List of University of Pennsylvania people

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2008)

This is a list of notable current and former faculty, alumni, and non-graduating attendees of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

Contents 1 Nobel Laureates 2 Noted alumni 2.1 Academia 2.1.1 University leaders 2.1.2 Distinguished scholars 2.1.3 Other 2.2 Arts, media, and entertainment 2.3 Athletics 2.4 Business 2.5 Exploration 2.6 Government, law, and politics 2.6.1 Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States 2.6.2 Foreign Prime Ministers, Presidents, and other heads of state 2.6.3 U.S. Supreme Court Justices 2.6.4 U.S. Executive Council members 2.6.5 U.S. Senators 2.6.6 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives 2.6.7 Members of the Continental Congress 2.6.8 U.S. Governors 2.6.9 U.S. Ambassadors 2.6.10 Mayors 2.6.11 Other U.S. state and local officials 2.6.12 Foreign officials 2.6.13 Lawyers, advisors and civil rights leaders 2.7 Military 2.8 Religion 2.9 Science, medicine, and technology 2.10 Other 3 Notable faculty 4 References

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

• 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

• 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."
• 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

• Edmund S. Phelps - 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy."
• Edward C. Prescott - 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • "for his part in contributing to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."
• Lawrence Robert Klein - 1980 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • "for the creation of economic models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies."
• Simon Smith Kuznets - 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development."

Noted alumni

Academia

University leaders

• Cyrus Adler: Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary; President Dropsie College
• John Milton Bernhisel: Original Trustee of the University of Utah
• William Bingham: Banker and politician who was highly influential in the founding of Dickinson College -- "Bingham's Porch" was long a rallying cry at Dickinson
• James Lloyd Breck, Class of 1838: Founder of the Seabury Divinity School, now part of the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, a prominent Episcopal seminary. Also namesake of the Breck School in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Gaylen Byker: President of Calvin College (1995- )
• Charles Caldwell: Together with Penn alumni John Esteen Cooke and Charles Wilkins Short, organized the Louisville (KY) Medical Institute (now the University of Louisville School of Medicine); Caldwell served as first dean from 1837-1838
• William P. Carey: Namesake and benefactor of the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, and the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
• Jared Cohon: President of Carnegie Mellon University.
• Al-Hassan Conteh: President of the University of Liberia.
• Lee Copeland: Former Dean of both the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design
• Robert A. Corrigan: President, San Francisco State University (1988- )
• Edward Cutbush, M.D.: Founder, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, and first dean (1834-1839)
• Robert Davidson, Class of 1771: President, Dickinson College, 1804-09
• Samuel Henry Dickson: Together with alumnus John Edwards Holbrook, he founded the Medical College of South Carolina (now the Medical University of South Carolina)
• Daniel Drake: Organized the Medical College of Ohio and Cincinnati College; both later became the University of Cincinnati
• Harold Dodds: Fifteenth President of Princeton University, 1933-1957
• John W. Draper, M.D.: President, New York University Medical School 1850-1873; Founder NYU Medical School, and founding President of the American Chemical Society
• Thomas Messinger Drown, President, Lehigh University
• Arnold Eisen: Chancellor Jewish Theological Seminary
• Patrick Ellis, President, The Catholic University of America (1992-98); President, La Salle University (1977-92)
• Drew Gilpin Faust: President, Harvard University
• Sandra Featherman: President, University of New England, 1995-2006
• George Stuart Fullerton: American psychologist and philosopher, he was a professor, dean and vice-provost at Penn, as well as a professor at Columbia University and the University of Vienna; also President of the American Psychological Association
• Henry D. Gilpin: President, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1853-58)
• Israel Goldstein: Co-founder and the first Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Brandeis University
• Neil R. Grabois: President, Colgate University
• Frank Hastings Hamilton: One of the founders of Buffalo Medical College (now the State University of New York at Buffalo)
• Patrick T. Harker: President, University of Delaware
• Joel Henry Hildebrand: Former Dean of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley; Hildebrand Hall on Berkeley's campus is named for him; also namesake of the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award sponsored by the American Chemical Society
• John Henry Hobart: Founder, Geneva College (now Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
• Elizabeth Hoffman: President, University of Colorado System (2000-2005)
• Joseph Hopkinson: President, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; he also served as successful counsel for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase in his impeachment trial before the United States Senate in 1804 and 1805
• Thomas Hunt: President of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University)
• Ralph Cooper Hutchinson: 7th President of Washington & Jefferson College; and President of Lafayette College
• Jacob Jeanes: Together with fellow alumnus Walter Williamson, established the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania (now Drexel University College of Medicine)
• Samuel Jones, Class of 1762: worked with James Manning to found the College of Rhode Island (now Brown University). Jones re-drafted the college's charter and raised money for its foundation
• Sir Paul Judge: Namesake and benefactor of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge
• Jared Potter Kirtland: He studied at Penn and ultimately received his degree from Yale University; he was a co-founder of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, as well as the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• Pleasant Williams Kittrell: Elected to the Texas Legislature, he introduced the bill that established the University of Texas; he attended Penn, but did not earn a degree
• Richard Kneedler: President Emeritus of Franklin and Marshall College
• Michael Kotlikoff: Dean, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (2007- )
• Peter J. Liacouras: President, Temple University (1982-2000)
• John Berrien Lindsley: Founded the Medical Department at the University of Nashville (now Vanderbilt University School of Medicine)
• Qingyun Ma: Dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture (2006- )
• Joseph McCann: Dean of the Davis Business School at Jacksonville University
• George McClellan: Founder of Jefferson Medical College, now Thomas Jefferson University
• John McClintock: First president of Drew Theological Seminary (now Drew University)
• Richard Patrick McCormick: Chair of the Rutgers College history department (1966-69); and Dean of Rutgers College (1974-1977)
• John McDowell, Class of 1771: first Principal of St. John's College, Annapolis, MD 1790-1806
• Samuel McKinney: First president of Austin College and West Tennessee College (now Union University)
• Thomas Meredith: One of the founders of Wake Forest Institute, now Wake Forest University; he was the first president of the institution's Board of Trustees (Also, North Carolina's Meredith College is named for him)
• James D. Moffat: 3rd President of Washington & Jefferson College
• Edward Mott Moore: Former President of the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester and former President of the American Medical Association; he was also one of the founders of the New York State Board of Health and is considered to be "the father of the Rochester park system"
• John Morgan, Class of 1757 and 1760: Founder of the first medical school in North America and founding member of the American Philosophical Society; he was also the Surgeon General for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
• Kenneth Mortimer: President, University of Hawaii, 1993-2001
• Henry Morton: 1st President of Stevens Institute of Technology, 1870-1902
• Franklin David Murphy: Chancellor of the University of Kansas and the University of California, Los Angeles
• Josiah Clark Nott, M.D.: One of the founders of the Medical College of Alabama (now the University of Alabama School of Medicine)
• Merle Middleton Odgers: President, Bucknell University, 1954-64
• B.D. Owens: Past President of the University of Tampa and Northwest Missouri State University
• John Edwin Pomfret: President, College of William and Mary, 1942-51
• Nathaniel Potter, Class of 1796: Founder of the College of Medicine of Maryland, now the University of Maryland College of Medicine
• Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.: Namesake and benefactor of the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering at Duke University
• Judith Rodin: First woman president of an Ivy League university (University of Pennsylvania); and President of the Rockefeller Foundation
• L. Timothy Ryan: President, The Culinary Institute of America, 2001-
• Morton Owen Schapiro: President, Northwestern University, and past President of Williams College
• Samuel Simon Schmucker: Founder, Gettysburg College
• Joseph Taylor: Penn graduate founded Bryn Mawr College through a bequest in this will, 1880
• Zaccheus Test, Class of 1855: One of the founders of Earlham College, he also suggested the name Earlham for the new institution
• Gordon Watkins: first Provost of the University of California, Riverside, 1949-56
• Benjamin West: Founder of the Royal Academy of Arts; he attended Penn but did not earn a degree
• Hugh Williamson: Mathematics professor at Penn, and Original Trustee of the University of North Carolina, he served as Secretary of the Trustees in the 1790s; Signatory to the U.S. Constitution, he also represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention
• Theophilus Adam Wylie: President pro tem of Indiana University, 1853 and 1859
• Mark G. Yudof: President, University of California system (2008- ); Charles Alan Wright Chair in Law and Chancellor, University of Texas System; and President, University of Minnesota, 1997-2002
• Larry Zicklin: Namesake and benefactor of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College

