# I never knew they were \*that\* good - artists with under reported skills **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 27, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-they-were-that-good-artists-with-under-reported-skills/968663 "2022-07-27T18:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 79
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-they-were-that-good-artists-with-under-reported-skills/968663/79 "2023-11-27T08:39:47Z")
We’ve had plenty of threads in the past about artists and entertainers with doctorates and other advanced degrees. (You can’t get these without excellent research skills!) Rather than repeat the long lists of celebrities mentioned in those threads, I’ll just link to some of them here: > [@Celebrities with REAL (Not Honorary) Doctorates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-real-not-honorary-doctorates/392613/): > > How many celebrities can you think of who have earned actual Ph. D’s from actual universities? Academics who’ve become famous writers (Isaac Asimov, Richard Dawkins, et al.) aren’t really what I’m looking for. Rather, are there any famous musicians, actors, novelists and such who happen to have gone to graduate school and earned doctorates? I know Bill Cosby got a Ph. D. in education, and Queen guitarist Brian May was in a doctoral program for astronomy (not sure whether he ever actually recei… > [@Any famous people you were astonished to learn had a Ph. D ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-people-you-were-astonished-to-learn-had-a-ph-d/117161): > > Are there any well known folks you’re aware of who hold a Ph. D.? Preferably folks not known for being brainy. Someone most people would be VERY surprised to learn had done advanced graduate studies. > [@Seemingly "Ignorant" Celebrities With Advanced Degrees](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-ignorant-celebrities-with-advanced-degrees/288751): > > A friend recently announced that he had “heard” that Dolph Lundgren, who is usually perceived as a slab of barely literate beef, to whom language seems foreign, actually has an advanced degree in Physics. Is this true? The friend further stated that that kid from “Dude, Where’s My Car?” (Goddamn my sieve-like memory for current “actors”) is a lettered Chemistry BIGSHOT, or somesuch title. Hmm, is Keanu Reeves actually second only to Crick and Watson after all? Does David Lee Roth hold a degr… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-they-were-that-good-artists-with-under-reported-skills/968663)._