List of Temple University people

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This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of Temple University, a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Faculty[]

Russell Conwell
  • Russell Conwell – founder and first president of the university, author of Acres of Diamonds
  • Charles Ezra Beury – second president of the university
  • Robert Livingston Johnson – third president of the university
  • Millard E. Gladfelter – fourth president of the university
  • Paul R. Anderson – fifth president of the university
  • Marvin Wachman – sixth president of the university
  • Peter J. Liacouras – seventh president of the university
  • David Adamany – eighth president of the university
  • Ann Weaver Hart – ninth president of the university

Biology[]

  • Stephen Blair Hedges
  • Jody Hey
  • Masatoshi Nei

Communication[]

  • Joseph P. Folger

English[]

Samuel R. Delany
  • Samuel R. Delany – science fiction author
  • George W. Johnson – former chair of the Temple Department of English; later President of George Mason University (1979–1996)[1]
  • Thomas Kinsella – Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher; author of numerous volumes of poetry and a translation of the ancient Irish epic The Tain (Táin Bó Cúailnge); while at Temple, he developed a program for students to study in Ireland called "the Irish Experience"
  • Sonia Sanchez – poet

Film[]

  • Lauren Wolkstein

History[]

  • Richard H. Immerman
  • Alan McPherson
  • David Alan Rosenberg
  • Russell Weigley
  • Ralph F. Young

Law[]

  • Jim Drucker (born 1952/1953), former Commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, former Commissioner of the Arena Football League, and founder of NewKadia Comics
  • C. Darnell Jones II
  • David Kairys
  • David G. Post

Mathematics[]

John Allen Paulos
  • Emil Grosswald (1968–1980)
  • John Allen Paulos – author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

Music[]

  • Katherine Ciesinski
  • John Douglas – conductor and voice teacher; head of Temple's Opera Theatre program for two decades
  • Aaron Levinson – Grammy Award-winning producer and musician
  • Terell Stafford – Trumpet player

Philosophy[]

  • Lewis Gordon
  • Espen Hammer
  • Joseph Margolis
  • Jitendra Nath Mohanty, emeritus
  • Miriam Solomon – Professor of Philosophy

Psychology[]

  • Lauren Alloy
  • Laurence Steinberg
  • Joseph Wolpe – South African psychiatrist and founding figure in behavior therapy
  • Rinad Beidas

Religion[]

  • Ismail al-Faruqi
  • Michael Alexander
  • Edwin David Aponte
  • Leonard Swidler

Sociology[]

  • Annette Lareau

Sports[]

Other disciplines[]

  • Molefi Asante – scholar, known for popularizing and developing Afrocentricity
  • Emile B. De Sauzé – language educator known for developing the conversational method of learning a language
  • Happy Fernandez – politician
  • Mary Stuart Fisher - radiologist
  • John E. Fryer – psychiatrist and gay rights activist, also known as Dr. Henry Anonymous
  • Chevalier Jackson – pioneer physician in laryngology and endoscopy
  • Waldo Nelson – "father of pediatrics", longtime editor of The Journal of Pediatrics; author of Nelson Book of Pediatrics
  • Lucia V. Streng – chemist
  • Ann M. Valentine – chemist
  • Earl Bradley – pediatrician
  • Mark L. Nelson – chemist and inventor of Nuzyra, an antibiotic FDA approved in 2018

Alumni[]

Academia[]