Distinguished scholars

• Thomas R. Adams: John Hay Professor of Bibliography and University Bibliographer at Brown University
• William Alonso: American economist was Director of the Center for Population Studies at Harvard University
• Anthony Amsterdam: University Professor of law at New York University School of Law
• E. Digby Baltzell: Penn graduate and sociology professor who popularized the term "WASP"
• Eugene C. Barker: Historian at the University of Texas at Austin
• William M. Bass: Prominent forensic anthropologist, he is the Founder of the "Body Farm" at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• Daniel A. Baugh: Naval historian and former professor of history at both Princeton University and Cornell University
• Martin J. Blaser: Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine
• James Curtis Booth, Class of 1829: Penn professor of Chemistry in the Applied Arts, 1850-55; President, American Chemical Society, 1883-85
• Ralph L. Brinster: Award-winning American geneticist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Henry H. Carter: Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Notre Dame and Legion d'honneur recipient
• Britton Chance: Scientist and Olympic gold medallist who made great contributions to spectrometry and biochemistry/biophysics research; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Walter Channing (physician): the first Professor of Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence at Harvard University
• Edward Potts Cheyney, Class of 1883: Penn professor of history and author of several college textbooks; also past President of the American Historical Association, the oldest and largest U.S. society for scholars and teachers of history
• Carol Chomsky: Linguist and education specialist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Noam Chomsky: Linguist and activist; MIT professor
• Nicholas A. Christakis: Professor of sociology at Harvard University
• C. West Churchman: Renowned philosopher and systems scientist, and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
• Gordon Clark: Philosopher and Christian theologian.
• Jerry Clinton: Ferdowsi scholar and Professor of Persian language and literature at Princeton University
• Thomas C. Cochran: Historian and past President of the American Historical Association
• Stanley Norman Cohen: Professor of genetics at Stanford University, and recipient of the National Medal of Science
• Thomas F. Cooley: Richard R. West Dean and the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics at the New York University Stern School of Business
• Edward Samuel Corwin: McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and past President of the American Political Science Association
• Harvey Cox: Prominent theologian; Professor, Harvard Divinity School
• Hamid Dabashi: Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
• Christina Davis (poet): Curator of poetry at the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University
• John DiIulio: Frederick Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania; former director, White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
• David Dodd: Past professor of finance at Columbia Business School, and co-author of the 1934 book Security Analysis, the longest running investment text ever (and still) published
• Solomon Drowne: Prominent American physician, academic and surgeon during the American Revolution and in the history of the fledgling United States, he was also professor of botany at Brown University, and one of the earliest Fellows there
• Louis Adolphus Duhring: Penn professor of dermatology and founding member and President of the American Dermatological Society
• Isidore Dyen: Professor Emeritus of Malayo-Polynesian and Comparative Linguistics at Yale University
• Gerald Early: Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Washington University
• Paul R. Ehrlich: Zoologist and Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University
• Leon Eisenberg: Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine and Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard Medical School
• Khaled Abou El Fadl: Professor and Islamic scholar at UCLA School of Law
• Albert Fishlow: Professor of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Center for the Study of Brazil at Columbia University
• Joshua Fishman: Linguist on sociology of language, bilingualism, Yiddish
• William Fontaine: Penn alumnus and the first tenured African-American professor at Penn, he was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1944-52); one of his students (at Lincoln University where he previously taught) was Kwame Nkrumah, another future Penn alumnus and the first President of Ghana
• William H. Forwood: Chairman of the departments of Surgery and Surgical Pathology at Georgetown University from 1895-1897; he was also a U.S. Civil War general and the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
• Robert Gallager: Professor Emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Francis Gavin: Founding Director of Studies for The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the first Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin
• J. Arch Getty: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles
• Moshe Greenberg: Biblical scholar.
• Edith Grossman: Award-winning translator of works including Don Quixote and Love in the Time of Cholera
• Alfred Irving Hallowell: Anthropologist and past President of the American Anthropological Association; Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
• Diane F. Halpern: American psychologist and Professor at Claremont McKenna College; past-President of the American Psychological Association
• Alfred Harbage: Influential 20th century Shakespeare scholar and professor at Harvard University; also General Editor of the Pelican Books edition of the works of Shakespeare
• Zellig Harris: Pioneering Linguist
• Charles Custis Harrison: University provost and industrialist, and recipient of honorary LL.D. degrees from Columbia University, Princeton University and Yale University
• Zahi Hawass: Egyptian archaeologist and a world-famous Egyptologist
• Leonard Hayflick: Past professor of medical microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine; past President of the Gerontological Society of America
• Eric J. Hill: Professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Urban T. Holmes, Jr.: Kenan Professor of Romance Philology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Stephen D. Houston: Professor of anthropology and Dupee Family Professor of Social Science at Brown University
• Stephen Jaffe: Mary and James H. Semans Professor of Music Composition at Duke University
• Carl Kaysen: Economics professor at MIT and former Director, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
• Howard Atwood Kelly, Class of 1877 and 1882: One of the first members of Johns Hopkins University medical faculty, he was an internationally renowned surgeon and medical educator, and founder of Kensington Hospital in Philadelphia
• Charles P. Kindleberger: Economist, economic historian; formerly Ford International Professor of Economics at MIT
• Patrick Vinton Kirch: Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley
• Michael Klarman: Kirkland & Ellis Professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School
• Lawrence Kotlikoff: Professor of economics at Boston University, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Barbara Landau: Dick and Lydia Todd Professor and Chair of the Cognitive Sciences Department at Johns Hopkins University
• Joseph Leidy, Class of 1844: considered to be the Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology, he was Professor of Anatomy and founder of the Dept. of Biology at Penn, and Professor of Natural History at Swarthmore College; he was also the subject of a book entitled The Last Man Who Knew Everything, published by Yale University Press, 1998
• Aaron Lemonick: Past professor of physics at Princeton University, and past Chair of the Physics department at Haverford College
• Lawrence Lessig: Copyright activist, founder and director of Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Law Professor at Stanford University; also Director of the Edward J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School
• Ralph Linton: Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale University
• Xinru Liu: Assistant professor of early Indian and World history at The College of New Jersey
• Robert Loewy: Chair of the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech and member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Richard Longstreth: Architectural historian and professor at George Washington University, and past President of the Society of Architectural Historians
• Louis Loss: William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1962-84)
• Fred Lukoff: Linguist and professor at Yonsei University (Seoul) and the University of Washington (Seattle); Specialist in the Korean language
• Ellen Markman: Lewis M. Terman Professor of Psychology at Stanford University
• Daniel Mazia: Former professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, he was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Rogers McVaugh: Professor Emeritus of botany at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• María Rosa Menocal: Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University
• Samuel Miller, Class of 1789: early prominent professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, and namesake of Miller Chapel at PTS; he was also a trustee of both Columbia University and Princeton University, and a co-founder of the New York Historical Society
• Sidney Morgenbesser: John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University
• Frank Moulaert, Professor of Spatial Planning at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2008-
• Alan Needleman: Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University
• Elissa L. Newport: Cognitive scientist and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Maurice Obstfeld: Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
• Mehmet Oz: Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University
• Joseph Pancoast, Class of 1828: Chairman of the Departments of Surgery and Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, now Thomas Jefferson University
• Frederic L. Paxson: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
• Martin A. Pomerantz: Physicist and former Director of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware and namesake of the Martin A. Pomerantz astronomical observatory at the United States Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; also recipient of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
• Gyan Prakash: Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University
• Hilary Putnam: Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic at Harvard University
• John Quelch: Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (2001- )
• Henry Hope Reed: Scholar who assisted the poet William Wordsworth in the preparation of an American edition of his works
• Robert Rescorla: Psychologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Jonathan Evans Rhoads: Renowned cancer researcher, he was President of the American Philosophical Society (1976-84) (and namesake of the Jonathan Rhoads medal), and President of the Board of Managers of Haverford College (1963-78)
• John R. Rickford: Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford University
• Joseph Rothrock: American environmentalist, recognized as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania, he served on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University teaching botany, physiology and anatomy, and he founded the Pennsylvania School of Forestry at Mont Alto in 1903, now Penn State Mont Alto, and served as the first president of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association
• Anne Salmond: Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and a Dame Commander of the British Empire
• Henry Rogers Seager: Past Professor of political economy at Columbia University
• Edward Shils: Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago
• Edward B. Shils: Wharton School Professor of Management, Founder of Entrepreneurial Center at Wharton; nephew of Edward Shils above
• Benjamin Silliman: Yale University professor of chemistry and founding faculty member of Yale Medical School; he studied at Penn under Professor James Woodhouse but did not earn a degree (namesake of Silliman College at Yale)
• Linda B. Smith: Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Melford Spiro: Anthropologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Alfred Stengel, Class of 1889: Penn professor was President of the American College of Physicians and President of the Wistar Institute
• Susan Stewart: Poet and Princeton University professor, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Nancy Stokey: Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Witmer Stone: American ornithologist, botanist, and mammalogist, he was considered the last of the "great naturalists"; he was President of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) (1920–23), and was editor of the AOU's periodical The Auk (1912–1936), as well as Emeritus Director of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia
• JoAnne Stubbe: Novartis Professor of Chemistry & Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• George W. Taylor (professor): Founder of the academic field known as industrial relations, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Claude H. Van Tyne: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at the University of Michigan
• Anthony F. C. Wallace: Anthropologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Russell Weigley: Military historian; Distinguished University Professor of History at Temple University
• E. Roy Weintraub: Professor of economics at Duke University
• Robin Wilson: Fellow at Keble College of the University of Oxford
• Ray Wu: Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biology at Cornell University
• Ahmed Zewail: Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology

