Golfer Gil Morgan has an OD.(which is Optometry)
Weller (Robocop) shows up frequently these days as a talking head in documentaries. I did a double-take the fist time I saw him in that role.
Dolph Lundgren has a masters in chemical engineering. It’s not a PhD, but it’s something. Fullbright scholar, too.
Asimov was already an established writer before he got his Ph.D., so he should qualify.
A couple of other science fiction writers are E. E. “Doc” Smith and Cordwainer Smith.
Tony La Russa has a JD
Don S. Davis, best known as General Hammond on Stargate SG-1, has a Ph.D in theatre.
After the Unabomber was caught, I figured out that he was on the University of Michigan campus at the same time as my dad was in law school there. Never met each other - it’s a big place - but still kind of ooky.
MLK had a theology doctorate, IIRC. Bill and Hillary Clinton both have JDs, of course, as have several other U.S. presidents.
The BBC always refers to the current U.S. Secretary of State as “Dr. Rice.” The last president to earn a doctorate was Woodrow Wilson.
Whoopi Goldberg has a PhD in Literature from NYU.
Dexter Holland, lead singer of the Offspring, has a PhD in Microbiology.
Milo Auckerman of the Descendants has his PhD in biochemistry.
Richard Vranch (the accompanist on the British version of Whose Line is it Anyway?) has a Ph.D. in physics.
Actor Harold Gould has a Ph.D. in theater, which he received before going into acting. He taught theater in Cornell before deciding to practice what he preached.
Jonathan Miller, member of the Beyond the Fringe comedy troupe (with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and Alan Bennett), is an MD. He also produced a BBC series of Shakespeare plays.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale became a very popular TV personality in the 50s. He was a minister so probably was a D.D.
I know Cosell had a law degree from NYU but are you sure it was J.D., and not a LL.B.? ?
Greg Graffin of Bad Religion has a Ph.D. in either Zoology or Evolutionary Biology.
Same here. I didn’t know he actually was/is an historian, I figured the filmakers caught themselves a celebrity to shove in from of the camera.
Phil Alvin of the Blasters has a PhD in mathematics from UCLA.
One of the female gladiators on American Gladiators, either Jazz or Blaze (absolutely stunning black woman with long braided hair) was working on or had received her Ph.D. in psychology while she was on the show.
The only president to have earned a doctorate, wasn’t he? President of Princeton University, too, at one point, I believe.
Although he never earned a doctorate, I was a bit surprised to to see Herbert Hoover’s name on an English translation of Georgius Agricola’s De Re Metallica , translated from the Latin edition of 1556. Before entering politics, he was a very successful mining engineer.