Notable Alumni at your High School?

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University HS (Irvine)
Tim Wallach - MLB player, current 3rd base coach Dodgers
Will Ferrell - Actor, SNL castmember
Amy White - Silver Medalist 1984 Olympics
Various 90's bandmembers

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Here's the Wiki list for Hamilton High School-Los Angeles California

• Brian Austin Green, actor
• Stephen Baker, Wide Receiver for the 1989 Super Bowl Champions New York Giants [8]
• Albert Boime, author and academic historian
• Laila Ali, women's boxing champion[9]
• Shade Sheist, recording artist-songwriter, actor.[10]
• Jeff Long, Bass Player Wasted Youth (American band)
• Fiona Apple,[citation needed] singer-songwriter
• Jordan Hill, singer
• Carmit Bachar,[citation needed] dancer-singer in the *****cat Dolls
• Karen Bass, majority leader and Speaker of the California State Assembly; representative of the 47th Assembly District [1]
• Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; representative of California's 28th Congressional District [2] [3]
• Sarah Brown,[citation needed] actress
• Lizzy Caplan, actress
• Reeve Carney, singer-songwriter and actor [11]
• David Cassidy,[citation needed] pop star, actor
• Billy Childs, pianist/composer
• Julian Coryell, guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer
• Mike Elizondo, bassist and producer[12]
• William Ginsburg, attorney who represented Monica Lewinsky during investigations into her relationship with President Clinton
• Rowby Goren,[citation needed] Emmy-winning comedy writer and Internet Performer
• Joel Grey (1950), singer actor[13]
• Emile Davenport Hirsch, actor[14]
• J. Hoberman, film critic
• Sikivu Hutchinson, author and feminist educator
• Adam Kirsch, author, journalist, critic
• Paul Koretz, City of Los Angeles Councilmember representing the 5th District, and former Assemblyman (California's 42nd Assembly District)
• Shia LaBeouf, actor
• Abe Laboriel, Jr., drummer[12]
• Michele Lee, Tony and Emmy-nominated singer/actress
• Alex D. Linz, actor
• Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Actor
• Darris Love, actor
• Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player[citation needed]
• Rod Martin, ex-NFL player, linebacker for the Los Angeles Raiders
• Al Michaels (1962), sportscaster
• Warren Moon, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback
• Walter Mosley, author
• Billy Mumy, actor
• Marc Norman, Academy Award-winning screenwriter
• Murs, rapper
• Eligh, rapper
• Omarion, R&B singer
• Wil-Dog Abers, singer, Ozomatli
• Norman J. Pattiz, founder Westwood One, nation's largest radio network
• Paula Patton, actress[15]
• Michelle Phillips, actress, singer
• Kyla Pratt, actress
• Nikki Reed, actress
• Ben Rich, former director of the Lockheed Skunk Works; father of "stealth technology"
• Robert Ri'chard, actor
• Joni Robbins née Joan Eva Rothman, voice-over actress
• Darren Robinson, guitarist for the pop-rock band Phantom Planet
• Steven Robman (1962), television and theatre director/producer
• Daniel Rossen, guitarist/singer for Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles
• Will Rothhaar, actor, Listen Up!
• Lynn Schenk (1962), lawyer, politician, U.S. Representative
• Robert Shapiro (1961?), one of the defense lawyers in the O.J. Simpson murder case
• Joel Siegel (1961?), critic on ABC television, author
• Leigh Steinberg, sports agent
• Stew, composer, Tony Award winning dramatist (Passing Strange)
• Houston Summers, R&B singer [16]
• Gwen Verdon (~1943), Broadway actress
• Sidney Wicks, 1971 NBA Rookie of the Year[17]
• John Wilbur, All-American football player at Stanford University, professional football player

The bolded name is one of my classmates. I had to laugh when I read her wiki page, because if I had to image what she had done with her life, that article sums up exactly what I would have hypothesized.

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I went to Junior High & High School with Ante Jazic. Defender for Chivas USA and for Team Canada.

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Pete Rose. My dad went to school with him.
Don Zimmer. My grandfather went to school with him.
Tuffy Rhodes. Played in MLB, but is most noteable for being the all time foreign born home run leader in Japan.

Doris Day, the singer/actress.

There are other pro baseball and football players, but nobody of significant note.

[KingV2k3]

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Amerie - RB singer had a hit in the early 2000's, real popular in Korea now. She was so hot.

Apologies for being a bit "off topic", but:

I have been racking my brain from time to time for weeks now trying to remember who the uber hottie was that sang "1 Thing"...

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Thanks, RockinDaMike!!!

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Jim Nantz
Dan Klecko

That's pretty much it.

