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The term "dropout" means a student who quits school before graduation. Compare pushout, a student counseled or forced out of school before graduation.
Below are lists of people who succeeded despite having never completed their education:
Famous College Dropouts
- Bill Gates
- Brian Transeau
- Karl Rove
- Paul Allen
- Richard Li
- Rush Limbaugh
- Jennifer Lopez
- Steve Jobs
- Ted Turner
- Tucker Carlson
- Michael Moore
Famous High-school Dropouts
- Quentin Tarantino
- Demi Moore
- Dave Thomas
- Michelle Branch
- Peter Jennings
- Kurt Cobain
- Bryan Adams
- Eminem
- Chris Rock
- Christina Aguilera
- Christina Applegate
- Kevin Bacon
- Drew Barrymore
- Sean Bean
- Pierce Brosnan
- Jennifer Capriati
- Jim Carrey
- Ray Charles
- Russell Crowe
- Tom Cruise
- Robert De Niro
- Johnny Depp
- Charles Dickins (elementary school dropout)
- Celine Dion
- Dale Earnhardt
- Thomas Edison (elementary school dropout)
- Colin Farrell
- Aretha Franklin
- Marvin Gaye
- Whoopie Goldberg
- Benny Hill
- Harry Houdini
- Peter Jackson
- Billy Joel
- Elton John
- B.B. King
- Jerry Lewis
- Sophie Marceau
- George Michael
- Marilyn Monroe
- Nelly (Cornell Haynes Jr.)
- Wayne Newton
- Al Pacino
- Rosa Parks
- Sydney Poitier (elementary school dropout)
- Richard Pryor
- Keanu Reeves
- William Shakespeare
- Frank Sinatra
- Miguel Tejada
- Charlize Theron
- John Travolta
- Elijah Wood
- The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur
The term dropout has the following meanings:
- A momentary loss of signal in a communications system. This is usually caused by noise, propagation anomalies, or system malfunctions.
- A failure to properly read a binary character from data storage. This is usually caused by a defect in the storage medium or by a malfunction of the read mechanism.
- In magnetic tape, disk, card, or drum systems, a recorded signal with an amplitude less than a predetermined percentage of a reference signal.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
A dropout is a source whose radiation disappears shortward of a given filter. Looking for dropouts is an usual method to look for high redshift galaxies.