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Hey, I thought it would be interesting if people posted what they know, in respect to famous people who attended or are attending famous top schools. I will start:

Natalie Portman- Harvard

By I1lmatics (I1lmatics) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 02:53 pm: Edit

julia stiles - columbia
my dad - yale

By Sillygilly (Sillygilly) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 02:57 pm: Edit

matt damon- harvard

By Jaye123 (Jaye123) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:00 pm: Edit

Meryl Streep- Vassar

By Nycneedhelp (Nycneedhelp) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:05 pm: Edit

Ivies:

George Bush Jr. - Yale
Andy Warhol - Cornell
Bill Nye The Science Guy - Cornell
Bill Gates - Harvard (Dropped Out)
Brad Ausmus (MLB) - Dartmouth
Mike Remlinger (MLB) - Dartmouth

Top Schools:

Tiger Woods - Stanford
Mary Kate And Ashley Olsen - NYU?
Mike Mussina (MLB) - Stanford
Jeff Austin (MLB) - Stanford
Rick Helling (MLB) - Stanford
Jeff Kent (MLB) - Berkeley
Grant Hill (NBA) - Duke
Troy Glaus (MLB) - UCLA

i was writing my cornell essays and i had writers block...what else is there to do?

By Nycneedhelp (Nycneedhelp) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:07 pm: Edit

oh and:

Donal Logue (Grounded for life) - Harvard
David Robinson - Navy

By Cuis (Cuis) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:11 pm: Edit

Rider Strong (Shawn from Boy Meets World) - Columbia
Ben Savage (Cory from Boy Meets World) - Stanford

By Cuis (Cuis) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:14 pm: Edit

Rider Strong (Shawn from Boy Meets World) - Columbia
Ben Savage (Cory from Boy Meets World) - Stanford

By Enosis (Enosis) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:19 pm: Edit

Charlton Heston and David Schwimmer both went to Northwestern.

By I1lmatics (I1lmatics) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:21 pm: Edit

For my NYU application when it asks why you are interested in nyu.. i'm going to write becasue I heard the olsen twins are going and i would liek to devote the next 4 years of my life trying to court one of them in my bed

By Silverliningd (Silverliningd) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:34 pm: Edit

That sounds like an excellent plan, I1lmatics. :-P

By Elgorila (Elgorila) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:41 pm: Edit

Ed Norton - Yale
Ron Livingston (Office Space) - Yale

By Aspirer42 (Aspirer42) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:42 pm: Edit

John Ashcroft, Carol Moseley-Braun, Carl Sagan, Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.), and Paul Wolfowitz all went to the University of Chicago.

By Nycneedhelp (Nycneedhelp) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 04:20 pm: Edit

lol

i saw one of the olsen twins with her boyfriend in columbia

u still got a shot at the other one...

By Vivian (Vivian) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 04:44 pm: Edit

Yale: Angelela Bassett (School of Drama), George Bush.

Northwestern: Cindy Crawford (majored in chemical engineering)

Fordham: Denzel Washington (majored in pre-med)

Harvard dropout: Bill Gates... that man doesn't even have a college degree.

So many celebrities from UCLA and USC, especially from their FILM/Theatre programs.

But even with a Sociology major at UCLA, Gabrielle Union is famous. Location matters.

By Mimerz (Mimerz) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 05:23 pm: Edit

tommy lee jones: harvard

By Ifyoucould (Ifyoucould) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 05:33 pm: Edit

Brooke Burke..UCLA
God, that girl's smokin!

By Aenema (Aenema) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 07:01 pm: Edit

al gore and tommy lee jones were roommates in harvard

By Muzicgal04 (Muzicgal04) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 09:20 pm: Edit

kofi annon- macalester

By Drusba (Drusba) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 09:22 pm: Edit

Some to ponder:

Theodore Kaczynski (the unabomber): Harvard

Michael Milkin (junk bond king who was involved in billions of dollars of illegal insider trading that forced investment firm Drexel Burnham & Lambert into bankruptcy): Upenn

Ken Lay (former Enron Chairman): Rice

Jeffrey Skilling (former Enron CEO): Harvard

Aldrich Ames (CIA agent convicted of espionage and called one of the most damaging traitors of all time; provided Russia with identity of agents): Univ of Chicago

Michael Ross (serial killer of teen-age girls in Conneticutt): Cornell

Ted Bundy (serial rapist and killer of about 40 women): Stanford

O.J. Simpson: USC

By Serdu (Serdu) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 11:36 pm: Edit

-Jodie Foster went to Yale
-Mira Sorvino and Stockard Channing both went to Harvard (but I wont talk about the Crimson anymore cuz I'll cry)
- Tiger Woods went to Stanford
- Ron Dellums went to Berkeley
- Greg Lee went to UCLA (he's my calculus teacher now)
who else?

