Famous Math Majors
Michael Jordan - basketball player, switched majors his junior year
David Robinson - basketball player, BS in mathematics from United States Naval Academy
Viginia Wade - tennis player, mathematics & physics degree from Sussex University
Teri Hatcher - actress, mathematics & engineering major at DeAnza Junior College
Danica McKellar - actress, mathematics major at UCLA
Art Garfunkel - musician, MA in mathematics from Columbia University, started PhD
Harry Blackmun - Supreme Court justice, mathematics degree from Harvard
William J. Perry - Secretary of Defense (Clinton), degrees from Stanford and Penn State, advisor George Polya
Corazon Aquino - President of Philippines, mathematics minor at the College of Mt. St. Vincent
Ralph Abernathy - Civil Rights leader, math major
David Dinkins - Mayor of New York, BA in mathematics from Howard University
Alberto Fujimori - President of Peru, master's degree in math from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary, began studying mathematics at Odessa in 1897, imprisoned in Siberia
Carl Rowan - syndicated columnist for Washington Post, mathematics degree from Oberlin College
Heloise - minored in mathematics
Larry Niven - science fiction writer, majored in mathematics
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - author, degree in mathematics & physics from the University of Rostov
J. P. Morgan - banking, steel, and railroad tycoon, mathematician
Ira Glasser - executive director of ACLU, BS and MA in mathematics
Lee Hsien Loong - Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, a Bachelor's degree from Cambridge
Laurence H. Tribe - Professor at Harvard Law School, BA in mathematics from Harvard
Phillip Glass - composer, a Bachelor's in mathematics from the University of Chicago
Carole King - singer-songwriter, dropped out after one year of college
Tom Lehrer - songwriter-parodist, PhD student in mathematics at Harvard
Bram Stoker - author of Dracula, took honors at Trinity University, Dublin
Christopher Wren - architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, majored in mathematics
John Maynard Keynes - economist, MA and 12th Wrangler, Cambridge University
Ed Thorpe - one of the inventors of program-trading on Wall Street, majored in mathematics
Davey Johnson - manager of the 1986 New York Mets, mathematics major
Frank Ryan - star quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, PhD in mathematics from Rice
Ted Kaczinski - unabomber, PhD in mathematics from University of Michigan
Ahmed Chalabi - Iraqi National Congress member, Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Chicago
Simeon DeWitt - George Washington's Chief Geographer (Revolutionary War), first math major at Rutgers
George Saitoti - vice-president of Kenya, Ph.D. in Algebraic Topology from Warwick University
Inaba Koshi - singer, majored in mathematics at Yokohama National University
Clifford Brown - fifties jazz trumpeter, majored in mathematics
Helene Foellinger - journalist, majored in mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champange
Kai Krause - computer graphics artist (MetaCreations), majored in mathematics
Dan Monson - basketball coach at the University of Minnesota, majored in mathematics
Margaret Ella Richter - Heaven's Gate member, majored in math, computer science & German at UC Berkeley
References:
www.southalabama.edu/mathstat/info/why_math/famous.shtml
www.loyola.edu/mathsci/resources/famousnonmathematicians.htm
web.stcloudstate.edu/drbuske/famousnonmathematicians.html