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List of artists and entertainers with advanced degrees

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This is a list of artists and entertainers with advanced degrees (PhDs and other academic degrees leading to the title of Doctor). Excluded are honorary degrees.

Research doctorate

{{Incomplete list|date=August 2021}}

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scope="col"| Person

! scope="col" | Known for

!Degree

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!Institution

scope="row"|Chad Allen

|Actor

|Psy.D.

|Clinical psychology

|Antioch University New England{{Cite web |title=Mr. Chad Allen Lazzari |url=https://www.masspsych.org/members/?id=36737664 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200910193811/https://www.masspsych.org/Human.aspx |archive-date=2020-09-10 |access-date=2019-08-25 |website=Massachusetts Psychological Association, Inc.}}{{Cite journal |last=Lazzari |first=Chad Allen |date=2020-07-31 |title="Separating Rope Strands: An Unraveling of Shame in Gay Men" by Chad Allen Lazzari |url=https://aura.antioch.edu/etds/590/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022180859/https://aura.antioch.edu/etds/590/ |archive-date=2020-10-22 |access-date=2020-12-19 |journal=Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses |quote=Chad Allen Lazzari, Psy.D., is a 2020 graduate of the Psy.D. Program in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University, New England}}

scope="row"| Robert Allan

|Member of the band Glasvegas

|PhD

|Music

|Glasgow University{{cite web|date=2020-05-14|title=Akash Khurana Wiki-Biography-Age-Weight-Height-Profile Info.|url=https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84649/}}

scope="row"|Milo Aukerman

|Member of the band Descendents

|PhD

|Biology

|University of California, San Diego{{cite web|author=Milo Jay Aukerman|date=1992|title=Analysis of opaque-2 Function in Maize.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WaFjXwAACAAJ|work=Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1992--Biology}}

scope="row"| Mayim Bialik

| Actress

|PhD

|Neuroscience{{cite magazine |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/13/top-10-wicked-smart-actors/slide/mayim-bialik/ |title=Brilliant Classroom Characters: The Top 10 Wicked Smart Actors: Mayim Bialik |author=Wook Kim |date=April 11, 2012 |magazine=Time}}

|University of California, Los Angeles{{cite journal|last=Russo|first=Gene|date=31 May 2012|title=Turning point: Mayim Bialik|journal=Nature|volume=485|issue=669|page=669|doi=10.1038/nj7400-669a|pmid=22670263|doi-access=free}}

scope="row"| Michael Bishop

|Member of the band Gwar

|PhD

|Music{{cite web|title=Meet Our Speakers|url=http://www.tedxrva.com/speaker/michael-bishop/|website=TEDx RVA|access-date=13 August 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806121747/http://www.tedxrva.com/speaker/michael-bishop/|archive-date=6 August 2015|df=mdy-all}}

|University of Virginia

Pietro Boselli

|Model, engineer, and lecturer at UCL

|PhD

|Computational fluid dynamics{{Cite web |last=Tharrett |first=Matthew |date=2015-08-25 |title=Hot Teacher Pietro Boselli Talks Computational Fluid Dynamics In His Underwear |url=https://www.logotv.com/news/obsmfx/hot-teacher-pietro-boselli-talks-computational-fluid-dynamics-in-his-underwear |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812183548/https://www.logotv.com/news/obsmfx/hot-teacher-pietro-boselli-talks-computational-fluid-dynamics-in-his-underwear |archive-date=2022-08-12 |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Logo TV |language=en-us}}

|University College London{{cite web |date=31 March 2015 |title=From maths to modelling: Teacher surprises his students |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32128127/from-maths-to-modelling-teacher-surprises-his-students |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425143536/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32128127/from-maths-to-modelling-teacher-surprises-his-students |archivedate=25 April 2015 |accessdate=11 June 2015 |publisher=Newsbeat}}

scope="row"| Ian Bostridge

|Opera and lieder singer

|DPhil

|History[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/the-thinking-fans-tenor/article4121021/ The thinking fan's tenor] – website of the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail

|University of Oxford

scope="row"| Michael Burns

|Actor

|DPhil

|History{{cite web|url=http://themichaelburnssite.homestead.com/bio2.html|title=Michael Burns: A trial run led to Wagon Train|publisher=The Michael Burns Site from undated issue of TV News|access-date=April 4, 2017}}

|Yale University

scope="row"| Bill Bruford

| Member of the bands Yes, King Crimson and U.K.

|PhD

|Music{{cite web|url=https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/rock-doc-drum-legend-moves-academia |title=From rock to doc: drum legend moves into academia |publisher=Surrey.ac.uk |access-date=10 August 2021}}

|University of Surrey

scope="row"| Ellen Cleghorne

|Actress and comedian

|PhD

|Performance Studies

|New York University[https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/ellen-cleghorne-saturday-night-lives-race-problem.html BROW BEAT: Ellen Cleghorne on Breaking Down Saturday Night Live's Racial Barriers, and the Ones That Remain] – Slate Magazine 13 Dec 2018.

scope="row"| Alan Cooper

|Member of the band Sha Na Na

|PhD

|Religious Studies

|Yale University[https://www.jtsa.edu/alan-cooper Alan Cooper] – website of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

scope="row"| Max Cooper

|Music producer

|PhD

|Computational biology{{cite news|last=Taylor|first=Ken|url=http://news.beatport.com/blog/2012/07/12/weekend-weapons-max-cooper/|title=Max Cooper|date=12 July 2012|publisher=beatport.com|access-date=30 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021115804/http://news.beatport.com/blog/2012/07/12/weekend-weapons-max-cooper/|archive-date=21 October 2012|url-status=dead}}

|University of Nottingham

scope="row"| Bill Cosby

| Actor and comedian

|EdD

| Education

|University of Massachusetts Amherst{{cite magazine|author=Gail Jennes|date=6 June 1977|title=That Doctorate After Bill Cosby's Name Is No Honorary Freebie|url=https://people.com/archive/that-doctorate-after-bill-cosbys-name-is-no-honorary-freebie-vol-7-no-22/|magazine=People}}

scope="row"| Brian Cox

| Television presenter, physicist and former member of the bands D:Ream and Dare

|PhD

|Particle physics

|University of Manchester{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Brian Edward |last=Cox |title=Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer |publisher=University of Manchester |year=1998 |url=http://www-h1.desy.de/psfiles/theses/h1th-679.pdf |website=desy.de |oclc=644443338 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114112943/http://www-h1.desy.de/psfiles/theses/h1th-679.pdf |archive-date=14 November 2014 |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.675409}}}}

scope="row"| Don S. Davis

|Actor

|PhD

|Theatre

|Southern Illinois University Carbondale{{cite web|title=Theatre and Oral Interpretation: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," January through June 1984, (Vol. 44 Nos. 7 through 12).|publisher=Education Resources Information Center|access-date=January 8, 2021|page=5|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED245295.pdf}}

scope="row"| William Fawcett

|Actor

|PhD

|Elizabethan drama{{cite web|url=http://www.westernclippings.com/heavies/wmfawcett_charactersheavies|title = William Fawcett}}

|University of Nebraska–Lincoln

scope="row"| Runhild Gammelsæter

|Member of the bands Thorr's Hammer and Khlyst

|PhD

|Cell physiology{{cite web|url=http://www.cmbn.no/news-2006.html|title=Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience – News 2006|website=www.cmbn.no}}

|University of Oslo

scope="row"| Cheddar Gorgeous (Michael John Atkins)

||Drag Queen

|PhD

|Anthropology

|University of Manchester{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Michael John |last=Atkins |title=Cruising the Village : a visual ethnography of public sex between men in Manchester city centre |publisher=University of Manchester |year=2013 |id={{EThOS|ethos.bl.uk:607119}}}}

scope="row"| Harold Gould

||Actor

|PhD

|Theatre

|Cornell University

scope="row"| Greg Graffin

| Member of the band Bad Religion

|PhD

|Evolutionary biology{{cite journal |title=Turning point: Greg Graffin |first=Gene |last=Russo |date=1 October 2010 |journal=Nature |volume=467 |issue=1143 |page=1143 |doi=10.1038/nj7319-1143a|doi-access=free }}

|Cornell University

scope="row"| Dan Grimaldi

| Actor

|PhD

|Data processing

|City University of New York

scope="row"| David Grubbs

|Member of the bands Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol.

|PhD

|English

|University of Chicago[https://gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Music-(Ph-D-D-M-A-)/Faculty-Bios/David-Grubbs Faculty Bios: David Grubbs] – website of the Graduate Center, CUNY

scope="row"| Sir Lenny Henry

|Actor and comedian, co-founder of Comic Relief

|PhD

|Media Arts

|Royal Holloway, University of London{{cite news|url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/news/lenny-henry-graduation/|title=Lenny Henry receives Doctorate from Royal Holloway|publisher=Royal Holloway, University of London|date=13 July 2018|access-date=28 August 2021}}

scope="row"| Dexter Holland

| Member of the band The Offspring

|PhD

|Molecular biology{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/offsprings-dexter-holland-finishes-ph-d-thesis-on-hiv-research-193282/ |title=The Offspring's Dexter Holland has completed the molecular biology Ph.D program he put on hold to focus on rock & roll. |author=Jon Blistein |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=11 May 2017}}

|Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

scope="row"| Vijay Iyer

|Jazz pianist and composer

|PhD

|Technology and the Arts{{cite web |url=http://archive.cnmat.berkeley.edu/People/Vijay/00.0%20title%20%26approval%20pages.html#anchor15851920 |title=Microstructures of Feel, Macrostructures of Sound: Embodied Cognition in West African and African-American Musics |publisher=Archive.cnmat.berkeley.edu |access-date=April 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193331/http://archive.cnmat.berkeley.edu/People/Vijay/00.0%20title%20%26approval%20pages.html#anchor15851920 |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

|University of California, Berkeley

scope="row"| Paul Janz

| Member of the band Deliverance and a professor of systematic theology

|PhD

| Philosophical Theology

|University of Cambridge

scope="row"| Brendan Kavanagh

|Pianist

|PhD

|English

|University College Cork{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/incoming/article36098178.ece|title=Musician's incredible piano skills make people stop and stare in Cork Airport|work=Irish Independent|access-date=16 January 2020}}

Mark Kermode

|Film critic

|PhD

|English Literature

|University of Manchester

scope="row"| Akash Khurana

|Actor

|PhD

|Social Sciences

|Tata Institute of Social Sciences{{cite web |date=2020-05-14|title=Akash Khurana Wiki-Biography-Age-Weight-Height-Profile Info.|url=https://www.biographia.co.in/akash-khurana/|access-date=2020-08-10|website=Biographia|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913150607/https://www.biographia.co.in/akash-khurana/|url-status=usurped}}[https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/25068 TEDx GLIM Gurgaon Speakers] – website of the media organization TED

scope="row"| Wagner Lamounier

| Former member of the band Sepultura

|DSc

|Applied Economics[https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7154-6877 Wagner Moura Lamounier] – Open Researcher and Contributor ID

|Federal University of Viçosa

scope="row"| Robert A. Leonard

| Member of the band Sha Na Na

|PhD

|Linguistics

|Columbia University{{cite news|author=Robin Finn|date=15 June 2008|title=A Graduate of Sha Na Na, Now a Linguistics Professor|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/15colli.html}}

scope="row"| CN Lester

|Singer-songwriter

|PhD

|Music

|University of Huddersfield[http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/35488/ PhD Thesis CN Lester: Representing Strozzi: A Critical and Personal Re-Evaluation of her Life and Music] – website of the University of Huddersfield Repository

