While many celebrities rose to fame before or during their college years, others got to enjoy "the best four years of your life" with their anonymity in tact.
Here are 26 photos you might not have seen of celebrities and public figures from their time as college students and athletes.
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Robin Williams in college, 1969.
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Freddie Mercury was a student at London’s Ealing Art College when he started writing Bohemian Rhapsody in 1968.
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Tommy Lee Jones when he played offensive guard in college for the undefeated Harvard Crimson football team.
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Michael Jordan in his college dorm room, 1983.
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Brad Pitt as a University of Missouri Frat Boy, early 1980s Columbia.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson in his college wrestling days.
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As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Elon Musk would host parties on the weekends to help pay his rent at the house he was living in, 1992.
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Barack Obama in College, 1980.
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A young Conan O'Brien at Harvard University.
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Steven Colbert in college, 1980s.
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Bo Jackson in college in 1986.
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Trinity College student Nancy Pelosi meeting President John F. Kennedy after his inauguration in 1961.
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Peter Dinklage in college, late '80s.
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Jon Stewart playing college soccer.
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Richard Nixon at Whittier College, 1930's.
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Bill Cosby when he played fullback in college for the Temple Owls.
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John Oliver in college with Richard Ayoade and David Mitchell.
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Denzel Washington played basketball for Fordham University.
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson during his college football days at the University of Miami.
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Actress Kathryn Hahn in college, 1994.
