who of note was a contemporary of yours at school or university?

[hatwoman]

I went to college with this man

Adele from Big Brother

LordAshley, which school was that, cos my best friend was at school with JayKay. Will have to ask him about Matthew.

I, of course, went to school with absolutely no one worth noting.

Kerry Katona and Chris Evans went to my school. Not at the same time, obviously.

Was at school with Helena Bacon, Richard Bacon's sister. Matt Lucas and Derren Brown went to my university a few years before me.

If we are doing previous alumni from one's alma mater, then mine include James Burke, Richard Beeching and Shaun Williamson! All before me... David "Flats" Flatman, the England rugby player, went after me.

i went to school with 3 of them from the darkness. lil 'chris went to the same school

DH went to school with Gary Barlow, I was at uni with Jenny Colgan (chicklit novelist) and DH teaches at the school Kate Moss went to.

BandofMothers, it was Oakham School - in Rutland. I think he left when he was 16 so may have then gone to another school.

Didn't Ziggy from big brother go to the same school as David Baddiel? that I remember that fact.

I didn't go to school with anyone famous but did spend threee school days in the company of Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert etc. I come from a very small village which lies beside the very famous castle where they filmed Highlander. We got three days off school to be extras. I was only ten! Does this count?

Shoshable

Was it prep school that your ds was a contemporary of Duncan?? I was there, but in a supervisory position

I went to Kingston University with Richard archer, lead singer of Hard-Fi. I was on the Music BA course and he was on the Music Tech course. Of course he was far too cool to even notice me!

I was in second grade in California with a girl called Shauna Sand. She turned out well. Don't google her name at work. I've found a link which is okay for a PC you might share with others. Funnily enough, she shares my birthday. Her lips did not exactly look like this at the time.

www.imdb.com/name/nm0482891/

One day we decided to pass the time by cutting up science books with scissors, with another classmate. Got into trouble. Sent to the principal. My mother came in to help with reading, and got the inside scoop early on, and boy was I in trouble, and boy was my mother writing checks to cover the damaged books. Later that day she says to Shauna: "You tell your mother what happened!" "I will." Somehow, I think not. Moved shortly thereafter. The next time I heard about her she was appearing on Entertainment Tonight!!

Both Edith Bowman and Ewan McGregor went to my college. Not at the same time as me though

colin firth lived across the road until a year or so ago...and a led zepplin drummer is on my block

I went to school with this guy

I went to school with Tony Adams ex England & Arsenal footballer.

Was he as spectacularly ugly then as he is now?

William Hague was a few years above me and Toby Foster (he plays the drummer in the band in Phoenix Nights) was the year above me at school.

Lord Ashley, that is what I suspected. Will def be asking said friend if he knew Matthew MCF. (don't tell my DH tho)