Willie Nelson attended Baylor but did not graduate. Later, they repaid the favor by canceling a concert he scheduled on campus.
Captain Kangaroo! (Bob Keeshan)
I went to high school with Conan O Brien’s head writer. Don’t want to speak ill of the dead since he passed on last year, but I can understand why the Late Show’s ratings went down the tank after Letterman left. The guy thought he was the greatest and funniest writer ever back in high school. And all the kids in school said no…
Roy Chapman Andrews (believed by many to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones)
@scoutsmom, Captain Kangeroo’s daughter went to college with my sister.
Marc Cuban
Betty White, leighton Meister, Charles Rosen, Loraine Newman,Richard Dreyfus, AlbertBrooks, Rob Reiner, ,Andre Previn, Richard Chamberlin, Mona Simpson, Joanna Gleason. and few hundred others
Elon Musk, John Legend
@toowonderful my sympathies. And I think your classmate looks like Mr. Bean!
High school - Carol Channing, Margaret Cho, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Rube Goldberg, Richard Diebenkorn, Stephen Breyer…College - Dianne Feinstein, Sally Ride, Cory Booker, Sterling K Brown, Issa Rae, and not technically alums, dropouts Tiger Woods and Reese Witherspoon.
@Anxiousmom1 The best high school in San Francisco-isn’t that a Cal feeder?
This thread seems to have become list famous or notable people that attended your Alma mater. Ok, I’ll play.
Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize winning author often considered the best American candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Edward Lewis, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Kenneth Langone- best known for organizing financing for the founders of The Home Depot.
Leslie Mooves-is Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation
Edward Hermann- Played Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls,
Ralph Waite-best known for his role as John Walton, Sr. on The Waltons
In 1936, Christy Mathewson, an alumni, was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its first five inductees, along with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and Honus Wagner.
Lena Dunham (Girls), Ed Helms (The Office), and Alison Bechdel (who apparently transferred there as a junior and graduated in the same year as me). She is the namesake of the Bechdel test, which first appeared in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985, and is the author of Fun Home. I guess none of these is really unexpected given the quirkiness of my alma mater.
I’m pretty sure that neither Ed Gein nor Jeffrey Dahmer went to UW-Madison. I hope.
I guess the only famous person whose name I recognize who graduated from my undergrad U is Marcus Mariotta. From all I’ve heard, he’s a very nice guy.
I’ll play…here are the ones I have heard of from my college:
Meredith Vieira
Pierre Omidyar (founder of Ebay)
Hank Azaria
Tracy Chapman
Rainn Wilson
Peter Gallagher
Jessica Biel
William Hurt
Michelle Kwan
Dom DeLuise
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Anthony Scaramucci
Ram Dass
Anita Shreve
Dov Charney (founder of American Apparel)
@rosered55 No worries. Dahmer went to Ohio State. Rumor has it that his dorm room is cursed.
Stephenie Meyer, unfortunately.
Also, Ken Jennings, Mitt Romney, and Aaron Eckhart.
Darius Rucker. In fact all of Hootie in the blowfish.
@garland: Don’t forget Ann B. Davis (the Brady Bunch’s “Alice”)
Son’s college: Edgar Allan Poe (failed to graduate, though)