The College Dropouts
Hall of Fame

You don't have to go to college to be a success. Even if you go for awhile, you don't have to graduate to be a success. Here are just a few of the people who have become famous and/or successful without graduating from college and/or high school.

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Albert Ueltschi, billionaire founder of FlightSafety International pilot training schools. Dropped out of the University of Kentucky to follow his passion, flying planes. After flying for PanAm for ten years, he founded FlightSafety.

Donald Eugene Ulrich, aka Don Rich, country music guitarist and fiddler. Quit college to join The Buckaroos. The band had 19 #1 country hits during the 1960s.

Leon Uris, bestselling novelist. Dropped out of high school at the age of 17 to join the U.S. Marines.

Dan Ushman, co-founder of SingleHop, a web hosting company. Dropped out of college during the first year to work on their first web hosting company, MidPhase.

Peter Ustinov, Oscar-winning actor. Dropped out of high school.

Dropouts with last names starting with V

Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system. — Frank Zappa, musician, liner notes from the Freak Out album