Thursday, January 31, 2019

Liste der Leute von University of Pennsylvania


Dies ist eine unvollständige Liste von bemerkenswerten Dozenten, Absolventen und Gelehrten der University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA.




Fakultät [ edit ]


  • Herman Vandenburg Ames: Professor für konstitutionelle Geschichte

  • Rev. John Andrews, D. D.: Professor für Moralphilosophie und Logik; 3. Vize-Provost 4th Provost

  • Edmund Bacon: Privatdozent für Architektur

  • E. Digby Baltzell: emeritierter Professor für Geschichte und Soziologie; Gelehrter und Autor; Begründer der Abkürzung "WASP"

  • Aaron T. Beck: emeritierter Professor für Psychiatrie; "Vater der kognitiven Therapie"

  • Richard Beeman: John Walsh Centennial Professor für Geschichte; Fulbright Scholar

  • Janice R. Bellace: Stellvertretender Provost und Direktor des Huntsman-Programms für Internationale Studien und Wirtschaft

  • Charles Bernstein: Donald T. Regan Professor für Englisch, prominenter Sprachdichter

  • Mary Frances Berry: Geraldine Segal Professor des sozialen Denkens; ehemaliger Vorsitzender der US-amerikanischen Bürgerrechtskommission

  • Ray Birdwhistell: Professor, Annenberg School of Communication an der University of Pennsylvania

  • Matt Blaze: Außerordentlicher Professor für Informatik

  • John Bowker: Theologe

  • Francesca Russello Ammon, Stadthistoriker, Assistenzprofessor in den Abteilungen Stadt- und Raumplanung und Denkmalpflege

  • Eric Bradlow: KP Chao Professor, Professor für Marketing, Statistik, Bildung und Wirtschaft

  • Ralph L. Brinster: Richard King Mellon Professor für Reproduktionsphysiologie, Schöpfer der transgenen Maus; Nationale Medal of Science-Empfängerin

  • Lawton Burns: Vorsitzender der Health Care Management Department der Wharton School; James Joo-Jin Kim Professor

  • Eugenio Calabi: emeritierter Thomas A. Scott-Professor für Mathematik, bekannt für seine Entwicklung der Mannigfaltigkeit Calabi-Yau

  • Arthur Caplan: Emanuel und Robert Hart Professor für Bioethik

  • Britton Chance: Nationale Medal of Science-Empfängerin; Professor für Biophysik

  • Roger Chartier: Professor für Geschichte; Lehrstuhl für Geschichte am Collège de France; führender Kulturhistoriker

  • Pei-Yuan Chia: Senior Fellow des CSI Center for Advanced Studies in Management an der Wharton School; ehemaliger stellvertretender Vorsitzender von Citicorp und Citibank, derzeitiges Mitglied des Board of Directors von AIG

  • Thomas Childers: Sheldon und Lucy Hackney, Professor für Geschichte; Autor zahlreicher Geschichtsveröffentlichungen und Preisträger

  • Wallace H. Clark Jr .: Pathologe, Krebsforscher

  • Mildred Cohn: National Medal of Science-Empfänger; Professor für Biophysik und physikalische Biochemie

  • George Crumb: Pulitzer-Preisträger; Komponist; Annenberg Professor für Musik

  • Raymond Davis Jr .: National Medal of Science Empfänger; Nobelpreisträger; Forschungsprofessor für Physik und Astronomie

  • Emile B. De Sauzé: Sprachlehrer, bekannt für die Entwicklung der Konversationsmethode zum Erlernen einer Sprache

  • Frederick Dickinson: Professor für japanische Geschichte und Co-Direktor des Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies

  • John DiIulio: Frederic Fox Leitender Professor für Politik, Religion und Zivilgesellschaft

  • W. EB Du Bois: Afroamerikanische Literaturfigur, Gastwissenschaftler, 1896–1897

  • Gideon Dreyfuss: Isaac Norris Professor für Biochemie und Biophysik

  • Frederick Erickson: Anthropologe Warren Ewens : Professor für Biologie; Schöpfer der Stichprobenformel von Ewens

  • Peter Fader: Napster-Prozessexperte; Frances und Pei-Yuan Chia Professor für Marketing

  • Ann Farnsworth-Alvear: Außerordentlicher Professor für Geschichte

  • Stubbins Ffirth: Untersuchtes Gelbfieber

  • Peter J. Freyd: Professor für Mathematik

  • Stewart D. Friedman: Praxis Professor für Management an der Wharton School; Gründungsdirektor des Leadership-Programms der Wharton School

  • Paul Fussell: emeritierter Professor für Literatur; Gewinner des National Book Award; Kultur- und Literaturhistoriker

  • George Gerbner: Professor und Dekan der Annenberg School for Communication an der University of Pennsylvania; Gründer der Kultivierungstheorie

  • Erving Goffman: Professor für Soziologie; Autor von Die Selbstdarstellung im Alltag Asyl

  • Paul Gyorgy: National Medal of Science-Empfänger; Professor für Pädiatrie, School of Medicine

  • Steven Hahn: Pulitzer-Preisträger; Roy F. und Jeannette P. Nichols Professor für Geschichte

  • David Harbater: Cole-Preisträger, bekannt für die Lösung der Abhyankar-Vermutung

  • Lothar Haselberger: Professor für Architekturgeschichte

  • Robin M. Hochstrasser: Professor für Chemie [19659005] Kathleen Hall Jamieson: Professor für Kommunikation, Annenberg School for Communications; Autor; Medienanalyst

  • Daniel H. Janzen: Professor für Biologie

  • Aravind Joshi: Henry Salvatori Professor für Computer- und Kognitionswissenschaft

  • Louis Kahn: Architekt; Werke umfassen den Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban in Bangladesch und das Jonas Salk Institute in Kalifornien; Professor für Architektur

  • Elihu Katz: Distinguished Trustee Professor für Kommunikation

  • E. Otis Kendall Professor für Mathematik, 1855–1894

  • Junhyong Kim: Edmund J. und Louise W. Kahn befristeter Stiftungsprofessor für Biologie

  • Alan Kors: Medaillenempfänger der Nationalen Geisteswissenschaften, Anwalt für freie Rede; George Walker Professor für Geschichte

  • Bruce Kuklick: Roy F. und Jeannette P. Nichols Professor für amerikanische Geschichte

  • William Labov: Professor für Linguistik; Gründer der quantitativen Soziolinguistik

  • Ian Lustick: Bess W. Heyman Professor für Politikwissenschaft; Autor von Gefangen im Krieg gegen den Terror

  • Robert Litzenberger: Professor Emeritus bei Wharton

  • Jerre Mangione Schriftsteller und Gelehrter der italienisch-amerikanischen Erfahrung

  • Mihailo Marković: Professor der Philosophie

  • E. Ann Matter: Stellvertretende Dekanin für Arts & Letters, R. Jean Brownlee, Professor für Religionswissenschaft

  • Walter A. McDougall: Pulitzer-Preisträger; Alloy-Ansin-Professor für Geschichte und internationale Beziehungen

  • Olivia S. Mitchell: Internationale Stiftung für Personalvorsorgepläne Professor für Versicherungs- und Risikomanagement; Exekutivdirektor des Pension Research Council und des Böttner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research

  • Irv Mondschein: Triebwagen

  • Roy F. Nichols: Pulitzer-Preisträger; Professor für Geschichte

  • James J. O'Donnell: ehemaliger Vizeprovinz für Informationssysteme und Datenverarbeitung

  • Brendan O'Leary: Lauder Professor für Politikwissenschaft und Direktor des Solomon Asch-Zentrums für die Erforschung ethnopolitischer Konflikte

  • Burt Ovrut: Professor für Physik; Pionier der heterotischen Stringtheorie

  • Bob Perelman: Professor für Englisch; Sprachdichter

  • Samuel H. Preston: Fredrick J. Warren Professor für Demographie; bekannt für seine Entwicklung der Preston-Kurve

  • Hans Rademacher: Scott Chair, Professor für Mathematik; bekannt für seine Theorie des Gegenseitigkeitsgesetzes für Dedekind-Summen

  • Jagmohan Raju: Joseph J. Aresty, Professor für Marketing; bekannt für seine Forschungen zur Preisbildung

  • Robert A. Rescorla: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor für Psychologie; Mitgestalter des Rescorla-Wagner-Modells

  • Russell Burton Reynolds: Generalmajor der US-Armee; Assistenzprofessor für Militärwissenschaft und Taktik

  • David Rittenhouse: Professor für Astronomie; Vize-Provost; Treuhänder

  • Rafael Robb: Wirtschaftsprofessor

  • George Rochberg: Annenberg Professor für Geisteswissenschaften und Professor für Musik

  • C. Brian Rose: James B. Pritchard Professor für Archäologie; Präsident des Archäologischen Instituts von Amerika; bekannt für die Ko-Leitung der modernen Ausgrabungen in Troja

  • Philip Roth: Pulitzer-Preisträger; Professor für Vergleichende Literatur- und Literaturtheorie

  • Florence B. Seibert: Professor für Biochemie; Gewinner der Garvan-Olin-Medaille und Mitglied der National Women's Hall of Fame

  • Martin E. P. Seligman: Robert A. Fox Leitender Professor für Psychologie

  • Jeremy Siegel: Russell E. Palmer Professor für Finanzen; Financial News Commentator

  • Rogers Smith: Christopher H. Browne zeichnete Professor für Politikwissenschaft aus

  • Thomas J. Sugrue: Edmund J. und Louise W. Kahn Term Professor für Geschichte und Soziologie

  • Babu Suthar: Gujarati-Dozent im Süden Asien-Studien

  • Iosif Vitebskiy: Olympiasieger der Sowjetunion / Ukraine und Weltmeister des épée-Fechters

  • Michael Vitez: Pulitzer-Preisträger; Professor für kreatives Schreiben

  • Donald Voet: Assoziierter Professor für Chemie und Co-Autor mehrerer Lehrbücher für Biochemie

  • Susan M. Wachter: Albert Sussman Professor für Immobilien; Co-Direktor des Penn-Instituts für Stadtforschung (Penn IUR)

  • Arthur Waldron: Lauder-Professor für Internationale Beziehungen in der Abteilung für Geschichte; Gelehrter der Geschichte Asiens und Chinas, insbesondere in Bezug auf Krieg und Nationalismus

  • Richard Wernick: Pulitzer-Preisträger; Komponist; Professor für Geisteswissenschaften

  • Howard Winklevoss: Professor für Versicherungsmathematik

  • Lightner Witmer: Professor für Psychologie; Erfinder des Begriffs Klinische Psychologie

  • Tukufu Zuberi: Lasry-Familienprofessor für Rassenbeziehungen; Professor für Soziologie

Academia [ edit ]


Gründer und Leiter von akademischen Einrichtungen [ edit


  • Cyrus Adler: Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminar; Präsident, Dropsie College

  • Reuven Amitai: Dekan der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften an der Hebräischen Universität von Jerusalem (2012–)

  • John Andrews, D. D .: Geistlicher; 4. Provost der University of Pennsylvania (1810–1813); Gründer des York College of Pennsylvania

  • Robert L. Barchi: 20. Präsident der Rutgers University; ehemaliger Präsident der Thomas Jefferson University

  • John Milton Bernhisel: ursprünglicher Treuhänder der University of Utah

  • William Bingham: Bankier und Politiker, der die Gründung des Dickinson College maßgeblich beeinflusste; "Bingham's Porch" war lange ein Schlachtruf bei Dickinson

  • James Lloyd Breck, Klasse von 1838: Gründer der Seabury Divinity School, heute Teil des Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, einem prominenten Episcopal-Seminar; Namensgeber der Breck School in Minneapolis

  • Mark Burstein: Präsident der Lawrence University (2013–)

  • Alison Byerly: erste weibliche Präsidentin des Lafayette College (2013–)

  • Gaylen Byker: Präsident des Calvin College (1995– 2012)

  • Charles Caldwell: mit Penn Alumni John Esteen Cooke und Charles Wilkins Short organisierte das Louisville (KY) Medical Institute (heute University of Louisville School of Medicine); Caldwell diente als erster Dekan (1837–1838)

  • William P. Carey: Namensgeber und Stifter der Carey Business School der Johns Hopkins University, der WP Carey School of Business der Arizona State University und der Francis King Carey der University of Maryland School of Law

  • Kimberly Wright Cassidy: 9. Präsident des Bryn Mawr College

  • Jared Cohon: Präsident der Carnegie Mellon University (1997–2013)

  • Al-Hassan Conteh: Präsident der University of Liberia

  • Lee Copeland: ehemaliger Dekan des University of Washington College für Architektur und Stadtplanung und der University of Pennsylvania School of Design

  • Robert A. Corrigan: Präsident der San Francisco State University (1988–); ehemaliger Vorsitzender des Board of Directors der Association of American Colleges und Universitäten

  • Mary Cullinan: Präsidentin der Eastern Washington University; ehemaliger Präsident der Southern Oregon University (2006–14)

  • Edward Cutbush: Gründer des Geneva Medical College (heute Staatliche Universität von New York) und erster Dekan (1834–1839)

  • Robert Davidson, Klasse von 1771: Präsident des Dickinson College (1804–09)

  • Samuel Henry Dickson: Mit Alumnus John Edwards Holbrook gründete er das Medical College of South Carolina (heute Medical University of South Carolina)

  • . Paul A. Dodd: Präsident der San Francisco State University (1962–1966); Dekan des UCLA College of Letters and Science (1946–1961); Namensgeber von Dodd Hall auf dem Campus der UCLA

  • Harold Dodds: fünfzehnter Präsident der Princeton University (1933–1957)

  • Daniel Drake: organisierte das Medical College of Ohio und das Cincinnati College; beide wurden später die University of Cincinnati

  • John W. Draper: Gründer und Präsident der New York University Medical School (1850–73) und Gründungspräsident der American Chemical Society

  • . Thomas Messinger Drown: 4. Präsident der Lehigh University (Namensgeber von Drown Hall auf Lehighs Campus)

  • Arnold Eisen: Kanzler, Jüdisches Theologisches Seminar

  • Patrick Ellis: Präsident der Catholic University of America (1992–98); Präsident, La Salle University (1977–92)

  • Joseph Esherick: Mitbegründer des UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

  • Drew Gilpin Faust: Präsident der Harvard University (erstes Nicht-Harvard-Alum seit über 300 Jahren) [19659005] Happy Fernandez: Früherer Präsident des Moore College für Kunst und Design in Philadelphia

  • Richard M. Freeland: Präsident der Northeastern University (1996–2006)

  • Vernon F. Gallagher: 8. Präsident der Duquesne University (1950– 59)

  • Thomas Sovereign Gates: Präsident der University of Pennsylvania (1930–1944)

  • Henry D. Gilpin: Präsident der Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1853–58)

  • Michael Glick: Dekan des Staates University of New York an der Buffalo School of Dental Medicine

  • Israel Goldstein: Mitbegründer und erster Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der Brandeis University

  • Neil R. Grabois: Präsident der Colgate University

  • Frank Hastings Hamilton: One der Gründer von Buffalo Medical Coll ege (heute Staatsuniversität von New York in Buffalo)

  • Patrick T. Harker: Präsident der University of Delaware

  • Chester David Hartranft: Präsident des Hartford Theological Seminary (1888–1903)

  • Peyton R. Helm: Präsident des Muhlenberg College (2003–15)

  • Joel Henry Hildebrand, Klasse von 1903: ehemaliger Dekan des College of Chemistry an der University of California, Berkeley; Namensgeber von Hildebrand Hall auf dem Campus von Berkeley; Namensgeber des von der American Chemical Society gestifteten Joel-Henry-Hildebrand-Preises

  • John Henry Hobart: Gründer des Geneva College (jetzt Hobart und William Smith Colleges)

  • Elizabeth Hoffman: Provost und Executive Vice President der Iowa State University; Präsident der University of Colorado System (2000–2005)

  • Jerome H. Holland: Präsident des Delaware State College (1953–59)

  • Robert C. Holub: Kanzler der University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008–); früherer Dekan des College of Letters and Science an der University of California, Berkeley

  • Joseph Hopkinson: Präsident der Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; diente als erfolgreicher Anwalt für Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof Samuel Chase in seinem Amtsenthebungsverfahren vor dem US-Senat 1804 und 1805

  • Jon Huntsman Sr .: Namensvetter und Wohltäter der Jon M. Huntsman School of Business an der Utah State University

  • Ralph Cooper Hutchinson: 7. Präsident von Washington & Jefferson College; 12. Präsident des Lafayette College

  • Sir Paul Judge: Namensgeber und Stifter der Judge Business School der University of Cambridge

  • Raynard S. Kington: Präsident des Grinnell College (2010–)

  • Jared Potter Kirtland: studierte am Penn und schloss sein Studium an der Yale University ab; Mitbegründer der School of Medicine der Case Western Reserve University und des Cleveland Museum of Natural History

  • Richard Kneedler: emeritierter Präsident von Franklin und des Marshall College

  • Michael Kotlikoff BA, DVM: Provost und amtierender Präsident der Cornell University (2016) -)

  • Richard W. Lariviere: Präsident der University of Oregon (2009-2011)

  • Arnold J. Levine: Präsident der Rockefeller University (1998–2002)

  • Peter J. Liacouras: Präsident der Temple University ( 1982–2000)

  • John Berrien Lindsley: gründete die Medizinische Abteilung an der University of Nashville (jetzt Vanderbilt University School of Medicine)

  • Qingyun Ma: Dekan der University of Southern California School of Architecture (2006–) [19659005] Charles Macalester: Namensvetter und Wohltäter des Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota

  • Joseph McCann: Dekan der Davis Business School der Jacksonville University

  • George McClellan: Gründer des Jefferson Medical Colle ge, jetzt Thomas Jefferson University

  • John McClintock: erster Präsident des Drew Theological Seminary (jetzt Drew University)

  • Richard Patrick McCormick: Vorsitzender der Geschichtswissenschaft des Rutgers College (1966–1969); Dean des Rutgers College (1974–1977)

  • John McDowell, Klasse von 1771: Erster Direktor des St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland (1790–1806)

  • Fayette Avery McKenzie: Präsident der Fisk University (1915–25) ); Gründer der Society of American Indianer

