<p>Norman Vinvent Peale--Ohio Wesleyan</p>
<p>Virginia Apgar-Mount Holyoke</p>
<p>Now THERE'S an interesting and awesome person.</p>
<p>HUGH HEFNER - University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign</p>
<p>Douglas Adams - St John's College, Cambridge, England</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>The people who made youtube...</p>
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By far most writers did not go to a prestigious school; by far most GREAT writers did not go to a prestigious school. Many did not even go to college (Hemingway, for example).
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And the reason for this is that fiction comes out of great knowledge :-
<p>Some writers who hide away in universities only write about the arguments they have had or the students they have screwed. They stay in the universities because they want security. And you can’t be a writer if you want to be safe. You end up writing about the mortgage and the safe job.</p>
<p>In the English tradition very little has come out of the universities. Gibbon had nothing to do with universities though he produced a great work of scholarship. Dickens didn’t come out of the university.
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<p>Jimmy Wales</p>
<p>okay, fine, Robert Millikan went to Oberlin, too.</p>
<p>katie couric, uva
robert mcnamara (fmr sec def.), uc berkeley
umm there are plenty of people.
former sf mayor willie brown, sf state, hastings</p>
<p>current san francisco mayor, gavin newsom. he went to santa clara university.
jimmy carter, ga sw coll, ga tech... us naval acad</p>
<p>Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne: Didn't go to college</p>
<p>besides, you can always try for grad school.</p>
<p>Alan Greenspan, PhD New York University
George Soros, BA London School of Economics</p>
<p>and a bunch of music bands that dropped of the Berklee College of Music.</p>
<p>quentin tarantino</p>
<p>John Stewart went to William & Mary, though I suppose it has an Ivy-ish reputation of sorts.</p>
<p>yeah and w&m is public! +1 for non-ivies</p>
<p>george w bush
wait he doesn't fit the college category nor successful category</p>
<p>Michael Jackson</p>
<p>Britney Spears</p>
<p>Hilton Paris</p>
<p>Nancy Kopell-UC berkeley</p>
<p>Kelly Clarkson...I'm not sure where did she go.</p>
<p>Pablo Escobar</p>
<p>Pablo Escobar lol</p>
<p>Gald we noted that Oprah was at Tennessee State. </p>
<p>Some other great ones from the too-often overlooked HBCUs</p>
<p>Ruth Simmons. Brown president, Dillard
Marva Collins, educator, Clark Atlanta
Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Morehouse
P. Diddy, Howard
Rod Page, former US Educ. Secy., Jackson State
Earl Graves, Black Enterprise publisher, Morgan State
Ralph Ellison, writer, Tuskeegee
John Hope Frankiln , historian, and Marion "the b***h set me up" Barry, Fisk
Kwame Nkrumah, First president of Ghana, Lincoln U.</p>