By Kyle (Kyle) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 01:48 am: Edit

who's greg lee?

the lead singer for counting crows attended Berkeley

and Phil Knight (founder & CEO of Nike) got his MBA at Stanford.

By Sprite888 (Sprite888) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 11:20 am: Edit

chris berman- Brown
charlie hough (MLB-famous knuckleballer)- Yale
Nathaniel hawthorne and Franklin Pierce- Bowdoin
Paul Newman- Kenyon college

other than that i'm pretty sure no other famous people went to college, you can quote me

By Greekstyle (Greekstyle) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 03:05 pm: Edit

David Duchovny - Princeton and Yale!

By Warriorlax22 (Warriorlax22) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 03:11 pm: Edit

Jonathan Taylor Thomas - Harvard
Brooke Shields - Princeton

By Sillygilly (Sillygilly) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 03:14 pm: Edit

the writers of animal house went to dartmouth, and it's based off of the now-rugby fraternity there.

By Horseman (Horseman) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 03:32 pm: Edit

Jessica Biel---Tufts! Go Tufts! Hell she is red hot!Tufts is a great skool1
Michael Jordan- U North Carolina-Chapel Hill

By Minibrit (Minibrit) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 04:14 pm: Edit

Does anyone know where tara ried went?

By Northstarmom (Northstarmom) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 04:16 pm: Edit

Harvard:
TS Elliot
John Updike
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Benizir Bhutto
Al Frankin
James Brown (America's Funniest Videos)
Yoyo Ma
Leonard Bernstein
Jack Lemmon
George Santayana
Adrienne Rich
Cornel West
Ralph Nader

By Wunderkind__Not (Wunderkind__Not) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 05:32 pm: Edit

No offense to Jonathon Taylor Thomas, but how in the hell did he get into Harvard. Are names all Harvard cares about, or is he actually worthy?

By Nealyac (Nealyac) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 10:55 pm: Edit

i am amazed at how smart these celebrities are...and people said prestige doesnt matter...

By Hnbui (Hnbui) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 10:59 pm: Edit

well, the thing is that most colleges are willing to acept almost any celeb.

By Nealyac (Nealyac) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 11:00 pm: Edit

thats sad

By Neo (Neo) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 11:09 pm: Edit

Northstarmom, I could have sworn that YoYo Ma went to Berklee.

By Neo (Neo) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 11:14 pm: Edit

Whoops...no he didn't. Brain fart...

However, these folks did, IIRC:

Aimee Mann
Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks)
Melissa Ethridge
Paula Cole
John Mayer <---
Steve Vai
Diana Krall
Al Dimeola...

Brilliant musicians.

By Northstarmom (Northstarmom) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 01:44 am: Edit

Neo,
YoYo definitely is a Harvard grad as was his sister, who also was a child prodigy musician and now is a doctor who as a hobby directs a youth orchestra. Yoyo graduated, I think, in 1975 or '76.
Bonnie Rait also attended Harvard, but I think she dropped out to perform.
The guy who starred in "Third Rock from the Sun" also is a Harvard grad.

By Yaleeakid (Yaleeakid) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 01:59 am: Edit

Everyone knows that Barbara Bush attends Yale right?

She likes to party hardy from what I hear back from my friends.

By Youcanonlywish (Youcanonlywish) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 02:24 am: Edit

the lead singer of weezer went to harvard

By Orangeman167 (Orangeman167) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 04:14 pm: Edit

i know Adam Sandler went to NYU

and when i visited syracuse i found out that these people went there:

Bob Costas
Donovan McNabb
Marvin Harrison
Taye Diggs
and there are more
carmello anthony

By Funinthesun (Funinthesun) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 04:20 pm: Edit

Something like 10 of the current 'Simpsons' writers have some crazy advanced math postgrad degree from Harvard. No joke. Conan O'Brien went there too before he became a SIMPSONS writer(no math degree though)

By Minibrit (Minibrit) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 04:45 pm: Edit

I think Kevin Costner or something went to Julliard...i may be wrong...does any one know any celeb who went to julliard?