  • Thomas Meredith: Gründer des Wake Forest Institute, jetzt Wake Forest University; erster Präsident des Kuratoriums der Institution; Namensgeber des Meredith College in North Carolina

  • James D. Moffat: Dritter Präsident des Washington & Jefferson College

  • Edward Mott Moore: ehemaliger Präsident des Board of Trustees der University of Rochester; ehemaliger Präsident der American Medical Association; ein Gründer des New York State Board of Health; "der Vater des Rochester Park Systems"

  • John Morgan, Klasse von 1757 und 1760: Gründer der ersten medizinischen Schule in Nordamerika; Gründungsmitglied der American Philosophical Society; Chirurg General der kontinentalen Armee während des Unabhängigkeitskrieges

  • Kenneth Mortimer: Präsident der University of Hawaii (1993–2001)

  • Henry Morton: erster Präsident des Stevens Institute of Technology (1870–1902)

  • Franklin David Murphy : Kanzler der University of Kansas und der University of California, Los Angeles; Namensgeber der Murphy Hall an beiden Standorten

  • Daniel F. Muzyka: Dekan der Sauder School of Business an der University of British Columbia (1999–)

  • Josiah Clark Nott: Mitbegründer des Medical College of Alabama (jetzt der University of Alabama School of Medicine)

  • Merle Middleton Odgers: Präsident der Bucknell University (1954–1964)

  • BD Owens: ehemaliger Präsident der University of Tampa und der Northwest Missouri State University

  • Austin Phelps: Präsident des Theologischen Seminars von Andover (1869–1979)

  • Martha E. Pollack: Präsident der Cornell University (2017–)

  • John Edwin Pomfret: Präsident des College of William and Mary (1942–1951)

  • Edmund T. Pratt Jr.: Namensgeber und Stifter der Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering an der Duke University

  • Irvin Reid: Erster Afrikaner Präsident der Wayne State University (1997–2009)

  • Earl S. Richardson: 11. Präsident der Morgan State University (1984–2010)

  • Judith Rodin: Erste weibliche Präsidentin einer Ivy League-Universität (University of Pennsylvania) ; Präsident der Rockefeller Foundation

  • Clayton Rose (M.A. 2005, Ph.D. 2007): Präsident des Bowdoin College (2015–)

  • Mordechai Rozanski: Präsident der Rider University (2003–); Präsident der University of Guelph (Ontario, Kanada) (1993–2003)

  • L. Timothy Ryan: Präsident des Culinary Institute of America (2001–)

  • Charles Ashmead Schaeffer, Klasse von 1861: Präsident der University of Iowa (1887–1898)

  • Morton Owen Schapiro: Präsident der Northwestern University und seinerzeit Präsident des Williams College

  • Samuel Simon Schmucker: Gründer des Gettysburg College

  • Phil Schubert: Präsident der Abilene Christian University (2010–)

  • John W. Shumaker: ehemaliger Präsident der University of Tennessee der University of Louisville und der Central Connecticut State University

  • Rodney K. Smith: Präsident der Southern Virginia University (2004–)

  • William Bacon Stevens: Erster Präsident des Kuratoriums der Lehigh University

  • Richard J. Stonesifer: 5. Präsident der Monmouth University

  • John Summerskill: 7. Präsident der San Francisco State University

  • Joseph W. Taylor: Penn Alumnus, gründete das Bryn Mawr College durch einen Nachlass in seinem Testament, 1880

  • Roy Vagelos : Namensgeber und Stifter des College der Ärzte und Chirurgen der Columbia University

  • Gordon Samuel Watkins: Erster Provost der Universität von Kalifornien, Riverside (1949–56)

  • Harry Hillel Wellington: Dekan der Yale Law School (1975–85) und New York Law School (1992–2000)

  • Benjamin West: Gründer der Royal Academy of Arts; besuchte Penn, erhielt aber keinen Abschluss

  • Hugh Williamson: Mathematikprofessor an der Penn; ein ursprünglicher Treuhänder der University of North Carolina; Sekretär der Trustees in den 1790er Jahren; Unterzeichner der US-Verfassung; repräsentierte North Carolina auf der Verfassungskonferenz

  • Theophilus Adam Wylie: Präsident der Indiana University (1853 und 1859)

  • Mark G. Yudof: Präsident des Systems der University of California (2008–2013); Charles Alan Wright Lehrstuhl für Recht und Kanzler, University of Texas System; Präsident der University of Minnesota (1997–2002)

  • Larry Zicklin: Namensvetter und Stifter der Zicklin School of Business am Baruch College

  • James A. Zimble: Präsident der Uniformed Services University der Gesundheitswissenschaften (1991–2004)

Hochschullehrer und -wissenschaftler [ edit ]


  • Thomas R. Adams: John Hay Professor für Bibliographie und Universitätsbibliothekar an der Brown University

  • Anurag Agrawal: Professor für Ökologie und Evolutionsbiologie an der Cornell University

  • Mark G. Allen: Joseph M. Pettit Professor für Mikroelektronik am Georgia Institute of Technology

  • William Alonso: Ökonom und Direktor des Zentrums für Bevölkerungsstudien an der Harvard University

  • Anthony Amsterdam: Universitätsprofessor an der New York University School of Law

  • George Andrews: Evan Pugh Professor für Mathematik an der Pennsylvania State University; Mitglied der National Academy of Sciences; Fellow der amerikanischen Akademie der Künste und Wissenschaften; Präsident der American Mathematical Society (2008–, 19659005) Ann Arvin: Professor für Pädiatrie und Mikrobiologie / Immunologie an der Stanford University

  • Barbara A. Babcock: Erste Frau, die an die reguläre Fakultät berufen wurde, und die erste Frau, die eine Stiftung hatte Stuhl; Erste Emerita an der Stanford Law School

  • E. Digby Baltzell: Penn-Absolvent und Soziologie-Professor, der den Begriff "WASP"

  • popularisierte Eugene C. Barker: Historiker an der University of Texas in Austin

  • William M. Bass: forensischer Anthropologe; Gründer der "Body Farm" an der University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Paul T. Bateman: emeritierter Professor und ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Mathematikabteilung der University of Illinois

  • . Daniel A. Baugh: Marinehistoriker und ehemaliger Professor von Geschichte an der Princeton University und der Cornell University

  • Diana W. Bianchi: Natalie V. Zucker Professor für Pädiatrie, Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie an der Tufts University School of Medicine

  • Ray Blanchard: Professor für Psychiatrie an der University of Toronto [19659005] Martin J. Blaser: Frederick H. King Professor für Innere Medizin und Vorsitzender der Abteilung für Medizin an der New York University School of Medicine

  • Herbert Eugene Bolton: Ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Abteilung für Geschichte an der University of California, Berkeley [19659005JamesCurtisBoothKlassevon1829:PennProfessorfürChemieinderangewandtenKunst1850–1855;PräsidentAmericanChemicalSociety1883–1885

  • Alexei Borodin: Gordon M. Binder / Amgen Professor für Mathematik am California Institute of Technology; Professor am Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • John F. Brady: Chevron Professor für Chemieingenieurwesen und leitender Angestellter für Chemieingenieurwesen am California Institute of Technology

  • T. Corey Brennan: Vorsitzender der Classics-Abteilung der Rutgers University

  • Ralph L. Brinster: Genetiker; Mitglied der National Academy of Sciences; Träger der National Medal of Science

  • Thomas Brothers: Musikwissenschaftler und Professor an der Duke University

  • Leonard Carlitz: Mathematiker an der Duke University

  • Henry H. Carter: Professor Emeritus für Romanistik und Literatur an der University of Notre Dame und Légion d'honneur Empfänger

  • Britton Chance: Wissenschaftler und olympischer Goldmedaillengewinner, der große Beiträge zur Spektrometrie- und Biochemie- / Biophysik-Forschung geleistet hat; Mitglied der National Academy of Sciences

  • Walter Channing: Erster Professor für Geburtshilfe und medizinische Rechtswissenschaften an der Harvard University

  • Amy Marie Charles: Professor für Englische Literatur an der University of North Carolina in Greensboro; Gelehrter des englischen Dichters des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts George Herbert

  • Martha Chen: Dozent für öffentliche Politik, Harvard Kennedy School

  • Michael Chernew: Professor für Gesundheitspolitik an der Harvard Medical School

  • Edward Potts Cheyney, Klasse von 1883: Penn-Professor für Geschichte; Autor mehrerer Hochschullehrbücher; ehemaliger Präsident der American Historical Association, der ältesten und größten amerikanischen Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftler und Lehrer der Geschichte

  • Carol Chomsky: Linguistin und Bildungsfachfrau an der Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Noam Chomsky: Linguist und Aktivist; MIT-Professor

  • Jack Chow: Distinguished Service Professor für öffentliche Gesundheit an der Carnegie Mellon University

  • C. West Churchman: Philosoph und Systemwissenschaftler und Professor für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung an der University of California, Berkeley; ehemaliger Präsident der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Systemwissenschaften

  • Gordon Clark: Philosoph und christlicher Theologe; Ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Philosophieabteilung der Butler University

  • Eric H. Cline: Vorsitzender der Abteilung für klassische und nahöstliche Sprachen und Kulturen an der George Washington University und Direktor des GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute

  • Jerry Clinton: Ferdowsi Scholar und Professor für persische Sprache und Literatur an der Princeton University

  • Thomas C. Cochran: Historiker und ehemaliger Präsident der American Historical Association

  • Stanley Norman Cohen: Professor für Genetik an der Stanford University und Empfänger der National Medal of Science [19659005] Tobias Colding: Professor für Mathematik am MIT; Fellow der American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Sarah A. Connolly: Professor für Virologie an der Northwestern University

  • Thomas F. Cooley: Richard R. West Dean und der Paganelli-Bull-Professor für Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der New York University Stern School of Business

  • Stanley Corrsin: Physiker und Theophilus Halley Smoot, Professor für Ingenieurwissenschaften und Vorsitzender der Abteilung für Maschinenbau an der Johns Hopkins University; Mitglied der National Academy of Engineering

  • Edward Samuel Corwin: McCormick Professor für Rechtswissenschaften an der Princeton University und ehemaliger Präsident der American Political Science Association

  • Harvey Cox: Theologe; Professor, Harvard Divinity School

  • Eileen M. Crimmins: Edna M. Jones Professor für Gerontologie an der University of Southern California

  • Hamid Dabashi: Hagop Kevorkian Professor für Iranistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Columbia University

  • George F. Dales: Ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Abteilung für Süd- und Südostasienwissenschaften an der University of California, Berkeley

  • Christina Davis: Kuratorin für Poesie am Woodberry Poetry Room der Harvard University

  • John DiIulio: Frederick Fox, Professor für Politik, Religion und Civil Society, Universität von Pennsylvania; ehemaliger Direktor des Büros für Glaubensbekenntnisse und Gemeinschaftsinitiativen im Weißen Haus

  • David Dodd: Ehemaliger Finanzprofessor an der Columbia Business School und Mitautor des Buches von 1934 Sicherheitsanalyse der am längsten laufenden Investitionstext (19659005) Patrick Doyle: Professor für Chemieingenieurwesen am Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Solomon Drowne: prominenter Arzt, Wissenschaftler und Chirurg während der Amerikanischen Revolution und in der Geschichte der aufstrebenden USA; Professor für Botanik an der Brown University und einer der ersten Fellows

  • Louis Adolphus Duhring: Penn Professor für Dermatologie und Gründungsmitglied und Präsident der American Dermatological Society

  • Isidore Dyen: Professor Emeritus von Malayo-Polynesian und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft an der Yale University

  • Gerald Early: Merle Kling Professor für moderne Briefe, Anglistik, Afrikastudien, Afroamerikanistik, Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaften; Direktor des Zentrums für gemeinsame Projekte in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften der Washington University in St. Louis

  • G. Roger Edwards: Archäologe

  • Paul R. Ehrlich: Zoologe und Bing-Professor für Bevölkerungsstudien in der Abteilung für biologische Wissenschaften der Stanford University

  • Leon Eisenberg: Maude und Lillian Presley Professor für Sozialmedizin und emeritierte Psychiatrie an der Harvard Medical School [19659005] Khaled Abou El Fadl: Professor und Islamwissenschaftler an der UCLA School of Law

  • Benjamin Elman: Gordon Wu '58 Professor für Chinesische Studien an der Princeton University

  • Hany Farid: William H. Neukom 1964 Ausgezeichneter Professor für Computational Science at Dartmouth College

  • Gary Alan Fine: John Evans Professor für Soziologie an der Northwestern University

  • Stanley Fish: Oscar M. Ruebhausen ist ein angesehener Senior Fellow und Gastprofessor für Rechtswissenschaften an der Yale Law School

  • Albert Fishlow: Professor für International und Public Angelegenheiten und Direktor des Zentrums für das Studium Brasiliens an der Columbia University

  • Joshua Fishman: Linguist für Soziologie der Sprache, geb. ilingualism, jiddisch

  • William Fontaine: Penn Alumnus und der erste afghanisch-amerikanische Professor am Penn; Dekan des College of Arts and Sciences (1944–1952); one of his students (at Lincoln University where he previously taught) was Kwame Nkrumah, another future Penn alumnus and the first President of Ghana

  • William H. Forwood: Chairman of the departments of Surgery and Surgical Pathology at Georgetown University, 1895–1897; U.S. Civil War general; Surgeon General of the U.S. Army

  • James Alan Fox: criminologist at Northeastern University

  • Frances X. Frei: UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School

  • George Stuart Fullerton: psychologist philosopher; professor, dean and vice-provost at Penn; professor at Columbia University and the University of Vienna; President of the American Psychological Association

  • Robert Gallager: Professor Emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and member of the National Academy of Engineering

  • Francis Gavin: Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies and Professor of Political Science at MIT; Founding Director of Studies for The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the first Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin

  • J. Arch Getty: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles

  • Herbert Gintis: behavioral scientist, external professor at Santa Fe Institute

  • Ken Goldberg: Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley

  • William Granara: Director of the Arabic language program at Harvard University

  • Moshe Greenberg: Biblical scholar; recipient of the Israel Prize

  • Edith Grossman: translator of works including Don Quixote and Love in the Time of Cholera

  • Alfred Irving Hallowell: anthropologist and past President of the American Anthropological Association; Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences

  • Diane F. Halpern: psychologist and professor at Claremont McKenna College; past President of the American Psychological Association

  • Marci Hamilton: Paul R. Verkuil Chair of Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University

  • Alfred Harbage: 20th-century Shakespeare scholar and professor at Harvard University; General Editor of the Pelican Books edition of the works of Shakespeare

  • Zellig Harris: linguist

  • Charles Custis Harrison: university provost and industrialist, and recipient of honorary LL.D. degrees from Columbia University, Princeton University and Yale University

  • E. Newton Harvey: H.F. Osborn Professor of biology at Princeton University

  • Zahi Hawass: Egyptian archaeologist and Egyptologist featured on the History Channel

  • Leonard Hayflick: past professor of medical microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine; past President of the Gerontological Society of America

  • Rosemary Hennessy: Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University

  • Susannah Heschel: Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College

  • Eric J. Hill: professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • Teck-Hua Ho: William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley

  • Urban T. Holmes Jr.: Kenan Professor of Romance Philology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • Stephen D. Houston: professor of anthropology and Dupee Family Professor of Social Science at Brown University

  • Joan Hutchinson: professor of mathematics at Smith College

  • Sheena Iyengar: S.T. Lee Professor of Business at Columbia Business School

  • Sherman Jackson: King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California; past Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Visiting Professor of Law and Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan

  • Stephen Jaffe: Mary and James H. Semans Professor of Music Composition at Duke University

  • Phyllis Kaniss: past Executive Director of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

  • Carl Kaysen: past economics professor at MIT and former Director, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey

  • Howard Atwood Kelly, Class of 1877 and 1882: one of the first members of Johns Hopkins University medical faculty; internationally renowned surgeon and medical educator; founder of Kensington Hospital in Philadelphia

  • Elaine H. Kim: Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley

  • Charles P. Kindleberger: economist, economic historian; formerly Ford International Professor of Economics at MIT

  • Patrick Vinton Kirch: Class of 1954: Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley

  • Michael Klarman: Kirkland & Ellis Professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School

  • Michael Klausner: Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School

  • Judith Klinman: Chancellor's Professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley; recipient of the National Medal of Science

  • S. Rao Kosaraju: Edward J. Schaefer Professor of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

  • Lawrence Kotlikoff: Professor of economics at Boston University, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Alan M. Krensky: Shelagh Galligan Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University

  • Eugene M. Landis: George Higginson Professor of Physiology and Chair of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School

  • Barbara Landau: Dick and Lydia Todd Professor and Chair of the Cognitive Sciences Department at Johns Hopkins University

  • Joseph Leidy, Class of 1844: "father of American vertebrate paleontology;" Professor of Anatomy and founder of the Department of Biology at Penn; Professor of Natural History at Swarthmore College; subject of 1998 book The Last Man Who Knew Everything

  • Aaron Lemonick: past professor of physics at Princeton University, and past Chair of the Physics department at Haverford College

  • Lawrence Lessig: copyright activist; founder and director of Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Law Professor at Stanford University; Director of the Edward J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University; professor of law at Harvard Law School

  • Arnold J. Levine: past Chair of the Molecular Biology department at Princeton University

  • Ralph Linton: Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale University

  • Xinru Liu: assistant professor of early Indian and World history at The College of New Jersey

  • Robert Loewy: Chair of the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech; member of the National Academy of Engineering

  • Richard Longstreth: architectural historian and professor at George Washington University; past President of the Society of Architectural Historians

  • Yueh-Lin Loo: Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University

  • Louis Loss: William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1962–84)

  • Fred Lukoff: linguist and professor at Yonsei University (Seoul) and the University of Washington (Seattle); Specialist in the Korean language

  • Marvin Makinen: professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago and past Chairman of the Department there

  • Ellen Markman: Lewis M. Terman Professor of Psychology at Stanford University

  • Florencia Marotta-Wurgler: Professor of Law at NYU School of Law

  • Daniel Mazia: past professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University; member of the National Academy of Sciences