Other

• John Andrews: Principal of The Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia (1785-1789); and founder of the Academy that became York College of Pennsylvania
• Robert Bates (mountaineer): English teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy who made the first ascents of Mount Lucania in Canada and the Ulugh Muztagh in China
• Stephen G. Kurtz: Historian, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy (1974–1987)
• William White, Class of 1765: Bishop and founder of The Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania

Arts, media, and entertainment

• Julian Abele, Class of 1902: Prominent African-American architectural designer; he designed or co-designed such works as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University, as well as much of the campus of Duke University, including Duke Chapel
• Charles Addams: Creator, The Addams Family; he is said to have modeled the Addams Family mansion after Penn's College Hall
• Elizabeth Alexander: Poet who recited at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama
• Kevin Allen: Contestant of NBC reality show The Apprentice 2
• Ron Allen (journalist): NBC News correspondent
• Maryanne Amacher: American composer
• Michael Ashkin: Noted sculptor
• Ti-Grace Atkinson: Author, feminist
• Jon Avnet: Film and TV director, producer and writer
• Evelyn Margaret Ay: Miss America 1954
• Benjamin Franklin Bache (journalist), Class of 1787: Grandson of Benjamin Franklin and an early champion of the First Amendment
• William J. Bain: Noted architect, co-founder of global architecture firm NBBJ.
• Elizabeth Banks - Actress, best known as the lead actress in the 2006 sports movie Invincible, and as Laura Bush in the 2008 film W.
• Leslie Esdaile Banks: Popular African-American author
• Ralph Barbieri: Radio personality
• Albert C. Barnes: Founder of the Barnes Foundation and inventor of Argyrol
• Peter Barnes: Senior Washington correspondent for the Fox Business Network
• Jack Barry: Television producer and host, 1950s-1984
• Eric Bazilian: Singer, songwriter, guitarist, member of The Hooters
• Willow Bay: Former CNN and ABC anchorwoman, and fashion model
• James Berardinelli: Film critic
• Candice Bergen: Actress, best known as TV's Murphy Brown. (Attended, never graduated).
• Alfred Bester: Recipient of the first Hugo Award for a Science Fiction Novel: The Demolished Man (1953), Science Fiction Grand Master (1988), and author of The Stars My Destination (1956)
• Jeffrey Birnbaum: American journalist and Managing Editor of Digital of the Washington Times
• H.G. Bissinger: Author of Friday Night Lights and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Frank L. Bodine: American architect
• Beverly Bower: operatic soprano
• John Bowker: BBC broadcaster
• Andrea Brody: Co-host of U.S. television's George Michael Sports Machine
• Denise Scott Brown: Prominent architect; principal in Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates, and wife of architect Robert Venturi
• Ron Brown: NBC International Affairs correspondent
• Tory Burch: Fashion designer and socialite
• Alfred Butts: Inventor of the board game Scrabble
• Gregg Carey: Contestant on Survivor: Palau
• Eduardo Catalano: Architect
• Rick Chertoff: Music producer
• Claudia Cohen: Former Page Six gossip columnist for the New York Post
• Nancy Cordes: CBS news national correspondent
• Adrian Cronauer: Radio Personality and subject of biopic Good Morning Vietnam
• Mark Cronin: Television producer and writer
• Frank Miles Day: Prominent architect who made major additions to the campuses of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University and Wellesley College, among others; he was national president of the American Institute of Architects, 1906–07; and a founding editor of House & Garden (magazine)
• Pamela Day: Businesswoman and contestant of NBC reality show The Apprentice 2
• James DePreist: Permanent conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, director of conducting and orchestral studies at the Juilliard School and laureate music director of the Oregon Symphony
• Bruce Dern: Academy Award-nominated Actor
• John S. Detlie: Academy Award-nominated art director/set designer
• Celeste DiNucci: Winner of the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions in 2007
• Guitarist Jon Gutwillig and ex-drummer Sam Altman of the trance-fusion band the Disco Biscuits. Bassist Marc Brownstein and Keyboardist Aron Magner attended the university, but never graduated.
• John Doman: Actor, star of HBO's series The Wire
• Jennifer Egan: Novelist and National Book Award finalist
• Keith Epstein: Investigative journalist for BusinessWeek magazine
• Joseph Esherick: Prominent Bay Area architect; Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Jabari Evans: rapper known as Naledge, member of hip-hop group Kidz in the Hall
• 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
• Wendy Finerman: Academy Award-winning movie producer, she won the Oscar for the film Forrest Gump in 1994
• Stanley Fish: New York Times columnist
• Melissa Fitzgerald: American actress best known for her role on the TV program The West Wing as Carol Fitzpatrick
• Frank Ford: Long-time Philly radio talk show host, and co-founder of the Valley Forge Music Fair and the Westbury Music Fair
• Stephen J. Friedman: Movie producer
• Richard Garfield: Inventor of the popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering.
• Robert Gant: Actor, best known as Ben on Queer as Folk
• Adam Garfinkle: Editor of The American Interest, a public policy quarterly magazine
• Nikki Giovanni: Poet and author, she attended Penn but did not earn a degree
• Stephen Glass: Former reporter for The New Republic, author of The Fabulist
• Benjamin Glazer: Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• Jeffrey Goldberg: Award winning journalist. Writer for the Atlantic and The New Yorker
• Leonard Goldberg: Former Chairman of 20th Century Fox, TV and Movie Producer
• Osvaldo Golijov: Grammy winning composer of classical music
• Bruce Graham: Architect who designed the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center in Chicago
• Archie Green: American folklorist and musicologist
• Zane Grey: Author of Western novels
• Shelly Gross: Broadway producer and co-founder of the Valley Forge Music Fair and the Westbury Music Fair
• Charles Gwathmey: Famous architect who studied at Penn, and later at Yale
• Mark Haines: CNBC business news anchor
• William Stanley Haseltine: Acclaimed 19th century American 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., among others
• George Hedges: Celebrity lawyer
• Jennifer Higdon: Acclaimed flutist and composer of classical music
• Doc Holliday: Gunman and gambler in western US in 1870s and 1880s; colleague of the Earp brothers; participated in the OK Corral gunfight. Graduated from Philadelphia College of Dentistry (1872), which merged into Penn in 1909.
• Ariel Horn: Novelist
• Kristin Hunter: African-American novelist
• Rob Hyman: Singer, songwriter, keyboard player, member of The Hooters
• Alberto Ibarguen: Chairman of the Board of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and former publisher of the Miami Herald
• Moe Jaffe: Songwriter ["Gypsy in My Soul", "I'm My Own Grandpa", etc.]
• Amandus Johnson: Founding curator of the American Swedish Historical Museum
