The Most Famous Dallas University Graduates and Attendees

[Coach Andy Mac]

University of North Texas

Let’s start with you, Mean Green. The Dentonites. With a wicked music program like yours, it’s no wonder people come pouring in with big rock star dreams. So what have you, UNT, produced? 

Norah Jones: singer, Grapevine native, the woman born to be the perfect soundtrack to a lazy summer afternoon. Was a member of the UNT Jazz Singers.

Maren Morris: singer, Arlington native, a travel-size Kelly Clarkson, if Clarkson never left the South emotionally.

Dr. Phil: the guy who really keeps us all going.

Jason West: co-creator of Call of Duty.

read more:  https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/the-most-famous-alumni-from-every-dallas-university-11742144

 

 

[DeepGreen]

Me thinks you left out Michael Martin Murphy.  I think he attended NTSU for a short while.  He was in the NT folk music club back in the early  '60's.

From his website:

"After briefly attending the University of North Texas (which had its own thriving music school), Murphey transferred to UCLA and worked his way through college as a singer / songwriter while excelling as a student of poetry, songwriter and performer."

Edited August 27, 2019 by DeepGreen

[UNTLifer]

Ummm, how in the world do you write this article and leave out Don Henley of The Eagles?

[Coffee and TV]

Skinny Pete makes UTA's list but not actual astronauts...

[KRAM1]

How do you leave out Roy Orbison?

[HoustonEagle]

Or Mean Joe Greene

[ColoradoEagle]

I was shocked that the author, who clearly put the most research into SMU, went to SMU.

[ADLER]

or Michael Lee Aday, better known professionally as Meat Loaf, having sold over 80 million albums is one of the top selling artists of all time.

or actress Ann Sheridan, former North Texas basketball player that was the model of perfection used for the majority of bomber nose art in WWII.  Notable roles include San Quentin (1937) with Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces(1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Kings Row (1942) with Ronald Reagan, Nora Prentiss (1947), and I Was a Male War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant.

or Michael Martin Murphy's high school classmate and former bandmate Ray Wylie Hubbard who has sold millions of albums and including the hit Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother

or award winning actor and documentary producer Peter Weller

or recent Oscar nominee Thomas Hayden Church

Edited September 3, 2019 by ADLER

[ADLER]

5 hours ago, ColoradoEagle said:

I was shocked that the author, who clearly put the most research into SMU, went to SMU.

SMU has Kathy Bates and Needle Nose Ned. nothing else

[Stix]

or Pat Boone

[UNTLifer]

Norah Jones; Grammy winner.

[DeepGreen]

Did anyone mention Phyllis George?

[Stix]

4 hours ago, DeepGreen said:

Did anyone mention Phyllis George?

You just did!

"And all the rest": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_North_Texas_alumni

[Jason Howeth]

Eli Young Band!

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

Larry McMurtry -- author

Last Picture Show, Term of Endearrment, Lonesome Dove, Hud,  and many many more... 

..Many awards.. 

https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Le-Ra/McMurtry-Larry.html

.Texas author Larry McMurtry is best known as a writer of western novels, many of which are set in the Old West, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Lonesome Dove. Some of his novels focus on life in small town Texas, like The Last Picture Show , while others focus on relationships, such as Terms of Endearment. McMurtry also adapted several of his books into films and television productions, wrote other original scripts, and occasionally adapted other authors' work. In 2006, he won an Academy Award with long-time writing partner Diana Os-sana, for their adaptation of a short story by E. Annie Proulx into the hit film Brokeback Mountain.

Born Larry Jeff McMurtry, June 3, 1936, in Wichita Falls, TX; son of William Jefferson (a rancher) and Hazel Ruth McMurtry; married Josephine Ballard, July 15, 1959 (divorced, August, 1966); children: James Lawrence (a singer). Education: University of North Texas, B.A., 1958; Rice University, M.A., 1960;

Read more: https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Le-Ra/McMurtry-Larry.html#ixzz61Len5Q1E

 

Edited October 4, 2019 by SCREAMING EAGLE-66