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Jan 19, 2023 · College is not for everyone, and there are many successful people who prove that. Here is a list of 33 successful people who never went to or finished college: 1. Bill Gates. As the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world.
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- Steve Jobs. Steven Jobs was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT.
- Lil Wayne. Dwayne Michael Carter Jr known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record executive. His career began in 1995, at the age of 12, when he was signed by rapper Birdman, joining Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label.
- Gisele Bündchen. Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes’s top-earning model list in 2012.
- Ellen G. White. Ellen Gould White was an American woman author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with other Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she was instrumental within a small group of early Adventists who formed what became known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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- Steve Jobs. There probably aren't too many people out there that aren't familiar with the story of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Although he did graduate from Homestead High School in 1972, he ended up dropping out of Reed College, an education his parents could barely afford.
- Richard Branson. Richard Branson's net worth is said to be roughly $4.9 billion. Founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Records, Virgin Mobile and other Virgin brands, Branson never completed high school, and dropped out at 16 years of age.
- Dave Thomas. Dave Thomas, founder and CEO of fast-food empire Wendy's, dropped out of high school to work full time at the Hobby House Restaurant in Fort Wayne, Ind.
- David Green. David Green, whose net worth is nearly $6 billion, never went to college. This founder of Hobby Lobby -- a chain of arts and crafts stores -- has a high school diploma, but passed on higher education to start his own home-based business in 1970 on a $600 loan.
- Ellen DeGeneres. ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" features a week of guest hosts filling in for Jimmy, starting Monday, October 30. The guest host for Wednesday, November 1 was Channing Tatum with guests Ellen DeGeneres ("The Ellen DeGeneres Show") and panelist and musical guest P!nk.
- Ted Turner. Ted Turner speaks at UNICEF's Evening for Children First to Honor Ted Turner on March 30, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ben Rose—Getty Images for UNICEF.
- Anna Wintour. Editor in chief of Vogue Magazine, Anna Wintour, attends the Nina Ricci show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2018 on September 29, 2017 in Paris, France.
- Larry Ellison. Billionaire Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corp., delivers a keynote speech at the New Economy Summit 2015 in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, April 8, 2015.
- Ross Alex. Alex dropped out of college to become a real estate entrepreneur who’s now created two six-figure real estate businesses.
- Yashar Ali. Ali is a journalist responsible for breaking some of the biggest news stories in recent years from the Fox News sexual harassment scandal to Harvey Weinstein, to the Russia investigation, but he never went to college.
- Paul Allen. When you think of Microsoft, you probably don’t think of Paul Allen. But like Gates, Allen dropped out of college after two years to pursue computer programming.
- Mary Kay Ash. Ash was the founder of Mary Kay, the multi-level cosmetics marketing company, which today has over $3.6 billion in revenue per year. Ash didn’t go to college because her family couldn’t afford to send her.
Aug 9, 2023 · Can dropouts from high school and college become successful contributors to society? People like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, and MGM co-founder Marcus Lowe are prime examples of successful people. These are people who didn’t go to college or didn’t finish college. Is education important? Yes, Of Course.
Sep 21, 2023 · There are many famous people who didn’t finish college—or who never attended—and went on to have great careers. Here’s a sampling of actors who made it big without higher education.
