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 (August 7, 1865 – February 7, 1935): urban historian, assistant professor in the City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation Departments
- Alexander Dallas Bache,(July 19, 1806 – February 17, 1867) American physicist, scientist, and surveyor, professor of natural philosophy and chemistry, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
- Edmund Bacon: adjunct professor of architecture
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- Aaron T. Beck: emeritus professor of psychiatry; considered the father of both cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy[2][3]
- Fulbright Scholar
- 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
- Joe Biden: Benjamin Franklin Professor of Practice; 46th President of the United States
- 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
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- 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
- Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor in Music Department at Penn (1965 through 1997)[4]
- 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
- Frederick Erickson: educational anthropologist[10]
- 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
- New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Judge Rene H. Himel Professor of Law at the Tulane School of Law.[11]
- 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
- Jacob Gershon-Cohen: professor of radiology; developer of mammography for detecting breast cancer
- 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
- Claudia Goldin (Professor of Economics 1979 to 1990): Nobel Prize in Economics[12]
- 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
- Abhyankar conjecture
- Lothar Haselberger: professor of architectural history
- De'Broski Herbert: professor of immunology
- Robin M. Hochstrasser: professor of chemistry
- Daniel Hoffman: poet, Felix E. Schelling professor of English, consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson: professor of communications, Annenberg School for Communications; author; media analyst
- Daniel H. Janzen: professor of biology
- A.T. Charlie Johnson: Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Vaughan Jones: Fields Medal winner, professor of Mathematics
- Aravind Joshi: Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive science
- Salk Institutein 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 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[13]
- 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
- Robert Patterson (educator) (May 20, 1743 – July 22, 1824) from 1779 to 1814 was professor of mathematics at, and from 1810 to 1813 also served as vice provost of University of Pennsylvania and in 1805, President Thomas Jefferson appointed him director of the United States Mint.[14]
- Bob Perelman: professor of English; language poet
- Samuel H. Preston: Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography; known for his development of the Preston curve
- Moore School of Engineering 1976-1978; Turing Awardwinner
- 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
- Rangita de Silva de Alwis: member-elect to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; senior adjunct professor of global leadership
- Rogers Smith: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
- Lee Stetson: Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, 29 years
- Peter Sterling: neuroscientist and co-founder of the concept 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
Penn alumni are the (a) current or past presidents of over one hundred (100) universities and colleges including
Arts, media, and entertainment
- Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University, and designed much of the campus of Duke University, including Duke Chapel[15]
- Charles Addams (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) College Class of 1933, attended 1 year but did not graduate: creator of The Addams Family; said to have modeled the Addams Family mansion in part after Penn's College Hall
- Arrested Development, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Never Have I Ever, Behind the Music, and the Academy Awards[17]
- Elizabeth Alexander: poet who recited at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama
- Hoodie Allen, born Steven Markowitz: independent hip-hop artist, rapper, singer and songwriter
- Maryanne Amacher: composer
- Howard Arenstein: CBS News national correspondent
- Alex Aster: author
- 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 America1954
- 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
- Academy Award-nominated cinematographer
- Elizabeth Banks: Film director and Emmy Award-nominated actress, known for starring in the film The Hunger Games (2012); lead actress in Invincible; played Laura Bush in W.; Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year in 2020
- Ralph Barbieri (October 28, 1945 – August 3, 2020) Wharton MBA Class of 1970:[20][21] radio personality
- , one of the most valuable art collections in the world
- Fox Business Network
- Jack Barry: television game showproducer and host, 1950s–1984
- Vanessa Bayer: actress, comedian, Saturday Night Live cast member, 2010–2017
- Eric Bazilian: singer, songwriter, guitarist, member of The Hooters
- anchorwoman, and fashion model
- 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
- film critic
- Candice Bergen: Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress, star of the sitcom Murphy Brown
- 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)
- abstract expressionist and color fieldartist
- Nate Bihldorff: Nintendo localization manager; known for Paper Mario and Animal Crossing
- Washington Times
- Friday Night Lights; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Mark Blum actor (died 2021)[24]
- 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
- Stanley Burnside: cartoonist and painter
- 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
- Today Show
- Ryan Choi: composer, musician
- Claudia Cohen: former "Page Six" gossip columnist for the New York Post
- Nancy Cordes: CBS News chief White House correspondent
- Jaime Correa, architect and University of Miami professor
- 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
- editor of House & Garden
- The Apprentice 2
- Joseph Deitch: Tony Award-winning Broadway producer
- New York Magazine, Vanity Fair (magazine), among others)
- 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
- Julie Diana: ballet dancer, ballet master, writer and arts administrator
- Guitarist Jon Gutwillig and ex-drummer Sam Altman of the trance-fusion band the Disco Biscuits; bassist Marc Brownstein and keyboardist Aron Magnerattended 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 and 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
- United States Post Office-Bronx Central Annex
- Sabrina Erdely: reporter known for the discredited Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus"[25]
- Bay Area architect; professor at University of California, Berkeley
- Nicole Eustace: American historian who won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for History
- 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: Chinese 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
- Carol Fitzpatrick
- Westbury Music Fair
- Stephen J. Friedman: movie producer
- sculptorwhose works are featured at institutions around the world
- Laura Gao: cartoonist, author of Messy Roots[26]
- trading card game Magic: The Gathering
- Queer as Folk
- editor of The American Interest, a public policyquarterly 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
- Academy Award-winning screenwriter and producer who in 1927 won the first Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for 7th Heaven and founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences[27]
- Atlantic and The New Yorker
- 20th Century Fox, television and movie producer
- Grammy Award-winning composer of classical music
- John M. Goshko: B.A. in English; journalist, The Washington Post[28]
- 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)
- 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
- Westbury Music Fair
- FAIA, architect who studied at Penn, and later at Yale
- Joseph Hallman: Philadelphia classical and pop music composer, writer
- FAIA, school architect
- anchor
- Stephen Hartke: Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2013
- William Stanley Haseltine: 19th-century painter; his works are included in the collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
- George Hedges: celebrity lawyer, and archeologist who discovered the ancient city of Ubar
- Henry C. Hibbs: architect who designed much of the campus of Vanderbilt University, as well as buildings for many other schools and universities
- flutist and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of classical music
- Evelyn Hockstein: photographer and photojournalist
- John Hoke III: Chief Design Officer, Nike, Inc.
- Leicester Bodine Holland: architect and archaeologist
- 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
- Donelson Hoopes, class of 1960: art historian
- Ariel Horn: novelist
- Kristin Hunter: novelist
- 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
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida; former publisher of the Miami Herald
- 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
- 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
- BAFTA Awardwinner
- operatic soprano
- Joe Klein: columnist and political analyst for Time magazine
- terrorism analyst
- Emmy Award-winning American sports journalist
- 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[29]
- Elliot Lawrence: Tony Award-winning jazz pianist, composer and bandleader
- William Harold Lee: architect
- Gwyneth Leech: artist
- 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
- 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),[32] master's degree in photojournalism at Annenberg School for Communication (1964)
- 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: Penn School of Fine Arts Master of Architecture degree (Class of 2007)[33] is known as the forefather of the postdigital art and design movement who has received the Visual Art Open International Artist Award, Florence Biennale Mixed Media 2nd Place Award, Premio Ora Prize Italy 5th Edition, Premio Ora Prize Spain 1st Edition, The International Society of Experimental Artists Best of Show Award, Donkey Art Prize III Edition Finalist, Best of Show IGOA Toronto, Art Kudos Best of Show Award, the Electronic Language International Festival Media Art Finalist, Lynx International Prize Award, Lumen Prize Finalist, and Western Bureau Art First Prize as a new media artist.
- Washington PostOpinions columnist
- James McDaniel: Emmy Award-winning actor
- 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: Current Culture editor and past 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
- Wendy Neuss: Penn College Class of 1976 (with a bachelor's degree in psychology[34]) executive producer of several TV films starring her ex-husband Patrick Stewart, including A Christmas Carol, The Lion in Winter and King of Texas as the president of Flying Freehold Productions and co-producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the series Star Trek: Voyager[35][36] and produced the Motown series on the Showtime[37]
- Morgan Neville: Academy Award and Grammy-Award-winning director and producer
- Becki Newton: (college class of 2000) actress, Amanda on Ugly Betty[38]
- Philip Francis Nowlan: American science fiction writer, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers
- thirtysomething and as director and executive producer of Alias
- Charles Ornstein: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times
- anchorwoman
- Ashley Parker: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Washington Post
- Kamau Amu Patton: multidisciplinary artist
- 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.
- MIT
- Jim Perry, born Jim Dooley: US and Canadian television host
- Gina Philips: actress (attended, never graduated)
- Noah Pink: screenwriter, television producer, director, and swimmer
- Elizabeth Pipko: author, model
- Marc Platt: film, television and theatre producer who won two Tony Awards for serving as a producer for the Broadway productions of (1) The Band's Visit and (2) Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop[39]
- The Promise, My Name Is Asher Lev, and The Gift of Asher Lev
- Hamilton College; returned to Penn and earned a master's degree in romance philology
- Lifetime Achievement Emmy
- Lionel Pries: architect
- Paul Provenza: actor, comedian, and director of The Aristocrats
- Edmund R. Purves (Class of 1920, B.S. in Architecture): architect and executive director of American Institute of Architects[40] who earned the American Field Service Medal, the Croix de Guerre with a Silver Star, the Verdun Medal (aka Medaille de Verdun), and the Victory Medal with four battle clasps
- 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
- Shabnam Rezaei: TV producer
- Alan Richman: journalist and food writer
- Tom Rinaldi: ESPN reporter and winner of 16 Sports Emmy Awards[41][42]
- Tyler Ritter: actor (The McCarthys)
- Melissa Rivers, born Melissa Rosenberg: actress and daughter of comedian Joan Rivers
- Woodstock Festival
- Mark Rosenthal: screenwriter, Mona Lisa Smile, Planet of the Apes, Mighty Joe Young
- Mary B. Schuenemann: 20th-century watercolorist
- Alan Schwarz: Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter for The New York Times
- Teddy Schwarzman: film producer, The Imitation Game
- Edgar Awardrecipient
- Matt Selman: long-time writer for animated series The Simpsons
- interior designer
- Thomas Jefferson Memorialin Washington, D.C.
- This is My Father's World" to music
- Robert B. Sinclair: film and theater director
- choreographerand director
- Grover Simcox: illustrator, naturalist and polymath
- Linda Simensky, 1985: producer of animated works[44]
- political pundit
- Yakov Smirnoff: Class of 2006, Masters in Psychology, comedian and painter[45]
- 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
- Ty Stiklorius: Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, music executive, and philanthropist
- 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[46]
- George C. Thomas Jr. (October 3, 1873 – February 23, 1932) Class of 1894: golf course architect who designed the original course at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, and contributed to design of Pine Valley Country Club in Camden County, New Jersey, both outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and more than twenty courses in California, including Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades and Red Hill Country Club in Rancho Cucamonga[47]
- Brian Tierney: publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News
- Vivek Tiwary (born May 15, 1973) College and Wharton Class of 1996: Broadway producer and winner of a Grammy Award[48] and 25 Tony Awards[49][50]
- Lynn Toler: judge on the TV series Divorce Court
- William Tomicki: journalist and travel writer
- (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66", and for his role as Dr. Joe Early in the 1970s TV series Emergency!
- The Apprentice 6; daughter of US president, real estate mogul, and Penn alumnus Donald Trump[51]
- 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
- Marc Turtletaub: founder of Big Beach
- 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 replay"; dropped out
- Samantha Vinograd: American journalist who serves as National Security Analyst at CNN
- David A. Vise: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- amina wadud: First Lady Imam in the modern era; activist for social justice; renown scholar of progressive Islam: one of the founding thinkers of Islamic feminism; author and academic
- United States Post Office-Bridgeport Main, and many buildings on the University of Bridgeport campus, as well as co-designed Fairfield University's Bellarmine Hall; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
- Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd was largely responsible for the revitalization of Baltimore's Inner Harbor
- William Thompson Walters: American businessman and art collector, whose collection formed the basis of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD
- Mark Waters: director, Mean Girls
- Ted Weems (originally Wemyes) bandleader honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[54]
- 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[55]
- Ai Weiwei: artist
- Ned Wertimer: actor who portrayed Ralph the doorman on the long-running sitcom The Jeffersons
- Rhodes Scholar
- C.K. Williams: Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet
- William Carlos Williams: poet; National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner
- 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
- Mask and Wig Club as student and now actor[56]
- 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[57]
- All-American who was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame; won the Maxwell Award that year.[58]
- George H. Brooke: member of the College Football Hall of Fame; played for Penn and Swarthmore College[59]
- Charlie Gelbert: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[60]
- John Heisman: namesake of the Heisman Trophy; president of the American Football Coaches Association; head football coach at Clemson University (1900–1903), Georgia Tech (1904–1919), the University of Pennsylvania (1920–1922), Washington & Jefferson College (1923), and Rice University (1924–1927)[61]
- Bill Hollenback, class of 1909, (1886–1968): football player and coach; playing at Penn, he was selected as an All-American fullback three consecutive years (1906-1908).