  • Clark McCauley: Rachel C. Hale Professor of Sciences and Mathematics and co-director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at Bryn Mawr College

  • Kathleen McKeown: Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia University; past Chair of the Department of Computer Science there

  • Rogers McVaugh: Professor Emeritus of botany at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • María Rosa Menocal: Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University

  • Samuel Miller, Class of 1789: early professor at Princeton Theological Seminary; namesake of Miller Chapel at PTS; trustee of Columbia University and Princeton University; co-founder of the New York Historical Society

  • Sidney Morgenbesser: John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University

  • Frank Moulaert: Professor of Spatial Planning at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2008–

  • Mohammed Rafique Mughal: Professor of Archaeology and Heritage Management and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Boston University

  • Alan Needleman: Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University

  • Ei-ichi Negishi: Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry at Purdue University

  • Elissa L. Newport: cognitive scientist; George Eastman Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics at the University of Rochester; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Susan Nolen-Hoeksema: professor of psychology at Yale University

  • Gerald North: professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University

  • Maurice Obstfeld, Class of 1958: Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley

  • James B. Orlin: Edward Pennell Brooks Professor in Management and Professor of Operations Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Daniel Osherson: Henry R. Luce Professor of Psychology at Princeton University

  • Mehmet Oz: Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University

  • Joseph Pancoast, Class of 1828: Chairman of the Departments of Surgery and Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, now Thomas Jefferson University

  • Frederic L. Paxson: Pulitzer Prize–winning historian; past President of the Organization of American Historians

  • David Perlmutter: Chairman of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa

  • Martin A. Pomerantz: physicist; former Director of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware; namesake of the Martin A. Pomerantz astronomical observatory at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station; recipient of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

  • Gyan Prakash: Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University

  • James B. Pritchard: Penn archeologist honored with the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America

  • Hilary Putnam: Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic at Harvard University

  • John Quelch: Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (2001– )

  • Martin Redish: Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy at the Northwestern University School of Law

  • Henry Hope Reed: scholar who assisted the poet William Wordsworth in the preparation of an American edition of his works

  • Robert Rescorla: psychologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences

  • John R. Rickford: J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and Humanities at Stanford University

  • Francesca Rochberg: Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley

  • James Francis Ross: past President of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

  • Jeanne W. Ross: Director of MIT Sloan School's Center for Information Systems Research (CISR),

  • Joseph Rothrock: environmentalist; the "father of forestry" in Pennsylvania; taught botany, physiology and anatomy at Pennsylvania State University; founded the Pennsylvania School of Forestry at Mont Alto in 1903, now Penn State Mont Alto; first president of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association

  • Dana Royer: professor of paleobotany at Wesleyan University

  • Dick Sabot: John J. Gibson Professor emeritus of economics at Williams College

  • Anne Salmond: Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland; Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

  • Stephen Schiffer: Silver Professor of philosophy at New York University

  • Peter K. Schott: Juan Trippe Professor of International Economics at the Yale School of Management

  • Henry Rogers Seager: Past Professor of political economy at Columbia University

  • Edward Shils: Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago

  • Edward Benjamin Shils: Wharton School Professor of Management; founder of Entrepreneurial Center at Wharton; nephew of Edward Shils

  • Benjamin Silliman: Yale University professor of chemistry; founding faculty member of Yale Medical School; studied at Penn under Professor James Woodhouse but did not earn a degree; namesake of Silliman College at Yale

  • Alison Simmons: Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy; Harvard College professor

  • Linda B. Smith: Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Robert C. Solomon: Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy and Business at the University of Texas at Austin

  • Raymond James Sontag: Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and chairman of the history department at Princeton University

  • Melford Spiro: anthropologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences

  • Alfred Stengel, Class of 1889: Penn professor was President of the American College of Physicians and President of the Wistar Institute

  • Devin J. Stewart: Professor of Islamic studies and Middle Eastern studies at Emory University

  • Susan Stewart: poet, Princeton University professor, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • George W. Stocking Jr.: Professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Chicago

  • Nancy St okey: Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and member of the National Academy of Sciences

  • Witmer Stone: ornithologist, botanist, and mammalogist, "last of the great naturalists"; President of the American Ornithologists' Union (1920–23); editor of the AOU's periodical The Auk (1912–1936); Emeritus Director of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia

  • JoAnne Stubbe: Novartis Professor of Chemistry & Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences; recipient of the National Medal of Science

  • Robert Suderburg: past Chair of the Music Department at Williams College

  • Robert Swendsen: Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University

  • George W. Taylor: founder of the academic field known as industrial relations, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

  • David Teece: Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business and director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

  • Jeff Trinkle: Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Barry Trost: Tamaki Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University

  • George Truskey: R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University

  • Claude H. Van Tyne: Pulitzer Prize–winning historian at the University of Michigan

  • Anthony F. C. W allace: anthropologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences

  • William Ward Watkin: past Chair of the architecture department at Rice University

  • Sandra Waxman: Louis W. Menk Professor of psychology at Northwestern University

  • Russell Weigley: military historian; Distinguished University Professor of History at Temple University

  • E. Roy Weintraub: Professor of economics at Duke University

  • Harvey Weiss: Professor of Near Eastern Archeology at Yale University

  • Elaine Weyuker: Computer scientist and member of the National Academy of Engineering

  • Robin Wilson: Fellow at Keble College, Oxford

  • Hana Wirth-Nesher: literary scholar and Professor of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University

  • Richard R. Wright Jr.: sociologist; President of Wilberforce University

  • Ray Wu: Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biology at Cornell University

  • Richard Wurtman: Cecil H. Green Distinguished Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Ji-Yeon Yuh: Director of the Program in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University

  • Ahmed Zewail: Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at California Institute of Technology

  • Maria Zuber: E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Other educators[edit]


Arts, media, and entertainment[edit]


  • Julian Abele, Class of 1902: architectural designer; co-designed such works as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University, and designed much of the campus of Duke University, including Duke Chapel.

  • Charles Addams: creator of The Addams Family; said to have modeled the Addams Family mansion in part after Penn's College Hall

  • Elizabeth Alexander: poet who recited at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama

  • Ron Allen: NBC News national correspondent

  • Maryanne Amacher: composer

  • Howard Arenstein: CBS News national correspondent

  • Michael Ashkin: sculptor

  • Ti-Grace Atkinson: author, feminist

  • Hannah August: Press Secretary for the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama

  • Jon Avnet: film and television director, producer and writer

  • Evelyn Margaret Ay: Miss America 1954

  • Benjamin Franklin Bache, Class of 1787: grandson of Benjamin Franklin and an early champion of the First Amendment

  • William J. Bain: architect, co-founder of global architecture firm NBBJ

  • Elizabeth Banks: Emmy Award-nominated actress, known for starring in the film The Hunger Games (2012); lead actress in Invincible; played Laura Bush in W.

  • Leslie Esdaile Banks: author

  • Ralph Barbieri: radio personality

  • Albert C. Barnes: inventor of Argyrol; founder of the Barnes Foundation, one of the most valuable art collections in the world

  • Peter Barnes: senior Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Fox Business Network

  • Jack Barry: television game show producer and host, 1950s–1984

  • Vanessa Bayer: actress, comedian, Saturday Night Live cast member, 2010–2017

  • Eric Bazilian: singer, songwriter, guitarist, member of The Hooters

  • Willow Bay: former CNN and ABC anchorwoman, and fashion model

  • Bruce Beattie: nationally syndicated political cartoonist and past President of the National Cartoonists Society

  • David Bell: past Chairman of the Financial Times

  • James Berardinelli: film critic

  • Candice Bergen: Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress, the sitcom Murphy Brown

  • Jed Bernstein: Tony Award-winning theater producer and current President of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Ar ts

  • Alfred Bester: recipient of the first Hugo Award for a science-fiction novel, The Demolished Man (1953); Science Fiction Grand Master (1988); author of The Stars My Destination (1956)

  • Natvar Bhavsar: Indian-American abstract expressionist and color field artist

  • Nate Bihldorff: Nintendo localization manager; known for Paper Mario and Animal Crossing

  • Jeffrey Birnbaum: journalist and Digital Managing Editor of the Washington Times

  • H. G. Bissinger: author of Friday Night Lights; Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist

  • Max Blumenthal: investigative journalist

  • Frank L. Bodine: architect

  • Beverly Bower: operatic soprano

  • Jim Braude: Emmy Award-winning news journalist

  • Denise Scott Brown: architect; principal in Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates; wife of architect Robert Venturi

  • Tory Burch: fashion designer and socialite

  • Alfred Butts: inventor of the board game Scrabble

  • Eduardo Catalano: architect

  • Rick Chertoff: music producer

  • Ryan Choi (musician): composer, musician

  • Claudia Cohen: former "Page Six" gossip columnist for the New York Post

  • Nancy Cordes: CBS News national correspondent

  • Maureen Corrigan: author, journalist, and critic

  • Adrian Cronauer: radio personality and subject of biopic Good Morning, Vietnam

  • Mark Cronin: television producer and writer

  • Whitney Cummings: comedian and co-creator of the television series Two Broke Girls

  • Frank Miles Day: architect who made major additions to the campuses of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University and Wellesley College, among others; national president of the American Institute of Architects, 1906–07; a founding editor of House & Garden

  • Pamela Day: businesswoman and contestant of NBC reality show The Apprentice 2

  • Joseph Deitch: Tony Award-winning Broadway producer

  • James DePreist: permanent conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; director of conducting and orchestral studies at the Juilliard School; laureate music director of the Oregon Symphony

  • Bruce Dern: two-time Academy Award-nominated actor

  • John S. Detlie: Academy Award-nominated art director and set designer

  • Guitarist Jon Gutwillig and ex-drummer Sam Altman of the trance-fusion band the Disco Biscuits; bassist Marc Brownstein and keyboardist Aron Magner attended the university, but never graduated

  • Gail Dolgin: Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, Daughter from Da Nang

  • John Doman: actor, star of HBO crime drama series The Wire

  • Yochi Dreazen: journalist, The Wall Street JournalNational Journal

  • John Drimmer: Emmy-Award-winning television producer

  • Jennifer Egan: Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist; National Book Award finalist

  • Sabrina Erdely: Reporter known for the discredited Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus"[3]

  • Joseph Esherick: Bay Area architect; professor at University of California, Berkeley

  • Ray Evans: Academy Award-winning songwriter

  • Jonathan Leo Fairbanks: founding curator of the American decorative arts and sculpture department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • Henry Fan: architect who designed the Shanghai Concert Hall

  • Jessie Fauset: author and contributor to the Harlem Renaissance

  • Wendy Finerman: Academy Award-winning movie producer, she won the Oscar for the film Forrest Gump in 1994

  • Stanley Fish: The New York Times op-ed columnist

  • Melissa Fitzgerald: actress, known for her role on the television series The West Wing as Carol Fitzpatrick

  • Frank Ford: Long-time Philly radio talk show host, and co-founder of the Valley Forge Music Fair and the Westbury Music Fair

  • Stephen J. Friedman: movie producer

  • Zenos Frudakis: sculptor whose works are featured at institutions around the world

  • Richard Garfield: inventor of the trading card game Magic: The Gathering

  • Robert Gant: actor, known as Ben on Queer as Folk

  • Adam Garfinkle: editor of The American Interesta public policy quarterly magazine

  • Nikki Giovanni: poet and author; attended Penn but did not earn a degree

  • Stephen Glass: former reporter for The New Republicauthor of The Fabulist

  • Benjamin Glazer: Academy Award-winning screenwriter; founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

  • Jeffrey Goldberg: journalist, Atlantic and The New Yorker

  • Leonard Goldberg: former Chairman of 20th Century Fox, television and movie producer

  • Osvaldo Golijov: Grammy Award-winning composer of classical music

  • John M. Goshko: B.A. in English; journalist, The Washington Post[4]

  • Bruce Graham: architect who designed the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Center, and the Inland Steel Building in Chicago, as well as the U.S. Bank Center in Milwaukee (currently the tallest building in Wisconsin)

  • Archie Green: American folklorist and musicologist

  • Zane Grey: author of Western novels

  • Shelly Gross: Broadway producer and co-founder of the Valley Forge Music Fair and the Westbury Music Fair

  • Charles Gwathmey: FAIA, architect who studied at Penn, and later at Yale

  • Joseph Hallman: Philadelphia classical and pop music composer, writer

  • George Harold Waldo Haag, class of 1934: FAIA, school architect

  • Mark Haines: CNBC business news anchor

  • William Stanley Haseltine: 19th-century painter; his works are included in the collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

  • George Hedges: celebrity lawyer, and archeologist who discovered the ancient city of Ubar

  • Henry C. Hibbs: architect who designed much of the campus of Vanderbilt University, as well as buildings for many other schools and universities

  • Jennifer Higdon: Grammy Award-winning flutist and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of classical music

  • Evelyn Hockstein: photographer and photojournalist

  • Doc Holliday: gunman and gambler in the western United States in the 1870s and 1880s; colleague of the Earp brothers; participated in the O.K. Corral gunfight; graduated from Philadelphia College of Dentistry (1872), which merged into Penn in 1909

  • Hoodie Allen, born Steven Markowitz: independent hip-hop artist and rapper

  • Ariel Horn: novelist

  • Kristin Hunter: novelist

  • Abby Huntsman: host and producer at HuffPost Live; political commentator on MSNBC, CNN and ABC News; daughter of 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr.

  • Tetsugo Hyakutake: Japanese photographer

  • Rob Hyman: singer, songwriter, keyboard player, member of The Hooters

  • Alberto Ibarguen: Chairman of the Board of the Newseum in Washington, D.C.; former publisher of the Miami Herald

  • Moe Jaffe: songwriter, "Gypsy in My Soul", "I'm My Own Grandpa"

  • George Clarke Jenkins: Academy Award-winning production designer and three-time Tony Award nominee

  • Amandus Johnson: founding curator of the American Swedish Historical Museum

  • Louis Kahn: architect, works include the Yale University Art Gallery and Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban National Assembly Building, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Aaron Karo: college humorist who details Penn life in books and on the CollegeHumor website

  • Duncan Kenworthy: producer, Four Weddings and a FuneralNotting Hill

  • Florence Kirk: operatic soprano

  • Joe Klein: columnist and political analyst for Time magazine

  • Evan Kohlmann: NBC terrorism analyst

  • Andrea Kremer: ESPN sports correspondent

  • Harry Kurnitz: screenwriter, playwright

  • Sara Larkin: visual ar tist

  • Elliot Lawrence: Tony Award-winning jazz pianist, composer and bandleader

  • William Harold Lee: architect

  • Gwyneth Leech: artist

  • John Legend (birth name John Stephens): Academy Award-winning and multiple Grammy Award-winning rhythm and blues singer/songwriter

  • Stephanie Lemelin: Canadian actress

  • Michael R. Levy: founder and publisher of Texas Monthly magazine

  • William Link: television and film writer and producer who co-created and produced the shows ColumboMannixEllery Queen and Murder, She Wrote

  • Caren Lissner: novelist, author of Carrie Pilby

  • Betty Liu: anchorwoman for Bloomberg Television

  • Alan W. Livingston: record producer who signed The Beatles to their first major U.S. contract; created the character Bozo the Clown

  • Jay Livingston: Academy Award-winning songwriter

  • John D. MacDonald: author, known for his Travis McGee series

  • Aron Magner: keyboardist, The Disco Biscuits

  • Mary Ellen Mark: photographer

  • Steven Markowitz: Long Island, New York rapper, singer and songwriter better known by his stage name Hoodie Allen

  • Stanley Marsh 3: Texas businessman, philanthropist, and artist known for the Cadillac Ranch off historic Route 66; received bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and history, respectively, from Penn

  • John Masius: Emmy Award-winning TV producer and writer, Touched by an AngelSt. Elsewhere

  • Megan McArdle: blogger

  • James McDaniel: Emmy Award-winning actor

  • Milton Bennett Medary Jr.: architect who designed the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge National Park and the Bok Singing Tower; with fellow alumnus William Charles Hays, he designed Houston Hall, America's first student union

  • Thor Halvorssen Mendoza: human rights advocate and film producer; founder, Human Rights Foundation

  • Jonah Meyerson: film and television actor

  • Sia Michel: pop music editor of The New York Times

  • Andrea Mitchell: NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent

  • Ethan Mordden: novelist, theater historian

  • Stephen Robert Morse: journalist, Emmy Award-nominated producer of Amanda Knox (film)

  • David Naughton: actor known for starring in the horror film An American Werewolf in London (1981)

  • Barton Myers: architect

  • Naledge, born Jabari Evans: rapper, member of hip-hop group Kidz in the Hall

  • Morgan Neville: Academy Award-winning director and producer

  • Becki Newton: actress, Amanda on Ugly Betty

  • Philip Francis Nowlan: American science fiction writer, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers

  • Ken Olin: actor, known for his lead role on thirtysomething and as director and executive producer of Alias

  • Charles Ornstein: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times

  • Christina Park: Fox News Channel anchorwoman

  • Rob Pearlstein: Academy Award-nominated writer and director

  • Norman Pearlstine: past editor-in-chief of Time Inc.