Shirley M. Tilghman, President of Princeton University (Ph.D., biochemistry)
  • Rebecca Alpert – activist, Rabbi, and current chair of the religion department
  • Edwin David Aponte – author and educator, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Christianity & Culture at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis.
  • Leon Bass (Ph.D.) – educator
  • John Baugh – linguist known for developing theory of linguistic profiling, Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
  • David Bressoud (Ph.D) – mathematician, former professor at Pennsylvania State University, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College
  • Noam Chomsky – linguist and activist, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; as child attended Temple-run experimental Deweyite school, Oak Lane Day School
  • Linda Darling-Hammond – Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she launched the School Redesign Network
  • Miguel A. De La Torre – Associate Professor of Social Ethics; Director of the Justice and Peace Institute at the Iliff School of Theology; author of several books concerning the marginalized
  • Angelo DiGeorge – physician and known for discovery of autoimmune disorder referred to as DiGeorge syndrome. Also, see Temple University School of Medicine, Notable Alumni and Pioneers
  • David Drasin – mathematician, specializing in function theory.
  • John Esposito – scholar of Middle East and Islamic studies, professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University
  • Louis Filler- eminent professor of American Studies.
  • Ben Goertzel – Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC
  • Stephen G. Haines – organizational theorist and management consultant
  • Thomas Anthony Harris – psychiatrist and author of I'm OK, You're OK
  • Nathan Katz – former professor at Williams College, current Florida International University professor and expert on Jewish communities in India
  • Donald Kraybill – foremost expert on Amish
  • Bill Mensch – computer scientist, founder, chairman and CEO of Western Design Center
  • Robert K. Merton – sociologist, former professor at Columbia University and Harvard University, former Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Tulane University
  • JoAnne Robbins – noted authority on dysphagia, professor at University of Wisconsin
  • Stephen Sheehi – Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, College of William and Mary; author of Foundations of Modern Arab Identity (University Press of Florida, 2004), Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims (Clarity Press, 2011), and Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography 1860–1910, (Princeton University Press, 2016).
  • Shirley M. Tilghman – former professor and President of Princeton University
  • Martin A. Pomerantz – physicist, astronomer, Director of Bartol Research Institute, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal and National Science Foundation's Distinguished Public Servant Award recipient
  • Alan Wolfe – political scientist and sociologist on the faculty of Boston College who serves as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies,[2] "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".

Art[]

  • Laura Marie Greenwood – painter
  • Trenton Doyle Hancock – artist
  • Andrew Hussie – webcomic artist
  • Simmie Knox – presidential portrait painter (Clinton)
  • Nicholas Muellner – photographer and writer
  • Ralph Rucci – designer
  • Paula Scher – designer
  • Sarai Sherman – artist
  • Aaron Shikler – presidential portrait painter
  • Jen Simmons – designer and web developer

Broadcasting[]

  • Al Alberts – singer, Philadelphia personality on WPVI-TV
  • Bob Brinker – financial talk radio host for Citadel Media
  • Tony Bruno – sports radio talk show host on ESPN, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Radio
  • Howard Bryant – senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine
  • Pat Callahan – host of This Week in Pro Football on 950 ESPN
  • Steve Capus – president, NBC News
  • John Clark – sports anchorman for NBC 10 news
  • Fritz Coleman – weather anchor, KNBC-TV news
  • Tracy Davidson – news presenter for NBC 10 news
  • Jerry Del Colliano – radio/TV broadcaster, digital media expert, USC professor, author
  • Vince DeMentri – anchorman for NBC 10 news
  • Ray Didinger – award-winning sports journalist, NFL Hall of Famer writer.
  • Diplo – DJ/producer
  • Nick Gillespie – author, journalist, editor at reason.com
  • Tamron Hall – MSNBC anchor
  • Marc Lamont Hill – academic, journalist, author, activist, and television personality, Our World with Black Enterprise and online HuffPost Live host, BET News correspondent and a CNN political commentator.
  • John Kincade – sports radio talk show host on ESPN Radio
  • Mark Levin – conservative author, lawyer, and radio talk show host on WABC
  • Marty Moss-Coane – host, daily WHYY-FM local public radio show Radio Times
  • Hiro Muramoto – Japanese cameraman for Reuters, killed while covering the 2010 Thai political protests
  • Kevin Negandhi – ESPN anchor
  • Ronn Owens – radio talk show host
  • Ed Sciaky – disc jockey
  • Gene Shay – disc jockey
  • Terry Smith – broadcaster, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
  • Charles A. Williams III - writer and broadcaster
  • Marc Zumoff – sportscaster, Comcast Sportsnet, Philadelphia 76ers

Business[]

Film, theatre, and television[]

