Top 10 Famous University Dropouts
He left Harvard to invent that site you spend way too much time on.
He just left. Hilarious!
Gates attended Harvard in the fall of 1973, only to drop out two years later to found Microsoft with childhood buddy Paul Allen. In 2007, he ended up receiving an honorary degree from Harvard.
The CNN creator was expelled from Brown University after he was caught with a girl in his room.
He was set to be a journalist when he dropped out of the University of Missouri, two weeks before graduation.
I mean, he never did anything to demonstrate his intelligence
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, producer, and LGBT activist. DeGeneres starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003. This funny lady dropped out of the University of New Orleans after just one semester. Maybe she got the last laugh after all.
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She dropped out of Tennessee State University.
Wow! I should have known that
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He left Princeton University because of poor grades.
Didn't he come out ahead in the end!
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Natasha Anne Bedingfield is an English singer and songwriter. Bedingfield released her debut album, Unwritten, in 2004, which contained primarily up-tempo pop songs and was influenced by R&B music. Well she's a singer but does she have many brains?
He withdrew from the University of California, Berkeley, only one year after enrolling.
He is an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s (along with Apple Computer co-founder, Steve Jobs). Wozniak is also an inventor, electronics engineer, and computer programmer who single-handedly developed the 1976 Apple I, the computer that launched Apple.
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, mainly Your Show of ...read more. He was thrown out of New York University after one semester for poor grades. He also dropped out of City College of New York. As he admitted, "I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles in Splash, Big, Turner & Hooch, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail, The Green Mile, the Toy Story Franchise, Cast Away, The Da Vinci Code, Captain Phillips, ...read more.
Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Left the University of Vermont after one semester. Then dropped out of Occidental College to pursue acting.
The funny guy from The Blues Brothers dropped out of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. ...read more.
Dropped out of medical school at the University of Bologna because he couldn't stand the sight of blood.
Dropped out of 2 universities - California Institute of Technology and Rice University.
Then founded Hughes Aircrafts and Co and went on to become a billionaire.
America's most celebrated architect spent more time designing colleges than attending them.
He left the University of Wisconsin-Madison after only one year.
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter. He is ranked among Forbes magazine's most bankable stars and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.
John Clayton Mayer is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mayer attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but disenrolled and moved to Atlanta in 1997 with Clay Cook. Together, they formed a short-lived two-man band called Lo-Fi Masters.