Well not personally, but Jeffrey Dahmer went to my high school. He was a couple of years ahead of me. When the story broke, i was familiar with several of the people and places.

Didn't "grow up" with her, but she did with me. My niece is a Broadway Actress.

Wow, pudger, wish I knew who she is. Sutton Foster.?

The only one i can think of off hand is one of the members of The Nityy Gritty Dirt Band. I had a major crush on him., heaven knows why.

A gold medal Olympic athlete

A president's child was in my class for two years.

I went to high school with a Broadway actress/dancer, Ann Reinking, of Chicago and Sweet Charity fame.

Lets see, I went to high school with Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea) and according to a younger sister who knew his sister he knew me but I have no memory of him at all. Big school. I went to school with the son of George Wallace in Montgomery Alabama (George jr) I convinced him in 4th grade that I was a Martian. He was scared along with friends. The teacher got mad at me. Some one else is tickling the back of my mind but I cant call to mind who. Oh I knew a girl who was married to the Drummer of the Turtles. Momentarily big band back in the day of "Happy Together" fame. So peripheral people actually except the Hulk and I do not remember the guy. He was apparently really tall and skinny.

My sister went to school with someone who is now a Hollywood movie star, and convinced him to take acting classes when he was (they were) teenagers. That's as close as I get to growing up with someone famous :(

AFAIK no one I went to school with became famous, though we had several famous people living in our area of town over the years I've lived here: famous actress, famous artist, ceo of a major corporation, important inventor...

A classmate of DH later rec'd a Nobel Prize in Physics - they weren't quite on the same academic level :). A classmate of mine (and so cute but we never dated) went on to an Air Force career and was test pilot for the B 1 Stealth....

We didn't grow up with him, it was more like he grew up with us but we'd known a famous rock star since his birth. I don't really talk about him, people are just disappointed to learn he was a difficult little kid and his parents weren't any worse than many. Their biggest mistake was coming from two artistic flawed families, then marrying about 5 minutes out of high school thinking they'd finally found love in their lives. They hadn't.

I went all through grade school and high school with Johnny Callison who became a first class major league baseball player. Then he was an announcer for the Philadelphia Phillies.

In 5th grade I played baseball with him and three other boys. We raised such a fuss about having to square dance so she sent us out.

Also went to high school with David Smith, MD who founded the Haigh Ashbury Clinic in San Francisco.

Well, I was buddies with a well known phone phreak who built blue boxes with a couple of well known guys. All 3 have wiki pages. We used to swim together and make calls out of the country for kicks.

Growing up during the 60s I hung out with quite a few people before they or anyone else would realize they would achieve fame or notoriety. There were a lot of close associations within the community of musicians, remnants of the beat generation and bikers once the hippie scene came about. Because it was my normal I find it hard to really put a handle or definition on "fame". I believe fame is somewhat relative to one's interests. The world famous author isn't going to be on the radar of someone who isn't into their genre. I was also part of the "any Sunday" scene with weekends spent in the pits at the motorcycle scrambles at the track. Some of those youngsters grew up to make names for themselves as they turned pro and set records becoming Hall of Famers. Kenny Roberts, Jimmy Odom, Don Castro to name a few. To someone not into motorcycle racing those names would mean nothing.

I grew up being the youngest in the groups I hung out with. Looking back I could say Wild Child did sort of fit me even though it wasn't my main moniker. I had a lot of good people watching out for me and one of them used to greet with that one.

Not of my generation, but my parents. Grew up with Judith Crist, influential Herald Tribune movie reviewer, as a close family friend. We called her "Aunt Judy."

I would name drop if I could, but for me, the answer is no.

I went to school with a couple of guys who later had careers as professional athletes, but I do not consider that enough to make them famous. One won the Heisman trophy (forgot his name, but he was in my English class), and the other became a pitcher for a major league base ball team, but I don't remember the name of the team or the player. I've seen both of them on TV, however.

I am NOT a sports fan, and so I do not pay attention to any professional sports whatsoever.

I didn't grow up with him, but one of my German professors at university won a bronze medal for Austria in javelin throwing. I took a creative writing class taught by Larry McMurtry, but I didn't grow up with him either, as I was already at university.

"Name-dropping" can lead to disclosing too much personal information, like age, location, schools, etc.

Not me but:

Youngest DD went to a nursery school with a child of the our counties DA. A grandmother came to a parent event and made announcement that her daughter could because she just became the county’s DA.

Oldest was friends with the daughter of a now retired well respected news anchor.

Lars, funny you should mention Larry McMurtry. Many years ago a friend I’d known in Texas was visiting me up north, and gave me a signed copy of Lonesome Dove. It’s been on my bookshelves ever since, and I just gave it to the library for their book sale.

Oh I forgot, a few miles down the road from me lived two famous actors: husband and wife who often were on film together. I see their house was recently purchased and completely rehabbed. It needed it as it was an old colonial home.

@Patriciae - we went to the same high school?

Back when I lived in the area outside Detroit growing up. In high school some of my musician friends and I would head over to Bob Seger’s house to hang out. A very nice guy.

i didn’t talk with him but used to see Robin Williams perfecting his mime-ing on the street corners around the university area near me.

