<p>William Lydgate
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Bradford
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Imhotep
Ogotai Khan
Caliph Ali
Akbar
Birbal
Ashoka
Shi Huang Di
Minamoto Yoritomo
Basically all women before a certain point, and almost all non-Americans before a certain point.</p>
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george w bush
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<p>He went to Yale.</p>
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Jimmy Wales
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<p>That's Jimbo!</p>
<p>me.</p>
<p>and no, GWB is not a successful person...</p>
<p>But he did go to Yale. I was responding to someone else who said he didn't go to an Ivy League school.</p>
<p>George Bush is the poster child for the rich trust-fund harvard legacy kid that gets everything he wants without ever working for it.</p>
<p>Yes，he has a good family，that is enough.</p>
<p>Alexander the Great</p>
<p>Marquis de Sade</p>
<p>Hitler</p>
<p>Jack the Ripper (I think)</p>
<p>Elizabeth, the Virgin</p>
<p>Ron Jeremy</p>
<p>Mustafa Kemal Ataturk</p>
<p>Hannibal</p>
<p>Simon Bolivar</p>
<p>^^^^^</p>
<p>Oops, one I forgot:</p>
<p>Lucy (also known as Australopithecus afarensis) -- I forgot about her because she isn't technically human, but was a precursor to humanity.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure that about wraps it up. I don't think there are any non-Ivy League grads that have done really well other than these folks.</p>
<p>Jonathan Edwards (if you're talking about the Puritan) went to Yale and graduated valedictorian of his class as a teenager, and he later became president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton.</p>
<p>Oh, fine. Whatever. I get my points back for pointing out someone did the same thing for George Bush.</p>
<p>Edit: I mean, just testing you! And you passed!</p>
<p>Hari Singh
Queen Victoria
Albert Camus
Mohammad
Buddha
Horace Mann
Confucius
Lao-tze
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
Mike Huckabee
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Gadsden
Dmitri Mendeleyev</p>
<p>For extra points, pick out the one who really did go to an Ivy League school! No cheating! (Hint: It's not Confucius)</p>
<p>Cleopatra didn't.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Pwn./******/</p>
<p>HAHAHA no./***/</p>
<p>Pwn./*****/</p>
<p>I AM making a list of those people.</p>
<p>But it's entirely scientist/mathematician oriented. It's actually just to make a case for self-studying</p>
<p>Do you guys need this list so you can feel good about not getting in?</p>
<p>just curious.</p>
<p>The other problem here is the definition of "successful" - which appears to be, by and large, "rich and/or famous in some way." Why is that the only measure of success? Isn't living a decent life, having a good job and enjoying yourself "success" too? I mean, otherwise 99 percent of all of us have to consider our lives as failures, and that doesn't seem to make much sense.</p>
<p>There are literally billions of very successful people around the world who do all sorts of things who never even thought about going to an Ivy.</p>
<p>But if we have to talk about rich - my boss has at least an eight, maybe nine-figure net worth and he graduated from Johnson and Wales, certainly nobody's idea of a prestigious university. What he did do was build up a $20 billion mutual fund from scratch...</p>
<p>You know what's funny? All this time, I've thought that Steve Jobs is that one guy from Dirty Jobs. </p>
<p>But apparently he isn't.</p>
<p>Hitler: didn't go to university but ended up as supreme dictator of Germany.</p>
<p>Lesson learned: Politics and ruling the world are open to anyone, even the idiots and the unsuccessful people ironically.</p>