- Ed McGinley: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[62]
- Leroy Mercer: member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the 1910 College Football All-America Team[63]
- John Minds: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[64]
- Skip Minisi: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[65]
- Bob Odell: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[66]
- Winchester Osgood: former Penn football player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame[67]
- John H. Outland: Penn Med class of 1900; namesake of Outland Trophy in college football[68]
- George Savitsky: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[69]
- Hunter Scarlett: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[70]
- Vince Stevenson: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[71]
- Bob Torrey: member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- Charles Wharton: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[72]
Head coaches (of any sport)
- Hall of Fame and head coach of Penn's men's basketball team (2009–2015)[73]
- (Eugene Beauharnais) E. B. Beaumont, Jr.: first head coach in football at the University of Alabama[74]
- Marty Brill: head coach in football at La Salle University and Loyola Marymount University[75]
- Alfred E. Bull: head coach in football at the University of Iowa, Franklin & Marshall College, Georgetown University, Lafayette College, and Muhlenberg College[76]
- Byron W. Dickson: head coach in football at Lehigh University[77]
- University of Texas (1909)[78]
- Mike Elko, current head football coach at Duke University[80]
- All-American basketball player at Penn and later became the head coach the University of Pittsburgh's Panthers men's basketball team for ten seasons from 1911–12 to 1920–21 where he compiled an overall record of 105–68 (.607)[81][82]
- 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[83]
- Tom Gilmore: Head Coach in football at the College of the Holy Cross[84]
- 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[85]
- Dick Harter: head coach in men's basketball at the University of Oregon, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Pennsylvania[86]
- 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)[61]
- Penn State (1909, 1911–14)[87]
- 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[88]
- Danny Hutchinson: head coach in football at Wesleyan University[89]
- 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)[90]
- A. R. Kennedy: head coach in football at Washburn University (1903, 1916–1917) and the University of Kansas (1904–1910)[91]
- Alden Knipe: head coach in football at the University of Iowa, 1898–1902[92]
- Otis Lamson: member of the 1905 College Football All-America Team, and 1907 head coach in football at the University of North Carolina[93]
- Matt Langel: head coach in men's basketball at Colgate University[94]
- Dan Leibovitz: head coach in men's basketball at the University of Hartford[95]
- George Levene: head coach in football at the University of Tennessee (1907–09)[96]
- Rose Bowl; served as president of the American Football Coaches Association[97]
- John Lyons: head coach in football at Dartmouth College (1992 - 2004)[98] and Assistant Coach University of New Hampshire (2011 - 2021)[99]
- Harry Arista Mackey: head coach in football at the University of Virginia[100]
- 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)[101]
- Jack McCloskey, (class of 1948): head coach in men's basketball at Penn from 1966 to 1971 and then Wake Forest University[103] and Portland Trail Blazers, later general manager of the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves[104]
- 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
- Washington and Jefferson College, and the University of South Carolina[105]
- USFA Hall of Fame[106]
- Allie Miller: head coach in football at Villanova University[107]
- George Munger: member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)[108]
- B. Russell Murphy: first head coach in basketball at Johns Hopkins University[109]
- 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)[110]
- Harry Parker: head coach in varsity rowing at Harvard University[111]
- 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[112]
- Frank Piekarski: head coach in football at Washington & Jefferson College, and member of the 1904 College Football All-America Team[113]
- Basketball Hall of Fame[114]
- Charles Rogers: head coach in football at the University of Delaware[115]
- Seth Roland: head coach in men's soccer at Fairleigh Dickinson University[116]
- Michael Saxe: head coach in basketball at Villanova University from 1920 to 1926[117]
- Frank Sexton: Major League Baseball player, and head coach in baseball at Brown University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan[118]
- 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)[119]
- Andrew Toole: head coach in basketball at Robert Morris University[120]
- the University of Iowa in 1897[122]
- Garfield Weede: head coach in football at Washburn University and Pittsburg State University; member of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, and dentist[123]
- Doctor Weeks: first head coach in football at the University of Massachusetts Amherst[124]
- Carl Sheldon Williams: College football coach; won national championships for Penn in both 1904 and 1907[125]
- 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[126]
- George Washington Woodruff: member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)[127]
- Wylie G. Woodruff: head coach in football at the University of Kansas[128]
NFL champions
- Chuck Bednarik (Class of 1949): 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 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[129]
- Ernest Alexander Tex Hamer (October 4, 1901 – May 9, 1981) Class of 1923: 1926 NFL Champion playing for Frankford Yellow Jackets
- Walter Irving Chicago Staleys (now the Chicago Bears)
- wide receiver and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl LV and Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVII and Super Bowl LVIII Champion[137]
Olympic medalists
The university currently holds the record (21) for most medals won by its alumni at any single Olympic Games (
- 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[138]
- 1988 Summer Olympic Games
- 2012 Summer Olympic Games
- National Track & Field Hall of Fame
- 1908 Summer Olympic Games; first head coach in men's basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine[139]
- 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 (November 19, 1878 – June 7, 1947): (College Class of 1901 and Penn Law Class of 1904) winner of a silver medal in the Pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the silver medal in the men's pole vault just behind his fellow Penn Law alumnus, Irving Baxter, who won the gold medal[140][141]
- 1972 Summer Olympic Games; member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- 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
- 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
- 2000 Summer Olympic Games and two gold medals at the World Rowing Championships(1997 and 1998)
- 1932 Summer Olympic Games; member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
- Samuel Gerson: winner of a silver medal in wrestlingat the 1920 Summer Olympic Games
- Thomas charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame)[142]
- 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[143]
- 1924 Summer Olympic Games
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 1984 Summer Olympic Games
- 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
- 1988 Summer Olympic Games; head coach in men's rowing at Yale University
- 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
- 2008 Summer Olympic Games
- 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 rowingat the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
- Michael Storm: winner of a silver medal in the Modern Pentathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
- 1908 Summer Olympic Games
- Walter Tewksbury: winner of five medals at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games: two gold, two silver and a bronze
- Alan Valentine: winner of a gold medal as part of the American rugby union team at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Professional basketball players
- 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[144][145][146]
- "Chink"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,[144] named EBA Most Valuable Player in 1952[148]
- 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[144]
- 50 most influential personalities in European club basketball[149] played for Italian League club Pallacanestro Varese, also led the Italian League in scoring during six seasons[150]
- 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[144]
- 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[155][156][157][158][159][160][161]
- Matthew White: basketball player, class of 1979, selected by Portland Trail Blazers, played professionally in the Liga ACB for several teams[162][163][164]
Professional football players
- Chuck Bednarik (Class of 1949): 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
- New York Titansin 1960
- George Washington 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[129]
- Ernest Alexander Tex Hamer (October 4, 1901 – May 9, 1981) Class of 1923: 1926 NFL Champion playing for Frankford Yellow Jackets
- Division I-AA All-American in 2001[168]
- Florian Gerard Kempf (born May 25, 1956) Class of 1978: played four seasons in the National Football League[169] for the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints[170][171]
- Mitch Marrow Class of 1999: was named All-Ivy League in '96 and '97 and drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the 3rd round of the 1998 draft but ultimately retired due to back injuries[172]
- Rob Milanese: Arena Football League wide receiver; school's all-time leading receiver
- 2004 NFL Draft on June 18 and then played in NFL for the St. Louis Rams, Dallas Cowboys, and Detroit Lions[173][174]
- 2016 NFL Draft by NFLDraftScout.com,[citation needed] signed with the Oakland Raiders on May 10, 2016, after going undrafted in the 2016 NFL Draft[175][176]
- rancher
- Walter Irving Chicago Staleys (now the Chicago Bears)
- Frank Reagan: former professional football player for the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, 1941–1951; led the NFL in interceptions in 1947
- offensive lineman for six seasons for the Baltimore Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers
- George Sullivan: Professional football player who played in (a) 22 games, starting twelve, for the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the National Football League from 1924 to 1925[178] and (b) 8 games, starting 6, for the Philadelphia Quakers of the American Football League during the 1926 season[178] The AFL folded after the 1926 season
- Joe Valerio: NFL pro who spent five seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs
- Blondy Wallace: College All-American, NFL pro, and bootlegger
- wide receiver and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl LV and Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVII Champion[137]
- guard who played three seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL)[178]
Professional baseball players
- 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[179] and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn[180][179]
- Penn Med Class of 1893 but left in 1891 and did not graduate[181] played one season in Major League Baseball for the Louisville Colonels
- Mark DeRosa: San Francisco Giants infielder/outfielder; part of World Series-winning 2010 team
- 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[182]
- New York Times op-edcolumnist
- William John 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"[186] 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[186]
- Scott Graham: long-time Philadelphia Phillies sportscaster
- Jim Peterson: Major League Baseball player, 1931–1937; winner of the 1931 World Series playing for the Philadelphia Athletics (now the Oakland Athletics)
- runs scored, base on balls, and on-base percentage
- 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
- Philadelphia Quakers in 1888 (in two career games, he had one hit in eight at-bats),[187] served as the head football coach at Penn from 1888 to 1891, compiling a record of 39–18, while a student at Penn Law,[121] and as head coach of (a) University of Alabama in 1896 and (b) University of Iowa in 1897[122]
Fencing
- Cliff Bayer: foil fencer, two-time Olympian, four-time U.S. champion, NCAA champion, Pan Am silver medalist
- Paul Friedberg: Olympic fencer, three-time NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games champion
- Shaul Gordon (born 1994) (College Class of 2016): Canadian-Israeli Olympic sabre fencer for Canada[188]
- Brooke Makler (1951–2010), Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, two-time Pan American Games champion
- Paul Makler Jr. (born 1946): Olympic fencer, NCAA champion
- Penn Med class of 1964 and Penn undergraduate class of 1944: fenced for the University of Pennsylvania Quakers,[189][190] competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.,[189] won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1955 Pan American Games,[191][189] won an Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) national team épée title in 1956,[189] and was President of the American Fencing Association in 1962[191]
- 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[192] and competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics[193]
- Chris O'Loughlin (born 1967), Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games silver medalist, Pan American Games bronze medalist
Rowing/Crew
- Joe Burk (January 19, 1914 – January 13, 2008) Wharton Class of 1934 (and Penn crew coach from 1950 to 1969): was named the "world's greatest oarsman" in 1938[194] by winning the Diamond Challenge Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1938 (where he set a Henley course record, which was to stand for 27 years) and 1939, (beating Roger Verey in the final) such that at the end of the 1939 season, Burk was voted the James E. Sullivan Award as the country's outstanding amateur athlete (as he also won that year (a) the Olympic try-outs [for 1940 Olympics, which were cancelled because of World War II], (b) the National Regatta, and (c) the Philadelphia Challenge Cup aka The Gold Cup)
- Russell "Rusty" Callow, Penn coach who also coached US Olympic Team
- 2012 Olympics)
- Penn Law Class of 1929, competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1928 Summer Olympics[195][196][197]
- Princess Grace of Monaco, was the second Penn Crew alumnus to win the James E. Sullivan Award[200] for being nation's best amateur athlete (in 1947), who was winner of a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
- Ted A. Nash (former Penn Coach) - 1960 (gold medal) & 1964 (bronze medal) US Olympic Teams and US Olympic Coach from 1968 to 2008[201]
- Harry Parker, Class of 1957: 1960 US Olympic Team member[202] and US Olympic Coach 1964-1984
- John Anthony Pescatore (who competed in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games for the United States as stroke of the men's coxed eight which earned a bronze medal[203] and later competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games in the men's coxless pair),
- Regina Salmons (member of 2021 USA team),[204]
Other athletes
- Sam Burley: track and field record holder
- Danny Cepero: first Major League Soccer goalkeeper to score a goal from open play
- Grace "Sunny" Choi (born November 10, 1988 - ) Wharton Undergrad Class of 2011 BS in Econ.: Breakdancer for United States Olympic team at 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris,[205] won the silver medal at World Games, and won first gold medal in breakdancing ever given at the Pan American Games[206][207] and as a result of such win became the first American woman to qualify for breakdancing at the 2024 Olympics[208]
- Frank B. Ellis, Class of 1893: co-founder of the Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and fieldcompetition in the US
- Alexander Grant: early 20th-century U.S. and world champion and record holder in several track and field events
- Nelson Zwingluis Graves (August 10, 1880 to March 31, 1918) Class of 1903; while at Penn played cricket in (a) 1898 for United States team in its game against Canada where he hit up 128 and (b) in 1902 for Philadelphian cricket team where he was one of the stars for a team that beat teams in Great Britain[209]
- soccer, table tennis, chess, and polo (nicknamed "Rainbow Hadi" because of his expertise in these seven sports[211]) and was one of the first Indians to compete as a tennis player at the Olympics (1924 Summer Olympics) and also represented India in the 1924 and 1925 Davis Cups[212]
- Wallace F. Johnson: early 20th-century U.S. tennis champion
- American Soccer League[213]
- Frank Villeneuve Nicholson: rugby player, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (class of 1910);[214] 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[215][216][217]
- Philadelphia Cricket Team[218]
- North American Soccer League (who drafted Startzell on 1972 as the only native U.S. player on the roster that season[224]) and (c) for Philadelphia Atoms in 1973 (who won the league championship that year)[225]
- John Borland Thayer, II (April 21, 1862 – April 15, 1912 [due to sinking of the Titanic]) Class of 1882: captain of the Penn Lacrosse team in 1879, previously a member of Penn baseball team,[226] and when not playing on Penn cricket team was part of the Philadelphian side that visited England in 1884.[226]
- William Wimbledons
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
- David Blitzer: owner of several sports teams
- Mel Bridgman: former National Hockey League player and general manager of the Ottawa Senators
- Tennis Hall of Fame
- Steven A. Cohen, owner of New York Mets
- Joseph Dey: former 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 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
- Josh Harris: owner of the Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Devils, and Washington Commanders
- Ron Hines: co-founder of the Black American Racers Association
- Ned Irish: founder and 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
- Baseball Hall of Fame
- Carroll Rosenbloom: former owner of the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams
- Ed Stefanski: president and general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers
- Cleveland Indians
- Head Coach of the Boston Braves (now the Washington Commanders)
Business
For a more comprehensive list of notable alumni in the business world, see
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
- Cisco Systems (Internet routercompany)
- David J. Brown: co-founder of Silicon Graphics
- University of Nebraska)
- Jonathan Brassington : CEO and co-founder LiquidHub.[227]
- W. P. Carey & Co. LLC,[228]a corporate real estate financing firm headquartered in New York City
- 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
- John Grayken: founder and chairman of Lone Star Funds[229]
- 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
- Josh Harris: co-founder of Apollo Global Management
- Financo, Inc.
