Walt Whitman High School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Eric Pierpoint, '69, film and television actor, Alien Nation.
• Steven Rales, '69, entrepreneur and billionaire, Danaher Corporation.
• Gordon Smith, '70, U.S. Senator, Oregon.
• Ken Navarro, '71, jazz guitarist, "Smooth Sensation" and "Love Coloured Soul".
• Lisa Pelikan, '72, actress, Julia and Return to the Blue Lagoon.
• Bob Raba, '73, football player, (tight end, New York Jets, Washington Redskins).
• Mitchell Rales, '74, entrepreneur and billionaire, Danaher Corporation.
• Rodney Alan Greenblat, '78, artist.
• Chris Anderson, '79, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine.
• Kate Seelye, '80, Middle-east reporter for National Public Radio.
• Mark Pryor, '81, U.S. Senator, Arkansas.
• Patrick Byrne, '81, founder, overstock.com.
• Mark Halperin, '83, political analyst, ABC News, Time Magazine, author, Game Change.
• Anthony Dilweg, '84, football player, (1988 ACC player of the year, Duke University; quarterback, Green Bay Packers).
• Susan Dynner, '84, movie producer/director, Punk's Not Dead, producer, Brick.
• Jeff Tremaine, '85, co-creator, co-writer, and director of MTV series Jackass, its spin-off series Wildboyz and its three subsequent movies, Jackass: The Movie, Jackass: Number Two, and Jackass 3D.
• Michael Eisen, '85, biologist, co-founder of the Public Library of Science
• Spike Jonze, '87, director, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., and Where the Wild Things Are.
• David Dobkin, '87, director, Wedding Crashers, Shanghai Knights, Fred Claus, and The Change-Up.
• Eric Steinberg, '87, actor, The Young and the Restless, Stargate SG-1, and Pretty Little Liars.
• Ryan Kuehl, '90, football player (defensive tackle, New York Giants).
• Dan Shanoff, '91, sports columnist for The Sporting News, formerly of ESPN.
• Giuliana Rancic, '92, celebrity news personality, E! News and co-star of Giuliana and Bill on the Style Network.
• Alexandra Robbins, '94, author, The Overachievers, Pledged, and Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis.