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- Department of English -
Famous English Majors
Actors:
* Edward Burns
* Brett Butler
* Chevy Chase
* Joan Cusack
* Matt Damon
* Vin Diesel
* David Duchovny
* Harrison Ford
* Jodie Foster
* James Franco
* Heather Graham
* Famke Janssen
* Tommy Lee Jones
* Paul Newman
* Gwyneth Paltrow
* David Hyde Pierce
* Christopher Reeve
* Susan Sarandon
* Julia Stiles
* Emma Thompson
* James Van Der Beek
* Sigourney Weaver
* Reese Witherspoon
* Renee Zellweger
Astronauts:
* Sally Ride
Cartoonists:
* Cathy Guisewite
Directors:
* James Cameron
* Kimberly Peirce
* Martin Scorcese
* Steven Spielberg
Football Coaches:
* Joe Paterno (Penn State)
* Marty Shottenheimer (San Diego Chargers)
Government:
* Carol Browner, former EPA Director
* Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York
* Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury
* Donald Regan, Former President of Merrill Lynch, Secretary of the Treasury
* Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice
* Pete Wilson, former Governor of California
Journalists:
* Russell Baker
* Dave Barry
* Richard Rodriguez
* Diane Sawyer
* Helen Thomas
* Bob Woodward
Management:
* Michael Eisner, Disney CEO
* A. Bartlett Giamatti, President, Yale University and Commissioner of Baseball
* Kathryn Fuller, World Wildlife Fund Director
* Michael Lynne, Chairman of New Line Cinema
* Herb Scannell, President, Nickolodeon, MTV Networks
Musicians:
* Don Henley
* Chris Isaak
* Mark Knopfler
* Kris Kristofferson
* Randy Owen
* Paul Simon
* Sting
Nobel Laureates in Medicine:
* Harold Varmus
Radio:
* Garrison Keillor
Television:
* Joy Behar
* Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
* Johnny Carson
* Ken Jennings, record-setting Jeopardy winner
* Conan O’Brien
* Joan Rivers
* Brandon Tartikoff
* Grant Tinker
* Barbara Walters
Wives of Presidents:
* Laura Bush
Writers:
* Douglas Adams
* T. Coraghessan Boyle
* Gwendolyn Brooks
* Tom Clancy
* Allen Ginsberg
* Joseph Heller
* David Henry Hwang
* Stephen King
* Jhumpa Lahiri
* Bobbie Ann Mason
* Arthur Miller
* Toni Morrison
* Joyce Carol Oates
* Philip Roth
* Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Theodor Geisel)
* Amy Tan
* John Updike
* Eudora Welty
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