scope="row"| Annbjørg Lien

| Musician

|PhD

|Hardanger fiddle

|University of Agder{{cite web|url=https://forskning.no/a/1611083|title=Annbjørg Lien har tatt doktorgrad på hardingfele-slåtter|first=Siw Ellen|last=Jakobsen|date=December 29, 2019|website=forskning.no}}[https://sciencenorway.no/music/folk-musician-annbjorg-liens-phd-on-hardanger-fiddle-folk-tunes-includes-a-new-solo-album/1614530 Folk musician Annbjørg Lien's PhD on Hardanger fiddle folk tunes includes a new solo album] - website of sciencenorway.no

scope="row"| Ria Lina

|Comedian and writer

|PhD

|Viral bioinformatics

|University College London{{cite tweet|number=1285310954943774727|user=rialina_|title=I got my PhD in Viral Bioinformatics at @ucl , following a degree in Experimental Pathology from @StAndrewsUniv, be…|date=20 July 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Ria-Holzerlandt-35286981|title=Ria Holzerlandt's research works | University College London, London (UCL) and other places|website=ResearchGate}}

scope="row"| Loretta Long

|Actress

|PhD

|Urban education

|University of Massachusetts Amherst{{cite web |last1=Long |first1=Loretta Moore |title=Sesame Street: A Space Age Approach to Education for Space Age Children. |url=https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI7408612/ |website=ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst |publisher=University of Massachusetts Amherst |date=1973 |access-date=1 January 2024}}

scope="row"| David Lowrey

|Member of the bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker

|EdD

| Education

|University of Georgia{{cite web |last1=McNair |first1=Charles |title=Down Beat |url=https://www.terry.uga.edu/news/stories/2018/down-beat |website=Terry College of Business |date=8 November 2018 |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=24 January 2023}}

scope="row"| Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo aka "Sammus"

|Rapper

|PhD

|Science and Technology Studies

|Cornell University[https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/67782 PhD Dissertation Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo: On the boundaries of multivalent musicking; a study on the politics of community-studios] – website of the Cornell University Library

scope="row"| Sir Brian May

|Member of the band Queen

|PhD

|Astrophysics

|Imperial College London{{cite news|author=Catherine Clifford|date=5 January 2019|title=Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May is also an astrophysicist with a PhD|publisher=CNN|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/04/queen-guitarist-brian-may-is-also-an-astrophysicist.html}}{{cite web|date=21 July 2015|title=Rock Star/Astrophysicist Dr. Brian May Goes Backstage With New Horizons|url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/rock-starastrophysicist-dr-brian-may-goes-backstage-with-new-horizons|publisher=NASA|access-date=11 June 2021|archive-date=25 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625015917/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/rock-starastrophysicist-dr-brian-may-goes-backstage-with-new-horizons/|url-status=dead}}

scope="row"| Adam Met

|Member of the band AJR

|PhD

|International Human Rights Law

|University of Birmingham{{cite web |last1=ABC News |title=AJR’s Adam Met earns PhD |url=https://www.1057thepoint.com/music-news/ajrs-adam-met-earns-phd/ |website=105.7 The Point |access-date=5 June 2025}}

Naeem Mohaiemen

|Filmmaker, Artist, Writer

|PhD

|Anthropology

|Columbia University{{Cite web |date=2025-01-30 |title=Naeem Mohaiemen Faculty Interview |url=https://arts.columbia.edu/news/who-we-are-naeem-mohaiemen |access-date=2025-01-30}}

Roy Montgomery

|Composer and member of the bands The Pin Group and Dadamah

|PhD

|Theatre and Film Studies

|University of Canterbury{{Cite web |date=2011-06-13 |title=Staff Profile - Roy Montgomery |url=http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/staff-profile?staffId=Roy.Montgomery |access-date=2024-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613003429/http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/staff-profile?staffId=Roy.Montgomery |archive-date=2011-06-13 }}

scope="row"| Sterling Morrison

|Member of the band The Velvet Underground

|PhD

|Medieval studies

|University of Texas at Austin{{cite news|author=Lawrence Van Gelder|date=2 September 1995|title=Sterling Morrison, 53, Rock Guitarist, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/02/obituaries/sterling-morrison-53-rock-guitarist-dies.html}}

Christopher Nowinski

|Professional wrestler

|PhD

|Behavioral Neuroscience{{Cite web |title=Chris Nowinski {{!}} CTE Center |url=https://www.bu.edu/cte/about/leadership/chris-nowinski/ |access-date=2023-11-08 |website=www.bu.edu}}

|Boston University

scope="row"| John O'Brien

| Soccer player

|PhD

|Clinical psychology

|Alliant International University[https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2020/04/whatever-happened-to-usmnt-midfielder-maestro-john-obrien Whatever Happened To USMNT Midfield Maestro John O'Brien?] – website of US Soccer

Niall O'Flaherty

|Member of the band The Sultans of Ping

|PhD

|History of political thought

|King's College, Cambridge{{Cite news |date=2018-11-01 |title=A weekend history degree with King's College London's leading academics |url=https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/2018/nov/01/a-weekend-history-degree-with-kings-college-londons-leading-academics-kcl-history-culture-course |access-date=2024-05-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Richard |date=2023-02-05 |title=Culture That Made Me: Niall O'Flaherty of the Sultans of Ping |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41063660.html |access-date=2024-05-05 |website=Irish Examiner |language=en}}

scope="row"| Shaquille O'Neal

|Basketball player, actor, and rapper

|EdD

|Education

|Barry University[https://www.barry.edu/en/ug-recruitment/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-8qVBhANEiwAfjXLroDG9jnIuOeQ4wVoQqDfu1VbzBVXrXPC-PppY_OYDyFhjiNQ4WqF4hoCrsAQAvD_BwE Barry University] – website of Barry University

