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Where can I find online webpage that shows all the college that celebrities went. I only know few such as Julia Stiles(Columbia) and Natalie Porter(Harvard) and blah blah blah...
If there is a webpage that shows the college of all famous people more or less, that's even better.

By Toxicity01 (Toxicity01) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 05:14 pm: Edit

Columbia: Julia Stiles, Anna Paquin
NYU: Olsen twins
Yale: Shia Lebouef (spelling?)

I've heard when celebrities attend college, they rarely ever attend class, and are usually on "sabatacles" most of the time.

I asked my mom about that, she said when Brooke Shields was applying to college, her mother demanded that all colleges accept her before she applied. Princeton did, but Harvard told her that she had to apply first. They got into a big fight with Harvard (Brooke's first choice), she had to settle with Princeton. And Jodie Foster went to Yale.

By H0neymoon (H0neymoon) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 06:38 pm: Edit

Didn't Nick Lachey go to USC? He never takes that cap off!

By Excusememixed (Excusememixed) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 06:40 pm: Edit

Jessica Biel-Tufts

By Collegeparent (Collegeparent) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 06:45 pm: Edit

Nick Lachey was an SAE at USC -- and supposedly has the fraternity's secret Greek symbol (Phi Alpha) tattooed on his butt -- If I'm not wrong, every SAE out of USC has been getting that same tattoo on the same spot for over 30 years.

But as for a couple of other celebrity schools: Princeton, Stanford and Michigan.

By Fakeplastictree (Fakeplastictree) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 06:52 pm: Edit

For such a small school, Vassar has:
Lisa Kudrow
Jackie O
Meryll Streep
...a lot of bestselling authors, and both Anne Hathaway and Tom Hanks' daughter currently go there.

NYU has a TON of celebrities who come out of their drama department. I can only think of Adam Sandler right now.

And of course, the Ivies have a lot. Can celebrities pretty much go wherever they want as long as they have somewhat decent grades?

By Ghewitt04 (Ghewitt04) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 06:53 pm: Edit

I think Natalie Portman is transfering to NYU...on my tour there, my tourguide had given her a tour the week before. She made it sound like Natalie was definately coming there.

By H0neymoon (H0neymoon) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 06:53 pm: Edit

Did any other famous people attend USC?

By Toxicity01 (Toxicity01) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 06:58 pm: Edit

Are you talking about people who were already famous when they attended college? If your just talking about celebrities in general, then practically every college and university has famous alumni.

By Jnatkins (Jnatkins) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 07:01 pm: Edit

Jessica Biel doesn't go to Tufts anymore...She transferred to UCLA

By User_2 (User_2) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 07:03 pm: Edit

Tom Hanks - Chabot College (in the 80s)

By John2004 (John2004) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 07:38 pm: Edit

USC alumni includes George Lucas, Ron Howard, Robert Zemeckis, John Wayne, OJ Simpson

By Mamadem (Mamadem) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 07:52 pm: Edit

Debra Messing-Brandeis

By Asimplemind (Asimplemind) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 08:11 pm: Edit

Natalie Portman graduated from Harvard last June. so she wouldnt be transferring to NYU.

By Curiousone (Curiousone) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 08:17 pm: Edit

Debra went to NYU for grad school...

Matt Damon went to Harvard...

Stephen Sondheim and Steve Case went to Williams College (not at the same time)...

for those interested in musical theatre, a slew of Broadway stars have graduated from U Mich's musical theatre program, Northwestern, NYU's Tisch, Cincinnati Music Conservatory, Carnegie Mellon, and others...

all the recent presidents, and most of the Democratic candidates this year, have at some point gone to Yale...

Clinton went to Georgetown undergrad...

those are all the ones I know.

By Neo (Neo) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 08:22 pm: Edit

Matt Damon dropped out of Harvard...

Will Smith got recruited by MIT, but he didn't go, because his rap career was about to take off...

By Neo (Neo) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 08:22 pm: Edit

Rivers Cuomo (lead singer/songwriter for Weezer) went to Harvard.

By Thefrode989 (Thefrode989) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 08:30 pm: Edit

tom morello of rage against the machine went to harvard

By Nyr4silverware (Nyr4silverware) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 08:40 pm: Edit

Leonardo DiCaprio to Hahvahhd as well...

Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush chick) is coming to Princeton next fall.

