Short for Doctor of Philosophy, it's how some weird places like the University of Oxford say PhD. In Oxford they also analogously say MPHil.

All but dissertation (ABD)

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Rebel without a PhD

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This section is about hardcore people who don't have a PhD.

Nobel Prize winner without a PhD

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Notably in STEM, not so interested in literature of course:

Here's a SPARQL sketch for Wikidata that can be run at query.wikidata.org/. It gathers all the relevant data, but TODO we don't know how to do the proper query yet:

# List of living Nobel Laureates sorted by date of birth 
SELECT DISTINCT ?recipient ?recipientLabel $birthDate ?awardLabel ?nobelDate ?educatedAtLabel ?academicDegree ?academicDegreeLabel ?doctorateDate
WHERE { 
  ?recipient wdt:P31 wd:Q5 ; # recepient is human (Peace prize can go to organizations) 
             wdt:P569 ?birthDate ; 
             p:P166 ?awardStat . # recepient was awarded something 
  ?awardStat ps:P166 ?award .
  ?award wdt:P279* wd:Q7191 . # received any subclass of nobel prize (physics, chemistry, etc.) 
  ?awardStat pq:P585 ?nobelDate .
  ?recipient p:P69 ?recipientEducatedAt .
  ?recipientEducatedAt ps:P69 ?educatedAt .
  ?recipientEducatedAt pq:P512 ?academicDegree .
  ?academicDegree wdt:P279* wd:Q849697 .
  OPTIONAL{ ?recipientEducatedAt pq:P582 ?doctorateDate . }
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . } 
} 
ORDER BY ASC(?birthDate) ASC(?nobelDate) ASC(?awardLabel)