By Warriorlax22 (Warriorlax22) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 06:08 pm: Edit

"Something like 10 of the current 'Simpsons' writers have some crazy advanced math postgrad degree from Harvard. No joke."

why would you need math to write? but they're kinda brilliant.

By The_Slc_Bug (The_Slc_Bug) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 06:14 pm: Edit

Wow, Adrienne Rich went to Harvard? I didn't know that.

Kurt Vonnegut went to Cornell.

By Nycneedhelp (Nycneedhelp) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 06:36 pm: Edit

"Q" from james bond TEACHES at cornell...

dunno if he went there though

By Neo (Neo) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 06:38 pm: Edit

"Q" is dead.

Desmond Llielson or something like that.

By Chim_Chim (Chim_Chim) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 06:42 pm: Edit

Sarah Hughes(gymnast) - Harvard

By Northstarmom (Northstarmom) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 07:02 pm: Edit

One of the members of the punk group Bad Religion is a Cornel professor in the sciences.

By Peterkitts (Peterkitts) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 07:14 pm: Edit

that's right Rivers Cuomo of Weezer went to Harvard but dropped out

By Trojan1444 (Trojan1444) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 07:22 pm: Edit

Adam Sandler did not go to NYU; He went to UC Santa Barbara. I know this for a fact.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas goes to UCLA, not Harvard.

By Minibrit (Minibrit) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 10:00 pm: Edit

Just informed- lead singer of Bad Religion (UCLA/Cornell)has a PHd in biological evolutionary paleontoligy

Why do these people work so hard and spend so much money on their education, and then work as something totally different?

By Starlight (Starlight) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 10:27 pm: Edit

I highly doubt Shawn from Boy Meets World went to Columbia. He has a pierced ear and came off as being so dumb in the show, and he kissed too may girls.

By Voigtrob (Voigtrob) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 10:39 pm: Edit

ohhh hell yes Bad Religion rocks, haha. I never knew that. Makes Cornell look more attractive now, haha.

By Jinhamasaki (Jinhamasaki) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 10:41 pm: Edit

Hikaru Utada - Columbia University

I'd visit her on campus just to smack her

GO AYUMI HAMASAKI!!!!!

By Nmoreno1 (Nmoreno1) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 10:45 pm: Edit

Conan 'o Brian graduated cum laude from Harvard. Majored in history. what a quick witted young fellow.

By Twotoo13 (Twotoo13) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 12:18 am: Edit

Sarah Hughes went to Yale!

anna paquin (think x-men) goes to columbia
as does anson mount (think crossroads)
and vanessa carleton was linked there in some way

yo yo ma's son went to harvard, too

By Yehosh1 (Yehosh1) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 01:36 am: Edit

nader went to princeton undergrad, northstarmom. I am 95.7 percent sure of that...I think he graduated suma cum laude or soemthing too.. peace yall

By Lizschup (Lizschup) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 06:23 am: Edit

Matt Groenig, the creator of the Simpsons went to Harvard.

David Hyde Pierce (Frazier's brother,Niles) went to Yale. Also Frances McDormand (Fargo) and the Cohen brothers (at least one of them if not both)

Kevin Spacey-Northwestern

Rumsfeld-Princeton

By Northstarmom (Northstarmom) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 01:53 pm: Edit

Yehosh1,
Both of us are right. Nader went to Princeton undergrad, Harvard for law school.

By Ariesathena (Ariesathena) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 02:02 pm: Edit

Jessica Biel: Tufts

Brooke Shields: Princeton

By Smorealum (Smorealum) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 08:31 pm: Edit

Nader is Princeton '55, Harvard Law '58.

By Erin04 (Erin04) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 09:02 pm: Edit

Leelee sobieski goes to Brown, my friends saw her when they visited

By Insomniac64 (Insomniac64) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 11:46 pm: Edit

kevin costner attended cal state fullerton in southern california, jon lovitz attended uci, and will ferrel went to usc i believe

By Gabushida (Gabushida) on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 12:02 am: Edit

(This is from like the 2nd or third post)
"Andy Warhol - Cornell "

I could have sworn he went to CMU.

