List of dropouts in the United States

Notable dropouts in the United States include:

High school

• Arthur Shawcross^[1]
• Michael Enright (broadcaster)^[2]
• Bobby Fischer^[3]
• Marvin Hewitt^[4]
• Beland Honderich^[5]
• Hitomi Kanehara^[6]
• Juan Carlos Onetti^[7]
• Nas^[8]
• Eminem^[9]
• Wright Brothers^[10]
• Walt Disney^[11]
• Richard Branson^[12]
• Dave Thomas^[13]
• David H. Murdock^[14]
• Dave Mustaine^{[citation needed]}
• Gurbaksh Chahal^[15]
• Tupac Shakur^[16]
• Kurt Cobain^[17]
• Danny Rolling^[18]
• Teddy Pendergrass^[19]
• James Earl Ray^[20]
• Eazy-E^[21]
• Marvin Gaye^[22]
• Jay-Z^[23]
• Frank Lloyd Wright^[24]

University

• Woody Allen,^[25][26] New York University
• Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin^[27]
• Bill Gates, Harvard University^[28]
• David Geffen,^[25] Santa Monica City College, Brooklyn College, University of Texas at Austin
• John Glenn,^[25] Muskingum University
• Steve Jobs, Reed College^[11]
• Jack Kerouac, Columbia University,^[29]
• Kanye West, Chicago State University^[30]
• Alicia Keys, Columbia University^[31]
• James Dean, UCLA^[32]
• John Steinbeck, Stanford University ^[33]
• Sylvester Stallone, University of Miami ^[34]
• Ted Turner,^[25] Brown University
• William Faulkner, University of Mississippi^[35]
• Anthony Bourdain, Vassar College ^[36]
• Mark Zuckerberg,^[25] Harvard University

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2. ^ Press release, archived at Lucien.NB.ca
3. ^ Arthur Bisguier, in Wade & O'Connell 1973, p. 47.
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22. ^ "Marvin Gaye - Singer/Songwriter". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A23192868. Retrieved January 6, 2010. 
23. ^ "Jay-Z: From Brooklyn to the Boardroom". BBC News. December 1, 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6160419.stm. Retrieved January 6, 2010. 
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