Successful Arts Graduates:
- Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Designate of Canada, English major at McGill
- George W. Bush, ex-CEO of Spectrum, History major at Yale
- Mitt Romney, CEO of Bain Capital, English major at Brigham Young University
- Martha Stewart, founder and ex-CEO of Martha Stewart Omnimedia, History major at Barnard College
- Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, Psychology major at Tufts
- Peter Thiel, co-founder and CEO of PayPal, Philosophy major at Stanford
- Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard, History & Philosophy major at Stanford
- Ken Chenault, CEO of American Express, History major at Bowdoin College
- Carl Icahn, CEO of Icahn Enterprises, Philosophy major at Princeton
- Michael Eisner, ex-CEO of Disney, English & Theatre major at Denison
- Hank Paulson, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, English major at Dartmouth
- Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, Government major at Harvard
- Sheila Blair, FDIC Chair, Philosophy major at University of Kansas
- George Soros, CEO of Soros Fund Management, Philosophy major at LSE
- Ted Turner, founder of CNN and TBS, Classics major at Brown
- Ann Mulcahy, ex-CEO of Xerox, English & Journalism major at Marymount College
- Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta, Political Science major at University of Houston
- Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, History major at Brown
- Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, Political Science major at Duke University
- Sam Palmisano, ex-CEO of IBM, History major at Johns Hopkins University
- Andrea Jung, ex-CEO of Avon, English Literature major at Princeton
- A.G. Lafley, ex-CEO of Proctor and Gamble, French & History major at Hamilton College
- Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel, Government and IR major at Notre Dame
- Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone Group, Interdisciplinary major at Yale
- Judy McGrath, ex-CEO of MTV, English major at Cedar Crest College
- Robert Iger, CEO of Disney, Communications major at Ithaca College
- Christopher Connor, CEO of Sherwin Williams, Sociology major at The Ohio State University
- Herbert Allison Jr., ex-CEO of Fannie Mae, Philosophy major at Yale
- Anthony Peter Jenkins, CEO of Barclays, Philosophy MA from Oxford
Sources:
http://www.businessinsider.com/successful-liberal-arts-majors-2012-12?op=1 among other personal pages for the individuals listed above and education pages from forbes.com
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