Cary Grant
Leading man Cary Grant started his career as a goofy but charming comedian in screwball comedies, but he ended up rivalling Bogart for the most debonair guy in Hollywood. Still a legend, Grant was a jokester in his school days, too, and was even expelled from the Fairfield Grammar School for climbing a wall into the girls' bathrooms with a friend. It was his second time to leave the school — earlier, he ran away to join a comedy troupe but his father dragged him back. After expulsion, he joined the troupe again, and was eventually chosen to go to America to perform on Broadway.
Robert Frost
American poet Robert Frost honoured the New England countryside — and nature in general — in a modern, philosophical way that's widely accessible and appreciated. He started writing poetry as a young man and attended both Dartmouth and Harvard, though it's rumoured that he was expelled from the former for giving a prank haircut to another boy. Supposedly he was kicked out as a zero-tolerance policy on hazing.
Stephen Fry
Comedian, writer and actor Stephen Fry was expelled from Uppingham School, Rutland, when he was 15, and subsequently from the Paston School. At 17, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit card stolen from a family friend, was arrested in Swindon, and, as a result, spent three months in Pucklechurch Prison on remand.
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