Dot]

79. Bill Cosby

also Tom Sizemore, who hit on my wife once and who is now in jail for beating up Heidi Fleis.

T for Temple U
U niversity
We will fight, fight, fight
For the cherry and the white
For the cherry and the white
We will fight, fight, fight!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

80. The most recent Nobel Prize winner in chemistry

My Congressman
A former mayor of Minneapolis
The first African-American woman judge in Minnesota

[flamingyouth]

81. University of Washington...

Chuck Close, artist
Dale Chihuly, artist
Beverly Cleary, author
Dyan Cannon, actress
Imogen Cunningham, photographer
Frances Farmer, actress
Kenny G, "musician"
Frank Herbert, author
Chet Huntley, newsman
Kitty Kelley, author
Bruce Lee, actor
Kyle MacLachlan, actor
Earl ("Joe Hill") Robinson, blacklisted musician
Kim Thayil, musician
Dawn Wells, actress

...and me, world-famous DU Lounge moderator. :evilgrin:

[Snow]

83. And myself,

well-known DU epidemiologist.....
(seriously, UW is well-known as having the top epidemiology and biostatistics school in the country, unless you're from Chapel Hill....then you have a right to at least argue).

[flamingyouth]

85. I didn't know you are a UW alum, Snow!

Too bad I didn't know sooner - we could have sung "Bow Down to Washington" at El Coyote back in November! :evilgrin:

[Snow]

89. Heh! Ummm, yeah, we could've......how does that tune go?

I should know things like that; I was there 1977 to 1986.....when you're having fun, keep doing it, I say.

[fudge stripe cookays]

110. I'm jealous!

I really wanted to get into their Tech Writing Masters program. It's supposed to be one of the best and most competitve in the country.

But then the bottom fell out of the industry and all the jobs are going contract, so I've been considering things like Public Administration instead...

[MaineDem]

82. Stephen King, Mike Bordick, and the Kariya brothers (UMaine)

Stephen King was President of the Student Government when I was a Freshman.

Bordick played baseball and the hockey Kariya brothers were well after me. In fact, we didn't even have a hockey team when I was there. Now we have two NCAA championships. :)

[SoCalDem]

84. I was in the same drama class as Don Johnson..Kansas University

:)

[SoCalDem]

97. played touch football with John Riggins

he's a world class asshole

[onebigbadwulf]

86. UCSD

We have the fat guy from fresh prince of bel-air, and I forget who else

[ikojo]

87. Mary Matalin studied at Western IL Univ

On a more positive note CUBS pitcher Rick Rueschel (I may be spelling his name incorrectly) also attended WIU.

You can guess which one I am more proud of....

[stanwyck]

101. Didn't John Malkovitch also go to

Western Illinois? He's also a bit unhinged politically.

[Snow]

90. University, Heck! (although see above UW). In my elementary school,

were many, including a couple of pop singers whom all of you should've heard of even if you aren't my age...Natalie Cole & Liza Minelli.

[T Bone]

91. Does Claude Akins count ?

nt

[veganwitch]

92. Dr. William R. Hammer

actually hes a prof there and he discovered a new species of dinosaur and the only known dinosaur found in antartica.

[VOX]

94. Andy Summers, Debra Winger, Cheech Marin, Teri Garr, Jenna Elfman,

Angels second baseman Adam Kennedy, the late Florence Griffith Joyner... Also a number of business notables, such as Steve Bollenbach/CEO Hilton Hotels.

Cal State U. Northridge. Go Matadors!

[wickerwoman]

95. Paul Robeson... and that's really it.

We did win the first ever college football match though.

[Zomby Woof]

98. Ted Bundy

nt

[Redleg]

99. George Clooney graduated from the university I work for.

Northern Kentucky University was founded in 1968 so it doesn't have a rich history.

[BuddhaGirl]

100. Steve Martin and Steven Spielberg!

Cal. State Univ. Long Beach - Spielberg just finished his degree fairly recently.

[rucky]

102. Kathy Bates, John Tower, Bunker & JB Hunt

Also the guy on TV in the 80's who said "Thanks Oxy" - back when the word conjured images of pimply teen, rather than pill-popping radio jocks.

SMU

(eeeesh)

oh yeah: Eric Dickerson. Doak Walker.

[no_arbusto]

103. Playmate Miss November 2001, the Clarks, Dan Fraaleek Post-it inventor

Indiana University of PA Bible Baptist College

[ChoralScholar]

105. I went to University of Central Arkansas

- Scottie Pippen (basketball player - formerly of the Bulls)
- Jimmy Driftwood (writer of "Battle of New Orleans")

Thats about it.

[Awsi Dooger]

107. Since no one else is claiming O.J. Simpson...

I'll pretend he went to USC.

Our non-murderers have included the Duke himself, John Wayne, former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, astronaut Neil Armstrong, opera singer Marilyn Horne, film director George Lucas, actor John Ritter, columnist Art Buchwald and too many superb athletes to mention.

When I attended in the '80s, I knew -- or knew of -- plenty of aspiring actors/actresses on campus who achieved some level of fame: Anthony Edwards, Ally Sheedy, Kelly Preston, Ted McGinley and Byron Allen.

Two friends of mine from the student newspaper staff became regulars on CNN, Paul Vercammen and Casey Wian.

[Burma Jones]

111. Knox College, Galesburg, IL

John Podesta (Clinton Chief of Staff)
Otto Harbach (Wrote Smoke gets in Your Eyes, other stuff)
Ismat Kittani (Former UN President)
Hiram Revels (First Black US Senator)

[mitchum]

113. Jasper Johns and Charles Frazier...

and...uh...Hootie and The Blowfish