Famous People with a Philosophy Degree
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- Adi Da (b. 1939), American guru
- Steve Allen (1921-2000), American comedian and writer
- Woody Allen (director & comedian)
- Wes Anderson (b. 1969), American film director and screenwriter
- Li Ang (b. 1952), Taiwanese novelist
- Max Baer, Jr. (b. 1937), American actor and director (philosophy minor)
- Raymond J. Barry (b. 1939), American actor
- Nina Bawden (b. 1925), British children's writer
- Segundo Ruiz Belvis (1829-1867), Puerto Rican abolitionist
- William Bennett (b. 1943), former U.S. Secretary of Education
- Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990), American psychologist
- Helen Bevington (1906-2001), American poet and author
- Bill Blaikie (b. 1951), Canadian politician
- Pascal Bonitzer (b. 1946), French film director and screenwriter
- Charles Boyer (1899-1978), French actor
- John Bradshaw (b. 1933), American theologian and writer
- Myles Brand (b. 1942), president of the NCAA
- Stephen Breyer (b. 1938), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Pat Buchanan (b. 1938), American politician and writer
- Philippe Busquin (b. 1941), Belgian politician
- Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998), Trinidadian-American activist
- Martha Mariana Castro (b. 1966), Mexican actress
- Mary Higgins Clark (b. 1929), American novelist
- Bill Clinton, former American President
- Ethan Coen (b. 1957), American film director and screenwriter
- Cayetano Coll y Toste (1850-1930), Puerto Rican historian
- Keith Collins (b. 1949), English comedian
- Tim Collins (b. 1956), American financier
- Bill Condon (b. 1955), American film director and screenwriter
- Michael Cranford, video game author
- William Crawley (b. 1968), Irish radio personality
- Cal Cunningham (b. 1973), American politician
- Will Cuppy (1884-1949), American humorist and journalist
- Angela Davis (b. 1944), American activist
- Lorànt Deutsch (b. 1975), French actor
- Jonathan Dimbleby (b. 1944), British political commentator
- Michael Dorris (1945-1997), Native American novelist
- Feodor Dostoevsky, (novelist)
- Charles J. Dougherty (b. 1949), president of Duquesne University
- Bruno Dumont (b. 1958), French film director and screenwriter
- Umberto Eco (b. 1932), Italian novelist
- John Elway (quarterback, Denver Broncos)
- Melissa Errico (b. 1970), American actress
- Dave Farrell (b. 1977), bassist for Linkin Park
- Carly Fiorina (b. 1954), former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- Ken Follett (b. 1949), British novelist
- Jonathan Safran Foer - author
- Harrison Ford (b. 1942), American actor (philosophy major, but never completed degree)
- Michael Frayn (b. 1933), English playwright and novelist
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991), Canadian literary critic
- Ricky Gervais (b. 1961), English actor and comedian
- Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (1792-1854), German historian
- Philip Glass (b. 1937), American composer
- Rebecca Goldstein, novelist and MacArthur prize winner
- Matt Groening (b. 1954), American cartoonist and creator of The Simpsons
- Abimael Guzmán (b. 1934), Peruvian revolutionary
- Tenzin Gyatso (b. 1935), 14th Dalai Lama (Lharampa degree in Buddhist Philosophy (roughly equivalent to a doctorate))
- Howard Hampton (b. 1952), Canadian politician
- Chris Hardwick, American actor
- Christy Haubegger, editor of LATINA
- Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., American educationalist
- Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005), American economist
- Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), American actress
- Bill Hicks (comedian)
- Gerald Hillman, American industrialist and financier
- Gertrude Himmelfarb (b. 1922), American historian
- Carl Icahn (b. 1936), American billionaire financier
- Bijan Jazani (1938-1975), Persian political activist
- Sean Cw Johnson, American actor
- Donald Judd (1928-1994), American artist and sculptor
- Michael Keenan (b. 1972), Australian politician
- Kate Kelton (b. 1978), German actress (philosophy minor)
- Claudia Kennedy (b. 1947), American general
- Joseph P. Kerwin (b. 1932), NASA astronaut
- Morris Kirksey (1895-1981), American Olympic gold medalist