Maddilee-You lived in Tampa?

Hillary Clinton and Harrison Ford attended my HS, but were a couple years behind me. Ford is pictured in my senior yearbook -- a geeky audio-visual guy rolling the equipment cart around to classrooms.

The girl who was the best hitter in my grammar school class became an Olympic speed skater.

The Japanese-American boy who socked me in the stomach in kindergarten (for staring at him)became president of our Senior Class in HS and is now CEO of an international company. This was 1946, and I'd never before seen a Japanese person IRL.

A Chicago crime boss built his 'retirement' home on a rare vacant lot across the street from the suburban home where DH's family lived. When my MIL rang their bell to collect for some charity, his wife fished a $100 bill out of a tall vase beside the front door. DH went to HS with the children of men with whom the FBI was well acquainted.

The couple who became Fibber McGee and Molly lived in a small apartment building in my suburban hometown. They often played bridge with family friends when they were all just starting out their married lives.

DH met several famous people during his years in PR in the Chicago area. He'd met others in his youth, working events as an Andy Frain usher, and some more as an copy intern at WGN Radio after J-School.

My grandmother was close friends with Dave Diles (sportscaster) mother. I vaguely remember him from back then. Ran into him years later and he was so full of himself, had to walk away after a few minutes of him telling everyone how great he was.

I grew up in an area where the entertainment industry was a major employer. Many classmates, friends, siblings of friends, were active as child actors in movies and currently running (at that time) TV shows. Some parents of friends and classmates were well known and recognized "behind the camera" people. One was well known for creative work of various kinds for Disney, including designing areas of Disneyland. I have and in the past had relatives in various roles in the entertainment industry, including one currently active who has won several Oscars.

I find most entertainment industry boring. Especially front of the camera or audience performers who often have inflated views of themselves. There are even those in crafts and management who think people are dying to meet them and are impressed by their mere presence or existence. No, sorry.

Personally, nothing beats my appearance at age 7 or 8 on the Art Linketter's House Party. Picked up in the morning by a limo for a ride to CBS Television City. A meeting with show staff to hear the questions and be coached how to say the answers (the comments were our own), a tour of the large facility, lunch in the commissary, a last round of coaching, then an appearance on national television. I was a star at my elementary school for months afterwards. Besides a bunch of nice gifts, a few weeks later I received an audio recording of the show, on a vinyl record. I used to play it for friends from time to time. That record has been lost to the passage of time.

I came up with some that are stretches.

My cousin, Scott Morgan, is a musician in Michigan. His rock band was The Rationals who became fairly well known there.

If anyone’s from the Baltimore area, I grew up with Denise Koch who was/is a news anchor there. We grew up in Sierra Madre, CA.

For the biggest stretch, Mrs. Dubberly, my eighth grade English teacher, was Don Drysdale’s MIL. LOL, sorry, it was a big deal at the time…and I’m still a big Dodger fan!⚾️

@Patriciae

”Maddilee-You lived in Tampa?”

Yes, still do. Terry is a few years younger then me. He played baseball with my brothers.

My mother worked for Westbrook Pegler, he was a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist in the 1940's. He was the Rush Limbaugh of his day. I would find his articles detestable today. We lived in a guesthouse on his property for a while.

Elmer, I have to admit my curiosity for seeing you as a 7 or 8 year old on one of Art Linkletter's shows! They play clips of them (I thought Kids Say the Darndest Things, but maybe House Party too, who knows?) on TikTok, YouTube, and probably other platforms. If you don't know the exact age you were, I'm guessing you don't know the approx. date of the show, but if you if you ever do a search for it and come across it, I'd bet I'm not the only one who would love to see the link.

To answer the question of the post, I did not grow up with anyone who became famous.

I'll guess it was either 1958 or 1959. I don't remember what time of year it was. There were 4 kids sitting on chairs on a platform slightly higher than the stage floor. I was the last one, as I recall, on the far right as you'd look at it. Linkletter would walk along the edge of the platform and when asking the questions, he'd lean in toward each kid with a long, baton-like handheld microphone.

It was the show that was on in the afternoon at, I believe, 3:00pm (Pacific Time).

Hah Maddielee, you actually knew Hulk Hogan! I remember hearing he was good at baseball. Your brothers must have been good too. It was my last school (military kid) and my dad retired in Tampa. I have family there still. I had to do some make up classes because they did not accept the versions I had taken elsewhere. Elsewise I took what would be AP these days. I dont suppose he took things like Anatomy and Physiology or Chemistry but ?

When I was in high school (in the area outside Detroit) my good (guy) friend’s dad was the head of the sports department for the major newspaper in Detroit. He had a big Winnebago RV that he’d drive to most of the football, baseball, basketball and hockey games down in Detroit. He took us to many of them. We’d be able to watch the games from the press box. And, after the games, back in the private gated parking lot for press, players etc , he’d pull out chairs, a folding table and a big grill, light it and start grilling steaks or burgers. Many of the top sports figures would then stop by to chat and eat with us. I met so many back then. Being the only girl, it was understood that I’d never wear anything too girly or suggestive. I never did and all the players were very nice, friendly and interesting to talk with.