  • Joseph Terry - Director (The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show)
  • Bill Cosby – actor, comedian
  • Keith Andes – actor
  • Darcy Antonellis – major film studio executive
  • Joe Augustyn – screenwriter, producer
  • David Brenner – standup comedian, actor, author, filmmaker
  • Richard Brooks – Academy Award-winning Hollywood filmmaker
  • Cody Calafiore – model, actor, runner up of Big Brother 16, winner of Big Brother 22
  • Nicholas P. Dallis – soap comic writer
  • Norman Fell – comic actor best known for Three's Company (attended Theatre Dept. classes)
  • Jason Winston George – actor, Sunset Beach, Platinum
  • Johnny Ray Gill – actor, independent filmmaker (NBC's Harry's Law)
  • William Goldenberg – Academy Award-winning Hollywood film editor
  • Veronica Hamel – actress, known for playing Joyce Davenport on the television series Hill Street Blues.
  • Lois Hamilton – actress
  • Tim Heidecker – comedian and co-creator of Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
  • Tigre Hill – film director/producer
  • Saba Homayoon – actress
  • Irvin Kershner – film director, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  • Bruce Mailman – theatre producer and founder of The Saint
  • William Marchant – playwright and screenwriter
  • Adam McKay – Emmy-nominated director of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), and Step Brothers (2008), Academy award-winning writer of The Big Short
  • Mary Lou Metzger – singer, dancer The Lawrence Welk Show
  • Kunal Nayyar – actor, plays Raj on CBS's Big Bang Theory
  • Robert Prosky – actor
  • Da'Vine Joy Randolph – Tony Award-nominated actress for Ghost the Musical
  • Herbert Rudley – actor
  • Bob Saget – comedian, game show host, Full House
  • Michael Schoeffling – actor who played Jake Ryan in 1980s film Sixteen Candles
  • Peter Shub – actor, clown, and circus producer
  • Svetlana Shusterman – from MTV's The Real World Key West
  • James Riordan – actor, Broadway, Television and Film actor
  • Tom Sizemore – actor
  • Hugh Panaro – actor, Broadway
  • Paul F. Tompkins – actor, comedian
  • Dan Trachtenberg – film director of 10 Cloverfield Lane, and co-host The Totally Rad Show
  • Eric Wareheim – comedian and co-creator of Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
  • Patricia Wettig – Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actress, thirtysomething, Brothers & Sisters, Prison Break
  • Jesse Williams – actor (Grey's Anatomy)
  • Danny Woodburn – actor (Mickey on Seinfeld)
  • Colman Domingo – actor on Fear the Walking Dead

Government[]

Nikoloz Gilauri, Prime Minister of Georgia (business)
John F. Street, Mayor of Philadelphia (law)
  • Mari Carmen Aponte – U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
  • Edward J. Bonin – Republican U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania
  • Frederick C. Branch – first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer
  • Horace J. Bryant – first African American to serve in a State Cabinet position in New Jersey
  • Jamira Burley – Municipal leader, national campaign deputy director
  • Michael E. Busch – Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
  • Jim Cawley – Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania
  • Robert Coughlin – longstanding Republican Pennsylvania representative to United States House of Representatives
  • Harold L. Ervin – judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
  • Edwin Duing Eshleman – former Republican congressman
  • Thomas M. Foglietta – U.S. Congressman and United States Ambassador to Italy
  • Vincent Fumo – Democratic Pennsylvania state senator
  • Tom Gannon – Pennsylvania State Representative for the 161st legislative district (1979–2006)
  • Nikoloz Gilauri – Prime Minister of Georgia
  • Joseph M. Gladeck, Jr. (B.S. 1972) – Pennsylvania State Representative 1979–2000.[2]
  • Camillo Gonsalves (BA in Journalism) – Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
  • Theo-Ben Gurirab – President of the United Nations General Assembly, 1999–2000; Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2005[3]
  • Stephen Hahn – Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
  • Joe Hoeffel – former Democratic congressman
  • Malcolm Hoenlein – executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations;[4] founding executive director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
  • Vincent Hughes – Pennsylvania state senator (Democrat)
  • Zambry Abdul Kadir – current Menteri Besar of Perak, Malaysia, from political party UMNO
  • Kathleen Kane – first woman Attorney General of Pennsylvania, also convicted of felony perjury[5]
  • Paul E. Kanjorski – U.S. Congressman, representing Pennsylvania's 11th district[6]
  • Guy Kratzer – Pennsylvania State Senator (1983-1986)
  • Jerome Kurtz – Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1977–1980)[7]
  • David See-Chai Lam OC, CVO, OBC, (林思齊) – 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, Canada
  • Joseph Lazarow – Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1976–1982[8]
  • Bryan Lentz – private attorney; former Pennsylvania State Representative for the 161st legislative district (2007–2010); Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district
  • Joseph Melrose – former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone, currently a professor at Ursinus College
  • Bernard T. Mittemeyer – lieutenant general and former Surgeon General of the United States Army.
  • Francis J. Myers – former U.S. Senator and congressman, Pennsylvania
  • R. K. Raghavan IPS – former Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, India
  • Pallam Raju – Former Cabinet Minister of India for Human Resources Development
  • Charles W. Sandman, Jr. – represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, 1967–1975; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1973[9]
  • Jim Saxton – U.S. Congressman representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district
  • Jacob Seidenberg - chairman of the Federal Services Impasses Panel
  • Martin J. Silverstein – United States Ambassador to Uruguay
  • John F. Street – former Mayor of Philadelphia
  • Nao Takasugi – California State Assembly
  • Johnny Young – U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia (2001-2004), U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain (1997-2001), U.S. Ambassador to Togo (1994-1997), U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone (1989-1992)[citation needed]

