List of University of Pennsylvania people

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This is a working list of notable faculty, alumni and scholars of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States.

Faculty[]

  • Benjamin Abella: professor of emergency medicine.
  • Herman Vandenburg Ames: professor of constitutional history
  • Francesca Russello Ammon: urban historian, assistant professor in the City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation Departments
  • Rev. John Andrews, D.D.: professor of moral philosophy and logic; 3rd vice provost; 4th provost
  • Edmund Bacon: adjunct professor of architecture
  • E. Digby Baltzell: emeritus professor of history and sociology; scholar and author; creator of the acronym "WASP"
  • Aaron T. Beck: emeritus professor of psychiatry; considered the father of both cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy[1][2]
  • Richard Beeman: John Walsh Centennial Professor of History; Fulbright Scholar
  • Janice R. Bellace: deputy provost and director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business
  • Charles Bernstein: Donald T. Regan Professor of English, prominent language poet
  • Mary Frances Berry: Geraldine Segal Professor of Social Thought; former chair US Civil Rights Commission
  • Ray Birdwhistell: professor, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Matt Blaze: associate professor of computer science
  • John Bowker: theologian
  • Eric Bradlow: K.P. Chao Professor, professor of marketing, statistics, education and economics
  • Ralph L. Brinster: Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology, creator of the transgenic mouse; National Medal of Science recipient
  • Lawton Burns: chairperson of the Health Care Management Department of The Wharton School; James Joo-Jin Kim Professor
  • Eugenio Calabi: Thomas A. Scott Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, known for his development of the Calabi–Yau manifold
  • Arthur Caplan: Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
  • Britton Chance: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics
  • Roger Chartier: professor of history; chair of history at the Collège de France; leading cultural historian
  • Pei-yuan Chia: senior fellow of the CSI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the Wharton School; former vice chairman of Citicorp and Citibank, current member of AIG's Board of Directors
  • Thomas Childers: Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History; author of numerous history publications and recipient of teaching awards
  • Wallace H. Clark Jr.: pathologist, cancer researcher
  • Mildred Cohn: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics and physical biochemistry
  • George Crumb: Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; Annenberg Professor of Music
  • Raymond Davis Jr.: National Medal of Science recipient; Nobel laureate; research professor of physics and astronomy
  • Emile B. De Sauzé: language educator known for developing the conversational method of learning a language
  • Frederick Dickinson: professor of Japanese history and co-director of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies
  • John DiIulio: Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: African-American literary figure, visiting scholar, 1896–1897
  • Gideon Dreyfuss: Isaac Norris Professor Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977) University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Class of 1937, MA and Ph.D., Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, anthropologist, philosopher, and natural science writer (such that Publishers Weekly referred to him as "the modern Thoreau" for broad scope of his writing reflected upon such topics as the mind of Sir Francis Bacon, the prehistoric origins of man, and the contributions of Charles Darwin)[3][4][5][6][7]
  • Frederick Erickson: educational anthropologist[8]
  • Warren Ewens: professor of biology; creator of Ewens's sampling formula
  • Peter Fader: Napster trial expert witness; Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing
  • Ann Farnsworth-Alvear: associate professor of History
  • Stubbins Ffirth: investigated yellow fever
  • Peter J. Freyd: professor of mathematics
  • Michael Fitts, an American legal scholar, was a former dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School for 14 years and is the current president of Tulane University[9] in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Judge Rene H. Himel Professor of Law at the Tulane School of Law.[10]
  • Stewart D. Friedman: practice professor of management at the Wharton School; founding director of the Wharton School's Leadership Program
  • Paul Fussell: emeritus professor of literature; National Book Award winner; cultural and literary historian
  • Celso-Ramón García: former William Shippen, Jr. Professor of Human Reproduction; helped to develop the combined oral contraceptive pill
  • George Gerbner: professor and dean, Annenberg School for Communication; founder of cultivation theory
  • Murray Gerstenhaber: professor of mathematics and lawyer; discoverer of Gerstenhaber algebra
  • Erving Goffman: professor of sociology; author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums
  • Paul Gyorgy: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of pediatrics, School of Medicine
  • Steven Hahn: Pulitzer Prize winner; Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History
  • David Harbater: Cole Prize recipient, known for solving the Abhyankar conjecture
  • Lothar Haselberger: professor of architectural history
  • Robin M. Hochstrasser: professor of chemistry
  • Kathleen Hall Jamieson: professor of communications, Annenberg School for Communications; author; media analyst
  • Daniel H. Janzen: professor of biology
  • Aravind Joshi: Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive science
  • Louis Kahn: architect; works include the Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban in Bangladesh and Jonas Salk Institute in California; professor of architecture
  • Elihu Katz: Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communications
  • E. Otis Kendall professor of mathematics, 1855–1894
  • Junhyong Kim: Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Endowed Professor of Biology
  • Alan Kors: National Humanities Medal recipient, free speech advocate; George Walker Professor of History
  • Bruce Kuklick: Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History
  • William Labov: professor of linguistics; founder of quantitative sociolinguistics
  • L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS: The Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery and Professor of Plastic Surgery at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Chair of Penn Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and its Director of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Program; Head of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric Hand Transplantation Program who performed the world’s first bilateral hand transplant for a child in 2015; Chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons[11]
  • Ian Lustick: Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science; author of Trapped in the War on Terror
  • Robert Litzenberger: professor emeritus at Wharton
  • Jerre Mangione novelist and scholar of the Italian-American experience
  • Mihailo Marković: professor of philosophy
  • E. Ann Matter: associate dean for Arts & Letters, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies
  • Walter A. McDougall: Pulitzer Prize winner; Alloy-Ansin Professor of History and International Relations
  • Olivia S. Mitchell: International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management; executive director of the Pension Research Council and Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
  • Irv Mondschein: track coach
  • Roy F. Nichols: Pulitzer Prize winner; professor of history
  • James J. O'Donnell: former vice provost for information systems and computing
  • Brendan O'Leary: Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
  • Burt Ovrut: professor of physics; pioneer of the heterotic string theory
  • Bob Perelman: professor of English; language poet
  • Samuel H. Preston: Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography; known for his development of the Preston curve
  • Hans Rademacher: Scott Chair, professor of mathematics; known for his theory of the reciprocity law for Dedekind sums
  • Jagmohan Raju: Joseph J. Aresty Professor of Marketing; known for his research on pricing
  • Robert A. Rescorla: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Psychology; co-creator of the Rescorla–Wagner model
  • Russell Burton Reynolds: US Army major general; assistant professor of military science and tactics
  • David Rittenhouse: professor of astronomy; vice provost; trustee
  • Rafael Robb: professor of economics
  • George Rochberg: Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and professor of Music
  • C. Brian Rose: James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology; President of the Archaeological Institute of America; known for co-directing the modern excavations at Troy
  • Philip Roth: Pulitzer Prize winner; professor of comparative literature & literary theory
  • Brian M. Salzberg: neuroscientist, biophysicist and professor
  • Florence B. Seibert: professor of biochemistry; winner of the Garvan–Olin Medal and member of the National Women's Hall of Fame
  • Martin E. P. Seligman: Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
  • Jeremy Siegel: Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance; financial news commentator
  • Rogers Smith: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
  • Peter Sterling: neuroscientist and co-founder of the oncept of allostasis
  • Thomas J. Sugrue: Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of History and Sociology
  • Babu Suthar: Gujarati Lecturer in South Asia Studies
  • Iosif Vitebskiy: Soviet/Ukrainian Olympic medalist and world champion épée fencer
  • Michael Vitez: Pulitzer Prize winner; professor of creative writing
  • Donald Voet: associate professor of chemistry and co-author of several biochemistry textbooks
  • Susan M. Wachter: Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate; co-director of Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR)
  • Thomas A. Wadden: Albert J. Stunkard Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
  • Arthur Waldron: Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History; Scholar of Asian and Chinese history, especially in respect to war and nationalism
  • Richard Wernick: Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; professor of Humanities
  • Howard Winklevoss: professor of actuarial science
  • Lightner Witmer: professor of psychology; inventor of the term clinical psychology
  • Tukufu Zuberi: Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations; professor of sociology

Academia[]

Further information: List of University of Pennsylvania academics

Arts, media, and entertainment[]

  • 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
  • Kabir Akhtar: Emmy Award-winning television editor and director
  • Elizabeth Alexander: poet who recited at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama
  • Maryanne Amacher: composer
  • Howard Arenstein: CBS News national correspondent
  • Ti-Grace Atkinson: author, feminist
  • Hannah August: press secretary for 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
  • Lucien Ballard: Academy Award-nominated cinematographer
  • 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 nee Peterson: (December 11, 1959 – August 2, 2011), Wharton School of Finance class of 1981, BS in Economics; wrote under the pen names of Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. A. Banks in various genres, including African-American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction; won several literary awards, including the 2008 Essence Literary Awards Storyteller of the Year[12][13]
  • 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
  • W. Kamau Bell (born January 26, 1973), American stand-up comic who has hosted the CNN series United Shades of America since 2016, and hosted FXX television series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell from 2012 to 2013
  • James Berardinelli: film critic
  • Candice Bergen: Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress, star of the sitcom Murphy Brown
  • Jed Bernstein: Tony Award-winning theater producer and current president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
  • 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: 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
  • Nkechi Okoro Carroll: television producer and writer
  • Lorene Cary: author, educator and social activist
  • Guymon Casady: Emmy Award-winning television producer for the HBO series Game of Thrones
  • Eduardo Catalano: architect
  • Rick Chertoff: music producer
  • Ryan Choi: 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 2 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 Journal, National Journal
  • John Drimmer: Emmy Award-winning television producer
  • Dayton Duncan: Emmy Award-winning non-fiction writer
  • Jennifer Egan: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist; National Book Award finalist
  • Thomas Harlan Ellett: architect who designed the Cosmopolitan Club in NYC and the United States Post Office-Bronx Central Annex
  • Sabrina Erdely: reporter known for the discredited Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus"[14]
  • 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
  • Robert Fan: architect who designed the Shanghai Concert Hall
  • Jessie Fauset: author and contributor to the Harlem Renaissance
  • Wendy Finerman: Academy Award-winning movie producer 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 Interest, a public policy quarterly magazine
  • Nikki Giovanni: poet and author; attended Penn but did not earn a degree
  • Stephen Glass: former reporter for The New Republic, author 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[15]
  • 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:University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine one of the twentieth century's most popular authors of Western novels and sport fishing
  • 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
  • Julie Diana: ballet dancer, ballet master, writer and arts administrator
  • 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, rapper, singer and songwriter
  • 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: (October 23, 1901 – December 2, 1972) Wharton School (class of 1923) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (class of 1926) alumnus who was a songwriter and bandleader who composed more than 250 songs including Collegiate (which was played by Chico Marx in the movie Horse Feathers), "The Gypsy in My Soul" (for the 50th anniversary of Mask and Wig show in 1937), "If I Had My Life to Live Over", "If You Are But a Dream", "Bell Bottom Trousers", and "I'm My Own Grandpa"
  • George Clarke Jenkins: Academy Award-winning production designer and three-time Tony Award nominee
  • John Jiller: playwright, novelist, and journalist
  • Amandus Johnson: founding curator of the American Swedish Historical Museum
  • Norton Juster: architect and writer for children, author of The Phantom Tollbooth
  • 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
  • Reem Kassis: author of The Palestinian Table; James Beard Award nominee and Guild of Food Writers winner
  • Duncan Kenworthy: producer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting 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 artist
  • Erik Larson (author) (College Class of 1973) journalist and author of nonfiction books who has written a number of bestsellers, including The Devil in the White City, about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a series of murders committed by H. H. Holmes around the time of the Exposition[16]
  • Elliot Lawrence: Tony Award-winning jazz pianist, composer and bandleader
  • William Harold Lee: architect
  • Gwyneth Leech: artist
  • John Legend (birth name John Stephens): rhythm and blues singer/songwriter; winner of Emmy, Grammy, Academy (Oscar), and Tony awards
  • 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 Columbo, Mannix, Ellery 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 US 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; Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and art history (1962),[17] master's degree in photojournalism at Annenberg School for Communication (1964)
  • 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 Angel, St. Elsewhere
  • Ryota Matsumoto: artist
  • 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
  • Barton Myers: architect
  • Naledge, born Jabari Evans: rapper, member of hip-hop group Kidz in the Hall
  • David Naughton: actor known for starring in the horror film An American Werewolf in London (1981)
  • Amna Nawaz: Emmy Award-winning American broadcast journalist
  • Morgan Neville: Academy Award and Grammy-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
  • Ashley Parker: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Washington Post
  • Maury Henry Biddle Paul: 20th century journalist who is credited with coining the term "Cafe′ Society"
  • 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: US and Canadian television host
  • Gina Philips: actress (attended, never graduated)
  • Marc Platt: film, television and theatre producer
  • Chaim Potok: author, The Chosen, The Promise, My Name Is Asher Lev, and 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: Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, West Side Story, The 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: Academy Award-nominated composer known as the "grandfather of film music"
  • Liza Redfield: first woman to be the full-time conductor of a Broadway pit orchestra
  • Beth Reinhard: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Washington Post
  • 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 Rosenthal: screenwriter, Mona Lisa Smile, Planet of the Apes, Mighty Joe Young
  • Anthony Russo: film and television director-producer, Arrested Development, Community, Marvel Cinematic Universe films[18]
  • 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, class of 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[19]
  • Michael Smerconish: radio host and political pundit
  • Yakov Smirnoff: comedian and painter
  • David Branson Smith: screenwriter of Ingrid Goes West
  • Jamil Smith (journalist): winner of 3 Sports Emmy Awards
  • Martin Cruz Smith: author of Gorky Park
  • 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
  • David Stone: Broadway producer, Wicked
  • 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[20]
  • 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 the 1970s TV series Emergency!
  • Ivanka Trump: fashion model; businesswoman; judge of NBC reality show The Apprentice 6; daughter of US president, real estate mogul, and Penn alumnus Donald Trump[21]
  • Marc Turtletaub: founder of Big Beach
  • Cenk Uygur: former MSNBC talk show host; radio talk show host, The Young Turks, Air 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 (originally Wemyes) (September 26, 26, 1901 – May 6, 1963) bandleader honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[22]
  • Helen L. Weiss, College for Women class of 1941, composer who died at age 28 and for whom the Helen L. Weiss Music Award is given out annually since 1964 to a student in Penn Department of Music[23]
  • 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[]

