It seems like a number of people on that list are authors and artists.  Those are fields where university education has never really been of any significance.  It would be more interesting to see a list with those and similar professions removed.<p>Secondly a couple of them are very dubious,for example Chuck Yeager didn't attend college, but calling him self educated is a bit of a stretch as it ignores all the training and education he got in the military.