Random Celebrities Who Married Their College Sweethearts (14 items)

(#5) Albert Einstein
- Dec. at 76 (1879-1955)
In 1896, Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric, were both accepted into a special physics and mathematics program at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich. While Einstein is widely regarded as one of the most important physicists of all time, Maric is far lesser-known.

That's unfortunate because there's evidence that Maric actually helped Einstein in the early part of his career. Although Einstein didn't credit her in any of his work, he indicated that she was a collaborator in his personal letters to her.

In one letter, he wrote, "I find the work we do together very good, healing, and also easier."

They married in 1903, but separated in 1914 and divorced in 1919.
(#8) Hillary Clinton
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Pretty much everyone in America is familiar with this powerful couple, but not everyone knows how they got their start.

Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton met at Yale Law School in 1971 after exchanging glances in the library.

Hillary told the story on Steve Harvey. "He looked like a Viking," she said. "He got up and he walked over to me and he goes, 'If you're gonna keep looking at me and I'm gonna keep looking at you, we at least ought to know each other's name."

They married in 1975 and, although they've definitely endured bumps in their marriage, the Clintons are still together.
(#14) Timothy Olyphant
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Deadwood actor Timothy Olyphant met his wife, Alexis Knief, when they were both at the University of Southern California in the late '80s.

At the time, Olyphant was on the swim team and excelled at the backstroke.

They fell in love long before Olyphant rose to fame as an actor in movies like Scream 2 and Gone In Sixty Seconds, marrying in 1991.
(#11) Jack Johnson
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Singer and songwriter Jack Johnson met his wife, Kim, in the cafeteria at UC Santa Barbara in 1993. Johnson, who grew up in Hawaii, had just started attending the school the week before.

The couple spotted each other across the room and couldn't take their eyes off each other. Kim, a math major, was so taken by Jack that she came right over and sat next to him.

“I was a momma’s boy… and, of course, it took me just a week to find a new mom,” Johnson said. “I mean, [she] did start washing my clothes for me.”

They married in 2000 and have three kids.
(#7) Samuel L. Jackson
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Samuel L. Jackson and his wife, actress LaTanya Richardson, met during the height of the Civil Rights Movement while attending two historically Black colleges in Atlanta, Georgia. Jackson was at the all-male Morehouse College while Richardson was a student at the all-female Spelman College.

“Sam was not part of my circle,” Richardson said. “I was a theater snob; he loved movies.”

But the pair came together through a mutual love of acting and even performed onstage together. They dated on and off before they married in 1980 and they have one child together.
(#10) Mark Zuckerberg
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Mark Zuckerberg is a household name thanks to Facebook, the social media platform he created.

While The Social Network portrayed him as a man obsessed with the approval of women, he's actually been in a loving and committed relationship with his wife Priscilla Chan since their days at Harvard. They met in 2003 while standing in line for the bathroom at what was meant to be a going-away party for Zuckerberg. He'd just launched FaceMash, a precursor to Facebook, and he thought he would be kicked out of school.

Zuckerberg told the story during his commencement speech at Harvard in 2017. "In what must be one of the all-time romantic lines, I said, ‘I’m going to get kicked out in three days, so we need to go on a date quickly.’”

They married in 2012 and have two daughters.