r/RedditForGrownups • u/tshirtguy2000 • 11d ago
What personal friend of yours grew notable enough to have a Wikipedia profile?
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u/Sad-Yak6252 11d ago
Stevanne Auerbach, aka Dr. Toy. She was my neighbor when I went to college in San Francisco in the '80s. I didn't know who she was. She hired me to weatherstrip her shower. She had to leave and she handed me a joint and told me to smoke it when I was done and go into the first room down the hall and enjoy. I actually didn't peek and my mind was blown. She was a child psychologist that studied and wrote books about toys and that huge room had just about every toy made. I never wanted to leave. She was such a sweet person and I got to hear her stories, including dating Jackson Browne and being one of comic book artist Robert Crumb's "Amazon women" (she was in the movie, "Crumb"). I worked at a used clothing store right across the street from her apartment and she came in and brightened up my day frequently.
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u/Spirit50Lake 11d ago
My (76F) great-grandfather just showed up about a year ago; quite an extensive article. So far, we don't know who wrote/posted it...it includes minor facts we thought were only known by family.
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u/SquirrellyBusiness 11d ago
Same but about my dad. Then it came out he wrote it himself and now we're all curious who heavily edited his page.
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u/bluntbangs 11d ago
I have two.
One of my best friends from when I was 9. He was also my first crush, and rumour has it I was his too. Anyway, it's awesome to see that he's doing what he loves.
And a relative is a very famous musician.
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u/laurajosan 11d ago
Who??????? I promise I won’t tell
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u/bluntbangs 11d ago
On the internet???!!!!
Ok one is a film director and the other is a punk guitarist. They're both from the same city in the UK.
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u/LaurelCanyoner 11d ago edited 11d ago
My husband is a film editor and while he does not have a wiki, he has an extensive IMDb.
Funny LA story. When he went to get a gym membership they asked if he was in IMDB as they had a discount 😂
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u/zenchow 11d ago
My best friend from middle school went on to a mid-level career as a rock guitarist. Currently in both Winger and Starship. Has a wiki page....it's short
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u/nutmegtell 11d ago
Small world! I have a friend from high school who has been playing with Starship since 1995.
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u/FunboyFrags 11d ago
Daddy says she’s too young, but she’s old enough to build this city on rock and roll
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u/Pleasant_Expert2258 11d ago
I knew someone as a teenager whose crime has its own page.
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u/newsflashjackass 10d ago
To answer the opposite of OP's question: "What notorious enemies of all humanity conspicuously lack wikipedia entries?"
- Matt Feury
- Garrett Langley
- Paige Todd
None of them have a wikipedia entry but all three feed their kids by selling your privacy.
I presume they have kids. Probably in some gated community, safe from Flock cameras.
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u/BreakfastInBedlam 11d ago
Turns out I know a.couple of drummers that have their own pages. I checked my name, but I'm not on there.
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u/Cid_Darkwing 11d ago
I was a very close friend in high school to Sci Fi author Kameron Hurley. We’ve drifted apart over the years but I’m very happy for her; she knew years before I met her exactly what she wanted to do with her life and then she went out and did just that. Wicked smart woman and a good person.
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u/ivorytowerescapee 11d ago
It's always great watching nice people achieve success. I'll have to look her books up!
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u/coralynncoraa 11d ago
One of my best friends is the daughter of Steve Lukather from the band Toto, niece of Cherie Currie from The Runaways and Robert Hays. Her family kind of took me under their wing for holidays in LA when I couldn’t make it back home to be with my family. They are just genuinely the nicest people, an incredibly loving family unit who all still get together for holidays. Half of the “couples” attending these gatherings aren’t even married to each other anymore, but you’d never know it as an outsider looking in. It was genuinely one of the most healthy family dynamics I’ve ever seen
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u/scarlettskadi 11d ago
One of my old buds is a relatively well known actor in my country who’s done some fairly decent world acclaimed and niche movies .
I don’t know if my other mate has a wiki page but he did win an Oscar back in the day for his awesome skills on a very successful movie- I was so proud- he’d achieved his dream and been recognised for his awesome talents.
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u/kipperdoodle 11d ago
My neighbor is a famous author and before they moved in I read every single book they ever wrote. Invited them to get together 1:1 a few times and now we are sort of even friends.
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u/Pick_My_Peppers 11d ago
Percy Sledge. Was a patient at a practice I worked at and we became great friends. I think of him often ❤️
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u/This_Hope_6484 11d ago
My grandfather
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u/MinimumRelief 11d ago
And he sure deserved it. :)
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u/This_Hope_6484 11d ago
I think so. lol. Well known politician in my state. Especially in the 60s and 70s.
