Famous Economics Majors
Feb 21st, 2008 by wintercow20
Me … ok, so I am not famous | Senior Economist at AIER (Cornell University, Ph.D.) |
Abdullah Gül | Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (Istanbul University, Ph.D.) |
Alex Keaton | TV sitcom character (the mythical Leland College ) |
Anatoly Chubais | Former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (St. Petersburg Institute, Ph.D.) |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | Body Builder/Actor/Governor ( University of Wisconsin ) |
Austin Carr | Former NBA player (Notre Dame) |
Barbara Boxer | US Senator (Brooklyn College) |
Ben Stein | Actor/political speechwriter ( Columbia University ) |
Bernie Kosar | NFL quarterback ( University of Miami ) |
Bill Belichick | NFL Head Coach–Patriots ( Wesleyan University ) |
Billy Kidd | Professional Skier (University of Colorado) |
Billy Packer | Sports Broadcaster (Wake Forest) |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari | Former President of Mexico ( Harvard University , Ph.D.) |
Cate Blanchett | Actress ( Melbourne University ) |
Col. Eileen Collins | NASA Shuttle Commander (Syracuse University) |
Danny Glover | Actor (University of San Francisco) |
Diane von Furstenberg | Fashion Designer (University of Geneva) |
Dick Armey | US Congressman ( University of Oklahoma , PhD) |
Duck-Woo Nam | Former Prime Minister of South Korea (Oklahoma State University, Ph.D.) |
Ernesto Zedillo | Former President of Mexico ( Yale University , Ph.D.) |
Esther Dyson | Silicon Valley software pioneer (Harvard) |
Famke Janssen | Actress (University of Amsterdam) |
Gene Kelly | Actor/Dancer (University of Pittsburgh) |
General Anthony Zinni | U.S. Marine Corps General (Ret.) (Villanova) |
George Bush | Former US President (Yale) |
George Schultz | Former US Secretary of State ( Princeton ; MIT Ph.D) |
George Wendt | Actor (Rockhurst College) |
Greg Ginn | Musician–Black Flag /SST Records founder (UCLA) |
James Blake | Pro Tennis Player (Harvard ** ) |
Janez Drnovsek | Prime Minister of Slovenia (University of Maribor, Ph.D.) |
Jennifer Azzi | WNBA guard Utah Starzz (Stanford) |
Jim Bunning | US Congressman/Hall of Fame Baseballer (Xavier) |
John Elway | NFL quarterback (Stanford) |
John Snow | US Secretary of Treasury (University of Virginia, PhD) |
John Sweeny | President, AFL-CIO (Iona College) |
Josiah “Jed” Bartlett | Fictional US President on NBC’s West Wing (Notre Dame, PhD) |
Kenneth Lay | Former CEO of Enron (University of Houston, PhD) |
Lenny Wilkens | NBA Coach/Hall of Famer ( Providence College ) |
Leszek Balcerowicz | President of the National Bank of Poland (Warsaw School of Economics, Ph.D.) |
Lionel Richie | Singer/Songwriter ( Tuskegee University ) |
Manmohan Singh | Prime Minister of India ( Oxford University , Ph.D.) |
Mario Van Peebles | Actor/Director ( Columbia ) |
Meg Whitman | CEO, Ebay Technologies (Princeton) |
Merlin Olson | Actor/Former NFL player ( Utah State University ) |
Mick Jagger | Rolling Stones ( London School of Economics ** ) |
Mike Mussina | MLB Pitcher (Stanford) |
Paul Newman | Actor (Kenyon College) |
Peter Gallagher | Actor (Tufts) |
Peter Vidmar | Olympic Gold Medalist Gymnast (UCLA) |
Phil Gramm | US Senator ( University of Georgia, PhD ) |
Ray Manzarek | Musician; The Doors ( DePaul University ) |
Richard Trumka | President of United Mine Workers ( Penn State ) |
Robert Prosky | Actor (Temple) |
Ronald Reagan | Former US President ( Eureka College ) |
Roy Romer | Governor of Colorado ( Colorado State ; Ag Econ) |
Ruud Lubbers | Former Prime Minister of The Netherlands (Netherlands School of Economics |
Sandra Day-O’Connor | US Supreme Court Justice (Stanford) |
Scott Adams | Cartoonist, creator of Dilbert ( Hartwick College ) |
Scott McNealy | CEO, Sun Microsystems (Harvard) |
Steve Ballmer | CEO, Microsoft (Harvard) |
Ted Turner | CNN, Atlanta Braves/Hawks (Brown) |
Tiger Woods | Golfer (Stanford ** ) |
William F. Buckley | Journalist (Yale) |
William Harrison, Jr. | CEO, JP Morgan Chase (UNC-Chapel Hill) |
William Isaac | Former Chairman of FDIC (??) |
Young M.C. | Singer ( University of Southern California ) |
Kofi Annan | Secretary General of the United Nations (Macalaster College) |
Benjamin McKenzie | Actor (University of Virginia) |
Steve Fossett | Aviation pioneer (Stanford) |
Viktor Yuschenko | President of Ukraine (Ternopil Financial and Economic Institute, Ph.D.) |
Stephen Harper | Prime Minister of Canada (University of Calgary) |
Geir H. Haarde | Prime Minister of Iceland (Brandeis University) |
Roger Goodell | NFL Commissioner (Washington and Jefferson) |
Donald Trump | Real Estate/TV Mogul (University of Pennsylvania–Wharton) |
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander | First black woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in the United States (and it was in economics from the University of Pennsylvania). |
Yuliya Tymoshenko | Prime Minister of Ukraine (Dnipropetrovs’k State University, Ph.D.) |
Brendan Morrison | NHL player (University of Michigan) |