College Dropout Celebrities across the world

World Cricket Icon Sachin RameshTendulkar never attended a college.

Steve Jobs an amazing innovator got enrolment in Reed College in Oregon, USA but after one semester , he left out.

Dhirubhai Ambani founder of Reliance Industry was only 16 when he left for Aden to work as a clerk owing to financial issues in family.

Bill Gates After scoring a near-perfect 1590 on his SATs, he enrolled at Harvard but left without having his degree to start Microsoft Corp.

Larry Ellison, who was the co-founder of Oracle, attended the University of Illinois but dropped out at the second year, as he missed the exams because of the death of his adoptive mother. He then went to the University of Chicago, but didn't stay beyond a term.

Julian Assange founder of WikiLeaks attended the University of Melbourne, majoring in physics and mathematics. He scored only a minimum grade for math and left the University of Melbourne soon to start his own venture.

Facebook founder Zuckerberg also directed himself to his dreams and left Harvard to relocate to Silicon Valley.

Charles Lindbergh an American aviator, who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, quit the University of Wisconsin and took flying classes instead.

Genius Movie director Quentin Tarantino is a high school dropout who went to work in a video store for his love for movies.

Steven Spielberg was not known for his academic brilliance. Interestingly, he even failed to get admission into a film-making institute! But he created new chapter of film making.

Sir Richard Branson has faced a roughed time in school because of his dyslexia. He left school when he was only 16.

Doris Lessing, who awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, had to end her formal schooling when she was only14. She had worked as a nanny, telephone operator, stenographer, and a journalist before becoming a novelist at the age of 31.

Ralph Lauren the famous Fashion designer and founder of Polo, left the City College of New York business school to design ties for Beau Brummel. He launched Polo brand later that same year.

Former American Idol judge Simon Cowell left out of school at age 16 and landed a job in the mailroom at EMI. At 23 he left to start his own record label, Fanfare.