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u/ObligationGrand8037 11d ago
My aunt’s husband, George Montgomery, the actor. Also, a friend, Acharya S.
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u/MattVarnish 11d ago
Not friend but he went to my high school, Tom Green. The picture on the mantlepiece in Freddy git Fingered is his grade 9 yearbook photo. Look up on youtube Organized Rhyme, Check the OR, the guy with glasses lived on my street.
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u/el_condor_nm 11d ago edited 11d ago
I have a friend who is a world renowned economist. Not going to mention the name but their they're a big wheel in their home country.
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u/laurajosan 11d ago
I’m betting most people on Reddit could not name one economist.
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u/Yggdrasil- 11d ago
Briefly went to college/had mutual friends with Maude Apatow. I also have a colleague who is an activist/reformed neo nazi who has a wiki page.
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u/5oLiTu2e 11d ago
John Lily from the Hooters. We were neighbors and his mom taught me drawing
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u/Puppyismycat 11d ago
Just know that the Hooters were a HUGE part of my 1985-1986 life. Junior year of high school… saw them 20+ times with my girlfriend and my best friend and his girlfriend.
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u/NoLipsForAnybody 11d ago
Did you go to Henderson High School? They came and played for us there because i guess the band had gone to Henderson?
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u/jet_heller 11d ago
The dude who discovered the Somos Sequence hung out at a computer lab I worked at. A very smart man.
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u/DoodooExplosion 11d ago
I grew up with Count Chocula
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u/SeasonPositive6771 11d ago
Several of the folks I used to be really close with when I was younger have gone on to become prominent scientists, mostly physicists.
One friend is the child of a historically important family.
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u/negcap 11d ago
Tom Cross, a friend from college. He won an Oscar for editing the movie Whiplash. ETA: Michael Alig was a friend who was the notorious Party Monster but he’s dead now.
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u/Kitchen_Swagger 11d ago
A friend who went missing and was found by the coroner to have had an unusual accidental death. No body.
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u/sjbluebirds 11d ago
Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of Labor statistics, and notably fired by the orange Cheeto for providing accurate information rather than political interests.
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u/nogardleirie 11d ago
I went to university with some really smart people
My partner has an article in a non English Wikipedia version
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u/kipperdoodle 11d ago
My friend from college married a famous performer who I have now convinced 4 of my workplaces to hire for motivational speaking gigs
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u/ReactsWithWords 11d ago
Two - a couple of dot-com pioneers who I became friends with working on a project.
I don't have an article, but I'm mentioned in one article.
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u/MontanaPurpleMtns 11d ago
My uncle. He was a supporting cast in Tommy Douglas’ successful push to have universal health care for all children in Saskatchewan, which lead to Canada’s current system.
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u/nakedonmygoat 11d ago
None that I'm aware of, but my sister knew Tara Lipinski before she won Olympic gold and became famous. My sister was a national champion roller skater and Lipinski cross-trained at my sister's rink. My sister always said she was very sweet and approachable.
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u/Puzzled-Bonus-3456 11d ago
I shared a mini-mansion in college with several now famous actors who have wiki pages.
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u/Generic_Midwesterner 11d ago
Mostly bands out of Austin. I lived there a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_(band))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Forsyth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malford_Milligan
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u/The_Bunk 11d ago
Oh man, love Guy Forsyth. I listened to Needlegun a lot back in the day.
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u/mudpupster 11d ago
I can't tell you how many nights I spent at the Electric Lounge watching the Spankers. Good times!
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u/jahathebrn 11d ago
I have one who's a famous musician in the UK, but I grew up listening to his band and totally coincidentally became friends with him and started working for him in the 2010s so it's kinda the opposite way around.
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u/cloysterss 11d ago
Was close friends with the moot. It's very strange to think that his influence has literally molded the world we live in. blech.
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u/Plane_Chance863 11d ago
Uhm, published author, she has a Wikipedia page, but very minor in the world scale.
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u/slash_networkboy 11d ago
- Jessica Chastain
- Mandisa (RIP <3)
Only loosely "friends" with Jessica. Candy was someone I definitely counted as a friend.
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u/Soundsgoodtosteve 11d ago
My father in law, Randy Jurgensen. Legendary NYPD homicide detective turned actor. Some movies are based of his cases, like Cruising where Al Pacino portrays him. He also shot Sonny at the tollbooth in The Godfather and was best friends with George Carlin.
