- Mobashshir Sarwar – India’s youngest RTI activist
- Alan Moore – talented artist, famous for illustrating comics.
- Vybz Kartel – Jamaican dancehall artist, songwriter and businessman.
- Peter D. Ouspensky – Russian esotericist
- Karl Marx – German philosopher
- Albert Einstein – inventor, physicist
- Charles Darwin – theory of evolution and other scientific studies
- Steven Spielberg – need he be introduced? Perhaps to the University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television – they refused him admission three times.
- Michael Jordon – rejected from his high school basketball team
- Dhondo Keshav Karve – 19th Century Indian reformer for women’s welfare
- Isaac Newton – mathematician and physicist
- Thomas Edison – inventor, remember the light bulb?
- Winston Churchill – Nobel Prize winner, twice elected Prime Minister of UK
- Dick Cheney – became vice president of US
- Robert Sternberg – psychologist, President of the American Psychological Association.
- Charles Schultz – Peanuts comic strip [couldn’t get any of his comic strips published in school yearbook]
- Ludwig van Beethoven – violinist, composer [including 5 symphonies after becoming deaf]
- Elvis Presley – singer, musician [also failed to impress music teacher]
- Rudyard Kipling – Nobel Prize winner, poet, novelist of Jungle Book fame.
- George Orwell – English novelist and journalist of “Animal Farm” fame
- Anand Bakshi – Bollywood lyricist
- Helen – dancer, actress
- Bill Gates – Microsoft founder
- Walt Disney – cartoonist
- Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of US [attended school in brief spurts on and off.]
- Lata Mangeshkar – singer
- Sir Jamshetji Jejeebhoy – Parsi philanthropist, merchant, Sir J J Institute of Applied Art, Sir J J College of Architecture, Sir J J School of Art are named after him.
- Charlie Chaplin – actor [he went to a workhouse at age 7 – school of hardships 🙁 ]
- Rabindranath Tagore – Bengali polymath, transformed regional literature and music, author of Geetanjali, founder of Shantiniketan
- Swami Dayanand Saraswati – Founder of DAV public schools