College football Hall of Famers[]

  • Reds Bagnell: Maxwell Award football halfback at Penn, and member of the College Football Hall of Fame[24]
  • Chuck Bednarik (1925 –2015), nicknamed "Concrete Charlie", class of 1949: played for Penn Quakers football as offensive center and defensive linebacker, as well as occasional punter, and was a three-time All-American who was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame; came in third in Heisman Trophy voting in 1948, and won the Maxwell Award that year;[25] drafted as first pick in 1949 by and played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1949 through 1962 and, upon retirement, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967; voted "The Greatest Center of All-Time"
  • George H. Brooke: member of the College Football Hall of Fame; played for Penn and Swarthmore College[26]
  • Charlie Gelbert: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[27]
  • 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)[28]
  • Bill Hollenback, Class of 1909, (February 22, 1886 – March 12, 1968) was an American football player and coach. He played football at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was selected as an All-American fullback three straight years, from 1906 to 1908.
  • Ed McGinley: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[29]
  • Leroy Mercer: member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the 1910 College Football All-America Team[30]
  • John Minds: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[31]
  • Skip Minisi: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[32]
  • Bob Odell: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[33]
  • Winchester Osgood: former Penn football player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame[34]
  • John H. Outland: University of Pennsylvania Medical School Class of 1900, namesake of Outland Trophy in college football[35]
  • George Savitsky: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame[36]
  • Hunter Scarlett: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[37]
  • Vince Stevenson: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[38]
  • Bob Torrey: member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
  • Charles Wharton: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[39]

    • Head coaches[]

    • 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)[40]
    • (Eugene Beauharnais) E. B. Beaumont, Jr.: first head coach in football at the University of Alabama[41]
    • Marty Brill: head coach in football at La Salle University and Loyola Marymount University[42]
    • Alfred E. Bull: head coach in football at the University of Iowa, Franklin & Marshall College, Georgetown University, Lafayette College, and Muhlenberg College[43]
    • Byron W. Dickson: head coach in football at Lehigh University[44]
    • Dexter Draper: head coach in football at the University of Texas (1909)[45]
    • James Dwyer: head coach in football at Louisiana State University and the University of Toledo[46]
    • George Flint: All-American basketball player and head coach in men's basketball at the University of Pittsburgh[47]
    • Bob Folwell: head coach in football at Lafayette College, Washington & Jefferson College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the United States Naval Academy; first head coach of the New York Giants[48]
    • Tom Gilmore: Head Coach in football at the College of the Holy Cross[49]
    • 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[50]
    • Dick Harter: head coach in men's basketball at the University of Oregon, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Pennsylvania[51]
    • 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)[28]
    • Bill Hollenback: member of the College Football Hall of Fame and head coach in football at Penn State (1909, 1911–14)[52]
    • 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[53]
    • Danny Hutchinson: head coach in football at Wesleyan University[54]
    • Roy Jackson: head coach in football at the University of Pittsburgh[citation needed]
    • Taylor Jenkins (born September 12, 1984) class of 2007: head coach for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association
    • Charles Keinath: head coach in basketball at Penn (1909–12)[55]
    • A. R. Kennedy: head coach in football at Washburn University (1903, 1916–1917) and the University of Kansas (1904–1910)[56]
    • Alden Knipe: head coach in football at the University of Iowa, 1898–1902[57]
    • Otis Lamson: member of the 1905 College Football All-America Team, and 1907 head coach in football at the University of North Carolina[58]
    • Matt Langel: head coach in men's basketball at Colgate University[59]
    • Dan Leibovitz: head coach in men's basketball at the University of Hartford[60]
    • George Levene: head coach in football at the University of Tennessee (1907–09)[61]
    • 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[62]
    • John Lyons: head coach in football at Dartmouth College[63]
    • Harry Arista Mackey: head coach in football at the University of Virginia[64]
    • 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)[65]
    • Fran McCaffery: head coach in basketball at Lehigh University, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Siena College and the University of Iowa[66]
    • Jack McCloskey, (class of 1948): head coach in men's basketball at Penn from 1966 to 1971 and then Wake Forest University[67] and Portland Trail Blazers, later general manager of the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves[68]
    • 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[69]
    • David Micahnik: Penn alumnus and fencing coach and member of the USFA Hall of Fame[70]
    • Allie Miller: head coach in football at Villanova University[71]
    • George Munger: member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)[72]
    • B. Russell Murphy: first head coach in basketball at Johns Hopkins University[73]
    • 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)[74]
    • Harry Parker: head coach in varsity rowing at Harvard University[75]
    • 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[76]
    • Frank Piekarski: head coach in football at Washington & Jefferson College, and member of the 1904 College Football All-America Team[77]
    • Jack Ramsay: head coach, Portland Trail Blazers and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame[78]
    • Charles Rogers: head coach in football at the University of Delaware[79]
    • Seth Roland: head coach in men's soccer at Fairleigh Dickinson University[80]
    • Michael Saxe: head coach in basketball at Villanova University from 1920 to 1926[81]
    • Frank Sexton: Major League Baseball player, and head coach in baseball at Brown University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan[82]
    • Kevin Stefanski: head coach for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League
    • Andy Smith: Penn alumnus and head 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)[83]
    • Andrew Toole: head coach in basketball at Robert Morris University[84]
    • Otto Wagonhurst: head coach in football at the University of Alabama in 1896 and at the University of Iowa in 1897[85]
    • Garfield Weede: head coach in football at Washburn University and Pittsburg State University; member of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, and dentist[86]
    • Doctor Weeks: first head coach in football at the University of Massachusetts Amherst[87]
    • Carl Sheldon Williams: College football coach; won national championships for Penn in both 1904 and 1907[88]
    • 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[89]
    • George Washington Woodruff: member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)[90]
    • Wylie G. Woodruff: head coach in football at the University of Kansas[91]

    NFL champions[]

    • Chuck Bednarik: Philadelphia Eagles linebacker and 1960 NFL champion; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame; namesake of the Chuck Bednarik Award in college football; recipient of the 2010 Walter Camp Distinguished American Award
    • George Washington Tuffy Conn (February 22, 1892 – August 2, 1973) Class of 1920: was a professional American football player who played in 1920 for the Cleveland Tigers and the Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed the National Football League in 1922) and won the first AFPA-NFL title that season with the Pros[92]
    • Jim Finn: NFL fullback and New York Giants Super Bowl XLII Champion[93]
    • Ernest Alexander Tex Hamer (October 4, 1901 – May 9, 1981) Class of 1923: 1926 NFL Champion playing for Frankford Yellow Jackets
    • Pard Pearce: 1921 NFL Champion playing for the Chicago Staleys (now the Chicago Bears)
    • Justin Watson (wide receiver): NFL wide receiver and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl LV Champion

    Olympic medalists[]

    The university currently holds the record (21) for most medals won by its alumni at any single Olympic Games (1900 Summer Olympic Games) and at least 41 different alumni have earned Olympic medals as detailed below.

    • Irving Baxter: (1876-1957) Penn Law class of 1901; competed in the 1900 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, where he won three silver and two gold medals; retired from competitive track and field without ever having lost a high jumping contest; admitted to the State Bar of New York, appointed special judge for City of Utica, New York, and U.S. Commissioner of the Northern District of New York[94]
    • Greg Best: winner of two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games
    • Andrew Byrnes: Canadian rower and winner of a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games
    • Bill Carr: winner of two gold medals at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games; member of the National Track & Field Hall of Fame
    • Nathaniel Cartmell: winner of four Olympic medals: two silver at the 1904 Summer Olympic Games, and a gold and a bronze at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games; first head coach in men's basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • Britton Chance, ForMemRS (1913–2010), Penn College class of 1935, B.A., M.A. 1936, and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry (1940) at the University of Pennsylvania winner of a gold medal in sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games retired as the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of biochemistry and biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine[95]
    • Frank Chapot: winner of two silver medals in equestrian, one at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games and another at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games; member of the United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame
    • Gene Clapp: winner of a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games
    • Meredith Colket: winner of a silver medal in the Pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games
    • Ellie Daniel, Class of 1974: winner of four Olympic medals: a gold, silver and bronze at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, and a bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games; member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
    • Anita DeFrantz, Penn Law Class of 1976: won bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games as part of women's eight-oared shell; was first woman and first African-American to represent the United States on the International Olympic Committee ("IOC" ) and was IOC's first female vice president, first woman on U.S. Olympic Committee; chair of the Commission on Women and Sports
    • Michalis Dorizas: winner of a silver medal (for Greece) at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games
    • Earl Eby: winner of a silver medal in track and field at the 1920 Summer Olympic Games
    • Susan Francia: winner of two gold medals: one at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and one at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in women's rowing; and two gold medals at the 2009 World Rowing Championships
    • Sarah Garner: winner of a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games and two gold medals at the World Rowing Championships (1997 and 1998)
    • James Gentle: winner of a bronze medal at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games; member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
    • Samuel Gerson: winner of a silver medal in wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympic Games
    • Truxtun Hare: winner of a silver medal at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games and a bronze medal at the 1904 Summer Olympic Games; charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame
    • L. Janusz Hooker: winner of a bronze medal (for Australia) at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games
    • Sarah Hughes, Penn Law class of 2018, (born 1985) a former American competitive figure skater who is the 2002 Winter Olympics Gold Medalist Champion and the 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies' singles[96]
    • Sid Jelinek: winner of a bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games
    • John B. Kelly Jr.: accomplished oarsman, four-time Olympian, and Olympic medallist at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games, 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 gold medallist at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games
    • Donald Lippincott: winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the 1912 Summer Olympic Games
    • Oliver MacDonald: winner of a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games
    • Hugh Matheson: winner of a silver medal (for Great Britain) at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games
    • Josiah McCracken: winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games; later Chief Resident Physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, one of the first public hospitals in the U.S.
    • Jack Medica: winner of a gold and two silver medals at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games; 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 Summer Olympic Games
    • Leslie Milne: winner of a bronze medal in women's field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
    • Ted Nash: winner of a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games and a bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in rowing
    • George Orton: winner of a gold and a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games; the debut 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 Summer Olympic Games; head coach in men's rowing at Yale University
    • Lisa Rohde: winner of a silver medal in rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
    • Charles Sheaffer: winner of a bronze medal at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games
    • Brandon Slay: winner of a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in freestyle wrestling
    • Erinn Smart: winner of a silver medal in fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games
    • Walter Staley: winner of a bronze medal in men's equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games
    • Julie Staver: winner of a bronze medal in women's field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
    • Phillip Stekl: winner of a silver medal in rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
    • Michael Storm: winner of a silver medal in the Modern Pentathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
    • John Baxter Taylor Jr.: debut African-American to win an gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games
    • Walter Tewksbury: winner of five medals at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games: two gold, two silver and a bronze

    Sports executives and owners[]

    • Steve Baumann: President of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
    • Bert Bell: former National Football League Commissioner from 1946 to 1959; co-founder of the Philadelphia Eagles; past co-owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers
    • Mel Bridgman: former National Hockey League player and General Manager of the Ottawa Senators
    • Clarence Clark, Class of 1878: first secretary of the United States Lawn Tennis Association; member of the Tennis Hall of Fame
    • Steven A. Cohen, Wharton School of Finance Class of 1978, owner of New York Mets
    • Joseph Dey: past Executive Director of the United States Golf Association; first Commissioner of the PGA Tour; namesake of the Joe Dey Award sponsored by the USGA; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
    • Eddie Einhorn: Vice Chairman of the Chicago White Sox
    • Otto Frenzel: co-owner and Treasurer of the Pittsburgh Penguins, 1975–77
    • Marvin Goldklang, minority owner of the New York Yankees
    • Austin Gunsel: Commissioner of the National Football League, 1959–60
    • Joshua Harris: principal owner of the Philadelphia 76ers
    • Ron Hines: co-founder of the Black American Racers Association
    • Ned Irish: President of the New York Knicks, 1946–74; enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
    • Lee Joannes: President of the Green Bay Packers, 1930-47
    • Red Kellett: former President of the Baltimore Colts
    • Craig Littlepage: Director of athletics at the University of Virginia
    • Jeff Luhnow: General Manager of the Houston Astros
    • Ed McCaskey: Past Chairman of the Chicago Bears
    • David Montgomery: part-owner, President, and CEO of the Philadelphia Phillies
    • Walter O'Malley: owner and chief executive of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers; member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
    • Carroll Rosenbloom: Penn football player; past owner of the Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts) and the Los Angeles Rams
    • Ed Stefanski: President and General Manager of the Philadelphia 76ers
    • Vernon Stouffer: former owner of the Cleveland Indians
    • Lud Wray: founder of the Philadelphia Eagles with fellow Penn alumnus Bert Bell; first Head Coach of the Boston Braves (now the Washington Redskins)