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 08:44 pm: Edit

how about celebrities who currently attend college?

By Uschicka (Uschicka) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 08:46 pm: Edit

Will Ferrell also went to USC. Others include Neil Armstrong, Tom Selleck, Michael Landon (sorry, I loved Little House on the Prarie ), John Ritter (he always sported his USC gear too), John Carpenter (director of the Halloween series), and Heather Locklear.

David Gallagher (Simon) from 7th Heaven goes to USC now, as well as America Ferrera, who was in Real Women Have Curves.

By Bigtymer2454 (Bigtymer2454) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 08:57 pm: Edit

i know a few cast memebers on the current saturday night live went to northwestern. don't ask me why

By Lamom (Lamom) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 09:00 pm: Edit

USC: old lady forgets name but the roots guy was a student he went running down the hall of my sister's dorm when he got the part. Johnny Carson was always in the year book w/sons frat. The 70's guy-Topher something.

By Kcjones27 (Kcjones27) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 09:04 pm: Edit

Weird Al went to Cal Poly SLO :-)

By Sammileah (Sammileah) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 09:26 pm: Edit

Alicia keys apparent got into Harvard when she was 16 but decided to do music instead.

By Axfeaver (Axfeaver) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 09:31 pm: Edit

Dammn, many responds!
But do you guys know if there is a place I can find online? it would also be helpful if you know anyone who currently attending one of the schools.
I am going to Michigan next year, any of you know famous celebreties who went there, if you know one that goes there currently, that will be awesome if you know. I know that Lucy Liu(Asian from Charlies Angels) went to Michigan.

By Toxicity01 (Toxicity01) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 09:32 pm: Edit

LDC didn't go to Harvard, he was in a movie called "Harvard Man". He went to UCLA.

By Najy (Najy) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 09:33 pm: Edit

katie couric- UVA.

By Bern700 (Bern700) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 09:40 pm: Edit

Donald Trump went to Wharton at Penn. His daughter Ivanka is a senior there now. His son graduated from Wharton a few years ago and his youngest son is at Georgetown right now.

By Confetti (Confetti) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 09:59 pm: Edit

the members of the band guster went to tufts. tracy chapman and hank azaria went to tufts. jonathan taylor thomas went to harvard.

By Milkshakeh0ney (Milkshakeh0ney) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 10:05 pm: Edit

alicia keys got into columbia when she was 16...not harvard?

By Usunkmyb_Ship (Usunkmyb_Ship) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 10:44 pm: Edit

^^yeah it was columbia

By Botheredone (Botheredone) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 10:49 pm: Edit

Jonathan Taylor Thomas also is currently going to Harvard. Please say Hello to him, he's been woefully out of touch with me.

By Londonfields (Londonfields) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 10:56 pm: Edit

"Gordo" aka Adam Lamberg from Lizzy Mcguire goes to Cal. He used to live at Foothill.

By Tabmasterflash (Tabmasterflash) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 11:11 pm: Edit

William Gates dropped out...

By Bern700 (Bern700) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 11:18 pm: Edit

Lucy Lu went to UMich after transferring from NYU. Reese Witherspoon dropped out of Stanford after 1 year. Katie Holmes got into Columbia but never went. Rene Zellweger went to UT Austin. Conan OBrien went went to Harvard.

here is a link to more celebs and college:
http://talentdevelop.com/gtcelebs.html

By Sweet_Inferno (Sweet_Inferno) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 11:19 pm: Edit

Jett Jackson (I don't know his real name... Lee somebody) and that blonde boy from 7th heaven go to to USC

By Usunkmyb_Ship (Usunkmyb_Ship) on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 11:38 pm: Edit

Bern700, that is a very interesting site. Thanks.

By Confetti (Confetti) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 12:14 am: Edit

um, didn't JTT graduate a year or two ago from Harvard?

By Calimom (Calimom) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 12:17 am: Edit

Serena Altschul (MTV/CNN/CBS news) attended Scripps College as an English Lit major.

By Coureur (Coureur) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 01:27 am: Edit

Sarah Hughes is currently at Yale.

Tiger Woods went to Stanford.

By Eniale (Eniale) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 02:13 am: Edit

brad delson from linkin park graduated from UCLA mass communications =)

By H0neymoon (H0neymoon) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 04:05 am: Edit

David Gallagher goes to USC???!!!!!!?????!!!! I thought he was like 12!