Ethan Port

|Member of the band Savage Republic

|PhD

|Mathematics

|University of Southern California

scope="row"| Miuccia Prada

| Fashion designer and businesswoman

|PhD

| Political science{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/miuccia-prada-on-being-shy-working-with-her-husband-and-her-mad/ |title=Miuccia Prada on being shy, working with her husband and her mad office with a helter skelter [sic] |author= Jo-Ann Furniss |date=26 August 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}

|University of Milan

Priyadarshini

|Singaporean-Indian playback singer

|PhD

|Film music

|University of Mysore{{cite web|date=2021-09-17|title=Priyadarshini becomes the first playback singer to receive Ph.D|url=https://starofmysore.com/priyadarshini-becomes-the-first-playback-singer-to-receive-ph-d/|access-date=2021-09-19|website=Star of Mysore|language=en-US}}{{cite web|author=News Desk|date=2021-09-09|title=101st convocation of University of Mysore! Priyadarshini first Indian playback singer to receive PhD|url=https://www.mysoorunews.com/101st-convocation-of-university-of-mysore-priyadarshini-first-indian-playback-singer-to-receive-phd/|access-date=2021-09-19|website=Welcome to Mysooru News|language=en-US}}

scope="row"| Rahul Ram

|Member of the band Indian Ocean

|PhD

|Environmental Toxicology

|Cornell University[https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/06/a-return-to-roots-indian-ocean-in-ithaca/ A Return to Roots: Indian Ocean in Ithaca] – website of the daily newspaper The Cornell Daily Sun

scope="row"| Dilshad Said

|Kurdish musician

|PhD

|Music history

|Mozarteum University Salzburg[https://search.moz.ac.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=UMS_alma2116134600004520&context=L&vid=UMS&lang=de_DE A study on Kurmanji music : focus on the dance songs of the South Kurmanji region] – thesis depository of the Mozarteum University Salzburg[https://www.rudaw.net/english/culture/300620181 Kurdish musician Dilshad Said receives PhD in Kurmanji music] – website of Rudaw Media Network

scope="row"| Robert Schneider

|Member of the band The Apples in Stereo and record producer

|PhD

|Mathematics

|Emory University{{cite web | url= https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/apples-stereos-robert-schneider-gave-flourishing-music-career-chase-true-passion-math/ |title = Apples in Stereo's Robert Schneider gave up a flourishing music career to chase his true passion: Math | website = Atlanta | first = David | last = Peisner | year= 2018| access-date= 4 November 2023}}

scope="row"| Serrini

|Singer-songwriter

|PhD

|Literary and Cultural Studies

|University of Hong Kong{{cite news |last=Lau |first=Henry |date=2022-01-07 |title=Move over, Mirror? 5 of Hong Kong's rising music stars – from Serrini's unique lyrical style to MC $oho and KidNey's popular YouTube channel Trial & Error |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3162484/move-over-mirror-5-hong-kongs-rising-music-stars-serrinis |newspaper=South China Morning Post |access-date=2022-01-31 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220131092643/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3162484/move-over-mirror-5-hong-kongs-rising-music-stars-serrinis |archive-date=2022-01-31 }}

scope="row"| Sam Shepherd

|Electronic music producer

|PhD

|Neuroscience

|University College London{{cite web|last1=Titmus|first1=Stephen|title=Floating Points: Extraordinary lengths|url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2139|website=Resident Advisor|access-date=17 December 2015|date=3 November 2015|archive-date=22 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222184732/http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2139|url-status=live}}

scope="row"| Rose Simpson

|Member of the band The Incredible String Band

|PhD

|German Literature

|Aberystwyth University[https://pure.aber.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/rose-simpson(cf45060b-9306-4a3a-9a79-534ac1a9b79e)/persons/rose-simpson(cf45060b-9306-4a3a-9a79-534ac1a9b79e)/theses.html Theses Dr Rose Simpson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813123534/https://pure.aber.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/rose-simpson(cf45060b-9306-4a3a-9a79-534ac1a9b79e)/persons/rose-simpson(cf45060b-9306-4a3a-9a79-534ac1a9b79e)/theses.html |date=2021-08-13 }} – website of Aberystwyth University[https://www.bethelwoodscenter.org/blog/incredible-string-band The Incredible String Band: 50 Years of Peace & Music] – website of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

scope="row"| Dan Snaith

| Canadian musician, best known by the stage name Caribou

|PhD

|Mathematics

|Imperial College London{{cite magazine|author=Max Dax|date=16 May 2013|title=More Madness Than Method: Dan Snaith on the poetics of a blank slate|url=https://www.electronicbeats.net/more-madness-than-method-dan-snaith-on-the-poetics-of-a-blank-slate/|magazine=Electronic Beats}}

scope="row"| Billy Taylor

|Jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator

|EdD

|Music Education

|University of Massachusetts Amherst{{cite web |last1=Taylor |first1=Billy |title=The history and development of jazz piano : a new perspective for educators |url=https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4018&context=dissertations_1 |website=ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |publisher=University of Massachusetts |access-date=13 August 2021}}

scope="row"| Alejandro Toledo

|Composer, saxophonist, and ethnomusicologist

|PhD

|Music performance

|Goldsmiths, University of London[https://research.gold.ac.uk/view/goldsmiths/Toledo=3AAlejandro=3A=3A.html Browse by Goldsmiths authors: Toledo, Alejandro] – website Research online of the Goldsmiths, University of London

