Chemists that became famous for other reasons.
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| Name | Country | Known as | Chemistry career |
| Elena Ceaucescu | Romania | Wife of Nicolae Ceaucescu | |
| Margaret Thatcher | U.K. | Prime minister | Chemistry Part I and Part II at Oxford University, had a chemical employment under her maiden name. |
| Cindy Crawford | USA | Model | Received a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern. Not completed. |
| Knute Rockne (Knut Rokne) | USA | American football player and coach. One of US's greatests sports heroes ever. | I think he was originally hired at Notre Dame to teach Chemistry. |
| Aleksandr Borodin | Russia | Composer (1833-1887) | Studied chemistry by professor Bunsen i Heidelberg. Professor at the medicine academy of St. Petersburg from 1862, head of chemical education from 1874. Approx. 40 chemical papers published. First to study the aldol condensation reaction. |
| Primo Levi | Italy | Novelist (1919-1987) | |
| Elias Canetti | Austria | Novelist (1905-94) Nobel Prize winner 1981 | PhD in chemistry. |
| Ignacy Moscicky | Poland | President before World War II | He was a professor of chemical technology, invented and
worked out the method of nitric acid synthesis from air nitrogen and
oxygen. |
| Isac Asimov | USA | Famous Sci. Fi. writer | |
| Dolph Lundgren | USA | Actor | Masters degree in chemical engineering, Fullbright scholar at MIT. |
| Kurt Vonnegut | USA | Novelist (1922-) | Enrolls 1940 at Cornell University as a biochemistry major. |
| Chaim Weizmann | Israel | First president of Israel | Professor of chemistry in Manchester. Weizmann institute,
named after him, founded in Palestina before WW II. |
| Doug Wilder | USA | former governor of Virginia | |
| Frank Capra |
Italy/USA |
Film director, mainly before World War II |
College degreee in Chemical Engineering, ca. 1920. |
| Finn Hvistendahl | Norway | Politician and industry tychoon | Diploma in chemistry/chemical engineering, NTH, Trondheim. |
| Karl Petter Løken | Norway | Football player (Norway, Rosenborg, Stabæk) and commentator in TV (NRK) | Diploma in chemistry/chemical engineering, NTH, Trondheim. Practiced at Statoil research center, Trondheim. |
| Kjell Stahl | Norway | "Direktør for arbeidsdirektoratet, tidl. statssekretær" | Ph. D. in inorganic chemistry, NTH, Trondheim |
| Henning Meyer Johansen | Norway | Artist - known for his detailed drawings of several Norwegian towns | Educated and practiced as technician at NTH, Trondheim |
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