User:Wikipetia4/JDdropouts

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