Think he fancies going out with a hot British girl sometime?!?

By Mocksimus (Mocksimus) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 04:22 am: Edit

chris farley went to Marquette =P

By Arctrooper (Arctrooper) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 05:39 am: Edit

and phoenix from linkin park was brad delson's roommate.

By Coffeeshopgirl (Coffeeshopgirl) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 06:15 am: Edit

the olsen twins's older brother goes to USC! hahaha does that count?

By Eniale (Eniale) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 06:30 am: Edit

yeh phoenix majored in philosophy at UCLA

By Noodleman (Noodleman) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 07:41 am: Edit

Lucy Liu went to my high school. We sat at the same table senior prom night. Big whoop, I know. I also had Frank McCourt for soph english. (I went to Stuy in the 80s.)

Lucy Liu = Nice, quiet
Frank McCourt = Frickin hilarious unconventional teacher

my 2 pennies.

By Cama (Cama) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:58 am: Edit

Robert Redford -Pratt (Don't know if he graduated)

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 11:20 am: Edit

Brad Pitt went to the University of Missouri (Columbia), Harrison Ford attended Ripon College in Wisc. (so did Spencer Tracy), Denzel Washington went to Fordham, Kevin Costner graduated from Cal State- Fullerton, Glenn Close went to William and Mary, Chevy Chase went to Bard, George Clooney went to Northern Kentucky U, Sandra Bullock-East Carolina U, and Arnold Schwarzenegger got his undergrad degree from U of Wisconsin-Superior.

By Confused86 (Confused86) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 01:46 pm: Edit

anyone famous from cornell (besides bill nye the scienc guy)?

how about U chicago?

By Coureur (Coureur) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 02:02 pm: Edit

Sheryl Crow graduated from the Univ. of Missouri and worked a school teacher for a while.

Jim Morrison graduated from UCLA.

Mick Jagger attended but did not graduate from the London School of Economics.

By Uschicka (Uschicka) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 02:14 pm: Edit

HOneymoon-

Yep, David Gallagher goes to USC! He's a first year this year. I walked behind him at one point, but that's the extent of my contact with him. I'm sure he wouldn't mind meeting a British girl. He actually lives in a dorm this year, which I was totally surprised by, so he's probably open to meeting a lot of people!

By Coureur (Coureur) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 02:21 pm: Edit

H0neymoon -

Why would you want to meet someone you thought was 12 years old?

By H0neymoon (H0neymoon) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 02:29 pm: Edit

Coz I just checked out a website which had recent pictures and he looks rather HOTT! Might have to accidently bump into his bed one day! hahahaha

By Norcalmom (Norcalmom) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 03:40 pm: Edit

Tom Hanks went to Sacramento State--not sure if he graduated though.

By Shhh (Shhh) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 03:58 pm: Edit

Ohhh i remember Gallagher from 7th heaven. What is his major?...

uuck concieted people

By Prisc (Prisc) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 04:24 pm: Edit

Are celebrities that attend those prestitgious institutions actually intelligent or are they accepted because they are celebrities? becuase I know those schools are really difficult to get into...

By H0neymoon (H0neymoon) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 04:35 pm: Edit

I think David G does film. And I'm not conceited... what's wrong with liking good looking guys?

By Jestersz (Jestersz) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 05:31 pm: Edit

I just got back from admitted students weekend at Amherst College. According to the tour guides Rob Brown goes there. FYI, he was the main character in Finding Forrester.

By Elgorila (Elgorila) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 09:24 pm: Edit

I think most get in just because they are celebs.

By 4real (4real) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:16 pm: Edit

The guy from Disneys 'Brink'and hes also the hot guy in Princess Diaries, he goes to Loyola, I always saw him at parties when I visited down there last semester, and he made out with my friend.

By Ozmaweez7 (Ozmaweez7) on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 11:53 pm: Edit

Madonna went to Michigan but dropped out

The Unabomber graduated from Michigan

Arthur Miller (Crucible, Death of a Salesmen) graduated from Michigan

James Gandolfini went to Rutgers

Bill Cosby went to Temple

props to Neo for mentioning Rivers

By Bck118 (Bck118) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 12:45 am: Edit

Nick Lachey wasn't SAE at USC...he was SAE at Miami Ohio, he only went USC for part of his first year and then transfered back to Miami Ohio.

