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Famous people who used to be teachers

Name a famous person who used to be a teacher. Hopdown accepts 95 answers here. Common answers keep your bunny near the surface; rare ones dig deeper. A well-known person who worked as a teacher or professor at some point, often before becoming famous.

Most common answers

• StingExtremely common
• Gene SimmonsCommon
• Stephen KingUncommon
• Robert FrostUncommon
• Dan BrownUncommon
• Sheryl CrowUncommon
• Jon HammUncommon
• Walt WhitmanUncommon
• Frank McCourtUncommon
• Barack ObamaUncommon
• Henry David ThoreauUncommon
• Louisa May AlcottUncommon
• Lyndon B. JohnsonUncommon
• Ralph Waldo EmersonUncommon
• James GarfieldUncommon

Rare answers

• Brian MayRare
• Jaime EscalanteRare
• John CleeseRare
• Philip PullmanRare
• Madeleine L'EngleRare
• Katherine PatersonRare
• Laura BushRare
• Antonin ScaliaVery rare
• Elizabeth WarrenVery rare
• Jomo KenyattaVery rare
• Helen ClarkVery rare
• Maria MontessoriVery rare
• ConfuciusVery rare
• Ludwig WittgensteinVery rare
• Bill WalshVery rare

Deep cuts

The answers almost nobody gives.

• George SaundersDeep cut
• Richard RussoDeep cut
• Carl SaganDeep cut
• Brian CoxDeep cut
• Sun Yat-senDeep cut
• Desmond TutuDeep cut
• Chinua AchebeDeep cut
• Wole SoyinkaDeep cut
• Leopold SenghorDeep cut
• Vaclav HavelDeep cut

Plus 55 more answers you'll have to find yourself.