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)