Did any famous people attend your school?

losthorizon

Birneybau wrote: »

I'll just leave this here:

Cearbhall O'Dalaigh - 1928 (President of Ireland)
Liam Cosgrave - 1937 (Taoiseach)
Liam Lawlor TD - 1962
Eric Byrne TD - 1965

Sport
Dr. Kevin O'Flanagan - 1939 (Irish Rugby & Soccer International)
Michael O'Flanagan - ? (Arsenal and Ireland)
[Liam Whelan - 1952 (Member of the Busby Babes - Deceased)
Eddie Jordan - 1966 (Formula 1 Team Owner)
Donnacha O'Dea - 1966 (Swimming & 1998 World Series Poker Champion)
Don Givens - 1967 - (Irish Soccer International)
John Coady - 1978 (Chelsea 1986 - 88)
Andy Reid - 1999 or 2000 (Nottingham Forrest and newest Serior Irish Internationl)

Arts and Entertainment
Noel Purcell
Eamonn Andrews - Sports commentator, TV presenter and 1st Chairman of RTE Authority
Patrick Swift - about 1940 (Artist)
David Kelly - 1948 (O'Reilly the Builder in "Faulty Towers")
Milo O'Shea
Gay Byrne - 1952 (The Late Late Show)
Kieran Hickey - 1953 (Film Director)
Bob Quinn - 1954 (Film Director)
Jim Norton - 1956 (Bishop Brennan from "Fr. Ted")
Eamonn Morrissey - 1961 (Film - Eat the Peach)
Niall Stokes - 1969 (Hot Press Magazine & IRTC)

Literature
James Plunkett Kelly - (c1937 - Strumpet City)
John Connolly - 1984

Very impressive but i would take Liam Lawlor out of the list. It shows your school in a bit light. I bet Ivor went there as well!

dlofnep

One of the lads that was in my class throughout school plays for Celtic. Not sure if you'd call that famous.

phasers

Mary Harney

drquirky

Charles Francis Adams IV, businessman and philanthropist associated with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Samuel A. Adams, '51, crusading CIA official who exposed bad Vietnam intelligence of Defense Department
Mark Albion, Harvard Business School Professor, American Entrepreneur
Matthew Tobin Anderson '86, writer, winner of National Book Award
A. Watson Armour III, American businessman and philanthropist
Philip D. Armour III, American businessman
Lester Armour, American businessman
Robert Douglas Armstrong, founder of the Bank of St. Croix
Mohamed Abdo, '09 American Entrepreneur
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Charles L. Bartlett (journalist), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1956


Mike Birbiglia
Mike Birbiglia '96, comedian
Walter Van Rensselaer Berry, lawyer, friend and mentor of Edith Wharton
Ben Bradlee, former editor, The Washington Post
Nicholas F. Brady, U.S. secretary of the treasury 1988-93; senator from New Jersey in 1982
Nicholas Braun, actor,
Doug Brown, former National Hockey League player
Greg Brown, former National Hockey League player
Edward Burnett, U.S. representative from Massachusetts

Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, president of the Export-Import Bank, undersecretary of commerce
Blair Clark, journalist, former general manager, CBS News
Ernest Amory Codman pioneering surgeon who made contributions to a variety of specialties and the study of medical outcomes
Nick Clements, American theoretical linguist specializing in phonology, notably with CNRS in Paris
William G. Congdon, representationalist painter who used Abstract Expressionism techniques
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, philanthropist, CIA official, and former trustee of Monticello
Harry Crosby, poet and founder of the Black Sun Press
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J. Richardson Dilworth, former Yale trustee and benefactor of Yale University
Peter Hoyt Dominick, U.S. congressman, then senator for Colorado; US Ambassador to Switzerland
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Kenward Elmslie, lyricist, librettist, and playwright
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Hamilton Fish III, U.S. congressman from New York, 1920-1945. Elected to College Football Hall of Fame


