Famous People

"What can I do with an English major?"

  Anything you want!

  Did you know that the following people majored in English?

  Alan Alda Television and stage star; M*A*S*H
  Russell Baker

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner; retired in 1998 after 36 years as
   a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page

  Dave Barry Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald
  Linda Bloodworth-Thomason Writer/Producer/Creator; Designing Women, Evening Shade
  Carol Browner Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency
  John Cleese Monty Python
  Chevy Chase Actor and comic; Saturday Night Live; National Lampoon's Vacation
  Mario Cuomo Former governor of New York; author; attorney
  David Duchovny Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files
  Michael Eisner Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at
  The Walt Disney Company
  Jodie Foster Academy Award-winning actress; Silence of the Lambs
  Kathryn Fuller World Wildlife Fund President
  Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) Academy, Emmy, Peabody, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author;
   The Cat in the Hat
  Hugh Grant Notting Hill; Four Weddings and a Funeral
  A. Bartlett Giamatti Scholar and former commissioner of baseball
  Cathy Guisewite Creator of Cathy comic strip
  Tommy Lee Jones The Fugitive; Lonesome Dove
  Chris Isaak Singer/songwriter/host of The Chris Isaak Show
  Paul Newman Academy Award-winning actor; The Color of Money
  Joe Paterno Penn State head coach; "Coach of the Year" 4 times
  Sally Ride Astronaut; first American woman in space
  Diane Sawyer Co-anchor, ABC's Good Morning America and Prime Time Thursday
  Paul Simon Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter; Graceland
  Steven Spielberg Academy Award-winning movie director; Saving Private Ryan
  Marty Shottenheimer NFL coach
  Sting The Police; Lock, Stock, and Two Barrels
  Brandon Tartikoff Television executive; The Cosby Show, Cheers, and L.A. Law
  Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
  Grant Tinker NBC Chairman; Lou Grant, Hill Street Blues
  Harold Varmus Nobel Prize winner in medicine-director of National Institutes for Health
  Barbara Walters Host of 20/20 and The View
  Sigourney Weaver Actress; honorary chair to the board of trustees of
   Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
  Pete Wilson Former governor of California; distinguished visiting fellow at the
   Hoover Institute
  Bob Woodward Assistant managing editor at The Washington Post; with Carl Bernstein,
  helped uncover the Watergate affair

Imagine what you can do with an English degree!

   
   

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