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Philosophy Department
Famous Philosophy Majors
FAMOUS PHILOSOPHY MAJORS
If your parents are giving you a hard time about being a philosophy major or minor, here is a helpful list of persons who have survived life after philosophy: • Steve Allen (writer & comedian) • Jay Leno (comedian) • Woody Allen (director & comedian) • Max Baer Jr. (actor: Jethro on The Beverly Hillbillies) • Bill Clinton (former U.S. President) • Philip K. Dick (science fiction writer) • David Duchovny (actor on X-FILES) • John Elway (quarterback, Denver Broncos) • Harrison Ford (actor) • Vaclav Havel (former President of the Czeck Republic) • Mark Hulbert (financial columnist for FORBES magazine) • Carl Icahn (business person & corporate raider, bought TWA) • Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights leader) • Bruce Lee (martial arts expert & actor) • Peter Lynch (director) • Paul Martin (Canadian Prime Minister) • Steve Martin (comedian & actor) • Kate Millett (author of SEXUAL POLITICS) • Bob Moses (civil rights activist) • Robert Motherwell (painter) • Iris Murdoch (novelist) • Lachlan Murdoch (son of Rupert Murdoch, media magnate) • Robert Musil (Austrian novelist) • Neil Peart (drummer for rock group, RUSH) • Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) (vicar of Christ) • Brad Roberts (singer-songwriter for CRASH TEST DUMMIES) • Patricia Rozema (film-maker, I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING) • Susan Sontag (essayist) • George Soros (money manager, Soros Foundation) • Alex Trebeck (JEOPARDY)

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