
Some Famous Philosophy Grads


 | Politics: Bill Clinton (former US president), Rudi Giuliani (former New York mayor), Thomas Jefferson (former US president)
|  | Religion: Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Bernardin, and yet also Madelyn Murray O'Hair (prominent atheist)
|  | Film: Deepa Mehta, Ethan Coen, Wes Anderson, Fiona Shaw, Terence Malick, Patricia Rozema, Bruce Lee, Marsha Norman
|  | Literature: Iris Murdoch, Robert Musil, Umberto Eco, Chaim Potok, Pearl Buck
|  | Media: Alex Trebek, Alexandre Trudeau, Gene Siskel, Susan Sontag, Juan Williams, Moses Znaimer
|  | Social Activism: Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Aung San Suu Kyi
|  | Business: P. Michael Spence (Nobel Prize winning economist), Carly Fiorina (CEO Hewlett Packard), George Soros (financier)
|  | Nobel Laureates who were Philosophy Majors:
|  | Rudolf Ecken (Literature 1908), Henri Bergson (Literature 1927), Pearl Buck (Literature 1937), Bertrand Russell (Literature 1950), Albert Schweitzer (Peace 1952), Georges Pires (Peace 1958), Jean-Marie Lehn (Chemistry 1987), Maurice Allais (Economics 1988), P. Michael Spence (Economics 2001), Aung San Suu Kyi (Peace 2002) |
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