- Vernon Hill: founder, chairman, and CEO, Commerce Bancorp
- Jon Huntsman Sr.: billionaire, founder of the Huntsman Corporation
- Josh Kopelman: founder of Half.com
- Oxygen Media
- Cycorp
- Ronald Li: founder and past chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Ken Moelis: founder of Moelis & Company
- 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
- Weiss, Peck & Greer
- Mark Pincus: co-founder of Zynga (class of 1988)
- J.D. Power & Associates
- Raj Rajaratnam: billionaire founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group
- Josh Resnick: founder and President, Pandemic Studios
- Comcast Corporation
- CTO of Red Hat
- Edward Rosenthal: founder of Riverside Memorial Chapel
- Henry Salvatori: founder, Western Geophysical; founding stockholder of the National Review magazine
- Book of the Month Club
- Tanya Seaman: co-founder of PhillyCarShare
- Franklin Mint
- Brian Sheth: co-founder and President of Vista Equity Partners
- Gregg Spiridellis: founder, JibJabMedia, 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 Dhirubhai Ambani Group
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Walt Disney Company; past vice chairman of Procter & Gamble
- Morton J. Baum: president of Hickey Freeman
- Nariman Behravesh (born 1948): economist
- NASDAQStock 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
- J.P. Morgan Chase
- managing directorof Tweedy, Browne Co.
- Charles Butt: billionaire, CEO and chairman, H-E-B Grocery Company[230]
- Robert Castellini: CEO and part-owner of the Cincinnati Redsbaseball 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.
- AmerisourceBergencorporation
- DuPont
- Eugene du Pont: first head of modern-day DuPont
- Mike Eskew: chairman and CEO, UPS
- Alexander C. Feldman: president, 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
- Telcordia)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- C. Robert Henrikson: chairman, president and CEO, MetLife
- Lauren Hobart: President and CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods
- Philip B. Hofmann: past chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson
- Jirair Hovnanian: home builder
- planter and proponent of slavery in the Antebellum South
- chairman and CEO of General Electric
- Fuji Xerox
- People's Republic of China Mao Zedong
- Estée Lauder; billionaire investor[231]
- Terry Leahy: CEO, Tesco
- AOL Time Warner
- Oxford Development Company, one of the largest Pennsylvania-based real estatefirms
- industrialist
- Wharton School of Business
- Robert Litzenberger: partner, Goldman Sachs
- Betty Liu: executive vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange
- John A. Luke Jr.: chairman and chief executive officer of MeadWestvaco Corporation
- Peter Lynch: investor; vice chairman of Fidelity Investments
- McGraw-Hill Companies and chairman of the Business Roundtable
- Michael Milken: trader, financier, pardoned felon
- Bill Miller: chairman and chief investment officer, Legg MasonCapital 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
- Laxman Narasimhan: CEO of the Starbucks Corporation
- 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
- McGraw Hill Financial
- Lionel Pincus: past chairman of Warburg Pincus
- Lewis E. Platt: president, CEO and chairman of the board of Hewlett-Packard
- Pfizer, Inc.
- Frank Quattrone: prominent investment banker, formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston
- Robert Rabinovitch: former president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Motown Records; first Black 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
- Comcast Corporation
- Lucille Roberts University of Pennsylvania (College for Women, Class of 1964): namesake and proprietor of women's fitness clubs[232]
- Eileen Clarkin Rominger: Goldman Sachspartner
- Frank Rooney: past CEO of Melville Corporation
- Harold Rosen: Executive Director of the Grassroots Business Fund
- 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
- Apple Computer
- Paul V. Scura: former Executive Vice President and Head of the Investment Bank of Prudential Securities
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Class of 1991): CEO of T-Mobile US[233]
- Cendant Corporation
- Young Sohn: president and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics
- World Vision
- McClatchy Company
- James S. Tisch: CEO, Loews Corporation
- Laurence Tisch: former CEO of CBS
- Roy Vagelos: former CEO of Merck
- Biogen Idec
- Goldman Sachs & Co; Co-President, Commodities Corporation.[235]
- Jacob Wallenberg: chairman, Investor
- Jeff Weiner: CEO of LinkedIn
- Dawne Williams: former CEO of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank.
- Visa, Inc.card
- Gary L. Wilson: CEO and chairman, Northwest Airlines
- Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, makers of chewing gumand 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 American West
- Michael L. Gernhardt: (Penn Engineering Class of 1983 (Masters) and 1991 (Ph.D.) in Bioengineering)[236] NASA astronaut
- Charles Guillou: member of the 19th-century United States Exploring Expedition
- Heiss Island[237] 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
- Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology[238] NASA Space Shuttleastronaut
- 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[239][240]
- William Bingham: (College Class of 1768) Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786–88
- Academy, but did not earn a college degree) New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778 and 1781–1783, and president of the Continental Congressin 1782–83
- Lambert Cadwalader: (College class of 1760, but did not graduate) New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784–87
- United States Constitution)[242]
- Philemon Dickinson: (College Class of 1759) Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–83[243]
- Medical School class of 1769 (Bachelor's) and class of 1771 (Doctor's degree)) New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1777–1778, 1781–1783, 1787–1788[244]
- Robert Goldsborough: (College Class of 1760) Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–1776[245]
- William Grayson: (College Class of 1760, but did not graduate) Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–1787[246]
- Whitmell Hill: (College Class of 1760) North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778–1780 accessed November 4, 2021[247]
- William Hindman: (College Class of 1761, but did not graduate) Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–86
- Francis Hopkinson: (College Class of 1757 with Bachelor's and Class of 1760 with Master's degree) was New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776, who signed Declaration of Independence[248]
- Medical School class of 1768), Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785[249]
- Henry Latimer: (College Class of 1770) Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784[250]
- Thomas Mifflin: (College Class of 1760, Trustee 1773 - 1791, and Treasurer 1773 - 1775)[251] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–75 and 1782–84, and president of the Continental Congress, 1783–84
- Samuel Cadwalader Morris: (College Class of 1760[252]) Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783–84[253]
- Richard Peters: (College Class of 1761)[254] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–83
- Medical School Class of 1773[255][256] and Honorary Doctorate Class of 1780[257]) South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–83 and 1785–86, and acting President of the Continental Congressin 1785–86
- Joshua Seney: (College Class of 1773) Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778
- Jonathan Sergeant: (College Class of 1763) New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776–77
- James Tilton: (Medical School Class of 1768 (Bachelor's) and 1771 (Doctor's degree)) Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783–84
Signers of the US Constitution and/or Declaration of Independence
Sources: University of Pennsylvania Archives[258][259]
- US Constitution[260]
- 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
- Thomas Mifflin, Penn degree: A.B. 1760; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress and president of the Continental Congress; 1st Governor of Pennsylvania; signed US Constitution
- 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;[261] Chief Justice of Maryland (1788–1790)
- Penn Medclass 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[262]
- 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[263]
United States government
Presidents of the United States
- Joseph R. Biden, former Benjamin Franklin Professor 2017-2019: 46th president of the United States
- Dwight David Eisenhower, Honorary Doctor of Law, Class of 1947[264]
- James A. Garfield, Honorary Doctorate, Class of 1881[264]
- Penn Med class of 1791 but did not graduate: 9th president of the United States[265]
- Herbert Hoover, Honorary Doctorate, Class of 1917[264]
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Honorary Doctor of Law, Class of 1940[264]
- Theodore Roosevelt, Honorary Doctorate, Class of 1905[264]
- William Howard Taft, Honorary Doctorate, Class of 1902[264]
- Wharton School of Financeclass of 1968: 45th president of the United States
- George Washington, Honorary Doctor of Law, Class of 1783[264]
- Woodrow Wilson, Honorary Doctorate, Class of 1903[264]
Members of the United States Cabinet (or top level executive branch)
- US Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Troubled Assets Relief Program
- Centers for Disease Control
- Penn Biden Centerfrom 2018-2020
- Adolph E. Borie: US secretary of the Navy under President Ulysses S. Grant
- 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
- President Donald J. Trump earned a master's degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania, Fels Institute of Government,[269] in 1995.[270]
- 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
- commissioner of Social Security, 1993–97
- Richard A. Clarke: National Counter-Terrorism Director under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
- Securities and Exchange Commissionunder President Donald Trump
- William T. Coleman Jr.: US secretary of transportation, 1975–77, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania(1801-1814)
- John Howard Dalton (Wharton Graduate School Class of 1971, MBA): served as 70th Secretary of the Navy from July 22, 1993, to November 16, 1998.
