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These are names most people recognize, but would be shocked to know they are college drop-outs:
Warren Beatty
Cindy Crawford
Willie Nelson
Brad Pitt
Edgar Allen Poe
Burt Reymolds
Dennis Quaid

Carson Daly
Matt Damon
Jeff Daniels
Mary-Kate Olsen
Gilda Radner
Lou Reed
James Dean
Woody Allen

Ellen DeGeneres
Kirstie Alley
Courtney Cox Arquette
Dan Aykroyd
Vin Diesel
Carol Burnett
Charlie Rich

Richard Gere

Barry Goldwater
James Cagney
Dustin Nguyen
Rosie O'Donnell
Keith Carradine
Raymond Chandler
Jill Clayburgh
Neil Diamond

Jamie Foxx
Matt Gould
Sean P. Diddy Combs
David Copperfield
Arlo Guthrie
Tom Hanks
Helen Hunt

Enrique Iglesias
Burl Ives
J.D. Salinger
Dustin Hoffman
Hubert Humphrey
F Scott Fitzgerald
Kevin James
Norah Jones

Michael Keaton
Ashton Kutcher
Rush Limbaugh
Matt Lauer
Huey Lewis
Lisa Ling

Heather Locklear
Madonna
Steve Martin
Jenny McCarthy
William McKinley
Eva Mendes
Natalie Merchant
Bill Murray

Steven Spielberg
Sharon Stone
Marisa Tomei
Keenan Ivory Wayans
Marlon Wayans
Kanye West

Tennessee Williams
Bruce Willis
James Woods
Frank Lloyd Wright

Donny Most (Happy Day's Ralph Malph)
Anson Wilson (Happy Day's Potsie)
Steve Miller of the Steve Miller Band

+ These are Millionaires, with a few scattered billionariers among them:
* Hiroshi Yamauchi - (Billionaire) Nintendo Corporation
Steve Wozniak - Founder Apple Computers
George Westinghouse - Westinghouse Electric Company
Edwin H. Land - Polaroid Company
Steve Jobs - Co-Founder Apple Computers
Michael Dell - Dell computers

Ruth Handler - Mattel, Barbie Doll
Tom Ford - Gucci
Ted Turner - Media Mogul
Donald John Tyson - Tyson Foods
Molly Sims - Victoria Secret
Ty Warner - Beanie Babies
Winthrop Rockefeller - Banking

Jann Wenner - Rolling Stone Magazine
Tom Monaghan - Domino's Pizza

James Monroe - 5th President of the United States
Harry Truman - 33rd President of the United States

John H Johnson - Ebony, Jet Magazine
Edward Jones - Dow Jones Industrial Average
H Wayne Huizenga - Blockbuster Video, Sports Team Owner
Ben Cohen - Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
Theodore Waitt (Billionaire) Gateway Computers
Joshua Lionel Cowen - Lionel trains
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Phanthom of the Opera
Leo Tolstoy - Author of War & Peace
Karl Rove - White House Senior Advisor
Frank McKinney - Built the Worlds Most Expensive Spec Home, $29.9 Million in Florida

James Cayne (Billionaire)- Bear Stearns
David Filo (Billionaire)- Yahoo
Jerry Yang (Billionaire)- Yahoo
Bill Gates (Billionaire)- Microsoft
Richard Li (Billionaire)- Telecom
Jack Taylor (Billionaire) Rent A Car

Richard Grasso - CEO of The New York Stock Exchange
Sidney Frank - Grey Goose vodka
William Boeing - Boeing Aircraft
Walter Anderson - White Castle Burgers
Milton Bradley - Games
Kevin Liles - Vice Pres. Warner Music Group, Pres. Def Jam

Paul Allen - Microsoft
Steven Ballmer - Microsoft
Shawn Fanning - NAPSTER
Heidi Dinan - Mrs. America
Roman Abramovich - Oil Baron
Sheldon Adelson - Casinos, Hotels

Cruz Bustamante - Lt Governor of California
David Byrne - Talking Heads
Brooke Burke - Wild On! TV Host
James Cameron - Titanic

Asa Candler - Purchased Coca-Cola for $2300 from the inventor
Tucker Carlson - Host CNN's Crossfire
William Hanna - Hanna-Barbera

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