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Had some classes with Jennifer Hudson back when she was the size of a walrus. Nobody talked to that girl back then. I'm willing to bet that that motivated her to pursue her dreams even moreso.

Other notables: Mr. T (I pity of the fool) and Lou Rawls (You'll never find..dum, dum, dum-dum-dum...another love like mine....)

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Future HOFer, LB Kevin Greene.

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Future HOFer, LB Kevin Greene.

That is bad *** Stroehms.

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That is bad *** Stroehms.

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Lol Thanks. I graduated way after his time though (2008)

[DerkontheOS]

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Ken Norton.

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From the high school I went to my freshman and sophomore years:
Shavlik Randolph
Pete Maravich (one of about 50 high schools he went to)
Clay Aiken
About half the roster of NC State from a few years ago
Webb Simpson

There's probably a few others that I don't know about cause that school was enormous.

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York High school

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Notable alumni

Ken Hudson Campbell is an actor (Armageddon, Herman's Head).[11]
Lee A. Daniels was an Illinois State Representative (1975–2006), who served as Speaker of the State House (1995–97).[11]
George J. Eade was a United States Air Force four-star general.[11]
Bob Eckert is the chief executive officer and chairman of the board for Mattel and also serves as director of McDonald's Corp.[12][13]
Mike Farina was an Olympic wrestler, competing at the 1976 Montréal Olympics.[11]
Robert Goldsborough (1955), murder mystery novelist.[citation needed]
Ron Guenther is a former athletic director for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[11]
Sarah King is an actress and currently the top performer in Original Oratory in Illinois. She is also a boss.[11]
Dan Konopka of the band OK Go went to York in the 1990s.[citation needed]
Garth Lagerwey, a former professional soccer player who is currently an executive with Real Salt Lake.[11]
Betty Okino is an actress and former gymnast. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning gymnastics team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[11]
Ken Paulson is the president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum, Newseum and Diversity Institute; he is the former editor and senior vice president/news of USA Today and USATODAY.com.[13][14]
Gary Rydstrom is a multi-Academy Award winning sound mixer, sound effects editor, and director. His work in sound includes films such as Backdraft, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Jurassic Park.[11]
Donald Sage was an All-American cross country and track runner for Stanford University.[11]
Tim Stratton was a tight end at Purdue University and was the inaugural winner of the John Mackey Award (2000), presented annually to Division 1A's best tight end.[11]
Mark Sulkin cross country record holder at Loras College and Aurora University and played in The Long Green Line

Notable staff

Joe Newton has been the boys cross country coach since 1959. He was also the boys track & field coach, having coached state championship teams in both sports. He is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFSHS) Hall of Fame.[15] He was also an assistant marathon coach at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, being the only high school coach to be invited a spot on the Olympic coaching staff.
Mark Sibley, an NBA guard (1973–74) with the Portland Trail Blazers.[11] taught English for 30 years at York before his retirement in 2008.

Belvidere High school

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Historic Figures

In 1969 Belvidere native Judith Anne Ford won the Miss America pageant as Miss Illinois. Ford was a Belvidere High School graduate. She was the first Miss America to go to Vietnam as part of a USO tour.

Matt Barr, a nationally-recognized quarterback with the Western Illinois University Leathernecks, attended Belvidere and played for the team. At Belvidere, he was an all-conference quarterback and punter and the league's 2005 offensive MVP.[7]

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Rolla High School

Chante McMillan - finished 29th in the Olympic heptathlon last weekend.

Dalton Friend - Drafted by the Pirates in June. Pitching for the State College Spikes (A short season

Marty Brown - former Major League Baseball athlete and professional baseball manager in Japan

Robin Carnahan - currently Missouri Secretary of State

Russ Carnahan - currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 3rd district

Russell Evans - played professional football with the Seattle Seahawks

Jim Gladden - former assistant head coach for the Florida State Seminoles

Gannet Tseggai - Southern Communications Director at the White House


This reminds me of a story about the first time I was asked about HS in St. Louis. I was at some freshman mixer bbq and I was sitting at some table, waiting for my friends, when some other people sat down.

First they asked my name, "Caleb." Where I was from, "Rolla." Where Rolla was, "100 miles down 44." And finally, what HS I went to. I was very surprised at this question. I thought they would assume Rolla would only have one HS, just like most towns and cities across the country. I mean, they didn't even know where Rolla was. How the heck could they assume Rolla had more than one HS? Why would they even care to ask if they knew whether or not Rolla had more than one HS, if they didn't even know the location of the town. It's not like they would recognize any possible other names for a HS in a town they never heard of. I responded with a surprised inflection in my voice with, "Rolla." They looked very confused. Then their parents had to remind them that Rolla probably wasn't as big as the STL area.

Talk about sheltered.