  • I. M. Pei: modernist architect; briefly attended in 1935 before transferring to MIT

  • Jim Perry, born Jim Dooley: U.S. and Canadian television host

  • Gina Philips: actress (attended, never graduated)

  • Marc Platt: film, television and theatre producer

  • Chaim Potok: author, The ChosenThe PromiseMy Name Is Asher Levand The Gift of Asher Lev

  • Ezra Pound: 20th-century Modernist poet; promoter of various writers and schools of literature;attended for two years before transferring to Hamilton College; returned to Penn and earned a master's degree in romance philology

  • Maury Povich: talk show host

  • Lionel Pries: architect

  • Harold Prince: Broadway producer, West Side StoryThe Phantom of the Opera

  • Paul Provenza: actor, comedian, and director of The Aristocrats

  • Alan Rachins: actor (L.A. Law and Dharma and Greg)

  • David Raksin: composer known as the "grandfather of film music"

  • Liza Redfield: first woman to be the full-time conductor of a Broadway pit orchestra

  • Alan Richman: journalist and food writer

  • Tom Rinaldi: ESPN reporter and winner of three Regional Emmy Awards

  • Tyler Ritter: actor (The McCarthys)

  • Melissa Rivers, born Melissa Rosenberg: actress and daughter of comedian Joan Rivers

  • John P. Roberts: producer who bankrolled the Woodstock Festival

  • Mark Ros enthal: screenwriter, Mona Lisa SmilePlanet of the ApesMighty Joe Young

  • Anthony Russo: film and television director-producer, Arrested DevelopmentCommunityMarvel Cinematic Universe films[5]

  • Mary B. Schuenemann: 20th-century watercolorist

  • Alan Schwarz: Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter for The New York Times

  • Teddy Schwarzman: film producer, The Imitation Game

  • Lisa Scottoline: author of legal thrillers; New York Times best-selling author

  • Matt Selman: long-time writer for animated series The Simpsons

  • Peter Shelton: architect and interior designer

  • Sylvan Shemitz: lighting designer known for his work on Grand Central Terminal in New York City and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

  • Franklin L. Sheppard, 1872: Christian hymn composer who set "This is My Father's World" to music

  • Robert B. Sinclair: film and theater director

  • Trish Sie: Grammy Award-winning choreographer and director

  • Grover Simcox: illustrator, naturalist and polymath

  • Linda Simensky, 1985: producer of animated works[6]

  • Michael Smerconish: radio host and political pundit

  • Yakov Smirnoff: comedian and painter

  • David Branson Smith: screenwriter of Ingrid Goes West

  • Martin Cruz Smith: author of Gorky Park[1 9659005]Jerome Socolovsky: religion reporter for Voice of America

  • Jordan Sonnenblick: author of Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

  • Devo Springsteen, born Devon Harris: Grammy Award-winning music producer and songwriter

  • Meredith Stiehm: Emmy Award-winning television producer and screenwriter

  • I.F. Stone: journalist and commentator from the 1940s through the 1960s

  • Michael Tearson: voice of Philadelphia Radio, DJ for WMMR, WXPN and WMGK

  • Atha Tehon: art editor and book publisher

  • Tammi Terrell: Grammy Award-nominated soul singer, known for her association with Motown and duets with Marvin Gaye, particularly "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "You're All I Need"

  • Brian Tierney: publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News

  • Lynn Toler: judge on the TV series Divorce Court

  • William Tomicki: journalist and travel writer

  • Garner Tullis: artist whose works are included in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Bobby Troup: actor, songwriter known for writing the popular standard "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66", and for his role as Dr. Joe Early in t he 1970s TV series Emergency!

  • Ivanka Trump: fashion model; businesswoman; judge of NBC reality show The Apprentice 6; daughter of President of the United States, real estate mogul, and Penn alumnus Donald Trump

  • Cenk Uygur: former MSNBC talk show host; radio talk show host, The Young TurksAir America Radio; columnist for Huffington Post

  • M.G. Vassanji: Canadian novelist and member of the Order of Canada

  • Tony Verna: sports and entertainment producer credited with inventing the "instant reply"; dropped out

  • Samantha Vinograd: American journalist who serves as National Security Analyst at CNN

  • David A. Vise: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

  • Amina Wadud: disputed imam and author on Islamic subjects

  • David A. Wallace: architect whose firm Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd was largely responsible for the revitalization of Baltimore's Inner Harbor

  • Mark Waters: director, Mean Girls

  • Ted Weems: bandleader honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

  • Ai Weiwei: artist

  • Ned Wertimer: actor who portrayed Ralph the doorman on the long-running sitcom The Jeffersons

  • John Edgar Wideman: author, Rhodes Scholar

  • C.K. Williams: Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet

  • William Carlos Williams: poet

  • Dick Wolf: Emmy Award-winning producer and creator of Law & Order series

  • Georgina Pope Yeatman, architect

  • Aaron Yoo: actor who starred in the 2007 films Disturbia and American Pastime

  • Rick Yune: actor

  • John Zacherle: horror-show host

  • Harriet Zeitlin: artist

  • Chip Zien: actor

  • Sidney Zion: writer, journalist

  • David Zippel: Tony Award-winning theatre lyricist

Athletics[edit]


[edit]


  • Reds Bagnell: Maxwell Award football halfback at Penn, and member of the College Football Hall of Fame[7]

  • George H. Brooke: member of the College Football Hall of Fame; played for Penn and Swarthmore College[8]

  • Charlie Gelbert: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[9]

  • Ed McGinley: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[10]

  • Leroy Mercer: member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the 1910 College Football All-America Team[11]

  • John Minds: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[12]

  • Skip Minisi: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[13]

  • Bob Odell: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[14]

  • Winchester Osgood: former Penn football player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame[15]

  • John H. Outland: namesake of Outland Trophy in college football[16]

  • George Savitsky: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame [17]

  • Hunter Scarlett: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[18]

  • Vince Stevenson: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[19]

  • Bob Torrey: member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

  • Charles Wharton: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[20]

  • John Heisman: namesake of the Heisman Trophy; President of the American Football Coaches Association; head football coach at Oberlin College (1892, 1894), Buchtel College, now the University of Akron (1893–1894), Auburn University (1895–1899), Clemson University (1900–1903), Georgia Tech (1904–1919), the University of Pennsylvania (1920–1922), Washington & Jefferson College (1923), and Rice University (1924–1927)[21]

Head coaches[edit]


  • Jerome Allen: former NBA player, member of the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame and head coach of Penn's men's basketball team (2009–2015)[22]

  • E. B. Beaumont: first head coach in football at the University of Alabama[23]

  • Marty Brill: head coach in football at La Salle University and Loyola Marymount University[24]

  • Alfred E. Bull: head coach in football at the University of Iowa, Franklin & Marshall College, Georgetown University, Lafayette College, and Muhlenberg College[25]

  • Byron W. Dickson: head coach in football at Lehigh University[26]

  • Dexter Draper: head coach in football at the University of Texas (1909)[27]

  • James Dwyer: head coach in football at Louisiana State University and the University of Toledo[28]

  • George Flint: All-American basketball player and head coach in men's basketball at the University of Pittsburgh[29]

  • Bob Folwell: head coach in football at Lafayette College, Washin gton & Jefferson College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the United States Naval Academy; first head coach of the New York Giants[30]

  • Tom Gilmore: Head Coach in football at the College of the Holy Cross[31]

  • Edward Green: head coach in football at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1908 and at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now North Carolina State University, 1909–1913[32]

  • Dick Harter: head coach in men's basketball at the University of Oregon[33]

  • John Heisman: namesake of the Heisman Trophy; President of the American Football Coaches Association; head football coach at Oberlin College (1892, 1894), Buchtel College, now the University of Akron (1893–1894), Auburn University (1895–1899), Clemson University (1900–1903), Georgia Tech (1904–1919), the University of Pennsylvania (1920–1922), Washington & Jefferson College (1923), and Rice University (1924–1927)[21]

  • Bill Hollenback: member of the College Football Hall of Fame and head coach in football at Penn State (1909, 1911–14)[34]

  • Jack Hollenback: head coach in football at Franklin & Marshall College from 1908 to 1909, Pennsylvania State University in 1910, and Pennsylvania Military College, now Widener University in 1911[35]

  • Danny Hutchinson: head coach in football at Wesleyan University[36]

  • Roy Jackson: head coach in football at the University of Pittsburgh[citation needed]

  • Char les Keinath: head coach in basketball at Penn (1909–12)[37]

  • A. R. Kennedy: head coach in football at Washburn University (1903, 1916–1917) and the University of Kansas (1904–1910)[38]

  • Alden Knipe: head coach in football at the University of Iowa from 1898 to 1902[39]

  • Otis Lamson: member of the 1905 College Football All-America Team, and 1907 head coach in football at the University of North Carolina[40]

  • Matt Langel: head coach in men's basketball at Colgate University[41]

  • Dan Leibovitz: head coach in men's basketball at the University of Hartford[42]

  • George Levene: head coach in football at the University of Tennessee (1907–09)[43]

  • Lou Little, born Luigi Piccolo: head coach in football at Columbia University from 1930 to 1956, he was responsible for Columbia's 1934 win over Stanford University in the Rose Bowl; served as President of the American Football Coaches Association[44]

  • John Lyons: head coach in football at Dartmouth College[45]

  • Harry Arista Mackey: head coach in football at the University of Virginia[46]

  • John Macklin: head coach in football, basketball, baseball and track and field at Michigan Agricultural College, now Michigan State University (and the winningest head football coach in that school's history)[47]

  • Fran McCaffery: head coach in basketball at Lehigh University, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Siena College and the University of Iowa[48]

  • Jack McCloskey: head coach in men's basketball at Wake Forest University[49]

  • Edward McNichol: Penn alumnus and head coach in men's basketball who led the Quakers to a national championship in his first season (1920–21) , producing a 21–2 overall record

  • Sol Metzger: head coach in football at the University of Pennsylvania, Oregon State University, West Virginia University, Washington and Jefferson College, and the University of South Carolina[50]

  • David Micahnik: Penn alumnus and fencing coach and member of the USFA Hall of Fame[51]

  • Allie Miller: head coach in football at Villanova University[52]

  • George Munger: member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)[53]

  • B. Russell Murphy: first head coach in basketball at Johns Hopkins University[54]

  • Samuel B. Newton: head coach in football at Pennsylvania State University (1896–1898), Lafayette College (1899–1901, 1911), Lehigh University (1902–1905), and Williams College (1907–09)[55]

  • Harry Parker: head coach in varsity rowing at Harvard University[56]

  • Simon F. Pauxtis: head coach in football at Dickinson College (1911–12), and the Pennsylvania Military Academy, now Widener University, 1916–29 and 1936–46[57]

  • Frank Piekarski: head coach in football at Washington & Jefferson College, and member of the 1904 College Football All-America Team[58]

  • Jack Ramsay: head coach, Portland Trail Blazers and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame[59]

  • Charles Rogers: head coach in football at the Un iversity of Delaware[60]

  • Seth Roland: head coach in men's soccer at Fairleigh Dickinson University[61]

  • Michael Saxe: head coach in basketball at Villanova University from 1920 to 1926[62]

  • Frank Sexton: Major League Baseball player, and head coach in baseball at Brown University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan[63]

  • Andy Smith: Penn alumnus andhead coach in football at the University of California, Berkeley from 1916 to 1925 (and until 2011, the winningest head football coach in that school's history); member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)[64]

  • Andrew Toole: head coach in basketball at Robert Morris University[65]

  • Otto Wagonhurst: head coach in football at the University of Alabama in 1896 and at the University of Iowa in 1897[66]

  • Garfield Weede: head coach in football at Washburn University and Pittsburg State University; member of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, and dentist[67]

  • Doctor Weeks: first head coach in football at the University of Massachusetts Amherst[68]

  • Carl Sheldon Williams: College football coach; won national championships for Penn in both 1904 and 1907[69]

  • Henry L. Williams: member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach); he coached at the United States Military Academy and the University of Minnesota[70]

  • George Washington Woodruff: member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)[71]

  • Wylie G. Woodruff: head coach in football at the University of Kansas[72]

NFL champions[edit]


Olympic medalists[edit]


  • Larry Bader: winner of a silver medal as part of the U.S. team in ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan

  • Irving Baxter: winner of two gold and three silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics

  • Greg Best: winner of two silver medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics

  • Andrew Byrnes: Canadian rower and winner of a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics

  • Bill Carr: winner of two gold medals at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; member of the National Track & Field Hall of Fame

  • Nathaniel Cartmell: winner of four Olympic medals: two silver at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, and a gold and a bronze at the 1908 London Olympics; first Head Coach in men's basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Britton Chance: winner of a gold medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics

  • Frank Chapot: winner of two silver medals in equestrian, one at the 1960 Rome Olympics and another at the 1972 Munich Olympicsw member of the United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame

  • Gene Clapp: winner of a silver medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics

  • Meredith Colket: winner of a silver medal in the Pole vault at the 1900 Paris Olympics

  • Ellie Daniel, Class of 1974: winner of four Olympic medals: a gold, silver and bronze at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and a bronze at the 1972 Munich Olympics; member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

  • Anita DeFrantz: winner of a bronze medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics; member of both the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee

  • Michalis Dorizas: winner of a silver medal (for Greece) at the 1908 London Olympics

  • Earl Eby: winner of a silver medal in track and field at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics

  • Susan Francia: winner of two gold medals, one at the 2012 London Olympics and another at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in women's rowing, and two gold medals at the 2009 World Rowing Championships

  • Sarah Garner: winner of a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and two gold medals at the World Rowing Championships (1997 and 1998)

  • James Gentle: winner of a bronze medal at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame

  • Samuel Gerson: winner of a silver medal in wrestling at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics

  • Truxtun Hare: winner of a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics; charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame

  • Wilson Hobson Jr.: winner of a bronze medal in field hockey at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; past member of the U.S. Olympic Committee; Secretary-Treasurer of what is now the United States Soccer Federation

  • Sid Jelinek: winner of a bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics

  • John B. Kelly Jr.: accomplished oarsman, four-time Olympian, and Olympic medal winner at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, and President of the United States Olympic Committee and member of the United States Olympic Hall of Fame; brother of actress Grace Kelly; namesake of Kelly Drive in Philadelphia

  • Alvin Kraenzlein: four-time Olympic gold medal champion at the 1900 Paris Olympics

  • Donald Lippincott: winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics

  • Oliver MacDonald: winner of a gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics

  • Hugh Matheson: winner of a silver medal (for Great Britain) at the 1976 Montreal Olympics

  • Josiah McCracken: winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics; later Chief Resident Physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the U.S.

  • Jack Medica: winner of a gold and two silver medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; he was a graduate student at Penn, but did not earn a degree

  • Ted Meredith: Olympic distance runner, won two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics

  • Leslie Milne: winner of a bronze medal in women's field hockey at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

  • Ted Nash: winner of a gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in rowing

  • George Orton: winner of a gold and a bronze medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics; the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal; member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame

  • John Pescatore: winner of a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics; Head Coach in men's rowing at Yale University

  • Lisa Rohde: winner of a silver medal in rowing at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

  • Charles Sheaffer: winner of a bronze medal at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics

  • Brandon Slay: winner of a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in freestyle wrestling

  • Erinn Smart: winner of a silver medal in fencing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

  • Julie Staver: winner of a bronze medal in women's field hockey at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

  • Phillip Stekl: winner of a silver medal in rowing at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

  • Michael Storm: winner of a silver medal in the Modern Pentathlon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

  • John Baxter Taylor Jr.: first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal, 1908 London Olympics

  • Walter Tewksbury: winner of five medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics: two gold, two silver and a bronze

Sports executives and owners[edit][19659770]Other athletes[edit]


  • Cliff Bayer: foil fencer, 2-time Olympian, 4-time U.S. champion, NCAA champion, Pan Am silver medalist

  • Eddie Bell: first black All-American in football, then NFL

  • Joe Burk: Award-winning Ivy League oarsman and coach

  • Sam Burley: track and field record holder

  • Doc Bushong: Major League Baseball catcher with a 15-year career

  • Corky Calhoun: Penn basketball player who helped the team go 28–0 during the 1970–71 season; subsequently had an 8-year professional career with the Phoenix Suns, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers

  • Danny Cepero: first Major League Soccer goalkeeper to score a goal from open play

  • Erica Denhoff: track and field hammer throw varsity letter winner; first college hammer thrower to finish the Boston Marathon

  • Mark DeRosa: San Francisco Giants infielder/outfielder; part of World Series-winning 2010 team

  • Frank B. Ellis, Class of 1893: co-founder of the Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and field competition in the US

  • Doc Farrell: Penn graduate; had a 10-year Major League Baseball career with teams such as the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants), New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox

  • Charlie Ferguson: earned 728 strikeouts from 1884 to 1888 as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Quakers, now the Philadelphia Phillies

  • Paul Friedberg: Olympic fencer, 3-time NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games champion

  • Doug Glanville: Major League Baseball outfielder; New York Times op-ed columnist

  • Scott Graham: long-time Philadelphia Phillies sportscaster

  • Alexander Grant: early 20th-century U.S. and world champion and record holder in several track and field events

  • Nelson Graves: Philadelphian cricketer and businessman

  • Jeff Hatch: former New York Giants player

  • Wallace F. Johnson: early 20th-century U.S. tennis champion

  • Florian Kempf: professional soccer and football player

  • Brooke Makler (1951–2010), Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, 2-times Pan American Games champion

  • Paul Makler Jr. (born 1946) - Olympic fencer, NCAA champion

  • Paul Makler Sr. (born 1920): Olympic fencer, Pan American Games silver medalist

  • Matt Maloney: 1994–95 Ivy League Player of the Year in Basketball; NBA player

  • Mitch Marrow: football player, hedge fund manager, and business owner

  • Rob Milanese: Arena Football League wide receiver; school's all-time leading receiver

  • Syed Mohammed Hadi: Olympic athlete

  • Bob Morse: basketball player; holder of 3 Euroleague titles; chosen as one of the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors since the founding in 1958 of the European Champions Cup

  • Chris O'Loughlin (born 1967), Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games silver medalist, Pan American Games bronze medalist

  • Ryan O'Malley: NFL player

  • Pete Overfield: All-American and professional football player; federal judge in Alaska;rancher

  • Ben Noll: NFL pro who played for the St. Louis Rams, Dallas Cowboys, and Detroit Lions

  • Tom Paradiso: World Champion rower who also competed at 2008 Olympic Games

  • Jim Peterson: Major League Baseball player, 1931–1937; winner of the 1931 World Series playing for the Philadelphia Athletics (now the Oakland Athletics)

  • Frank Reagan: former professional football player for the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles from 1941 to 1951; he led the NFL in interceptions in 1947

  • Zack Rosen: All-American basketball player; plays for Maccabi Ashdod in Israel[74]

  • John Schweder: football player who played offensive lineman for six seasons for the Baltimore Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers

  • Stan Startzell: three-time soccer All-American

  • Walt Stickel: professional football player; offensive lineman for six seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears

  • George Sullivan: American football player

  • John Thayer: first-class cricketer

  • Roy Thomas: Philadelphia Phillies player and National League leader in runs scored, base on balls, and on-base percentage

  • Bill Tilden (dropped out in sophomore year): tennis player who won 10 Grand Slam titles, including 7 US Opens and 3 Wimbledons

  • Joe Valerio: NFL pro who spent five seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs

  • Steve Yerkes: Wharton dropout, played Major League Baseball 1909–1916 with the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs; scored the Series-winning run in the tenth inning of Game Eight of the 1912 World Series for the Red Sox

  • Blondy Wallace: College All-American, NFL pro, and bootlegger

  • Diddie Willson: NFL player

Business[edit]


For a more comprehensive list of notable alumni in the business world, see Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. (Note: Not all of the following individuals attended the Wharton School, but may be alumni of other schools within the University of Pennsylvania).