- White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush
- deputy secretary of the treasury under President Gerald Ford
- George Nicholas Eckert: director of the United States Mint, 1851–53
- 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, Jr. (Penn College Class of 1928, A.B., and Hon. LL.D., 1956) Trustee): 7th United States Secretary of Defense (December 2, 1959 - January 20, 1961) and Secretary of the Navy[273]
- Henry Dilworth Gilpin: US attorney general under President Martin Van Buren
- United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942–44
- from November 19, 2004, to March 9, 2007
- Donald J. Trump
- US solicitor general, 1903–09
- George A. Jenks, Class of 1850 and 1853: US solicitor general, 1886–89
- US Department of the Treasury
- Office of Consumer Affairs under President Ronald Reagan, and special assistant to the president for consumer affairs under President Richard Nixon (1969–1977 and 1981–1989) and started her political career in 1959 when she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Philadelphia City Council[276]
- C. Everett Koop: (University of Pennsylvania Medical School Class of 1947 Doctor of Science degree in medicine[277]) surgeon general, 1981–89
- 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
- deputy attorney general under President Barack Obama
- William Tod Otto: deputy secretary of the interior under President Abraham Lincoln, 1863–71
- United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving labor secretary and the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet who was instrumental in developing the Social Security system
- Shira Perlmutter (Penn Law Class of 1983) is the 14th Register of Copyrights[279]
- Thomas M. Pettit: Class of 1815 (A.B.) and Class of 1818 (A.M.)[280] 8th Director of the United States Mint, which term started in March of 1853 and ended when he died in office in April of 1853
- Caesar Augustus Rodney: US attorney general 1807–11 under presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; US senator (Delaware)
- Philip H. Rosenfelt: United States Secretary of Education under president Joe Biden
- 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
- David Shulkin (Penn Med Alumnus who was Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar[281]): 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- 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)
- Brain Trust"
- Katherine Kathi Vidal (nee Kelly) (Penn Law Class of 1996)[282] serves (as of June of 2022) as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)[283]
- Soviets out of Afghanistan
- Territorial Governor of Kansas in 1857 (when he resigned due to his opposition to the administration-sponsored pro-slavery Kansas Lecompton Constitution and was responsible for drafting the 1849 bill that eventually established the United States Department of the Interior[284]
- George W. Wickersham: US attorney general, 1909–1913
- George Washington Woodruff: acting secretary of the interior under Theodore Roosevelt
- 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
United States senators
As of May 2020[update], 31 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[285]
- Ephraim Bateman: US senator and congressman from New Jersey[286]
- William Wyatt Bibb: US senator and US Representative from Georgia; governor of Alabama[287]
- President pro tem of the Senate; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786–88[288]
- 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[289]
- Joseph Maull Carey: US senator from Wyoming, 1890–95; governor of Wyoming, 1911–15; Wyoming delegate to the US Congress, 1885–90[290]
- U.S. Senator from Alabama 1825–26[291]
- Joseph Sill Clark: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1957–69[292]
- Simon Barclay Conover: US senator from Florida, 1873–79; attended School of Medicine and graduated from the University of Nashville[293]
- George Robertson Dennis: US senator from Maryland, 1873–79[294]
- Philemon Dickinson: US senator from New Jersey, 1790–93[243]
- James Henderson Duff: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1951–57; attended law school but did not earn a degree[295]
- West Point[296]
- Jonathan Elmer: US senator from New Jersey, 1789–91[244]
- William Grayson: US senator from Virginia, 1789–90; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree[297]
- 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[298]
- Ted Kaufman: US senator from Delaware, 2009–2011[299]
- Henry Latimer: US senator from Delaware, 1795–1801; Delaware representative to the US Congress,[250]
- Lewis Fields Linn: US senator from Missouri, 1833–43; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree[300]
- 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[302]
- Arnold Naudain: US senator from Delaware, 1830–36[citation needed]
- George Wharton Pepper: US senator from Pennsylvania, chronicler of the Senate[303]
- Caesar Augustus Rodney: US senator from Delaware, 1822–23[304]
- Arlen Specter: former US senator from Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia district attorney[305]
- John Selby Spence: US senator from Pennsylvania 1836–40; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree[306]
- US Department of the Interior[307]
- Joseph Rodman West: US senator from Louisiana, 1871–77; attended the College but did not earn a degree[308]
Members of the United States House of Representatives
As of May 2020, 163 Representatives from 21 different states have been affiliated with Penn
- Ephraim Leister Acker M.D., 1852 LL.B., 1886: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1871–1873[309]
- U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1893 to 1906 (who also served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil from April 1, 1889, through June 1, 1890, and served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 6th district from 1883 to 1885)[310][311]
- Wilbur L. Adams: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1933–1935[312]
- John Archer: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1801–1807[313]
- James Armstrong: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1793–1795[314]
- L. Heisler Ball: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1901–03[285]
- Ephraim Bateman: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1826–29[286]
- John Milton Bernhisel: Utah delegate to the US Congress, 1851–1859, 1861–1863[315]
- George A. Bicknell: Indiana representative to the US Congress, 1877–1881[316]
- Richard Biddle, Class of 1811: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1837–40[317]
- Andrew Biemiller: Wisconsin representative to the US Congress, 1945–1947 (attended the Graduate School but did not earn a degree)[318]
- 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[319]
- Samuel Carey Bradshaw: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1855–1857[320]
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Class of 1900,[321][322] 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)[323][324]
- George Franklin Brumm: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1923–1927, 1929–1934[325]
- Hiram R. Burton: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1905–1909[326]
- John Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1855–1857[327]
- 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[328]
- Greene Washington Caldwell: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1841–1843[329]
- 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[330]
- Earl Chudoff: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress 1949–1958[331]
- George Bosworth Churchill: Massachusetts representative to the US Congress, 1925; Attended Graduate School, 1892–1894, but did not earn a degree[332]
- John Claiborne: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1805–1808[333]
- John Daniel Clardy: Kentucky representative to the US Congress, 1895–1899[334]
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1855–1859[335]
- John Clopton: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1795–1799, 1801–1816[336]
- Bill Cobey: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1985–1987[337]
- Lewis Condict: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1811–1817[338]
- Joel Cook: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress 1907–1911[339]
- Thomas Buchecker Cooper: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1861–1862
- James Harry Covington: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1909–1914[340]
- William Radford Coyle: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1925–1927, 1929–1933; attended law school but did not earn a degree[341]
- George William Crump (Penn Med School Class of 1812 - did not graduate): member of the United States House of Representatives in the 19th United States Congress (1826-27) and the U.S. Ambassador to Chile[342] Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1826–1827; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree[343]
- 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[344]
- J. Burrwood Daly: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–39; attended law school but did not earn a degree[345]
- William Darlington: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–17 and 1819–23[346]
- Philemon Dickerson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1833–36 and 1839–41[347]
- Charles Djou: Hawaii representative to the US Congress, 2010[348]
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–39[349]
- Charles F. Dougherty: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1979–83[350]
- George Eckert: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1847–49[351]
- Norman Eddy: Indiana representative to the US Congress, 1853–55[352]
- Joshua Eilberg (Wharton Undergrad Class of 1941, BS in Econ):[353] Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1967–1979[354]
- Lucius Elmer: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1843–45[355]
- Phillip Sheridan English: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1995–2009[356]
- Thomas Dunn English: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1891–95[357]
- Chaka Fattah: US Congressman representing 2nd Congressional district of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia region)[358]
- Clare G. Fenerty: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–37[359]
- John Floyd: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1817–29[360]
- House minority leader, 2002, candidate for United States Senate from Tennessee[361]
- Vito Fossella: New York representative to the US Congress, 1997–2009[362]
- Oliver W. Frey: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1933–39[363]
- Benjamin Gilman: New York representative to the US Congress, 1973–2003[364]
- Benjamin Golder: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1925–33[365]
- Josh Gottheimer: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 2017–
- George Scott Graham: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1913–31[366]
- John Hahn: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–17[citation needed]
- William Henry Harrison: Ohio representative to the US Congress, 1816–19[367]
- Charles Eaton Haynes: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1825–31 and 1835–39[368]
- James C. Healey: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1956–65[369]
- William Hindman: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1793–99[370]
- George Holcombe: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1821–28[371]
- Trey Hollingsworth: Indiana representative to the US Congress, 2017–
- Joseph Hopkinson, Class of 1786: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–19[372]
- 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[373]
- John William Jones: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1847–49[374]
- Owen Jones: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1857–59[375]
- Albert Walter Johnson: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–63[376]
- Joseph Jorgensen: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1877–83[377]
- 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[378]
- Everett Kent: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1923–25 and 1927–29[379]
- Karl C. King: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1951–57[380]
- William Huntington Kirkpatrick: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1921–23[381]
- Thomas Kittera: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1826–27[382]
- John A. Lafore Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1957–61[383]
- Conor Lamb: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 2018-23
- Henry Latimer: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1794–95[250]
- Caleb Layton: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1919–23[384]
- James Leech: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1927–32[385]
- William Eckart Lehman: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1861–63[386]
- George Leiper: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1829–31[387]
- John Thomas Lenahan: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1907–09[388]
- Samuel Lilly: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1853–55[389]
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr.: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1873–75[390]
- James McDevitt Magee: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1923–27[391]
- Levi Maish: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1875–79 and 1887–91[392]
- Francis Mallory: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1837–43[393]
- John Hartwell Marable: Tennessee representative to the US Congress, 1825–29[394]
- Robert Marion: South Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1805–10[397]
- Alexander Keith Marshall: Kentucky representative to the US Congress, 1855–57[398]
- James Murray Mason: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1837–39[301]
- Samuel K. McConnell Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1944–57[399]
- George Deardorff McCreary: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1903–13[400]
- Joseph McDade: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1963–99[401]
- Robert C. McEwen: New York representative to the US Congress, 1965–81[402]
- John Miller: New York representative to the US Congress, 1825–27[403]
- James Milnor: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1811–13[404]
- George Mitchell: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1823–27 and 1829–32[405]
- John Moffet: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1869[406]
- Samuel Moore: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1818–22[407]
- Edward Joy Morris: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1843–45 and 1857–61[408]
- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–49,[409] architect, founder of Muhlenberg Greene Architects
- US Congress, 1789–1797[410]
- Edward de Veaux Morrell: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1900–07[411]
- John Murphy: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1943–46[412]
- Leonard Myers: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1863–75[413]
- William Augustus Newell, Class of 1839: New Jersey Representative to the US Congress, 1847–1851, 1865–1867[414]
- 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[415]
- Archibald Olpp: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1921–23[416]
- Cyrus Maffet Palmer: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1927–29[417]
- John Patton: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1830–38[418]
- Levi Pawling: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1817–19[419]
- John H. Pugh: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1877–79[420]
- Robert R. Reed: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1849–51[421]
- Jacob Richards: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1803–09[422]
- Lewis Riggs: New York representative to the US Congress, 1841–43[423]
- Caesar Augustus Rodney: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1803–05[424]
- Albert Rutherford: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1937–41[425]
- Leon Sacks: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1937–41[426]
- Benjamin Say: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1808–09[427]
- 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[428][429]
- David Scott: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 2003–[430]
- Hardie Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–53[431]
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1915–19[432]
- Joshua Seney: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1789–92[433]
- John Sergeant: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–23, 1827–29 and 1837–41[434]
- Adam Seybert: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1809–15 and 1817–19[435]
- Henry Marchmore Shaw: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1853–55 and 1857–59[436]
- William B. Shepard: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1829–37[437]
- John E. Sheridan: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1939–47[438]
- William Simonton: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1839–43[439]
- Edward J. Stack: Florida representative to the US Congress, 1979–81[440]
- James Strawbridge: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1873–75[441]
- Joel Barlow Sutherland: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1827–37[442]
- John Swope: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1884–87[443]
- William Terrell: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1817–21[444]
- Martin Thayer: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1863–65[445]
- John Chew Thomas: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1799–1801[446]
- John Parnell Thomas: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1937–50[447]
- Hedge Thompson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1827–28[448]
- Philip A. Traynor: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1941–43 and 1945–47[449]
- William Troutman: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1943–45[450]
- Charles Turpin: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1929–37[451]
- Jonathan Updegraff: Ohio representative to the US Congress, 1879–82[452]
- Joseph Vigorito: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1965–77[453]
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Class of 1835): Alabama representative to the US Congress, 1855–57[454]
- George Wallhauser: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1959–65[455]
- John H. Ware, III: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1970–75[456]
- John Goddard Watmough: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1831–35[457]
- Anthony Wayne: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1791–92[citation needed]
- James D. Weaver: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1963–65[458]
- William H. Wilson: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–37[459]
- Charles A. Wolverton: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1927–59[460]
United States ambassadors
As of July 2021[update], Penn alumni have served as United States ambassadors to at least 51 different countries.
