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English University College Cork [25] Mark Kermode: Film critic PhD English Literature University of Manchester: Akash Khurana: Actor PhD Social Sciences: Tata Institute of Social Sciences [26] [27] Wagner Lamounier: Former member of the band Sepultura: DSc: Applied Economics [28] Federal University of Viçosa: Robert A. Leonard: Member of the ...
Jane Jacobs wrote books about city planning, economics, and sociology with only a high school degree and training in journalism and stenography, plus courses at Columbia University's extension school. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant, built the most powerful microscopes of his time and used them to make biological discoveries. [62]
Before the movie sets and private jets, these A-list celebrities actually went to study halls and slept in dorms.
Christopher Hitchens, English-American author and polemicist; John Holmes, British diplomat and UN Under-Secretary-General; Haya Bint Al Hussein, daughter of King Hussein of Jordan, UN messenger of peace; Walter Isaacson, American writer; Antony Jenkins, former CEO of Barclays; Paul Johnson, economist, Director of the Institute for Fiscal ...
Yung Wing (B.A. 1854), first Chinese person to receive an American college degree; Sarah E. Winter (Ph.D. 1992), professor of English at the University of Connecticut; Jada Yuan (B.A. 2000), journalist and author; Hossein Ziai (B.A. 1967), intensive mathematics and physics; (Ph.D. Harvard 1976), medieval philosophy. Jahangir and Eleanor ...
The individual must have either studied at the university (although they may not necessarily have taken a degree), or worked at the university in an academic capacity; others have held fellowships at one of the university's colleges. Honorary fellows or those awarded an honorary degree are not included and neither are non-executive chancellors.
Being a celebrity is often one of the highest degrees of notability, although the word notable is mistaken to be synonymous with the title celebrity, fame, prominence etc. As in Wikipedia, articles written about notable people doesn't necessarily make them a celebrity. The following are lists of celebrities: List of celebrities on The Simpsons
Louis de Bernières, English author and poet [2] Malcolm Bradbury, author; Miguel Esteves Cardoso, Portuguese writer and journalist [3] Brian Cox (C. B. Cox) (1928–2008), professor of English literature, founder of the Poetry Centre [4] Patricia Duncker, British novelist; Terry Eagleton, literary theorist, academic teacher; M. J. Hyland, novelist