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Famous Overseas Alumni and Military Brats ~ G-I

Lab sciences were part of the curriculum at Nurnberg High School, Germany.

 

Click on the first letter of the last name to visit the list of famous alumni.
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This list is offered for entertainment purposes only.  Where ever possible confirming sources of information have been cited for the listings below.  Where corroborating information is not cited I will be working to obtain it and will post the information when it becomes available. 
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I want to thank the hundreds of you who have e-mailed me your information regarding the Famous OverSeas Schools Alumni and Military Brats you knew and attended school with over the last 50 years.  

The military and overseas brats of this country, have made and continue to make contributions to business, literature, education, entertainment, medicine and the security of this country. And it is through your efforts that we both realize and recognize those among us as a group who have and continue to be nationally and internationally recognized for those contributions.  

Like any number of good editors I have worked with professionally over the past 20 years, I have tried to keep what I felt was accurate and relevant to the list. Some of you will undoubtedly disagree with what I have kept and some of you will disagree with what I have discarded. This will tell me I've done my job properly.  

If you have others Famous Overseas Schools Alumni & Military Brats to add to the list below please let me know.  Please cite your sources whenever possible.  

Many thanks to Judith Dixon Gabaldon, jegflg@gateway.net, Gen. H.H. Arnold HS Class of ’60; for her proofreading efforts on this list. 

Glenn Greenwood          Austin, Texas           May, 2000 



 

The List of Famous Brats  
Click  on the link next to each name for a brief biography


G Mayte Garcia 
Marc Garneau 
Ronald George 
Kathie Lee Gifford 
Newt Gingrich 
Phil Gramm
David Scott Gray
H Herb Hall 
Marc Hammil 
Mia Hamm
Marcia Gay Harden
EmmyLou Harris
Robert Hays 
Darin Heams 
Susan Helms
Heloise
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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Other Famous Brats 
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SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF FAMOUS BRATS

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MAYTE GARCIA-NELSON 
Choreographer 

Mayte Garcia-Nelson is an Army Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus. She graduated from Gen. H.H. Arnold High School in Wiesbaden, Class of 1991.  

Garcia-Nelson is married to the Artist formerly known as "Prince."  She has produced numerous artistic dance programs that have been showcased throughout the United States.   


MARC GARNEAU 
SPACE SHUTTLE ASTRONAUT

Marc Garneau is a Canadian army brat and Overseas School Alumnus. His family was stationed in Germany and England.  

Garneau has flown on several shuttle missions since 1984.   


RONALD GEORGE 
NFL PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER
 

Ronald George is a DoDDS Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.  His mother was a DoDDS school teacher. Ron George is the first professional athlete to have attended DoDDS schools all twelve years. He is a 1988 graduate of Heidelberg High School.  

Originally drafted as a linebacker by the Atlanta Falcons in 1993 he played for the Falcons four years, followed by a year with the Minnesota Vikings.  George has spent the last two years with the Kansas City Chiefs.  

He earned All-America and All-PAC 10 honors as a senior at Stanford University.  


KATHIE LEE GIFFORD  
TV PERSONALITY/SINGER 

Kathie Lee is a Navy Junior. She is the daughter of a US Naval Officer.  She was born: Kathie Lee Epstein, in Paris, France.  

She is best known as the co-host of  "Live with Regis and Kathie.  

Source: U.S.A. Today/U.S. Weekender/Feb. 3, 1996  


NEWT GINGRICH 
FORMER SPEAKER OF THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

Newt Gingrich is an Army Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.  

He attended Stuttgart High School, but his father was transferred and he graduated in 1961 from: Baker High School outside of Ft. Benning, Georgia.  


PHIL GRAMM 
US SENATOR—TEXAS (1942  ) 

Senator Phil Gramm is an Army Brat.  He was born in 1942 on  Ft. Benning, in Columbus, Georgia. He is the son of an Army Master Sergeant.  


MAJ. GEN DAVID SCOTT GRAY 
USAF 

Maj. General David Scott Gray, USAF, graduated from SHAPE American High School in 1972.

