Some people are too smart to be confined to the classroom walls! Here's a look at other famous school/college dropouts.

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar never attended a college. Now He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and One Day International cricket. He is the only player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket. Tendulkar is the first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has 99 centuries in international cricket.He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history.

Steve Jobs got himself enrolled in Reed College in Oregon, but one semester later, he dropped out. Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone

Reliance founder Dhirubhai Ambani was only 16 when he left for Aden to work as a clerk owing to financial issues in family. He was the founder of Reliance industries. He changed the stream of Indian industries. Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian icon and gem of the gems.. He is a man rags to riches.

After scoring a near-perfect 1590 on his SATs, Gates enrolled at Harvard but left without a degree to start Microsoft Corp. A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business, Microsoft, with Paul Allen and became one of the richest men in the world.

Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder, attended the University of Illinois but left at the end of his second year, as he skipped the exams following the death of his adoptive mother. He then went to the University of Chicago, but didn't stay beyond a term.

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

After the wonder effect of Facebook, Zuckerberg packed his dreams and left Harvard to relocate to Silicon Valley. Now He is The youngest ever self-made billionaire. Forbes Lists #14 Forbes 400, #52 Forbes Billionaires, #19 in United States, #40 Powerful People.

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

Genius director Quentin Tarantino is a high school dropout who went to work in a video store for his love for movies. Quentin Tarantino instantly became the stuff of Hollywood legend. Of course, winning an Oscar, Golden Globe and numerous critics' awards for Best Original Screenplay for the groundbreaking and much-imitated "Pulp Fiction" (1994) added significantly to his luster.

Steven Spielberg was not known for his academic excellence. Interestingly, he even failed to get admission into a film-making institute! Now Steven Spielberg is the cinematic mastermind behind such indelible hits as Jaws, Jurassic Park and Raiders of the Lost Ark, which has essentially assured his place as one of the most well-known and revered directors in film history.

 

Sir Richard Branson had a difficult time in school because of his dyslexia. He left school when he was only 16. Now Sir Richard Branson is the chairman of the Virgin Group of some 400 companies. In 1970 he founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer.

Doris Lessing, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, had to end her formal schooling when she was 14. She had worked as a nanny, telephone operator, stenographer, and a journalist before becoming a novelist at the age of 31.

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

Former American Idol judge Simon Cowell dropped 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. Now He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco.

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