Most famous person from your high school

[wihophead]

I didn't go to high school with anyone famous but my wife went to high school with Brent Moss (one big piece of sh@t) and my nephew went to high school with Tony Romo.

 

[Kaboom]

Jamie Kennedy - comedian & actor
John Cappelletti - Heisman trophy winner and professional football player
Anthony Becht - NFL Tight End - New York Jets
Mike Teti - USRowing Men's Head Coach
Col. Tom Matthews, U.S. Army, Ret. - Led Task Force Ranger in Somalia & Black Hawk Down Operation

Apparently I went to the same high school as PearlJamNoCode, but the only one I knew about was John Cappelletti.

 

[Buford]

Ward and Jeff Burton, NASCAR drivers.

 

[Professor Frink]

Tom Glavine MLB pitcher, Future HOFer

You mean former Mets choker?

 

[Bobby_M]

The best Linden High School in NJ has to offer is Tiffany Andrade, the 2008 Miss NJ who will compete for Miss USA next year. I'd do 'er.

 

[Beerthoven]

Notable graduates of my high school include (I copied this Wikipedia; I don't know any of these people):

Spencer Abraham: Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of Energy.

Amy (Taran) Astley: Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue magazine.

Judi Brown(-King): World champion 400 m hurdler: 1983 Pan-American Games gold medalist, 1984 Olympic silver medalist, four-time US Outdoor Track & Field Champion (1984-87), 1987 "Sports Illustrated" Sportsman of the Year.

Stephen Burns: University of Michigan Head Men's Soccer Coach; former professional soccer player Detroit Wheels.

Timothy Busfield: Actor in movies ("Revenge of the Nerds") and television ("Thirtysomething"; "The West Wing" ).

Lin Hartung Chambers: Physical Scientist, Climate and Radiation Studies, National Aeronautics and Space Administration ("NASA").

Sam Green: Filmmaker whose documentary "The Weather Underground" was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003.

Lela Ivey: Actress (The Purple Rose of Cairo, Edge of Night)

Todd Martin: Tennis player who was ranked as high as #3 in the world at peak of his career.

Julie Mehretu: Artist whose paintings were included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and recipient of MacArthur "Genius" Grant.

Donald Miller: Convicted serial killer.[1]

Ryan Miller: Hobey Baker Winner at MSU, and NHL hockey goalie for the Buffalo Sabres.

Taylor Nichols: Actor who appeared in "Last Days of Disco" and "Barcelona".

Dan Olsen: PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour Golf Professional.

Carl Page: Founder of eGroups.

Larry Page: President and co-founder of Google Inc.

Ben Poquette: NBA basketball player in 1978-87.

Susan May Pratt: Actress who starred in several films including "10 Things I Hate about You" and "Center Stage"

Nate Silver: Managing Partner of Baseball Prospectus and noted sabermetrician.

Larisa Spielberg: U.S pairs figure skating bronze medalist in 2000.

 

[Buford]

My little sister was Brad Pitt's high school sweetheart. It has been all down hill for him ever since!

I thought you were just joshing us, but no...

 

[Beerthoven]

I thought you were just joshing us, but no...

Brad has definately had a nose job.

 

[wzup97]

Decker of Black and Decker
Antonio Freeman Green Bay Packers

 

[user 574]

Menomonee Falls, WI - North HS (now a middle school). Apparently this guy:

http://www.swingerhead.com/Bios/michael_andrew.htm

I think I remember him getting beat up a lot.

The rest were infamous during my tenure (1 rapist, 2 murderers that I recall).

 

[Brewpastor]

I thought you were just joshing us, but no...

Gawd, the internet has everything on it, doesn't it!

 

[zbeeblebrox]

Noriyuki "Pat" Morita - Actor from the Karate Kid series

Johnny Colla - Huey Lewis & The News - Saxophonist/Guitarist

these are the two that wiki gives me. Mr. Miyagi is almost my high schools hero.

 

[Cheesefood]

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

 

[Rhoobarb]

did he play ball in high school?