  • Laura J. Alber: President and CEO of Williams-Sonoma

  • Anil Ambani: billionaire, Chairman, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

  • Walter Annenberg: billionaire publisher; philanthropist; former U.S Ambassador to the United Kingdom; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; given the rank of Knight Commander (the second-highest rank in the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II

  • Susan Arnold: past Vice Chairman of Procter & Gamble

  • Morton J. Baum, President of Hickey Freeman

  • Alfred Berkeley: former President and Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.

  • Nicholas Biddle: President of the Second Bank of the United States

  • William Bingham, Class of 1768, a founder and director of the Bank of North America, the first modern United States bank

  • Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell: Chairman of Interserve and Lloyds Banking Group

  • Matt Blank: Chairman and CEO of Showtime

  • Richard Bloch: co-founder, H&R Block

  • Mitchell Blutt: Executive Partner, J.P. Morgan Chase

  • John Bogle: founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group

  • Len Bosack: co-founder, Cisco Systems (Internet routers company)

  • Dimitri Boylan: former CEO of Hotjobs.com, now part of Yahoo!

  • David Brown: co-founder of Silicon Graphics

  • Christopher Browne: past Managing Director of Tweedy, Browne Co.

  • Warren Buffett: CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, investor, the second richest man in the world (attended for two years before transferring to the University of Nebraska)

  • Jonathan Brassington : CEO and Co- Founder LiquidHub.[75]

  • Charles Butt: billionaire, CEO and Chairman, H-E-B Grocery Company[76]

  • William P. Carey: founder of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC,[77] a corporate real estate financing firm headquartered in New York City

  • Robert Castellini: CEO and part-owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team

  • Steven A. Cohen: founder and Manager, SAC Capital Partners and Point72 Asset Management

  • Arthur D. Collins Jr.: Chairman and CEO, Medtronic

  • Stephen Cooper: CEO of Warner Music Group

  • Robert Crandall: Chairman and CEO, American Airlines, Inc

  • Donny Deutsch: Chairman, Deutsch, Inc.

  • Michael DiCandilo: Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of AmerisourceBergen corporation

  • James Dinan: hedge fund manager and founder of York Capital Management

  • Eugene du Pont: first head of modern-day DuPont

  • Mike Eskew: Chairman and CEO, UPS

  • Alexander C. Feldman: President, US-ASEAN Business Council; former Assistant Secretary of State

  • Jay S. Fishman: Chairman and CEO of The Travelers Companies

  • Catherine Austin Fitts: CEO and Founder of Solari Inc.

  • Russell P. Fradin: Chairman and CEO of Hewitt Associates

  • Robert B. Goergen: Chairman and CEO of Blyth, Inc.

  • Steven Goldstone: former Chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco

  • John Grayken: Founder and Chairman of Lone Star Funds [78]

  • Joel Greenblatt: hedge fund manager and author

  • Sam Hamadeh: founder, Vault Inc. and film producer

  • Brad Handler: co-founder and Chairman of Inspirato; first in-house attorney at eBay

  • Gilbert W. Harrison, founder, Chairman and CEO, Financo, Inc.

  • George H. Heilmeier: former President and CEO of Bellcore (now Telcordia)

  • Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, former Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

  • C. Robert Henrikson: Chairman, President and CEO, MetLife

  • Vernon Hill: founder, Chairman, and CEO, Commerce Bancorp

  • Philip B. Hofmann: past Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson

  • Jirair Hovnanian: home builder

  • Jon Huntsman Sr.: billionaire, founder of the Huntsman Corporation

  • John Carmichael Jenkins: planter and proponent of slavery in the Antebellum South

  • Reginald H. Jones: former Chairman and CEO of General Electric

  • Yotaro Kobayashi: Chairman and Co-CEO, Fuji Xerox

  • Josh Kopelman: founder, Half.com

  • Leonard Lauder: chairman and CEO of Estée Lauder; billionaire investor[79]

  • Geraldine Laybourne: founder of Oxygen Media

  • Terry Leahy: CEO, Tesco

  • Douglas Lenat: founder of artificial intelligence company Cycorp

  • Gerald Levin: former CEO of AOL Time Warner

  • Edward J. Lewis: former Chairman of the Board of the Oxford Development Company, one of the largest Pennsylvania-based real estate firms

  • Ronald Li: founder and past Chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

  • George Lindemann: billionaire industrialist

  • Joseph Wharton Lippincott: past President and Chairman of the Board of J. B. Lippincott Company, and grandson of industrialist Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School of Business

  • Robert Litzenberger: Partner, Goldman Sachs

  • Alexander Lloyd: venture capitalist[80]

  • John A. Luke Jr.: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MeadWestvaco Corporation

  • Peter Lynch: investor; Vice Chairman of Fidelity Investments

  • Harold McGraw III: President and CEO of McGraw-Hill Companies and chairman of the Business Roundtable

  • Michael Milken: trader, financier, felon

  • Bill Miller: Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Legg Mason Capital Management

  • Jordan Mintz: Enron whistleblower

  • Aditya Mittal: President and CFO, Mittal Steel Company

  • Ken Moelis: founder of Moelis & Company

  • Michael Moritz: venture capitalist, Sequoia Capital

  • Michael H. Moskow: 8th President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

  • Elon Musk: technology entrepreneur; founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder of PayPal; board member of Planetary Society; investor and Chairman of the Board of Tesla Motors

  • Peter Nicholas: billionaire co-founder of the medical device firm Boston Scientific

  • Phebe Novakovic: Chairman and CEO of General Dynamics

  • William Novelli: CEO of AARP; founder and past President of Porter Novelli, one of the world's largest lobbying and public relations firms, now part of the Omnicom Group

  • William S. Paley: founder, CBS Corporation

  • Bruce Pasternack: President and CEO of the Special Olympics International; former Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

  • Ronald O. Perelman: billionaire investor

  • Benjamin W. Perkins Jr.: Thoroughbred racehorse trainer

  • Douglas L. Peterson: CEO of McGraw Hill Financial

  • Lionel Pincus: past Chairman of Warburg Pincus

  • Lewis E. Platt: President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Hewlett-Packard

  • J.D. Power III: founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power & Associates

  • Edmund T. Pratt Jr.: former Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Inc.

  • Frank Quattrone: prominent investment banker, formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston

  • Robert Rabinovitch: former President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

  • Raj Rajaratnam: billionaire founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group

  • Shailesh Rao: Managing Director of Google India

  • Josh Resnick: founder and President, Pandemic Studios

  • Sylvia Rhone: former President and CEO of Eastwest Records, Elektra Records, and Motown Records; first African-American woman to head a major record company

  • Rich Riley: CEO, Shazam; former Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Yahoo! Europe, Middle East & Africa

  • Brian L. Roberts: Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation

  • Lucille Roberts: namesake and proprietor of women's fitness clubs

  • Ralph J. Roberts: co-founder, Comcast Corporation

  • Eileen Clarkin Rominger: Goldman Sachs partner

  • Frank Rooney: past CEO of Melville Corporation

  • Harold Rosen: Executive Director of the Grassroots Business Fund

  • Arthur Ross: businessman and philanthropist

  • Edward Rosenthal: founder of Riverside Memorial Chapel

  • Perry Rotella: Senior Vice President and[ChiefInformationOfficerofVeriskAnalytics

  • J. Brendan Ryan: Chairman of Foote, Cone, and Belding

  • Henry Salvatori: founder, Western Geophysical; founding stockholder of the National Review magazine

  • Charles S. Sanford Jr.: Chief Executive Officer of Bankers Trust

  • Harry Scherman: co-founder of the Book of the Month Club

  • Alan D. Schnitzer: CEO of the Travelers Companies

  • John Sculley: former President of PepsiCo; former CEO of Apple Computer

  • Paul V. Scura: former Executive Vice President and Head of the Investment Bank of Prudential Securities

  • Tanya Seaman: co-founder of PhillyCarShare

  • Joseph Segel: founder, QVC; founder, Franklin Mint

  • Brian Sheth: co-founder and President of Vista Equity Partners

  • Henry Silverman: COO of the Apollo Group, formerly head of Cendant Corporation

  • Gregg Spiridellis: founder, JibJab Media, Inc.

  • Richard Stearns: President of World Vision

  • Michael Steinhardt: co-founder of hedge fund Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz & Co.; philanthropist

  • Patrick J. Talamantes: CEO of McClatchy Company

  • Michael Tiemann: co-founder of Cygnus Solutions (a GNU software company), now CTO of Red Hat

  • James S. Tisch: CEO, Loews Corporation

  • Laurence Tisch: former CEO of CBS

  • Roy Vagelos: former CEO of Merck

  • James L. Vincent: past President and CEO of Biogen Idec

  • George Herbert Walker IV: CEO of Neuberger Berman; former Managing Director of Lehman Brothers; formerly a Partner with Goldman Sachs & Co; Co-President, Commodities Corporation

  • Jacob Wallenberg: Chairman, Investor

  • Jeff Weiner: CEO of LinkedIn

  • Joseph P. Williams: creator of the first all-purpose bank credit card, BankAmericard, now known as the Visa, Inc. card

  • Gary L. Wilson: CEO and Chairman, Northwest Airlines

  • William Wrigley Jr. II: Chairman and former CEO of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, makers of chewing gum and confectionery products

  • Steve Wynn: Chairman and CEO Wynn Resorts; former Chairman and CEO Mirage Resorts, Inc.; responsible for the renaissance of Las Vegas

  • Morrie Yohai: co-inventor of Cheez Doodles snack food

  • Mark Zandi: economist

  • Mortimer Zuckerman: real estate billionaire; publisher/owner of the New York Daily News; Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report

  • Martin Zweig: stock investor and author

Exploration[edit]


Government, politics and law[edit]


Colonial America delegates[edit]


Members of the Continental Congress[edit]

  • Andrew Allen: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1775–76

  • William Bingham: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786–88

  • Elias Boudinot: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778 and 1781–83, and President of the Continental Congress in 1782–83; attended the Academy of Philadelphia, but did not earn a degree

  • Lambert Cadwalader: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784–87

  • Tench Coxe: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1788–89

  • Philemon Dickinson: Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–83

  • Jonathan Elmer: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1777–1778, 1781–1783, 1787–1788

  • Robert Goldsborough: Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–76

  • William Grayson: Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–87

  • Whitmell Hill: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778–80

  • William Hindman: Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–86

  • Francis Hopkinson: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776

  • David Jackson: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785

  • Henry Latimer: Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784

  • Thomas Mifflin: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–75 and 1782–84, and President of the Continental Congress, 1783–84

  • Cadwalader Morris: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783–84

  • William Paca: Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–79

  • Richard Peters Jr.: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–83

  • David Ramsay: South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–83 and 1785–86, and acting President of the Continental Congress in 1785–86

  • Joshua Seney: Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778

  • Jonathan Sergeant: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776–77

  • James Tilton: Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783–84

  • Hugh Williamson: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–85

  • James Wilson: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1775–77, 1783, 1785–86

U.S. government[edit]


Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States[edit]

Members of the United States Cabinet[edit]

  • Robert S. Adler: Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

  • Branch Tanner Archer: Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas, 1840–41

  • Neil Barofsky: Special Treasury Department Inspector General to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program

  • Richard E. Besser: Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control

  • Adolph E. Borie: United States Secretary of the Navy under President Ulysses S. Grant

  • William Bradford: United States Attorney General under President George Washington

  • David Brailer: National Resource Center for Health Information Technology Coordinator—the "health information czar" under President George W. Bush

  • Marshall Jordan Breger: past Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States

  • William H. Brown, III: past Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

  • Shirley Chater: Commissioner of Social Security, 1993–97

  • Richard A. Clarke: National Counter-Terrorism Director under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush

  • Jay Clayton: Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under President Donald Trump

  • William T. Coleman Jr.: United States Secretary of Transportation, 1975–77, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

  • John Howard Dalton: United States Secretary of the Navy, 1993–98

  • John DiIulio: first Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush

  • George Hall Dixon: Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President Gerald Ford

  • George Nicholas Eckert: Director of the United States Mint, 1851–53

  • James B. Edwards: United States Secretary of Energy under President Ronald Reagan

  • Myer Feldman: White House Counsel to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson

  • William R. Ferris: Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997–2000

  • Thomas K. Finletter: United States Secretary of the Air Force, 1950–53

  • Lindley M. Garrison: Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson

  • Thomas S. Gates: United States Secretary of Defense, 1959–1961, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1957–59

  • Henry Dilworth Gilpin: United States Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren

  • Earl G. Harrison: Commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942–44

  • Francis J. Harvey: United States Secretary of the Army, 2004–07

  • Henry Hoyt: United States Solicitor General, 1903–09

  • George A. Jenks, Class of 1850 and 1853: United States Solicitor General, 1886–89

  • Neel Kashkari: head of the Office of Financial Stability in the U.S. Department of the Treasury

  • Virginia Knauer: first Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs under President Ronald Reagan, and Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs under President Richard Nixon

  • C. Everett Koop: Surgeon General of the United States, 1981–89

  • John F. Lehman: United States Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan

  • William Flynn Martin: United States Deputy Secretary of Energy and Executive Secretary of the National Security Council under President Reagan

  • Ann Dore McLaughlin: United States Secretary of Labor

  • William M. Meredith: United States Secretary of the Treasury, 1849–1850

  • Samuel Moore: Director, United States Mint, 1824–35

  • David W. Ogden: Deputy Attorney General under President Barack Obama

  • William Tod Otto: United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior under President Abraham Lincoln, 1863–71

  • Thomas M. Pettit: Director of the United States Mint, 1853

  • Caesar Augustus Rodney: U.S. Attorney General; U.S. Senator (Delaware)

  • Rajiv Shah: Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics and Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under President Barack Obama

  • Gene Sperling: Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama

  • Clifford L. Stanley: Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness under President Barack Obama

  • Benjamin Stoddert: First United States Secretary of the Navy (attended but did not earn a degree)

  • Rexford Tugwell: Head of the Resettlement Administration and part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust"

  • Michael G. Vickers: United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict; Central Intelligence Agency's principal strategist in paramilitary operation to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan

  • Robert John Walker: United States Secretary of the Treasury, 1845–1849

  • George W. Wickersham: United States Attorney General, 1909–1913

  • George Washington Woodruff: Acting United States Secretary of the Interior under Theodore Roosevelt

  • Hubert Work: United States Postmaster General, 1922–1923 under President Warren G. Harding, and United States Secretary of the Interior, 1923–1928 under Harding and President Calvin Coolidge
U.S. Senators[edit]

  • Lewis Heisler Ball: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1903–05, 1919–25; Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1901–03[81]

  • Ephraim Bateman: U.S. Senator and Congressman from New Jersey[82]

  • William Wyatt Bibb: U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from Georgia; Governor of Alabama[83]

  • William Bingham, Class of 1768: namesake of Binghamton, New York and Bingham, Maine; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1795–1801 and President pro tem of the Senate; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786–88[84]

  • Clayton Douglass Buck: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1943–49; Governor of Delaware, 1929–37; attended Towne School of Engineering but did not earn a degree[85]

  • Joseph Maull Carey: U.S. Senator from Wyoming, 1890–95; Governor of Wyoming, 1911–15; Wyoming delegate to the U.S. Congress, 1885–90[86]

  • Henry H. Chambers: U.S. Senator from Alabama, 1825–26[87]

  • Joseph Sill Clark: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1957–69[88]

  • Simon Barclay Conover: U.S. Senator from Florida, 1873–79; attended School of Medicine and graduated from the University of Nashville[89]

  • George Robertson Dennis: U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1873–79[90]

  • Philemon Dickinson: U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1790–93[91]

  • James Henderson Duff: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1951–57; attended Law School but did not earn a degree[92]

  • Henry A. Du Pont: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1906–17, attended Penn and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point[93]

  • Jonathan Elmer: U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1789–91[94]

  • William Grayson: U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1789–90; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree[95]

  • William Henry Harrison: U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1825–28[citation needed]

  • Weldon Brinton Heyburn: U.S. Senator from Idaho, 1903–12

  • William Hindman: U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1800–01; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree[96]

  • Ted Kaufman: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 2009–2011[97]

  • Henry Latimer: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1795–1801; Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1794–95[98]

  • Lewis Fields Linn: U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1833–43; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree[99]

  • James Murray Mason: U.S. Senator from Virginia in the early 19th century[citation needed]

  • Gouverneur Morris: New York delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778–79; U.S. Senator from New York, 1800–1803; attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate[citation needed]

  • John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1801; Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1789–91, 1793–95, 1799–1801; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree[100]

  • Arnold Naudain: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1830–36[citation needed]

  • George Wharton Pepper: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, chronicler of the Senate[101]

  • Caesar Augustus Rodney: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1822–23[102]

  • Arlen Specter: Former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia District Attorney[103]

  • John Selby Spence: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1836–40; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree[104]

  • Robert John Walker, Class of 1819: U.S. Senator from Mississippi, 1836–45, he introduced the bill that established the U.S. Department of the Interior[105]

  • Joseph Rodman West: U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1871–77; attended the College but did not earn a degree[106]

  • Jenkin Whiteside: U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1809–11[citation needed]
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives[edit]

  • Ephraim Leister Acker M.D., 1852 LL.B., 1886: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1871–1873[107]

  • Robert Adams Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1889–1906[108]

  • Wilbur L. Adams: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933–1935[109]

  • John Archer: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1801–1807[110]

  • James Armstrong: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1793–1795[111]

  • L. Heisler Ball: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1901–03[112]

  • Ephraim Bateman: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1826–29[113]

