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List of celebrities with advanced degrees

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This is a list of celebrities with advanced degrees. This list includes actors, athletes, artists, and musicians with doctorates (MDs, EdDs, and PhDs) outside their field of fame. Excluded are those who are primarily known for their degree-related accomplishments, e.g. Stephen Hawking or Albert Einstein, and those with honorary degrees.

Celebrity Degree Field Institution Known for Celebrity references
Mayim Bialik PhD Neuroscience[1] University of California, Los Angeles[2] Actress on the television series Blossom and The Big Bang Theory [3][4]
Graham Chapman MB BS[5] Medicine St. Bartholomew's Medical College[6][7] Member of the British comedy group Monty Python [8]
Bill Cosby EdD Education University of Massachusetts Amherst[9] Former actor and comedian and convicted sex offender [10]
Arthur Conan Doyle MB ChB Medicine University of Edinburgh Medical School[11][12] Author, creator of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes [13]
Ken Jeong MD Medicine[14] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[15] Comedian and actor, starred in and portrayed a doctor on the sitcom Dr. Ken [3]
Vitali Klitschko PhD Sports science[16] Kiev University World champion boxer and Ukrainian politician [17]
Wladimir Klitschko PhD Sports science[18] Kiev University[19] World champion heavyweight boxer [3][20]
Rachel Maddow PhD Political science[21] Lincoln College, Oxford American television host and political commentator, Rhodes Scholar [3]
Brian May PhD Astrophysics Imperial College London[22][23] Lead guitarist, singer and songwriter with the band Queen [3][24][25]
Shaquille O'Neal EdD Education Barry University[26][27] Retired National Basketball Association player, member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame [3]
Alan Page JD Law University of Minnesota Law School[28] National Football League player, member of the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame, associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court [29]
Miuccia Prada PhD Political science[30] University of Milan Fashion designer and businesswoman [3]
Robert Vaughn PhD Communications University of Southern California[31][32] Actor, star of the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. [citation needed]
Peter Weller PhD Italian Renaissance art history[33] University of California, Los Angeles[34] Actor, star of the movies RoboCop, RoboCop 2, etc. [34]
Steve Young JD Law J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University[35] National Football League quarterback, member of the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame [36]

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References[edit]

  1. ↑ Wook Kim (April 11, 2012). "Brilliant Classroom Characters: The Top 10 Wicked Smart Actors: Mayim Bialik". Time.
  2. ↑ Russo, Gene (31 May 2012). "Turning point: Mayim Bialik". Nature. 485 (669): 669. doi:10.1038/nj7400-669a. PMID 22670263.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Gina Vivinetto (23 May 2015). "9 Brainy Celebrities Who Earned Advanced Degrees In College". ET Online.
  4. ↑ Alyssa Ray (25 September 2020). "Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen Prove to Be an Unstoppable Team on Celebrity Game Face". E!.
  5. ↑ Hendrik Hertzberg (27 January 2003). "What's Up, Doc?". The New Yorker.
  6. ↑ David K. C. Cooper (26 November 2013). Doctors of Another Calling: Physicians Who Are Known Best in Fields Other than Medicine. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 361–. ISBN 9781611494679. Search this book on
  7. ↑ "Bios of the Pythons". PBS.
  8. ↑ Xan Brooks (28 June 2011). "Monty Python team to reanimate Graham Chapman". The Guardian. Offscreen, Chapman was notable for being one of the first openly gay celebrities after blithely outing himself on a 70s TV show.
  9. ↑ Gail Jennes (6 June 1977). "That Doctorate After Bill Cosby's Name Is No Honorary Freebie". People.
  10. ↑ Maeve McDermott and Cydney Henderson (25 September 2018). "Bill Cosby joins a score of stars who went to prison, on various charges". USA Today. Some celebrity crimes are more serious than others.
  11. ↑ "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)". BBC.
  12. ↑ "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle". University of Edinburgh.
  13. ↑ Christopher Sandford (19 November 2020). "When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (maybe) spoke with the dead". America. Conan Doyle wasn’t the first celebrity, or even the first literary giant, to apparently commune with the dead.
  14. ↑ Wook Kim (April 11, 2012). "Brilliant Classroom Characters: The Top 10 Wicked Smart Actors: Ken Jeong". Time.
  15. ↑ Aili Nahas (5 August 2015). "Ken Jeong: I Was an 'Intense' Doctor Before I Became an Actor". People.
  16. ↑ Bryan Armen Graham (29 May 2018). "Vitali Klitschko: 'It's much easier to be heavyweight champion than to be mayor'". The Guardian.
  17. ↑ Kiria Radit (13 December 2013). "Vitali Klitschko, Contender to Lead Ukraine, Has Brains to Match Brawn". ABC News. His celebrity hasn't hurt his political ambitions ...
  18. ↑ Bill Dwyre (14 October 2015). "Boxer Wladimir Klitschko is a heavyweight deep thinker". Los Angeles Times.
  19. ↑ "Dr Klitschko's degree of class". The Irish Times. 11 November 2006.
  20. ↑ "Klitschko brothers shell out over $ 270,000 to equip army unit warring in eastern Ukraine". TASS. 29 June 2014. Kiev mayor Vitaly Klitschko ... and his brother, the boxing celebrity Vladimir Klitschko have shelled out more than $ 270,000 to purchase equipment for the Kyiv battalion ...
  21. ↑ "Top 20 US Progressives: Rachel Maddow". New Statesman. 11 January 2012.
  22. ↑ Catherine Clifford (5 January 2019). "Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May is also an astrophysicist with a PhD". CNN.
  23. ↑ "Rock Star/Astrophysicist Dr. Brian May Goes Backstage With New Horizons". NASA. 21 July 2015.
  24. ↑ "Classical music lookalikes - composers and their celebrity doppelgängers: 1. Bach and Brian May". Classic FM.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 Kalnitz, Max (January 8, 2021). "10 rock stars with impressive college degrees". Insider.com.
  26. ↑ "Shaquille O'Neal Earns His Doctorate". The New York Times. Associated Press. 5 May 2012.
  27. ↑ Tim Newcomb (8 May 2012). "Call Him Dr. Shaq: Shaquille O'Neal Earns Ph.D [sic]". Time.
  28. ↑ "Alan Page timeline". Star Tribune. 25 July 2015.
  29. ↑ Steve Rushin (31 July 2000). "Thanks, Your Honor Twenty-five Years After Their First Meeting, the Author Finds He Chose a Worthy Idol in Alan Page". Sports Illustrated. When Page does speak, his words carry greater moral authority than those of more heliocentric celebrities ...
  30. ↑ Jo-Ann Furniss (26 August 2016). "Miuccia Prada on being shy, working with her husband and her mad office with a helter skelter [sic]". The Daily Telegraph.
  31. ↑ Ken Levine (12 December 2007). "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." HuffPost.
  32. ↑ "Obituary: Robert Vaughn". BBC News. 11 November 2016.
  33. ↑ Wook Kim (April 11, 2012). "Brilliant Classroom Characters: The Top 10 Wicked Smart Actors: Peter Weller". Time.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 "RoboCop, PhD". Wired. 1 February 2007. The celebrity second act has become a staple of pop culture. ... Take Peter Weller.
  35. ↑ "Brigham Young University (Clark)". U.S. News & World Report.
  36. ↑ "49ers legend Steve Young has best reaction after trending on Twitter". NBC Sports. 14 March 2020. If an older celebrity's name is trending on Twitter, people often assume the worst.
  37. ↑ Ninh, Amie (2011-04-25). "Double Doctor? James Franco Seeks Another PhD". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2021-01-15.


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