RICHARD PRYOR (1940- ), COMEDIAN
Pryor was expelled from a Catholic grammar school in Peoria, Illinois, when the nuns discovered that his grandmother ran a string of brothels. At 16, he was expelled from Central High School for punching a science teacher named Mr Think.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822), POET
In 1811, while a student at Oxford" the poet Shelley and his close friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg sent a pamphlet entitled 'The Necessity of Atheism', a summary of the arguments of John Locke and David Hume, to the heads of the colleges. When both students refused to answer questions about the pamphlet, they were summarily expelled.
LEON TROTSKY (1879-1940), POLITICAL LEADER
At approximately the age of 10, Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky was expelled from secondary school in Odessa, Russia, after he incited his classmates to howl at their teacher. Trotsky, however, was the school's best pupil and was re-admitted the following year.
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