  • John Milton Bernhisel: Utah delegate to the U.S. Congress, 1851–1859, 1861–1863[114]

  • George A. Bicknell: Indiana representative to the U.S. Congress, 1877–1881[115]

  • Richard Biddle, Class of 1811: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1837–40[116]

  • Andrew Biemiller: Wisconsin representative to the U.S. Congress, 1945–1947 (attended the Graduate School but did not earn a degree)[117]

  • Elias Boudinot: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1789–1795; New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778; Attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate.[citation needed]

  • Benjamin Markley Boyer: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1865–1869[118]

  • Samuel Carey Bradshaw: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855–1857[119]

  • Charles Browne 1900: represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district 1923–1925[120]

  • George Franklin Brumm: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923–1927, 1929–1934[121]

  • Hiram R. Burton: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1905–1909[122]

  • John Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855–1857[123]

  • Lambert Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1789–1791, 1793–1795; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784–1787; entered College of Philadelphia in 1757 but did not earn a degree[124]

  • Greene Washington Caldwell: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1841–1843[125]

  • Matt Cartwright: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 2013–

  • E. Wallace Chadwick: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947–1949[126]

  • Earl Chudoff: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress 1949–1958[127]

  • George Bosworth Churchill: Massachusetts representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925; Attended Graduate School, 1892–1894, but did not earn a degree[128]

  • John Claiborne: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1805–1808[129]

  • John Daniel Clardy: Kentucky representative to the U.S. Congress, 1895–1899[130]

  • Isaiah Dunn Clawson: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855–1859[131]

  • John Clopton: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1795–1799, 1801–1816[132]

  • Bill Cobey: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1985–1987[133]

  • Lewis Condict: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1811–1817[134]

  • Joel Cook: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress 1907–1911[135]

  • Thomas Buchecker Cooper: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1861–1862

  • James Harry Covington: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1909–1914[136]

  • William Radford Coyle: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925–1927, 1929–1933; attended law school but did not earn a degree[137]

  • George William Crump: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1826–1827; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree[138]

  • Willard S. Curtin: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1957–1967[139]

  • J. Burrwood Daly: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–39; attended law school but did not earn a degree[140]

  • William Darlington: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1815–17 and 1819–23[141]

  • Philemon Dickerson: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1833–36 and 1839–41[142]

  • Charles Djou: Hawaii representative to the U.S. Congress, 2010[143]

  • Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–39[144]

  • Charles F. Dougherty: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1979–83[145]

  • George Eckert: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1847–49[146]

  • Norman Eddy: Indiana representative to the U.S. Congress, 1853–55[147]

  • Joshua Eilberg: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1967–1979[148]

  • Lucius Elmer: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1843–45[149]

  • Phillip Sheridan English: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1995–2009[150]

  • Thomas Dunn English: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1891–95[151]

  • Chaka Fattah: U.S. Congressman representing 2nd Congressional district of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia region)[152]

  • Clare G. Fenerty: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–37[153]

  • John Floyd: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1817–29[154]

  • Harold Ford Jr.: U.S. Representative from Tennessee, candidate for House Minority Leader, 2002, candidate for United States Senate from Tennessee[155]

  • Vito Fossella: New York representative to the U.S. Congress, 1997–2009[156]

  • Oliver W. Frey: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933–39[157]

  • Benjamin Gilman: New York representative to the U.S. Congress, 1973–2003[158]

  • Benjamin Golder: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925–33[159]

  • Josh Gottheimer: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 2017-

  • George Scott Graham: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1913–31[160]

  • John Hahn: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1815–17[citation needed]

  • William Henry Harrison: Ohio representative to the U.S. Congress, 1816–19[161]

  • Charles Eaton Haynes: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1825–31 and 1835–39[162]

  • James C. Healey: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1956–65[163]

  • William Hindman: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1793–99[164]

  • George Holcombe: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1821–28[165]

  • Trey Hollingsworth: Indiana representative to the U.S. Congress, 2017-

  • Joseph Hopkinson, Class of 1786: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1815–19[166]

  • Charles R. Howell, attended in 1936 and 1937, did not graduate: represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, 1949–1955[167]

  • John William Jones: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1847–49[168]

  • Owen Jones: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1857–59[169]

  • Albert Walter Johnson: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947–63[170]

  • Joseph Jorgensen: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1877–83[171]

  • James Kelly: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1805–09[citation needed]

  • William Kennedy: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1803–1805, 1809–1811, 1813–1815[172]

  • Everett Kent: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923–25 and 1927–29[173]

  • Karl C. King: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1951–57[174]

  • William Huntington Kirkpatrick: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1921–23[175]

  • Thomas Kittera: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1826–27[176]

  • John A. Lafore Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1957–61[177]

  • Conor Lamb: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 2018

  • Henry Latimer: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1794–95[178]

  • Caleb Layton: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1919–23[179]

  • James Leech: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927–32[180]

  • William Eckart Lehman: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1861–63[181]

  • George Leiper: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1829–31[182]

  • John Thomas Lenahan: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1907–09[183]

  • Samuel Lilly: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1853–55[184]

  • Lloyd Lowndes Jr.: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1873–75[185]

  • James McDevitt Magee: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923–27[186]

  • Levi Maish: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1875–79 and 1887–91[187]

  • Francis Mallory: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1837–43[188]

  • John Hartwell Marable: Tennessee representative the U.S. Congress, 1825–29[189]

  • Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1993–95[190]

  • Robert Marion: South Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1805–10[191]

  • Alexander Keith Marshall: Kentucky representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855–57[192]

  • James Murray Mason: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1837–39[citation needed]

  • Samuel K. McConnell Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1944–57[193]

  • George Deardorff McCreary: Pennsylvania representative the U.S. Congress, 1903–13[194]

  • Joseph McDade: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1963–99[195]

  • Robert C. McEwen: New York representative the U.S. Congress, 1965–81[196]

  • John Miller: New York representative to the U.S. Congress, 1825–27[197]

  • James Milnor: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1811–13[198]

  • George Mitchell: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1823–27 and 1829–32[199]

  • John Moffet: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1869[200]

  • Samuel Moore: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1818–22[201]

  • Edward Joy Morris: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1843–45 and 1857–61[202]

  • Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947–49,[203] architect, founder of Muhlenberg Greene Architects

  • Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, 1789–1791, 1793–1795; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1779–1780; Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1789–1797[citation needed]

  • Edward de Veaux Morrell: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1900–07[204]

  • John Murphy: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943–46[205]

  • Leonard Myers: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1863–75[206]

  • William Augustus Newell, Class of 1839: New Jersey Representative to the U.S. Congress, 1847–1851, 1865–1867[207]

  • Robert N.C. Nix Sr.: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1958–79[citation needed]

  • Edson Olds: Ohio representative to the U.S. Congress, 1849–55[208]

  • Archibald Olpp: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1921–23[209]

  • Cyrus Maffet Palmer: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927–29[210]

  • John Patton: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1830–38[211]

  • Levi Pawling: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1817–19[212]

  • John H. Pugh: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1877–79[213]

  • Robert R. Reed: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1849–51[214]

  • Jacob Richards: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1803–09[215]

  • Lewis Riggs: New York representative to the U.S. Congress, 1841–43[216]

  • Caesar Augustus Rodney: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1803–05[217]

  • Albert Rutherford: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937–41[218]

  • Leon Sacks: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937–41[219]

  • Benjamin Say: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1808–09[220]

  • Pius Schwert: New York representative to the U.S. Congress, 1939–41[221]

  • David Scott: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 2003–[222]

  • Hardie Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947–53[223]

  • John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1915–19[224]

  • Joshua Seney: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1789–92[225]

  • John Sergeant: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1815–23, 1827–29 and 1837–41[226]

  • Adam Seybert: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1809–15 and 1817–19[227]

  • Henry Marchmore Shaw: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1853–55 and 1857–59[228]

  • William B. Shepard: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1829–37[229]

  • John E. Sheridan: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1939–47[230]

  • William Simonton: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1839–43[231]

  • Edward J. Stack: Florida representative to the U.S. Congress, 1979–81[232]

  • James Strawbridge: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1873–75[233]

  • Joel Barlow Sutherland: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1827–37[234]

  • John Swope: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1884–87[235]

  • William Terrell: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1817–21[236]

  • Martin Thayer: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1863–65[237]

  • John Chew Thomas: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1799–1801[238]

  • John Parnell Thomas: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937–50[239]

  • Hedge Thompson: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1827–28[240]

  • Philip A. Traynor: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1941–43 and 1945–47[241]

  • William Troutman: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943–45[242]

  • Charles Turpin: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1929–37[243]

  • Jonathan Updegraff: Ohio representative to the U.S. Congress, 1879–82[244]

  • Joseph Vigorito: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1965–77[245]

  • Percy Walker: Alabama representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855–57[citation needed]

  • George Wallhauser: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1959–65[246]

  • John H. Ware, III: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1970–75[247]

  • John Goddard Watmough: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1831–35[248]

  • Anthony Wayne: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1791–92[citation needed]

  • James D. Weaver: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1963–65[249]

  • Hugh Williamson: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1790–93[250]

  • William H. Wilson: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–37[251]

  • Charles A. Wolverton: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927–59[252]
U.S. Supreme Court Justices[edit]

U.S. Ambassadors[edit]

  • Robert Adams Jr.: U.S. Minister to Brazil

  • Paul H. Alling: 1st U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan

  • Walter Annenberg: U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom

  • Robert Beecroft: U.S. Chief of Mission and Special Envoy to the Bosnian Federation

  • Kenneth Braithwaite: U.S. Ambassador to Norway

  • Peter Burleigh: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the Philippines, Palau, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka; attended graduate school but did not earn a degree

  • Patricia A. Butenis: U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh

  • Oliver S. Crosby: U.S. Ambassador to Guinea

  • George William Crump: U.S. Ambassador to Chile

  • Thomas K. Finletter: U.S. Ambassador to NATO

  • Lloyd Carpenter Griscom: U.S. Ambassador to Persia (now Iran), Japan, and Italy

  • John E. Hamm: U.S. Ambassador to Chile

  • Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden

  • Jerome Holland: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden

  • Jon Huntsman Jr.: U.S. Ambassador to Russia, the People's Republic of China and Singapore

  • Stuart E. Jones: U.S. Ambassador to Jordan

  • David Jordan: U.S. Ambassador to Peru

  • Tina Kaidanow: U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo

  • Sung Kim: U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and U.S. Special Envoy to the Six-Party Talks

  • Robert E. Lamb: U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus

  • Ronald Lauder: U.S. Ambassador to Austria

  • Franklin L. Lavin: U.S. Ambassador to Singapore

  • James Murray Mason: CSA Ambassador to the United Kingdom and France

  • Edward Joy Morris: U.S. Ambassador to Sicily, 1850–53

  • John H. Morrow: U.S. Ambassador to Guinea

  • Phil Murphy: U.S. Ambassador to Germany

  • Wanda L. Nesbitt: U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar, Ivory Coast, and Namibia

  • Condy Raguet: first Chargé d'affaires from the United States to Brazil

  • William Bradford Reed: U.S. Minister to China

  • Caesar Augustus Rodney: U.S. Ambassador to Argentina

  • Charles S. Shapiro: U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela

  • Martin J. Silverstein: U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay

  • Robert Strausz-Hupé: U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Belgium, Sweden, NATO, and Turkey; founder of the Foreign Policy Research Institute; prolific scholar of international relations and geopolitics

  • Nicholas F. Taubman: U.S. Ambassador to Romania

  • Marilyn Ware: U.S. Ambassador to Finland

  • Faith Ryan Whittlesey: U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland

State government[edit]


Governors[edit]

  • Amos W. Barber: 2nd Governor of Wyoming, 1890–93

  • Gunning Bedford Sr.: Governor of Delaware, 1796–97[253]

  • John C. Bell Jr.: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1947[citation needed]

  • William Wyatt Bibb: first Governor of the state of Alabama, 1819–1820; served as Governor of the Alabama Territory, 1817–1819[254]

  • Martin G. Brumbaugh: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1911–15[citation needed]

  • C. Douglass Buck: Governor of Delaware, 1929–37[255]

  • William Burton: Governor of Delaware, 1859–63[citation needed]

  • Joseph M. Carey: Governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915[256]

  • Thomas King Carroll: Governor of Maryland, 1829–31

  • Joshua Clayton: Governor of Delaware 1793–1798, attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate[257]

  • Philemon Dickerson: Governor of New Jersey, 1836–37[258]

  • James H. Duff: Governor of Pennsylvania; studied law at Penn before graduating from the University of Pittsburgh[259]

  • James B. Edwards, post-graduate student at Penn: Governor of South Carolina, 1975–79[citation needed]

  • John Floyd: Governor of Virginia, 1830–34[260]

  • George F. Fort: Governor of New Jersey, 1851–54[citation needed]

  • William Gilpin, Class of 1833: first Governor of the Territory of Colorado, 1861–1862[citation needed]

  • Charles Goldsborough: Governor of Maryland, 1819[261]

  • William Henry Harrison: first Governor of Indiana Territory, 1800–12[citation needed]

  • John Hubbard: Governor of Maine, 1850–1853[citation needed]

  • Jon Huntsman Jr.: Governor of Utah, 2005–2009[262]

  • George Izard, Class of 1792: second Governor of Arkansas Territory, 1825–1828[citation needed]

  • Lawrence M. Judd: Governor of Hawaii (1929–34), and American Samoa (1954)[citation needed]

  • William Carr Lane: Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1852–53[citation needed]

  • George M. Leader: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1955–1959[citation needed]

  • Lloyd Lowndes Jr.: Governor of Maryland, 1895–1899[263]

  • George B. McClellan: U.S. Civil War General; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President 1864; later Governor of New Jersey; attended law school for two years before transferring to the U.S. Military Academy, from which he graduated[citation needed]

  • John G. McCullough: Governor of Vermont, 1902–04[264]

  • Alexander McNair: first Governor of Missouri[citation needed]

  • Thomas Mifflin, Class of 1760: first Governor of Pennsylvania, 1790–1799; signatory to the U.S. Constitution; Brigadier General in the Continental Army during the American Revolution[citation needed]

  • Charles R. Miller: Governor of Delaware, 1913–17[citation needed]

  • Wayne Mixson: Governor of Florida, 1987[265]

  • Phil Murphy: 56th Governor of New Jersey

  • William Augustus Newell: 18th Governor of New Jersey, 1857–1860; Governor of the Washington Territory, 1880–1884[266]

  • William Paca: Governor of Maryland, 1782–1785; Signatory to the Declaration of Independence, and appointed to the Continental Congress in 1774 and re-elected in 1779[267]

  • John M. Patton: Acting Governor of Virginia, 1841; great-grandfather of World War II General George S. Patton Jr.[268]

  • Samuel W. Pennypacker: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1903–07[citation needed]

  • Jesús T. Piñero: Governor of Puerto Rico, 1946–49[citation needed]

  • Ed Rendell: Governor of Pennsylvania, former Mayor of Philadelphia and former Democratic National Committee Chairman[citation needed]

  • Gove Saulsbury: Governor of Delaware, 1865–71[citation needed]

  • Hulett C. Smith: Governor of West Virginia[269]

  • Rexford Tugwell: Governor of Puerto Rico[citation needed]

  • Robert J. Walker: Governor of Kansas Territory, 1857[270]

  • Matthew E. Welsh: Governor of Indiana[citation needed]

  • James Wilkinson: first Governor of the Louisiana Territory[271]
State legislators[edit]

City government[edit]


Mayors[edit]

  • Bob Anspach: Mayor of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 2002–2008

  • Edward Bader: Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1920–29

  • Ralph Becker Jr.: Mayor of Salt Lake City, 2008–2015

  • John S. Brenner: Mayor of York, Pennsylvania, 2002–2010

  • Charles Browne: Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, 1914–23

  • Joseph M. Carey: Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1881–85

  • John B. Chase: Mayor of Oconto, Wisconsin

  • Joseph S. Clark: Mayor of Philadelphia, 1952–1956

  • Donald S. Coburn: Mayor of Livingston, New Jersey, 1977–78

  • Elisha C. Dick: Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia 1804–05

  • Stephen Dilts: Mayor of Hampton, New Jersey

  • Walter Drumheller: first Mayor of Sunbury, Pennsylvania

  • Shirley Franklin: Mayor of Atlanta, 2002–10

  • Wilson Goode: first African-American Mayor of Philadelphia, 1984–92

  • Oscar Goodman: Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, 1999–2011

  • Robert M. Gordon: Mayor of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, 1988–91

  • Joseph J. Grillo: Mayor of Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1952–53

  • Henry Winfield Haldeman: Mayor of Girard, Kansas, 1895–99

  • John E. Hamm: Mayor of Zanesville, Ohio, 1815

  • George Hewston: Mayor of San Francisco, 1875

  • George Janeway: Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1869–71

  • Michael Keppele: Mayor of Philadelphia, 1811–12

  • William Kerr: Mayor of Pittsburgh, 1845–47

  • William Carr Lane: first Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, 1823–29

  • Harry Arista Mackey: Mayor of Philadelphia, 1928–31

  • Josh Maxwell: Mayor of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, 2010-

  • Hannah McKinney: Mayor of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2005–07

  • Ryan McLemore: Mayor of Griffin, Georgia, 2014

  • Morton McMichael: Mayor of Philadelphia, 1866–69

  • Marc Morial: Mayor of New Orleans, 1994–2002; President of the United States Conference of Mayors, 2001–2002; President and CEO of the National Urban League, 2003–

  • Magnus Miller Murray: Mayor of Pittsburgh

  • Ron Nirenberg: Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, 2017-

  • Michael Nutter: Mayor of Philadelphia, 2007–16

  • Thomas R. Potts: first Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, 1850–51

  • Samuel Powel, Class of 1759: Mayor of Philadelphia and Speaker of the Pennsylvania Senate

  • Ed Rendell: Mayor of Philadelphia, 1992–99

  • Felix Robertson: Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, 1818–19, 1827–29

  • Alan Schlesinger: Mayor of Derby, Connecticut, 1994–97

  • Edward J. Stack: Mayor of Pompano Beach, Florida, 1965–69

  • Walton Danforth Stowell: Mayor of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, 1995–2001

