User:QueenAdelaide/List of entertainers related to academics
This is a list of people in the entertainment industry, including Hollywood actors and popular writers, who have an academic background themselves or are related to scholars and university academics.
- Isaac Asimov, popular science fiction writer, was also a professor of biochemistry.
- Warren Beatty, is the son of a professor of psychology, Ira Owens Beaty.
- Hugh Beaumont, actor, has a son who is a psychology professor.
- Rob Buckman, comedian, is also a doctor of medicine.
- Graham Chapman, comedian, is also a physician who studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
- Sacha Baron Cohen, actor and comedian, is the first cousin of Simon Baron-Cohen who is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and professor of developmental psychopathology in the departments of psychiatry and experimental psychology.
- Billy Connelly, comedian, is married to former actress Pamela Stephenson who is now a clinical psychologist.
- Graeme Garden, comedian, is also a physician who studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
- Spalding Gray, actor, is the brother of Rockwell Gray, an English professor in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Olivia Newton John, actress, is the granddaughter of the Nobel prize winning physicist Max Born.
- Angelina Jolie, actress, is the niece of renowned volcanologist Barry Voight, who was based at the Pennsylvania State University. Barry Voight is also the brother of the actor John Voight.
- Nicole Kidman, actress, is the daughter of Dr Anthony D. Kidman, who was a university lecturer and is presently a biochemist and a clinical psychologist.
- Daniel Levitin, music producer and musician, is also a neuroscientist.
- Brian May, lead guitarist of the rock band Queen, studied Physics and Mathematics at Imperial College, London.
- Ben Stein, actor and comedian, was originally a law professor. He is the son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein.
- Shirley Thomas, radio and television actress/producer/writer, was also an aerospace professor at the University of Southern California.
- Uma Thurman, actress, is the daughter of Robert Thurman, Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University.
- Lalla Ward, actress, is married to Oxford University biologist Richard Dawkins.
See Also[edit]
- List of actor-politicians
- List of entertainers by nickname
- List of entertainers known to have performed in blackface
- List of entertainers in Christian media
- List of actors who gained or lost weight for a role
- List of show business families
- List of sibling pairs
- List of coupled cousins