    Professional basketball players[]

    • Ernie Beck, class of 1953; selected by Philadelphia Warriors as the 2nd overall pick in the 1953 National Basketball Association draft (winning NBA championship in 1956),[97] played for the St. Louis Hawks (now Atlanta Hawks), and Syracuse Nationals (now known as Philadelphia 76ers)
    • Corky Calhoun, Class of 1972, was selected by Phoenix Suns as the 4th overall pick in the 1972 NBA Draft, played for four teams in nine seasons and won NBA championship title with the Portland Trail Blazers in 1977[97][98][99]
    • "Chink"[100][101] Francis Crossin (July 4, 1923 – January 10, 1981), Class of 1947, was selected by Philadelphia Warriors as the 6th overall pick in the 1947 Basketball Association of America (which a few years later merged into another professional league) Draft, played for the Warriors for three years and averaged a career-high 7.0 points per game in 1949–50,[97] named EBA Most Valuable Player in 1952[102]
    • Matt Maloney, Class of 1995, was not selected in the 1995 NBA draft but signed with the Houston Rockets, played six NBA seasons with the Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, and Chicago Bulls and, in 1997, was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team[97]
    • Bob Morse: class of 1972; played in Europe, named in 2008 as one of the 50 most influential personalities in European club basketball[103] played for Italian League club Pallacanestro Varese, also led the Italian League in scoring during six seasons[104]
    • Tony Price, class of 1979; selected by the Detroit Pistons as the overall 29th pick in the second round of the 1979 NBA Draft, played five games for the San Diego Clippers[97]
    • Zack Rosen: All-American basketball player, class of 2012; played professional basketball with Hapoel Holon,[105] Hapoel Jerusalem B.C., and Maccabi Ashdod B.C., each of which are part of the Israeli Basketball Super League,[106] and won the 3-point shootout in the Israeli Super League All Star Game in 2014 and 2015[107][108]
    • Jerry Simon: basketball player, class of 1990, American-Israeli, who after being captain of Penn basketball team played professional basketball in Israel for three teams in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, and for the Israel men's national basketball team[109][110][111][112][113][114][115]
    • Matthew White: basketball player, class of 1979, selected by Portland Trail Blazers, played professionally in the Liga ACB for several teams[116][117][118]

    Other athletes[]

    • Cliff Bayer: foil fencer, two-time Olympian, four-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, DDS University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, class of 1882, was one of the first to matriculate, in 1878 in the brand-new Department of Dentistry, and was first University of Pennsylvania graduate from any school at Penn to play in Major League baseball[119] and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn[120][119]
    • Tom Cahill (baseball) (1868–1894) Penn Med Class of 1893 but left in 1891 and did not graduate[121] played one season in Major League Baseball for the Louisville Colonels
    • Danny Cepero: first Major League Soccer goalkeeper to score a goal from open play
    • 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
    • Edward Stephen Doc Farrell (1901–1966) Penn class of 1924; 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 (April 17, 1863 – April 29, 1888) earned 728 strikeouts from 1884 to 1888 as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Quakers, now the Philadelphia Phillies; in 1931, he was rated as the fifth-best player to that point in baseball history[122]
    • Paul Friedberg: Olympic fencer, three-time NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games champion
    • Doug Glanville: University of Pennsylvania Engineering Class of 1992, with major in systems engineering;[123] one of only five Penn alumni to play in Major League Baseball since 1951, and the first African-American Ivy League graduate to play in the majors;[124] received the Outstanding Pro Prospect award in 1990;[125] New York Times op-ed columnist
    • William John Billy Goeckel (September 3, 1871 to November 1, 1922) Penn Law Class of 1895: played for Penn's varsity baseball team from 1893 through 1895 where he was "considered the finest collegiate first baseman of his day"[126] and played portion of one season (in 1899) for the Philadelphia Phillies; organizer and attorney for the Wilkes-Barre South Side Bank and Trust Company and chairman of Wilkes-Barre's Democratic City Committee; wrote "he Red and Blue," which has since become the Penn theme song and was leader of University of Pennsylvania Glee Club[126]
    • Augustus Goetz (August 21, 1904 through December 7, 1976), Penn College Class of 1925 and Penn Law Class of 1929, competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1928 Summer Olympics[127][128][129]
    • 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: (born September 28, 1979),[130] Class of 2002, selected during the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft as the 78th overall pick by New York Giants[131] where he played offensive tackle and started in four games in 2003[132] and played football at the University of Pennsylvania where he was named a Division I-AA All-American in 2001[133]
    • 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, two-time Pan American Games champion
    • Paul Makler Jr. (born 1946): Olympic fencer, NCAA champion
    • Paul Makler Sr. (born 1920): Penn Med class of 1964 and Penn undergraduate class of 1944: fenced for the University of Pennsylvania Quakers,[134][135] competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.,[134] won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1955 Pan American Games,[136][134] won an Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) national team épée title in 1956,[134] and was President of the American Fencing Association in 1962[136]
    • Matt Maloney: 1994–95 Ivy League Player of the Year in Basketball; NBA player
    • Mitch Marrow: football player, hedge fund manager, and business owner
    • David Micahnik (born November 5, 1938) Penn College Class of 1960 and Penn Law Class of 1964, fenced for the University of Pennsylvania where he was a first-team All-Ivy selection in epee as a senior, the 1960 U.S. National Champion[137] and competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics[138]
    • Rob Milanese: Arena Football League wide receiver; school's all-time leading receiver
    • Syed Mohammed Hadi: Olympic athlete
    • Frank Villeneuve Nicholson: rugby player, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (class of 1910);[139] in 1904 captained the Australian national rugby team in its match against England and in 1906 reintroduced rugby union as a sport to Penn students[140][141][142]
    • Chris O'Loughlin (born 1967), Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games silver medalist, Pan American Games bronze medalist
    • Ryan O'Malley: NFL player[143]
    • 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
    • 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, 1941–1951; led the NFL in interceptions in 1947
    • 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: football player
    • John B. Thayer: businessman and first-class cricketer
    • Roy Thomas: Philadelphia Phillies player and National League leader in runs scored, base on balls, and on-base percentage
    • William Bill Tilden, Jr. Class of 2015 (did not graduate): 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[]

    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).

    Company founders[]

    • William Bingham, Class of 1768, a founder and director of the Bank of North America, the first modern United States bank
    • John Bogle: founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group
    • Richard Bloch (Class of 1942): co-founder, H&R Block
    • Len Bosack: co-founder, Cisco Systems (Internet router company)
    • David J. Brown: co-founder of Silicon Graphics
    • 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.[144]
    • William P. Carey: founder of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC,[145] a corporate real estate financing firm headquartered in New York City
    • Steven A. Cohen: founder and Manager, SAC Capital Partners and Point72 Asset Management
    • Catherine Austin Fitts: CEO and Founder of Solari Inc., former United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing
    • Geraldine Laybourne: founder of Oxygen Media
    • John Grayken: Founder and Chairman of Lone Star Funds[146]
    • James Dinan: hedge fund manager and founder of York Capital Management
    • 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.
    • Vernon Hill: founder, Chairman, and CEO, Commerce Bancorp
    • Jon Huntsman Sr.: billionaire, founder of the Huntsman Corporation
    • Josh Kopelman: founder, Half.com
    • Douglas Lenat: founder of artificial intelligence company Cycorp
    • Ronald Li: founder and past Chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
    • Ken Moelis: founder of Moelis & Company
    • 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
    • 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
    • Stephen M. Peck: investor and philanthropist, co-founder of Weiss, Peck & Greer
    • J.D. Power III: founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power & Associates
    • Raj Rajaratnam: billionaire founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group
    • Josh Resnick: founder and President, Pandemic Studios
    • Ralph J. Roberts: co-founder, Comcast Corporation
    • Michael Tiemann: co-founder of Cygnus Solutions (a GNU software company), now CTO of Red Hat
    • Edward Rosenthal: founder of Riverside Memorial Chapel
    • Henry Salvatori: founder, Western Geophysical; founding stockholder of the National Review magazine
    • Harry Scherman: co-founder of the Book of the Month Club
    • Tanya Seaman: co-founder of PhillyCarShare
    • Joseph Segel: founder, QVC; founder, Franklin Mint
    • Brian Sheth: co-founder and President of Vista Equity Partners
    • Gregg Spiridellis: founder, JibJab Media, Inc.
    • Michael Steinhardt: co-founder of hedge fund Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz & Co.; philanthropist

    Other entrepreneurs and business leaders[]

    • Laura J. Alber: President and CEO of Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
    • 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: former 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
    • Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell: Chairman of Interserve and Lloyds Banking Group
    • Matt Blank: Chairman and CEO of Showtime
    • Mitchell Blutt: Executive Partner, J.P. Morgan Chase
    • Dimitri Boylan: former CEO of Hotjobs.com, now part of Yahoo!
    • Christopher Browne: past Managing Director of Tweedy, Browne Co.
    • Charles Butt: billionaire, CEO and Chairman, H-E-B Grocery Company[147]
    • Robert Castellini: CEO and part-owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Joel Greenblatt: hedge fund manager and author
    • 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
    • Philip B. Hofmann: past Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson
    • Jirair Hovnanian: home builder
    • 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
    • Leonard Lauder: chairman and CEO of Estée Lauder; billionaire investor[148]
    • Terry Leahy: CEO, Tesco
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Michael Moritz: venture capitalist, Sequoia Capital
    • Michael H. Moskow: 8th President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
    • Phebe Novakovic: Chairman and CEO of General Dynamics
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • James O. Robbins: President and CEO of Cox Communications
    • Brian L. Roberts: Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation
    • Lucille Roberts: namesake and proprietor of women's fitness clubs
    • 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
    • Perry Rotella: senior vice president and CIO of Verisk Analytics
    • J. Brendan Ryan: chairman of Foote, Cone, and Belding
    • Charles S. Sanford Jr.: CEO of Bankers Trust
    • 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
    • Henry Silverman: COO of the Apollo Group, formerly head of Cendant Corporation
    • Young Sohn: President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics
    • Richard Stearns: President of World Vision
    • Patrick J. Talamantes: CEO of McClatchy Company
    • 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: College and Undergraduate Class of 1991 and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School Class of 1992, graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received a dual degree — a B.S. and a B.A., both summa cum laude and received an MBA as a Palmer Scholar[149] after completing the 5 year MBA program; received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship was a member of the St. Anthony Hall fraternity; CEO of Neuberger Berman; former Managing Director of Lehman Brothers; formerly a Partner with Goldman Sachs & Co; Co-President, Commodities Corporation[150] and was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received a dual degree — a B.S. and a B.A., both summa cum laude. He also received his MBA as a Palmer Scholar from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania[149] after completing the 5 year MBA program. He was a member of the St. Anthony Hall fraternity.
    • 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-creator 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[]

    • 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 national park in the United States
    • Peter Custis, Class of 1807: a leader of the Red River Expedition in 1806, the first civilian scientific expedition to explore the American West
    • Michael L. Gernhardt: NASA astronaut
    • Charles Guillou: member of the 19th-century United States Exploring Expedition
    • Isaac Israel Hayes: 19th-century Arctic explorer; Heiss Island in Franz Josef Land (Russia) was named in his honor
    • Elisha Kane: Arctic explorer who received medals from the United States Congress, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Société de Géographie for his work; namesake of the naval destroyer USS Kane
    • Garrett Reisman: NASA Space Shuttle astronaut
    • B. Clark Wheeler: founder of Aspen, Colorado

    Government, politics, and law[]

    Colonial American leaders[]

    Members of the Continental Congress[]

    • Andrew Allen: (College Class of 1759) Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1775–76[151][152]
    • William Bingham (College Class of 1768): Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786–88
    • Elias Boudinot: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778 and 1781–1783, and president of the Continental Congress in 1782–83; attended the Academy of Philadelphia, but did not earn a degree
    • Lambert Cadwalader (College class of 1761, but did not graduate): 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, 1774–1776
    • William Grayson: Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–1787
    • Whitmell Hill: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778–1780
    • William Hindman: Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–86
    • Francis Hopkinson: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776
    • David Jackson: University of Pennsylvania Medical School class of 1768), Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785[153]
    • 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
    • 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

    Signers of the US Constitution and/or Declaration of Independence[]

    Sources: University of Pennsylvania Archives[154][155]

    • George Clymer: Penn Trustee 1779–1813; an elected member of the Continental Congress who was one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution[156]
    • Thomas FitzSimons, Penn Trustee 1789–1811: signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
    • Benjamin Franklin, Penn founder and Trustee 1749–1790: was one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
    • Francis Hopkinson, Penn degrees A.B. 1757; A.M. 1760; LL.D. 1790; Penn Trustee 1787–1791: signed the Declaration of Independence
    • Jared Ingersoll, Penn Trustee 1778–1791: signed the US Constitution
    • Robert Morris, Penn Trustee 1778–1791: one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
    • Thomas McKean, Penn degrees: A.M. (hon.) 1763 and LL.D. 1785; Penn Trustee 1779–1817; president of Penn Board of Trustees: signed the Declaration of Independence
    • William Paca, Penn degrees: A.B. 1759 and A.M. 1762; Penn Trustee; Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–79; signed the Declaration of Independence;[157] Chief Justice of Maryland (1788–1790)
    • Benjamin Rush, Penn Med class of 1766; Penn Med professor 1769–1813; signed the Declaration of Independence
    • Hugh Williamson, Penn degrees: A.B. 1757, A.M. 1760, and LL.D. (hon.) 1787; tutor 1755–1758; Penn professor of mathematics 1761–1763: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, signed US Constitution; representative to US Congress[158]
    • James Wilson, Penn degrees A.M. (hon.) 1766 and LL.D. 1790; Penn Trustee; delegate to Continental Congress; signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution, the first draft of which he wrote; US Supreme Court justice[159]