  • Nao Takasugi: Mayor of Oxnard, California, 1982–92

  • J. Parnell Thomas: Mayor of Allendale, New Jersey 1926–30

  • Victor Yarnell: Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania, 1968–72

  • Francisco Zayas Seijo: Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, 2004–08

Other U.S. state and local officials[edit]


  • Andrew Allen, Class of 1759: Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and member of the Continental Congress; later attained of treason for his Tory sympathies

  • Harvey Bartle III: Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1909–27)

  • Michael M. Baylson: Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

  • Edward Roy Becker: former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

  • John C. Bell Jr.: former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1961–1972), and Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1950–1972)

  • Edwin North Benson: Class of 1859: President, United States Electoral College

  • Marshall Jordan Breger: member of the first board of the Legal Services Corporation, appointed by President Gerald Ford (1975–78)

  • William J. Brennan: Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1951–56)

  • Beau Biden: Attorney General of Delaware (2007–15)

  • William Bradford: Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1791–94), and Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1780–91); attended Penn for three years before graduating from Princeton University

  • Raymond Broderick: Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1967–71)

  • Peter Brown: at-large Houston City Council member

  • Robert Butkin: State Treasurer of Oklahoma (1995–2005)

  • David Byerman: Secretary of the Nevada Senate (2010– )

  • James C. Cacheris: Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

  • James Cannon, Class of 1767: Scottish-born American mathematician; one of the principal draftsmen of the State of Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776; often described as the most democratic in America

  • Joseph M. Carey: Attorney General of Wyoming (1869–71); Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court (1871–1876)

  • Mary Pat Clarke: first woman President of the Baltimore City Council

  • Bill Cobey: Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party (1999–2003)

  • Herbert B. Cohen: former Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

  • James Harry Covington: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (1914–18)

  • Margaret E. Curran: United States Attorney of Rhode Island (1998–2003)

  • Andre M. Davis: Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2009– )

  • John Morgan Davis: Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1959–63)

  • Stephen Dilts: Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation

  • Charles Djou: member of the Honolulu City Council

  • Susan J. Dlott: Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1995– )

  • Paula Dow: New Jersey Attorney General (2010– )

  • Josiah E. DuBois Jr.: U.S. State Department official highly instrumental in Holocaust rescue

  • Norman Eddy: Secretary of State of Indiana (1870–72)

  • Thomas J. Ellis: County Commissioner of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

  • Lucius Elmer: former Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Attorney General of New Jersey

  • Arthur J. England Jr.: Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (1978–80)

  • Jack Evans: member of the Council of the District of Columbia representing Ward 2 (1991– )

  • Mark Farrell: member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 2 (2011– )

  • James A. Finnegan: President of the Philadelphia City Council (1951–55)

  • F. Emmett Fitzpatrick: Attorney General of Philadelphia (1974–78)

  • Ed Flanagan: member of the Vermont Senate (2005–2011)

  • Daniel Garodnick: New York City Council member (2006– )

  • Gerald Garson: New York Supreme Court Justice (1998–2003); convicted in 2007 of accepting bribes

  • Gary Gensler: Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (2009– )

  • Robert Gleason Jr.: Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania

  • Jonathan L. Goldstein: United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1974–77)

  • W. Wilson Goode Jr.: City Councilman At-Large in Philadelphia (1999– )

  • Robert M. Gordon: Democratic member of the New Jersey Senate (2008– )

  • Ronald M. Gould: Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

  • George Scott Graham: District Attorney for Philadelphia County (1880–1899)

  • David A. Gross: U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs

  • Helen Gym: Philadelphia City councilperson (2016– )

  • James S. Halpern: Judge, United States Tax Court (1990– )

  • Randy J. Holland: Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1986– )

  • James Hutchinson, Class of 1774: Surgeon General of Pennsylvania (1778–84)

  • Scott Hutchinson: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

  • William F. Hyland: Attorney General of New Jersey

  • Melissa Jackson: New York City Criminal Court Judge and New York State Acting Supreme Court Justice

  • Abdul Kallon: Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

  • Harry Ellis Kalodner: Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1946–77)

  • Mike Kaplowitz: Vice Chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators in New York

  • Virginia Knauer: first woman elected to the Philadelphia City Council

  • John C. Knox: Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1948–55)

  • Peter B. Krauser: Chief Judge on the Court of Special Appeals for the state of Maryland, and past Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party

  • Phyllis A. Kravitch: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

  • Stephen P. Lamb: Judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery

  • Tulio Larrínaga: Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico (1904–11)

  • Daniel J. Layton: Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1933–45), and Attorney General of Delaware (1932–33)

  • Paul Conway Leahy: Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1948–57)

  • James Russell Leech: Judge, United States Tax Court (1932–52)

  • Joseph Simon Lord III: Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1971–82)

  • Alan David Lourie: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  • Alfred Leopold Luongo: Chief Judge] of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1982–86)

  • Frederica Massiah-Jackson: President Judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (2000–06)

  • Robert Marion: Justice of the Peace for Charleston, South Carolina

  • Robert McCord: Treasurer of Pennsylvania (2009– )

  • John G. McCullough: Attorney General of California during the American Civil War

  • William M. Meredith: Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1861–67); President of the Philadelphia City Council (1834–49)

  • Sybil Moses: prosecutor of the "Dr. X" Mario Jascalevich murder case; New Jersey Superior Court judge[272]

  • Eva Moskowitz: New York City Council member (1999–2005)

  • Howard G. Munson: Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (1980–88)

  • John W. Murphy: Judge and Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (1946–62)

  • Robert N. C. Nix Jr.: former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1984–1996), he was the first African-American Chief Justice of any state's highest court; Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1971–1984)

  • David Norcross: past Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee

  • Rai Okamoto: architect and Director of Planning for the City and County of San Francisco (1975–80)

  • William Paca: Chief Justice of Maryland (1788–90)

  • Richard Peters Jr., Class of 1761: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–83; Commissioner for the Board of War for the Continental Army; Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; served in the Pennsylvania Senate; appointed by George Washington as judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1815–1828)

  • Deborah T. Poritz: Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1996–2006)

  • Gene E.K. Pratter: Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

  • John Robert Procter: President of the United States Civil Service Commission (1893–1903)

  • Karl Racine: Attorney General of the District of Columbia (2015– )

  • Pedro Ramos: Managing Director for the City of Philadelphia; former City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia; former Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania

  • Arthur Raymond Randolph: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

  • Walter N. Read: Chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (1982–89)

  • William Bradford Reed: Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1838)

  • Marjorie Rendell: Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1994–97), and for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1997– )

  • Grover C. Richman Jr.: New Jersey Attorney General (1954–58)

  • Laurie O. Robinson: Assistant Attorney General; U.S. Department of Justice (1994–2000) (2009– )

  • Paul Hitch Roney: Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1986–89)

  • Albert Rosenblatt: Judge on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York state (1998–2006)

  • Rod J. Rosenstein: United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2005– )

  • David Samson: former Attorney General of New Jersey

  • David M. Satz Jr.: U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1961–69)

  • Michelle Schimel: Democratic member of the New York State Assembly (2007– )

  • Bradley Schlozman: former head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice

  • William A. Schnader: Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1930–34)

  • Murray Merle Schwartz: Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1985–89)

  • Jonathan Sergeant, Class of 1763: Attorney General of Pennsylvania; member of the Continental Congress; framer of the New Jersey Constitution

  • George Sharswood: former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law

  • William E. Simkin: past Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, appointed by John F. Kennedy

  • Edward Skyler: Deputy Mayor for Operations for New York City

  • Dolores Sloviter: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

  • Jonathan R. Steinberg: former Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

  • Horace Stern: Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1952–56)

  • Leo E. Strine Jr.: Judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery

  • Richard B. Teitelman: Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court (2011– )

  • Martin Russell Thayer: President Judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (1874–96)

  • Barbara Thomas: former member of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; current Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority

  • Joseph Whitaker Thompson: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1931–46)

  • William Tilghman: Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1805–27); attended Penn but did not earn a degree

  • Alex Wan: member of the Atlanta City Council (2010– )

  • Henry Galbraith Ward: Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1907–24)

  • Joseph R. West: President of the Board of Commissioners of Washington, D.C. (1882–83)

  • Scott Wilson: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1929–43)

  • George Washington Woodruff: former Attorney General of Pennsylvania

  • Hubert Work: Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1928–29)

Foreign prime ministers, presidents, vice presidents and other heads of state[edit]


  • Nnamdi Azikiwe: first President of Nigeria, 1963–66 [273]

  • Ernesto P. Balladares: President of Panama, 1994–99

  • Boediono: Vice President of The Republic of Indonesia, 2009–14

  • Toomas Hendrik Ilves: Fourth president of Estonia, 2006–16

  • Kwame Nkrumah: first President of Ghana, and previously first Prime Minister of Ghana

  • Emilio Núñez: Vice President of Cuba, 1917–22

  • Alassane D. Ouattara: President of Côte d'Ivoire 2011–, Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire, 1990–93

  • Cesar Virata: Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1981–86

  • William Walker: President of the Republic of Nicaragua, 1856–7

Other foreign officials[edit]


  • Anggito Abimanyu, former Head of Board of Fiscal Policy, Ministry of Finance The Republic of Indonesia

  • Yoginder K Alagh: Past Union Minister of the Government of India

  • John William Ashe: President of the United Nations General Assembly at its 68th session

  • Zeti Akhtar Aziz: Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia

  • Douglas Alexander: British member of Parliament, and Secretary of State for International Development

  • David Campbell Bannerman: member of the European Parliament for East of England (2009– )

  • Suchan Chae: former member of the National Assembly of Korea

  • Luis Donaldo Colosio: Mexican politician and PRI presidential candidate assassinated while on the campaign trail

  • Raymond Ch'ien Kuo Fung: member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, 1992–2002; non-executive Chairman, MTR Corporation Limited, 2003–present; Chairman, Hang Seng Bank (2007– )

  • Donald Duke: Governor of Cross River State, Nigeria (1999–2007)

  • Ron Dermer: 18th Israeli Ambassador to the United States (2013– )

  • Pridiyathorn Devakula: Governor, Bank of Thailand, and former Minister of Finance

  • Aziz Dweik: Speaker of the Palestinian National Authority

  • John Wallace de Beque Farris: Canadian politician and member of the Senate of Canada (1937–70) and Attorney General of Vancouver (1917–20)

  • Farouk El Okdah: Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (2003– )

  • Roy Ferguson: New Zealand Ambassador to the United States

  • Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape: Mexican Secretary of Economy under President Felipe Calderón

  • Alfonso Prat Gay: former President of the Central Bank of Argentina (2002–2004); former Minister of Economy of Argentina (2015–2016)

  • Irving Gerstein: conservative member of the Senate of Canada (2009– )

  • Umar Ahmad Ghuman: Pakistan's x-Minister of State for Privatization & Investment

  • Stefán Jón Hafstein: Icelandic writer and statesman

  • Hamid Yar Hiraj: Pakistan's x-Minister of State for Commerce

  • George Hollingbery: British Member of Parliament (MP) (2010– )

  • Ron Huldai: Mayor of Tel Aviv (1998–)

  • Ahsan Iqbal: past Federal Minister for Education for Pakistan

  • Peter Jacobson: Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (2002– )

  • Philip Jaisohn: prominent figure in Korean independence movement; first Korean to become a naturalized U.S. citizen

  • Edward Jenkin: Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Great Britain; Agent-General of Canada

  • Cardozo M. Luna: 35th Vice Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines

  • Shen Lyu-shun: Republic of China representative to the U.S.

  • Ferdinand Marcos Jr.: Senator from the Philippines

  • Yvonne Mokgoro: Judge for the Constitutional Court of South Africa

  • Simón Gaviria Muñoz: President of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia (2011– )

  • Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover: British politician in the House of Lords

  • Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth: British member of the House of Lords (1998– )

  • Emilio Núñez: Vice President of Cuba (1917–21); former Cuban Minister of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor; general in Cuban Liberation Army; Civil Governor of the Province of Havana (1899–1902)

  • Paulo T.A. Paiva: former Minister of Labor and Economic Planning of Brazil (1994–99); former Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank

  • Douglas Peters: member of the Canadian Parliament (1993–97)

  • Sachin Pilot: Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan state in India, former union goverment Minister (2009-2014) and Member of Parliament (2004-2014) from the Indian National Congress party

  • Ayala Procaccia: Justice of the Israel Supreme Court

  • C. Rangarajan: Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1992–1997), Governor of Andhra Pradesh (1997–2003), additional Governor of Orissa (1998–1999), additional Governor of Tamil Nadu (2001–2002)

  • Taleb Rifai: Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization; past Minister of Information and Planning of Jordan; past Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of Jordan

  • Raul Roco: former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines

  • Mauricio Rodas: Mayor of Quito (2014–)[274]

  • Mar Roxas: Senator of the Philippines (2004– )

  • Nabil Shaath: Wharton alumnus, former deputy prime minister and information minister of the Palestinian National Authority; current Foreign Minister

  • Sicelo Shiceka: Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs under President Jacob Zuma in South Africa (2009– )

  • Alfredo Toro Hardy: former Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Chile and Ireland and current Ambassador to Singapore

  • Jayant Sinha: Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Indian government (2016 - ), former Minister of State for Finance (2014-2016)

  • Nona Tsotsoria: Judge at the European Court of Human Rights

  • Ignazio Visco: Governor of the Bank of Italy (2011– )

  • Sir Ronald Wilson: former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the nation

Lawyers, advisors and civil rights leaders[edit]


  • Sadie Tanner Alexander: first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D in the United States, to graduate from Penn Law, and to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar; civil rights activist; appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Harry S. Truman

  • Gloria Allred: lawyer, feminist

  • Morris Rex Bockius: Class of 1863; lawyer, led Morgan, Lewis & Bockius for 40 years, until his death in 1939.

  • Jasper Yeates Brinton: former U.S. Legal Advisor to Egypt, architect of the Egyptian court system and Justice of the Egyptian Supreme Court

  • Gilbert F. Casellas: General Counsel of the Air Force, 1993–1994; Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1994–1997

  • E. Wallace Chadwick: Chief Counsel to the United States Senate committee which investigated Senator Joseph R. McCarthy

  • James Harry Covington: co-founder of Covington & Burling, a firm with more than 600 lawyers

  • Stephen Cozen: co-founder of Cozen O'Connor, a firm with more than 530 lawyers

  • Henry Drinker: original name partner in Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, a firm with more than 650 lawyers

  • Russell Duane: co-founder of Duane Morris LLP, a firm with more than 650 lawyers

  • Howard Gittis: Ron Perelman's corporate attorney

  • Keith Gottfried: General Counsel for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 2005–2006

  • Josh Gottheimer: speechwriter for Bill Clinton, strategist, candidate for the United States House of Representatives[275]

  • Charlie Brady Hauser: African-American arrested and jailed for refusing to move to back of a Greyhound bus in 1947; the case was thrown out of court

  • Constance Horner, Class of 1964: member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights 1993–1998; public official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, independent director of Pfizer, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand[276]

  • Caroline Burnham Kilgore, 1838–1909: first woman to be admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

  • Martin Luther King Jr., 1950–51: primary figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s (took graduate courses, no degree)

  • E. Grey Lewis: General Counsel of the Navy, 1973–77

  • William Draper Lewis: founder and first Director of the American Law Institute

  • Martin Lipton: founder of U.S. law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz

  • Frank Luntz: Republican pollster and political strategist

  • Paul Steven Miller: disability rights expert; EEOC Commissioner; professor at the University of Washington School of Law; Special Assistant to the President

  • Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr. Class of 1864: co-founder of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, one of the world's largest firms, with over 2000 lawyers

  • John W. Nields Jr.: chief counsel for the House Committee which investigated the Iran-Contra scandal

  • Sheldon Oliensis: past President of the Legal Aid Society and the New York City Bar Association

  • Gbenga Oyebode: MFR; founding partner and Chairman of the Management Board of Aluko & Oyebode

  • Alice Paul: women's suffrage leader who led a successful campaign that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920

  • George Wharton Pepper: founder of Pepper Hamilton LLP, a firm with more than 500 lawyers

  • Steven P. Perskie: judge and politician

  • Irving Picard: trustee of assets seized by the court from Bernard Madoff

  • Benjamin Powell: General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

  • Eli Kirk Price II: founder, Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Edward Rawle: judge; founder of the New Orleans Public Schools and the first president of its board

  • Howard J. Rubenstein: public relations lawyer and executive

  • Henry S. Ruth Jr.: a lead prosecutor for the Watergate scandal

  • Cliff Schecter: political commentator

  • William A. Schnader: former Attorney General of Pennsylvania; co-founder of Schnader, Harrison, Segal and Lewis, a firm with more than 180 lawyers

  • Bernard Segal: former president of the American Bar Association

  • David Shrager: former president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America

  • Marietta Peabody Tree: U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights under President John F. Kennedy

  • George W. Wickersham: name partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the oldest continuously operated law firm in the U.S.; president of the Council on Foreign Relations (1933–36)

  • Maggie Williams: campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign

Medicine[edit]



  • David Hayes Agnew: Attended as operating surgeon when President James A. Garfield was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet in 1881

  • William Wallace Anderson: Medical doctor, and architect whose works in South Carolina attained National Historic Landmarks status; he was also the father of Confederate General Richard H. Anderson

  • John Light Atlee: an organizer and past President of the American Medical Association

  • Alice Bennett: physician; first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1880); first woman in Pennsylvania to direct a female division in a mental institution

  • John Milton Bernhisel: personal family physician to Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and a close friend of Brigham Young

  • Karin J. Blakemore: medical geneticist

  • Michael S. Brown: Nobel laureate and the 1985 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

  • Nathaniel Chapman: first President of the American Medical Association

  • William Holmes Crosby Jr.: a founding father of modern hematology

  • Samuel Gibson Dixon: expert in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis

  • Pliny Earle, Class of 1837: physician, psychiatrist, poet; a founder of the American Medical Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, and the New England Psychological Society

  • Gerald Edelman: Nobel laureate and founder and director of The Neurosciences Institute

  • Archibald Magill Fauntleroy: surgeon in the Confederate Army

  • Walter Freeman: lobotomist who performed nearly 3500 lobotomies in 23 states

  • A.Y.P. Garnett: President of the American Medical Association who served Jefferson Davis (as personal physician) and Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War

  • Isaac Hays: ophthalmologist; first treasurer of the American Medical Association

  • Albert Kligman: dermatologist who invented Retin-A, a popular acne medication

  • David E. Kuhl: developer of positron emission tomography, also known as PET scanning, a nuclear medicine imaging technique

  • Crawford Long: namesake of Emory University-operated Crawford Long Hospital in downtown Atlanta

  • Charles Delucena Meigs: pioneering leader in obstetrics

  • John Peter Mettauer: first plastic surgeon in the U.S.