• Louis Kahn: Noted architect, works include the Yale University Art Gallery and Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban National Assembly Building, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• Aaron Karo: Popular college humorist who details Penn life in books and on the CollegeHumor website.
• Andrea Keller: Architect; Contestant on Bravo's Top Design (placed 3rd)
• Duncan Kenworthy: Producer, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Notting Hill
• Joe Klein: Columnist and political analyst for Time magazine
• Evan Kohlmann: NBC terrorism analyst
• Andrea Kremer: ESPN sports correspondent
• Sara Larkin: Visual artist
• Elliot Lawrence: Tony Award-winning jazz pianist, composer and bandleader
• William Harold Lee: Architect
• John Legend: (birth name John Stephens) Rhythm and blues singer/songwriter
• 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
• Betty Liu: Anchorwoman for Bloomberg Television
• Alan W. Livingston: Record producer who signed the Beatles to their first major U.S. contract; he also created the character Bozo the Clown
• Jay Livingston: Academy Award-winning songwriter
• Sari Locker: Television personality and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex
• John D. MacDonald: Author, famous for his Travis McGee series
• Patrick Maloney: cast member on MTV's reality show Road Rules
• Mary Ellen Mark: American photographer
• John Masius: Emmy award-winning producer and writer of television series such as Touched By An Angel, St. Elsewhere, and others
• Megan McArdle: Blogger
• William McIlvaine, Jr.: American painter whose works are owned by the New York Historical Society and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Milton Bennett Medary: Prominent architect who designed the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge National Park; and together with fellow alumnus William Charles Hays, he designed Houston Hall, America's first student union
• Toral Mehta: Contestant of The Apprentice 4
• Thor Halvorssen Mendoza: human rights advocate and film producer; Founder, Human Rights Foundation
• Sia Michel: Pop music editor of The New York Times
• Andrea Mitchell: NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
• David Naughton: Actor best known for starring in the 1981 horror film An American Werewolf in London
• Barton Myers: Architect
• Becki Newton: Actress, Amanda on Ugly Betty
• Ken Olin: Actor, best known for his lead role on thirtysomething and as director & executive producer of Alias
• Charles Ornstein: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times
• Christina Park: Fox News Channel anchorwoman
• Norman Pearlstine: Past Editor-in-chief of Time Inc.
• I.M. Pei: Famous modernist architect (attended for a short time in 1935 before transferring to MIT)
• Jim Perry: (birth name: Jim Dooley) U.S. and Canadian television host
• Gina Philips: actress (attended, never graduated)
• Marc Platt: Film, television and theatre producer
• Chaim Potok: Award-winning author, The Chosen, The Promise, My Name Is Asher Lev, and The Gift of Asher Lev
• Ezra Pound: 20th century Modernist poet and promoter of various writers and schools of literature (attended for two years before transferring to Hamilton College). He returned to Penn and earned a master's degree in romance philology.
• Maury Povich: Talk-show host
• Eli Kirk Price: Founder, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Harold Prince: Famous Broadway Producer with works including West Side Story and Phantom of the Opera
• Paul Provenza: Actor, comedian, and director of The Aristocrats
• Alan Rachins: Actor (L.A. Law and Dharma and Greg)
• David Raksin: Composer
• Alan Richman: Journalist and food writer
• Melissa Rivers (Birth name: Melissa Rosenberg): Actress and daughter of comedian Joan Rivers
• John P. Roberts: Producer who bankrolled the Woodstock Festival
• Mark Rosenthal: Screenwriter, Mona Lisa Smile, Planet of the Apes, Mighty Joe Young, etc.
• Eric J. Savitz: West Coast Editor of Barron's Magazine
• Mary B Schuenemann: Award-winning 20th century American watercolorist
• Lisa Scottoline: Popular American author of many legal thrillers; New York Times best-seller list author
• Matt Selman: Long-time writer for the Award-winning animated series The Simpsons
• Sylvan Shemitz: American lighting designer best known for his work on Grand Central Terminal in New York City and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C
• Grover Simcox: illustrator, naturalist and polymath
• Linda Simensky (1985): Producer of animated works^[1]
• Michael Smerconish: Radio host and political pundit
• Yakov Smirnoff: Comedian and Painter
• Martin Cruz Smith: Author of Gorky Park
• Jordan Sonnenblick: Author of Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
• Devo Springsteen: Grammy Award winning music producer and songwriter (born Devon Harris)
• Steve Stecklow: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
• Emil Steiner: Author and Journalist Washington Post
• John and Emlyn Stewardson: Brothers and Partners in Cope & Stewardson, a prominent architectural firm which designed the University of Pennsylvania Museum, as well as buildings for Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, and Washington University, including Brookings Hall
• Meredith Stiehm: Emmy Award-winning television producer and screenwriter
• I.F. Stone: Prominent journalist and commentator from the 40s through the 60s.
• Jennifer Su: (Birth name: Jennifer Tsou), Television anchor and radio presenter, Hong Kong and Thailand
• Stephanie Sy: ABC News anchor and correspondent
• Brian Tierney: Publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News
• Lynn Toler: Judge on the TV series Divorce Court
• Bobby Troup: Actor, Songwriter best known for writing the popular standard "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66", and for his role as Dr. Joe Early in the 1970s TV series Emergency!
• Ivanka Trump: Fashion model, businesswoman, judge of NBC reality show The Apprentice 6, daughter of real estate mogul and Penn alumnus Donald Trump
• Cenk Uygur, Radio Talk Show Host, The Young Turks (talk show), Air America Radio and columnist for Huffington Post
• M.G. Vassanji: Canadian novelist and member of the Order of Canada
• David A. Vise: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Amina Wadud: Disputed Imam and author on various Islamic subjects
• David A. Wallace: Prominent architect whose firm Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd (WMRT) was largely responsible for the revitalization of Baltimore's Inner Harbor
• Mark Waters (director): Director of Mean Girls and other films
• Ted Weems: Bandleader
• Schatar White now Schatar Sapphira Taylor: Celebrity, Singer, Actress, Songwriter, Movie "High Roller", Contestant on VH1's Charm School
• John Edgar Wideman: Author, Rhodes Scholar
• Anand Wilder, guitarist, Yeasayer
• C.K. Williams: Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning poet
• William Carlos Williams: Poet
• Dick Wolf: Emmy Award-winning producer and creator of popular Law & Order series
• Aaron Yoo: American actor who starred in the 2007 films Disturbia and American Pastime
• Rick Yune: Actor
• Chip Zien: Actor
• Sidney Zion: Writer, journalist
• David Zippel: Tony Award-winning theatre lyricist
• Ted Cahill: Lead guitar, The Magic Mushrooms
• Joe Lacavera: Drummer, The Magic Mushrooms
• Stu Freeman: Vocals, Guitar, The Magic Mushrooms
• Josh Rice: Vocals, Harmonica, Flute, The Magic Mushrooms

