I need a list of people who became rich and famous without college degrees. After high school, he joined his father to work in the oil fields. He did take some photography classes at CCNY but never graduated from any college. Mila Kunis, actress. Dropped out of college. Olivia Newton-John, singer, actress, author. Has sold more than 4 million copies of Your Best Life Now. Dan Panoz, founder of Panoz Auto Development car design firm. Dropped out of high school to pursue his musical career. Elizabeth Hardwick, literary critic and co-founder of The New York Review of Books. Turned business into the world's largest mozzarella producer. Doris Lessing, novelist. Microphone, Showtime Rotisserie, and more. Dean Potter, climber and slack-liner. He never attended college. Peter La Haye, Sr., inventor of plastic replacement lenses for cataract patients, owner of La Haye Laboratories and Neoptx. After a year at Burroughs High School in Burbank, California, she dropped out. Got cleaned up at the age of 20. He never finished college, after being expelled from Harvard twice (one involving some chorus girls). J. Dropped out of high school but later earned a high school equivalency degree. Jack Benny, actor, comedian, violinist. Smith, president of Florida A&M University. Has not yet attended college. Went to college for seven years but never graduated. As he noted, "I left high school with the option of returning whenever I wanted. In an interview in Glamour magazine, she said that leaving college was one the toughest choices she ever made: "I do still have a desire, a pang in my heart, when I think about it and the fact that I didn't spend my four years with my friends." Joey Bishop, actor, comedian. I have two weekly tutorials with a friend of mine." Stewart Rahr, billionaire founder of Kinray pharmacy distributor, philanthropist. Dropped out of Harvard to continue working on the social networking website he founded in his dorm room in 2004. Wallace was self-taught, via frequent visits to libraries and workingman's institutes, while working as a land surveyor, a builder, and a school teacher. DeWitt Wallace, founder and publisher of Reader's Digest, philanthropist. "Eventually I came to conclude that I could not find real knowledge in academic life, only hierarchies of knowledge that led, ultimately, to more hierarchies, not to more knowledge. Later took night classes and attended the University of New Orleans, where he earned a Master's degree in physics. He dropped out of elementary school but later attended high school night courses and some college. Hilary Swank, actress, swimmer, gymnast. Dropped out of Syracuse University.
I need a list of people who became rich and famous without college degrees.
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