Notable Alumni
- Ed Bahr, Former MLB player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
- Byron "By" Bailey, former NFL and Canadian Football League player; Canadian Football Hall of Fame member
- Dyan Cannon (1954), actress
- Dow Constantine (1980), King County Executive
- Frances Farmer (1931), actress
- Ivar Haglund, founder of Ivar's
- Mark Small, Former MLB player (Houston Astros)
- Lou Whittaker (1952,) mountaineer, founded Mt. Rainier guide service
- Jim Whittaker (1952), first American to climb Mt. Everest
- Gregory C. Johnson (1972) NASA Astronaut, STS-125 Atlantis (May 11–24, 2009), the fifth and final Hubble servicing mission
- June Preston (1947), RKO child actress debut in Anne of Green Gables and went on to become a Metropolitan Opera Singer (inducted in WSHS Hall of Fame 1992
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