- U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1893 to 1906[311])
- Leonore Annenberg (February 20, 1918 – March 12, 2009) Penn, Hon. LL.D., 1985 (Doctor of Laws) (Penn Trustee, 1982-?): Chief of Protocol, officer of the United States Department of State responsible for advising the President and the Vice President of the United States, as well as the United States secretary of state on matters of national and international diplomatic protocol and as chief of protocol holds the rank of Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State (1981-1982)
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Class of 1931 (did not graduate))[465] but was a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity[466] and established the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania:[467] served as US ambassador to the United Kingdomfrom April 29, 1969, through October 30, 1974
- Wilson T. M. Beale Jr. (1909- 1998) Wharton Class of 1933, MBA: 3rd Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of United States to Jamaica September 1, 1965- October 13, 1965[273]
- Robert Mason Beecroft (College Class of 1962, A.B., Graduate School Class of 1965, A.M.; US chief of mission and Bosnian Federation 1997-1998[273]
- President Donald J. Trump who in 1995 earned a master's degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania, Fels Institute of Government,[269][270]
- the Maldives, and Sri Lanka; attended graduate school but did not earn a degree
- Patricia A. Butenis (College Class of 1974: US ambassador to Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bangladesh
- United States Ambassador to Canada[473][474] and on December 7, 2021, presented his credentials to Governor General Mary Simon[475]
- William R. Crawford Jr. (Graduate School Class of 1950, A.M.): US ambassador to Yemen (1972-1974) and Cyprus (1974-1978)
- Oliver S. Crosby Penn's College Class of 1946: US ambassador to Guinea (1977)[476]
- George William Crump (Penn Med School Class of 1812 (did not graduate): member of the United States House of Representatives in the 19th United States Congress and the 6th U.S. Ambassador to Chile[342]
- chargé d’affaires Dominican Republic from September 3, 1891, through November 18, 1893.[478]
- Secretary of the Air Force[479]
- Robert A. Flaten Flaten (1934 - ) (Penn Graduate School), Ph.D.: served as the United States ambassador to Rwanda (1990 to 1993)[480] and as chair of the Executive Committee of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum[481]
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Penn Founder and Trustee, 1749-1789; served as Minister (Ambassador) of the United States to France (1776-1785)
- Ambassador and Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing (1976 - 1979); 7th United States Secretary of Defense (December 2, 1959 - January 20, 1961); 8th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense[273]
- Amy Gutmann: 8th president of University of Pennsylvania and Ambassador to Germany from February 17, 2022, to present[484]
- John E. Hamm: US ambassador to Chile
- Gran Colombia and ninth President of United States[485]
- John S. Hayes: US ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company[486]
- Jerome Holland 1916 - 1985 (Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Class of 1950, Ph.D., and Class of 1983, Honorary LL.D.): US ambassador to Sweden (appointed in 1970 as first African American Ambassador of the United States to Sweden, (1970-1972)[273]
- People's Republic of China and Singapore
- David Jordan: US ambassador to Peru
- Tina Kaidanow (College Class of 1987): US ambassador to Kosovo[489]
- Yuri Kim: US ambassador to Albania
- Michael David Kirby: College Class of 1976, BA, US ambassador to Serbia and Moldova[492][493][494]
- Robert E. Lamb (1936 - ) (Penn College Class of 1962, A.B.): served as Ambassador of the United States to Cyprus (1990-1993)
- Ronald Lauder (1944 - ) Wharton Undergrad Class of 1965, B.S. in Econ.: Ambassador of the United States to Austria (1986-1987)
- Franklin L. Lavin (Wharton Graduate School Class of 1996, M.B.A.); Ambassador of the United States to Singapore(2001-)
- Jeffrey Lunstead Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Class of 1977, Ph.D.; Ambassador of the United States to (a) Sri Lanka and (b) Maldives, 2003-present[273]
- James Murray Mason (1798 - 1871); Penn's College Class of 1819, A.B.; Ambassador of the Confederate States of America to (a) the United Kingdom and France, 1862-1865[301]
- Marilyn McAfee (1940 - ) Penn's College for Women Class of 1961, A.B.: US ambassador to Guatemala (1993-1996)[273]
- United States Ambassador to North Macedonia
- Edward Joy Morris (1815 - 1881) attended College (1831-1832, but did not earn degree): served as Charge d'Affaires (aka United States ambassador) to Sicily (1850–53) and Minister Resident (Ambassador) of the United States to the Ottoman Empire, (1861-1870)[273]
- Gouverneur Morris (1752 - 1816) attended Penn's Academy of Philadelphia, 1761, but did not earn a degree); Minister of the United States to France (1792-1794)[273]
- John H. Morrow (1910 - 2000) Penn Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Class of 1952, Ph.D.: Ambassador of the United States to Guinea, 1959-1961[273]
- Phil Murphy: US ambassador to Germany
- Wanda L. Nesbitt Penn College Class of 1978, A.B.; Ambassador of the United States to (a) Madagascar, (b) Ivory Coast, and (c) Namibia[273]
- Condy Raguet: 1st US ambassador to Brazil
- William Bradford Reed: US minister to China
- Caesar Augustus Rodney (1772- 1824); Penn College Class of 1789, A.B., 1789; Plenipotentiary (Ambassador) of the United States to Argentina, 1823-1824[273]
- 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.[495][496]
- 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
- Henry J. Tasca: US ambassador to Greece and Morocco
- 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, 48 Penn alumni or trustees 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[497]
- 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[498][499][500]
- William Wyatt Bibb: first governor of the state of Alabama, 1819–1820; served as governor of the Alabama Territory, 1817–1819[287]
- Martin G. Brumbaugh (Ph.D. earned in 1894): governor of Pennsylvania, 1911–15 and first Professor of Pedagogy in Penn's Department of Philosophy[501]
- C. Douglass Buck: governor of Delaware, 1929–37[289]
- William Burton: governor of Delaware, 1859–63[502]
- Joseph M. Carey, class of 1864, governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915[290]
- Thomas King Carroll: governor of Maryland, 1829–31
- Joshua Clayton: governor of Delaware 1793–1798, attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate[503]
- Philemon Dickerson: governor of New Jersey, 1836–37[504]
- Penn Law before graduating from the University of Pittsburgh[295]
- James B. Edwards, post-graduate student at Penn: governor of South Carolina, 1975–79[citation needed]
- 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[506]
- James Hamilton (Trustee 1755 -1783; President of Board 1764, 1771-1773) Governor of Province of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Provincial Council (May 4 - October 16, 1771)[507]
- 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[508]
- governor of Arkansas Territory, 1825–1828[citation needed]
- Lawrence M. Judd: governor of Hawaii (1929–34), and American Samoa (1954)[citation needed]
- St. Louis, Missouri, 1823–29[509]
- 36th Governor of Pennsylvania, 1955–1959[510]
- U.S. Military Academy, from which he graduated at the age of 16[513]
- 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]
- U.S. Constitution; brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution[citation needed]
- Charles R. Miller, Governor of Delaware, 1913–17[514]
- Wayne Mixson: governor of Florida, 1987
- Phil Murphy: 56th governor of New Jersey
- William Augustus Newell: 18th governor of New Jersey, 1857–1860; governor of the Washington Territory, 1880–1884[515]
- George S. Patton Jr.[516]
- Samuel W. Pennypacker: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1903–07[517]
- Jesús T. Piñero: governor of Puerto Rico, 1946–49[citation needed]
- 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[518]
- Rexford Tugwell: governor of Puerto Rico[citation needed]
- U.S. Senate from Mississippi from 1835 until 1845 (where he was responsible for drafting the 1849 bill that eventually established the United States Department of the Interior), and as Secretary of the Treasury from 1845 to 1849.[284]
- Matthew E. Welsh: governor of Indiana[citation needed]
- James Wilkinson: first governor of the Louisiana Territory
State legislators
At least 53 Penn alumni and/or trustees have served in state legislatures in at least 18 states (at least five of whom have served as speaker of their respective houses of representatives (in Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) and one of whom served as President of New Jersey Senate.
- U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1893 to 1906 and served as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil from April 1, 1889, through June 1, 1890)[311]
- Harry W. Bass, (Penn Law Class of 1896) first African American member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1911–1914[520]
- 12th Legislative District, serving portions of Monmouth and Mercer counties, and represented the 12th District in the New Jersey General Assemblyfrom 2006 to 2008
- Arthur L. Bell MBA 1976, Maine state Representative
- Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleasfor Delaware County
- Karen Boback: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2007–22)
- Maine State Senate (2020-)[521]
- John F. Byrne, Jr.: Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district (1967–1970)
- Utah State Senator; first female state senator elected in the United States[522]
- Wisconsin State Senate[523]
- Robert J. Clendening: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1949–1952)
- 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
- Speaker of the House(2000–2008)
- 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
- Connecticut Senate
- chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority
- Michigan State House of Representatives (2004–2011)[526]
- Lake Forest Park, and Kenmore Washington State Senate[528] 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[529]
- 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– )
- Penn Law Class of 1959; lawyer elected twice[530] as Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 200th district for years 1967–1970[531][532]
- John J. Hafer: former Maryland State Senator
- James Hamilton (Trustee 1755 -1783; President of Board 1764, 1771-1773) member of Assembly of Province of Pennsylvania (1735 - 1740) and member of Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1746 - 1747)[507]
- Legislative District 3B from 2004 to 2012[533]
- Charlie Brady Hauser: member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- Jon Hinck: member of the Maine House of Representatives (2006– )
- 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)
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Class of 1814) but with no record of graduation; member of the Tennessee Senate (1817–18)[534]
- Bruce Marks: Republican member of the Pennsylvania 2nd senatorial district 1994 to 1995[535][536][537][538]
- Charles B. Moores: University of Pennsylvania Law School (Class of 1874)[539] Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives (1895–96)[540]
- Raj Mukherji: Assemblyman of the New Jersey State Legislature
- Joseph J. Roberts: former Speaker and Assemblyman of the New Jersey State Legislature
- Ronald B. Russell (Penn College Class of 1982): Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives (2022 - )[543]
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania(1815–1828)
- 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
- Pennsylvania Senate
- "Buck" 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: Republicanmember of the Pennsylvania State Senate
- Bob Ziegelbauer: Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Mayors
- Edward Bader: 29th mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1920–29[544]
- Joseph F. Battle Jr.: mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania, 1979–1986
- Ralph Becker Jr.: 34th mayor of Salt Lake City, 2008–2015[545]
- John S. Brenner (Fels Institute of Government MGA): 23rd mayor of York, Pennsylvania, 2002–2010
- Peter Brownell: 39th mayor of Burlington, Vermont, 1993-95
- Joseph M. Carey: 14th mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1881–85
- Urban Carmel: mayor of Mill Valley, California, 2023-24
- John B. Chase: mayor of Oconto, Wisconsin[546]
- Joseph S. Clark: 90th mayor of Philadelphia, 1952–1956
- Donald S. Coburn: mayor of Livingston, New Jersey, 1977–78
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Class of 1782): mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, 1804–05[547][548]
- Stephen Dilts: mayor of Hampton, New Jersey
- Walter Drumheller: first mayor of Sunbury, Pennsylvania
- Mark Farrell: (Penn Law class of 2001) 44th mayor of San Francisco (January through July 2018
- Shirley Franklin: M.A. in sociology;[549] mayor of Atlanta, 2002–10
- Katherine Sarah 2019–
- African-American95th mayor of Philadelphia, 1984–92
- Las Vegas, Nevada, 1999–2011
- Robert M. Gordon: mayor of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, 1988–91[552]
- Henry Winfield Haldeman: mayor of Girard, Kansas, 1895–99
- James Hamilton (Trustee 1755 -1783; President of Board 1764, 1771-1773) 28th Mayor of Philadelphia[507]
- John E. Hamm: mayor of Zanesville, Ohio, 1815
- Paul Heroux: Master's in criminology, elected state representative in Massachusetts[553] and in 2018 as mayor of Attleboro, Massachusetts[554]
- George Hewston: 16th mayor of San Francisco, 1875[555]
- George Janeway: mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1869–71
- Dallas, Texas, 2019–Present
- Judith Flanagan Kennedy (Penn Law, JD Class of 1987) 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.[557]
- Michael Keppele: (College Class of 1788[558]) 54th mayor of Philadelphia, 1811–12
- William Kerr: mayor of Pittsburgh, 1845–47
- St. Louis, Missouri, 1823–29[509]
- Harry Arista Mackey: 85th mayor of Philadelphia, 1928–31
- Hannah McKinney: mayor of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2005–07
- Ryan McLemore: mayor of Griffin, Georgia, 2014
- Morton McMichael: 70th 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
- San Antonio, Texas, 2017–
- Michael Nutter (Wharton Class of 1979, BS in Economics): 98th mayor of Philadelphia, 2007–16
- Cherelle Parker (Fels Institute of Government Class of 2016, MGA) 100th mayor of Philadelphia 2024- present[559]
- St. Paul, Minnesota, 1850–51
- Pennsylvania Senate
- Ed Rendell: 96th 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
- San Antonio, Texas, 2014–2017. The first female African-American mayor of a city with a population of more than one million.
