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30 Philosophy graduates who did ok!

Black and white photo of Philip K Dick
  • Philip K. Dick (science fiction writer - pictured)
  • Nina Bawden (author)
  • Stewart Butterfield (CEO Flickr and Slack)
  • Bill Clinton (US President)
  • Ethan Coen (film director)
  • Angela Davis (civil rights activist)
  • David Duchovny (actor, X-Files)
  • TS Eliot (poet)
  • Carly Fiorina (CEO Hewlett Packard)
  • Harrison Ford (actor)
    • Susan Sontag
  • Susan Sontag (essayist - pictured, image©Lynn_Gilbert)
  • Ricky Gervais (actor & comedian)
  • Phillip Glass (composer)
  • Matt Groening (The Simpsons creator)
  • Vaclav Havel (former President of Czechoslovakia)
  • Christopher Hitchens (journalist and essayist)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights leader)
  • Bruce Lee (martial arts expert & actor)
  • Steve Martin (comedian & actor)
  • Moby (musician)
  • Iris Murdoch (novelist)
  • Neil Peart (drummer for rock group Rush)
  • Pope John Paul II (Pope)
    • Kate Millet
  • Kate Millett (author of Sexual Politics - pictured)
  • Steve Reich (composer)
  • Susan Sarandon (actor)
  • George Soros (money manager, Soros Foundation)
  • Pierre Trudeau (former Canadian Prime Minister)
  • Christy Turlington (model, businesswoman)
  • David Foster Wallace (novelist & MacArthur prize recipient)

Compiled by Alison Ainley, Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences