What Can You Do With a Philosophy Major (or Minor)?
Consider that the following people were all philosophy majors in college:
| Phil Jackson, NBA coach | John Elway, former NFL quarterback | |
| Michael McCaskey, owner, Chicago Bears | Harrison Ford, actor | |
| Steve Martin, comedian, actor | Jay Leno, comedian and host of The Tonight Show | |
| Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy | Wes Anderson, filmmaker | |
| Ethan Coen, filmmaker | Richard Gere, actor | |
| Philip Glass, composer | Bruce Lee, martial artist and actor | |
| Elmore Leonard, author | Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City | |
| Richard Riordan, former Mayor of Los Angeles | Dennis Miller, comedian | |
| Stone Phillips, reporter | Susan Sarandon, actress | |
| Gene Siskel, film critic | Carl Icahn, financier and former CEO, TWA | |
| Gerald Levin, former CEO, Time Warner, Inc. | George Soros, financier and philanthropist | |
| Vaclav Havel, former President of Czechoslovakia | Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Justice | |
| David Souter, former Supreme Court Justice | Mary Higgins Clark, mystery writer | |
| Ken Follett, novelist | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel-prize-winning writer | |
| David Duchovny, actor | Neil Peart, drummer for RUSH | |
| George Carlin, comedian | David Foster Wallace, writer | |
| Umberto Eco, novelist and semiologist | Elie Wiesel, writer. Nobel laureate | |
| Mike Schmidt, former Philadelphia Phillie | Woody Allen, filmmaker | |
| Martin Gardner, author | Iris Murdoch, author | |
| Chaim Potok, author |