Literature[]

  • Sharmi Albrechtsen – author, blogger
  • Ben Bova – science fiction author
  • Frank Brookhouser – Journalist, columnist, and author.
  • Jim Callahan – retired football player and writer
  • Tony Campolo – author, pastor, and speaker
  • Anita Cornwell – author
  • Eric Corey Freed – architect, author, public speaker
  • Jeffrey Gitomer – author, speaker, business trainer
  • David Goodis – crime fiction writer
  • Helene Hanff – writer
  • Tom McHale – novelist
  • Ted Polhemus – writer, photographer, anthropologist
  • Jeffrey Robinson – author
  • William Gardner Smith – author and journalist
  • Jerry Spinelli – writer
  • Lamont B. Steptoe – poet, photographer, publisher
  • Tony Trov – science fiction writer
  • Johnny Zito – science fiction writer

Music[]

Daryl Hall and John Oates
  • Irving Berlin – honorary degree '54, songwriter
  • Rubén Colón Tarrats – orchestra director
  • Evelyn Simpson Curenton - composer
  • Diplo, born Thomas Wesley Pentz – DJ, producer, rapper, and songwriter
  • Alix Dobkin – singer/songwriter
  • Gilbere Forte – rapper
  • Joe Genaro – musician, guitarist and songwriter with the Dead Milkmen
  • Ariana Ghez – classic oboist
  • Julie Gold – songwriter, Grammy Award winner
  • Daryl Hall – musician
  • Marc-André Hamelin – pianist
  • Jared Hasselhoff – bassist in band The Bloodhound Gang
  • Mark Kramer – musician, producer-engineer, Mark Kramer Trio
  • Fred Mascherino – musician, Taking Back Sunday, Breaking Pangaea
  • Joe Masteroff – Tony Award-winning playwright
  • Bill McGlaughlin – composer, conductor, radio host of Exploring Music and Saint Paul Sunday
  • John Oates – musician
  • Eric Owens – opera singer
  • Billy Paul – Grammy Award winner and R&B singer, known for his number one single "Me and Mrs. Jones" and War of the Gods
  • James Poyser – Grammy Award winning keyboardist, songwriter, and producer
  • Fayette Pinkney – original member of The Three Degrees
  • Jimmy Pop – lead singer of The Bloodhound Gang
  • Jill Scott – R&B/soul artist
  • Allan Slutsky – Grammy Award-winning producer and musician
  • Jeffrey Solow – Grammy nominated classical cellist
  • Terell Stafford – professional jazz trumpet player
  • Tim – Korean ballad singer
  • Susan Werner – singer-songwriter

Other[]

Sports[]

Baseball[]

Football[]

Basketball[]

Other sports[]

Fictional alumni[]

  • Toby Flenderson – character in the television series The Office; has a degree in social work from Temple University

References[]

  1. ^ Shapiro, T. Rees (June 3, 2017). "George W. Johnson, college president who transformed GMU, dies at 88". Washington Post. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
  2. ^ "Joseph M. Gladeck, Jr. (Republican)". Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile. Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Archived from the original on March 7, 2000.
  3. ^ Liswaniso, Mwaka (July 18, 2014). "Theo-Ben Gurirab (1938 ...) An educator, politician and diplomat". New Era. p. 6.
  4. ^ "Mr. Malcolm Hoenlein, USA". Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  5. ^ "The Rise and Fall of Kathleen Kane". May 17, 2015.
  6. ^ "KANJORSKI, Paul E., (1937–)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
  7. ^ Langer, Emiy (January 11, 2015). "Jerome Kurtz, IRS commissioner under Carter, dies at 83". Washington Post. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  8. ^ Urgo, Jacqueline L. "Joseph Lazarow, 84, dies; helped bring casinos to A.C.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 5, 2008. Accessed January 5, 2008.
  9. ^ Charles William Sandman, Jr., Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 28, 2007.
  10. ^ "About Steven Levy".
  11. ^ [1]
  • James Hilty, Temple University: 125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Region and the World (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009).
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