    US government[]

    Presidents of the United States[]

    • William Henry Harrison, Penn Med class of 1791 but did not graduate: 9th president of the United States[160]
    • Donald J. Trump, Wharton School of Finance class of 1968: 45th president of the United States

    Members of the United States Cabinet[]

    • Robert S. Adler: commissioner of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission
    • 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: US 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
    • Kenneth Braithwaite: US secretary of the Navy under President Donald J. Trump earned a master's degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania, Fels Institute of Government,[161] in 1995.[162]
    • Marshall Jordan Breger: past chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States
    • William H. Brown, III: past chairman of the US 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.: US secretary of transportation, 1975–77, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
    • John Howard Dalton: US 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
    • 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: US secretary of the Air Force, 1950–53
    • Lindley M. Garrison: secretary of war under President Woodrow Wilson
    • Thomas S. Gates: secretary of defense, 1959–1961, US secretary of the Navy, 1957–59
    • Henry Dilworth Gilpin: US attorney general under President Martin Van Buren
    • Earl G. Harrison: dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942–44
    • Francis J. Harvey: US secretary of the Army, 2004–07
    • Kevin Hassett: senior advisor to the president under Donald J. Trump
    • Henry Hoyt: US solicitor general, 1903–09
    • George A. Jenks, Class of 1850 and 1853: US solicitor general, 1886–89
    • Neel Kashkari: head of the Office of Financial Stability in the US 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, 1981–89
    • John F. Lehman: US secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan
    • William Flynn Martin: deputy secretary of energy and executive secretary of the National Security Council under President Reagan
    • Ann Dore McLaughlin: US secretary of labor
    • William M. Meredith: US 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: deputy secretary of the interior under President Abraham Lincoln, 1863–71
    • Thomas M. Pettit: director of the US Mint, 1853
    • Caesar Augustus Rodney: US attorney general 1807-11 under presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; US 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 US 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: 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: US secretary of the treasury, 1845–1849
    • George W. Wickersham: US attorney general, 1909–1913
    • George Washington Woodruff: acting secretary of the interior under Theodore Roosevelt
    • Hubert Work: United States postmaster general, 1922–1923 under President Warren G. Harding, and US secretary of the interior, 1923–1928 under Harding and President Calvin Coolidge

    US senators[]

    As of May 2020, 32 Penn alumni have served as senators from 16 different states as detailed below:

    • Lewis Heisler Ball: US senator from Delaware, 1903–05, 1919–25; Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1901–03[163]
    • Ephraim Bateman: US senator and congressman from New Jersey[164]
    • William Wyatt Bibb: US senator and US Representative from Georgia; governor of Alabama[165]
    • William Bingham, Class of 1768: namesake of Binghamton, New York and Bingham, Maine; US senator from Pennsylvania, 1795–1801 and President pro tem of the Senate; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786–88[166]
    • Clayton Douglass Buck: US senator from Delaware, 1943–49; governor of Delaware, 1929–37; attended Towne School of Engineering but did not earn a degree[167]
    • Joseph Maull Carey: US senator from Wyoming, 1890–95; governor of Wyoming, 1911–15; Wyoming delegate to the US Congress, 1885–90[168]
    • Henry H. Chambers, Penn Med Class of 1811: U.S. Senator from Alabama 1825–26[169]
    • Joseph Sill Clark: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1957–69[170]
    • Simon Barclay Conover: US senator from Florida, 1873–79; attended School of Medicine and graduated from the University of Nashville[171]
    • George Robertson Dennis: US senator from Maryland, 1873–79[172]
    • Philemon Dickinson: US senator from New Jersey, 1790–93[173]
    • James Henderson Duff: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1951–57; attended law school but did not earn a degree[174]
    • Henry A. Du Pont: US senator from Delaware, 1906–17, attended Penn and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point[175]
    • Jonathan Elmer: US senator from New Jersey, 1789–91[176]
    • William Grayson: US senator from Virginia, 1789–90; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree[177]
    • William Henry Harrison: US senator from Ohio, 1825–28[citation needed]
    • Weldon Brinton Heyburn: US senator from Idaho, 1903–12
    • William Hindman: US senator from Maryland, 1800–01; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree[178]
    • Ted Kaufman: US senator from Delaware, 2009–2011[179]
    • Henry Latimer: US senator from Delaware, 1795–1801; Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1794–95[180]
    • Lewis Fields Linn: US senator from Missouri, 1833–43; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree[181]
    • James Murray Mason: US senator from Virginia in the early 19th century[citation needed]
    • Gouverneur Morris: New York delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778–79; US senator from New York, 1800–1803; attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate[citation needed]
    • John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1801; Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1789–91, 1793–95, 1799–1801; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree[182]
    • Arnold Naudain: US senator from Delaware, 1830–36[citation needed]
    • George Wharton Pepper: US senator from Pennsylvania, chronicler of the Senate[183]
    • Caesar Augustus Rodney: US senator from Delaware, 1822–23[184]
    • Arlen Specter: former US senator from Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia district attorney[185]
    • John Selby Spence: US senator from Pennsylvania 1836–40; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree[186]
    • Robert John Walker, Class of 1819: US senator from Mississippi, 1836–45, he introduced the bill that established the US Department of the Interior[187]
    • Joseph Rodman West: US senator from Louisiana, 1871–77; attended the College but did not earn a degree[188]
    • Jenkin Whiteside: US senator from Tennessee, 1809–11[citation needed]

    Members of the US House of Representatives[]

    As of May 2020, 163 Representatives from 21 different states

    • Ephraim Leister Acker M.D., 1852 LL.B., 1886: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1871–1873[189]
    • Robert Adams Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1889–1906[190]
    • Wilbur L. Adams: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1933–1935[191]
    • John Archer: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1801–1807[192]
    • James Armstrong: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1793–1795[193]
    • L. Heisler Ball: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1901–03[194]
    • Ephraim Bateman: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1826–29[195]
    • John Milton Bernhisel: Utah delegate to the US Congress, 1851–1859, 1861–1863[196]
    • George A. Bicknell: Indiana representative to the US Congress, 1877–1881[197]
    • Richard Biddle, Class of 1811: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1837–40[198]
    • Andrew Biemiller: Wisconsin representative to the US Congress, 1945–1947 (attended the Graduate School but did not earn a degree)[199]
    • Elias Boudinot: New Jersey representative to the US 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 US Congress, 1865–1869[200]
    • Samuel Carey Bradshaw: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1855–1857[201]
    • Charles Browne: (September 28, 1875 - August 17, 1947) University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Class of 1900,[202][203] elected as a candidate from Democratic Party to the Sixty-eighth Congress representing New Jersey's 4th congressional district (serving in office from March 4, 1923 to March 4, 1925, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress)[204][205]
    • George Franklin Brumm: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1923–1927, 1929–1934[206]
    • Hiram R. Burton: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1905–1909[207]
    • John Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1855–1857[208]
    • Lambert Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the US 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[209]
    • Greene Washington Caldwell: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1841–1843[210]
    • Joseph Maull Carey: Wyoming representative after statehood and delegate (before statehood) to the US Congress, 1885–1890
    • Matt Cartwright: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 2013–
    • E. Wallace Chadwick: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–1949[211]
    • Earl Chudoff: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress 1949–1958[212]
    • George Bosworth Churchill: Massachusetts representative to the US Congress, 1925; Attended Graduate School, 1892–1894, but did not earn a degree[213]
    • John Claiborne: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1805–1808[214]
    • John Daniel Clardy: Kentucky representative to the US Congress, 1895–1899[215]
    • Isaiah Dunn Clawson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1855–1859[216]
    • John Clopton: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1795–1799, 1801–1816[217]
    • Bill Cobey: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1985–1987[218]
    • Lewis Condict: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1811–1817[219]
    • Joel Cook: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress 1907–1911[220]
    • Thomas Buchecker Cooper: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1861–1862
    • James Harry Covington: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1909–1914[221]
    • William Radford Coyle: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1925–1927, 1929–1933; attended law school but did not earn a degree[222]
    • George William Crump: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1826–1827; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree[223]
    • Willard S. Curtin (November 28, 1905 – February 4, 1996) (University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1932) Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1957–1967, having been elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (and his election triumphs included defeating noted author James A. Michener in the 1962 election) and respected for voting in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, as well as the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965[224]
    • J. Burrwood Daly: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–39; attended law school but did not earn a degree[225]
    • William Darlington: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–17 and 1819–23[226]
    • Philemon Dickerson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1833–36 and 1839–41[227]
    • Charles Djou: Hawaii representative to the US Congress, 2010[228]
    • Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–39[229]
    • Charles F. Dougherty: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1979–83[230]
    • George Eckert: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1847–49[231]
    • Norman Eddy: Indiana representative to the US Congress, 1853–55[232]
    • Joshua Eilberg: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1967–1979[233]
    • Lucius Elmer: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1843–45[234]
    • Phillip Sheridan English: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1995–2009[235]
    • Thomas Dunn English: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1891–95[236]
    • Chaka Fattah: US Congressman representing 2nd Congressional district of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia region)[237]
    • Clare G. Fenerty: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–37[238]
    • John Floyd: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1817–29[239]
    • Harold Ford Jr.: US representative from Tennessee, candidate for House minority leader, 2002, candidate for United States Senate from Tennessee[240]
    • Vito Fossella: New York representative to the US Congress, 1997–2009[241]
    • Oliver W. Frey: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1933–39[242]
    • Benjamin Gilman: New York representative to the US Congress, 1973–2003[243]
    • Benjamin Golder: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1925–33[244]
    • Josh Gottheimer: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 2017–
    • George Scott Graham: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1913–31[245]
    • John Hahn: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–17[citation needed]
    • William Henry Harrison: Ohio representative to the US Congress, 1816–19[246]
    • Charles Eaton Haynes: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1825–31 and 1835–39[247]
    • James C. Healey: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1956–65[248]
    • William Hindman: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1793–99[249]
    • George Holcombe: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1821–28[250]
    • Trey Hollingsworth: Indiana representative to the US Congress, 2017–
    • Joseph Hopkinson, Class of 1786: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–19[251]
    • 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[252]
    • John William Jones: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1847–49[253]
    • Owen Jones: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1857–59[254]
    • Albert Walter Johnson: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–63[255]
    • Joseph Jorgensen: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1877–83[256]
    • James Kelly: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1805–09[citation needed]
    • William Kennedy: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1803–1805, 1809–1811, 1813–1815[257]
    • Everett Kent: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1923–25 and 1927–29[258]
    • Karl C. King: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1951–57[259]
    • William Huntington Kirkpatrick: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1921–23[260]
    • Thomas Kittera: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1826–27[261]
    • John A. Lafore Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1957–61[262]
    • Conor Lamb: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 2018-
    • Henry Latimer: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1794–95[263]
    • Caleb Layton: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1919–23[264]
    • James Leech: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1927–32[265]
    • William Eckart Lehman: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1861–63[266]
    • George Leiper: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1829–31[267]
    • John Thomas Lenahan: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1907–09[268]
    • Samuel Lilly: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1853–55[269]
    • Lloyd Lowndes Jr.: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1873–75[270]
    • James McDevitt Magee: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1923–27[271]
    • Levi Maish: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1875–79 and 1887–91[272]
    • Francis Mallory: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1837–43[273]
    • John Hartwell Marable: Tennessee representative to the US Congress, 1825–29[274]
    • Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1993–95[275]
    • Robert Marion: South Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1805–10[276]
    • Alexander Keith Marshall: Kentucky representative to the US Congress, 1855–57[277]
    • James Murray Mason: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1837–39[citation needed]
    • Samuel K. McConnell Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1944–57[278]
    • George Deardorff McCreary: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1903–13[279]
    • Joseph McDade: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1963–99[280]
    • Robert C. McEwen: New York representative to the US Congress, 1965–81[281]
    • John Miller: New York representative to the US Congress, 1825–27[282]
    • James Milnor: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1811–13[283]
    • George Mitchell: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1823–27 and 1829–32[284]
    • John Moffet: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1869[285]
    • Samuel Moore: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1818–22[286]
    • Edward Joy Morris: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1843–45 and 1857–61[287]
    • Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–49,[288] 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 US Congress, 1789–1797[citation needed]
    • Edward de Veaux Morrell: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1900–07[289]
    • John Murphy: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1943–46[290]
    • Leonard Myers: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1863–75[291]
    • William Augustus Newell, Class of 1839: New Jersey Representative to the US Congress, 1847–1851, 1865–1867[292]
    • Robert N.C. Nix Sr.: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1958–79[citation needed]
    • Edson Olds: Ohio representative to the US Congress, 1849–55[293]
    • Archibald Olpp: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1921–23[294]
    • Cyrus Maffet Palmer: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1927–29[295]
    • John Patton: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1830–38[296]
    • Levi Pawling: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1817–19[297]
    • John H. Pugh: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1877–79[298]
    • Robert R. Reed: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1849–51[299]
    • Jacob Richards: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1803–09[300]
    • Lewis Riggs: New York representative to the US Congress, 1841–43[301]
    • Caesar Augustus Rodney: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1803–05[302]
    • Albert Rutherford: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1937–41[303]
    • Leon Sacks: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1937–41[304]
    • Benjamin Say: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1808–09[305]
    • Mary Gay Scanlon: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 2018–
    • Pius Schwert: Wharton School class of 1914, B.S. econ.: professional baseball catcher; New York representative in US Congress, 1939–1941[306][307]
    • David Scott: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 2003–[308]
    • Hardie Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–53[309]
    • John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1915–19[310]
    • Joshua Seney: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1789–92[311]
    • John Sergeant: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–23, 1827–29 and 1837–41[312]
    • Adam Seybert: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1809–15 and 1817–19[313]
    • Henry Marchmore Shaw: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1853–55 and 1857–59[314]
    • William B. Shepard: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1829–37[315]
    • John E. Sheridan: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1939–47[316]
    • William Simonton: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1839–43[317]
    • Edward J. Stack: Florida representative to the US Congress, 1979–81[318]
    • James Strawbridge: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1873–75[319]
    • Joel Barlow Sutherland: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1827–37[320]
    • John Swope: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1884–87[321]
    • William Terrell: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1817–21[322]
    • Martin Thayer: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1863–65[323]
    • John Chew Thomas: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1799–1801[324]
    • John Parnell Thomas: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1937–50[325]
    • Hedge Thompson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1827–28[326]
    • Philip A. Traynor: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1941–43 and 1945–47[327]
    • William Troutman: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1943–45[328]
    • Charles Turpin: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1929–37[329]
    • Jonathan Updegraff: Ohio representative to the US Congress, 1879–82[330]
    • Joseph Vigorito: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1965–77[331]
    • Percy Walker: Alabama representative to the US Congress, 1855–57[citation needed]
    • George Wallhauser: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1959–65[332]
    • John H. Ware, III: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1970–75[333]
    • John Goddard Watmough: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1831–35[334]
    • Anthony Wayne: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1791–92[citation needed]
    • James D. Weaver: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1963–65[335]
    • William H. Wilson: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–37[336]
    • Charles A. Wolverton: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1927–59[337]