Gregg Turner

|Member of the band Angry Samoans

|PhD

|Mathematics

|Claremont Graduate University

scope="row"| Jared Van Snellenberg

|Actor and neuroscientist

|PhD

|Psychology

|Columbia University

scope="row"| Gala Varo (Jesús Meza Arroyo)

|Drag queen and television personality

|PhD

|Biomedicine

|University of Guadalajara{{Cite web |last=Levitt |first=Barry |date=2024-08-14 |title=A Guide to All the Queens Competing on RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/all-the-queens-competing-on-drag-race-global-all-stars.html |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Vulture |language=en}}

scope="row"| Robert Vaughn

| Actor

|PhD

|Communications

|University of Southern California{{cite web|author=Ken Levine|date=12 December 2007|title=The Man From U.N.C.L.E.|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-levine/the-man-from-uncle_b_76456.html|publisher=HuffPost}}{{cite news|date=11 November 2016|title=Obituary: Robert Vaughn|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-15579361}}

scope="row"| Indre Viskontas

| Opera singer

|PhD

|Cognitive neuroscience

|University of California, Los Angeles[http://theensembleproject.com/team/indre-viskontas/ : Indre Viskontas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829071802/http://theensembleproject.com/team/indre-viskontas/ |date=2021-08-29 }} – website of the Ensemble Project

Sophie Ward

|Novelist and actress

|PhD

|English and Comparative Literature

|Goldsmiths, University of London[https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.832036 PhD thesis: The narrative of thought experiments : development and uses of fictional narrative in thought experiments in philosophy of mind] – website of Goldsmiths, University of London

Brian Wecht

|Member of the band Ninja Sex Party

|PhD

|Particle physics

|University of California, San Diego{{cite web|date=2019-12-09|title=Brian Wecht – Scholars {{!}} Institute for Advanced Study|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/brian-wecht|access-date=2021-01-15|website=www.ias.edu|language=en}}

scope="row"| Peter Weller

| Actor

|PhD

| Italian Renaissance art history{{cite magazine |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/13/top-10-wicked-smart-actors/slide/peter-weller/ |title=Brilliant Classroom Characters: The Top 10 Wicked Smart Actors: Peter Weller |author=Wook Kim |date=April 11, 2012 |magazine=Time}}

|University of California, Los Angeles{{cite magazine|date=1 February 2007|title=RoboCop, PhD|url=https://www.wired.com/2007/02/robocop-phd/|magazine=Wired |quote=The celebrity second act has become a staple of pop culture. ... Take Peter Weller.}}

scope="row"| Graham Wiggins

|Musician

|DPhil

|Solid State Physics

|University of Oxford

scope="row"| Warren Zanes

| Member of the band The Del Fuegos

|PhD

| Visual and Cultural Studies{{cite news |last1=Munro |first1=Stuart |title=Rekindling the Flame |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53843997/rekindling-the-flame |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=The Boston Globe |date=17 June 2011}}

|University of Rochester

Medical degree

In many countries, the first medical degree is the MBBS (with MD being reserved for higher doctorates), yet holders of this degree are addressed as "doctor" while practising.

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!Institution

scope="row"| Mohan Agashe

|Bollywood actor

|MBBS, MDBesides being graduated with the medical degree of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), equivalent to the North American MD degree; he also completed the Indian postgraduate clinical degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) in Psychiatry, the equivalent training in the US or Canada would be the completion of a medical post-graduate degree.

|Medicine, Psychiatry

|B. J. Medical College{{cite web|url=https://telanganatoday.com/doctor-of-human-emotions|title=Doctor of human emotions|last=Sengupta|first=Meenakshi|date=1 December 2018|website=Telangana Today|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-22|archive-date=22 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322074600/https://telanganatoday.com/doctor-of-human-emotions|url-status=live}}

Britt Baker

|Professional wrestler

|DMD

|Dentistry

|University of Pittsburgh{{cite web |last1=Collier |first1=Sean |title=She Performs Root Canals by Day and Body Slams by Night |url=https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/she-performs-root-canals-by-day-and-body-slams-by-night/ |website=Pittsburgh Magazine |access-date=11 May 2024 |date=22 July 2020}}

scope="row"| Alexander Borodin

| Classical composer

|MD[https://takeinmind.com/alexander-borodin-a-universal-genius/ Alexander Borodin: A Universal Genius] – popular science website Take in Mind

|Medicine and chemistry

|{{ill|S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy|lt=Medical-Surgical Academy|de|Medico-chirurgische Akademie|ru|Медико-хирургическая академия|display=1}}, St Petersburg

Edgar Buchanan

|Actor

|DDS

|Dentistry

|North Pacific College School of Dentistry{{cite journal| journal=Journal of the History of Dentistry|title=Edgar Buchanan: dentist and popular character actor in movies and television| url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11484314/| publisher=National Library of Medicine| access-date=September 29, 2024|date= July 2001|volume=49|issue=2|pages=57–61|pmid=11484314 |last1=Christen |first1=A. G. |last2=Christen |first2=J. A. }}

scope="row"| Graham Chapman

| Member of the British comedy group Monty Python

|MBBS

| Medicine

|St. Bartholomew's Medical College{{cite book|author=David K. C. Cooper|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3NBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA361|title=Doctors of Another Calling: Physicians Who Are Known Best in Fields Other than Medicine|date=26 November 2013|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781611494679|pages=361–}}{{cite web|title=Bios of the Pythons|url=https://www.pbs.org/montypython/bios.html|publisher=PBS}}

scope="row"| Meiyang Chang

|Bollywood actor, television host and singer

|BDS

|Dental Surgery

|Vokkaligara Sangha Dental College & Hospital[https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/coronavirus/news/meiyang-chang-faces-racial-discrimination-reveals-he-was-called-orona-by-passerby/articleshow/74788105.cms Meiyang Chang faces racial discrimination; reveals he was called 'çorona' by passerby] – website of the newspaper Mumbai Mirror

scope="row"| Michael Crichton

| Novelist and screenwriter

|MD

| Medicine

|Harvard Medical School{{cite news|date=6 November 2008|title=Obituary: Michael Crichton|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/06/michaelcrichton}}

scope="row"| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

| Author, creator of Sherlock Holmes

|MBCM, MDBesides being graduated with the Scottish medical degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (M.B.C.M., equivalent to the North American MD degree) in 1881, he also completed the British higher doctorate of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) with a dissertation on tabes dorsalis in 1885 (available at the [http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/418 Edinburgh Research Archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111130617/http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/418 |date=11 November 2007 }}).