Athletics

• Jerome Allen: Former NBA player, and member of the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame
• Josh Appell: Pitcher with the New York Mets farm team the Brooklyn Cyclones
• Reds Bagnell: Maxwell Award football halfback at Penn, and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Steve Baumann: President of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
• Irving Baxter: Winner of two gold and three silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics
• Cliff Bayer: Foil fencer, 2-time Olympian, 4-time U.S. champion, NCAA champion, Pan Am silver medalist
• Chuck Bednarik: Philadelphia Eagles Linebacker, member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, and namesake of the Chuck Bednarik Award in college football
• Bert Bell: Former National Football League Commissioner from 1946-1959, who took the league to unprecedented heights; also co-founder of the Philadelphia Eagles, and past co-owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Greg Best: Winner of two silver medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics
• Mel Bridgman: Former National Hockey League player and General Manager of the Ottawa Senators (MBA 1991)
• Marty Brill: Head Coach in football at LaSalle University and Loyola University
• George Brooke: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame, he played for Penn and Swarthmore College
• Alfred E. Bull: Head Coach in football at the University of Iowa, Georgetown University, and Lafayette College
• Joe Burk: Award-winning Ivy League oarsman and coach
• Sam Burley: Track and field record holder
• Doc Bushong: Major League Baseball catcher with a 15-year career
• Corky Calhoun: Storied Penn basketball player who helped the team go 28-0 during the 1970-71 season; he subsequently had an 8-year professional career with such teams as the Phoenix Suns, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers
• Bill Carr: Winner of two gold medals at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, and member of the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame
• Nathaniel Cartmell: Winner of four Olympic medals: two silver at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, and a gold and a bronze at the 1908 London Olympics; also the first Head Coach in men's basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Danny Cepero: First Major League Soccer goalkeeper to score a goal from open play
• Britton Chance: Winner of a gold medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics
• Meredith Colket: Winner of a silver medal in the Pole Vault at the 1900 Paris Olympics
• Tuffy Conn: 1920 NFL Champion
• Ellie Daniel, Class of 1974: Winner of four Olympic medals: a gold, silver and bronze at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and a bronze at the 1972 Munich Olympics; member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Anita DeFrantz: 1976 Olympics bronze medalist; Member of both the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee
• Mark DeRosa: Cleveland Indians Infielder/Outfielder
• Byron W. Dickson: Head Coach in football at Lehigh University
• Michalis Dorizas: Winner of a silver medal at the 1908 London Olympics
• Dexter Draper: Head Coach in football at the University of Texas (1909)
• James Dwyer: Former head football coach at Louisiana State University
• Earl Eby: Winner of a silver medal in track and field at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics
• Eddie Einhorn: Vice Chairman of the Chicago White Sox
• Frank Ellis, Class of 1893: Co-founder of the Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States
• Doc Farrell: Penn graduate had a 10-year Major League Baseball career, with teams such as the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants), New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox
• Charlie Ferguson (1880s pitcher): Earned 728 strikeouts from 1884-1888 as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Quakers, now the Philadelphia Phillies
• Jim Finn: National Football League fullback
• Bob Folwell: Head Coach in football at Lafayette College, Washington & Jefferson College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the United States Naval Academy; also the first Head Coach of the New York Giants
• Susan Francia: Winner of a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in women's rowing, and two gold medals at the 2009 World Rowing Championships
• Sarah Garner: Winner of a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and two gold medals at the World Rowing Championships (1997 and 1998)
• Charlie Gelbert (football): Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• James Gentle: Winner of a bronze medal at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
• Samuel Gerson: Winner of a silver medal in wrestling at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics
• Tom Gilmore (football coach): Head Coach in Football at the College of the Holy Cross
• Doug Glanville: Major League Baseball Outfielder and New York Times columnist
• Nelson Graves: Philadelphian cricketer and businessman
• Tex Hamer: 1926 NFL Champion
• Truxton Hare: Winner of a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics; member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Dick Harter: Head Coach in men's basketball at the University of Oregon
• John Heisman: The Heisman Trophy is named after him; he was also the President of the American Football Coaches Association
• Ron Hines: Co-founder of the Black American Racers Association
• Bill Hollenback: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame and Head Coach in football at Penn State (1909, 1911-14)
• Sidney Jelinek: Winner of a bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics
• Red Kellett: Former President of the Baltimore Colts
• John B. Kelly, Jr.: accomplished oarsman, four-time Olympian, and Olympic medal winner and President of the United States Olympic Committee and member of the United States Olympic Hall of Fame; brother of famous actress Grace Kelly; Kelly Drive in Philadelphia is named for him.
• Alden Knipe: Head Coach in Football at the University of Iowa from 1898-1902
• Alvin Kraenzlein: Four-time Olympic gold medal champion
• Otis Lamson: Member of the 1905 College Football All-America Team, and 1907 Head Coach in football at the University of North Carolina
• Dan Leibovitz: Head Coach in men's basketball at the University of Hartford
• George Levene: Head Coach in Football at the University of Tennessee (1907-09)
• Don Lippincott: Winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics
• Lou Little: Head Coach in Football at Columbia University from 1930-56, he was responsible for Columbia's 1934 win over Stanford University in the Rose Bowl; he also served as President of the American Football Coaches Association (born Luigi Piccolo)
• Craig Littlepage: Director of athletics at the University of Virginia
• Oliver MacDonald: Winner of a gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics
• Matt Maloney: 1994-95 Ivy League Player of the Year in Basketball; then NBA player
• Hugh Matheson (rower) Winner of a silver medal (for Great Britian) at the 1976 Montreal Olympics
• Fran McCaffery: Head Coach in Basketball at Siena College
• Josiah McCracken: Winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics; later he was Chief Resident Physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the U.S.
• Ed McGinley: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Jack Medica: Winner of a gold and two silver medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; he was a graduate student at Penn, but did not earn a degree
• Leroy Mercer: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the 1910 College Football All-America Team
• Ted Meredith: Olympic distance runner, won two Gold Medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics
• Sol Metzger: Head Coach in Football at the University of Pennsylvania, Oregon State University, West Virginia University, Washington and Jefferson College, and the University of South Carolina
• David Micahnik: Penn graduate and fencing coach and member of the USFA Hall of Fame
• Rob Milanese: Arena Football League wide receiver; school's all-time leading receiver
• Leslie Milne and Julie Staver: Winners of a bronze medal in women's field hockey at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
• John Minds: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Skip Minisi: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Syed Mohammed Hadi: Olympic athlete
• David Montgomery: Part-owner, President, and CEO of the Philadelphia Phillies
• Bob Morse: Basketball player is the holder of 3 Euroleague titles, and was chosen as one of the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors since the founding in 1958 of the European Champions Cup
• George Munger: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)
• B. Russell Murphy: First Head Coach in basketball at Johns Hopkins University
• Ted Nash: Winner of a gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in rowing
• Bob Odell: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Walter O'Malley: Owner and chief executive of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers; and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• George Orton: Winner of a gold and a bronze medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics; also the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal
• Winchester Osgood: Former Penn football player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• John H. Outland: The Outland Trophy in college football is named after him
• Harry Parker: Head Coach in varsity rowing at Harvard University
• Pard Pearce: 1921 NFL Champion playing for the Chicago Staleys (now the Chicago Bears)
• John Pescatore: Winner of a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and Head Coach in men's rowing at Yale University
• Jim Peterson (baseball): Major League Baseball player from 1931-37, and winner of the 1931 World Series playing for the Philadelphia Athletics (now the Oakland Athletics)
• Jack Ramsay: Coach, Portland Trail Blazers and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
• Frank Reagan: Former professional football player for the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles from 1941–1951; he led the NFL in interceptions in 1947
• Seth Roland: Head Coach in men's soccer at Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Carroll Rosenbloom: Penn football player and past owner of the Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts) and the Los Angeles Rams (now the St. Louis Rams)
• George Savitsky: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Michael Saxe: Head Coach in Basketball at Villanova University from 1920-26
• Hunter Scarlett: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Frank Sexton (baseball): Major League Baseball player, and Head Coach in baseball at Brown University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan
• Charles Sheaffer: Winner of a bronze medal at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics
• Brandon Slay: Winner of a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in freestyle wrestling
• Andy Smith (coach): Penn alumnus and Head Coach in football at the University of California, Berkeley from 1916-25 (and the winningest head football coach in that school's history); and member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)
• Stan Startzell: Three-time soccer All-American
• Ed Stefanski: President and General Manager of the Philadelphia 76ers
• Vince Stevenson: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Vernon Stouffer: Former owner of the Cleveland Indians
• John Baxter Taylor, Jr.: First African-American to win an Olympic Gold Medal - 1908 London Olympics
• Walter Tewksbury: Winner of five medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics: two gold, two silver and a bronze
• John Thayer: First-class cricketer
• Roy Thomas (outfielder): Philadelphia Phillies player and National League leader in runs scored, base on balls, and on base percentage
• Bill Tilden: Tennis player who won 10 Grand Slam titles, including 7 U.S. Opens and 3 Wimbledons. (Dropped out in sophomore year)
• Bob Torrey: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Steve Yerkes: Wharton dropout played Major League Baseball from 1909-1916 with such teams as the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, and scored the Series-winning run in the tenth inning of Game Eight of the 1912 World Series for the Red Sox
• Blondy Wallace: College All-American, NFL pro, and bootlegger
• Charles Wharton: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Carl Sheldon Williams: College football coach; won national championships for Penn in both 1904 and 1907
• George Washington Woodruff: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)
• Lud Wray: Founder of the Philadelphia Eagles together with fellow Penn alumnus Bert Bell; also the first Head Coach of the Boston Braves (now the Washington Redskins)

