Famous alums from Pac-12 schools

I don't know if this is the right place for this topic. Thought this might be fun. How many famous or semi-famous people attended schools currently in the Pac-12? Excluding sports stars, unless they became equally famous for non-sports activities (broadcasting, acting, etc). Here are some I know of, I'll update the list with suggestions. College dropouts count.

WSU:

Paul Allen
Edward R. Murrow
Dolph Lundgren
Keith Jackson
Gary Larson

UW:

Bruce Lee
Kenny G
Joel McHale
Rainn Wilson
Anna Faris
Dawn Wells
Richard Karn

Oregon:

Phil Knight
Ahmad Rashad
Ty Burrell
Ken Kesey
Kaitlyn Olsen
Lindsey Wagner

Oregon State:

Sara Jean Underwood
Jodi Ann Paterson

Stanford:

Steve Ballmer

USC:

John Wayne
Neil Armstrong
Ron Howard
Will Ferrell
Tom Selleck
John Ritter
Forest Whitaker
Daryl Hannah
Cybill Shepherd
Kyra Sedgwick
Lavar Burton
America Ferrera
Topher Grace
Lisa Ling
Dave Franco
James Hong
Michael McDonald
Dr. Drew
Mohamed Morsi (lol!)
Abe Shinzo

UCLA:

Ben Stiller
James Dean
Jack Black
Jim Morrison
Steve Martin
Francis Ford Coppola
Carol Burnett
Heather Locklear

Colorado:

Robert Redford
Trey Parker
Matt Stone


Arizona:

Garry Shandling
Courtney Kardashian
Jerry Bruckheimer
Geraldo Rivera
Kristen Wiig

Arizona State:

Jimmy Kimmel

Utah:

Ted Bundy

I know Rainn Wilson went to UW and also Richard Karn and of course

U of O:

Ty Burrell from modern family
Ken Kesey, author of one flew over the cuckoos nest.
Kaitlyn olsen from always sunny in Philadelphia.
The bionic woman, Lindsey Wagner.
Ahmad rashad
Phil knight.
The author of fight club (can't remember his name)

Oregon state boasts 2 playboy playmates of the year. Kara jean underwood and Jodi Ann Paterson. I would assume both have nice beavers.

How could we forget Kenny G?

JSeahawks":1fjy1kcd said:

Oregon state boasts 2 playboy playmates of the year. Kara jean underwood and Jodi Ann Paterson. I would assume both have nice beavers.

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:lol: :lol:

Hawkfan77":3ea85tc7 said:

JSeahawks":3ea85tc7 said:

U of O:

Ty Burrell from modern family
Ken Kesey, author of one flew over the cuckoos nest.
Kaitlyn olsen from always sunny in Philadelphia.
The bionic woman, Lindsey Wagner.
Ahmad rashad
Phil knight.
The author of fight club (can't remember his name)

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I could be wrong but I don't think Ty Burell actually went to Oregon, I think he just grew up a fan. I remember seeing him in an interview say Southern Oregon, but I could be wrong

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According to his wiki he graduated from southern oregon but did attend u of o for awhile and was on a fraternity there.

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Hawkfan77":2ovkj64i said:

JSeahawks":2ovkj64i said:

U of O:

Ty Burrell from modern family
Ken Kesey, author of one flew over the cuckoos nest.
Kaitlyn olsen from always sunny in Philadelphia.
The bionic woman, Lindsey Wagner.
Ahmad rashad
Phil knight.
The author of fight club (can't remember his name)

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I could be wrong but I don't think Ty Burell actually went to Oregon, I think he just grew up a fan. I remember seeing him in an interview say Southern Oregon, but I could be wrong

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According to his wiki he graduated from southern oregon but did attend u of o for awhile and was on a fraternity there.

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Ya I looked it up and changed my comment cuz I'm an idiot, ha

Hawkfan77":2f2iq3y5 said:

How could we forget Kenny G?

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That's Kenneth Gorelick to those who know him well.

Lots of great alums from all of the Pac 12 schools but doesn't the UW end of winning with just one name?

