You may not realize that many famous people began their careers with history degrees. Below are just some of the many notables.
In the Media:
Charles Kuralt (Author/Former CBS Reporter)
Charlie Rose (Journalist/TV Talk Show Host)
Wolf Blitzer (Journalist/Author/CNN Reporter)
Bill O'Reilly (TV Personality/Author)
In Business:
Martha Stewart (Businesswoman/Author)
Lee Iacocca (Industrialist/Former CEO of Chrysler/Author)
Sam Palmisano (CEO of IBM Corporation)
Chris Hughes (Co-founder of Facebook)
Meredith Whitney (Businesswoman)
Michael Moritz (Venture Capitalist and former Journalist)
Martha R. Ingram (Businesswoman)
Drew Gilpin Faust (Historian/First Female President of Harvard University)
In Entertainment:
Steve Carell (Actor/Writer/Producer)
Conan O'Brien (Comedian/Writer)
Julia Child (Chef)
Larry David (Comedian/Writer)
Katharine Hepburn (Actress)
John Lithgow (Actor)
Will Forte (Actor/Comedian)
Janeane Garofalo (Comedian/Actress)
Ellen Barkin (Actress)
Edward Norton (Actor)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Actor/Writer)
Tony Danza (Actor)
John Lithgow (Actor/Author)
Tamlyn Tomita (Actress/Singer)
In Sports:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Former Pro Basketball Player)
Grant Hill (Pro Basketball Player)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Olympic Medalist in Track & Field)
Writers/Musicians:
Ayn Rand (Novelist)
Art Garfunkel (Singer/Songwriter)
Lauryn Hill (Singer/Actress)
Jimmy Buffett (Singer/Songwriter)
Presidents:
Joseph Biden
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
George W. Bush
Dwight Eisenhower
Other Leaders:
W.E.B. DuBois (Co-founder of the NAACP)
Henry Kissinger (Ambassador/Secretary of State)
Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister)
Politicians:
George McGovern (Senator/Author/Historian)
Gordon Brown (Prime Minister of Great Britain)
Cory Booker (Senator)
In the Legal Field:
Elena Kagan (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
Eric Holder (Former Attorney General of the United States)
Anthony Kennedy (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court Justice)
Neal Katyal (Lawyer/Professor)