    US Supreme Court Justices[]

    • William J. Brennan: US Supreme Court justice; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
    • Owen J. Roberts: US Supreme Court justice

    US ambassadors[]

    As of July 2021, Penn alumni have served as ambassadors to 48 different nations (with one more nation, Canada, due to be added should nomination of David L. Cohen as Ambassador be passed by Senate).

    • Robert Adams Jr.: University of Pennsylvania Class of 1869, was appointed United States Minister to Brazil on April 1, 1889, and served until June 1, 1890, when he resigned[338]
    • Paul H. Alling (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Masters degree, Class of 1924[339]): first United States Ambassador to Pakistan in September 1947,[340] with his credentials being presented in February of 1948.[341]
    • Walter Annenberg: US ambassador to the United Kingdom
    • Robert Mason Beecroft: US chief of mission and Special Envoy to the Bosnian Federation
    • Kenneth Braithwaite: United States Ambassador to Norway[342] under President Donald J. Trump who in 1995 earned a master's degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania, Fels Institute of Government,[343][162]
    • Peter Burleigh: US 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: US ambassador to Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bangladesh
    • George Charles Bruno (Penn Law Fellow 1968): United States Ambassador to Belize[344](1994–1997)[345][346][347]
    • David L. Cohen (Penn Law Class of 1981): Nominated on July 21, 2021 to be United States Ambassador to Canada[348][349]
    • William R. Crawford Jr.: US ambassador to Yemen and Cyprus
    • Oliver S. Crosby: US ambassador to Guinea
    • George William Crump: US ambassador to Chile
    • John S. Durham: US ambassador to Haiti
    • Robert A. Flaten: US ambassador to Rwanda
    • Thomas K. Finletter: US ambassador to NATO
    • Lloyd Carpenter Griscom: US ambassador to Persia (now Iran), Japan, and Italy
    • John E. Hamm: US ambassador to Chile
    • John S. Hayes: US ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein
    • Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., Penn Law Class of 1960, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden and former Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company[350]
    • Jerome Holland: US ambassador to Sweden (appointed in 1970 as first African American Ambassador to Sweden)
    • Jon Huntsman Jr.: US ambassador to Russia, the People's Republic of China and Singapore
    • Stuart E. Jones (Penn Law Class of 1986): United States Ambassador to Jordan[351] and Iraq[352]
    • David Jordan: US ambassador to Peru
    • Tina Kaidanow: US ambassador to Kosovo
    • Sung Kim: US ambassador to Indonesia, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and US special envoy to the Six-Party Talks
    • Yuri Kim: US ambassador to Albania
    • Michael David Kirby: College Class of 1976, BA, US ambassador to Serbia and Moldova[353][354][355]
    • Robert E. Lamb: US ambassador to Cyprus
    • Ronald Lauder: US ambassador to Austria
    • Franklin L. Lavin: US ambassador to Singapore
    • James Murray Mason: CSA ambassador to the United Kingdom and France
    • Marilyn McAfee: US ambassador to Guatemala
    • Gillian Milovanovic: US ambassador to Mali and Macedonia
    • Edward Joy Morris: US ambassador to Sicily, 1850–53
    • John H. Morrow: US ambassador to Guinea
    • Phil Murphy: US ambassador to Germany
    • Wanda L. Nesbitt: US ambassador to Madagascar, Ivory Coast, and Namibia
    • Condy Raguet: 1st US ambassador to Brazil
    • William Bradford Reed: US minister to China
    • Caesar Augustus Rodney: US ambassador to Argentina
    • Thomas J. Scotes: US ambassador to Yemen
    • Charles S. Shapiro: US ambassador to Venezuela
    • Thomas P. Shoesmith: US ambassador to Malaysia
    • Martin J. Silverstein: US ambassador to Uruguay
    • Susan N. Stevenson, United States Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, was nominated by President Donald Trump on September 13, 2018 and was confirmed as Ambassador on January 2, 2019.[356][357]
    • Robert Strausz-Hupé: US 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: US ambassador to Romania
    • Marilyn Ware: US ambassador to Finland
    • Faith Ryan Whittlesey: US ambassador to Switzerland

    State government[]

    Governors[]

    As of May 2020, 46 Penn alumni have served as governors of 24 different states, Puerto Rico and American Samoa.

    • Amos W. Barber: 2nd governor of Wyoming, 1890–93
    • Gunning Bedford Sr.: governor of Delaware, 1796–97[358]
    • John C. Bell, Jr., Class of 1917, (October 25, 1892 – March 18, 1974) was the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1943–1947) before becoming the 33rd and shortest-serving Governor of Pennsylvania, serving for nineteen (19) days in 1947, 1937–37[359][360][361]
    • William Wyatt Bibb: first governor of the state of Alabama, 1819–1820; served as governor of the Alabama Territory, 1817–1819[362]
    • Martin G. Brumbaugh (Ph.D. earned in 1894): governor of Pennsylvania, 1911–15 and first Professor of Pedagogy in Penn's Department of Philosophy[363]
    • C. Douglass Buck: governor of Delaware, 1929–37[364]
    • William Burton: governor of Delaware, 1859–63[citation needed]
    • Joseph M. Carey, class of 1864, governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915[168]
    • Thomas King Carroll: governor of Maryland, 1829–31
    • Joshua Clayton: governor of Delaware 1793–1798, attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate[365]
    • Philemon Dickerson: governor of New Jersey, 1836–37[366]
    • James Henderson Duff: Governor of Pennsylvania (1947–51) studied law at Penn Law before graduating from the University of Pittsburgh[367][368]
    • James B. Edwards, post-graduate student at Penn: governor of South Carolina, 1975–79[citation needed]
    • John Floyd, Class of 1804 of Penn Med: 25th governor of Virginia, 1830–34[369] Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress
    • 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[370]
    • 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[371]
    • 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[372][373]
    • George B. McClellan: General-in-chief of the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president 1864; later governor of New Jersey; attended law school for two years at the age of 12 before transferring to the U.S. Military Academy, from which he graduated at the age of 16[374]
    • John G. McCullough, Attorney General of California during the American Civil War; Governor of Vermont, 1902–1904
    • 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[375]
    • Wayne Mixson: governor of Florida, 1987[376]
    • Phil Murphy: 56th governor of New Jersey
    • William Augustus Newell: 18th governor of New Jersey, 1857–1860; governor of the Washington Territory, 1880–1884[377]
    • John M. Patton: acting governor of Virginia, 1841; great-grandfather of World War II General George S. Patton Jr.[378]
    • Samuel W. Pennypacker: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1903–07[379]
    • 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[380]
    • Rexford Tugwell: governor of Puerto Rico[citation needed]
    • Robert J. Walker: governor of Kansas Territory, 1857[381]
    • Matthew E. Welsh: governor of Indiana[citation needed]
    • James Wilkinson: first governor of the Louisiana Territory

    State legislators[]

    Penn alumni have served in state legislatures of at least sixteen states and the commonwealths of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

    • Jennifer Beck: Republican member of the New Jersey Senate (2008– )
    • William Bingham: first Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    • Louis A. Bloom: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County (1947–1952) and Judge Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Delaware County
    • Karen Boback: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2007– )
    • Stacy Brenner: Democratic member of the Maine State Senate (2020-)[382]
    • John F. Byrne, Jr.: Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district (1967–1970)
    • Martha Hughes Cannon, BS, MD, Penn Med post doc education Class of 1882; Penn College Class of 1882: Utah State Senator; first female state senator elected in the United States[383]
    • Robert J. Clendening: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1949–1952)
    • Herbert B. Cohen (July 2, 1900 - December 2, 1970) Wharton (Class of 1922) and University of Pennsylvania Law School (Class of 1925) served as (a) Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, 1933–40, twice as Majority leader, once as Minority leader, (b) Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1955 through 1956 and (c) Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1957 through 1970[384][385]
    • Mark B. Cohen: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    • Eckley Brinton Coxe: Pennsylvania State Senator for the 21st district from 1881 to 1884
    • Jean B. Cryor: former Maryland Delegate
    • Glenn Cummings: Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives, including one term as Speaker of the House (2000–2008)
    • John Warren Davis: former member of the New Jersey State Senate; United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey; Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    • Dan Debicella: member of the Connecticut Senate
    • William K. Dickey: Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and Chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority
    • Marie Donigan (Penn School of Design, MS in Landscape Architecture): Democratic member of the Michigan State House of Representatives (2004–2011)[386]
    • David Frockt: (born July 14, 1969)[387] University of Pennsylvania, B.A. in Political Science (Class of 1991): first elected to the Washington State House of Representatives in 2010 and in 2011, after the death of Senator Scott White, the Metropolitan King County Council voted unanimously to appointed for the 46th legislative district of Washington State Senate, which includes North Seattle, Lake Forest Park, and Kenmore Washington State Senate[388] and in 2012 was retained by voters to serve the remaining two years of the open Senate term and in 2014 was re-elected to a full term in the State Senate, where he is a member on the Ways & Means, Law & Justice, and Human Services committees[389]
    • Michael F. Gerber: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    • Michael U. Gisriel: former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
    • Stewart Greenleaf: Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1978– )
    • Bernard Gross (born May 22, 1935) Wharton School of Finance Class of 1956 and Penn Law Class of 1959; lawyer elected twice[390] as Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 200th district for years 1967–1970[391][392]
    • John J. Hafer: former Maryland State Senator
    • Phil Hart: Republican member of the Idaho House of Representatives (2004– )
    • Charlie Brady Hauser: member of the North Carolina General Assembly
    • Jon Hinck: member of the Maine House of Representatives (2006– )
    • Constance N. Johnson: Democratic member of the Oklahoma State Senate (2005–2014); United States Senate Democratic nominee of Oklahoma (2014)
    • Eric Johnson: Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives (2010– )
    • Movita Johnson-Harrell: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2019– )
    • Tony Jordan: member of the New York State Assembly (2009– )
    • Steve Katz: member of the New York State Assembly and Candidate for New York State Senate
    • John Manners: President of the New Jersey Senate (1852)
    • John Hartwell Marable: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Class of 1814) but with no record of graduation; member of the Tennessee Senate (1817–18)[393]
    • Bruce Marks: Republican member of the Pennsylvania 2nd senatorial district 1994 to 1995[394][395][396][397]
    • Charles B. Moores: University of Pennsylvania Law School (Class of 1874)[398] Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives (1895–96)
    • Raj Mukherji: Assemblyman of the New Jersey State Legislature
    • Joseph J. Roberts: former Speaker and Assemblyman of the New Jersey State Legislature
    • James N. Robertson: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative (1949–1952)
    • Vaughn Stewart: Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2019– )
    • David W. Sweet: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1978–88)
    • Chris Taylor: Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (2011– )
    • Eric Turkington: Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
    • Charles R. Weiner: Democratic Leader of the Pennsylvania Senate
    • "Buck" Charles Wharton (1868 – November 15, 1949) Wharton School of Finance Class of 1897: selected as an All-American guard in 1896 and also played on Penn teams that were undefeated and won back-to-back national championships in 1894 and 1895; served as Delaware State Senator from 1914 to 1917; in 1963, was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
    • Constance H. Williams: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
    • Robert C. Wonderling: Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
    • Bob Ziegelbauer: Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

    Mayors[]

    • Edward Bader: mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1920–29
    • Joseph F. Battle Jr.: mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania, 1979–1986
    • Ralph Becker Jr.: mayor of Salt Lake City, 2008–2015
    • John S. Brenner: mayor of York, Pennsylvania, 2002–2010
    • 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
    • Mark Farrell: (Penn Law class of 2001) mayor of San Francisco 2018
    • Shirley Franklin: M.A. in sociology;[399] mayor of Atlanta, 2002–10
    • Kate Gallego: mayor of Phoenix 2019–
    • 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
    • Paul Heroux: Master's in criminology, elected state representative in Massachusetts[400] and in 2018 as mayor of Attleboro, Massachusetts[401]
    • George Hewston: mayor of San Francisco, 1875
    • George Janeway: mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1869–71
    • Judith Flanagan Kennedy (Penn Law '87) was the 56th mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts, (2010 through 2018). She launched a write-in campaign for mayor and became Lynn's first female mayor.[402]
    • 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
    • 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

    State Supreme Court Justices[]

    As of June 2020, twenty-two (22) Penn alumni have served as justices of supreme courts of eight (8) different states and the District of Columbia, and eleven (11) have served as chief justices of a state supreme court.

