Influential people who did not do well in school

HISTORIC

Jesus (Carpenter)

Mohammed

Galileo

Copernicus

William Penn, expelled from Christ Church, Oxford

Ben Franklin (Printers apprentice, no college) Americas first millionaire

Daniel Boone (Frontiersman)  Settled Kentucky, judge

Alfred Russel Wallace (Inspired Darwin)

Charles Darwin (Clergyman) turned biologist)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Child prodigy)

Juan Bautista DeAnza Moved 400 families safely from Monterey Mexico to CA 

PRESIDENTS

George Washington (Planter)

Andrew Jackson (Farmer)

Martin Van Buren

Zachary Taylor (Soldier)

Millard Fillmore

Abraham Lincoln (Farm boy, self schooled)

US Grant (finished 21 out of 32 at West Point)

Andrew Johnson

Grover Cleveland

(Rutherford Hayes was the first college graduate president 1877)

Harry Truman (Haberdasher)

19^th CENTURY

Sequoyah, illiterate blacksmith taught the Cherokee nation to write

Oliver Winchester w/ B Tyler Henry (Shirt salesman) Repeating rifles

John Hall gunsmith, truly interchangeable parts

Christopher Spencer (Repeating rifles)­

Davy Crockett (Frontiersman)  lawyer, Congressman

Samuel Colt (salesman) Revolver, “American system” of mass production­­

James Eads (Salvage Diver) Engineer- Famous Bridge, New Orleans South Pass

Thomas A. Edison (Telegraph delivery boy)

Robert Hooke (dropout) Hooke’s Law, metallurgy

William F “Buffalo Bill” Cody

Edgar Alan Poe

John Moses Browning, 128 gun patents, BAR, BMG, M1911

George Hearst (Semi Literate Miner) found “blue goo”, turned out to be silver $20million

20^th CENTURY

William Randolf Hearst (Flunked out of Harvard) Publishing Empire, Fathers fortune

John C Garand  M1

Albert Einstein (Patent clerk)

Wright Brothers and their entire team (Bicycle Mechanics)

Henry Ford (Pipefitter)

Walter Gryzler (Railroad Mechanic) Chrysler

Lim PO survived 100 days on a 4’ raft in the south Atlantic with nothing but his wits

John Mulholland, LA DWP

Adolph Hitler (Corporal, House Painter)

Josep Broz Stalin (Expelled from school)

William Lear, (8^th grade) car radio, Lear jet

Ferdinand Porsche (Hid in tech school balcony until caught, thrown out) VW

Dennis Weatherstone (dropout, JP Morgan director)

Suleiman Olayan (Truck driver) JP Morgan Director

Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov (soldier AK47)

Les Paul, (dropped HS to play guitar) invented electric guitar and most modern recording

Rose Blumkin (Immigrant, no school, no English, furniture chain)

Aristotle Onassis (13 year old orphan Banana Peddler) to World’s richest man, shipping

Soichiro Honda (Mechanic)

Percy Spencer(Grade school) Invented microwave oven

Barry Goldwater

Johnny Cash (Never had a music lesson), best selling album ever
Vivian Taylor Black HS grad pioneered heart surgery

STILL WITH US

Lech Walesa, (Electrician), Solidarity Union, brought down Communism

Woody Allen

Ted Turner (inherited small local billboard company)

Karl Rove

Wayne Huizenga (Garbage Man) Waste Management Inc, Blockbuster Video, Car Nation

Steven Jobs (College Dropout) Apple Computer, iPod, iPad

Steve Wozniak (College Dropout) Apple Computer

Bill Gates (Harvard Dropout)  Microsoft, Worlds richest man

Michael Dell (Built computer business while still living in dorm)

Paul (Kinko) Orfalea (Started Kinko’s copying business while still living in dorm)

Richard Branson (High school reject) Virgin Records, ~ Atlantic, ~ Fuels, ~ Galactic  etc.

Jim Sinegal (dropout) Costco

Dean Kamen, Segway and dozens of patents

Larry Ellison (dropout) Oracle

Roman Abramovich ( orphan) Gazprom

Kirk Kerkorian (dropout) TWA

Sheldon Anderson (Cab Driver) Las Vegas Sands

Mark Zuckerberg (Harvard Dropout) Facebook

Mark  Walberg, Actor

Jose Mujica Uruguay's President never finished HS

Elizabeth Holmes,  youngest self-made female billionaire 30 year old college dropout.