| Medicine

|University of Edinburgh Medical School{{cite web|title=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/conan_sir_arthur_doyle.shtml|publisher=BBC}}{{cite web|title=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|date=16 October 2015 |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/people/plaques/doyle|publisher=University of Edinburgh}}

scope="row"| Graeme Garden

|Scottish comedian and member of The Goodies

|MBBS

|Medicine

|King's College London{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/my-first-job-graeme-garden-radio-and-tv-humorist-and-exgoodie-trained-seriously-as-a-doctor-6103277.html|title=My First Job: Graeme Garden, radio and TV humorist and ex-Goodie, trained seriously as a doctor | The Independent | The Independent|website=Independent.co.uk|date=April 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409014502/https://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/my-first-job-graeme-garden-radio-and-tv-humorist-and-exgoodie-trained-seriously-as-a-doctor-6103277.html|archive-date=2022-04-09}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/TV--Radio/Still-Goodies----but-oldies/2005/03/03/1109700605326.html|title=Still Goodies . . . but oldies - TV & Radio - www.theage.com.au|date=September 10, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070910195549/http://www.theage.com.au/news/TV--Radio/Still-Goodies----but-oldies/2005/03/03/1109700605326.html|archive-date=2007-09-10}}

scope="row"| Aditi Govitrikar

|Bollywood actress

|MBBS

|Medicine

|Grant Medical College{{cite web |url=http://www.afternoondc.in/education-careers/the-model-profession/article_21727 |title=The 'model' profession |access-date=11 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918115402/http://www.afternoondc.in/education-careers/the-model-profession/article_21727 |archive-date=18 September 2016 |url-status=dead }}

scope="row"| Harry Hill

|Actor and comedian

|MBBS

|Medicine

|University of London{{cite web|url=https://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/3356065|title=GMC Status|access-date=2021-08-11}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gallery/2014/apr/07/secret-scientists-natalieportman|title=The scientists secretly masquerading as celebrities – in pictures|newspaper=The Guardian|date=5 April 2014|access-date=2021-08-11|last1=Perry|first1=Sophie}}

scope="row"| Ken Jeong

|Actor and comedian

|MD

| Medicine{{cite magazine |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/13/top-10-wicked-smart-actors/slide/ken-jeong/ |title=Brilliant Classroom Characters: The Top 10 Wicked Smart Actors: Ken Jeong |author=Wook Kim |date=April 11, 2012 |magazine=Time}}

|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill{{cite magazine|author=Aili Nahas|date=5 August 2015|title=Ken Jeong: I Was an 'Intense' Doctor Before I Became an Actor|url=https://people.com/tv/ken-jeong-i-was-an-intense-doctor-before-i-became-an-actor/|magazine=People}}

scope="row"| Kamran Rashid Khan

|Rapper

|DO

|Osteopathic Medicine

|Michigan State University College of Human Medicinehttps://projects.kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/162-565-1308/S201_2010S.pdf Commencement 2010 Spring Semester: Candidates-Spring and Summer, 2010 – Degree of Doctor of Medicine] – pdf of the website of the Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences of the Michigan State University{{cite web|title=Russell Simmons' All Def Digital Artist Doctor/Rapper Lazarus Impacts With "Open Heart Surgery" Song|url=http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1203182|website=iReport|access-date=30 November 2015|location=New York City, New York, U.S|date=3 January 2015}}

scope="row"| Shriram Lagoo

|Bollywood film and theatre actor

|MBBS

|Medicine

|B. J. Medical College{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fttNAAAAYAAJ&q=Shreeram+Lagoo|title=Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre: O-Z|editor-last=Leiter|editor-first=Samuel L.|date=2007|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-33531-0|volume=I|page=364|chapter=Lagoo, Shreeram|last=Dharwadker|first=Aparna}}

scope="row"| Jonathan LaPaglia

|Actor

|MBBS

|Medicine

|University of Adelaide

scope="row"| James Lilja

| Member of the band The Offspring

|MD

|Medicine

|University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine{{cite web|url=http://www.chomp.org/find-a-doctor/doctor-profile-basic/?id=230#Profile|title=James Lilja, MD|publisher=Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215025441/http://www.chomp.org/find-a-doctor/doctor-profile-basic/?id=230#Profile|archive-date=2013-12-15}}

scope="row"| George Miller

|Film director and screenwriter

|MBBS

|Medicine

|University of New South Wales

scope="row"| Sir Jonathan Miller

| Actor, writer, theatre director, and humourist

|MBBChir

|Medicine

|University of Cambridgehttps://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/dazzling-genius-sir-jonathan-miller-dies-aged-85 Dazzling genius' Sir Jonathan Miller dies aged 85] – website of St John's College, Cambridge

scope="row"| Arko Pravo Mukherjee

|Singer-songwriter and music composer

|MBBS

|Medicine

|Burdwan Medical College.[https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/glossary/story/20120507-arko-pravo-mukherjee-to-compose-music-for-jism-2-758242-2012-04-28 Arko Pravo Mukherjee to compose music for Jism 2] – website of news magazine India Today

scope="row"| Haing S. Ngor

|Actor and gynecologist

|MD

|Medicine

|University of Toulouse

scope="row"| Peter Ostrum

|Actor

|DVM

|Veterinary Medicine

|Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine[https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2000-11-01/dr-ostrum-and-chocolate-factory Dr. Ostrum and the chocolate factory] – website of the American Veterinary Medical Association

scope="row"| Sai Pallavi

|Actress and dancer

|MBBS

|Medicine

|Tbilisi State Medical University{{cite news|last1=Jayaram|first1=Deepika|title=It's Dr Sai Pallavi now! But haven't passed the qualification test in India.|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/Its-Dr-Sai-Pallavi-now/articleshow/52362168.cms|access-date=24 August 2021|publisher=Times of India|date=24 January 2017}}