    • William Allen, a Founder of Pennsylvania Hospital and Trustee of University of Pennsylvania, funded the state house (Independence Hall), served as Mayor of Philadelphia, appointed judge of the Orphans’ and Common Pleas courts of Philadelphia and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania[403]
    • John C. Bell Jr.: former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1961–1972), and Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1950–1972)
    • William J. Brennan: Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1951–56) (later Justice of the United States Supreme Court)
    • 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
    • Joseph M. Carey: Attorney General of Wyoming (1869–71); Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court (1871–1876)
    • Herbert B. Cohen (July 2, 1900 - December 2, 1970) Wharton (Class of 1922) and University of Pennsylvania Law School (Class of 1925) served as (a) Representative of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, 1933–40, twice as Majority leader, once as Minority leader, (b) Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1955 through 1956 and (c) Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1957 through 1970[384][385]
    • James Harry Covington: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (1914–18)
    • 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)
    • Richard L. Gabriel, Penn Law Class of 1987, (born March 3, 1962) was appointed in 2015 (and continues to serve after being retained in 2018) as an Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Justice Gabriel previously served on the Colorado Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2015.
    • Randy J. Holland: Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1986–2014)
    • Daniel J. Layton: Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1933–45), and Attorney General of Delaware (1932–33)
    • 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)
    • Deborah T. Poritz: Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1996–2006)
    • Mark Rindner (College Class of 1971, Graduate School of Education Class of 1971): Justice of Alaska Supreme Court[404]
    • George Sharswood: former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
    • Horace Stern (Penn Law Class of 1890): Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1952–56) and Justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1932-1952)[405]
    • Leo E. Strine Jr. (Penn Law Class of 1988): Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court (2014-2019)[406] Judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery
    • Richard B. Teitelman: Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court (2011–13)
    • William Tilghman: Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1805–27); attended Penn but did not earn a degree
    • Jasper Yeates (College Class of 1758),[407] was a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1787, appointed as a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1791, served until his death in 1817.[408]

    U.S. federal judges[]

    • Arlin Adams, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 1969–1987[409]
    • Guy K. Bard, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[410]
    • Harvey Bartle III, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[411]
    • Michael Baylson, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[412]
    • Edward R. Becker: former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    • Ralph C. Body, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1965–1973[413]
    • Raymond J. Broderick, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[414]
    • Margo Kitsy Brodie, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
    • Allison Dale Burroughs, Penn Law Class of 1988 (born April 25, 1961), is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts who received her federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014, and was sworn in on January 7, 2015. Judge Burroughs began her legal career as a law clerk for fellow Penn Law alumna Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1989 and also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1989 to 1995 and in the District of Massachusetts from 1995 to 2005.
    • A. Richard Caputo, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[415]
    • Tanya S. Chutkan, Penn Law class of 1987, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
    • Rudolph Contreras, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
    • James Harry Covington, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Co-founder of Covington & Burling[416]
    • James C. Cacheris: Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
    • Andre M. Davis: Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2009– )
    • Susan J. Dlott: Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1995– )
    • George M. Dallas, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1892–1909[citation needed]
    • Stewart Dalzell (September 18, 1943 – February 18, 2019), who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965 and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1969, was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.[417]
    • John Morgan Davis, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1964–84
    • John Warren Davis, former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[418]
    • Paul S. Diamond, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[419]
    • John William Ditter Jr., United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[420]
    • Herbert Allan Fogel, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1973–78[421]
    • Ronald M. Gould: Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    • James Halpern, Judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1990–2005[422]
    • James Hunter III, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989[423]
    • Daniel Henry Huyett III, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1970–98
    • Abdul Kallon, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alabama[424]
    • Harry Ellis Kalodner, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977[425]
    • William Huntington Kirkpatrick, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1927–58
    • John C. Knox, Judge, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1948–55[426]
    • Charles William Kraft Jr., United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1956–2002
    • Phyllis A. Kravitch, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit[427]
    • Robert Lowe Kunzig, Judge, U.S. Court of Claims, 1971–82
    • Caleb Rodney Layton III, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1957–88[428]
    • Paul Conway Leahy, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1942–66[429]
    • James Russell Leech, Judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1932–52[430]
    • Joseph Simon Lord III, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1961–92
    • Alfred Leopold Luongo, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1961–86
    • Thomas Ambrose Masterson, Judge, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1967–73
    • James Focht McClure Jr., United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania[431]
    • Barron Patterson McCune, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania[432]
    • Joseph Leo McGlynn Jr., United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1974–99
    • Gerald Austin McHugh Jr., United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2014–
    • Charles Louis McKeehan, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1923–25
    • Roderick R. McKelvie, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1991–2002[433]
    • Mary A. McLaughlin, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[434]
    • John Bayard McPherson, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912–1919 (Read)[citation needed]
    • John W. Murphy, Judge, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1946–62
    • Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr., United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[435]
    • Gene E. K. Pratter, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[436]
    • Arthur Raymond Randolph, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[437]
    • Bruce E. Reinhart, Class of 1987, United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Florida sworn in on March 14, 2018. Magistrate Judge Reinhart began his legal career as a law clerk for fellow Penn Law graduate Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1988 and also served as an Assistant United States Attorney
    • Owen J. Roberts, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States[438]
    • Sue Lewis Robinson, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware[439]
    • Max Rosenn, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1970–2006[440]
    • Juan Ramon Sánchez, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[441]
    • Ralph Francis Scalera, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania[442]
    • Allen G. Schwartz, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1993–2003[443]
    • Murray Merle Schwartz, Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1974–[444]
    • Norma Levy Shapiro, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[445]
    • Patty Shwartz, Penn Law Class of 1986, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, assumed office April 10, 2013
    • Jerome B. Simandle, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[446]
    • Dolores Sloviter, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[447]
    • Charles Swayne, Judge, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, 1890–1907
    • Joseph Whitaker Thompson, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1931–1946[448]
    • Donald West VanArtsdalen, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1970–19 85[449]
    • Jay Waldman, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania1988–2003
    • Henry Galbraith Ward, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1907–1921[450]
    • Gerald Joseph Weber,(Penn Law Class of 1939), Senior Judge, Chief Judge, and Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1964 - 1988) (Chief Judge 1976 - 1982)[451]
    • Helene White, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[452]
    • Scott Wilson, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1929–42[453]
    • Harold Kenneth Wood, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1959–1971

    Other U.S. federal, state, or local executive or judicial branch officials[]

    • Andrew Allen, Class of 1759: last colonial Attorney General of Pennsylvania, represented Province of Pennsylvania at the Second Continental Congress (later attained of treason for his Tory sympathies), elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1766, and appointed by his brother in law John Penn to Governor's Council in 1770
    • Branch Tanner Archer: secretary of war for the Republic of Texas, 1840–41
    • Thomas J. Baldrige, Pennsylvania Attorney General, Judge and President Judge of Superior Court of Pennsylvania
    • Michael Baylson: Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
    • Edward R. Becker: former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    • Edwin North Benson: Class of 1859: President, United States Electoral College
    • Geoffrey Berman: (born September 12, 1959) United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York since 2018 (on June 19, 2020, was fired by William Barr but asserts that he need not resign until United States Senate appoints his successor.
    • Beau Biden: 44th Attorney General of Delaware (2007–15)
    • John C. Bell Jr. (October 25, 1892 – March 18, 1974), Class of 1917, was a Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1950–1972), serving as Chief Justice from 1961 to 1972
    • Kathryn Kathy Boockvar (born October 23, 1968) Penn College Class of 1990[454] since January 5, 2019, has served as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and thus head of the Pennsylvania Department of State, previously served, as of March 2018, Senior Adviser to the Governor of Pennsylvania on Election Modernization[455] was named co-chair of the Elections Committee of the National Association of Secretaries of State[456]
    • 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
    • Marshall Jordan Breger: member of the first board of the Legal Services Corporation, appointed by President Gerald Ford (1975–78)
    • 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) (also Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S. Attorney for the Territory of Wyoming, Governor of Wyoming, U.S. Representative for Wyoming, U.S. Senator for Wyoming)
    • Hampton L. Carson, Pennsylvania Attorney General, 1903–07
    • Herbert B. Cohen (July 2, 1900 - December 2, 1970) Wharton (Class of 1922) and University of Pennsylvania Law School (Class of 1925) served as (a) Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, 1933–40, twice as Majority leader, once as Minority leader, (b) Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1955 through 1956 and (c) Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1957 through 1970[384][385]
    • James Harry Covington, Chief Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court (and co-founder of Covington & Burling)[457]
    • Harold L. Ervin, Pennsylvania Superior Court judge from 1954 to 1967.[458]
    • Mary Pat Clarke: first woman President of the Baltimore City Council
    • Bill Cobey: Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party (1999–2003)
    • 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 (2010–12)
    • 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
    • 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 (2011–2018) (later became Mayor of San Francisco for a few months in 2018)
    • James A. Finnegan: President of the Philadelphia City Council (1951–55)
    • F. Emmett Fitzpatrick:District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1974–78)
    • Ed Flanagan: member of the Vermont Senate (2005–2011)
    • Daniel Garodnick: New York City Council member (2006– )
    • Richard L. Gabriel, Class of 1987, (born March 3, 1962) was appointed in 2015 (and continues to serve after being retained in 2018) as an Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Justice Gabriel previously served on the Colorado Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2015
    • Gerald Garson: New York Supreme Court Justice (1998–2003); convicted in 2007 of accepting bribes, NY Supreme Court Justice, convicted of bribery[459]
    • 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– )
    • 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 (Class of 1937): first woman elected to the Philadelphia City Council (1960 - 1968), appointed head of Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection, was Richard Nixon's special assistant for consumer affairs in 1969 (which at the time made her the highest-ranking woman in the administration), and was appointed Director of the United States Office of Consumer Affairs (where she mentored her top assistant, Elizabeth Hanford and introduced her to her future husband, Robert Dole).[460][461]
    • John C. Knox: Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1948–55)
    • Randy J. Holland, Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, 1986–present[462] (left bench in 2017)
    • Peter B. Krauser: Chief Judge on the Court of Special Appeals for the state of Maryland, and past Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party[463]
    • Phyllis A. Kravitch: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    • Joseph L. Kun, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.
    • 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)
    • Steve P. Leskinen, Judge Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas (Fayette County)
    • 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– )
    • Albert Dutton MacDade, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1921-1929, Judge Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas (Delaware County), 1942–1948[464]
    • 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[465]
    • 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., Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1984–96; the first African-American Chief Justice of any state's highest court; Justice of the Pa. Supreme Court, 1971–84[466]
    • John W. Noble, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
    • 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)
    • Joseph B. Perskie (1885–1957; class of 1907), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1933 to 1947.[467]
    • 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)[468](and previously was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1994 to 1996, in both cases becoming the first woman to serve in that position
    • 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
    • Leo E. Strine Jr., class of 1988, Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court[469] (left bench in 2019)
    • Horace Stern, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1952–56[470][471]
    • 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)
    • Alex Wan: member of the Atlanta City Council (2010–18)
    • 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)
    • H. Albert Young (Penn Law Class of 1929): 34th Attorney General of Delaware (1951 - 1954)
    [472]

    Foreign governments[]

    Heads of state and government[]

    • Nnamdi Azikiwe: first President of Nigeria, 1963–66[473]
    • 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
    • Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (born December 13, 1964) University of Pennsylvania College Class of 1988, BA, and Graduate School Class of 1996, Ph.D., in linguistics where he graduated summa cum laude;[474][475] in 2019 elected 14th prime minister of Latvia[476]
    • 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
    • Francisco Sagasti (Doctor of Philosophy degree in operational research and social systems science from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania): 62nd President of Peru November 17, 2020 through July 28, 2021,[477][478][479] and
    • Cesar Virata: Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1981–86
    • William Walker: President of the Republic of Nicaragua, 1856–7

    Other foreign officials[]

    • 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– )
    • Stefán Jón Hafstein: Icelandic writer and statesman
    • 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 US 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 US
    • 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)
    • Douglas Peters: member of the Canadian Parliament (1993–97)
    • Sachin Pilot: Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan state in India, former union government 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–)[480]
    • 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 Ireland and Singapore and former director of Venezuela's Diplomatic Academy.
    • Jayant Sinha: Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Indian government (2016 - ), former Minister of State for Finance (2014–2016)
    • Ignazio Visco: governor of the Bank of Italy (2011– )
    • Ashwini Vaishnaw (Wharton MBA Class of 2010),[481] a member of Bharatiya Janata Party who was appointed to Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology of India (July 7, 2021 to present) as Cabinet Minister in charge of Railways and Information Technology and is also a member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha State in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house in June of 2019[482]
    • Sir Ronald Wilson: former justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the nation

    Lawyers, advisors and civil rights leaders[]

