West Seattle High School - Notable Alumni

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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