By Toxicity01 (Toxicity01) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 12:53 am: Edit

"I think most get in just because they are celebs."

Yep. I heard somewhere the acceptance rate for celebrities is about 98%. That's why I find it so hard to believe the Olsen twins when they said they were "studying" for the SAT and sweating out college admissions like the rest of us. They would have gotten into NYU even if they had 0.2 GPAs and 400 on the SAT.

By Mzhang23 (Mzhang23) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 12:57 am: Edit

"I heard somewhere the acceptance rate for celebrities is about 98%."

How does that work? Obviously, this can't be at every school. Which school is that? Your hearsay is certainly a rather incredulous belief.

and I'm pretty sure the Olsen twins actually tried at their SAT's. They most likely had tutors helping and probably did pretty decently. The SAT material is only that hard - I'm guessing they scored 1300+ each.

You seem to have something against celebs. There are a ton of smart celebs out there who were perfectly in range with their scores to attend the schools they applied to. Don't assume every celeb is a stuck-up ••••••• who cuts class and doesn't care about other people. Natalie Portman and several others are fantastic students as well as talented performers.

HTH.

By Allena (Allena) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 01:39 am: Edit

Ozmaweez mentioned the Unabomber went to Michigan... If I recall he also was a professor at Cal.

By John2004 (John2004) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 02:01 am: Edit

Hey I read that David Gallagher guy from 7th Heaven is at the USC School of Cinema for Critical Studies...guess we might be classmates!

By Monydad (Monydad) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 03:02 am: Edit

Confused86, here's a link which lists names of some well-known people who attended Cornell.
They are missing Harry Chapin, for one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University

By Milkshakeh0ney (Milkshakeh0ney) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 08:47 am: Edit

I was reading a few college guide books and they all mentioned that if you're FAMOUS, then it shouldn't be hard for you to get into a great college unless you're really THAT dumb. I have friends myself who are real popstars in Asia and one got into Columbia and the other got into the University of Waterloo in Canada. They didn't have stellar grades or scores...they're just, celebs. =P

By Bck118 (Bck118) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 10:40 am: Edit

I actually go to school with a HUGE celebrity's kids (megastar, along the lines of like Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts), and they aren't dumb but they have like 3.4-3.6 and lower than 1300 for sure and they are going to an IVY League school, and the other is going to a VERY good/difficult new england Liberal Arts School. If they weren't who they are, they wouldn't have gotten in for sure.

By Enzom (Enzom) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 11:45 am: Edit

A few KENYON grads:

President Rutherford Hayes
Paul Newman
E.L. Doctorow(famous author)
Allison Janney(West Wing)
John Snow(Secretary of Treasury)
William Rehnquist(Chief Justice US Supreme Court)

By Angstridden (Angstridden) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 01:29 pm: Edit

I believe Jackie O went to George Washington University not Vassar.

By Sooky6 (Sooky6) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 02:11 pm: Edit

Jackie O went to Vassar, but there is a dorm named for her at GW.

By Shhh (Shhh) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 04:28 pm: Edit

"Think he fancies going out with a HOT British girl sometime?!?"
Concieted WITH memory problems.

"I heard somewhere the acceptance rate for celebrities is about 98%."

That cant be. That would mean that 2% are rejected. What kind of a university would reject a celebrity?!

Does anyone know what the Olsen Twin's concerntration will be at Gallatin?

By Alex7886 (Alex7886) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 05:10 pm: Edit

Jackie O went to GW.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University#Noted_Alumni

By Emilyp114 (Emilyp114) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 05:49 pm: Edit

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis went to Vassar for freshman and sophomore year, spent her junior year abroad, then transferred to GWU for her senior year.

By Yodisistim (Yodisistim) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 06:06 pm: Edit

Michael Jordan, among other athletes, and Mia Hamm went to UNC Chapel Hill

Andy Griffith, among other actors went to UNC and journalism Charles Kuralt and Tom Brokaw, journalist, went to UNC.

Oh yea, I'm going to UNC...

PS...Take note of that ^ lol

By Elgorila (Elgorila) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 06:12 pm: Edit

"and I'm pretty sure the Olsen twins actually tried at their SAT's. They most likely had tutors helping and probably did pretty decently. The SAT material is only that hard - I'm guessing they scored 1300+ each. "
-mzhang

I find THAT rather incredulous.