By Donotdisturb (Donotdisturb) on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 02:19 am: Edit

John Nash (the famous mathematician) went to Carnegie Mellon for his undergraduate years, then transferred off to Princeton.

By Minibrit (Minibrit) on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 10:24 pm: Edit

OH man i love will farrel. I think ill put that on my App: Why do you want to attend USC?
Becuase Will Farrel went there. lol jk.

Do you know what he majored in?

By Insomniac64 (Insomniac64) on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 12:31 am: Edit

ferrell majored in sports information, if it wasn't for snl, he probably would have ended up as a sportscaster

By Anduin (Anduin) on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 02:13 am: Edit

Here are some Yalies whom nobody's mentioned yet:

Charles Montgomery Burns
Bob Terwilliger
Nick Carraway
Tom Buchanan
Rory Gilmore
Michael Doonesbury
Niles Crane

By Isacc (Isacc) on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 07:24 am: Edit

jay fiedler - miami dolphins qback -Dartmouth
dr. seuss - Dartmouth

By Princesanegrita (Princesanegrita) on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 01:29 pm: Edit

Will Smith (fresh prince of Belair, Bad Boys, Men in Black etc.) got accepted to MIT, but instead chose to go to another school to make a career in acting.

By Nannerl (Nannerl) on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 01:55 pm: Edit

Hank Azaria -- Tufts

By Mulan (Mulan) on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 01:20 am: Edit

sarah hughes is not a gymnast, she's a figure skater.

and just cause shawn from boy meets world acted dumb in a show doesn't mean he can't get into columbia. not that i know either way. just remember that acting is acting, yes?

By Wasabi (Wasabi) on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 03:47 pm: Edit

Tom Morello -- Harvard.

Tom Morello is now part of Audioslave but he was guitar player for Rage Against the Machine before it disbanded.

By Northstarmom (Northstarmom) on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 04:18 pm: Edit

Sigourney Weaver, Stanford

By Zlovesta1 (Zlovesta1) on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 04:24 pm: Edit

Matt Groening went to Evergreen.
Also Zach Delarocha from Rage went to Harvard.
So did the Drummer from Rage.

By Xiggi (Xiggi) on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 04:33 pm: Edit

Natalie Maines went to school?

Besides music, I did not think she could read or write.

By Xoxo (Xoxo) on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 04:36 pm: Edit

Meryl Streep...I thought she went to Smith
Hawthorne...Bowdoin

By Gforce007 (Gforce007) on Friday, December 05, 2003 - 02:37 am: Edit

Bill Clinton- Georgetown, Oxford, Yale
Mia Hamm and Lawrence Taylor- UNC: Chapel Hill
Michael Jordan- UNC: Chapel Hill
John Kerry- Boston College and Yale
Judy Woodruff- Duke
Noam Chomsky- Penn
George W. Bush went to Yale and Harvard business school too I believe

By Nyugrad (Nyugrad) on Friday, December 05, 2003 - 09:49 am: Edit

Robin Williams has a masters in improvisational comedy from Julliard.

Marilyn Monroe took classes in theater arts at NYU

Jonas Salk went to Columbia

By Interested123 (Interested123) on Friday, December 05, 2003 - 10:28 am: Edit

Donald Rumsfeld attended Princeton on a wrestling scholarship

By Collegebnd (Collegebnd) on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 06:37 pm: Edit

Meryl Streep definitely went to Vassar, as did Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe from "Friends")

Andy Warhol- Carnegie Mellon

All of these famous people are not really geniuses...most of them would not have gotten into these colleges had it not been for their fame. I guess this is a little insight into what colleges truly want.

By Madhouse (Madhouse) on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 06:52 pm: Edit

"Northwestern: Cindy Crawford (majored in chemical engineering)

Fordham: Denzel Washington (majored in pre-med)"

You've got to be kidding me...Cindy Crawford and Chemical engineering... Denzel Washington and Pre-med....
?????

lol...