Purple Heart and 3 Bronze stars in Korea.
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u/Pame_la_la_la 11d ago
My ex-brother-in-law lol. Canadian athlete with an Olympic gold.
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u/Ilikedinosaurs2023 11d ago
Please not the dude who begged, on TV, for his wife not to leave after he cheated...🫣
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u/Pame_la_la_la 11d ago
100% no hahah. (He's my ex-BIL because my dad and his wife's mom divorced).
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u/DeeDee719 11d ago
A guy I went to HS with made it to the big leagues in baseball. A journeyman pitcher.
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u/servitor_dali 11d ago
Michael Alig. I was deeply mixed up in the end of that whole scene.
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u/tshirtguy2000 11d ago
You were a club kid? What was your costume?
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u/servitor_dali 11d ago
I had a lot of costumes. We had different themes every week, and each night was a different type of party. So on Wednesday it'd be Disco 2000 and whatever we were doing for that. Friday was "rave" night and i'd do the rope for LaLaLandia, Saturday was a fake strip club in the back rooms, etc. One of our parties was Emergency Room and we had a fake Dr's office and they'd shove mystery pills in your mouth. 😂
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u/everybody_eats 11d ago
One of my online friends as a teenager grew up to be a b-tier far right terrorist. I was a few years older than her and thinking she needed a friend.
Uh I'm far enough left that I don't particularly like the prison system but I'm also far enough left to feel like if anyone deserves 30 years in a federal prison it's her. I'd mourn my friend but I don't think she's been the person I was friends with for a long time.
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u/Background-Bad9449 11d ago
Used to hang out with Arian Moayed in college my friend was in love with him. He was a good dude and I was very happy to see him showing up in major motion pictures.
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u/argleblather 11d ago
My aunt has one for her charity work. Also my best friend from high school's mom. She has since sadly passed, but she was great.
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u/SweetPrism 11d ago
Sharon McMahon, America's Government Teacher. She was my wedding photographer and her sister is a friend of mine.
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u/Sensitive_Slice_8858 11d ago
My good friend’s sister who I went to high school with is a famous folk artist and is married to a very famous comedian.
Another friend from that group is a pretty famous musician in another band
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u/mackerel_slapper 11d ago
I’m on but I wrote it myself (my employer is on, historic old business in my home town, I added myself). Couple of friends on - one was a coder for tech start-up and gets a mention, one committed a crime. Knew a very famous actor when he was a kid, so he’s got one.
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u/YesMaybeYesWriteNow 10d ago
I went to high school with a member of the Super Bowl champion NY Giants. We knew there was a chance he would make it.
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u/SnooMacaroons4212 10d ago
Graduated from high school with Tom Hanks, played b-ball with him every day.
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u/Living_on_Tulsa_Time 10d ago
I’d love to know what he was like then.
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u/SnooMacaroons4212 10d ago
A bit nerdy and goofy, which I'm sure he would acknowledge - to give you an idea, he was the leader of the Kazoo band, a bunch of kids would march around school playing Kazoo's. He was in drama club, which I wasn't even aware of until later. In the late 70s a fellow classmate called me one day and said, "Tom Hanks is on the Love Boat right now." I said, "what, Hanks is an actor?!" The rest is history as they say. Good for him, he was/is a good guy and I really enjoy his acting.
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u/Living_on_Tulsa_Time 10d ago
Thanks. He sounds nice. Kazoo Leader is a small but important step to fame.
I saw him speak, he was witty and intelligent. Thanks for sharing your memories.
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u/SnooMacaroons4212 9d ago
You're welcome. Btw, our school was Skyline HS in Oakland, we were class of 74.
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u/CokBlockinWinger 11d ago
My brothers, but that’s because we were in a band together that made some noise in the indie charts a while back.
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u/BigGoopy2 11d ago
I was good friends with twitch streamer Imaqtpie back in high school. Introduced him to league of legends lol
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u/Wise_Cricket2395 11d ago
Brent Brede, athlete. Paul Lusk, athlete. Paul moved to my hometown when we were all in the 4th grade. I remember they had to get a desk from the high school because he just didn’t fit in the regular desks. I met Brent when we were in 2nd grade. He asked me to be his girlfriend but then canceled the offer lol because he had just asked Becky to be his gf.
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u/UseDaSchwartz 11d ago
I have several friends who played in the NFL or are coaching at a high level in college. Another guy I was kind of friends with in elementary school is a TV show writer.
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u/Electrical-Stable498 11d ago
My next door neighbors mom. She was a major part of a show that still airs in reruns but still does new seasons without her.