- 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 February 2023, twenty-nine (29) Penn alumni have served as justices of supreme courts of ten (10) 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 (September 20, 1750 through 1767)[560][561]
- New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice who was confirmed by New Jersey Senate on October 17, 2022, and was sworn into office on October 21, 2022[562][563]
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court(1950–1972), and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1961–1972)
- Alexander F. Barbieri (July 6, 1907 – January 1993) Penn College Class of 1929, Penn Law Class of 1932: Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Judge of Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania- one of the original members of the Commonwealth Court in 1970 (who was then appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1971 but was defeated for election in 1971 and returned to the Commonwealth Court as a senior judge (1983 to 1993))[564]
- New Jersey Supreme Court(1951–56) (later Justice of the United States Supreme Court)
- 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)
- Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (1914–18)(and co-founder of Covington & Burling)[568]
- Attorney General of New Jersey
- Florida Supreme Court (1975–1981) and was the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (1978–1980)[569]
- 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 (1986–2017)[570]
- William H. Lamb, (born 1940) Penn Law Class of 1965): former justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (January 29, 2003 until January 2004)[560]
- Daniel J. Layton: Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1933–45), and Attorney General of Delaware (1932–33)
- African-AmericanChief Justice of any state's highest court; justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1971–1984)
- New Jersey Supreme Court from 1933 to 1947.[571]
- Attorney General of New Jerseyfrom 1994 to 1996, in both cases becoming the first woman to serve in that position
- Mark Rindner (College Class of 1971, Graduate School of Education Class of 1971): justice of Alaska Supreme Court[573]
- Albert Rosenblatt: judge on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York state (1998–2006)
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Dean of the University of PennsylvaniaSchool of Law
- University of Pennsylvania Medical School (Class of 1829) Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court[574] (January 29, 1847, through January 3, 1853)[575]
- Leo E. Strine Jr. (Penn Law Class of 1988): Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court (2014–2019)[578][579] and judge and vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery
- Missouri Supreme Court(2011–13)
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court(1805–27); attended Penn but did not earn a degree
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1791, served until his death in 1817.[581]
- Karen L. Valihura (Penn Law Class of 1986) Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court[582] (appointed June 6, 2014)[583]
U.S. federal judges
As of February 2024 there are at least 84 Penn Alumni and/or faculty who have been appointed judges in United States federal court system (3 of whom have served on the Supreme Court, at least 23 of whom have served on Courts of Appeals, and at least 50 of whom have served on District Courts)
United States Supreme Court Justices
- William J. Brennan: US Supreme Court justice; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Owen J. Roberts, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States[584]
- James Wilson (founding father), Penn's first Professor of Law: appointed by George Washingtonas one of first Supreme Court Justices who taught Washington and his cabinet (as a Penn Professor) a course on the United States Constitution, which Wilson helped draft
United States Courts of Appeals Judges
- Arlin Adams (April 16, 1921 – December 22, 2015), judge, Penn Law Class of 1947 United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 1969–1987[585][586]
- Edward R. Becker (May 4, 1933 – May 19, 2006) Penn College Class of 1954: former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- George M. Dallas (1839-1917),[587] Penn Law Professor of Torts and Evidence: Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1892–1909[588]
- Andre M. Davis (born February 11, 1949) Penn College Class of 1971:[589] judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2009–14)
- Ronald M. Gould (born October 17, 1946): Penn Class of 1968[590] judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- James Hunter III (December 26, 1916 – February 10, 1989) Penn Law Class of 1939, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989[591][592]
- Harry Ellis Kalodner (March 28, 1896 – March 15, 1977) Penn Law Class of 1917[593] chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977[594]
- Phyllis A. Kravitch: judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit[595]
- Robert Lowe Kunzig (October 31, 1918 – February 21, 1982) Penn College Class of 1939- Penn Law Class of 1942, judge, U.S. Court of Claims, 1971–82[596]
- Alan David Lourie (born January 13, 1935) Penn Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Class of 1965, Ph.D. in Chemistry, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[597]
- John Bayard McPherson (November 5, 1846 – January 20, 1919) Penn Law Professor (1890 -?) judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912–1919[598]
- Florence Y. Pan: (Born 1965) Class of 1988; College, BA, and Wharton, BS, Economics, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[599][600]
- Arthur Raymond Randolph, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[601]
- 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– )
- L. Felipe Restrepo (Penn College Class of 1981): United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2015 to present) and former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2006 to 2014)[602][603][604][605]
- Paul Hitch Roney: chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1986–89)
- Max Rosenn, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1970–2006[606]
- Penn Law Class of 1986, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, assumed office April 10, 2013
- Dolores Sloviter, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[607]
- Joseph Whitaker Thompson, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1931–46)[608]
- Henry Galbraith Ward, judge, U.S. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1907–24)[609]
- Helene White, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[610]
- Scott Wilson: judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1929–43)[611]
Other United States Court Judges (District Courts, and other federal courts)
- Guy K. Bard (October 24, 1895 – November 23, 1953) Penn Law Class of 1922,[612] judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[613]
- Harvey Bartle III, (born June 6 1941) Penn Law Class of 1965[614] judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[615]
- Michael Baylson, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[616]
- Ralph C. Body, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1965–1973[617]
- Raymond J. Broderick, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[618]
- Margo Kitsy Brodie (née Williams born April 12, 1966) -Penn Law Class of 1991: Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[619][620]
- District of Massachusettsfrom 1995 to 2005.
- James C. Cacheris: judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- A. Richard Caputo, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[621]
- Penn Law class of 1987, judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; judge overseeing the criminal trial of former U.S. president Donald Trumprelated to the events leading up to the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack
- 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[622]
- James C. Cacheris: judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- 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.[623]
- 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[624]
- Paul S. Diamond, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[625]
- John William Ditter Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[626]
- Susan J. Dlott: judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1995– )
- Herbert Allan Fogel, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1973–78[627]
- James S. Halpern: judge, United States Tax Court (1990–2005)[628]
- American flag, and is credited with writing the first secular American song
- Daniel Henry Huyett III, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1970–98
- United States District Court for the District of Alabama[629]
- William Huntington Kirkpatrick, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania1927–58
- John C. Knox, judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1948–55[630]
- Charles William Kraft Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1956–2002
- Caleb Rodney Layton III, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1957–88[631]
- Paul Conway Leahy, judge for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1942–66 -judge)(1948–57 -chief judge)[632]
- James Russell Leech, judge, United States Tax Court (1932–52)[633]
- Joseph Simon Lord III, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1961–92; Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1971–82)
- Alfred Leopold Luongo, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1961–86); Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1982–86)
- 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[634]
- Barron Patterson McCune, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania[635]
- 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[636]
- Mary A. McLaughlin, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[637]
- Howard G. Munson: Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (1980–88)
- John W. Murphy: Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (1946–62); Chief Judge (for portion of 1945-1962)
- Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[638]
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania(1815–1828)
- Gene E. K. Pratter, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[639]
- Southern District of Florida sworn in on March 14, 2018, 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, and known for approving search of former President's private residence[640]
- Sue Lewis Robinson, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware[641]
- Juan Ramon Sánchez, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[642]
- Ralph Francis Scalera, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania[643]
- Allen G. Schwartz, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1993–2003[644]
- Murray Merle Schwartz, Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1974–[645]
- Murray Merle Schwartz: Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1985–89)
- Norma Levy Shapiro, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[646]
- Jerome B. Simandle, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[647]
- Jonathan R. Steinberg: former judge for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- Charles Swayne, judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, 1890–1907
- Donald West VanArtsdalen, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1970–19 85[648]
- Jay Waldman, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1988–2003
- 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)[649]
- Harold Kenneth Wood, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1959–1971
State Attorneys General
As of January 2023 there are at least 20 Penn Alumni who have been attorneys general in 5 states and District of Columbia
- Governor's Councilin 1770
- Attorney General of Pennsylvania, judge and President Judge of Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- Beau Biden: 44th Attorney General of Delaware (2007–15)
- Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1780–91); attended Penn for three years before graduating from Princeton University
- Territory of Wyoming, Governor of Wyoming, U.S. Representative for Wyoming, U.S. Senator for Wyoming)
- Attorney General of Pennsylvania, 1903–07
- Attorney General of New Jersey(2010–12)
- Attorney General of New Jersey(1850 -1852)
- Attorney General of New Jersey
- Daniel J. Layton: (Penn Law Class of 1901) Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1933–45), and 29th Attorney General of Delaware (1932–33)
- John G. McCullough: Attorney General of California during the American Civil War
- Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1861–67); president of the Philadelphia City Council(1834–49)
- Attorney General of the District of Columbia(2015–23)
- Attorney General of Pennsylvania(1838)
- Attorney General of New Jersey(1954–58)
- Attorney General of New Jersey
- Attorney General of Pennsylvania(1930–34)
- New Jersey Constitution
- Attorney General of Pennsylvania
- H. Albert Young (Penn Law Class of 1929): 34th Attorney General of Delaware (1951–1954)[650]
Other state, or local executive or judicial branch officials
- Penn Medical School Class of 1808: secretary of war for the Republic of Texas, 1840–41[651]
- Alexander F. Barbieri (July 6, 1907 – January 1993) Penn College Class of 1929, Penn Law Class of 1932: Justice Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Judge -Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania- one of the original members of the Commonwealth Court in 1970 (who was the appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1971 but was defeated for election in 1971 and returned to the Commonwealth Court as a senior judge (1983 to 1993)[564]
- 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.