    • Sadie Tanner Alexander: first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D in economics 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
    • Ashley Biden, social worker, social justice activist, and daughter of President Joe Biden
    • 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 1000 lawyers
    • Henry Drinker: original name partner in Drinker Biddle & Reath 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, member of the United States House of Representatives[483]
    • 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
    • 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)
    • Kiyoshi Kuromiya: Japanese-American civil rights and anti-war activist; personal aide to Martin Luther King Jr.; co-founder of the LGBTQ activist groups Gay Liberation Front and ACT UP
    • 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 law firms, currently with about 1900 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 US 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
    • Eli Kirk Price II: founder, Philadelphia Museum of Art
    • Howard J. Rubenstein: public relations lawyer and executive
    • 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: US representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights under President John F. Kennedy
    • George W. Wickersham: attorney general of the United States, name partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the oldest continuously operated law firm in the US; president of the Council on Foreign Relations (1933–36)
    • Maggie Williams: campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign

    Medicine[]

    See also: Alumni of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

    As is detailed below, Penn Med has four alumni who were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    • Ephraim Leister Acker (1827–1903) earned his M.D., (Penn Med class of 1852)[484] and LL.B., (Penn Law class of 1886), served as Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1871–1873[189]
    • Robert Adams Jr.: (1849 1906) class of 1869: member of St. Anthony Hall,[338] studied law under preceptor George W. Biddle (and admitted to the bar in 1872 but never practiced law),[485] served as member of the United States Geological Survey during the explorations of Yellowstone National Park; served in Pennsylvania State Senate[338][486][190] was appointed United States Minister to Brazil[338] was elected to Congress a vacancy and then served three terms as representative from the 2nd Pennsylvania district[338]
    • Pete Allen (1868-1946) Penn Med class of 1897,[487] played one game in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Spiders, specialized in proctology and was a member of the American Proctology Society, the American Medical Association and the Philadelphia County Medical Society, taught as an assistant professor of proctology at Jefferson Medical College[488]
    • Charles Conrad Abbott, Penn Med class of 1865[489] served as surgeon in Union Army during American Civil War[490] and in 1876 discovered traces of human presence in the Delaware River Valley dating from the first or "Kansan" ice age, and inferentially from the pre-glacial period when humans are believed to have entered upon the North American continent[491]
    • David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892) Penn Med class of 1838[492] volunteered as consulting and operating surgeon when President James A. Garfield was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet in 1881[493] and wrote The Principles and Practice of Surgery based on his experience of fifty active years, of practicing medicine[492] which was a three-volume set published 1878–1883
    • William Wallace Anderson: Penn Med class of 1849: designed the Borough House Plantation and Church of the Holy Cross (Stateburg, South Carolina), now National Historic Landmarks doctor, and architect whose works in South Carolina attained National Historic Landmarks
    • John Archer, Penn Med class of 1768: first person to receive a medical degree from an American medical school and a US congressman from Maryland
    • John Light Atlee (1799 -1885) Penn Med class of 1820: an American physician and surgeon who helped found Lancaster County Association of Physicians, organize the American Medical Association and served as its president, and was appointed professor of anatomy at Franklin and Marshall College[494]
    • William Maclay Awl, (May 24, 1799 – November 19, 1876)[495] Penn Med class of 1824 (did not graduate): acting superintendent of the Ohio "State Hospital," president of the Association of Superintendents of Asylums for the Insane of the United States and Canada, one of the founders of the Ohio State Medical Society
    • Lewis Heisler Ball (September 21, 1861 – October 18, 1932), Penn Med class of 1885[496] elected state treasurer of Delaware and to the US House of Representatives; appointed to US Senate for Delaware, later elected to Senate in the second popular election of a Senator in Delaware
    • William P. C. Barton, (November 17, 1786 – March 27, 1856) Penn Med class of 1808: author of A Treatise Containing a Plan for the Internal Organization and Government of Marine Hospitals in the U.S....[497] and Dean of Jefferson Medical College
    • (Mary) Alice Bennett (January 31, 1851 – 1925): 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[498][499]
    • John Milton Bernhisel:(1799–1881) Penn Med class of 1827,[500] began practicing medicine in New York City but after became affiliated with the Latter Day Saint movement and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where he served as the personal physician to Joseph Smith, and living in Smith's home and delivering some of his children, followed Brigham Young west with the majority of the Latter-day Saints to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, represented the Latter-day Saints before Congress to advocate for statehood as the State of Deseret, served in Congress, regent of the University of Utah, member of the Council of Fifty
    • William Wyatt Bibb (October 2, 1781 – July 10, 1820) Penn Med class of 1801: served one term in Georgia House of Representatives,[501] was elected to United States Congress to fill a vacancy (an office to which he was reelected four times),[502] was elected by the state legislature to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy,[503] last governor of the Alabama Territory and first elected governor of Alabama[504]
    • Karin J. Blakemore: Penn College for Women class of 1974, leading medical geneticist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where she was director of Chorionic Villus Sampling Program and Laboratory, Alphafetoprotein (AFP) Referral Service, Prenatal Diagnostic Center, and Maternal-Fetal Medicine and that division's fellowship program; led team at the Johns Hopkins University's Institute of Genetic Medicine[505][506]
    • Leonard N. Boston: Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia (merged into University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Class of 1896, appointed Penn Med professor of physical diagnosis in 1912, and then associate professor of medicine in 1919, served as professor at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (now part of Drexel University College of Medicine) in 1928[507]
    • Allan G. Brodie, DDS (1897–1976) University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (Penn Dental) class of 1919: dentist and orthodonist, teacher, writer, and researcher who, in 1929, was invited by Dean Frederick Bogue Noyes to the University of Illinois College of Dentistry to organize its Department of Orthodontics, one of the first graduate orthodontics departments established in the United States
    • Michael S. Brown (born April 13, 1941) Penn Med class of 1965, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism and is also the 1985 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research[508][509][510][511]
    • Hiram R. Burton(1841–1927) Penn Med class of 1868: elected to the US House of Representatives (for Delaware's at-large district) twice and served in Congress from March 4, 1905, until March 3, 1909; also served as Delaware secretary of state
    • Doc Bushong, DDS, Penn Dental class of 1882: first graduate from any school at Penn to play in Major League Baseball[119] and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn[120][119]
    • Tom Cahill, Penn Med class of 1893 but left in 1891: played one season in Major League Baseball for the Louisville Colonels, died from an injury before finishing medical degree
    • Charles Caldwell, Penn Med class of 1796: founder of the University of Louisville School of Medicine[512]
    • John Carson: College Class of 1771, Original Trustee, rechartered University of Pennsylvania, and original incorporator and Fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
    • Samuel A. Cartwright, Penn Med alumnus from the 1810s who did not graduate: improved sanitary conditions during the American Civil War and was honored for his investigations into yellow fever and Asiatic cholera but criticised for unscientific creation of diseases affecting enslaved and free blacks
    • Henry H. Chambers, Penn Med class of 1811: US senator from Alabama
    • Nathaniel Chapman: (1780 –1853) Penn Med class of 1800: physician[513] who was the founding president of the American Medical Association in 1847,[514] founded the American Journal of the Medical Sciences in 1820 where he served as its editor for number of years, and also served as president of both the Philadelphia County Medical Society and the American Philosophical Society
    • John Claiborne, Penn Med class of 1798: Virginia representative to Congress
    • Lewis Condict, Penn Med class of 1794: New Jersey representative to Congress, trustee of Princeton College
    • Samuel W. Crawford, Penn Med class of 1850: US Army surgeon and a Union general in the American Civil War
    • William Holmes Crosby Jr. (1914 –2005) Penn College class of 1936 and Penn Med class of 1940: a founding father of modern hematology; published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers in hematology, oncology, gastroenterology, iron metabolism, nutrition, and general medical practice; established in 1951 and was chief of the hematology and oncology specialties at Walter Reed Army Hospital until 1965; inventor of Crosby–Kugler capsule; published translator of poetry.
    • William Darlington, Penn Med class of 1804: War of 1812 major of a volunteer regiment, Pennsylvania representative to Congress
    • William Potts Dewees, Penn Med class of 1806: Obstetrician and author of System of Midwifery, a standard reference book on Obstetrics
    • Samuel Gibson Dixon: (March 23, 1851 - February 26, 1918) Penn Law class of 1877 and Penn Med class of 1886; also studied bacteriology at King's College London, and at Pettenkoffer's Laboratory of Hygiene in Munich before returning to Penn Med as the professor of hygiene; commissioner of the State Department of Health in Pennsylvania from 1905 until his death in 1918, during which time he worked for the prevention of tuberculosis and similar diseases by introducing sanitary and hygienic reforms that set new standards for government public health programs that saved thousands of lives[515]
    • 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[516]
    • Gerald Edelman: (July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) Penn Med class of 1954, an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the immune system[517] via research resulting in discovery of the structure of antibody molecules[518] and was founder and director of The Neurosciences Institute
    • Archibald Magill Fauntleroy: surgeon in the Confederate Army
    • Clement Finley, Penn Med class of 1818: 10th surgeon general of the United States Army
    • John Floyd, Penn Med class of 1804: 25th governor of Virginia, Virginia representative to Congress
    • Walter Freeman: Penn Med class of 1920; lobotomist who performed nearly 3500 lobotomies in 23 states; first neurologist in Washington, D.C.[519]
    • A.Y.P. Garnett (1820–1888), Penn Med class of 1842: served as president of the American Medical Association[520] and served Jefferson Davis[521] and as physician to Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War
    • Donald Guthrie (1880–1958), Penn Med class of 1905, surgeon best known for establishing Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania, in 1910, one of the earliest multi-specialty group medical practices, which Guthrie based on the principles he learned while a surgical resident (1906 - 1909) at Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota[522]
    • John Hahn 1776 1823) Penn Med class of 1798[523] elected to the Fourteenth Congress
    • Isaac Hays: Penn College class of 1816 and Penn Med class of 1822 ophthalmologist; first treasurer and founding member of Board of the American Medical Association and editor for over fifty (50) years of American Journal of the Medical Sciences
    • David Jackson, Penn Med class of 1768: appointed to manage the lottery for costs of the American Revolutionary War, but he resigned to become an army surgeon, Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786
    • Joseph Jorgensen, Penn Med class of 1865: Virginia representative to Congress
    • Myint Myint Khin, MD, (December 15, 1923 – June 19, 2014) an English major at the University of Rangoon, she ultimately graduated from Penn Med with class of 1955, and also did her residency at University of Pennsylvania,[524][525] married (in 1953) to San Baw, a medical school classmate who received an MD and an MS from Penn Med,[525][526][524] served as chair of the Department of Medicine of the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay from 1965 to 1984, and served as a consultant at the World Health Organization from 1985 to 1991, published eleven books in Burmese and two in English
    • Albert Kligman, Ph.D., M.D.: University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences class of 1942 and Penn Med class of 1947; botanist and dermatologist who invented Retin-A, a popular acne medication[527]
    • Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, MBE, 2009: researcher, health activist, and cystic-fibrosis patient, founder of nonprofit Emily's Entourage
    • David E. Kuhl: developer of positron emission tomography, also known as PET scanning, a nuclear medicine imaging technique
    • Andrew Lam, Penn Med class of 2002: author and retinal surgeon
    • Caleb R. Layton, Penn Med class of 1876: Delaware representative to Congress
    • Crawford Long, Penn Med class of 1839:[528] surgeon and pharmacist, namesake of Emory University-operated Crawford Long Hospital
    • George McClellan, class of 1819: founder of Jefferson Medical College, now Thomas Jefferson University
    • Willoughby D. Miller (1853–1907) Penn Dental class of 1879 (first class to graduate)[529] was an American dentist and the first oral microbiologist.[530] and was appointed dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1906, but died in 1907, prior to assuming the position[531][532][533]
    • George Edward Mitchell, Penn Med class of 1805: Maryland representative to Congress
    • Charles Delucena Meigs: pioneering leader in obstetrics
    • John Peter Mettauer: first plastic surgeon in the US
    • Leo C. Mundy, Penn Med class of 1908, (1887–1944) physician and politician who served as a member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 21st district[534] and who served in the United States Army during World War I where he was placed in charge of a one-thousand-bed military hospital in France and received the distinguished service citation from General John Pershing for heroism in treating and evacuating wounded soldiers under fire[535]
    • Reuben D. Mussey: Penn Med class of 1809 wrote the first definitive history of tobacco documenting its dangers (1835); President of the American Medical Association[536]
    • Arnold Naudain, Penn Med class of 1810: served in the War of 1812 as surgeon of the Delaware Regiment, US senator from Delaware
    • Arthur Percy Noyes (1880 - 1963), Penn Med class of 1906, served as superintendent of the Rhode Island state mental hospital and the Norristown, Pennsylvania, state mental hospital where he creating a psychiatric residency training programs for Penn Med, which lasted for over fifty years, and writing a seminal textbook, A Textbook on Psychiatry for Students and Graduates in Schools of Nursing[537] which led to publication of his textbook Modern Clinical Psychiatry, served as president of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society, and American Psychiatric Association
    • Archibald E. Olpp (May 12, 1882 – July 26, 1949), Penn Med class of 1908: physician and politician who was an instructor in chemistry at Lehigh University and in biological chemistry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; served as first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps during the World War I; first Republican to be elected to Congress from the New Jersey's 11th congressional district since it was created in 1913[538]
    • John H. Outland, Penn Med class of 1899 (after starting at University of Kansas); became one of the few men ever to win All-American football honors as both lineman and the backfield player; voted "Most Popular Man" in the entire University of Pennsylvania
    • Mehmet Oz: surgeon, author and TV host
    • John M. Patton, Penn Med class of 1818: Virginia representative to Congress
    • William Pepper (August 21, 1843 – July 28, 1898), Penn Med class of 1864: lectured on morbid anatomy and clinical medicine and as professor at Penn and succeeded Dr. Alfred Still as professor of theory and practice of medicine;[539] founded and editor of the Philadelphia Medical Times; elected provost of the University of Pennsylvania in 1881 and remained in that position until 1894; medical director of the United States Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876; made Knight Commander of Saint Olaf by King Oscar II of Sweden.;[539][540] founder of Philadelphia's first free public library
    • Sidney Pestka: biochemist and geneticist; the "father of interferon"
    • Philip Syng Physick, class of 1785: surgeon in post-colonial America; called "the father of American surgery"
    • Stanley B. Prusiner: (born May 28, 1942) Penn College class of 1964 and Penn Med class of 1968: neurologist and biochemist who discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein resulting in him being awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for prion research developed by him and his team of experts[541][542]
    • John H. Pugh, Penn Med class of 1852: New Jersey representative to Congress
    • David Ramsay, Penn Med class of 1773, 1780 (Hon. M.D.): South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, one of the first major historians of the American Revolution
    • Howard A. Rusk: founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center; "father of comprehensive rehabilitation"
    • Jacob A. Salzmann (1901–1992) Penn Dental class of 1922: orthodontist known for developing an assessment index for determining malocclusion, which has been adopted by American Dental Association Council of Dental Health, the Council on Dental Care Programs, and by the American Association of Orthodontists[543][544]
    • Sandra Saouaf: earned her PhD from Penn in immunology[545]
    • Valentine Seaman: physician who introduced the small pox vaccine to the US
    • Gregg Semenza: (born July 12, 1956), Penn Med class of 1982: professor of genetic medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he is director of the vascular program at the Institute for Cell Engineering,[546] is a 2016 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research,[547] is known for his discovery of HIF-1, which allows cancer cells to adapt to oxygen-poor environments, and shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability"[548][549]
    • Adam Seybert, Penn Med class of 1793: Pennsylvania representative to Congress
    • Rajiv Shah, Penn Med class of 2001: former director of USAID, formerly at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; also alumnus of the Wharton School; president, Rockefeller Foundation
    • Isaac Starr: Isaac "Jack" Starr (1895 –1989) Penn Med class of 1920,[550] interned at Massachusetts General Hospital, appointed Penn Med's first assistant professor in pharmacology, first Hartzell Professor of Research Therapeutics,[550] and dean from 1945 to 1948,[551] known as the father of ballistocardiography,[552][553] and awarded the Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association "for fundamental contributions to knowledge of the heart and the circulation, and for his development of the first practical ballistocardiograph",[554] Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians,[550] the Burger Medal of the Free University of Amsterdam,[550] and an honorary Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree from University of Pennsylvania for his contributions to medicine[555][556]
    • Alexander Hodgdon Stevens: second President of the American Medical Association
    • Alfred Stillé: the first Secretary, and later president of the American Medical Association
    • Joel Barlow Sutherland, Penn Med class of 1812: Pennsylvania representative to Congress, served in the War of 1812 as assistant surgeon to the "Junior Artillerists of Philadelphia"
    • Wendy Sue Swanson, Penn Med class of 2003: pediatrician, social media activist, author of Seattle Mama Doc blog
    • Hedge Thompson, Penn Med class of 1802: New Jersey representative to the Congress
    • Samuel Hollingsworth Stout, Penn Med class of 1848: Confederate surgeon, teacher, slaveholder, farmer
    • Edward Bright Vedder: US Army physician and noted researcher of beriberi
    • Bert Vogelstein: cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University
    • William Carlos Williams, Penn Med class of 1906, poet, pediatrician, and general practitioner
    • Caspar Wistar, Penn Med class of 1782: president of the American Philosophical Society and president of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery
    • George Bacon Wood, Penn Med class of 1818: Compiled first Dispensatory of the United States (1833); president of both the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and American Medical Association
    • Horatio C Wood, Jr. [sic], Penn Med class of 1862: author of the 1874 work Treatise on Therapeutics, Special Prize from American Philosophical Society for his 1869 paper Research upon American Hemp, 1871 Warren Prize from Massachusetts General Hospital for Experimental Researches in the Physiological Action of Amyl Nitrite, 1872 Boylston Prize for Thermic Fever or Sunstroke, nephew of George Bacon Wood
    • Joseph Janvier Woodward,(1833–1884), (commonly known as J. J. Woodward) Penn Med class of 1853): served as 34th president of the American Medical Association; pioneer in photomicrography, surgeon; performed the autopsies of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth; attended to president James A. Garfield after he was shot[557][558]