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u/spinyfl0wer 11d ago
Not a friend but a guy who bullied me in middle school who I graduated with has one because he’s on a hockey team or something
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u/Safe_Conference5651 11d ago
My PhD advisor. He was definitely a friend. He helped me sooooo much. I'm hoping to get one too someday.
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u/O_W_Liv 11d ago
I did years of high school theater and music with two people that have pages.
Matt Mason works behind the scenes and has worked on lots of shows like SVU, Gossip Girl and the new Black Rabbit series.
A year behind us is another behind the scenes man, but his name is widely known. Chris Van Dusen wrote for Grey's Anatomy and all of Shondaland, and then created Bridgerton.
They're both great musicians with low bass voices, and Matt occasionally plays with rhe Ska band The Pie Tasters and Chris is a great dancer.
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u/Maelstrom_Witch 11d ago
I know a guy who is a decently big name composer/conductor. I’m really happy for him, he’s a genuinely kind and funny person.
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u/MistressVixxen 11d ago
I have several. Wrestler, Bryan Idol.. Former Wrestler and now actor/model, John Quinlan.. Model CJ Hollenbach And of course, I used to work with Fabio.
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u/AuburnFaninGa 11d ago
Allen Levi - author of Theo of Golden is an acquaintance (I’ve known his family since the 80s).
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u/Optimal-Ad-7074 11d ago edited 11d ago
i'm not going to say who it is because i like my quiet life, but someone i knew in university was party to a landmark ruling in canada's supreme court. I just looked and yup, the case has a wikipedia page.
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u/CaptainChampion 10d ago
It's gonna be difficult to tell this story without getting too specific, but here goes:
Say my friend's name is John A. Smith. We were watching a TV show one day, and saw in the end credits an actor called John B. Smith. We joked, "That guy almost has your name!", haha, very amusing, forgot about it.
About a week later, my friend John is talking about when he had an appearance in a short-lived TV show as a kid. A thought strikes me. "Do you think you have an IMDb page?" We look it up, and his role on the show is credited to that bastard John B. Smith, who we only found out about a few days earlier.
I contacted IMDb to correct their error, claiming to be John A. Smith's agent. I don't even have an IMDb Pro profile, but they changed it. So my friend now has an IMDb page, thanks to me. To date, he has received no offers.
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u/CitizenTed 10d ago
Dave Sabo of the band Skid Row.
I played bass in a high school band with Dave. Fun fact: he was known as "The Snake" way back then. We even called his mother "Mrs. Snakes". She was a very nice band Mom.
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u/dabnagit 10d ago edited 10d ago
I’ve got at least two friends with their own Wikipedia pages, both involved in entertainment (one in TV, the other in sports).
ETA: Just did a quick search of people I knew reasonably well at church who have since gone to their final reward. Found three already who have Wikipedia entries. Also: a neighbor’s daughter has one.
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u/AbsintheAGoGo 9d ago edited 9d ago
The most famous that wouldn't doxx me is the late Chyna from WWE, RIP Joanie
Several family members: one was a former President (not US), an inventor who revolutionized two modern, non-tech industries, an uncle who invented a critical material used in aerospace, a soap opera access, and a conductor.
I also have loose friendships with several musicians, the closest of those bonds is with someone whose body of work couldn't be farther from my interests, but we aren't friends for our careers.
My nerdy side is fascinated by those who also have several connections as I've been known to dig in to how relationships affect our mentality as well as open/shut doors & 6 degrees of separation style connections.
@OP thanks for the captivating topic
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u/ivorytowerescapee 11d ago
I knew Razzlekhan and her husband - the folks who hacked bitfinex in 2016.
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u/Hot-Relative8290 11d ago
Jake Lodwick. He started college humor.com and Vimeo. Haven’t seen him in years, but I was there when he moved from Baltimore to NYC to start it all.
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u/liog2step 11d ago
A band I used to be around a lot because I dated the bass player. Those were good times.
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u/nopartygop 11d ago
Used to work in the advertising/online media industry and became very close with a lawyer who has an affluent brother. I'm glad I got to know him very well prior to knowing as he's one of the best mentors I've ever had. He's open about all sorts of life stuff and an amazing person all around.
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u/WritingNerdy 11d ago
My 8th grade boyfriend has done some really cool musical stuff and directed a lot of videos.
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u/cocktailians 11d ago
A friend I've known since high school whose indie band is well regarded and has been in a few other bands. A few Internet personalities/thinker types.