By Iamthewalrus (Iamthewalrus) on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 07:59 pm: Edit

johnny steinbeck went to Stanford

By The_Slc_Bug (The_Slc_Bug) on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 08:03 pm: Edit

Larisa Oleynik goes here, and my roommate just got into an over-registered class she was "bumped" from. Just kind of funny.

Sigourney Weaver went to Sarah Lawrence also, as well as Barbara Walters, Yoko Ono (DROPOUT!) and Alice Walker.

By Medusa2003 (Medusa2003) on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 10:25 pm: Edit

Miles Davis flunked out of Julliard because he was spending too much time playing in jazz clubs and not concentrating on his formal studies.

By Medusa2003 (Medusa2003) on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 10:27 pm: Edit

Frank Zappa attended but did not graduate from Antelope Valley Community College.

By Laurenj (Laurenj) on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 11:17 pm: Edit

Matt Hale, founded of the World Church of the Creator, whose motto is RaHoWa--racial holy war--went to Harvard.

By Savedbythebell7 (Savedbythebell7) on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 02:28 am: Edit

How does it feel knowing none of us will ever be famous??

By Rem153 (Rem153) on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 02:59 am: Edit

Yea, Cindy Crawford graduated valedictorian from her high school in Dekalb, Illinois. She went to Northwestern for a semester and left. Ben Stein graduated head of his class at Yale and went on to the law school there.

By Kyle (Kyle) on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 03:13 am: Edit

Trojan1444 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas goes to Harvard, not UCLA. I saw him at an apartment party there. He's pretty short...

And yeah, pretty much any celebrity who's not a complete idiot can get into an ivy. It adds to their prestige. And what's more "unique" than being a celebrity?

By Allison (Allison) on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 05:31 am: Edit

can anyone provide a source on zack de la rocha attending harvard? because i don't think that's true.

bowdoin's also home to joan benoit (think amazing marathon runner) and robert peary (think famous arctic explorer), along with longfellow and hawthorne and such.

By Whzup44412 (Whzup44412) on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 02:06 pm: Edit

Yeah JT goes to Harvard, my friend who goes there lived in a dorm room 2 doors down from his. He may graduate this year (or last year)

By Puppy (Puppy) on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 10:48 pm: Edit

anyone go to brown? cant recall seeing one

By Marvinpw (Marvinpw) on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 10:13 am: Edit

Williams-
Steve Case (ceo of aol time-warner)
George Steinbrenner (huge a$$hole who ruins my dreams of red sox glory)

By Emeraldkity4 (Emeraldkity4) on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 12:04 pm: Edit

Evergreen
Matt Groening( cartoonist)
Lynda Barry( cartoonist)
Joe Dear ( former head of OSHA )

Reed
Steve Jobs( Apple)
Barbra Ehrenreich( writer)
James Beard( chef)
Gary Snyder( poet)
James Russell( inventor)
Ry Cooder( musician)
Richard Danzig ( secretary of Navy)
Howard Vollum ( founder of Textronix

I knew JFK jr went to Brown
and John Ashcroft went to UChicago

By Allison (Allison) on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 12:54 pm: Edit

kenyon college:

bill watterson (calvin and hobbes)
e.l. doctorow (my favorite author)

By Gs86 (Gs86) on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 01:05 pm: Edit

JTT went to Harvard, but then transferred to Brown. Eva Amurri, Susan Saradon's daughter, also goes to Brown. As did Kate Burton.

Jennifer Connolly went to Yale, left for Stanford.

By Horseman (Horseman) on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 02:43 pm: Edit

Donald Trump- UPenn

By Sportula (Sportula) on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 08:48 am: Edit

Jennifer Garner (Alias)-Dennison
Bradley Cooper (Alias)-Georgetown
Bill Clinton-Georgetown
George Tenet (CIA)-Georgetown

By Ken (Ken) on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 09:50 am: Edit

Koffi Annan- MIT

By Emilyp114 (Emilyp114) on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 12:56 pm: Edit

The Olsen twins applied E.D. to NYU this year so they're not here yet. And you guys are out of luck. One's b/f goes to Columbia and the other is already at NYU.

By Youcanonlywish (Youcanonlywish) on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 03:54 pm: Edit

i thought Kofi Annan went to Maelcaster (i know i butchered the spelling of that)

By Nhlgoalie (Nhlgoalie) on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 04:25 pm: Edit

He went to both...MIT for masters

By Zlovesta1 (Zlovesta1) on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 08:30 pm: Edit

David Allen Grier


The funniest man ALIVE


Went to Dartmoth!!!!