Hamilton Fish III
Hamilton Fish V, American publisher, politician and philanthropist
Christopher Forbes, American publisher, vice-chairman, Forbes Inc.
Robert Forbes, publisher, Forbes Life
Tim Forbes, American publisher
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr., U.S. representative from New Jersey from 1953 to 1975
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, U.S. representative from New Jersey
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Stephen Galatti, visionary director general of the American Field Service and educational pioneer
David Gardner, founder of the Motley Fool
C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel to President George H. W. Bush then U.S. envoy to the European Union
Ed Gray, naturalist author and founder of Grays Sporting Journal
J. Clark Crew, retired Episcopal Bishop of Ohio
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Mason Hammond, Harvard University classicist and Harvard historian
Truxton Hare, Olympic athlete; elected to College Football Hall of Fame
Harry G. Haskell, Jr., U.S. representative from Delaware and former president of Abercrombie and Fitch
Prince Hashim of Jordan
Ingolv Helland, portrait artist
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John Jay Iselin, former president, The Cooper Union in New York City
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Thomas Kean, former New Jersey governor; former chairman of the 9/11 Commission; former president of Drew University
Robert Winthrop Kean, U.S. representative from New Jersey from 1938–1959
John Marshall Kernochan, IPR pioneer and founder of Columbia Law School's Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts
Suzanne P. King, US Olympic cross country skier, 1994 and 1998 Olympic games
William A. Knowlton, four star general, former superintendent of West Point
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Storm Large, musician. Her father Henry spent 45 years teaching history and coaching football and baseball before his retirement in 2010.
Frederick Lippitt, Rhode Island philanthropist and major benefactor of Brown University
Henry Demarest Lloyd, 19th century muck-raking reporter; "the father of investigative journalism"
Christian Lorentzen, editor & critic
Robert Lowell, poet
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Story Musgrave (M.D.), NASA Astronaut
Samuel Mather, Ohio industrialist, philanthropist, and benefactor of Kenyon College
Story Musgrave, astronaut
Peter Melcher, chemist
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Dmitri Nabokov, son and translator of Valdimir Nabokov
Jordon Nardino, television writer
Eugene Nickerson, federal judge and Nassau County, New York politician
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Robert William Packwood, Senator from Oregon 1969-1999
Frank Parker, painter and confidante of poet Robert Lowell
G. Willing "Wing" Pepper, Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist
Lars Perkins, co-founder of Picasa photo software company
Sheffield Phelps, Seattle philanthropist and arts patron
Joseph Pulitzer III, American publisher
Joseph Pulitzer IV, American publisher
Ralph Pulitzer, American publisher
George Putnam III '69, 1990 USA Today's investor of the year; trustee for The Putnam Companies
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Walter Robb, IV '71, President of Whole Foods Market
Stuart W. Rockwell, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
Franklin Delano Roosevelt III, economist
George Emlen Roosevelt, financier and philanthropist
Philip Roosevelt, banker
William Donner Roosevelt, investment banker and philanthropist
Emily Rutherfurd, television actress
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Peter Saccio, Shakespeare scholar and author, educator
Stephen "Laddie" Sanford, international poloist
John Sargent, former president and CEO of Doubleday and Company publisher
Eugene Lytton Scott, American tennis player; member of International Tennis Hall of Fame, founder of the magazine Tennis Week
John Sculley, former president of PepsiCo and former CEO of Apple Computer
Mason Sears, member of the Massachusetts General Court, Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, and United States' Representative to United Nations Trusteeship Council
John Simpkins, Representative from Massachusetts, 1895–1898
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Robert H. Thayer, New York lawyer, diplomat, and intelligence officer
Sigourney Thayer, American theatrical producer, World War I aviator and poet
Herbert Sears Tuckerman, former Massachusetts state representative and senator
Harrison Tweed, New York lawyer and bar association officer
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Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, railroad executive, champion yachtsman and champion bridge player


William Kissam Vanderbilt II
William Kissam Vanderbilt II, railroad executive, industrialist, yachtsman, Fisher Island founder
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James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr, New York senator from 1915–1927
O.Z. Whitehead, well-known character actor
Karl Wiedergott, actor, best known for doing voices in the American television show The Simpsons. His father Fritz is an athletic coach at the school
Sean Wilsey, (did not graduate) memoirist
Robert Winthrop, conservationist pioneer & former president of Ducks Unlimited
Chalmers B. Wood, senior Foreign Service Officer and adviser to South Vietnamese government
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Scott Young, National Hockey League player, St. Louis Blues
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Mance Rayder

phasers wrote: »