scope="row"| Palash Sen

|Member of the band Euphoria

|MBBS

|Medicine

|University College of Medical Scienceshttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm1242236/bio Biography: Palash Sen] – website of online database IMDb {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}

scope="row"| Pedro Juan Vázquez Bragan

|Rapper and songwriter

|MD

|Medicine

|Universidad Central del Caribe[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/watch-pj-sin-suela-explain-his-choice-to-pursue-rap-music-over-medicine-2-714817/ Watch PJ Sin Suela Explain His Choice to Pursue Rap Music Over Medicine] – website of magazine Rolling Stone[https://remezcla.com/features/music/pj-sin-suela-profile/ Meet PJ Sin Suela, the Doctor-Turned-Rapper Following in Residente's Footsteps] – website of media company Remezcla

scope="row"| Daryl Wilson

|Member of the band The Bollweevils

|MD

|Medicine

|Stritch School of Medicine

scope="row"| Peter Wingfield

|Actor

|MD

|Medicine

|Robert Larner College of Medicine

Other professional doctorates

In some countries, the Juris Doctor is the standard professional degree required to practise law, although the holder is usually not addressed as "doctor".

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! scope="col" | Known for

!Degree

! scope="col" | Field

!Institution

scope="row"| Jackie Fox

|Member of the band The Runaways

|JD

|Law

|Harvard Law School[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackie-fuchs Jackie Fuchs bio] – website of The Huffington Post

scope="row"| Denny Greene

| Member of the band Sha Na Na

|JD

|Law

|Yale University{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/arts/dennis-greene-a-singer-with-sha-na-na-dies-at-66.html|title=Dennis Greene, a Singer with Sha Na Na, Dies at 66|newspaper=The New York Times|date=10 September 2015|last1=Slotnik|first1=Daniel E.}}

scope="row"| Hill Harper

|Actor and writer

|JD

|Law

|Harvard Law School[http://www.manifestyourdestiny.org/HillHarper/bio "Hill Harper bio"]. Manifest Your Destiny Foundation. Retrieved November 15, 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704130700/http://www.manifestyourdestiny.org/HillHarper/bio |date=July 4, 2009 }}

scope="row"| Staci Keanan

|Actress

|JD

|Law

|Southwestern Law School{{cite web |title=Anastasia Sagorsky |url=https://www.swlaw.edu/faculty/adjunct/anastasia-sagorsky |website=Southwestern Law School |access-date=6 April 2021 |location=Los Angeles |language=English }}

Bridgit Mendler

|Actress and singer-songwriter

|JD

|Law

|Harvard Law School{{Cite web |date=2024-05-25 |title=Bridgit Mendler Officially Graduates Harvard Law School and Her Future's Bright |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/1402410/bridgit-mendler-officially-graduates-harvard-law-school-and-her-futures-bright |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=E! Online}}

scope="row"| Tom Rapp

|Member of the band Pearls Before Swine

|JD

|Law

|University of Pennsylvania Law School{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=tom-rapp-mn0000934290|title=Biography of Tom Rapp|first=Jason|last=Ankeny|access-date=August 13, 2021}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearls-before-swine-band-mastermind-tom-rapp-dead-at-70-199824/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213202008/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearls-before-swine-band-mastermind-tom-rapp-dead-at-70-w516656|url-status=dead|title=Pearls Before Swine Band Mastermind Tom Rapp Dead at 70|first1=Jon|last1=Blistein|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=February 13, 2018|archive-date=February 13, 2018}}

scope="row"| William Sanderson

|Actor

|JD

|Law

|Memphis State University{{cite web | url= http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/interviews/bill-sanderson/ |title = Blade Zone Presents: An Interview with William Sanderson | website = BladeZone | first = Aaron | last = Brinkley | year= 2000| access-date= August 11, 2021}}

scope="row"| Fred Thompson

|Actor and U.S. Senator

|JD

|Law

|Vanderbilt University{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/us/politics/02thompson.html?ex=1341115200&en=090491f42de11114&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink|title=As Senator Rose, Lobbying Became Family Affair|first=David|last=Kirkpatrick|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 2, 2007}}

scope="row"| Steve Young

|American football player

|JD

|Law

|Brigham Young University{{cite news|url=https://www.lawcrossing.com/article/3759/The-MVP-J-D-Steve-Young|title=The Life and Career of Steve Young : Lawyer and Football Player|first=Mary|last=Waldron|access-date=June 5, 2023}}

Incomplete or revoked doctorates

Rapper Roxanne Shante publicly claimed in the early 2000s to have received a master's and PhD in psychology from Cornell University. A 2009 investigation by Slate found no evidence she had received either degree, or a bachelor's.{{cite web |last1=Sheffner |first1=Ben |title=Roxanne's Nonexistent Revenge |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/09/heard-about-how-rap-legend-roxanne-shante-forced-her-label-to-pay-for-her-cornell-ph-d-it-never-happened.html |website=Slate |access-date=17 September 2023 |date=2 September 2009}} Shante then apologized, stating she had never received a PhD.{{cite news |last1=Staff |first1=BoomBox|title=Roxanne Shante Reveals Breast Cancer Battle |url=https://theboombox.com/roxanne-shante-reveals-breast-cancer-battle/ |access-date=17 September 2023 |work=The Boombox |date=2 November 2009 |language=en}}

