Who Studies Philosophy? - The American Philosophical Association

Who Studies Philosophy? - The American Philosophical Association

Academia
Activism
Sheila Bair, Washington College president and former FDIC chair
Barbara Amiel, Lady Black of Crossharbour, journalist and writer
Noam Chomsky, professor, activist, author, and public intellectual
John Chancellor, journalist
Rev. John I. Jenkins, President, University of Notre Dame
Chris Hayes, journalist, political commentator, and MSNBC host
Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Business
Tamara Keith, journalist and NPR White House correspondent
Arts and Entertainment
Herbert Allison Jr., former Fannie Mae CEO
Stokely Carmichael
I Kwame Ture, civil rights leader
Angela Davis, social activist
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader
Angela Davis
Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr
Wes Anderson, filmmaker Ethan Coen, filmmaker (of the Coen Brothers) Stephen Colbert, comedian and TV host Wes Craven, filmmaker Arthur Danto, art critic and philosopher Lana Del Rey, singer-songwriter Dessa, rapper, singer, and poet Alex Trebek
Harrison Ford, actor Richard Gere, actor Ricky Gervais, comedian and creator of The Office Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama
Chris Hardwick, comedian, TV host, and founder of Nerdist.com
Sheila Bair
Paul Draper, winemaker
Carly Fiorina
George F. Will, journalist, author, and political commentator
Juan Williams, journalist
Sports
Robert Greenhill, investment banker
Arian Foster, American football player (Houston Texans)
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedln
Phil Jackson, NBA coach
Damon Horowitz, entrepreneur and former director at Google
Bruce Lee, martial artist
Carl Icahn, investor and former CEO of TWA Airlines
Michael Mccaskey, president/chairman of the Chicago Bears
Gerald Levin, former CEO of Time Warner, Inc.
Writing
John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market
Max Palevsky, co-founder of Intel and venture capitalist
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia
Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal
Zola Jesus, musician
Kathryn Jean Lopez, journalist and political commentator
Stone Phillips, broadcaster
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP
George Soros, investor and philanthropist
Theo James, actor
Stephen Colbert
Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock .com
Lachlan Murdoch, media magnate and son of Rupert Murdoch
Philip Glass, composer Lana Del Ray
News and Journalism
Simone de Beauvoir, writer, philosopher, and political Activist
Pearl Buck, writer and Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner
Mary Higgins Clark, novelist
Susanna Clarke, Hugo Award-winning author
Alain de Botton, writer, philosopher, and television presenter
E.L. Doctorow, novelist (Ragtime) Kathryn Jean Lopez
Duncan Jones, director, producer, screenwriter
Government and Politics
Alice Dreger, author (Galileo's Middle Finger) and academic Rashida Jones, actor
William "Bro" Adams, NEH Chair and former university president
Umberto Eco, author (The Name of the Rose) Kennedy, TV personality and former MTV VJ
William Bennett, former Secretary of Education
T. S. Eliot, Nobel Prize-winning essayist, playwright, and poet Stacy London, stylist and television host
Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Justice
Ken Follett, author (Eye of the Needle) Terrence Malick, film director and screenwriter
Patrick Buchanan, politician
Michael Frayn, playwright (Copenhagen) and novelist Steve Martin, comedian, actor, and musician
Bill Clinton, U.S. President
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, novelist and MacArthur Fellow Deepa Mehta, director and screenwriter
Rudolf Giuliani, former New York City mayor
Sam Harris, author (The End of Faith) and public intellectual Robert Motherwell, painter and printmaker
Raisa Gorbachev, former first lady of the Soviet Union
Christopher Hitchens, essayist and public intellectual Steve Reich, composer
Swanee Hunt, former US Ambassador to Austria
Charles R. Johnson, author (Middle Passage) Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer-songwriter
Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President
Hanif Kureishi, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist Susan Sarandon, actor
Robert MacNamara, former Secretary of Defense
Yann Martel, author (Life of Pi) Willard Scott, actor
Paul Martin, former prime minister of Canada
Iris Murdoch, author (Under the Net) Wallace Shawn, actor and playwright
Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Ayn Rand, author (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged) Gene Siskel, film critic
Elizabeth Anne Reid, former UN program director
Susan Sontag, writer and MacArthur Fellow Elliott Smith, singer-songwriter
David Souter, Supreme Court Justice
Studs Terkel, oral historian and writer Kim Thayil, musician (Soundgarden)
Fred Thompson, former senator
Miguel de Unamuno, author (Abel Sanchez) Religion
David Foster Wallace, author (Infinite Jest) Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy!
Christy Turlington, model
Rabbi Michael Lerner, political activist and editor of Tikkun
Thomas Jefferson
Charles R. Johnson
Pearl Buck
Elie Wiesel, author (Night) Pope John Paul II
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