By Sokkerdude4 (Sokkerdude4) on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 10:03 pm: Edit

Alicia Keys--Columbia

By Macbeth04 (Macbeth04) on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 12:13 pm: Edit

Robin Williams went to Juilliard

By Invisibleman (Invisibleman) on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 06:42 pm: Edit

Umm, does anyone realize that those celebrities were not yet celebrities when they first attended college? Fame could not have been much of a factor in their admission, then.

By Getmeintoanivy (Getmeintoanivy) on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 06:43 pm: Edit

Jaye123, Meryl Streep also when to Yale.

By Getmeintoanivy (Getmeintoanivy) on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 06:47 pm: Edit

Henry Winkler (Fonzie!!! from Happy Days) went to Harvard.

Conan O'Brien also went to Harvard.

Claire Danes went to Yale.

By Getmeintoanivy (Getmeintoanivy) on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 06:49 pm: Edit

Trojan1444, youre wrong... Jonathan Taylor Thomas graduated from Harvard. I know this for a fact because a friend's sister who went to Harvard took several classes with him.

By Andyacs929 (Andyacs929) on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 07:08 pm: Edit

My dad was in an Intro Bio class at Fordham with Denzel Washington. He dropped out halfway through the class, I believe to pursue his career. His year book picture is pretty funny though.

By Jay12602 (Jay12602) on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 07:10 pm: Edit

Ug, it pisses me off how all these ••••••• retards attend such prestigious places and get such good degrees. Of course they all just work hard, but it still makes me feel bad!

By Admissioner (Admissioner) on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 03:18 pm: Edit

"Famous" Brown alumni include:

Historical Figures:
- Horace Mann (father of public education system in the US)
- John Hay (considered one of the greatest US Secretaries of State)
- Charles Evans Hughes (Chief Justice of US Supreme Court)
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (philanthropist – started Rockefeller Foundation, also a US ambassador)

Business (Deceased):
- Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (CEO and Chairman, IBM)
- Marvin Bower (father of management consulting industry, head of McKinsey for decades)

Business (Still Kicking):
- Ted Turner (media mogul)
- Jeffrey Swartz (CEO, Timberland)
- Barry Sternlicht (Chairman, Starwood Hotels and Resorts)
- Tom Gardner (Co-author of “The Motley Fool” guides)

Government (Current):
- 1 governor – Don Carcieri, and 1 US senator – Lincoln Chafee (both from RI)

Sports
- John Heisman (as in the Heisman Trophy – although he did transfer out... to play football)
- Fritz Pollard (first African-American to play pro football)
- Joe Paterno (Penn State head coach, football)
- Steve Jordan (6 time all-pro tight end for the Minnesota Vikings)
- Chris Berman (the Swami)

Entertainment:
- Laura Linney (actor)
- JoBeth Williams (actor)
- Joe Bologna (actor)
- Mary Chapin Carpenter (musician)
- Lisa Loeb (musician)
- Duncan Sheik (musician)
- Doug Liman (Director of Swingers, Go and The Bourne Identity)
- Todd Haynes (Director, Far From Heaven)
- Katia Lund (Co-Director, City of God)

I am sure I have overlooked a few more significant folks.

... and there are too many children of famous people to recall, including a few Kennedys, a Carter, a king of Jordan, a king of Greece (deposed), a Klein, a von Buelow, a Simon (Carly, not Paul), and Superman Christopher Reeve.

By Puppy (Puppy) on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 11:40 pm: Edit

so those people suck compared to the olsen twins

By Ebudes (Ebudes) on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 01:57 pm: Edit

Jonathan Weiss, or Jonathan Taylor Thomas, will be graduating this year from Harvard. He also spent an academic year at St. Andrews University, where Prince William is currently attending. And the Olsen twins applied for early decision at Columbia.

Oh, y'all have to remember that when many of these celebrities were applying to these colleges and universities, the applicant pools weren't as cutthroat as they are now.

By Allison (Allison) on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 07:55 pm: Edit

actually, the olsen twins are attending nyu next year. therefore, they did NOT apply ED to columbia.