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Distinguished Dropouts

An unwritten understanding makes an alumnus or alumna of any
student who has spent at least a semester at Yale. Below, some of those who went on to distinction, but without the benefit of a Yale degree.

NAME

DEGREE
TYPE

GRAD.
DATE

FIELD

TRADE

Louis Auchincloss

Undergraduate

1939

Arts

Author

Judah Benjamin

Undergraduate

1828

Government

Senator, Confederate cabinet officer

Melvin Bourne

Drama

1948

Entertainment

Film director

Richard Cheney

Undergraduate

1963

Government

Vice president

J. Fenimore Cooper

Undergraduate

1805

Letters

Author

Ron Darling

Undergraduate

1982

Athletics

Baseball player

Bruce Davidson

Art

1957

Arts

Photographer

David Duchovny

Graduate School

1987

Entertainment

Actor

Henry Ford II

Undergraduate

1941

Business

Executive

Frank D. Gilroy

Drama

1953

Letters

Playwright, film writer

Julie Harris

Drama

1947

Entertainment

Actor

David Henry Hwang

Drama

1983

Letters

Playwright

Elia Kazan

Drama

1933

Entertainment

Film director

Stacy Keach

Drama

1966

Entertainment

Actor

Robert Klein

Drama

1965

Entertainment

Comedian, actor, writer

Paul Newman

Drama

1954

Entertainment

Actor, director

Aldo Parisot

Music

1948

Arts

Cellist, teacher

Winthrop Rockefeller

Undergraduate

1935

Government

Governor, Arkansas

Mark Rothko

Undergraduate

1925

Arts

Painter

Talia Shire

Drama

1969

Arts

Actor

Oliver Stone

Undergraduate

1968

Entertainment

Film director

Samuel J. Tilden

Undergraduate

1831

Government

Presidential candidate, NY governor

Joan Van Ark

Drama

1964

Entertainment

Actor

 
     
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