Business

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

• Anil Ambani: billionaire, Chairman, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
• Walter Annenberg: billionaire publisher, philanthropist, former U.S Ambassador to the United Kingdom, awarded the Medal of Freedom He was given the rank of Knight Commander (the second-highest rank in the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II
• Susan Arnold: Past Vice Chairman of Procter & Gamble
• Alfred Berkeley: Former President and Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
• Nicholas Biddle: President of the Second Bank of the United States
• William Bingham, Class of 1768: One of the Founders and a Director of the Bank of North America, the first modern United States bank
• Matt Blank: Chairman and CEO of Showtime
• Richard Bloch: Co-founder, H&R Block
• Mitchell Blutt: Executive Partner, J.P. Morgan Chase
• Beauveau Borie, Class of 1865: President, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the U.S.
• Len Bosack: Co-founder, Cisco Systems (Internet routers company)
• David Bowes, GloCal University, founder Seattle Biodiesel Initiative
• Dimitri Boylan (Entrepreneur): Former CEO of Hotjobs.com, now part of Yahoo!
• Geralyn Breig: former President, Godiva International
• David Brown: Co-founder of Silicon Graphics
• Christopher Browne: Managing Director of Tweedy, Browne Co.
• Warren Buffett: CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, investor, the 2nd richest man in the world (attended for two years before transferring to the University of Nebraska)
• Charles Butt: Billionaire Founder, CEO and Chairman, H-E-B Grocery Company
• William P. Carey: Founder of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC, a corporate real estate financing firm headquartered in New York City
• Robert Castellini: CEO and part-owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team
• Robert F. Cavanaugh: Board Member, Hershey Foods
• Steven A. Cohen: Founder and Manager, SAC Capital Partners
• Arthur D. Collins, Jr.: Chairman and CEO, Medtronic
• Robert Crandall: Chairman and CEO, American Airlines, Inc
• Donny Deutsch: Chairman, Deutsch, Inc.
• Michael DiCandilo: Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of AmerisourceBergen corporation
• Eugene du Pont: the first head of modern day DuPont
• Mike Eskew: Chairman and CEO, UPS
• Jerome Fisher: Founder and Chairman, Nine West, Inc.
• Richard Fisher: Fisher Brothers Construction, New York
• Jay S. Fishman: Chairman and CEO of St. Paul Travelers
• Catherine Austin Fitts: CEO and Founder of Solari Inc.
• James W. Fordyce, President of the Lasker Foundation
• Russell P. Fradin: Chairman and CEO of Hewitt Associates
• Robert Edward Glendinning, Class of 1888: Governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and the first person from outside New York to hold that position
• Steven Goldstone: Former Chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco
• Joel Greenblatt: hedge fund manager and author
• Sam Hamadeh: Founder, Vault Inc.
• Gilbert W. Harrison, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Financo, Inc.
• George H. Heilmeier: Former President and CEO of Bellcore (now Telcordia)
• Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, former Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• C. Robert Henrikson: Chairman, President and CEO, MetLife
• William H. Hernandez: Board member, Eastman Kodak Company
• Vernon Hill: Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Commerce Bancorp
• Jirair Hovnanian: Home builder
• Donald D. Humphreys: COO, Exxon Mobil
• Jon Huntsman, Sr.: Billionaire, founder of the Huntsman Corporation
• Reginald H. Jones: Former Chairman and CEO of General Electric
• Soo-Ryong Kim: Chairman and CCO, Deustche Bank AG, Korea
• Yotaro Kobayashi: Chairman and Co-CEO, Fuji Xerox
• Josh Kopelman: Founder, Half.com
• Michael J. Kowalski: Chairman and CEO, Tiffany & Co.
• Lakhani Family: Foremost industrialists of Pakistan and owners of Colgate-Palmolive (Pak) and Lakson Enterprises
• Leonard Lauder: Co-founder of Estée Lauder; billionaire investor
• Terry Leahy: CEO, Tesco
• Douglas Lenat: Founder of artificial intelligence company Cycorp
• Gerald Levin: former CEO of AOL Time Warner
• Edward J. Lewis: former Chairman of the Board of the Oxford Development Company, one of the largest Pennsylvania-based real estate firms
• Joseph Wharton Lippincott: Past President and Chairman of the Board of J.B. Lippincott Company, and grandson of industrialist Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School of Business
• John A. Luke, Jr.: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MeadWestvaco Corporation
• Peter Lynch: Investor, Vice-Chairman of Fidelity Investments
• Mian Raza Mansha: Multi-millionaire and Chief Executive D.G. Khan Cement Company Ltd. Director, Nishat Mills Ltd, BSJS Balanced Fund Limited, National Investment Trust Limited and Nishat Shuaiba Paper Products Company Limited.
• John A. Mayer: Former Chairman and CEO of Mellon Financial Corporation, and the first non-Mellon to head the company
• Harold McGraw III: President and CEO of McGraw-Hill Companies and chairman of the Business Roundtable
• Michael Milken: Trader, financier
• Bill Miller: Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Legg Mason Capital Management
• Jordan Mintz: Enron whistleblower
• Aditya Mittal: President and CFO, Mittal Steel Company
• Ken Moelis: Founder of Moelis & Company
• Michael Moritz: Venture capitalist, Sequoia Capital
• Robert Morrison: former Chairman and CEO, Quaker Oats Company; former CEO, Kraft Foods
• Elon Musk: Technology entrepreneur; Founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; Co-founder of PayPal; Board Member of Planetary Society; investor and Chairman of the Board of Tesla Motors
• Peter Nicholas: Billionaire co-founder of the medical device firm Boston Scientific
• William Novelli: CEO of AARP, and founder and past President of Porter Novelli, one of the world's largest lobbying and public relations firms, now part of the Omnicom Group
• Shaun F. O'Malley: Former Chairman and CEO of Price Waterhouse, predecessor company to PricewaterhouseCoopers; and member of the Accounting Hall of Fame
• William S. Paley: Founder, CBS Corporation
• Bruce Pasternack: President and CEO of the Special Olympics International; formerly Senior Vice President of Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc.
• Ronald O. Perelman: Billionaire investor
• Lionel Pincus: Past Chairman of Warburg Pincus
• Lewis E. Platt: President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Hewlett-Packard
• J.D. Power: Founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power & Associates
• Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.: Former Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Inc.
• Frank Quattrone: Prominent investment banker, formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston
• Robert Rabinovitch: Former President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Raj Rajaratnam: Billionaire founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group
• Shailesh Rao: Managing Director of Google India
• Josh Resnick: Founder and President, Pandemic Studios
• Sylvia Rhone: Former President and CEO of Eastwest Records, Elektra Records, and Motown Records, and the first African-American woman to head a major record company
• Brian L. Roberts: Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation
• Lucille Roberts: Namesake and successful proprietar of women's fitness clubs
• Ralph J. Roberts: Co-founder, Comcast Corporation
• Eileen Clarkin Rominger: Goldman Sachs partner
• Perry Rotella: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Verisk Analytics
• J. Brendan Ryan: Chairman of Foote, Cone, and Belding
• Henry Salvatori: Founder, Western Geophysical; founding stockholder of the National Review magazine
• Charles S. Sanford, Jr.: Chief Executive Officer of Bankers Trust
• Harry Scherman: Co-founder of the Book of the Month Club
• John Sculley: former President of PepsiCo; former CEO of Apple Computer
• Tanya Seaman: Co-founder of PhillyCarShare
• Joseph Segel: Founder, QVC; Founder, Franklin Mint
• Henry Silverman: COO of the Apollo Group, formerly head of Cendant Corporation
• Gregg Spiridellis: Founder, JibJab Media, Inc.
• Michael Steinhardt: Co-founder of prominent hedge fund Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz & Co. and philanthropist.
• Michael Tiemann: Co-founder of Cygnus Solutions (a GNU software company), now CTO of Red Hat
• James S. Tisch: CEO, Loews Corporation
• Laurence Tisch: Former CEO of CBS
• Donald Trump: Billionaire real estate mogul, investor, and financier; President & CEO of Trump Organization
• Roy Vagelos: Former CEO of Merck
• George Herbert Walker IV: CEO of Neuberger Berman; former Managing Director of Lehman Brothers; formerly a Partner with Goldman Sachs & Co; Co-President, Commodities Corporation
• Jacob Wallenberg: Chairman and CEO, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (Bank of Sweden)
• Joseph P. Williams: Creator of the first all-purpose bank credit card, BankAmericard, now known as the Visa, Inc. card
• Gary L. Wilson: CEO and Chairman, Northwest Airlines
• William Wrigley, Jr. II: Chairman and former CEO of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, famous makers of chewing gum and confectionery products
• Steve Wynn: Chairman and CEO Wynn Resorts, Limited. Former Chairman and CEO Mirage Resorts, Inc.; responsible for the renaissance of Las Vegas
• Mortimer Zuckerman: Real estate billionaire and publisher/owner of the New York Daily News and Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report
• Martin Zweig: Stock investor and author

Exploration

• Peter Custis, Class of 1807: One of the leaders of the Red River Expedition in 1806, the first civilian scientific expedition to explore the American West
• Elisha Kane: Famed Arctic explorer who received medals from the United States Congress, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Société de Géographie for his work; also the destroyer USS Kane was named for him
• Isaac Israel Hayes: 19th century Arctic explorer - Heiss Island in Franz Josef Land (Russia) was named in his honor
• Garrett Reisman: NASA space shuttle astronaut

Government, law, and politics

Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States

• William Henry Harrison (Class of 1791): 9th President of the United States

Foreign Prime Ministers, Presidents, and other heads of state

• Nnamdi Azikiwe: First President of Nigeria, 1963-66 [1]
• Ernesto P. Balladares: President of Panama, 1994-99
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves: President of Estonia
• Kwame Nkrumah: First President of Ghana, and previously first Prime Minister of Ghana
• Alassane D. Ouattara: Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire, 1990-93
• Cesar Virata: Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1981-86
• William Walker: President of the Republic of Nicaragua

U.S. Supreme Court Justices

• William J. Brennan: U.S. Supreme Court Justice; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Owen J. Roberts: U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• James Wilson: U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1789-98); Signatory to both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

U.S. Executive Council members

• Branch Tanner Archer: Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas, 1840-41
• Neil Barofsky: Special Treasury Department Inspector General to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program
• Richard Besser: Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control
• Adolph E. Borie: United States Secretary of the Navy under President Ulysses S. Grant
• William Bradford: United States Attorney General under President George Washington
• David Brailer: National Resource Center for Health Information Technology Coordinator -- the "health information czar" under President George W. Bush
• Marshall Jordan Breger: Past Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States
• William H. Brown, III: Past Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Shirley S. Chater: Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, 1993-97
• Richard Clarke: Author, National Counter-Terrorism Director under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
• William T. Coleman, Jr.: United States Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• John Howard Dalton: United States Secretary of the Navy, 1993-98
• John DiIulio: 1st Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush
• George Hall Dixon: Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President Gerald Ford
• George Nicholas Eckert: Director, United States Mint, 1851-53
• James B. Edwards: United States Secretary of Energy under President Ronald Reagan
• William R. Ferris: Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997-2000
• Thomas K. Finletter: United States Secretary of the Air Force, 1950-53
• Lindley M. Garrison: Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson
• Thomas S. Gates: U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1959-1961, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1957-59
• Henry Dilworth Gilpin: Former U.S. Attorney General
• Earl G. Harrison: Commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942-44
• Francis J. Harvey: United States Secretary of the Army, 2004-07
• George A. Jenks, Class of 1850 and 1853: United States Solicitor General, 1886-89
• Neel Kashkari: Head of the Office of Financial Stability in the U.S. Department of the Treasury
• C. Everett Koop (internship): Surgeon General of the United States, 1981-89.
• John F. Lehman: United States Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan
• William Flynn Martin: Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Secretary of Energy during the Ronald Reagan administration.
• Ann Dore McLaughlin: former U.S. Secretary of Labor
• William M. Meredith: United States Secretary of the Treasury 1849-1850.
• Samuel Moore: Director, United States Mint, 1824-35
• William Tod Otto: United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior under President Abraham Lincoln, 1863-71
• Caesar Augustus Rodney, U.S. Attorney General; U.S. Senator (Delaware)
• Rajiv Shah: Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics under President Barack Obama
• Benjamin Stoddert: the 1st United States Secretary of the Navy, he attended Penn but did not earn a degree
• Rexford Tugwell: Head of the Resettlement Administration and part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust"
• Michael G. Vickers: United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict - CIA's principal strategist in paramilitary operation to drive the Soviet Army out of Afghanistan.
• Robert John Walker: United States Secretary of the Treasury, 1845-1849
• George W. Wickersham: U.S. Attorney General, 1909-1913
• Zachary Williamson: Undersecretary of Urban Development under the Harding Administration; died in a bar fight in Salem, Massachusetts
• George Washington Woodruff: Acting United States Secretary of the Interior under Theodore Roosevelt

