List of famous persons initially trained in mathematics
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List of persons with a background in mathematics who are better known for other things:
- Tadatoshi Akiba - mayor of Hiroshima, Japan. He has a PhD in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Lewis Carroll - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer. Although not the most studious of students, his talent as a mathematician won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship, which he continued to hold for twenty-six years.
- Ahmed Chalabi - Iraqi politician. He has a PhD in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
- Pasquale del Pezzo - Italian mathematician, later mayor of Naples and senator in the Kingdom of Naples.
- Éamon de Valera - first president of the Irish Republic, was a professor of mathematics before entering politics.
- Alberto Fujimori - controversial former president of Peru, received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Art Garfunkel - singer, received a Master's degree in mathematics from Columbia University.
- Zaha Hadid - a notable Iraqi-British deconstructivist architect. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
- Davey Johnson - major league baseball player and manager, received a mathematics degree from Trinity University (Texas).
- Omar Khayyam - Persian poet, wrote several books on algebra and geometry.
- Emanuel Lasker - world chess champion from 1894 to 1921, received his doctorate in mathematics under Hilbert.
- Tom Lehrer - American songwriter and satirist, has an MA in mathematics from Harvard.
- Danica McKellar - American actress, holds a mathematics degree from UCLA and is co-credited with the discovery of the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem.
- Brian May - rock guitarist and composer, worked briefly as a mathematics teacher before joining Queen. [1]
- Omar Sharif - an Egyptian-born actor (of Lebanese and Syrian origin) who has starred in many Hollywood films. Before becoming an actor, he graduated from Alexandria's Victoria College, then from Cairo University with a mathematics and physics major.
- James Harris Simons - American investment advisor, billionaire, and philanthropist. He has a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley and is the co-inventor of Chern-Simons theory.
- The Simpsons - check out [2], and for the mathematical background of the writers, [3]
- Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, earned an M.A. in mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin.
- Archie Williams - American athlete and Olympic gold medalist, taught mathematics at high schools in California.