    Military[]

    Medal of Honor recipients[]

    • William R. D. Blackwood (May 12, 1838 – April 26, 1922) University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Class of 1862: Medal of Honor recipient from the American Civil War
    • Cecil Clay (February 13, 1842 – September 23, 1903) University of Pennsylvania Class of 1864; joined fraternity St. Anthony Hall;[559] Medal of Honor recipient and brevet brigadier general from the American Civil War
    • Joseph K. Corson (November 22, 1836– July 24, 1913)) University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Class of 1863: Medal of Honor recipient from the American Civil War
    • Henry A. du Pont (July 30, 1838 – December 31, 1926): Medal of Honor recipient and lieutenant colonel from the American Civil War and elected twice by Delaware Assembly to United States Senate
    • Frederick C. Murphy (July 27, 1918 – March 19, 1945) University of Pennsylvania Class of 1943: Medal of Honor recipient from World War II who attended Penn before enlisting in the United States Army[560]

    Air Force officials[]

    • Harris Hull: Decorated brigadier general of the United States Air Force (USAF) during World War II (WWII)
    • George G. Lundberg: Brigadier general of the USAF during World War II, and 1917 economics graduate
    • David G. Young III: USAF brigadier general

    Army officials[]

    • Joseph Barnes: Surgeon general (US 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 US Army, 1821–28; also major general and hero of the War of 1812
    • Charles C. Byrne: US 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 US Army
    • George Izard: General in the US 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 US 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 US 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 US Army; served in that capacity during the War of 1812
    • Henry D. Todd Jr., US Army major general who commanded artillery units during World War I[561]
    • Anthony Wayne: US 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 US 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[]

    • William Augustus Newell, Class of 1839: a father of the modern-day United States Coast Guard; created the United States Life-Saving Service through the Newell Act, which merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard in 1915

    Marine Corps officials[]

    • William P. Biddle: Major general and the 11th commandant of the United States Marine Corps (USMC)
    • George R. Christmas: retired USMC lieutenant general, and president and CEO of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation
    • Robert L. Denig: highly decorated brigadier general in the USMC, who served as its first director of public information
    • John Marston (USMC): Major general during WWII
    • Samuel Nicholas: founder and first commandant of the USMC, commissioned in 1775

    Merchant Marine officials[]

    • James A. Helis University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Master of Arts in political science: Rear admiral and the 12th superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, 2012–2018
    • Ted Weems: bandleader for the US Merchant Marine during World War II

    Navy officials[]

    • James Biddle: American commodore and explorer whose flagship was the USS Columbus and whose brother was fellow Penn alumnus and financier Nicholas Biddle
    • Kenneth Braithwaite: University of Pennsylvania, Fels Institute of Government (Class of 1995, master's degree in government administration)[562] a retired United States Navy one-star rear admiral.[563] who as of December 7, 2020 is serving as the 77th secretary of the Navy since May 29, 2020.[564] as he was nominated by President Donald Trump on March 2, 2020 and was sworn in on May 29, 2020[565][566] and previously served as United States Ambassador to Norway[342] under President Donald J. Trump[162]
    • Peter Burleigh: US ambassador to the United Nations, the Philippines, Palau, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka; attended graduate school but did not earn a degree
    • Stephen Decatur: American commodore noted for his heroism during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812, he was the youngest man ever to attain the rank of captain in the United States Navy (USN); namesake of many communities and counties in the US
    • Nancy J. Lescavage: Rear Admiral and 20th Director of the Navy Nurse Corps
    • Mary Joan Nielubowicz: Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1983–87
    • William Ruschenberger: Surgeon for the USN and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1870–1882, and president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 1879–1883
    • Richard Somers: Naval officer and namesake of Somers, New York, and Somers Point, New Jersey
    • James A. Zimble: 30th surgeon general of the USN

    Philosophy, theology, and religion[]

    • 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.
    • Sundar J.M. Brown:[567] founder of IntelliGen Consulting Group; leading scholar of theoterrorism and religious terrorism; US Department of State intelligence contractor
    • 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 US 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.; Navy chaplain during World War II; participated in the funeral procession of President John F. Kennedy[568][569]
    • 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: first woman to serve as a rabbi in Canada (1980)
    • Jeannine Gramick: Roman Catholic nun; co-founder of the activist organization New Ways Ministry
    • Dmitry Grigorieff: dean emeritus of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
    • 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: first 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
    • Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda: first Japanese born Bishop of Tokyo in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan
    • William Augustus Muhlenberg, Class of 1815 and 1818: clergyman; founded the infirmary which became St. Luke's Hospital 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
    • 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, 1985–1988, and archbishop of New Orleans, 1989–2001
    • William Bacon Stevens: fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania (1865–87)
    • Ernest Adolphus Sturge: general superintendent of the Japanese Presbyterian Church
    • 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 US Senate chaplain (1790)
    • Robert Watson Wood: American clergyman of the United Church of Christ and an early activist for LGBT rights

    Science and technology[]

    • 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 Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias, and Coelophysis; most of his fossil collection is now with the American Museum of Natural History; his Philadelphia home is designated a National Historic Landmark
    • Blossom Damania: virologist[570]
    • J. Presper Eckert: inventor of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC); designed the first commercial computer in the US, 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 US Navy frogmen's rebreathers for underwater breathing, the first device to be called "SCUBA"[571]
    • 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
    • Janet Monge: curator of the physical anthropology section at the Penn Museum, named by Philadelphia Magazine as "Best Museum Curator" in 2014
    • 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, the ASHRAE Hall of Fame, and the National Inventor's 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 automotive 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[]

    • 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;[572] Chairman Emeritus of the UK Atomic Energy Authority; Business Ambassador for UK Trade and Investment[573]
    • 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 US 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
    • Kenneth Thibodeau: pioneer in electronic records management
    • 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[]

    • Bob Asher: chairman of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania; convicted of perjury, racketeering, conspiracy and bribery in 1987 in connection with a state contract award
    • George William Crump: world's first recorded streaker
    • John Eleuthère du Pont: Penn dropout and Dupont family heir; convicted of the murder of Olympic gold medalist wrestler Dave Schultz
    • Jho Low: a financier linked to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad corruption scandal
    • Ira Einhorn: murderer nicknamed the "Unicorn Killer"
    • Frank S. Farley: New Jersey state senator, protégé and successor of mobster and political boss Enoch L. Johnson in leading the Republican Party political machine and crime syndicate of Atlantic City (transferred to Georgetown University)[574]
    • Vince Fumo: Pennsylvania State Senator convicted of 137 federal corruption charges in 2009
    • Gerald Garson: former New York State Supreme Court Justice, convicted of bribery
    • Kermit Gosnell: Non-graduate serial killer and criminal abortionist physician, convicted of murdering three infants during attempted abortion procedures[575]
    • Carl Gugasian: bank robber
    • Adam C. Hochfelder: co-founder of New York City real estate firm, Max Capital; convicted of fraud and grand larceny[576]
    • Norman Hsu: convicted pyramid scheme investment broker
    • Michael Milken: billionaire who pleaded guilty to six counts of securities and tax violations, later pardoned by President Donald J. Trump
    • Nirav Modi: Penn dropout, fraudster and fugitive currently wanted by the Interpol for criminal conspiracy
    • Raj Rajaratnam: billionaire hedge fund manager convicted of insider trading
    • J. Parnell Thomas: convicted fraudster, later pardoned by President Harry S. Truman
    • Blondy Wallace: Bootlegger and convicted tax evader
    • Norman Tweed Whitaker: International Master of chess who served time in prison for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping

    Fictional alumni[]

    • Andrew Beckett: gay, HIV-positive lawyer portrayed by Tom Hanks in the 1993 movie Philadelphia; his former boss says he hired him upon his graduation from the law school
    • Amy Brookheimer: chief of staff to vice presidents Selina Meyer and Jonah Ryan portrayed by Anna Chlumsky on the comedy "Veep"
    • Dr. Daniel Charles, chief of psychiatry at television's Chicago Med, is an alumnus of Penn.
    • Chuck McGill: attorney in Better Call Saul, played by Michael McKean
  • Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds, twin sister of Dennis Reynolds and the waitress at Paddy's Pub, who did not graduate but majored in psychology, portrayed by Kaitlin Olson in the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  • Dennis Reynolds: narcissistic and selfish character who minored in psychology and was a brother at a fraternity, portrayed by Glenn Howerton in the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  • Anthony "Tony" Judson Lawrence portrayed by Paul Newman, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania Law School, in the 1959 film, The Young Philadelphians based on 1956 novel The Philadelphian by Richard P. Powell
  • Gary Shepherd: professor portrayed by Peter Horton on the comedy-drama Thirtysomething
  • Michael Steadman: advertising executive portrayed by Ken Olin on the comedy-drama Thirtysomething

    • Nobel Laureates[]

    Physics[]

    • 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[]

    • 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[]

    • Gregg Semenza: 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
      • "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability"
    • 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[]

    • 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[]

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