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Who Studied Philosophy?

Stephen Breyer: U.S. Supreme Court Justice

David Souter: U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Beverly McLaughlin: Canadian Chief Justice

Woody Allen

George Carlin

Steve Martin

Ricky Gervais

Dennis Miller

Jay Leno

Joan Rivers

Jimmy Kimmel 

Wes Anderson: Filmmaker

Terrence Malick: Filmmaker

Ethan Coen: Filmmaker, Writer

Harrison Ford

David Duchovny

Susan Sarandon

Judd Nelson

Gene Siskel

Alex Trebeck

Jerry Brown: Mayor of Oakland, CA, and former Governor of California

Former President Bill Clinton

Rudi Giuliani

Vaclav Havel: Author and former President of Czechoslovakia

Pierre Trudeau: former Prime Minister of Canada

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Elie Wiesel

Karol Wojtyla: Pope John-Paul II

Steve Allen: writer & comedian

William Bennett: former Drug czar & NEH leader, BOOK OF VIRTUES

Mary Higgins Clark: mystery writer

Elmore Leonard: Novelist

E.L. Doctorow: Writer

Terry Southern: Writer

Hanif Kureishi: Writer

Umberto Eco: Writer

Edward Abbey: Writer

Ellen Gilchrest: Writer

William Gass: Writer

Juan Williams: Journalist

Tony Snow: Journalist, White House Press Secretary

Ben Nelson: Former Governor of Nebraska, Former U.S. Senator

Carly Fiorina: Former CEO Hewlett-Packard, Republican Senatorial Candidate in California

Paul Martin: Former Prime Minister of Canada, Former Canadian Minister of Finance

Sheila Bair: Former Chairperson of the FDIC

Eva Chen: Co-Founder Trend Micro

Rick Rubin: Music Producer, Co-Founder Def Jam Records

Sixto Diaz Rodriguez: Musician, subject of the film "Searching for Sugar Man"

Robert Motherwell: Artist

Robert Shaw: Conductor

Stone Phillips: Journalist

C. Vann Woodward: Historian

Claude Lévi-Strauss: Anthropologist

Anthony J. Leggett: Nobel Prize Winner for Physics

Jean-Marie Lehn: Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry

Norbert Wiener: Mathmatician

Jordan Kotick: Vice-President J.P. Morgan, Wall Street

Carl Icahn: Investor, Billionaire, Philanthropist

Philip K. Dick: science fiction writer

Bill Murray: actor and comedian 

Ricardo Muti: conductor

Errol Morris: documentary film maker

John Elway: former quarterback, Denver Broncos

Ivan Frolov: editor of PRAVDA

Peter Lynch: one of the most successful fund managers of all time, head of the Fidelity Magellan fund 1977-90

Rebecca Goldstein: novelist & MacArthur prize recipient

Christy Haubegger: editor of LATINA

Peter Hoeg: author of SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW

Mark Hulbert: financial columnist for FORBES magazine

Bruce Lee: martial arts & actor

Michael Lerner: editor of TIKKUN

Robert Motherwell: painter

Iris Murdoch: novelist

Freeman Patterson: photographer, author of THE ART OF SEEING

Neil Peart: drummer for rock group, RUSH

Patricia Rozema: film-maker, I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING

Mick Schmidt: former Philadelphia Philly

John Silber: former president of Boston University

Susan Sontag:  essayist

George Soros:  money manager, Soros Foundation

Dave Thomas: SCTV, comedian

Miguel de Unamuno

David Foster Wallace:  novelist & MacArthur prize recipient