We thought you might find this interesting. This is not a complete list, any additions are welcome. Soooo, here we go:
Movie and TV stars:
Bruce Lee (yes, he had a philosophy degree from the University of Washington)
Harrison Ford
Jay Leno
Katharine Hepburn
Susan Sarandon
Steve Martin
Woody Allen
Stephen Colbert
Alex Trebeck (host of Jeopardy)
Politicians:
Elie Wiesel
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tomas Masaryk (1st President of Czeckoslovakia)
Vaclav Havel
Thomas Jefferson, (U.S. President)
William Jefferson Clinton
Rudi Giuliani (former New York mayor)
Aung San Suu Kyi (you know who she is, right?)
Jelio Jelev (Bulgarian President)
Businesspersons:
George Soros
Larry Sanger (co-founder of Wikipedia)
Carl Icahn (American billionaire financier)
Laurance Rockefeller (the name sounds familiar, right?)
Carleton Fiorina (CEO of Hewlett-Packard)
John Wilbanks (entrepreneur, scientist & Vice President of Creative Commons)
Artists (literature, film, music a.s.o.):
Feodor Dostoievski (actually, he studied maths and literature at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering, but could have majored in philosophy, if he wanted to)
Iris Murdoch
Philip K. Dick (science fiction writer)
Matt Groening (American cartoonist and creator of The Simpsons)
T.S. Eliot
Robert Musil
Umberto Eco
Ethan Coen (filmmaker)
Philip Glass (composer)
Albert Camus
Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988)
Philip Johnson (architect)
Scientists:
Norbert Wiener (mathematician)
Ted Nelson (programmer, internet pioneer)
Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1987)
Maurice Allais (Nobel Prize in Economics 1988)
P. Michael Spence (Nobel Prize in Economics 2001)
Spiritual Leaders:
Pope John Paul II
Pope Benedict XVI
Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
daaa, Umberto Eco! 😀 [sunt o obsedata care-l cauta pe Eco pe internet si-l aplauda in fiecare loc, that’s all]
Philip K. Dick? Are you sure? In cam toate biografiile se spune ca nici macar nu si-a terminat studiile superioare, abandonand dupa 1 an… “After graduating from high school he briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley as a German major, but dropped out before completing any coursework” zice de ex. la wiki.
Iar la sursa ta (4), Dick e trecut in lista de “Notable People who studied philosophy / No degree” dimpreuna cu Harrison Ford.
So, no degree, no major. Se supara Steve Martin pe tine 😀
@Marc: majoring =/= getting a degree; dar cu Philip K. Dick ai dreptate; explicatia am gasit-o aici: “he declared himself a philosophy major, attending a class, by his own account, with the analytic philosopher Stephen C. Pepper.”
Ethan Coen, la categoria “movie stars”. Pe wikipedia scria: Ethan went on to Princeton University and earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy in 1979.[3] His senior thesis was a 41-page essay, “Two Views of Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy.”
lista e complet aiurea. Woody allen de pilda nu are studii universitare – imi amintesc ca am citit asta prin 90 si ceva, intr-un interviu din paris match. daca un singur nume e indoielnic in categorie, le pot pune la indoiala pe toate celelalte. prea seamana cu listele “de net”, distractii ignare de imbecili care strang pietricele colorate.
altfel, poate ca e amuzant sa le preluati, poate ca dovedesc ceva. de pilda: filozofia e asa o chestie cool, pe care poa’ s-o faca oricine, de vreme ce au facut-o astia, deci veniti sa ocupati locurile
p.s.: abia acum am citit mai departe. cum, dostoievski?! gee… suntem la un nivel…
@matei: Multumim, dar Ethan Coen apare deja la categoria “Artists”, ca realizator de filme.
@dan: Woody Allen apare probabil pe lista din cauza ca personajul pe care il intruchipeaza in perioada in care face stand-up incearca sa studieze filosofia la NYU (unde a inceput si el facultatea, fara sa o termine) – uite aici.