By Cd1400 (Cd1400) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 06:24 pm: Edit

Reese Witherspoon- Stanford ( but I don't think she graduated, she quit to do more acting)
Ashton Kutcher- University of Iowa ( but he dropped out as well, apperently his major was bio-chemical engineering)
Lucy Liu- went to University of Michigan & transferred to NYU later
Warren Beatty-Northwestern University
Andre Braugher - Stanford
Stockard Channing - Harvard
Michael Crichton -Harvard
Geena Davis -Boston University & a member of mensa
Calista Flockhart -Rutgers
Jane Fonda- Vassar
Whoopi Goldberg -NYU
Hugh Grant-Oxford
Maggie Gyllenhaal-Columbia
Julianne Moore- BOston University
Conan O'Brien- Harvard
Gwyneth Paltrow & Micheal DOuglas - UC Santa Barbara
Jerry Bruckheimer- University of Arizona
Jennifer Beals- Yale

By Kcbinaz (Kcbinaz) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 09:28 pm: Edit

ren from even stevens goes to either barnard or columbia...i saw her on barnard's campus when i visited! i love her hehe!!

By Rana (Rana) on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 10:47 pm: Edit

Jackie O went to BOTH Vassar and GW (she graduated from GW):

After being named "Debutante of the Year" for the 1947-48 season, she was educated at Miss Porter's School, Vassar College and George Washington University, and spent time studying in France.

By Pwnser1 (Pwnser1) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 12:05 am: Edit

Tommy Lee Jones went to Harvard and was actually roommates with Al Gore.

This is according to what he said on an appearance on David Letterman.



"Does anyone know what the Olsen Twin's concerntration will be at Gallatin?"
How about just being the Olsen twins? I sincerely doubt that they'll be serious about studying. But that's just my guess.

By Libsters (Libsters) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 12:17 am: Edit

H0neymoon --- Bad News about David ... I went to visit USC a while back, and the girls I stayed with told me a bit about him ... someone they knew tried to like stalk him or something .. anyways, apparently he's rarely ever in the dorm room, plus he smells really bad all the time like he doesn't shower at all. Plus I was told he is really rude and conceited and won't talk to many actual students ...

By Axfeaver (Axfeaver) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 04:25 am: Edit

Lets hear more

By Calimom (Calimom) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 05:10 am: Edit

Model & sometimes actress China Chow majored in psychology and graduated from Scripps College. She is the daughter of Michael Chow who owns the well known Mr Chow's restaurants in London, NYC, and Beverly Hills.

By Neo (Neo) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 07:28 pm: Edit

Will Smith was heavily recruited at MIT (apparently, he's a wicked mathematician), but he turned them down because his career was about to take off.

And since no one has mentioned it...

Natalie Portman recently graduated from Harvard.

By Crypticism (Crypticism) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 08:11 pm: Edit

About a lot of celebrities being accepted.. They must have a pretty awesome list of ECs, and I bet they get great letters of rec.

By Thebarnrat (Thebarnrat) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 08:34 pm: Edit

David Gallagher goes to USC!!!!!??????? I can't escape that kid. From what I remember of him, he's a total ass. A hot ass, but an ass. He used to live up the street from my friend, went to a lot of our local dances/underage club type thingies, I had a bunch of friends that went to school with him (I think he went to Chaminade?), and now I'm going to school with him...? Sorry, it just amuses me. The girl that plays Ruthie on that show is really sweet (Mckenzie is her name). I used to ride horses with her and her stepmom(?).

Alright, that was my story. I'm not sure why I wrote that. But now you all know.

By Serdu (Serdu) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 09:07 pm: Edit

I saw Sarah Hughes at Bulldog Days. It was weird. I didn't want to bother her b/c she was having dinner

By Candi1657 (Candi1657) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 09:20 pm: Edit

Why is David Gallagher an ass? Just curious.

By Hillct09 (Hillct09) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 10:17 pm: Edit

Jon Stewart and Tina Fey from SNL both went to William & Mary and Katie Couric went to University of Virginia.

By Thebarnrat (Thebarnrat) on Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 02:21 am: Edit

He just seemed really stuck up. He didn't really acknowledge anyone in the room and my friends said he puts himself on the same level as God. When he lived on the same street as my friend, I guess he approached her one day and said "Don't you want an autograph?" as if he couldn't believe she didn't ask for one. But since I don't know him personally, I probably really couldn't say. Hemight be the nicest kid in the world for all I know.I just thought he had this aura of assiness.

