William Randolph Hearst
Hearst, the son of millionaire mining engineer George Hearst, enrolled at Harvard in 1885 and acted as the first business manager of the Harvard Lampoon, the school’s humor publication, before getting expelled in 1885 for keeping a pet alligator named Champagne Charlie in his room. After his expulsion, Hearst went on to build the nation's largest newspaper chain and was a key influencer of American journalism. Aside from the newspaper business, he served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Bonnie Raitt
Raitt enrolled at Radcliffe College, Harvard’s then-coordinate college, in 1967. The daughter of a musical performer, Raitt planned to major in African studies and travel to Tanzania to help the damage that Western colonialism had caused. But those dreams went in vain when she met blues promoter Dick Waterman in Cambridge.
Three years after entering college, she left Harvard to pursue her full time music career. Soon after that, she released her first album. Raitt has released 19 albums over the past 40-plus years and won 10 Grammys. Raitt also received Harvard’s third Arts Medal in 1997 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. She has continued to be involved in nonprofits all over the world, specifically involving social justice, human rights, and music education.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The inventor, philosopher, and futurist was the fifth generation of his family to enroll at Harvard but the first not to graduate. Best known for inventing the "synergetic geometric" Fuller wasn’t initially accepted in Harvard's social clubs, because he often blew off class to go to Broadway shows. Harvard expelled Fuller for skipping class and spending all of his tuition money in New York. However, later Harvard had the "socializer" return to teach some classes at the university.
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