Mary Harney

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070910175829/necyklopedie/images/5/57/Nelson_haha.jpg

44leto

drquirky wrote: »

Charles Francis Adams IV, businessman and philanthropist associated with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Samuel A. Adams, '51, crusading CIA official who exposed bad Vietnam intelligence of Defense Department
Mark Albion, Harvard Business School Professor, American Entrepreneur
Matthew Tobin Anderson '86, writer, winner of National Book Award
A. Watson Armour III, American businessman and philanthropist
Philip D. Armour III, American businessman
Lester Armour, American businessman
Robert Douglas Armstrong, founder of the Bank of St. Croix
Mohamed Abdo, '09 American Entrepreneur
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Charles L. Bartlett (journalist), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1956


Mike Birbiglia
Mike Birbiglia '96, comedian
Walter Van Rensselaer Berry, lawyer, friend and mentor of Edith Wharton
Ben Bradlee, former editor, The Washington Post
Nicholas F. Brady, U.S. secretary of the treasury 1988-93; senator from New Jersey in 1982
Nicholas Braun, actor,
Doug Brown, former National Hockey League player
Greg Brown, former National Hockey League player
Edward Burnett, U.S. representative from Massachusetts

Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, president of the Export-Import Bank, undersecretary of commerce
Blair Clark, journalist, former general manager, CBS News
Ernest Amory Codman pioneering surgeon who made contributions to a variety of specialties and the study of medical outcomes
Nick Clements, American theoretical linguist specializing in phonology, notably with CNRS in Paris
William G. Congdon, representationalist painter who used Abstract Expressionism techniques
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, philanthropist, CIA official, and former trustee of Monticello
Harry Crosby, poet and founder of the Black Sun Press
[edit]D

J. Richardson Dilworth, former Yale trustee and benefactor of Yale University
Peter Hoyt Dominick, U.S. congressman, then senator for Colorado; US Ambassador to Switzerland
[edit]E

Kenward Elmslie, lyricist, librettist, and playwright
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Hamilton Fish III, U.S. congressman from New York, 1920-1945. Elected to College Football Hall of Fame


Hamilton Fish III
Hamilton Fish V, American publisher, politician and philanthropist
Christopher Forbes, American publisher, vice-chairman, Forbes Inc.
Robert Forbes, publisher, Forbes Life
Tim Forbes, American publisher
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr., U.S. representative from New Jersey from 1953 to 1975
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, U.S. representative from New Jersey
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Stephen Galatti, visionary director general of the American Field Service and educational pioneer
David Gardner, founder of the Motley Fool
C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel to President George H. W. Bush then U.S. envoy to the European Union
Ed Gray, naturalist author and founder of Grays Sporting Journal
J. Clark Crew, retired Episcopal Bishop of Ohio
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Mason Hammond, Harvard University classicist and Harvard historian
Truxton Hare, Olympic athlete; elected to College Football Hall of Fame
Harry G. Haskell, Jr., U.S. representative from Delaware and former president of Abercrombie and Fitch
Prince Hashim of Jordan
Ingolv Helland, portrait artist
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John Jay Iselin, former president, The Cooper Union in New York City
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[edit]K

Thomas Kean, former New Jersey governor; former chairman of the 9/11 Commission; former president of Drew University
Robert Winthrop Kean, U.S. representative from New Jersey from 1938–1959
John Marshall Kernochan, IPR pioneer and founder of Columbia Law School's Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts
Suzanne P. King, US Olympic cross country skier, 1994 and 1998 Olympic games
William A. Knowlton, four star general, former superintendent of West Point
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Storm Large, musician. Her father Henry spent 45 years teaching history and coaching football and baseball before his retirement in 2010.
Frederick Lippitt, Rhode Island philanthropist and major benefactor of Brown University
Henry Demarest Lloyd, 19th century muck-raking reporter; "the father of investigative journalism"
Christian Lorentzen, editor & critic
Robert Lowell, poet
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Story Musgrave (M.D.), NASA Astronaut
Samuel Mather, Ohio industrialist, philanthropist, and benefactor of Kenyon College
Story Musgrave, astronaut
Peter Melcher, chemist
[edit]N