U.S. Senators

• Lewis Heisler Ball: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1903-05, 1919-25; Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1901-03
• Ephraim Bateman: U.S. Senator and Congressman from New Jersey
• William Wyatt Bibb: U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from Georgia; Governor of Alabama
• William Bingham, Class of 1768: Namesake of Binghamton, New York and Bingham, Maine; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1795-1801) and President pro tem of the Senate; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress (1786-88)
• Clayton Douglass Buck: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1943-49; Governor of Delaware, 1929-37. Attended Towne School of Engineering but did not earn a degree.
• Joseph Maull Carey: U.S. Senator from Wyoming, 1890-95; Governor of Wyoming, 1911-15; Wyoming delegate to the U.S. Congress, 1885-90
• Henry H. Chambers: U.S. Senator from Alabama, 1825-26
• Joseph Sill Clark: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1957-69
• Simon Barclay Conover: U.S. Senator from Florida, 1873-79. Attended School of Medicine and graduated from the University of Nashville.
• George Robertson Dennis: U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1873-79
• Philemon Dickinson: U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1790-93.
• James Henderson Duff: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1951-57, attended Law School but did not earn a degree.
• Henry A. Du Pont: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1906-17, attended Penn and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point
• Jonathan Elmer: U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1789-91
• William Grayson: U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1789-90. Attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree.
• William Hindman: U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1800-01. Attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree.
• Ted Kaufman: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 2009-
• Henry Latimer: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1795-1801; Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1794-95
• Lewis Fields Linn: U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1833-43. Attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree.
• James Murray Mason: Influential U.S. Senator from Virginia in the early 19th century.
• Gouverneur Morris: New York delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778-79; U.S. Senator from New York, 1800-1803. Attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate.
• John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1801; Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1789-91, 1793-95, 1799-1801. Attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree.
• Arnold Naudain: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1830-36.
• George Wharton Pepper: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, chronicler of the Senate
• Caesar Augustus Rodney: U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1822-23
• Arlen Specter: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia District Attorney
• John Selby Spence: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1836-40. Attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree.
• Robert John Walker, Class of 1819: U.S. Senator from Mississippi, 1836-45, he introduced the bill that established the U.S. Department of the Interior
• Joseph Rodman West: U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1871-77. Attended the College but did not earn a degree.
• Jenkin Whiteside: U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1809-11

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

• Ephraim Leister Acker M.D., 1852 LL.B., 1886: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1871-1873
• Robert Adams, Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1889-1906
• Wilbur L. Adams: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933-1935
• John Archer: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1801-1807
• James Armstrong: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1793-1795
• L. Heisler Ball: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1901-03
• Ephraim Bateman: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1826-29
• John Milton Bernhisel: Utah delegate to the U.S. Congress, 1851-1859, 1861-1863
• George A. Bicknell: Indiana representative to the U.S. Congress, 1877-1881
• Richard Biddle, Class of 1811: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1837-40
• Andrew Biemiller: Wisconsin representative to the U.S. Congress, 1945-1947 (attended Graduate School but did not earn a degree)
• Elias Boudinot: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1789-1795; New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778; Attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate.
• Benjamin Markley Boyer: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1865-1869
• Samuel Carey Bradshaw: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855-1857
• Charles Browne 1900: represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1923–1925.^[2]
• George Franklin Brumm: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923-1927, 1929-1934
• Hiram R. Burton: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1905-1909
• John Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855-1857
• Lambert Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1789-1791, 1793-1795; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784-1787; entered College of Philadelphia in 1757 but did not earn a degree
• Greene Washington Caldwell: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1841-1843
• E. Wallace Chadwick: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947-1949
• Earl Chudoff: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress 1949-1958
• George Bosworth Churchill: Massachusetts representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925; Attended Graduate School, 1892-1894, but did not earn a degree
• John Claiborne: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1805-1808
• John Daniel Clardy: Kentucky representative to the U.S. Congress, 1895-1899
• Isaiah Dunn Clawson: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855-1859
• John Clopton: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1795-1799, 1801-1816
• William Wilfred Cobey, Jr.: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1985-1987
• Lewis Condict: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1811-1817
• Joel Cook: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress 1907-1911
• Thomas Buchecker Cooper: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1861-1862
• James Harry Covington: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1909-1914
• William Radford Coyle: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925-1927, 1929-1933. Attended law school but did not earn a degree.
• George William Crump: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1826-1827. Attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree.
• Willard S. Curtin: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1957-1967
• J. Burrwood Daly: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935-39 (Attended law school but did not earn a degree)
• William Darlington: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1815-17 and 1819-23
• Philemon Dickerson: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1833-36 and 1839-41
• Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935-39
• Charles F. Dougherty: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1979-83
• George Eckert: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1847-49
• Norman Eddy: Indiana representative to the U.S. Congress, 1853-55
• Joshua Eilberg: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1967-1979
• Lucius Elmer: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1843-45
• Phillip Sheridan English: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1995-2009
• Thomas Dunn English: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1891-95
• Chaka Fattah: U.S. Congressman representing 2nd Congressional district of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia region)
• Clare G. Fenerty: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935-37
• John Floyd: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1817-29
• Harold E. Ford, Jr.: U.S. Representative from Tennessee, candidate for House Minority Leader, 2002, candidate for United States Senate from Tennessee.
• Vito John Fossella, Jr.: New York representative to the U.S. Congress, 1997-2009
• Benjamin Gilman: U.S Representative from New York, 1973-2003
• Benjamin Golder: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925-33
• George Scott Graham: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1913-31
• William Henry Harrison: Ohio representative to the U.S. Congress, 1816-19
• Charles Eaton Haynes: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1825-31 and 1835-39
• William Hindman: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1793-99
• George Holcombe: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1821-28
• Joseph Hopkinson, Class of 1786: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1815-19
• 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 from 1949 to 1955.^[3]
• John William Jones: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1847-49
• Owen Jones: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1857-59
• Albert Walter Johnson: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947-63
• Joseph Jorgensen: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1877-83
• Everett Kent: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923-25 and 1927-29
• Karl C. King: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1951-57
• William Huntington Kirkpatrick: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1921-23
• Thomas Kittera: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1826-27
• John A. Lafore, Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1957-61
• Henry Latimer: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1794-95
• Caleb Layton: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1919-23
• James Leech: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927-32
• William Eckart Lehman: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1861-63
• George Leiper: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1829-31
• John Thomas Lenahan: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1907-09
• Samuel Lilly: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1853-55
• Lloyd Lowndes, Jr.: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1873-75
• James McDevitt Magee: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923-27
• Levi Maish: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1875-79 and 1887-91
• Francis Mallory: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1837-43
• John Hartwell Marable: Tennessee representative the U.S. Congress, 1825-29
• Robert Marion: South Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1805-10
• Alexander Keith Marshall: Kentucky representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855-57
• James Murray Mason: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1837-39
• Samuel McConnell, Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1944-57
• George Deardorff McCreary: Pennsylvania representative the U.S. Congress, 1903-13
• Robert C. McEwen: New York representative the U.S. Congress, 1965-81
• Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1993-95
• John Miller: New York representative to the U.S. Congress, 1825-27
• James Milnor: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1811-13
• George Mitchell: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1823-27 and 1829-32
• John Moffet: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1869
• Samuel Moore: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1818-22
• Edward Joy Morris: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1843-45 and 1857-61
• Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947-49
• Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1791, 1793-1795. Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1779-1780; Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1789-1797
• Edward de Veaux Morrell: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1900-07
• John Murphy: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943-46
• Leonard Myers: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1863-75
• William Augustus Newell, Class of 1839: New Jersey Representative to the U.S. Congress, 1847-1851, 1865-1867
• Robert N.C. Nix, Sr.: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1958-79
• Edson Olds: Ohio representative to the U.S. Congress, 1849-55
• Archibald Olpp: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1921-23
• Cyrus Maffet Palmer: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927-29
• John Patton: Virginia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1830-38
• Levi Pawling: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1817-19
• John H. Pugh: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1877-79
• Robert R. Reed: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1849-51
• Jacob Richards: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1803-09
• Lewis Riggs: New York representative to the U.S. Congress, 1841-43
• Caesar Augustus Rodney: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1803-05
• Albert Rutherford: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937-41
• Leon Sacks: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937-41
• Benjamin Say: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1808-09
• Pius Schwert: New York representative to the U.S. Congress, 1939-41
• David Scott: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 2003-
• Hardie Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947-53
• John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1915-19
• Joshua Seney: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1789-92
• John Sergeant: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1815-23, 1827-29 and 1837-41
• Adam Seybert: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1809-15 and 1817-19
• Henry Marchmore Shaw: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1853-55 and 1857-59
• William B. Shepard: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1829-37
• John E. Sheridan: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1939-47
• William Simonton: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1839-43
• Edward J. Stack: Florida representative to the U.S. Congress, 1979-81
• James Strawbridge: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1873-75
• Joel Sutherland: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1827-37
• John Swope: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1884-87
• William Terrell: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1817-21
• Martin Thayer: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1863-65
• John Chew Thomas: Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1799-1801
• John Parnell Thomas: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937-50
• Hedge Thompson: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1827-28
• Philip A. Traynor: Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1941-43 and 1945-47
• William Troutman: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943-45
• Charles Turpin: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1929-37
• Jonathan Updegraff: Ohio representative to the U.S. Congress, 1879-82
• Joseph Vigorito: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1965-77
• Percy Walker: Alabama representative to the U.S. Congress, 1855-57
• George Wallhauser: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1959-65
• John H. Ware, III: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1970-75
• John Goddard Watmough: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1831-35
• Anthony Wayne: Georgia representative to the U.S. Congress, 1791-92
• James D. Weaver: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1963-65
• Hugh Williamson: North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1790-93
• William H. Wilson: Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935-37
• Charles A. Wolverton: New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927-59