Yeah, he did. QB. It was right after I left for college, but my Mom and his were friends back then and I heard all about him. They knew then he'd get a scholarship somewhere. He ended up going to Eastern Illinois University b/c he thought he'd stand out more at a smaller school - at least that was the story. He ended up setting all sorts of records at EIU back then. Tony Romo went to the same college.

 

[Rhoobarb]

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

Andy Dick - actor-comedian (The Andy Dick Show)


We should have known! The man who helped kill Phil Hartman.

 

[HenryHill]

Magic Johnson Everett Highschool Vikings Lansing Michigan, MSU SPARTANS, LA LAKERS!!

He was in my gym class, but then, they didn't actually make him go to his other classes. He was in the gym pretty much during everybodies gym class.

We did pretty well in B'ball them years....

Brewpastor, tell your sister I said she's hot.

 

[sudsmonkey]

Big Harry Slade

Played for ECU ( screw you too, man!) after high school, then got picked for the Bears. Ruined his knee in training his first season. Last I saw of him(1989), he was driving a beer truck. Beats the crap out of football!

 

[quickerNu]

Big school and nobody famous- why did I move back here after college again? Rhett Bomar (of OU scandal fame) was our ballboy, his dad our head coach, and Jennifer Love Hewitt went to elementary school with me, but moved to California well before high school.

 

[jvh261]

I attended two high schools in Rockford, IL.

Fresh and Soph year = West High. Most famous alumn: Porn legend Ginger Lynn.

Junior and Senior year = Guilford High. Most famous alumn: Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick.

Also Carlos Polk, current backup LB and special teams player, San Diego Chargers.

Also, one of Bill Cosby's illegitimate daughters, and a girl from my class was in "Hustler" and a few other dirty rags and made a couple of pornos in the mid-'90s.

Rockford is a weird place.

 

[e lo]

Nobody famous from my high school; at least not that I know of.

My college had a few like Bob Noyce (inventor of the integrated circuit and founder of Intel) and Tom Cech (Noble Prize in science and medicine in 1989). Also Herbie Hancock, Walter Koenig, Peter Coyote and Gary Cooper. Not bad for a tiny little liberal arts school in the middle of Iowa.

Oh, and CNN's Sanjay Gupta went to my med school, as did Jack Kevorkian.

 

[Dude]

Senator Joseph McCarthy (although he didn't graduate).

 

[Short Drive]

Duane Kuiper played for 12 years with the Indians and Giants
Eric Rasmussen Pitched for 8 years with the Cardinals Royals and Padres

 

[Dude]

Duane Kuiper played for 12 years with the Indians and Giants
Eric Rasmussen Pitched for 8 years with the Cardinals Royals and Padres

Love the avatar. Blackmon is a beast. He'll be starting in place of Harris soon, mark it down.

 

[Short Drive]

Love the avatar. Blackmon is a beast. He'll be starting in place of Harris soon, mark it down.

Ted Thompson is surprising me. I really thought he was a loser. But he seems to be building a good young team. Blackmon has shown some spark. I hope he stays healthy.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

There are a few others, but this one is the best:

Nattie Neidhart

Oh yeah, and my dad used to play cards with Mike Ditka at Pitt...

 

[CallMeZoot]

Jenna Von Oy (best known as Six from the TV show 'Blossom'

Before my time: Bruce Jenner "World's Greatest Athlete," zillion-time gold medal winner triathalon/decathalon recent contestant on "Dancing with the Stars." Although I believe he was only at my school for like 1 year.

 

[Mustangfreak]

No one that I know of.

 

[the art guy]

Casey Blake (plays for the Cleveland Indians). He was two years behind me in school. And now several million dollars ahead of me.

 

[Bearcat Brewmeister]

John Matuszak from the Oakland Raiders and a few movies (North Dallas Forty)
Tim Hermeing, a Marine guard at the Iranian embassy who became one of the 53 hostages in the early 1980s. He was the one whose mother went ot visit him while he was captive.

 

[idkid]

Sorry everyone. I like your effort on famous people that went to your high school. Hopefully this will trump all, if not for just the fact that I am going to admit this.

I graduate from the same high school as Billy Ray Cyrus...King of all that is Mullett!!!