Dmitri Nabokov, son and translator of Valdimir Nabokov
Jordon Nardino, television writer
Eugene Nickerson, federal judge and Nassau County, New York politician
[edit]O

[edit]P

Robert William Packwood, Senator from Oregon 1969-1999
Frank Parker, painter and confidante of poet Robert Lowell
G. Willing "Wing" Pepper, Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist
Lars Perkins, co-founder of Picasa photo software company
Sheffield Phelps, Seattle philanthropist and arts patron
Joseph Pulitzer III, American publisher
Joseph Pulitzer IV, American publisher
Ralph Pulitzer, American publisher
George Putnam III '69, 1990 USA Today's investor of the year; trustee for The Putnam Companies
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Walter Robb, IV '71, President of Whole Foods Market
Stuart W. Rockwell, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
Franklin Delano Roosevelt III, economist
George Emlen Roosevelt, financier and philanthropist
Philip Roosevelt, banker
William Donner Roosevelt, investment banker and philanthropist
Emily Rutherfurd, television actress
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Peter Saccio, Shakespeare scholar and author, educator
Stephen "Laddie" Sanford, international poloist
John Sargent, former president and CEO of Doubleday and Company publisher
Eugene Lytton Scott, American tennis player; member of International Tennis Hall of Fame, founder of the magazine Tennis Week
John Sculley, former president of PepsiCo and former CEO of Apple Computer
Mason Sears, member of the Massachusetts General Court, Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, and United States' Representative to United Nations Trusteeship Council
John Simpkins, Representative from Massachusetts, 1895–1898
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Robert H. Thayer, New York lawyer, diplomat, and intelligence officer
Sigourney Thayer, American theatrical producer, World War I aviator and poet
Herbert Sears Tuckerman, former Massachusetts state representative and senator
Harrison Tweed, New York lawyer and bar association officer
[edit]U

[edit]V

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, railroad executive, champion yachtsman and champion bridge player


William Kissam Vanderbilt II
William Kissam Vanderbilt II, railroad executive, industrialist, yachtsman, Fisher Island founder
[edit]W

James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr, New York senator from 1915–1927
O.Z. Whitehead, well-known character actor
Karl Wiedergott, actor, best known for doing voices in the American television show The Simpsons. His father Fritz is an athletic coach at the school
Sean Wilsey, (did not graduate) memoirist
Robert Winthrop, conservationist pioneer & former president of Ducks Unlimited
Chalmers B. Wood, senior Foreign Service Officer and adviser to South Vietnamese government
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Scott Young, National Hockey League player, St. Louis Blues
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That must have been a right kip of a school, I hope you got out OK.

Well this guy had to be schooled somewhere I suppose.
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Robert Winthrop, conservationist pioneer & former president of Ducks Unlimited"

ConTheCat

Bernadette Flynn the Irish-dancer is probably as far as it goes!!

cazzzzz

Graham Norton

JohnMearsheimer

I didn't think I went primary or secondary school with anyone famous but a guy that was in my class in college is some kind of celebrity reporter for TMZ in Los Angeles now.

Fizgig Bandicoot

Wallis Bird (Singer/songwriter)
http://www.wallisbird.com/mai/mai.htm

Bluefoam

Paul Darragh

brummytom

No one interesting, according to the school's wikipedia: Goldie, some artist, Dan&Tom Martin (Irish cyclists), and Gemma Massey - a porn star (google is your friend).

That makes my school look really, really good doesn't it?

silverharp

dermot morgan was my teacher, mad c**t

calnand

we had the band ruby horse, they had that song sparkle that was on the aib ad.
john spillane
loius de paor
jimmy barry murphy
and im sorry brendan o connor
dave ryan from munster
and michael shields

newballsplease

Slunk wrote: »

Ronnie wheelan i think

You think doesnt cut it...