- Kathryn Kathy Boockvar (born October 23, 1968) Penn College Class of 1990[652] 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[653] was named co-chair of the Elections Committee of the National Association of Secretaries of State[654]
- Raymond Broderick: Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania(1967–71)
- Peter Brown: at-large Houston City Council member
- State Treasurer of Oklahoma(1995–2005)
- David Byerman: Secretary of the Nevada Senate (2010– )
- 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
- Harold L. Ervin, Pennsylvania Superior Court judge from 1954 to 1967.[655]
- 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)
- 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
- Paula Dow: New Jersey Attorney General (2010–12)
- Holocaustrescue
- Norman Eddy: Secretary of State of Indiana (1870–72)
- County Commissioner of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
- Jack Evans: Ward 2 member of the Council of the District of Columbia. Resigned after several ethics violations (1991–2020)
- 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[656]
- Gary Gensler: chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (2009– )
- Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania
- Jonathan L. Goldstein: United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1974–77)
- Carl Goldstein (College Class of 1960 and Penn Law Class of 1963) Retired Judge, the New Castle Delaware Superior Court (Full time: 1990 to 2003; part time 2003 to 2013)[657]
- CouncilmanAt-Large in Philadelphia (1999– )
- Robert M. Gordon: Democratic member of the New Jersey Senate (2008– )
- 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– )
- Raymond Headen (Penn Law Class of 1987), judge on the 8th District Court of Appeals of Ohio[658]
- Morton Charles Hill (diplomat) (April 28, 1936 – March 27, 2021) (Penn Law Class of 1960, JD, Penn Graduate School Class of 1961, MA) Yale University Diplomat in Residence and Lecturer[659] and United States State Department Foreign Service diplomat[660]
- James Hutchinson, Class of 1774: Surgeon General of Pennsylvania (1778–84)
- Scott Hutchinson: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Melissa Jackson: New York City Criminal Court Judge and New York State Acting Supreme Court Justice
- Mike Kaplowitz: vice chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators in New York
- Court of Special Appeals for the state of Maryland, and past chair of the Maryland Democratic Party[663]
- Penn Law Class of 1904): president judge, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia[664]
- Stephen P. Lamb: judge and vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery
- 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)
- Steve P. Leskinen, judge Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas (Fayette County)
- Court of Common Pleas(2000–06)
- 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[665]
- John G. McCullough: Attorney General of California during the American Civil War
- Mario Jascalevich murder case; New Jersey Superior Court judge[666]
- Eva Moskowitz: New York City Council member (1999–2005)
- John W. Noble, vice chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
- New Jersey Republican State Committee
- Rai Okamoto: architect and director of planning for the City and County of San Francisco (1975–80)
- John Robert Procter: president of the United States Civil Service Commission (1893–1903)
- 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
- Walter N. Read: chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission(1982–89)
- Laurie O. Robinson: Assistant Attorney General; U.S. Department of Justice (1994–2000) (2009– )
- 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
- U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey(1961–69)
- Michelle Schimel: Democratic member of the New York State Assembly (2007– )
- Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice
- 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
- Court of Common Pleas(1874–96)
- UK Atomic Energy Authority
- Alex Wan: member of the Atlanta City Council (2010–18)
- Ronald Wertheimar (September 7, 1933 - March 6, 2022) Penn Wharton Class of 1954, Law Class of 1957: judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia[667]
- Board of Commissionersof Washington, D.C. (1882–83)
- Daniel Will (College Class of 1989) appointed in August of 2018 as first Solicitor General of New Hampshire[668]
- Pennsylvania State Treasurer and Auditor General
- attorney general of Pennsylvania
- chairman of the Republican National Committee(1928–29)
Foreign governments
Heads of state and government
Penn alumni have served as heads of state of 11 different countries (in addition to the United States).
- Nnamdi Azikiwe: first President of Nigeria, 1963–66[669]
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves: (University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Class of 1978, Masters in Psychology) Fourth president of Estonia, 2006–16[671]
- Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius: (October 19, 1882 – July 17, 1954) Prime Minister of Lithuania from June 24, 1940 to July 1, 1940 (de facto as he was appointed by unelected President not recognized by modern Lithuanian republic), former associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Bongbong Marcos: Seventeenth President of the Philippines[675]
- Kwame Nkrumah: first president of Ghana, and previously first prime minister of Ghana
- Côte d'Ivoire2011–, Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire, 1990–93
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania): 62nd president of Peru November 17, 2020, through July 28, 2021,[677][678][679]
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Class of 1953) 4th Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1981–86[680]
- Republic of Nicaragua, 1856–7[681]
Mayors in cities not part of USA
- National Assembly of Korea (Penn School of Arts and Sciences Class of 1985, Ph.D. in economics)[682]
- Wayne Republic of China[683]
- conservativemember of the Senate of Canada (2009–16)
- Ron Huldai: mayor of Tel Aviv (1998–)
- Raul Roco: former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines
- Mauricio Rodas: Mayor of Quito (2014–19)[684]
Legislators, Members of Parliaments not part of the United States
- Yoginder K Alagh (MS, PhD): Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (1996-2000)
- Douglas Alexander: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) (1997 - 2015), served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Scottish Secretary, Transport Secretary and International Development Secretary in the Cabinet under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and served Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet as Shadow Foreign Secretary[685]
- David Campbell Bannerman: member of the European Parliament for East of England (2009– )
- National Assembly of Korea (2004 - 2008)[682]
- Aziz Dweik: (Penn Architecture School, Ph.D., Class of 1988) Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council of the Palestinian National Authority and Interim President of the Palestinian National Authority[686][687]
- Irving Gerstein member of the Senate of Canada (2009–2016)[688][689]
- John Wallace de Beque Farris: Canadian politician and member of the Senate of Canada (1937–70) and Attorney General of Vancouver (1917–20)
- Rajeev Gowda (Wharton PhD): Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (2014-2020) from the Indian National Congress party
- George Hollingbery: British Member of parliament (MP) (2010– )
- Agent-Generalof Canada
- Bongbong Marcos: senator from the Philippines
- 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– )
- Douglas Peters: member of the Canadian Parliament (1993–97)
- Sachin Pilot (Wharton MBA): Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2004–2014) from the Indian National Congress party
- Mar Roxas: senator of the Philippines (2004–2010)
- Jayant Sinha (Engineering MS): Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2014–) from the Bharatiya Janata Party party
- Conrad Sangma (Wharton BS): Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2016–2018) from the National People's Party party
- Ashwini Vaishnaw (Wharton MBA Class of 2010),[690] a member of Bharatiya Janata Party elected to be in Parliament of India representing Odisha State in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house in June 2019[691]
- His Excellency Umar Ahmad Ghuman (College Class of 1996) Former Federal Minister of State for Investment and Privatization 2002-2007, chairman Board of Investment, Member of Parliament of Pakistan from Sialkot, Pakistan[692]
- Mark Villar, Senator of the Philippines (2022–present), Secretary of Public Works and Highways (2016-2021), member of the House of Representatives from Las Pinas (2010-2016)
Foreign Judiciary
- Peter Jacobson: judge of the Federal Court of Australia (2002– )
- Yvonne Mokgoro: judge for the Constitutional Court of South Africa
- Israel Supreme Court
- Jack Redmond - College Class of 2007, BA and MA: Circuit Judge (appointment effective as of 15th day of August, 2022), Birmingham, the Midlands, United Kingdom[693]
- Sir Peter Marcel Roth (born December 19, 1952),Penn Law LLM Class of 1977)[694] is a British High Court judge[695]
- Sir Ronald Wilson: former justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the nation
- Fisseha Yimer (b. August 2, 1940) Penn Law LLM Class of 1972: Judge on the High Court of Ethiopia (1975)[696]
Foreign Ambassadors
- Patrick Dele-Cole (Penn Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, 1969-1973 and Visiting Professor of History, 1997);[697] Ambassador of Nigeria to Brazil, 1987-1991[273]
- Israeli Ambassador to the United States(2013–21)
- Republic of Chinarepresentative to the US
- Ulrik Federspiel (Penn Graduate School Class of 1971, A.M.; Ambassador of Denmark to Ireland, 1997-2000; Ambassador of Denmark to the United States, 2000–present[273]
- Roy Ferguson (Penn Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MA in International Relations, Class of 1973, as a Fulbright scholar): 15th New Zealand Ambassador to the United States, New Zealand Ambassador to South Korea, and New Zealand Ambassador to North Korea[698]
- Alfredo Toro Hardy (Penn Law LLM Class of 1979), 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[273]
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves (Born 1953) Penn Graduate School Class of 1979, A.M.; Ambassador of Estonia to the (a) United States, (b) Canada, and (c) Mexico, 1993-1996; Foreign Minister of Estonia, 1996-2001[273]
- Andrés Rozental Gutman (Born 1945) Penn Graduate School Class of 1967, A.M.;[699] Ambassador of Mexico to (a) Organization of American States, (1971-1974); (b) Sweden (1983-1988); (c) the United Kingdom(1995-1997); Ambassador-at-large and Special Envoy of the President of Mexico, (2000-))[273]
- Governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (1982 - 1984)[273]
- Fisseha Yimer (August 2, 1940) Penn Law LLM Class of 1972: Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations in (a) New York (from 2000) (b) Geneva (from 1996 -2000) and (v) Vienna (from 1992 - 1996)[696]
Foreign government finance officials
- Zeti Akhtar Aziz: governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia
- Minister of Finance
- Farouk El Okdah: governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (2003– )
- 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)
- Umar Ahmad Ghuman (College Class of 1996) Former Federal Minister of State for Investment and Privatization 2002-2007, chairman Board of Investment, Member of Parliament of Pakistan from Sialkot, Pakistan
- governor of Tamil Nadu(2001–2002)
- Bank of Italy(2011– )
- 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 2019
- Governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (1982 - 1984)[273]
- Boediono: Vice President of The Republic of Indonesia, 2009–14
Other foreign officials
- Union Ministerof the Government of India
- John William Ashe: president of the United Nations General Assembly at its 68th session
- PRIpresidential candidate assassinated while on the campaign trail
- MTR Corporation Limited, 2003–present; chairman, Hang Seng Bank(2007– )
- Donald Duke: governor of Cross River State, Nigeria (1999–2007)
- Stefán Jón Hafstein Penn Annenberg School of Communications Class of 1975: Icelandic writer and statesman in charge of Malawi[273]
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves (Born 1953) Penn Graduate School Class of 1979, A.M.; Foreign Minister of Estonia, 1996-2001[273]
- Minister for Educationfor Pakistan
- Philip Jaisohn: prominent figure in Korean independence movement; first Korean to become a naturalized US citizen
- Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
- Emilio Núñez: (University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine Class of 1893) 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)
- Indian government(2012–2014); former Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology (2014–2016)
- World Tourism Organization; past Minister of Information and Planning of Jordan; past Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of Jordan
- Chief Minister of the Indian state of Meghalaya; former Minister of Finance, Power and Tourism (Government of Meghalaya)
- 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– )
- Indian government(2016– ); former Minister of State for Finance (2014–2016)
- Indian government(2021– )
Lawyers, advisors, and civil rights leaders
- Civil Rights Commission by President Harry S. Truman
- Gloria Allred: lawyer, feminist
- Russian government; 1900 Populist Partypresidential candidate (receiving more than 50,000 votes)
- Ashley Biden: social worker, social justice activist, and daughter of President Joe Biden
- Finnegan Biden, Democratic activist, granddaughter of President Joe Biden
- Naomi Biden, lawyer, granddaughter of President Joe Biden
- General Counsel of the Air Force, 1993–94; chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1994–97
- Joseph R. McCarthy
- James Harry Covington: co-founder of Covington & Burling, a firm with more than 1,000 lawyers
- Drinker Biddle & Reath, a firm with more than 650 lawyers
- 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[701]
- 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
- Edwin Feulner: co-founder and former president of The Heritage Foundation
- 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 1,900 lawyers
- Iran-Contra scandal
- Legal Aid Society and the New York City Bar Association
- 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
- Pepper Hamilton LLP, a firm with more than 1,200 lawyers
- Steven P. Perskie: judge and politician
- Bernard Madoff
- Eli Kirk Price II: founder, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Howard J. Rubenstein: public relations lawyer and executive
- Schnader, Harrison, Segal and Lewis(dissolved in 2023)
- Mitchell D. Silber: former director of intelligence analysis for the New York City Police Department from 2007 to 2012; current executive director of the Community Security Initiative, and expert in political risk, intelligence, and security analysis.
