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Famous (and Infamous) Individuals with History/Classics Degrees


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Sacha Baron Cohen - BA History, Cambridge

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - BA History, UCLA

George W. Bush - !?!? - BA History, Yale

Robert Gates - MA History, Indiana

Franklin D. Roosevelt - BA History, Harvard

Kurt L. Schmoke, Former Mayor of Baltimore - BA History Yale

E. Annie Proulx, writer - BA History, Vermont

Salman Rushdie, writer - MA History, Cambridge

Jimmy Buffett, singer - BA History, Southern Mississippi U.

Dick Jauron, head coach Buffalo Bills - BA History, Yale

Jerry Brown, former governor of California - BA Classics, Berkeley

E.M. Forster - BA Classics and History, Cambridge

Stephen Chao, former head of Fox and USA networks - BA Classics, Harvard

Lincoln Chaffe, former Senator from Rhode Island - BA Classics, Brown

C.J. Cherryh, science fiction writer - MA Classics, Johns Hopkins

Rita Mae Brown, feminist author - BA Classics, NYU

Bill O'Reilly, Fox News guy - BA History, Marist

Gray Davis, former California governor - BA History, Stanford

Gene Scott, wacky televangelist - BA History, Chico State U.

Orrin Hatch, Utah Senator - BA History, Brigham Young

Ed Norton, actor - BA History Yale

Tony Danza, actor - BA History Education, Dubuque

Martha Stewart - BA History and Architectural History, Barnard

Robert H. Bork, former judge - BA History, Carleton College

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Bill Walton - College and NBA player - BA History, UCLA

Brian Dennehy - actor - BA History, Columbia

Steve Carell - actor (40 Year Old Virgin, The Office US version) - BA History, Dennison U.

 

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Teller (of Penn & Teller), Amherst College Class of '69, degree in Classics and former high school Latin teacher.

 

-- Nephele

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Boris Johnson - Member of Parliament for Henley, and all round god - BA Classics, Oxford.

 

Hugh Laurie - actor (House, Blackadder, The Young Ones) - BA Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge.

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Boris Johnson - Member of Parliament for Henley, and all round god - BA Classics, Oxford.

 

Hugh Laurie - actor (House, Blackadder, The Young Ones) - BA Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge.

 

Our Boris is one of us? That is really good news, Wot! I adore that man :)

 

(ETA: And at last I've been able to post in this blessed thread! But I am on the daughter's laptop....)

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In a few months you can add me!

 

Julius Ratus -- B.A. History (Russ. Minor) UNO

 

We will pay you even more respect than we do already, JR - although that would be hard to do - we think the world of you without any additions!

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