User:Cjs2111/JDdropouts
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US/Canada - people who did not complete law school (LLB/JD programs). Does not count those who left after passing the bar (e.g. the Roosevelts).
- Henry Adams (Berlin) - writer
- Alfred Bester (Columbia) - science fiction writer
- Claude Brown - lecturer
- William Christian Bullitt, Jr. - US ambassador to the Soviet Union
- Wynn Bullock - photographer
- Allan B. Calhamer - created the board game Diplomacy
- W. J. Cash - author and journalist
- Joe Clark - Prime Minister of Canada
- Leonard Cohen (McGill and Columbia) - poet/songwriter
- John Sherman Cooper - US Senator
- Danny Fields - punk rock figure
- Carly Fiorina - CEO
- Richard Ford - novelist and short story writer
- Elizabeth Furse - Congresswoman
- Henry Louis Gates (Yale) - African-American studies pioneer
- Al Gore (Vanderbilt) - US Vice President
- James L. Haley - historian
- Howard Harris - comedy writer
- Arthur A. Hartman - ambassador to France and the Soviet Union
- Paul Henning - TV writer/producer
- Henry James (Harvard) - novelist; said of law school "never, nevermore"
- Lyndon B. Johnson (Georgetown) - US President
- Jodi Kantor (Harvard) - journalist
- George S. Kaufman - playwright/director
- Philip Kaufman (Harvard) - film director/screenwriter
- Gene Kelly - actor/dancer
- Harper Lee - novelist
- David Levering Lewis - historian
- Marv Levy - football coach
- Demetri Martin (NYU) - comedian
- Pat McCormick - comedian
- Gordon McLendon - created the Top 40 radio format
- Michael Medved (Harvard) - author, critic, talkshow host
- Louis Menand - writer and historian
- David Milch - television producer
- Enrique Murciano - actor
- George Murdock - anthropologist
- Michael Ovitz - Hollywood talent agent
- Estelle Parsons - actress
- Cole Porter - musician
- Roscoe Pound - Harvard Law dean
- Donald Regan - Secretary of Treasury, Chief of Staff
- Alberto Ríos - writer
- Angelo Rizzuto - photographer
- Karen Robards - romance novelist
- Theodore Roethke - poet
- Diane Sawyer (Louisville) - news reporter/anchor
- Lisa Marie Scott - model/actress
- Henry Merwin Shrady - sculptor
- William James Sidis - child prodigy
- Alfred D. Sieminski - US Congressman
- Leslie Marmon Silko - writer
- Robert B. Silvers - book review editor
- Paul Simon - musician
- Adlai Stevenson - presidential candidate
- Harry S. Truman - US President
- Edward Tyll - radio talk show host
- Laurie Wallace - model
- Max Weinberg (Cardozo) - drummer; "an epiphany on the nature of life and happiness during first year property class caused him to withdraw on the spot"
- Les Wexner - founder and CEO of the Limited
- Woodrow Wilson (Virginia) - US President
- C. D. Wright - poet
Non-US - most likely pursued law in undergrad and left before receiving a bachelors
- Mattia Battistini - operatic tenor
- Edgar Degas - artist
- Edmund Dulac - illustrator
- Rudolf Hrušínský - actor
- Fernand Khnopff - painter
- Manuel Mujica Láinez - actor
- Maurice Leblanc - writer
- Martin Luther - theologian (actually left at graduate level)
- Karl Marx - political theorist
- Julian McMahon - model
- Robert Schumann - composer
- Bertrand Tavernier - French film figure
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - composer
- Theo van Gogh - film director
