Famous alumni of your school

[Spoonsky]

This fellow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ross) founded the New Yorker, the best magazine in the country. This other fellow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Thurman) was a Harlem renaissance writer and wrote the book which Kendrick Lamar's song "The Blacker The Berry" is named after. There's also some golfer named Tony Finau.

Who's graduated from the hallowed halls of your own school?

[Spikey M]

I know 3 rapists.

[Baz]

Rick Astley.

[Magic]

The View.

[Byron]

No one that I recognise.

[Shindig]

Probably some piss-weak Sunderland reserve who never made the grade.

[Andy]

Craig David was in year eleven when I was In year seven. Before that we had Franny Benali. Also one of the lads I went to school with is a pretty successful snowboarder.

[Disco]

We have a few rugby players, some sailors, an actor, and the son of a former headmaster is a noted organist ans composer.

[Shindig]

Wait, we have one and the wikipedia entry is complete bollocks. Although 3 kids and a divorce at 15 sounds right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clarke_(architect)

[Magic]

Claudio Cannagiea's son went to my primary for about 2 days before he was hounded out because of so many people asking for his signature. :D

[CJay]

And because people were butchering his name?

[Waffdon]

Alan Cumming is probably the only one.

[mo]

Fitzroy Simpson (played for Swindon, Man City, Pompey and Jamaica at WC '98) and Matthew Bound (had a career in lower leagues with Oxford and Swansea). There was also a relatively famous actress but her name now escapes me and it was probably only for 2 days anyway.

[Queenslander]

Couple of Wallabies and Brad 'Big Red' Meyers.

And my first High School had even more Wallabies and League players.

[Gray Fox]

John Lennon. Primary and secondary school.

Joe Royle, Steve Coppell and of course our most famous son, Les Dennis.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Brian May, golfer Paul Casey, and the cricketers Zafar Ansari and Toby Roland-Jones (the latter was in my year).

I think Julie Andrews went to my primary school but I'm not 100% on that.

[phonics]

Christopher Lambert, Michael Souglas, Joakim Noah, a few chief justices, the Thai royal family, Chelsea Clinton and most of the Bin Laden family.

[Lewis]

Some rugby league players (Steve McNamara, Jon Wilkin, and probably Josh Hodgson), a local rapper, and six-time Best Poster winner me.

[Gray Fox]

Some rugby league players (Steve McNamara, Jon Wilkin, and probably Josh Hodgson), a local rapper, and six-time Best Poster winner me.

Phonics has stolen your award mate.

[Lewis]

In the same way that Idi Amin stole Scotland, yeah.

[GS]

Phonics has stolen your award mate.

I keep mistaking you for Lee because of your avatar.

[Jase]

The Vunipola's were at my secondary school and I went to the same university as Martin Bashir, Lauren Cohan and Shappi Khorsandi (sorry about that last one).

[Disco]

We used to play against a school that boasted not only Victor Ubogu (who used to come and watch) and Jonathan Edwards amongst their alumni but that giant of daytime telly Tim Wonnacot.

[igor_balis]

Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo. The majority of the bands Spiritualized and Spacemen 3, one of them was our lodger for a few years.

[Cord]

Before my time there was David Bowie, Peter Frampton (from that Simpsons episode), writer Hanif Kureishi.

When I was actually in attendance there was some sort of quasi-midget who was in Tracey Beaker on CBBC, and some anaemic looking nob who presented something on MTV for about two weeks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Arvind Palmer, James Bay, Ian Poulter and Kevin Phillips.

Also, Ed Westwick was there for a few days. I can't find anything about this online though but I do remember him lolling at me because I had my trousers up too high.

[Trancemeister]

Went to High school at the same time as Sweden's youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

[Yaysus]

neuer, matip, özil and several current and former schalke players

[Lee]

Gary Lineker, Emile Heskey, Alistair Campbell.

[Ian]

Olympic gold medal horse-jumper Nick Skelton to the secondary school I was at for a year as well as some other people I haven't really heard of. Various members of the Qatari royal family went to the English school when I was there including the current Emir.

[ScousePig]

Tom Cleverley was four years behind me, and Lewis Emanuel in the year above.

In previous generations, DCI Jack Meadows of The Bill and rugby coach Brian Noble.

[Jase]

Gary Lineker, Emile Heskey, Alistair Campbell.

Two out of three ain't bad.

[Baz]

Also, Ed Westwick was there for a few days. I can't find anything about this online though but I do remember him lolling at me because I had my trousers up too high.:happycry:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:happycry:

It changed my life.

[Magic]

For the worse, it would appear.

[Manc]

Mick Hucknall. Woof.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

For the worse, it would appear.

Probably, but I'm not wearing my trousers up by my belly button anymore :cool:

[Baz]

If Chuck Bass speaks to you, you listen. Especially fashion tips. :drool:

[Browning]

After reading this thread, I noticed the Wiki page for my old school had a "Notable Former Students" section so was interested to see who was in there... but it turned out to be just a guy who was in my class being listed for such things as "Being a shit cricket commentator on twitter" and "Being a mediocre gambler". So I'm guessing no one.

My Uni had quite a lot, but I guess everyone's did. Lenny Henry actually went there while I was there, so that was cool.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've just checked my Uni because of Browning, apparently in the field of 'Government, politics and society' a notable alumni is 'Guvna B'.

What a University.

[Ian]

Never even thought to check my uni.

James Prime, the Deacon Blue keyboard player. Gavin Hastings, rugby man. And, most excitingly of all, Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

[Davgooner]

Coventry City's Ryan Haynes.

[wullie]

At last, someone important.

[SvN]

A girl who played for England Women was a few years ahead of me at school.

[randomlegend]

Friend from primary school is now a professional skateboarder.

One or both of the Fashanu brothers went to my high school I think.

[phonics]

I've just checked my Uni because of Browning, apparently in the field of 'Government, politics and society' a notable alumni is 'Guvna B'.

What a University.

I checked mine. Completely empty except for 'Ramzi Yousef, Terrorist'

[SvN]

David Gill is among my fellow alumni :cool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

My university is right up there as far as alumni are concerned. Contenders for top spot include Aung San Suu Kyi, Paul Robeson, Enoch Powell and of course David Lammy.

[niko_cee]

I didn't think there were any (or any of real interest) but apparently my school lays a small claim to PG Wodehouse, as he spent a few years there when he was about 8 (his brother having been prescribed sea air for a weak chest :D ). Formative.

[ItalAussie]

Not much for me. One minor player for the Australian football team from my high school. Pat Rafter from my primary school.

[Pen]

I don't have the slightest of clue if anyone famous went to any of the schools I did. We don't seem to take any kind of note of that here (at least not as far as I am aware). I'd imagine quite a few notable Finnish people have attended the same uni as I have as there aren't that many universities here.

Seeing as most of you know your school's famous alumni, is it something that they have on the homepage of the school or something?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wikipedia, mate.

[Pen]

I see. I tried that with a few more well known Finnish schools and only one had a list of few (not even that famous) people who have studied there. Now I'm left wondering where have all our domestic 'superstars' studied.

edit: Tried a few more high schools that are among the top ones in a-levels each year and found a few with actual lists.