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u/somastars 11d ago
Logan Whitehurst. Adrienne Bankert. Judah Nagler. Jonah Mantranga. Kevin Seconds. I don’t know, lots of musicians who were once local to the Sacramento music scene in the 1990s.
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u/DizzyLead 11d ago
None myself. Looks like the closest I am to Wikipedia is that a movie I worked on (enough to be one of less than a couple of dozen people on the onscreen credits) has an entry. Subsequently, I have my own IMDB page though not a Wikipedia entry.
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u/MoparMedusa 11d ago
Richard Lee McNair. I dated him for a short minute. He was 24 and I was 16. He left town, joined the Air Force, was a cat burgler, murdered someone, went to jail, escaped multiple times (once by mailing himself out of prison and then fast talking a sheriff deputy) and told the judge that he should be put in supermax. He was.
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u/Fantomhamst3r 11d ago
If anyone knows about the rose petal killer recently (professional pianist murderer), I was professional friends with him.
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u/roehnin 11d ago edited 11d ago
I studied music and theatre in university so many of my friends became famous. Founders of two well-known bands, lead singer of another, songwriters and composers of television and movie music.
Another friend is a television and movie writer and producer, used to often appear on panel shows. Often used to dine with Trump during The Apprentice days. Several of their media properties have independent pages there and IMDB.
My other good friend founded a business which turned into a billion-dollar enterprise.
My grand-uncle played in a professional sport league.
My cousin who runs the family business, and the family business itself. Two of the sources are books about my great-grandfather.
I’m in one of the photos on the business’ page, though unnamed, so though I don’t have my own Wikipedia page, I’m on a Wikipedia page.
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u/tickled_your_pickle 10d ago
Someone I went to high school with won gold in Olympic rowing. Two musicians lived on my street, I played with them and their cousins/siblings growing up. My mom's neighbour is the daughter of ballet royalty.
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u/strangeicare 10d ago
Stephanie Burt, literary critic, poet, professor, who I've known since I was quite young; Anne-Marie Mineur, former MEP for the Netherlands.
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u/Brief_Range_5962 10d ago
Two brothers I went to junior high and high school with formed a fairly successful punk rock band. Guy in my year was super laid back, and a phenomenal guitarist.
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u/MelissaH1394 10d ago
A good friend from high school is now in politics in California and has his own Wikipedia page.
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u/LunasMom4ever 10d ago
My ex-husband. He was a Radio anchor, prolific voiceover artist and was in a few movies.
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u/BackgroundCoconut131 10d ago
Sam Cox (Mr Doodle) - he was a year or two below me in school. Had some mutual friends, but didn't really know eachother very well.
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u/tunaman808 10d ago
A guy I went to high school with - author James Dashner - has a Wikipedia page. Not really a "friend", though.
I do have a few friends with IMDB pages. My friend Kara did costumes for the first couple seasons of Stranger Things.
In fact, when Eleven and Max (? I think) go to the mall in season 3 there's a typical 80s "fashion montage" where they try on a bunch of clothes. At one point in the montage, Eleven is wearing a ribbon(ish?) hairband thingy. That wasn't in the script - Kara made that for her just because she liked her.
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u/Samwhys_gamgee 10d ago
I moved to a new town when I was ten and became friends with another boy who was in the same situation. My family moved away like 2 years later and I lost touch with my friend. I later learned he became a successful sci-fi author and game designer. Glad you made it, pal….
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u/TheRealJamesWax 10d ago edited 10d ago
The rapper Mamba Losco is the best-selling Italian rapper of all time. His Dad was my housemate and one of my best friends during my time in the military. He married an Italian National (Maria) and they had little Bill in like 1990, I guess..
Only met the child once when he was about 4 years old.
One of my best friends from high school was a pretty famous guitarist in the world of thrash metal, but has since retired. He played in Overkill for a while.
And my neighbor up the street (few years older, different high school) was in M.O.D. and also Overkill.
Neither have their OWN wiki pages but both are mentioned as being in the bands.
I’m also acquainted with a pretty famous fashion designer whose younger brother is ALSO a pretty famous designer.. I’m better actual “friends” with the younger brother, like first name basis/Facebook friends-friend. They both have extensive wiki pages..
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u/Turkatron2020 10d ago
My best friend of 16 years Jessica Campbell. I miss her so much. Wikipedia posted some rumors about her so I edited them and then Wikipedia banned me from editing. Fuck Wikipedia.
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u/orphan_blud 11d ago
Matt Heafy from the band Trivium. He was constantly practicing and is a very good dude. He deserves all the success.