Famous People from your Alma Mater

[XOMichelle]

Originally posted by ISUKappa
And wasn't he an SAE?

Yes he was, and his little brother was a Sigma Chi and graduated last year. See? I forget these things!

[Munchkin03]

JFK, Jr.
Ted Turner
Chris Berman
Tom and Tom (from Nantucket Nectars)
Laura Linney
Lisa Loeb
Duncan Sheik
Jon Spencer (he of the Blues Explosion)
Lee Lee Sobieski started, I think she may have taken a leave

[Intense1920]

Originally posted by Rudey
You advertise Puffy? If I was you, I'd pretend he was from the University of Toronto or something.

-Rudey

He went to the school. Can't erase a fact of history.

[wrigley]

I thought I had read somewhere that Christine Amapour(sp?), CNN journalist, graduated from Brown.

[Shelacious]

Originally posted by Glitter650
FAMOUS San Francisco State Alum

Danny Glover
Annette Benning
Frances Ford Copella
Dana Carvey
Peter Casey (producer of Frasier)
Johnny Mathis
Anne Rice (Interview with a Vampire)


Those are the most "recognizable" there are others listed on the website... SFSU famous Alumni

Oh and who could forget the most famous of famous alumnae from SFSU

ME
LadyJ39
Greeklawgirl

Other notable famous folk:
Earnest Gaines (author, a Lesson Before Dying)
Gordon Biersch, of Gordon & Biersch
Guy who founded clothing store Bebe
Guy who founded E-Loan (name escapes me)
Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone)
Delroy Lindo (recent graduate, actor)
Johnny Mathis

and well...not today, but soon--me.

[hottytoddy]

Originally posted by OleMissGlitter
The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (OLE MISS)

Famous Rebels and Noteworthy Alumni
Van Chancellor (Head Basketball Coach of the Gold Medal 2004 Winning Women's Basketball Team this year in Athens)
James Meredith (First Afro-American to attend Ole Miss in 1962)
Haley Barbour (Former Republican National Chairman and current Mississippi Governor)
Jim Barksdale (Netscape CEO)
William Faulkner (Author)
John Grisham (Author)
Robert Khayat (Washington Redskins kicker, currently the University's chancellor)
Trent Lott (Former Senator Majority Leader)
Gerald McRaney (Actor)
Archie Manning (New Orleans Saints QB)
Eli Manning (New York Giants QB; youngest son of Archie)
John S. McCain (Admiral, USN)
Shepard Smith (News Anchor)
Thad Cochran (US Senator)
Mike Moore (Former Mississippi Attorney General, noted for starting major lawsuits against tobacco industry)
David Delucci (Arizona Diamondbacks Outfielder)
Roosevelt Skerrit (Prime Minister of Dominica and one of the youngest heads of state in the World)
Bill Parsons (Head of NASA's Spaceship Programs)
Charlie Conerly (NY Giant QB)
Leonard McCoy (Fictional Character from Star Trek series--served on the Starship Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk)

Many beauty queens! Many Miss America's!

Josh Kelley - singer songwriter
Charles Stackhouse - NY Giants
Deuce McAlister- New Orleans Saints
Ed Bryant - US Congress
Delta Burke(?)

Just off the top of my head. Did Morgan Freeman go to Ole Miss too? I know he used to do those commercials for Ole Miss?

[bcdphie]

Nobel laureate, economist Robert Mundell
Supreme Court Justice Beverley McLachlin
past B.C. premiers Ujjal Dosanjh and Mike Harcourt
author and historian Pierre Berton
opera singers Ben Heppner and Judith Forst
composer Michael Conway Baker
educator and Man In Motion, Rick Hansen
writer William Gibson
filmmaker Bruce Sweeney
actor Nicola Cavendish
astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason
senator Pat Carney
former Canadian prime ministers Kim Campbell and John Turner
University of Victoria president Dr. David Turpin
journalists Allan Fotheringham and Stevie Cameron

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by wrigley
I thought I had read somewhere that Christine Amapour(sp?), CNN journalist, graduated from Brown.

No, Christine Amanpour went to the University of Rhode Island. She lived in a house with JFK Jr., however, in the Brown/RISD neighborhood. URI has a really good journalism program.

[queequek]

Originally posted by Munchkin03

Tom and Tom (from Nantucket Nectars)

They are our Brothers from Brown Charge

[aabby757]

Connie Chung
Boomer Esiason
Ralph Freidgen -- current MD football coach
Gary Williams -- current MD basketball coach
Len Bias -- RIP
Walt Williams
Joe Smith
Jim Henson
Jayson Blair -- yay!

Carmen Balthrop
Bonnie Bernstein
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
Connie Chung, news anchor-woman with CBS, NBC, and CNN
Boomer Esiason, former NFL quarterback turned television broadcaster.
Robert Forward, physicist who authored 200 research papers, and science fiction writer known for 11 novels, including Dragon's Egg
Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets
Jack Kelley
William McCool, NASA astronaut, killed on Columbia mission STS-107
Aaron McGruder, comic strip creator of The Boondocks
Robert M. Parker, Jr., wine critic
George Pelecanos
Judith Resnik, Ph.D. 1977, NASA astronaut, killed on Challenger mission STS-51-L
David Simon
Kathleen Turner, Academy Award nominated movie actress, twice winner of the Golden Globe
Scott Van Pelt, anchor for the television show SportsCenter on the ESPN network
Randy White, former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee

[OleMissGlitter]

Originally posted by hottytoddy
Josh Kelley - singer songwriter
Charles Stackhouse - NY Giants
Deuce McAlister- New Orleans Saints
Ed Bryant - US Congress
Delta Burke(?)

Just off the top of my head. Did Morgan Freeman go to Ole Miss too? I know he used to do those commercials for Ole Miss?

Morgan Freeman and Delta Burke did not go to Ole Miss, however, they are very strong supporters of Ole Miss. Mr. Freeman has been a spokesperson for Ole Miss for many years now. Delta Burke has relatives here and she is very connected with the University in many ways.

General Ricardo S. Sanchez is a graduate of TAMUK


if I think of anyone else, I'll let you know

[Munchkin03]

Colleges (and not, like, community colleges) have commercials?!

[AOII_LB93]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Famous University of Oklahoma alumni:

Kerri Strug

This must be post grad because she went to UCLA for undergrad.

[jharb]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
Colleges (and not, like, community colleges) have commercials?!

Both Ball State and IUPUI have commercials on Indianapolis local stations. They are both kinda scary commercials. Also Butler has a commercial they air during basketball games when they are televised. It's not a very good commercial though.