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I went to college with Melissa Rivers, daughter of Joan Rivers. I was not personally acquainted with her during that time (or any other time, for that matter).
Vivek Murthy, the current Surgeon General of the United States. We went at the same time. Everybody knew who he was because he was the smartest student in our school with some ridiculous GPA.
An ESPN personality who shall remain nameless. I remember him as being pretty nice, although we did not run in the same crowd. His parents still live in my old neighborhood. Also a comedic actor who is now deceased, and a long list of NFL players.
My kids's high school has a long list of notable people, including several Olympic medal winners, a few actors, and a politician.
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I went to Brookyln Tech in NYC so there are a lot of famous alumni, most of them scientists or academics or corporate executives. But still some people did end up in entertainment and sports so we also have Harry Chapin, Talib Kweli, Lou Ferigno, etc.
For college I went to NYU and there are way too many to name from there.
I graduated from high school with a girl who, 15 years later, died in a plane crash. She was not famous, but her father was a United States Senator, and it was on his campaign's plane that she - and the Senator, as well as her mother/his wife (who, as it happened, worked in my high school) - died.
That evening, I watched the story on the evening news. I recalled the various classes I had with her over the years, the occasional conversation (we were only casually acquainted), and being at her house once for some class project a group was working on, and her father (who was just a local college professor, not a Senator yet at the time) was there. I even had a crush on her back in seventh grade.
Dan Rather mentioned her name during the story covering the plane crash. When she died, I hadn't seen her in a number of years. So I can't say that it was a loss for me in any real sense. But it was very surreal, that juxtaposition where national news coincided with personal memories of my own adolescence.
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