Bruce Lee

and Dawn Wells - MaryAnn from Gilligan's Island isn't bad either.

Didn't know this, but Paul Allen was a Coug for two years before dropping out to work as a programmer and shortly after, help found Microsoft.

Steve Ballmer briefly attended Stanford as a post-graduate student. Tiger Woods also attended Stanford but I'm leaving off athletes who aren't famous for other career choices.

First man to walk on the moon went to USC.

As expected, USC is loaded with famous actors.

kearly":3vn1fscc said:

I don't know if this is the right place for this topic. Thought this might be fun. How many famous or semi-famous people attended schools currently in the Pac-12? Excluding sports stars, unless they became equally famous for non-sports activities (broadcasting, acting, etc). Here are some I know of, I'll update the list with suggestions. College dropouts count.

WSU:

Paul Allen
Keith Jackson

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Gary Larson
Edward R. Murrow
Dolph Lundgren!

drrew":1354bui7 said:

Lots of great alums from all of the Pac 12 schools but doesn't the UW end of winning with just one name?

Bruce Lee

and Dawn Wells - MaryAnn from Gilligan's Island isn't bad either.

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Because he's negated by the infamous Ted Bundy. Who, as it turns out also went to Utah.

Others who attended the University of Washington:
Warren Moon- member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Tim Lincecum- two-time NL Cy Young Award winner.
Don Coryell- pioneer of the I-formation, "Air Coryell" offense.
David Baker- developed the Rosetta algorithm for protein structure prediction.
Seth Neddermeyer- discoverer of the muon.
Mark Crispin- inventor of IMAP.
Mohamed Hashish- inventor of the waterjet.
Chuck Close- photorealistic painter.
Minoru Yamasaki- designed World Trade Center.
Arthur Levinson- Chairman of Apple.
William Ayer- President and CEO of Alaska Airlines.
Donald Bren- Sole shareholder of the Irvine Company.
Jeffrey Brotman- Founder and President of Costco.
Loren Carpenter- Co-founder of Pixar.
Irv Robbins -Co-founder of Baskin & Robbins.
Chris DeWolfe- Co-Founder of MySpace.
Orin C. Smith- CEO and President of Starbucks.
Bill Gates' mom and dad.
The Nordstrom Family.

JSeahawks":1z30ex6u said:

Oregon state boasts 2 playboy playmates of the year. Kara jean underwood and Jodi Ann Paterson. I would assume both have nice beavers.

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I believe it's Sara Jean Underwood, not Kara.

USC has a hell of a list, but I'll also add George Lucas and Jerry Buss (yes, mostly sports related, but still).

Gary Killdall, UW undergrad and phd student, wrote CP/M, the first real OS for personal computers, rewritten for the 8086 by a guy at Seattle computer products, sold to bill gates for 50 thousand dollars, relicensed to IBM , the basis for the Microsoft fortune.

Bill Atkinson, UW grad student, who wrote the graphical user interface for the Lisa and then the Macintosh computers.

So UW grads wrote the first operating systems for both the pc and the Mac, which is amazing.

UCLA; Ben Stiller, James Dean, Jack Black, Jim Morrison, Steve Martin, Francis Ford Coppola, Carol Burnett, Heather Locklear, and many many more.

University of Colorado: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Robert REdford

University of Arizona: Garry Shandling, Courtney Kardashian, Jerry Bruckheimer, Geraldo Rivera, Kristen Wiig

U of U:
Writers: Orson Scott Card, Wallace Stegner, Terry Tempest Williams
Business/Finance: J. Willard Marriott, John Warnock (Adobe co-founder), David Neeleman (JetBlue founder)
Entertainment: Edwin Catmull (co-founder of Pixar), Mills Lane

And the most famous of all: serial killer Ted Bundy!

UW:

Ryan Lewis (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis)
Kim Thayil (Soundgarden)
Ken Jennings (longest winning streak on Jeopardy)
Julia Sweeney (SNL)
Pappy Boyington (famous pilot)
Beverly Cleary (children's author)

Oh and Ted Bundy went to UW.