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Old 03-07-2016, 04:40 PM
 
Location: East Coast of the United States
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Some two dozen NBA and NFL players attended my high school.

I wasn't even aware of this until I looked it up. lol.
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Old 03-07-2016, 10:23 PM
 
Location: The New England part of Ohio
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i will start

Eil of Emmerdale

famous as it gets.
Elementary School - Adrienne King, actress. Stared in "Friday the 13th with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Danny Ingram - son of "Big Dan Ingram" Rock n Roll DJ @ 77 WABC NYC

High School - Jacky Martling, Comedian, co-star of "The Howard Stern Show"

- John Knowles , author "A Separate Peace"

- Thomas Pynchon, author "Gravitiy's Rainbow" etc.

- Ken Rosenthal - writer, sports castor

- Heather Mataterazo - actress

- Marie Colvin, class of "74 (RIP) Late journalist, killed while covering a Syrian insurgence.

(Person you did NOT go to my HS, but lies and says he did - Billy Joel)

Colleges (2)

College 1 - Robert Goddard, inventor of the fuel rocket

- Padma Lakshmi - actress and model

- Robert Atwood - Journalist, philanthropist.

- Joseph Kennedy - activist

- Judith Plaskow - Feminist, theologian writer

- Ron Shaich - Founder and CEO of Panera bread.

- Libby Roland Pataki - former first lady, NYS. Philanthropist.

- Edward B. Titchner - Psychologist Coined word "Empathy"

- Ronald Kessler - Historian and Journalist


College II Diane Farr - actress "Number3"

Joy Behar - talk show host

Michael Kimmel - sociologist, writer

Jorge Benach - biologist, co-discovered "Lyme's Disease"

Ron Kovic - activist for Vietnam veterans. Co-wrote "Born on the 4th of July"

And one of the three computer scientists who invented the bar code.
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Old 03-07-2016, 10:30 PM
 
Location: The New England part of Ohio
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John Leclair, hockey player, went to our rival HS the next town over.

Nobody really went to ours.

But the Velvet Underground played there first gig at Summit HS, if that's where you went.
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Old 03-07-2016, 10:57 PM
 
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I'm skipping over my HS b/c I'd prefer not to give that easily googled info out.


My College?

The brother of a famous singer who is "famous" because his sister is a famous singer.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Many "notables" but if they aren't household names and never have been, never will be....

My husband's college:

Joyce Kilmer
Mario Batali
Calista Flockhart
James Gandolfini
Janet Evanovich (I get a kick out of her silly books, didn't know she was a Scarlet Knight!)
Kristin Davis (Sex and the City/Melrose Place)

List in full: Rutgers University - Rutgers Notable Alumni

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Old 03-08-2016, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Summit, NJ
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But the Velvet Underground played there first gig at Summit HS, if that's where you went.
Whoa, that's really cool! Meryl Streep was born in Summit too.

Nah, I went to a HS in rural agricultural Vermont where everybody had French last names.
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Old 03-08-2016, 09:35 AM
 
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There's so many famous people from here, it's ridiculous....
Famous athletes, famous actors, musical artists & writers as well.

I just found out the town I work in is where some
super famous comics came from, as well.


Can't name the places though- I'm intensely private
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Old 03-08-2016, 09:09 PM
 
Location: Sioux Falls, SD area
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At my college:


Joe Robbie - Former owner of the Miami Dolphins
Tom Brokaw - Former network news anchor
Al Neuroth - Founder of Gannett News conglomerate and USA Today
Tom Daschle - Former Senate Minority Leader
Me - Universally loved sharer of acknowledged correct opinions.
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Old 03-08-2016, 10:12 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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High School...
Robert Downey's wife (Susan Downey) who is a movie producer...
Nadia Geller (some of you might know who she is...I didn't until I Googled her)
The guy that started and runs the Daily Kos

College...
School 1...
-Howard Schultz...Founder and CEO of Starbucks
-Tom Izzo...Michigan State Men's Basketball Coach
-Steve Mariucci...former NFL head coach and TV analyst

School 2...
Shel Silverstein...never graduated, but did attend for a bit
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Old 03-09-2016, 04:36 AM
 
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Hawken (prep school)

- Art Laffer
- Lance Kinsey (comedian and actor, Police Academy)
- John Hart (Broadway producer, Proof)
- Nick Minchin (Liberal senator in Australia)

University of Chicago

- too many to list
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Old 03-09-2016, 07:20 AM
 
Location: Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA
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From my alma mater:
Ginny Duenkel, swimming gold medalist at the 1964 Olympics
Mark and Scott Kelly, the astronaut twins


From a prep school that I attended but did not graduate from:
William Simon, US treasury secretary under Nixon
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