By Takanawajoe (Takanawajoe) on Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 02:30 am: Edit

Laura Bush....SMU class of 1968

Others of note:

Kathy Bates ’69, Academy Award-winning actress
Powers Boothe ’72, Emmy Award-winning actor
Beth Henley ’74, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist
Milton Justice ’68, Academy Award-winning filmmaker
Dorothy Malone ’45, Academy Award-winning actress
Debra Monk ’75, “NYPD Blue” television star and Tony winner
Jeffrey Nordling ’87, “Now and Again” television star
Patricia Richardson ’72, “Home Improvement” television star
Leeanna Smith ’98, Broadway dancer
Aaron Spelling ’49, Legendary television producer
Regina Taylor ’81, Emmy Award-nominated actress
Stephen Tobolowsky ’73, Television and movie actor
Scott Waara ’79, Tony Award-winning actor
Deborah Yates ’92, actress, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Contact”
John Davis ’84, wrote and directed “Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius”, the first 3-D animated feature film ever made outside Hollywood. The feature film was produced with Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies and was nominated for a 2002 Academy Award.
Harriet Miers ’67, ’70, Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary
Mindy Tucker ’92, Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice
Jeanne Johnson Phillips ’76, former Executive Director of the Presidential Inauguration Committee and current U.S. Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris

Several SMU alumni are members of the U.S. House of Representatives, among them John Culberson, Ralph Hall, Sam Johnson, Eddie Bernice Johnson, and Lamar Smith.

Dr. James W. Cronin ’51, SMU physics graduate, won the Nobel Prize in 1980 for his studies of the properties of subatomic particles.

Robert Dennard ’54, ’56, engineering graduate, invented the dynamic random access memory chip, known as RAM, which is found in virtually every computer in the world.

Dr. Robert W. Haley ’67, was the principal investigator on research that linked symptoms found in Gulf War veterans to exposure to chemicals used in the war.

And even more leaders


Ward Huey ’60, retired Belo Corporation broadcast executive, is a member of the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and was named 2000 Broadcasting Pioneer of the Year.

Believe it or not
While students at SMU, siblings Bill and Julie Ann Brice founded I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt, a chain that grew to more than 400 locations throughout the United States and 17 foreign countries.

Craig Flournoy ’86, won the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for a series of articles written for The Dallas Morning News.

The supremes
Two of the nine justices on the Supreme Court of Texas are SMU alumni: Craig T. Enoch and Nathan Hecht.

Sports legends
The late golfer Payne Stewart ’79, won the 1991 U.S. Open and the 1999 Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, U.S. Open Championship.


National Pro Football Hall of Fame members from SMU include Raymond Berry ’55, Eric Dickerson ’84, Forrest Gregg ’59, Lamar Hunt ’56, and Doak Walker ’50, who also won the Heisman Trophy in 1948.

By Eyesclozedtight (Eyesclozedtight) on Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 03:02 am: Edit

you are all forgetting the most famous of them all..... WILLIAM HUNG!!! he goes to cal berkeley and, "struggles in most things he does."

By Lostnconfused (Lostnconfused) on Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 09:04 pm: Edit

Quinten Tarintino- UCSC.
Will Farell - went to my high school wooohooo.. oh yea and USC...

By Mdfan86 (Mdfan86) on Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 09:37 pm: Edit

Jenifer Garner went to Denison

By Valpal (Valpal) on Monday, April 26, 2004 - 12:35 am: Edit

Katherine Hepburn was a Bryn Mawr Graduate.

By Toxicity01 (Toxicity01) on Monday, April 26, 2004 - 01:04 am: Edit

Quentin Tarantino did not go to UCSC (That's just a rumor because John Travolta was wearing a UCSC shirt in scenes of Pulp Fiction). He didn't go to college, or even finish high school.

By Ocliberal (Ocliberal) on Monday, April 26, 2004 - 01:04 am: Edit

Wow, I think Kevin Costner (sp?) went to my alma mater! Cal State Fullerton!!!

By Astrix (Astrix) on Monday, April 26, 2004 - 10:14 am: Edit

Kurt Vonnegnut went to University of Chicago