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Philosophy

   

NUIG

Department of Philosophy

Some famous people who have studied Philosophy:

           Hollywood/Film/TV

✔     Alex Trebek, (Host TV Show, Jeopardy)

✔     Bruce Lee, (Chinese-American actor)

✔     Dariush Mehrjui, (Iranian film director and writer)

✔     Deepa Mehta, (Canadian film director and screenwriter)

✔     Harrison Ford (actor)

✔     Jay Leno (Host, The Tonight Show)

✔     Katharine Hepburn 1907-2003, (American actress)

✔     Mark Umbers, (English actor)

✔     Ricky Gervais (English actor and comedian)

✔     Steve Allen (writer and comedian)

✔     Steve Martin (comedian & actor)

✔     Susan Sarandon (actress)

✔     Valerio Mastandrea, (Italian actor )

✔     Woody Allen (director, writer and comedian)

         Politics

●       Abimael Guzmán, (Peruvian revolutionary)

●       Angela Davis, (Social Activist and Political Philosopher)

●       Aung San Suu Kyi (Human rights activist and Nobel Peace prize winner)

●       Bijan Jazani 1938-1975, (Persian political activist)

●       Bob Moses, (civil rights activist )

●       Eija-Riitta Korhola, (Finnish politician)

●       Elie Wiesel (Human rights activist)

●       Jerry Brown (former governor of California and presidential candidate)

●       Jonathan Dimbleby, (British political commentator)

●       Lam Quang Thi, (Vietnamese military leader)

●       Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights leader)

●       Michael Keenan, (Australian politician)

●       Milan Rastislav Štefánik 1880-1919, (Slovak politician, diplomat, and astronomer)

●       Paul Martin (former Canadian prime minister)

●       Philippe Busquin, (Belgian politician)

●       Pierre Trudeau (Former Canadian Prime Minister)

●       Rahm Emanuel—Clinton, (White House Political Advisor)

●       Vaclav Havel (former President of Czechoslovakia)

●       Richard Riordan (former mayor of LA)

●       Robert McNamara (former Secretary of Defence, Head of the World Bank)

●       Segundo Ruiz Belvis 1829-1867, (Puerto Rican abolitionist)

●       Sérgio Vieira de Mello 1948-2003, (Brazilian UN diplomat)

●       Teresa Kok Suh Sim, (Malaysian politician)

●       Thomas Jefferson, (U.S. President)

●       William Jefferson Clinton (Former President of the United States)

         Business & Economics

●       Carl Icahn, (American billionaire financier) 

●       Carly Fiorina, (former CEO of Hewlett-Packard)

●       George Soros, (American philanthropist)

●       Gerald Levine (CEO, Time Warner)

●       Herbert Simon, (Economist, and Nobel Laureate)

●       J. Paul Getty (industrialist and founder of Getty Oil)

●       Larry Sanger, (co-founder of Wikipedia)

●       P. Michael Spence (economist and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics)

           The Arts

●       Alexander Solzhenitsin (Political Dissident, Writer)

●       Cayetano Coll y Toste 1850-1930, (Puerto Rican historian)

●       Conor McPherson, (Irish playwright and director)

●       Dave Farrell, (bassist for Linkin Park)

●       Feodor Dostoevsky, (novelist)

●       Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, (Irish novelist)

●       Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler 1792-1854, (German historian)

●       John Bradshaw (American theologian and writer)

●       John Bruce Wallace, (American composer, musician and artist)

●       Kate Millett (author of SEXUAL POLITICS)

●       Ken Follett, (British novelist)

●       Philip K. Dick (science fiction writer)

●       Matt Groening, (American cartoonist and creator of The Simpsons)

●       Michael Frayn, (English playwright and novelist)

●       Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies)

●       Nina Bawden, (British children's writer)

●       Pearl Buck (writer, Pulitzer prize and Nobel prize winner)

●       Rebecca Goldstein (novelist & MacArthur prize recipient)

●       T.S. Eliot (author)

●       William Crawley, (Irish radio personality)

●       Zbigniew Preisner, (Polish composer)

          Sports

●       Birdie Tebbetts 1912-1999, (professional baseball player and manager)

●       Morris Kirksey 1895-1981, (American Olympic gold medallist)

●       Phil Jackson (NBA coach)

          Journalism

●       John Chancellor (journalist, News Anchor)

●       Ivan Frolov (editor of PRAVDA)

●       Mark Hulbert (financial columnist for FORBES magazine) 

●       Stone Phillips, (Investigative Journalist )  

        Law

●       Carol Heckman (first female US magistrate in the Western district)

●       Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin (Canadian Chief Justice)

●       Justice Stephen Breyer (US supreme court)

          Education

●       Charles J. Dougherty, (President of Duquesne University)

●       Herbert Kohl, (educationalist )

●       John Silber, (former President of Boston University)

          Religion

●       Pope John Paul II (Vicar of Christ)

●       Tenzin Gyatso, (14th Dalai Lama)

    

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