Since everybody has an opinion about how great their alma mater is, I want to do something for giggles and grins. Who do you think is the strangest/most unusual/ most unexpected famous alumnus from your school?
I’ll start out with the weirdest ones from my alma mater.
Max Baer aka Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies.
Brandy Chastain, just because she decided to flash the entire world during the Women’s World Cup.
Jonathan Edwards, Richard Dean Anderson, Matt Lauer.
Harry Hamlin – and Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple
What about Jerry Brown
Son’s future alma mater has Mike Peters and Harold Ramis. Tennessee Willams and Robert Guillaume (of Benson fame) attended but never graduated.
Somehow I am curious to see whether the guy who defends Stevens and Hoboken will post here.
Governer Moonbeam actually spent only one year there before transferring to Cal. Although I am sure that Gavin Newsome and I are fellow alumni, although I’m not proud of that fact.
Anne Coulter. Keith Olbermann (I remember him on the campus radio station). Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Bill Maher. Bill Nye the Science Guy.
also, Michael Schwerner.
@brantly a Cornell reunion would certainly be awkward if Anne Coulter and Keith Olbermann were the featured speakers!
For me, it has to be Oliver Smoot. Oliver Smoot was Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from 2001 to 2002 and President of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) from 2003 to 2004. However, that is not what he was famous for:
Strangest (but perhaps not the most “unexpectedly” famous): Lord Byron and his bear
Unabomber probably the most surprising. I was in a class with Grover Norquist, but I barely remember him.
@Twoin18 Isaac Newton and an apple falling on his head isn’t odd?
@mathmom Harvard obviously has some alumni that the school is not proud of.
Ty Burrell aka Phil Dunphy on Modern Family
I don’t care to think about it and have more choice adjectives than strange or unusual to describe him: Donald Trump
Most unusual might be Kevin Strahle aka L.A. Beast, a professional competitive eater.
Other notable alumni are Denzel Washington, Alan Alda, Patricia Clarkson, Lana Del Rey, and Vince Lombardi.
Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson)
Kurt McKinney, actor. Did a movie in the early 80s with Jean-Claude van Damme. Played Ned Ashton in General Hospital and was also on The Guiding Light.
In addition to the ones I already knew about and posted upthread, I just learned that there was a serial killer IN MY CLASS! His first murder was just a few weeks before graduation. Why don’t I remember this??
He was executed by the state of Connecticut in 2005. It is the only execution in that state between 1960 and today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bruce_Ross
Hey, we got the Unabomber too, if you count grad school!
Also some over-rated quarterback. 
And Madonna (though she didn’t graduate)
Tom Hayden
Pres. Ford