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) |