- Herbert Kohl, educationalist
- Teresa Kok Suh Sim (b. 1964}, Malaysian politician
- Eija-Riitta Korhola (b. 1959), Finnish politician
- Lam Quang Thi (b. 1932), Vietnamese military leader
- Charlotte Laws (b. 1960), author and politician
- William P. Leahy, SJ (b. 1948), president of Boston College
- Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor (graduation unconfirmed)
- Michael Lerner, American political activist and editor
- Brian Liesegang (b. 1970), guitarist from Filter
- Alan Lomax (1915-2002), American folklorist and musicologist
- Kamala Lopez-Dawson, American actress and filmmaker
- Terrence Malick (b. 1943), American film director and screenwriter
- Subcomandante Marcos, Mexican revolutionary
- Robert McNamara, US Secretary of Defence 1961
- Steve Martin (b. 1945), American comedian (philosophy major, but never completed degree)
- Paul Martin -former Canadian primeminister
- Valerio Mastandrea (b. 1972), Italian actor
- Jerry Mathers (b. 1948), American actor
- Frances Lee McCain (b. 1944), American actress
- Robert McNamara (b. 1916), former U.S. Secretary of Defense and former president of the World Bank
- Conor McPherson (b. 1971), Irish playwright and director
- Dariush Mehrjui (b. 1939), Iranian film director and writer
- Deepa Mehta (b. 1950), Canadian film director and screenwriter
- Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948-2003), Brazilian UN diplomat
- Bob Moses, civil rights activist
- Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), American painter
- Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), Irish novelist
- Lachlan Murdoch (b. 1971), American media magnate
- Bill Murray, (actor and comedian; studied Philosophy at the Sorbonne, Paris)
- Robert Musil (1880-1942), Austrian novelist
- Julie Newmar (b. 1933), American actress
- Nick the Greek (1883-1966), professional gambler
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919-1995), American atheist
- Lembit Öpik (b. 1965), British politician
- Pope John Paul II
- Frank Pastore, American baseball player
- Freeman Patterson, photographer
- Stone Phillips, Investigative Journalist
- Chaim Potok (1929-2002), American author
- Zbigniew Preisner (b. 1955), Polish composer
- Marie-Christine Questerbert, French actress and writer
- Richard Riordan (b. 1930), American politician
- Patricia Rozema (b. 1958), Canadian film director and screen writer
- Larry Sanger (b. 1968), co-founder of Wikipedia
- Saskia Sassen (b. 1941), American sociologist and economist
- Barbet Schroeder (b. 1941), French film director
- Xenia Seeberg (b. 1972), German actress
- Myma Seldon (b. 1979), British radio personality
- Paul Shaffer (b. 1949), Canadian actor and musician
- Waen Shepherd, British comedian
- Mallika Sherawat (b. 1981), Indian actress and model
- John Silber (b. 1926), former president of Boston University
- Gene Siskel (1946-1999), American film critic
- Elliott Smith (1969-2003), American songwriter and musician
- Tony Snow, American news personality
- George Soros (b. 1930), American philanthropist
- Gaétan Soucy (b. 1958), Canadian novelist
- David Souter (b. 1939), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Terry Southern (1924-1995), American novelist and screenwriter
- Jane Spencer, American filmmaker
- Jill Sprecher, American filmmaker
- Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880-1919), Slovak politician, diplomat, and astronomer
- Birdie Tebbetts (1912-1999), professional baseball player and manager
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas -child TV Star Home Improvement
- Fred Dalton Thompson (b. 1949), American actor and politician
- Leo Tolstoy (novelist)
- Vicente Lombardo Toledano (1894-1968), Mexican labor leader
- Jenny Toomey, American musician and activist
- Alex Trebek (b. 1940), Canadian game show host
- Corneliu Vadim Tudor (b. 1949), Romanian politician
- Mark Umbers (b. 1973), English actor
- Deborah Kara Unger (b. 1966), Canadian actress
- Kyösti Virrankoski (b. 1944), Finnish politician
- John Bruce Wallace, American composer, musician and artist
- Matt Yglesias, American political blogger
- Terence Yin (b. 1975), Chinese-American actor
- Moses Znaimer (b. 1942), Canadian television executive
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