Bill Gates - co-founder of Microsoft, dropped out of Harvard University.
Mark Zuckerberg - co-founder of Facebook, dropped out of Harvard University.
Steve Jobs - co-founder of Apple, attended Reed College and dropped out after one semester.
Matt Damon - actor and screenwriter, dropped out of Harvard University.
Robert Frost - poet, attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard University but did not graduate.
Frank Lloyd Wright - architect, attended both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but did not graduate.
Terrence Malick - film director and screenwriter, dropped out of Harvard University.
Herman Melville - author, attended both Hamilton College and Columbia University but did not graduate.