The following people were philosophy majors or minors (or the equivalent)

• Steve Allen (writer & comedian)
• Woody Allen (director & comedian)
• Wes Anderson (filmmaker - Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, etc.)
• Max Baer Jr. (actor: Jethro on "The Beverly Hillbillies")
• Kristen Baker (first female brigade commander, United States military Academy)
• William Bennett (former Drug czar & leader of the National Endowment for the Humanities, author of The Books of Virtues)
• Cardinal Bernardin (late Cardinal of Chicago)
• >Justice Stephen Breyer (U.S. Supreme Court)
• Jerry Brown (former Governor of California and presidential candidate)
• Pat Buchanan (Reform party nominee in 2000 for President of the United States)
• Pearl Buck (writer, Pulitzer prize and Nobel prize winner)
• George Carlin (comedian and actor)
• Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture (civil rights leader)
• Mary Higgins Clark (mystery writer)
• John Chancellor (journalist, news anchor)
• Bill Clinton (former U.S. President)
• Stephen Colbert (comedian)
• Ethan Coen (filmmaker - The Big Lebowski, Fargo, etc.)
• Wes Craven (filmmaker - A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• Luc Dardenne (filmmaker - The Promise, The Child, Darkness, etc.)
• Angela Davis (social activist)
• Arthur P. Davis (African American writer and educator)
• Philip K. Dick (science fiction writer)
• Paul Draper (winemaker, Ridge Vineyards)
• David Duchovny (actor, "The X-Files")
• Umberto Eco (novelist, semiologist)
• T.S. Eliot (author)
• John Elway (quarterback, Denver Broncos)
• Rahm Emmanuel (Chief of Staff, Obama Administration)
• Daniel Evans (Olivier Award winning actor, nominated for a Tony)
• Carly Fiorina (CEO, Hewlett-Packard)
• Ken Follet (author)
• Harrison Ford (actor)
• Michael Frayn, (playwright and novelist - Copenhagen)
• Ivan Frolov (editor of Pravda)
• Martin Gardner (author, essayist)
• Richard Gere (actor)
• Ricky Gervais (comedian and actor)
• J. Paul Getty (industrialist, founder of Getty Oil, endowed the Getty Museum of Art)
• Phillip Glass (composer)
• Rebecca Goldstein (novelist, MacArthur prize recipient)
• Randall Grahm (winemaker, Bonny Doon Vineyards)
• Matt Groening (creator of "The Simpsons")
• Rudy Giuliani (former mayor of NYC)
• Gary Hart (US Senator, former presidential candidate)
• Christy Haubegger (editor of Latina)
• Vaclav Havel (former President of the Czech Republic)
• Carol Heckman (first female U.S. Magistrate in the Western District of New York)
• Peter Hoeg (author, Smilla's Sense of Snow)
• Carl Icahn (business person and corporate raider, bought TWA)
• Phil Jackson (NBA coach, LA Lakers)
• Thomas Jefferson (U.S. President)
• Mark Jones (Director, Victoria and Albert Museum)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights leader)
• Bruce Lee (martial arts expert, actor)
• Jay Leno (comedian)
• Elmore Leonard (author)
• Michael Lerner (editor, Tikkun)
• Gerald Levine (CEO, Time Warner)
• Peter Lynch (director)
• Amy Madigan (actress)
• Terrence Malick (filmmaker - The New World, The Thin Red Line, etc.)
• Paul Martin (Canadian Prime Minister)
• Steve Martin (comedian, actor, author)
• Jay McInerney (author)
• Michael McKaskey (owner, Chicago bears)
• Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin (Canadian Chief Justice)
• Robert McNamara (former Secretary of Defense, Director of the World Bank)
• Dennis Miller (comedian)
• William H. Miller III (mutual fund manager, oversees the Legg Mason Value Trust)
• Kate Millett (author, Sexual Politics)
• Moby (musician)
• Bob Moses (civil rights activist)
• Robert Motherwell (painter)
• Iris Murdoch (novelist)
• Bill Murray (comedian)
• Pope John Paul II
• Neil Peart (drummer for the rock group, Rush)
• Stone Phillips (broadcast journalist)
• Chaim Potok (novelist)
• Steve Reich (musician, composer)
• Richard Riordan (former Mayor of Los Angeles)
• Joan Rivers (comedian)
• Brad Roberts (singer-songwriter for the Crash Test Dummies)
• Susan Sarandon (actress)
• Mike Schmidt (baseball player, former Philadelphia Philly)
• Albert Schweitzer (physician, humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize winner)
• Wallace Shawn (actor, playwright)
• Gene Siskel (film critic)
• Jeff Smith (chef also known as "The Frugal Gourmet")
• Alexander Solzhenitsin (political dissident, writer)
• Susan Sontag (essayist)
• George Soros (money manager, Soros Foundation)
• Justice David Souter (U.S. Supreme Court)
• P. Michael Spence (economist, 2001 Nobel Laureate)
• George Stephanopoulos (Press Secretary to U.S. President Bill Clinton)
• John Stoltzmann (winner of the World Poker Open)
• Aung San Suu Kyi (human rights activist and Novel Peace Prize winner)
• Aaron Taylor (offensive tackle, Green Bay Packers)
• Dave Thomas (SCTV)
• Alex Trebeck (host of "Jeopardy")
• Pierre Trudeau (former Canadian Prime Minister)
• David Foster Wallace (novelist, MacArthur prize recipient)
• Judge Joseph A. Wapner ("The People's Court")
• Robert Weaver (doyen of Canadian literature, head of CBC's "Anthology")
• Elie Wiesel (author, human rights activist, Nazi hunter)
• George F. Will (author, journalist, commentator)
• Juan Williams (host of National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation," writer for the Washington Post)
• Dr. Stephen Younger (Director of the Threat Reduction Agency, Department of Defense, established after 9/11)
• Moses Znaimer (owner of Citytv and MuchMusic, Toronto)