{{Incomplete list|date=August 2021}}

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!Institution

!Notes

scope="row"|Ella Al-Shamahi

|Stand-up comedian and television presenter

|PhD

|Anthropology

|University College London

|Studying as of 2021{{Cite web|url=https://trowelblazers.com/2021/08/05/ella-al-shamahi/|title=Ella Al-Shamahi | Trowelblazers|date=5 August 2021 }}

scope="row"|Mira Aroyo

|Member of the band Ladytron

|DPhil

|Molecular genetics

|University of Oxford

|Dropped out{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/music-news/2008/06/01/60-second-interview-ladytron-s-mira-aroyo-78057-20591556/ |title=60 second interview: Ladytron's Mira Aroyo |first=Avril |last=Cadden |newspaper=Sunday Mail |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303011146/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/music-news/2008/06/01/60-second-interview-ladytron-s-mira-aroyo-78057-20591556/ |archive-date=March 3, 2011 }}

scope="row"|Rowan Atkinson

|Actor and comedian

|PhD

|Electrical Engineering

|University of Oxford

|Dropped out{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/mar/30/features.review|title=Interview: Rowan Atkinson|date=March 30, 2003|website=the Guardian}}

scope="row"|Corey Cerovsek

|Classical violinist

|PhD

|Mathematics

|Indiana University

|Completed doctoral course work[https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/music-theater-dance/2001/04/20/Violinist-s-music-has-been-shaped-by-his-life-experiences/stories/200104200011 Violinist's music has been shaped by his life experiences] by Steven Cornelius. The Blade (Toledo OH), 20 April 2001. Retrieved 2025-05-15.

scope="row"|Alan Coren

|Humourist and writer

|PhD

|American literature

|Yale University
University of California, Berkeley

|Dropped out{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/oct/19/pressandpublishing.television|title=Obituary: Alan Coren|date=October 19, 2007|website=the Guardian}}

scope="row"|David Duchovny

|Actor

|PhD

|

|Yale University

|Dropped out

rowspan="2" scope="row" | James Franco{{Cite magazine|last=Ninh|first=Amie|date=2011-04-25|title=Double Doctor? James Franco Seeks Another PhD|language=en-US|magazine=Time|url=https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/04/25/double-doctor-james-franco-seeks-another-phd/|access-date=2021-01-15|issn=0040-781X}}

| rowspan="2" | Actor and filmmaker

|PhD

|English

|Yale University

|Studying as of 2011

PhD

|Creative Writing and Literature

|University of Houston

|Accepted, did not enroll[https://www.chron.com/life/article/actor-james-franco-won-t-attend-uh-3418861.php Actor James Franco won't attend UH] by Maggie Galehouse. Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar 2012. Retrieved 2025-05-13.

scope="row"|Art Garfunkel

|Singer and actor, member of the band Simon & Garfunkel

|PhD

|Mathematics Education[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/24/art-garfunkel-paul-simon-jack-nicholson-bridge-over-troubled-water-interview Interview Art Garfunkel: 'Weird is a fair word for me'] – website of the daily newspaper The Guardian

|Teachers College, Columbia University

|Dropped out{{cite news|url=http://www.artgarfunkel.com/articles/gannett.html |first=Jan|last=Herman |title=TV Makes You Famous; Rock'n Roll Makes You Rich |agency=Gannett News Service |date=February 6, 1977 |via=Art Garfunkel's official website |access-date=August 29, 2021 }}

scope="row"|Hong Jin-young

|South Korean trot singer and entertainer

|PhD

|Business Administration

|Chosun University

|Revoked[https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2020/12/732_301409.html Singer Hong Jin-young's degrees to be revoked over dissertation plagiarism] – website of the South Korean newspaper The Korea Times

scope="row"|Ashley Judd

|Actress

|PhD

|Public Policy

|University of California, Berkeley

||Studying as of 2016[https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/ashley-judd-heading-back-school-phd/story?id=41421942 Ashley Judd Heading Back to School for Her Ph.D.] – website of ABC News

scope="row" |Bridgit Mendler

|Actor and singer-songwriter

|PhD

|Technologies & Social Machines

|Massachusetts Institute of Technology

|Studying as of 2020{{cite web |title=Bridgit Mendler Social Machines, MIT Center for Constructive Communication |url=https://www.media.mit.edu/people/bridgitm/overview/ |website=MIT Media Lab People |publisher=MIT Media Lab |access-date=18 July 2022}}

scope="row"|Kim Min-seok

|Singer and actor

|PhD

|Culture and Arts

|Hoseo University

||Studying as of 2017[https://www.marieclairekorea.com/tag/%EC%8B%9C%EC%9A%B0%EB%AF%BC/ siu min] – international monthly magazine Marie Claire[https://www.koreaboo.com/stories/exos-xiumin-is-pursuing-his-phd-at-hoseo-university/ Fans Discover Evidence That EXO Xiumin May Soon Become Dr. Xiumin] - website of Koreaboo.com

scope="row"|Ben Miller

|Actor

|PhD

|Solid state physics

|University of Cambridge

|Dropped out{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Miller |year=2012 |title=It's Not Rocket Science}}

scope="row"|Jay Sean

|Singer-songwriter

|MBBS

|Medicine

|Queen Mary University of London

|Dropped out[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124858163&t=1632509708268 Jay Sean: From Medical Student To R&B Superstar] – website of the non-profit media organization NPR

scope="row"|John Sessions

|Actor

|PhD

|English Literature

|McMaster University

|Dropped out[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/14/john-sessions-interview-comedy-pudsey-the-dog-the-movie Interview: John Sessions, comedy pioneer: 'I lost my way'] – website of the British daily newspaper The Guardian

scope="row"|Zhai Tianlin

|Actor

|PhD

|Film Science

|Beijing Film Academy

|Revoked[https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/1902199783/ Actor's PhD revoked over academic dishonesty] – website SHINE, the online brand of the Chinese English-language newspaper Shanghai Daily

scope="row"|Lee Young-ae

|Actress

|PhD

|Theater and Cinema

|Hanyang University

|Studying as of 2009[https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/08/719_51890.html?RD Lee Young-ae Talks on Marriage] – website of the newspaper The Korea Times[https://www.hancinema.net/lee-young-ae-to-earn-ph-d-from-hanyang-university-19846.html Lee Young-ae to Earn Ph.D. from Hanyang University] – website of HanCinema

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