General Scott Gray is a graduate of the University of Alabama.  He served as Commander of the 86th Airlift Wing at Andrews AFB from July 2003 to May 2005.  In May 2005, he became Commander, Air Mobility Warfare Center at Ft. Dix, NJ.  (Updated Nov 2005) 


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HERB HALL 
FILM ACTOR 

Herb Hall is a Military Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.  He was a member of the Frankfurt American High School Class of 1968.  

He is best known for his work in the movies: "Top Gun" & "Clueless."  


MARK HAMILL 
FILM ACTOR 

Mark Hamill is a Military Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.  

Hamill attended Kinnick High School (Yo-Hi) in Yokohama, Japan. He graduated as a member of the Class of '69. He was voted the school's best all around and most talented student and served as student council president.  

No surprise, but he was involved in drama productions while attending the school.  

Mark Hamill is best known as Luke Skywalker in several of the Star Wars Movies.  


MIA HAMM 
US WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM 1999 WORLD CUP 

Mia Hamm is a Military Brat and Overseas School Alumnus.  

Mia Hamm was one of the stars of the US Women's soccer team that won the World Cup in 1999.  

When her father was stationed in Germany Mia, age 5,  wanted to play soccer, but at the time there were only boys teams so Mia had  to play with the boys. 


MARCIA GAY HARDEN
ACTRESS

Marcia Gay Harden  nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2001, is a Navy Brat and Overseas Brat who grew up in Japan, Germany, Texas and New York.  As per the Washington Post 02/21/2001.


EMMYLOU HARRIS
SINGER/SONGWRITER

EmmyLou Harris is a Marine Corps Brat. Her father, Maj. Walter Rutland “Bucky” Harris, USMC was a Marine Corps Pilot shot down and captured during the Korean War.  In the years that followed, he remained on active duty and served as a presidential command pilot in helicopters for every president from Eisenhower through Carter.

Her recently released song, "Bang the Drum Slowly" was written about her father who passed away in 1993.

Info From The Retired Officers Association (TROA) website: http://www.troa.org/About/Press/Harris.asp


ROBERT HAYS 
FILM & TELEVISION ACTOR 

Robert Hays is an Air Force Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus. He attended Izmir American School in Izmir, Turkey during the Seventh Grade. 

Hays graduated in 1965 from Bellevue High School, Bellevue, Nebraska, home high school of Offutt AFB.  

His most memorable films were 'Airplane' and 'Homeward Bound' and their sequels.  


DARIN HEAMES 
TELEVISION & FILM ACTOR 

Darin Heames is an Overseas School Alumnus.  He was a member of the  Forest Sherman High School, Naples, Italy class of 1985.  


Lt.COL. SUSAN J. HELMS, USAF 
SPACE SHUTTLE ASTRONAUT 

Lt. Col. Susan Helms is an Air Force Brat. Her father is a retired USAF Lt. Col.  

Info From: Lt. Col. S. J. Helms & NASA Astronaut Bios 


HELOISE
SYNDICATED NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST AND AUTHOR

Syndicated Newspaper Columnist "Hints From Heloise"  and Author Heloise is a self-proclaimed Air Force Brat her father, is a retired Air Force pilot, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Mike Cruse.  This information came from a phone conversation with Heloise, from her website and the military news website:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2000/n08252000_20008252.html

CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT
JOURNALIST 

Charlayne Hunter-Gault --Journalist. Noted journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gualt grew up as a military brat as reported in her 1992 autobiography "My Place"   and the Washington Press Club Foundation Women in Journalism oral history project: http://npc.press.org/wpforal/hunt4.htm

Hunter-Gualt's awards include two Emmys and two Peabody awards.  She spent 20 years as the national correspondent for the McNeil-Leherer on PBS.  Additionally, she worked as a reporter for The New Yorker and The New York Times, Hunter-Gault has published articles in The New York Times Magazine, Saturday Review, The New York Times Book Review, Essence and Vogue.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent. Hunter-Gault joined CNN in April 1999 from National Public Radio, where she worked as the network's chief correspondent in Africa.

Hunter-Gualt  made civil rights history as the first African American  woman  to graduate from the University of Georgia in 1962.

 

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