Philosopher Rae Langton (Cambridge) amusingly shares hers:

My birth certificate doesn’t have my name on it, nor my mother’s, though it helpfully includes my father’s and grandfather’s. (It was issued in Ludhiana, India.) A great future was prophesied for me at the age of sixteen, namely that I would marry a mighty servant of the Lord. My application to study English at Oxford was unsuccessful, though the Fellow liked the sound, intelligent way I wrote. At Sydney, my background in Philosophy was deemed so poor I needed a remedial extra year. At Princeton, my PhD dissertation was initially failed, though (somewhat awkwardly) OUP had meanwhile decided to publish it, as Kantian Humility.