I didn't grow up with knowing anyone famous. But since I interviewed a lot of rock and roll artists when I was a DJ I considered myself really sorta almost kinda famous

I grew up in a hockey community so my neghbourhood produced a few former NHL hockey players. Joel Quenneville, Pat Boutette, Brad Smith, Bill McKenzie, Ron Friest, Ted Bulley. I think Joel is still coaching, his family are my neighbours. He coached his team to win the Stanley Cup. We all grew up within a few streets of each other. Anna Maria Tremonti was a well know Canadian journalist, we hung around when we were kids. Keith Kozak was in a few movies, Mark Parr as well, he was in quite a few movies and tv shows. Mike Brkovich played basketball for Michigan State. I haven't seen any of them except Bill McKenzie, Joel in years, A few published writers. My friend Kevin Shea has written over 20 hockey books and works at The Hockey Hall of Fame. I was friends with a few well known Canadian politicians both Federal and Provincial. haha no one too exciting

Cherryfizz, I’m a Blackhawks gal! Joel Quenneville!

The only person I can think of was a regular on SNL in the 80's and 90's. He lived 2 streets away and went to school and played sports with my brother.

Can't think of any peers from my childhood, but we certainly met and knew a good number, some locally famous, and others even more widely known - not any big movie stars, but some folks in film, TV, music and dance.

My first 'real' boyfriend was the son of our city's mayor - they lived down the street. Hubby's a drummer who's played with many big stars. I used to hang out with him when we were younger, and I'm told I had dinner with Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), but there were a bunch of other people at the table too, so I didn't really notice him. Hubby likes to give me a hard time about that 😄

Since both my sisters majored in performing arts, there were plenty of their peers who've had successful careers.

I did grow up with my youngest sister, and she's been very successful in writing and producing for television. She's on strike right now, and formed a group with other union members who are mothers, and they've been getting the word out in various media about just what this strike means to people with families.

My kids did. Their cousin might be known to a certain population here. Funny story: when she bought her first house, a service guy who had come to set something up asked her, ”you look familiar, did we go to high school together?” Nope. As he got in his truck, she saw her own face emblazoned on the side of it. THAT’s why she looked familiar.

Chicago folks, I went to HS with the guy who does the tours for Channel 11 The first time I saw him on there, he was wearing a sweater vest. I cracked up and told my husband “that guy wore a sweater vest all the time in HS”.

Another guy in HS drew cartoons for the school paper, and doodled a lot in class. I’ve seen his cartoons since then in The New Yorker.

My brother was friends and castmates in JH and HS with a kid who is a big Broadway producer. Our mom always liked him, she said he talked with her a lot. Even if you didn’t recognize his name, you know his work. Multiple Tonys, Drama Desk, Pulitzers.

The town I’m in now has its share of famous kids in architecture, business, literature, entertainment. I’ve gotta boast a little here: DS’s HS English teacher had a student who is a Pulitzer winner, among other literary accomplishments. This teacher told DS, at the end of the year, that he was the best writer he’d had come through his classes in many years. So hopefully one day I’ll be able to say that his brother grew up with a famous brother!

My daughter was good friends with Brett Michael's sister and spent time at their house of course before he became famous.

I didn't grow up with anyone who became famous, but my niece grew up with a guy who became a member of a famous country music singers band, and she eventually married him. He played base guitar, sang back-up and was the band manager as well. They appeared on national TV shows like the Tonight Show and Austin City Limits, and performed around the world. Her husband performed solo and with friends locally for many years, but had to retire due to health problems.

Grew up with Jim Connor. His parents were friends of my parents.

Jim played off and on with the Kingston Trio. I saw him perform with them..

His grandmother wrote Grandma's Feather Bed .

We lived next door to Mike Watt, a bass player, in San Pedro, CA. Navy housing. He was friends with my older brother. Only found out he was a bass player after one of my friends back then, whose brothers were also friends of him and my brother, told me they went to one of his concerts. They met up with him and had a good time. I then friended him on Facebook and got in touch with him, thinking it would be fun for my brother to go see him in concert in N. CA., since my brother was so close. Nope, my brother is an old stick-in-the mud, even though he would talk about him all the time over the years. They all played baseball together and Mike was a boy scout in my dad's troop. I was friends with his younger sister but they didn't live next door for long.

My younger brother was classmates of Micheal Lookingland from the Brady Bunch.

I fixed it Elmer, thanks. I can't spell in my old age.

For a few comments:

It is Army base, but bass guitar (As in Fender bass). And bass, or bass violin, or stand-up bass, as seen in orchestras and some kinds of traditional music.

My husband went to high school with Margret Sinclair who later married Pierre Elliot Trudeau a former PM of Canada and whose son is our current PM.

No.

I did hold the hand of a famous sports figure.

My father’s life was spared during WWII by a reknown U-Boat captain who spoke excellent English and offered directions and coordinates to the “nearest” beach.

One of my housemates went on to become a multi-billionaire (nothing to do with me).