List of dropouts
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Notable dropouts include:
Grammar school[edit]
- André the Giant
- Gérard Depardieu
- Thomas Edison
- Benjamin Franklin
- Andy Gibb
- Adolf Hitler
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Johnson
- Jack Lalanne
- Sophia Loren
- Rod McKuen
- Sidney Poitier
- Barry Williams
High school[edit]
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- Danny Aiello[1]
- Dean Ambrose
- Billie Joe Armstrong[2]
- Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin[3]
- Brigitte Bardot[1]
- Harry Belafonte[1]
- Jack Black
- Robert Blake[1]
- Sonny Bono[1]
- Bjorn Borg[1]
- David Bowie[1]
- Sir Richard Branson[4]
- Ellen Burstyn[1]
- Bushwick Bill
- Nicolas Cage
- Sir Michael Caine
- Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.[5]
- Glen Campbell[1]
- George Carlin[1]
- Gurbaksh Chahal[6]
- John Chancellor[1]
- Cher[1]
- Kurt Cobain[7]
- Jackie Collins[1]
- Sir Sean Connery[1]
- Bradford Cox
- Roger Daltrey[1]
- Johnny Depp[1]
- Bo Derek[1]
- Walt Disney[8]
- Drake
- Eazy-E[9]
- Jeri Ellsworth
- Eminem[10]
- Michael Enright[11]
- Lola Falana[1]
- Bobby Fischer, Erasmus Hall High School[12]
- Carrie Fisher[1]
- Michael J. Fox[1]
- Redd Foxx[1]
- Jerry Garcia[1]
- James Garner[1]
- Marvin Gaye[13]
- Boy George[1]
- Superbarrio Gómez
- Marjoe Gortner[1]
- Cary Grant[1]
- Eugene Turenne Gregorie
- Dave Grohl[14]
- Gene Hackman[1]
- Merle Haggard[1]
- Arin Hanson
- Marvin Hewitt[15]
- Beland Honderich[16]
- Lena Horne[1]
- Darrell Issa[17]
- Jay-Z[18]
- Peter Jennings[1]
- Waylon Jennings[1]
- Sir Tom Jones[1]
- Duke Kahanamoku, Kamehameha Schools[19]
- Hitomi Kanehara[20]
- David Karp[21]
- Eartha Kitt[1]
- Evel Knievel[1]
- KRS-One
- Jerry Lewis[1]
- Loretta Lynn[1]
- Charles Manson[1]
- Bam Margera[22]
- Dean Martin[1]
- Lee Marvin[1]
- Elaine May[1]
- Steve McQueen[1]
- Melina Mercouri[1]
- Robert Mitchum[1]
- Sir Roger Moore[1]
- Madman Muntz
- David H. Murdock[23]
- Dave Mustaine
- Nas[24]
- Olivia Newton-John[1]
- The Notorious B.I.G.[25]
- Juan Carlos Onetti[26]
- Peter O'Toole[1]
- Al Pacino[1]
- Teddy Pendergrass[27]
- Paula Poundstone
- Prince[1]
- Richard Pryor[1]
- John Andrew Quale
- Anthony Quinn[1]
- James Earl Ray[28]
- Harold Robbins[1]
- Glen L Roberts[29]
- Danny Rolling[30]
- Vidal Sassoon[1]
- Scarface
- Tupac Shakur[31]
- Arthur Shawcross[32]
- Alicia Silverstone[33]
- Jessica Simpson[33]
- Frank Sinatra[1]
- Slash[33][34]
- Ringo Starr[1]
- Rod Steiger[1]
- Hilary Swank
- Quentin Tarantino[1]
- Danny Thomas[1]
- Dave Thomas[35]
- Randy Travis[1]
- John Travolta[1]
- Chester Turner[36]
- Sir Peter Ustinov[1]
- Robert Wagner[1]
- The Weeknd
- Flip Wilson[1]
- Frank Lloyd Wright[37]
- Wright Brothers[38]
- Ingvar Kamprad
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
College[edit]
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- Alexander Hamilton, Columbia University
- Paul Allen, Washington State University
- Woody Allen, New York University[39]
- Cecil Andrus, Oregon State College
- William J. A. Bailey, Harvard University
- Steve Ballmer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Phil Batt, University of Idaho
- Andrew Black, University of Exeter[40]
- Anthony Bourdain, Vassar College[41]
- Chase Clark, University of Michigan
- James Dean, UCLA[42]
- Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin[43]
- Larry Ellison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Chicago
- Jeri Ellsworth
- William Faulkner, University of Mississippi[44]
- Arash Ferdowsi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology[45]
- Bill Gates, Harvard University[46]
- David Geffen,[47] Santa Monica City College, Brooklyn College, University of Texas at Austin
- Akira Gunji, Meiji University
- Anders Hejlsberg, Technical University of Denmark
- Enrique Iglesias, University of Miami
- Steve Jobs, Reed College[8][48]
- Jack Kerouac, Columbia University[49]
- Alicia Keys, Columbia University[50]
- Panos Kiamos, University of Athens
- Ashton Kutcher, University of Iowa
- John Mayer, Berklee College of Music[51]
- Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi, Kyoto University
- Cormac McCarthy, University of Tennessee
- Kunihiko Muroi, Otemon Gakuin University
- Yoshio Nakagawa, Kanagawa University
- Seun Osewa, University of Ife
- Rebecca Romijn, University of California Santa Cruz
- Takashi Sasagawa, Meiji University
- Bruce Springsteen, Ocean County College[52]
- Sylvester Stallone, University of Miami[53]
- John Steinbeck, Stanford University[54]
- Hiroshi Tachi, Chiba Institute of Technology
- Nikola Tesla, Graz University of Technology[55][56][57][58]
- Kanye West, Chicago State University[59]
- Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard University[47]
- Gabe Newell, Harvard University[47]
- James Cameron, Fullerton College [47]
Doctorates[edit]
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- Joseph Campbell[60]
- Robin Farquharson[61][62]
- Armando Iannucci[63]
- Elon Musk, Stanford University (after 2 days) [64]
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