Sister Assumpta

Yeah,a few. Sinead O Connor and Ralph Fiennes would would be the most well known.

cyrusdvirus

Niall558 wrote: »

Trevor Brennan (Rugby player)

and

David Geraghty (Bell X1)

You were in Crappy College too so

ROCKMAN

Unbelievably the only one i can think of is Pat Shortt....:)

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Robert Sheehan is the only one I can think of.

Retailer

Ciaran Whelan (Football)
Tomas Quinn (Football)
Diarmuid Connolly (Football)
Pat Gilroy (Dublin Manager)
Ronan Fallon (Hurler)
Keith Andrews (Blackburn Rovers and ROI)
Owen Garvan (Crystal Palace)
Willie Walsh
Paddy Courtney (comedian)
Keith Duffy
Billy McGuinness (Aslan)

Good man wikipedia. Didnt know a couple of those

senorwipesalot

Sean Kelly,star of calvita cheese ads,cyclist.
Super.

Feardorca

W.B. Yeates
Denis O'Brien
David Norris

eyescreamcone

calnand wrote: »

we had the band ruby horse, they had that song sparkle that was on the aib ad.
john spillane
loius de paor
jimmy barry murphy
and im sorry brendan o connor
dave ryan from munster
and michael shields

...and me
Colaiste An Spioraid Naoimh - Cork

Jimmy Barry-Murphy has to be top of the list though

Brendan O'Connor was a ***ker in school too!!!

GodlessInfidel

Damien Duff was three years ahead of me in De la Salle Chuchtown in Dublin and Jim Stynes the legendary Aussie Rules player who's now courageously battling cancer also went there, but a good few years before my time

Diabhal Beag

Mariana Thankful Sty wrote: »

Grainne Seoige and the other, less famous Seoige went to my school. About ten years before I was there though.

Boo Spiddal Boo

4zn76tysfajdxp

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Boo Spiddal Boo

Haunted, you say?

FinnLizzy

Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Shane Filan, three of the four members of boy band Westlife

Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town orphanages in USA

Tommie Gorman, Northern Ireland correspondent with Irish State Broadcaster RTÉ

Tabby Callaghan, singer, finalist on The X Factor

John McCormack, world-famous tenor

Volunteer Joe MacManus, Provisional IRA member, killed in 1992

Ray MacSharry, former Fianna Fáil TD, Tánaiste and European Commissioner

Dermot Mannion, former CEO of Aer Lingus

Albert Reynolds, former Fianna Fáil TD and Taoiseach

Mark Scanlon, professional cyclist, former World Junior Cycling Champion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtAXRTGX3ss

Diabhal Beag

Mariana Thankful Sty wrote: »

Haunted, you say?

Upstairs in the dorms is a chilling place

don ramo

Sonia O Sullivan and Stephen Ireland

policarp

Liam Og O'Floinn was a teacher, before he joined Planxty, in my school. . .

Duck Soup

I went to school in England a loooooong time ago (yes, I'm very old) and two years below me - all in the same year - were (a) Ulrikakakaka Jonsson, (b) Jimmy Carr and (c) Mike Ashley, owner of Newcastle United. Burnham Grammar in Buckinghamshire, in case you were wondering.

jay phelan

A few hurlers nothing amazing!

Amirani

George Lee - Economics correspondent for RTÉ
Paul McGinley - Professional golfer
Pádraig Harrington - Professional golfer
Colin Moran - Dublin footballer
Niall Mellon - Entrepreneur
Sean Hughes - Comedian
Dave Mooney - Professional footballer
Philip Cairns - Abduction victim

scudzilla

All these great names and all i can offer is Neville Southall and Joey fcukin Jones :(

kraggy

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Loads, my alma mater is Blackrock College, list of us all here...

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

How did being a staunch nationalist go down in Blackrock as a matter of interest?

ricero

Geoirga salpa

black & white

kfallon wrote: »

Did that magician fella Keith Barry go there too???

One time Ireland International Alan Lee (think he's with Huddersfield now) was there for a couple of years.

Paul Flynn, hurler and now Sunday Game 'pundit' attended too. So did Wexford football manager Jason Ryan. Can't remember if John Mullane went to De La Salle or not.

Jockey Danny Grant was there.

Jim Power - (Economist) and Ronan Tynan (Singer) were both boarders there in the 70's and Val Doonican was there long before that.