- Bernard Segal: former president of the American Bar Association
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Conrad Tillard (BA 1988): Baptist minister, radio host, author, civil rights activist, and politician
- Marietta Peabody Tree: US representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights under President John F. Kennedy
- 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
As is detailed below,
- Penn Law class of 1886), served as Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1871–1873[309]
- Jefferson Medical College[706]
- David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892) Penn Med class of 1838[710] volunteered as consulting and operating surgeon when President James A. Garfield was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet in 1881[711] and wrote The Principles and Practice of Surgery based on his experience of fifty active years, of practicing medicine[710] which was a three-volume set published 1878–1883
- National Historic Landmarks Church of the Holy Cross (Stateburg, South Carolina) and Borough House Plantation, which is the largest assemblage of high-style pisé (rammed earth) structures in the United States[713]
- 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
- Franklin and Marshall College[714]
- William Maclay Awl, (May 24, 1799 – November 19, 1876)[715] 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[716]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
- Jefferson Medical College
- Carrie Bearden, professor, the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
- (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[718][719]
- 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
- governor of Alabama[724]
- 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[725][726]
- Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (now part of Drexel University College of Medicine) in 1928[727]
- University of Illinois College of Dentistryto 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 College Class of 1962 and 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[728][729][730]
- 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[179] and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn[180][179]
- 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[731]
- 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
- US senatorfrom Alabama
- 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
- Princeton College
- Samuel W. Crawford, Penn Med class of 1850: US Army surgeon and a Union general in the American Civil War
- 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[734]
- 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[735]
- 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[736] via research resulting in discovery of the structure of antibody molecules[737] and was founder and director of The Neurosciences Institute
- Confederate Army
- surgeon general of the United States Army
- John Floyd, Penn Med class of 1804: 25th governor of Virginia, Virginia representative to Congress
- lobotomies in 23 states; first neurologist in Washington, D.C.[738]
- A.Y.P. Garnett (1820–1888), Penn Med class of 1842: served as president of the American Medical Association[739] and served Jefferson Davis[740] and as physician to Robert E. Leeduring 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[741]
- U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional districtfrom 1815 to 1817
- 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
- John Henry "Doc" Holliday, Dental School, class of 1872: western gambler and gunfighter
- 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,[743][744] married (in 1953) to San Baw, a medical school classmate who received an MD and an MS from Penn Med,[744][745][743] 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
- 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 (ophthalmologist), Penn Med class of 2002: author and retinal surgeon
- Caleb R. Layton, Penn Med class of 1876: Delaware representative to Congress
- 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 Collegein Pennsylvania
- Crawford Long Hospital
- Jefferson Medical College, now Thomas Jefferson University
- Willoughby D. Miller (1853–1907) Penn Dental class of 1879 (first class to graduate)[749] was an American dentist and the first oral microbiologist.[750] and was appointed dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1906, but died in 1907, prior to assuming the position[751][752][753]
- George Edward Mitchell, Penn Med class of 1805: Maryland representative to Congress
- Charles Delucena Meigs: pioneering leader in obstetrics
- plastic surgeonin the US
- Penn Med who did post-graduate training at hospitals in Philadelphia and London, was the first black physician elected as member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society and was founder of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP[754]
- John Pershing for heroism in treating and evacuating wounded soldiers under fire[756]
- 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[757]
- US senatorfrom 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[758] 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
- 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[759]
- 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
- 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"
- 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[762][763]
- 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
- 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[764][765]
- Sandra Saouaf: earned her PhD from Penn in immunology[766]
- small poxvaccine to the US
- 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"[769][770]
- 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
- China and learned to speak Chinese.[771] and later became a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court[574] (January 29, 1847, through January 3, 1853)[575]
- Free University of Amsterdam,[772] and an honorary Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree from University of Pennsylvania for his contributions to medicine[777][778]
- 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
- beriberi
- Bert Vogelstein: cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University
- Drew Weissman Penn faculty and winner of 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology (see also List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation)[779]
- 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[780]
Military
Medal of Honor recipients
- 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;[781] Medal of Honor recipient and brevet brigadier general from the American Civil War
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Class of 1863: Medal of Honorrecipient 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[782]
Air Force officials
- Thomas K. Finletter: US secretary of the Air Force, 1950–53
- Harris Hull (May 23, 1909 – January 29, 1993) Wharton School of Business and Finance: Class of 1930 B.S. in Economics,[783] decorated brigadier general of the United States Air Force (USAF) during World War II
- George G. Lundberg (October 19, 1892 – January 1981) Wharton School of Business and Finance: Class of 1917 B.S. in Economics:[784] appointed Brigadier general of the USAF during World War II
- David G. Young III, MD, (College class of 1971, BA in Biology): United States Air Force brigadier general[785]
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: College Class of 1790, 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
- Appomattox
- Rolv Enge: Decorated Norwegian resistance movement member from World War II (1942–44)
- from November 19, 2004, to March 9, 2007
- Confederate Army
- Lindley M. Garrison (Penn Law Class of 1885, LLB): served as secretary of war under President Woodrow Wilson(1915-1916)
- Clement Finley: 10th surgeon general of the US Army
- George Izard: General in the US Army during the War of 1812
- Constitutional Conventionof 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
- U.S. Constitution
- James St. Clair Morton: Union Army brigadier general who built the Civil War's largest fort, Fortress Rosencrans in Tennessee
- Marquis de Lafayetteduring the American Revolutionary War
- Robert Maitland O'Reilly: 20th surgeon general of the US Army
- Tench Tilghman, College 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[787]
- 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
- 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
- Revenue Cutter Serviceto form the Coast Guard in 1915
Marine Corps officials
- William P. Biddle: (Class of 1875 and member of Delta Psi fraternity AKA St. Anthony Hall) Major general and the 11th commandant of the United States Marine Corps[788]
- Marine Corps Heritage Foundation[789]
- World War 2.[790]
- John Marston (USMC): Major general during WWII
- Samuel Nicholas: (Academy and College of Philadelphia Class of 1759) founder and first commandant of the USMC, commissioned in 1775[791]
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
- US Merchant Marineduring World War II
- Nicholas Biddle
- Adolph E. Borie: US secretary of the Navy under President Ulysses S. Grant
- President Donald J. Trump[270]
- John Howard Dalton (Wharton Graduate School Class of 1971, MBA): served as 70th Secretary of the Navy from July 22, 1993, to November 16, 1998
- Thomas S. Gates, Jr. (Penn College Class of 1928, A.B., and Hon. LL.D., 1956) Trustee): 7th United States Secretary of Defense (December 2, 1959 - January 20, 1961) and Secretary of the Navy[273]
- 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
- Navy Nurse Corps
- Mary Joan Nielubowicz: Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1983–87
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1870–1882, and president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia1879–1883
- 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
- (retired)
- Zionist
- Reverend John AndrewsD.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:[795] founder of IntelliGen Consulting Group and leading scholar of theoterrorism; former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Operations/Clandestine Services Case Officer (South Asia); US DOI/IC contractor
- Jenna Bush
- 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[796][797]
- Thomas Frederick Davies Sr., Class of 1871: third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan(1889–1905)
- Immigrant rights activist; senior pastor, Park Avenue Christian Church, NYC
- Jacob Duché, Class of 1757: first chaplain to the Continental Congress
- Board of Regents of the University of Michigan
- Mary Fels (March 10, 1863 - May 16, 1953) (attended for one year circa 1881-82) philanthropist, suffragist, philosopher, economist (Georgist)[798]
- Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus(1909–27)
- Joan Friedman: first woman to serve as a rabbi in Canada (1980)
- Roman Catholic nun; co-founder of the activist organization New Ways Ministry
- dean emeritus of St. Nicholas Cathedralin Washington, D.C.
- 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
- Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
- Jesuitpriest, writer and culture editor of the Jesuit magazine America
- 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)
- Robert Knight Rudolph: professor of systematic theology and christian ethics at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia
- Lutheranminister, educator, author and church theologian; president of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America (1903–20)
- General Synod of the Lutheran Church in the United States
- Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of Wheeling–Charleston, West Virginia, 1985–1988, and archbishop of New Orleans, 1989–2001
- Frank W. Sterrett: American prelate who served as the Episcopal Bishop of Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) (1928 - 54).
- Diocese of Pennsylvania(1865–87)
- Ernest Adolphus Sturge: general superintendent of the Japanese Presbyterian Church
- Texas A & M University
- Edward Thomson: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the United Methodist Church), elected in 1864
- Anglicanbishop in China in the 19th century
- US Senate chaplain(1790)
- LGBT rights
- Royden Yerkes, church historian and theologian, Episcopal priest
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
- Guggenheim fellow
- Charles Bachman: Turing Award winner, pioneer of database management systems.
- William Baldwin, Class of 1807: scientist whose personal papers are included in the collection of the Harvard University Herbarium
- 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 alarmsystem, 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[800]
- 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"
- 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
- Vera Huckel was a mathematician and aerospace engineer and one of the first female "computers" at NASA
- Horace Jayne: zoologist and educator; dean of the college faculty of the Wistar Institute; trustee of Drexel University
- Jotham Johnson: past president of the Archaeological Institute of America
- 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
- Advanced Cell Technology
- Henry Carvill Lewis: geologist
- John Peter Lesley: geologist; with fellow alumni John Fries Frazerand James C. Booth, participated in the first geological survey of Pennsylvania
- John C. Lilly: researcher of consciousness; counterculture figure
- Yueh-Lin Loo: chemical engineer
- 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
- Philadelphia Magazineas "Best Museum Curator" in 2014
- American Ornithologists' Union
- Nobel laureate and Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry at Purdue University
- National Inventor's Hall of Fame
- National Medal of Technology, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space MuseumLifetime Achievement award
- Michael O. Rabin: Turing Award winner, attended the University of Pennsylvania for graduate studies before transferring to Princeton University
- charter memberof the National Academy of Sciences
- George E. Smith, College 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
- blind inventor of automotive cruise control; member of the Automotive Hall of Fame
- developmental biologist known for deriving the first human embryonic stem cellline in 1998; member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Ernest S. Tierkel: epidemiologist known as "Dr. Rabies" for his extensive work with the disease
- 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
- 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
- Eliya Zulu; Demographer and founder of the African Institute for Development Policy
Other
- Mackenzie Fierceton, activist who has sued university over its role in investigation of her alleged abusive childhood that led to her withdrawing from her Rhodes scholarship in case still being litigated[802]
- Lee K. Frankel: social worker and insurance executive
- CARE USA
- Joel Henry Hildebrand: past president of the Sierra Club
- Edward Hirsch: president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- UK Trade and Investment[804]
- anti-war, gay liberation, and HIV/AIDS activist who was an aide to Martin Luther King Jr. and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War[806] and one of the founders of the Gay Liberation Front in Philadelphia[807] and founded the first LBGQT+ Penn funded group[808]
- John A. Lafore Jr.: past president of the American Kennel Club
- Patrick Murphy Malin: past executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union
- Scott Nearing (August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983) Penn Law Class of 1904 (dropped out) Wharton Class of 1905 (BS) and Class of 1909 (Ph.D.): 20th-century conservationist, peace activist, educator, writer and economist[809]
- 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
- Oscar Nuñez: Robot designer
- 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
- Rhodes Scholar
- 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
- conspiracyand bribery in 1987 in connection with a state contract award
- George William Crump: world's first recorded streaker
- wrestler Dave Schultz
- Joshua Eilberg, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1967–79;[810] plead guilty to conflict of interest charges and was sentenced to 5 years of probation and fined $10,000[811][812]
- 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)[813]
- Vince Fumo: Pennsylvania State Senator convicted of 137 federal corruption charges in 2009
- New York State Supreme CourtJustice, convicted of bribery
- Kermit Gosnell: Non-graduate serial killer and fraudulent physician, convicted of murdering three infants.[814]
- Carl Gugasian: bank robber
- grand larceny[815]
- Norman Hsu: convicted pyramid scheme investment broker
- Jho Low: a financier linked to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad corruption scandal
- Sarma Melngailis (born 1972) Penn College and Wharton (Class of 1994): Vegan chef convicted of stealing 2 million dollars from supporters and being sentenced to 4 months in jail[816]
- President Donald J. Trump
- Raj Rajaratnam: billionaire hedge fund manager convicted of insider trading
- President Harry S. Truman
- tax evader
- International Master of chess who served time in prison for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping
Fictional alumni
- Andrew Beckett: gay, HIV-positive lawyer (notable for being one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge a character with HIV/AIDS) in the 1993 movie Philadelphia whose former boss states he hired Beckett upon his graduation from University of Pennsylvania Law School, was portrayed by Tom Hanks (for which performance Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 66th Academy Awards)[817][818]
- Dr. Mark Craig: Chief of Surgery at St. Eligius Hospital in St. Elsewhere, played by William Daniels, is a Penn alumnus.[819][820]
- Ethan Hunt: Impossible Mission Force field agent and protagonist of the Mission: Impossible film series played by Tom Cruise. As revealed in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Hunt holds a double major in engineering and international relations from Penn.[821]
- Anthony "Tony" Judson Lawrence: portrayed by Paul Newman in the 1959 film The Young Philadelphians and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[822] The film is based on the 1956 novel The Philadelphian, by Richard P. Powell[823][824]
- Chuck McGill: attorney in Better Call Saul (who led Penn's debate team to national championship three years running and won the Larkin Prize) played by Michael McKean[825][826]
- 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[825]
- 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[825]
- Gary Shepherd, literature professor and lead character on Thirtysomething, portrayed by Peter Horton, is a Penn alum
- Michael Steadman, advertising executive and lead character on Thirtysomething, portrayed by Ken Olin, graduated from Penn
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 (earned Ph.D. at Penn School of Arts and Sciences due to having won a Fulbright Scholarship awarded in 1963):[827][828]
- 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
- 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."
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