  • Reuben D. Mussey: wrote the first definitive history of tobacco documenting its dangers (1835); President of the American Medical Association

  • Mehmet Oz: surgeon, author and TV host

  • Sidney Pestka: biochemist and geneticist; the "father of interferon"

  • Philip Syng Physick, Class of 1785: surgeon in post-colonial America; his patients included John Adams's daughter Dolley Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall, and President Andrew Jackson

  • Stanley B. Prusiner: Nobel laureate and the 1994 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

  • Sandra Saouaf: immunologist

  • Isaac Starr: cardiovascular researcher and the 1957 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

  • Alexander Hodgdon Stevens: second President of the American Medical Association

  • Alfred Stillé: the first Secretary, and later President of the American Medical Association

  • Edward Bright Vedder: U.S. Army physician and noted researcher of beriberi

  • Bert Vogelstein: cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University

  • George Bacon Wood: compiled first Dispensatory of the United States (1833); president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and American Medical Association

Military[edit]


Medal of Honor recipients[edit]


Air Force officials[edit]


  • Harris Hull: Decorated Brigadier General of the United States Air Force during World War II

  • George G. Lundberg: Brigadier General of the United States Air Force during World War II, and 1917 Economics graduate

  • David G. Young III: United States Air Force Brigadier General

Army officials[edit]


  • Joseph Barnes: Surgeon General of the United States Army during and after the American Civil War

  • Alexander Biddle: Union Army officer during the American Civil War who fought at the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Battle of Gettysburg (under Abner Doubleday) and the Battle of Bristoe Station; later he served as a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society

  • Jacob Brown: Commanding General of the United States Army, 1821–28; also Major General and hero of the War of 1812

  • Charles C. Byrne: United States Army Brigadier General

  • Samuel W. Crawford: American Civil War Major General and one of only two officers to attain the rank of general and serve at both Fort Sumter and Appomattox

  • Rolv Enge: Decorated Norwegian resistance movement member from World War II

  • Archibald Magill Fauntleroy: Surgeon in the Confederate Army

  • Clement Finley: 10th Surgeon General of the United States Army

  • George Izard: General in the United States Army during the War of 1812

  • David Jackson, Class of 1768: Surgeon in the Continental Army and delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1785

  • George B. McClellan: Major General during the American Civil War

  • Montgomery C. Meigs: Quartermaster General of the United States Army with the rank of brigadier general during the American Civil War, he attended Penn and then graduated from the United States Military Academy

  • Thomas Mifflin: major general in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War; President of the Continental Congress; first Governor of Pennsylvania

  • James St. Clair Morton: Union Army brigadier general who built the Civil War's largest fort, Fortress Rosencrans in Tennessee

  • Presley Neville: aide-de-camp to Major General Marquis de Lafayette during the American Revolutionary War

  • Robert Maitland O'Reilly: 20th Surgeon General of the United States Army

  • Tench Tilghman, Class of 1761: Lieutenant Colonel and longest-serving aide-de-camp to General George Washington of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War; Washington wrote about him: "...none could have felt his death with more regard than I did, because no one entertained a higher opinion of his worth".

  • James Tilton: first titled Surgeon General of the United States Army; served in that capacity during the War of 1812

  • Anthony Wayne: United States Army general during the American Revolutionary War; namesake of many towns, cities and counties across the United States; attended Penn but did not earn a degree

  • William H. Winder: Inspector General of the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, later court-martialed and then acquitted

  • Isaac J. Wistar: Brigadier General of the Union Army during the American Civil War and founder of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia

  • Dick Zeiner-Henriksen: highly decorated Norwegian resistance movement member from World War II

Coast Guard officials[edit]


Marine Corps officials[edit]


Merchant Marine officials[edit]


Navy officials[edit]


Philosophy, theology, and religion[edit]


  • Clive Orminston Abdulah: Episcopal Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago

  • David Werner Amram: early American Zionist

  • Reverend John Andrews D.D.: minister, professor and provost of the University of Pennsylvania

  • Marla Rosenfeld Barugel: one of the first two female hazzans (also called cantors) ordained in Conservative Judaism

  • Frederic Mayer Bird, Class of 1857: clergyman, educator, and hymnologist.

  • Kirbyjon Caldwell: pastor of the Windsor Village United Methodist Church, a 14,000-member megachurch in Houston, Texas; delivered the official benediction at the 2001 and 2005 inaugurations of President George W. Bush, and officiated at the wedding of his daughter, Jenna Bush

  • John Nicholson Campbell: Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives (1820–21)

  • Thomas Clinton: religious leader instrumental in the formation of the US Presbyterian Church

  • Rev. William Creighton DD, Class of 1931, Former Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C. and a Navy Chaplain during World War II. Participated in the funeral procession of President John F. Kennedy[277][278]

  • Thomas Frederick Davies Sr., Class of 1871: third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan (1889–1905)

  • Jacob Duché, Class of 1757: first Chaplain to the Continental Congress

  • George Duffield: early Presbyterian minister and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan

  • James A. Flaherty: Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus (1909–27)

  • Joan Friedman: 1st woman to serve as a rabbi in Canada in 1980

  • Jeannine Gramick: Roman Catholic nun, and a co-founder of the activist organization New Ways Ministry

  • Dmitry Grigorieff: Dean emeritus of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, DC

  • Elwood Lindsay Haines: Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Iowa (1944–49)

  • William Hobart Hare: Bishop of the Episcopal Church, elected in 1872

  • John Henry Hobart: third Episcopal Bishop of New York (1816–1830)

  • Malcolm Hoenlein: executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

  • Naamah Kelman: 1st woman in Israel to become a rabbi

  • Gottlob Frederick Krotel: President of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, 1870; founder of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City

  • Samuel Magaw, Class of 1757 and 1760: Anglican priest and missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

  • James J. Martin: Jesuit priest, writer and Culture Editor of the Jesuit magazine America

  • William Augustus Muhlenberg, Class of 1815 and 1818: clergyman; founded the infirmary which became St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City; later Superintendent and Chaplain of the institution

  • James De Wolf Perry: Episcopal clergyman and prelate; 7th Bishop of Rhode Island (1911–1946); 18th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1930–1937)

  • Ellis T. Rasmussen: Mormon scholar, missionary and Dean of Religious Instruction at Brigham Young University

  • Robert Knight Rudolph: Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia

  • Sundar J.M. Brown: Founder, IntelliGen Consulting Group, leading scholar of Theoterrorism and Religious Terrorism, U.S. Department of State Intelligence Contractor

  • Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, Class of 1883: Lutheran minister, educator, author and Church theologian; President of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America (1903–20)

  • John George Schmucker: co-founder of the General Synod of the Lutheran Church in the United States

  • Francis B. Schulte: prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Wheeling–Charleston, West Virginia from 1985 to 1988, and Archbishop of New Orleans, 1989–2001

  • William Bacon Stevens: fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania (1865–87)

  • Jacob Joseph Taubenhaus: founder of Hillel at Texas A & M University

  • Edward Thomson: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the United Methodist Church), elected in 1864

  • Philip Lindel Tsen: Anglican Bishop in China in the 19th century

  • William White: first and fourth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. (1789; 1795–1836); first Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania (1787–1836); second United States Senate Chaplain (1790)

Science and technology[edit]


  • Charles Conrad Abbott, Class of 1865: archaeologist and naturalist; assistant curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to which he presented more than 20,000 archaeological specimens

  • William Louis Abbott: ornithologist, namesake of numerous animal species

  • Robert Adams Jr.: Penn graduate, served as a botanist with Penn professor Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden while exploring the northwest corner of Wyoming; their efforts led directly to the founding of Yellowstone National Park, the first US national park

  • Christian Anfinsen: Nobel laureate, chemist, and past Guggenheim Fellow

  • William Baldwin, Class of 1807: scientist whose personal papers are included in the collection of the Harvard University Herbarium

  • Daniel Barringer: first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on Earth; namesake of the mile-wide Barringer Crater in Arizona

  • William Bartram: 18th- and 19th-century naturalist, attended Penn but did not earn a degree

  • Alfred P. Boller: bridge designer and structural engineer; Chief Engineer of Manhattan's elevated railroad track system, the first of its kind in the world

  • Gonzalo Castro de la Mata: Peruvian ecologist; promoter of free-market solutions to environmental issues; Chairman of the Inspection Panel of the World Bank since 2014

  • William Francis Channing, Class of 1844: co-inventor of the world's first electric municipal fire alarm system, whose principles remain essentially unchanged and form the basis of most public fire alarm systems

  • Jeffrey Chuan Chu: core member of the engineering team that designed the first American electronic computer, the ENIAC

  • Edward Drinker Cope: 19th-century paleontologist who made known as many as 1,000 new species of extinct vertebrata in his lifetime, including some of the oldest known mammals, and 56 species of dinosaur, including CamarasaurusAmphicoeliasand Coelophysis; most of his fossil collection is now with the American Museum of Natural History; his Philadelphia home is designated a National Historic Landmark

  • J. Presper Eckert: inventor of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC); designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC; National Medal of Science recipient

  • William Gambel: 19th-century naturalist who discovered several new species of flora and fauna, including Gambel's quail (Callipepla gambelii)mountain chickadee (Parus gambeli) and Nuttall's woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii)

  • Emil Grosswald: mathematician

  • Edward Guinan: co-discoverer of the planet Neptune's ring structure

  • Morton Heilig: cinematographer; inventor of the Sensorama device; "father of virtual reality"

  • George H. Heilmeier: engineer; inventor of the LCD; National Medal of Science laureate;inductee of the National Inventor's Hall of Fame

  • George Henry Horn: entomologist; was president of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia and of its successor, the American Entomological Society; his insect collections are now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University

  • Horace Jayne: zoologist and educator; dean of the college faculty of the Wistar Institute; trustee of Drexel University

  • J. Clarence Karcher:geophysicist and businessman who invented and commercialized the reflection seismograph, the means by which most of the world's oil reserves have been discovered

  • William H. Keating: 19th-century geologist, explorer, and Penn professor; co-founder of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

  • Christian J. Lambertsen: inventor of the U.S. Navy frogmen's rebreathers for underwater breathing, the first device to be called "SCUBA"[279]

  • Robert Lanza: Chief Scientific Officer of Advanced Cell Technology

  • Henry Carvill Lewis: geologist

  • John Peter Lesley: geologist; with fellow alumni John Fries Frazer and James C. Booth, participated in the first geological survey of Pennsylvania

  • John C. Lilly: researcher of consciousness; counterculture figure

  • Yueh-Lin Loo: chemical engineer

  • Ollie Luba: principal creator and lead designer at Lockheed Martin of the GPS III (Global Positioning System, Block IIIA)

  • Henry Chapman Mercer: archaeologist whose work and museum, the Mercer Museum, inspired Henry Ford to open his own museum, The Henry Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan

  • Robert Thomas Moore: namesake and benefactor of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology at Occidental College; past Chair of the Galápagos Commission of Ecuador and Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union

  • Ei-ichi Negishi: Nobel laureate and Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry at Purdue University

  • Mary Engle Pennington: pioneering bacteriologist, chemist and authority on refrigeration as a food preservative; Chief of the United States Department of Agriculture Food Research Laboratory; recipient of the Garvan–Olin Medal, the highest award given to women in the American Chemical Society; inductee of the National Women's Hall of Fame and the ASHRAE Hall of Fame

  • Frank Piasecki: inventor of one of the first helicopters; first to develop a tandem-rotor helicopter;received the country's highest technical honor, the National Medal of Technology, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Lifetime Achievement award

  • Fairman Rogers: civil engineer and charter member of the National Academy of Sciences

  • George E. Smith, Class of 1955: Nobel laureate and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device, the electronic eye of a digital camera

  • James Mourilyan Tanner: child development expert

  • Ralph Teetor: blind inventor of cruise control; member of the Automotive Hall of Fame

  • James Thomso: developmental biologist known for deriving the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998; member of the National Academy of Sciences

  • Ernest S. Tierkel: epidemiologist known as "Dr. Rabies" for his extensive work with the disease

  • Benjamin Chew Tilghman: inventor of the patented process known as sandblasting

  • James W. VanStone: anthropologist and past Chair of the Anthropology Department at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

  • Caspar Wistar, Class of 1782: Professor of Chemistry, Anatomy and Surgery at Penn; University Trustee; namesake of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia; President of the American Philosophical Society; President of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Pennsylvania Abolition Society)

  • Lightner Witmer: founder of clinical psychology; co-founder of the world's first psychological clinic in 1896 at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Jack Keil Wolf: computer scientist; member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Horatio C Wood Jr.: physician, professor, and member of the National Academy of Sciences

  • Samuel Washington Woodhouse: 19th-century explorer and naturalist

  • Nathaniel Wyeth: mechanical engineer, known for creating the recyclable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) semi-rigid beverage containers widely used for water and carbonated beverages today; member of the Society of the Plastics Hall of Fame; Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

  • H. C. Yarrow: 19th- and 20th-century ornithologist, naturalist and surgeon; Trustee of George Washington University

  • Roger Arliner Young: first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology

  • Ahmed H. Zewail: Nobel laureate; 1993 recipient of the Wolf Prize in chemistry; 1996 recipient of the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences

Other[edit]


  • Wharton Barker: Class of 1866: banker and publicist; financial advisor to the Russian government; 1900 Populist Party presidential candidate (receiving more than 50,000 votes)

  • Jean Chatzky: Award-winning journalist, financial expert, best-selling author and motivational speaker on NBC's Today Show

  • John Croghan: past owner of the world's longest cave, now dedicated as the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky

  • Edwin Feulner: President of the Heritage Foundation

  • Barbara Thomas Judge: Chairman of the Pension Protection Fund;[280] Chairman Emeritus of the UK Atomic Energy Authority; Business Ambassador for UK Trade and Investment[281]

  • Helene Gayle: CEO of CARE USA

  • Joel Henry Hildebrand: past President of the Sierra Club

  • Edward Hirsch: President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

  • Leicester Bodine Holland: architect and archaeologist

  • John Henry "Doc" Holliday, Dental School, class of 1872: Western gambler and gunfighter

  • Francis Hopkinson, Class of 1757: Founding Father and signatory to the Declaration of Independence; judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787; judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1789–1791; considered to have played a key role in the design of the first American flag, and is credited with writing the first secular American song

  • Jotham Johnson: past President of the Archaeological Institute of America

  • John A. Lafore Jr.: past President of the American Kennel Club

  • Francis Julius LeMoyne: creator of the first crematory in the United States; abolitionist; founder of Washington, Pennsylvania's first public library (Citizen's Library); benefactor to LeMoyne–Owen College in Tennessee; his family house was utilized as part of the Underground Railroad and still stands today as a museum near the campus of Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania

  • Patrick Murphy Malin: past Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union

  • Nathan Francis Mossell: founder of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP

  • Scott Nearing: 20th-century conservationist, peace activist, educator, writer and economist

  • John Nolen, Class of 1893: urban planner who designed and developed large-scale projects for dozens of American cities, including San Diego, Charlotte, North Carolina and Madison, Wisconsin

  • William Pepper: founder of Free Library of Philadelphia (the public library system of Philadelphia)

  • Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.: Reagan administration official; President of Economic Strategy Institute

  • Robert Empie Rogers: President of the Franklin Institute, 1875–79

  • Francis Alexander Shields: American aristocrat; father of actress Brooke Shields

  • Andy Stern: President, Service Employees International Union

  • Jack Thayer: 17-year-old first-class passenger on the RMS Titanic who provided several first-hand accounts of the disaster

  • Sir Henry Worth Thornton: President, Canadian National Railway; winning Vanderbilt University football coach 1894; knighted by King George V

  • Joseph M. Torsella: President and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia; Rhodes Scholar

  • Henry R. Towne: developer of the Yale lock; former President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

  • Charles Wall: Resident Director of George Washington's estate at Mount Vernon on the banks of the Potomac River (1937–1976)

Notorious[edit]


Fictional alumni[edit]


Nobel Laureates[edit]


Physics[edit]


  • George E. Smith: 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics
    • "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor."

  • Raymond Davis: 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics
    • for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos."

  • John Robert Schrieffer: 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics (first Penn faculty member to win)
    • for the "theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory."

  • Robert Hofstadter: 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics
    • "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons."

Chemistry[edit]


  • Ei-ichi Negishi: 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • for "palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis."

  • Irwin Rose: 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation."

  • Alan MacDiarmid: 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers."

  • Hideki Shirakawa: 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers."

  • Alan J. Heeger: 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers."

  • Ahmed H. Zewail: 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy."

  • Christian B. Anfinsen: 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation."

  • Vincent du Vigneaud: 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone."

Medicine[edit]


  • Harald zur Hausen: 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer."

  • Stanley B. Prusiner: 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for his discovery of Prions: a new biological principle of infection."

  • Michael S. Brown: 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • for his discovery "concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism."

  • Baruch Samuel Blumberg: 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases."

  • Gerald Edelman: 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • for the discovery "concerning the chemical structure of antibodies."

  • Haldan Keffer Hartline: 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • for the discovery "concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye."

  • Ragnar Granit: 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for describing the different types of light-sensitive cells in the eye and how light interacts with them."

  • Richard Kuhn: 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins."

  • Otto Fritz Meyerhof: 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle."

Economics[edit]


  • Thomas J. Sargent: 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy."

  • Oliver E. Williamson: 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm."

  • Edmund S. Phelps: 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy."

  • Edward C. Prescott: 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for his part in contributing to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."

  • Lawrence Robert Klein: 1980 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for the creation of economic models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies."

  • Simon Smith Kuznets: 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development."

See also[edit]


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