Thursday, March 20, 2008

Where did that celebrity go to college?

This list from the National Assn. for College Admission Counseling listserve starts with a name that's more notorious than celebrated:


The Unabomber, Harvard

Also, it doesn't mention Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard. I think he later got an honorary degree.


Then, in alphabetical order:

Joseph Aboud, U. Mass

Tim Allen, Western Michigan University

Kofi Annan, Macalester

George Bodenheimer, Denison

Wolf Blitzer, SUNY Buffalo

Jerry Brown, Santa Clara U

Tom Brokaw, University of South Dakota

Drew Carey, Kent State

Bill Cosby, U. Mass

Walter Cronkite, U of Texas

Carson Cressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), Gettysburg College

Betty Crocker, Oregon State

Marc Cuban, Indiana University

Kirk Douglas, St. Lawrence

Barbara Ehrenreich (author of Nickel and Dimed), Reed

Michael Eisner, Denison

Jennifer Ferenstein (President of the Sierra Club), Reed

Will Ferrell, USC

Janet Fitch (author of White Oleander), Reed

James Gandofini, Rutgers

Jennifer Garner, Denison

Rudolph Giuliani, Manhattan College

John Glenn - Astronaut, Muskingum Colleg e

Matthew Goldman (Blue Man Group), Clark

Billy Graham, Wheaton

John Grisham, Mississippi State

Herbie Hancock, Grinnell

David Horowitz, Bradley

Chad Hurley (founder of YouTube), Indiana U of Pennsylvania

Steve Jobs (never received a college degree), Reed

Magic Johnson, Michigan State

Ashley Judd, U of Kentucky

Martin Luther King, Morehouse

Stephen King, U. of Maine

Phil Knight (founder of Nike), U. of Oregon

Don Knotts, West Virginia U

Ted Koppel, Syracuse

Ashton Kutcher, U Iowa

Padma Lakshmi (TV host and chef), Clark

Frank Langella, Syracuse

Gary Larsen (Far Side), U Washington

Matt Lauer, Ohio U

Ang Lee, University of Illinois Champaigne/Urbana

Spike Lee, Indiana U

Jay Leno, Emerson

Sandy Lerner – (co founder of Cisco Systems), Chico State

David Letterman, Ball State U

Rush Limbaugh, Southern Missouri State

Jeffery Lurie (owner of Philadelphia Eagles), Clark

Matthew McConaughey, U Texas

Tom Menino (mayor of Boston), Chamberlayne Junior College

Jenny Ming (president of Old Navy), San Jose State

Walter Mondale, Macalester

Meredith Monk, Sarah Lawrence

Roger Mudd, Washington and Lee

Anne Mulcahy (CEO Xerox), Marymount

Bill Murray, Regis

Edward R. Murrow, Washington State U

Greg Neumann (lead analyst for NASA’s Mars mapping project), Reed

Paul Newman, Kenyon

Richard Nixon, Whittier

Peter Norton (of Norton Disk Doctor), Reed

Barack Obama, Occidental

Larry Page (Co-Founder of Google), University of Michigan

Hugh Panero (CEO of XM Satellite Radio), Clark

Ron Paul (2008 Republican Candidate), Gettysburg College

Linus Pauling (two Nobels), Oregon State

Brad Pitt, University of Missouri

Colin Powell (65th US Secretary of State), bachelor's degree in geology, City

College of New York ("C" average).

Bobby Rahal, Denison

Dan Rather, U Texas/Austin

Ronald Reagan, Eureka College

Condoleezza Rice, U of Denver

Larry Rinder (Chief Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art NY), Reed

Meg Ryan, NYU

Harrison Ford, Ripon

Tim Russert, John Carroll U

John Schnatter (founder of Papa John’s Pizza), Ball State U.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, University of Wisconsin/Superior

David Schwimmer, Northwestern

Jerry Seinfeld, Queens College

Donna Shalala, Western College for Women (now part of Miami University)

Dwight Smith (outfielder for Cubs), Spartanburg Methodist College

Carly Simon, Sarah Lawrence

Howard Stern, Boston U

Donald Trump, Fordham

Ted Turner (kicked out of college twice)

Alice Walker, Sarah Lawrence

Robert James Waller (Bridges of Madison County), U Northern Iowa

Barbara Walters, Sarah Lawrence

Denzel Washington, Fordham

George Washington, College of William and Mary

Gene Wilder, U Iowa

Oprah Winfrey, Tennessee State

Henry Winkler, Emerson

Luther Vandross, Western Michigan University

Jack Welch (former CEO of GE), U. Mass

Graduates of Canadian Universities:

Margaret Atwood, U of Toronto

Donald Sutherland, U of Toronto

Eric McCormack (Will & Grace), Ryerson U

William Shatner, McGill

Martin Short, McMasters

Alex Trebeck, U of Ottowa

Paul Beeson (President, Major League Baseball Association), U Western Ontario

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think Jerry Brown started at Santa Clara, left to begin Jesuit studies (to become a priest), then entered Berkeley where he received his B.A. before going to law school at Yale.

That's actually an interesting piece of research--how many people (perhaps excluding CC attendees) begin at one college but graduate from another?

March 29, 2008 10:14 PM  

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