I know/have met a few writers...you probably recognize the name Vivian Vande Velde...the others aren't as well known, but I know a Newbery Award winner and someone who was published in Harper's. And I babysit for a woman who used to be an editor at the New York Times.
My physics teacher has done special effects-ish stuff for various TV shows and owns his own scientific photography company. He did the opening of the Bachelor or the Bachelorette and he's made some images for CSI. One time in physics he showed us the machine setup he used to make a piece for American Idol...it has something to do with swirly rainbows. So he's not really "famous" in the pop culture sense, but his work is all over the place.
My seventh grade science teacher ran the Magic Club at school. He used to work for David Copperfield and other people in Vegas and at one point, I think, when he was a teenager, he held the record for getting out of a straitjacket. Or maybe it was getting out of a straitjacket upside-down. Either way. Some pretty crazy stuff.
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