Members of the Continental Congress

• Andrew Allen: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1775-76
• William Bingham: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786-88
• Elias Boudinot: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778 and 1781-83, as well as President of the Continental Congress in 1782-83; he attended the Academy of Philadelphia, but did not earn a degree
• Lambert Cadwalader: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784-87
• Tench Coxe: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1788-89
• Philemon Dickinson: Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782-83
• Jonathan Elmer: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1777-1778, 1781-1783, 1787-1788
• Robert Goldsborough: Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774-76
• William Grayson: Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785-87
• Whitmell Hill: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778-80
• William Hindman: Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785-86
• Francis Hopkinson: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776
• David Jackson: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785
• Henry Latimer: Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784
• Thomas Mifflin: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774-75 and 1782-84, as well as President of the Continental Congress, 1783-84
• Cadwalader Morris: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783-84
• William Paca: Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774-79
• Richard Peters, Jr.: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782-83
• David Ramsay: South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782-83 and 1785-86, as well as acting President of the Continental Congress in 1785-86
• Joshua Seney: Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778
• Jonathan Sergeant: New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776-77
• James Tilton: Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783-84
• Hugh Williamson: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782-85
• James Wilson: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1775-77, 1783, 1785-86

U.S. Governors

• Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Governor of Utah, 2005-2009
• Gunning Bedford, Sr.: Governor of Delaware, 1796-97
• John C. Bell, Jr.: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1947
• William Wyatt Bibb: 1st Governor of the state of Alabama, 1819-1820; he also served as Governor of the Alabama Territory from 1817-1819
• Martin G. Brumbaugh: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1911-15
• C. Douglass Buck: Governor of Delaware, 1929-37
• William Burton: Governor of Delaware, 1859-63
• Joseph M. Carey: Governor of Wyoming, 1911-1915
• Joshua Clayton: Governor of Delaware 1793-1798, attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate.
• Philemon Dickerson: Governor of New Jersey, 1836-37
• James H. Duff: Governor of Pennsylvania, he studied law at Penn before graduating from the University of Pittsburgh
• James B. Edwards: Governor of South Carolina, 1975-79 (Post-graduate student at Penn)
• John Floyd (Virginia politician): Governor of Virginia, 1830-34
• George F. Fort: Governor of New Jersey, 1851-54
• William Gilpin, Class of 1833: 1st Governor of the Territory of Colorado, 1861-1862
• Charles Goldsborough: Governor of Maryland, 1819
• George Izard, Class of 1792: Governor of Arkansas Territory, 1825-1828.
• William Henry Harrison: 1st Governor of Indiana Territory, 1800-12
• Jon Huntsman, Jr.: Governor of Utah, former US Trade Ambassador
• Lawrence M. Judd: Governor of Hawaii (1929-34), and American Samoa (1954)
• William Carr Lane: Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1852-53
• George M. Leader: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1955-1959
• Lloyd Lowndes, Jr.: Governor of Maryland, 1895-1899
• George B. McClellan: U.S. Civil War General; unsuccessful Democrat candidate for President 1864; later Governor of New Jersey; attended law school for two years before transferring to the U.S. Military Academy, from which he graduated
• John G. McCullough: Governor of Vermont, 1902-04.
• Alexander McNair: First Governor of Missouri
• Thomas Mifflin, Class of 1760: 1st Governor of Pennsylvania, 1790-1799, and Signatory to the U.S. Constitution, as well as a Brigadier General in the Continental Army during the American Revolution
• Charles R. Miller: Governor of Delaware, 1913-17
• Wayne Mixson: Governor of Florida, 1987
• William Augustus Newell: 18th Governor of New Jersey, 1857-1860; and Governor of the Washington Territory, 1880-1884
• William Paca: Governor of Maryland, 1782-1785; Signatory to the Declaration of Independence, and appointed to the Continental Congress in 1774 and re-elected in 1779
• John M. Patton: Acting Governor of Virginia, 1841 (Great-grandfather of famous World War II General George S. Patton, Jr.)
• Samuel W. Pennypacker: Governor of Pennsylvania, 1903-07
• Jesús T. Piñero: Governor of Puerto Rico, 1946-49
• Ed Rendell: Governor of Pennsylvania, former Mayor of Philadelphia and former Democratic National Committee Chairman
• Gove Saulsbury: Governor of Delaware, 1865-71
• Hulett C. Smith: Governor of West Virginia
• Rexford Tugwell: Governor of Puerto Rico
• Robert J. Walker: Governor of Kansas Territory, 1857
• Matthew E. Welsh: Governor of Indiana
• James Wilkinson: 1st Governor of the Louisiana Territory

U.S. Ambassadors

• Robert Adams, Jr.: U.S. Minister to Brazil.
• Walter Annenberg: U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Robert Beecroft: U.S. Chief of Mission and Special Envoy to the Bosnian Federation
• George C. Bruno: U.S. Ambassador to Belize.
• Peter Burleigh: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the Philippines, Palau, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka. Attended graduate school but did not earn a degree.
• Patricia A. Butenis: U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh.
• William R. Crawford: U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus.
• George William Crump: U.S. Ambassador to Chile
• Thomas K. Finletter: U.S. Ambassador to NATO.
• Lloyd Carpenter Griscom: U.S. Ambassador to Persia (now Iran), Japan, and Italy
• Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
• Jerome Holland: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
• Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.: U.S. Ambassador to Singapore and the People's Republic of China
• David Jordan: U.S. Ambassador to Peru.
• Robert C. Lamb: U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus
• Ronald Lauder: U.S. Ambassador to Austria
• Franklin L. Lavin: U.S. Ambassador to Singapore.
• Jefferey Lunstead: U.S. Ambassador to the Maldives and Sri Lanka
• James Murray Mason: CSA Ambassador to the United Kingdom and France
• Marilyn McAfee: U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala
• Edward Joy Morris: U.S. Ambassador to Sicily, 1850-53
• John H. Morrow: U.S. Ambassador to Guinea
• Philip D. Murphy: U.S. Ambassador to Germany
• Wanda L. Nesbitt: U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar
• Condy Raguet: the first Chargé d'Affaires from the United States to Brazil
• William Bradford Reed: U.S. Minister to China
• Caesar Augustus Rodney: U.S. Ambassador to Argentina
• Charles S. Shapiro: U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela
• Thomas Shoesmith: U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia
• Robert Strausz-Hupé: U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Belgium, Sweden, NATO, and Turkey. Founder of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, prolific scholar of international relations and geopolitics.
• Faith Ryan Whittlesey: U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland.

Mayors

• Bob Anspach: Mayor of Lebanon, Pennsylvania
• Ralph Becker, Jr.: Mayor of Salt Lake City
• Charles Browne: Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, 1914-23
• Joseph M. Carey: Mayor of Cheyenne, WY, 1881-85
• Joseph S. Clark: Mayor of Philadelphia, 1952-1956
• Elisha C. Dick: Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia 1804-05
• Shirley Franklin: Mayor of Atlanta
• Wilson Goode: Former Mayor of Philadelphia
• Oscar Goodman: Mayor of Las Vegas and Attorney
• Joseph J. Grillo: Mayor of Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1952-53
• George Hewston: Mayor of San Francisco, 1875
• William Kerr: Mayor of Pittsburgh, 1845-47
• William Carr Lane: 1st Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, 1823-29
• Marc Morial, Mayor of New Orleans
• Magnus Miller Murray: Mayor of Pittsburgh
• Michael Nutter, Mayor of Philadelphia
• Samuel Powel, Class of 1759: Mayor of Philadelphia and Speaker of the Pennsylvania Senate
• Ed Rendell: Mayor of Philadelphia, 1992-99
• 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, WV, 1995-2001
• J. Parnell Thomas: Mayor of Allendale, New Jersey 1926-30

Other U.S. state and local officials

• Andrew Allen, Class of 1759: Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and member of the Continental Congress; later attained of treason for his Tory sympathies
• Harvey Bartle III: Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1909-27)
• Michael M. Baylson: Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Jennifer Beck: Republican member of the New Jersey Senate (2008- )
• Edward Roy Becker: Former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• John C. Bell, Jr.: Former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1961-1972), and Justice of the Pa. Supreme Court (1950-1972)
• Edwin North Benson, Class of 1859: President, United States Electoral College
• William Bingham: 1st Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Marshall Jordan Breger: Member of the first board of the Legal Services Corporation, appointed by President Gerald Ford (1975-78)
• William J. Brennan: Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1951-56)
• Beau Biden: Attorney General of Delaware (2007- )
• Karen Boback: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2007- )
• William Bradford: Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1791-94), and Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1780-91); he attended Penn for three years before graduating from Princeton University
• Raymond Broderick: Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1967-71
• Peter Brown: At-Large Houston City Council Member
• Robert Butkin: State Treasurer of Oklahoma (1995-2005)
• James C. Cacheris: Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• James Cannon, Class of 1767: Scottish-born American mathematician was one of the principal draftsmen of the State of Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, often described as the most democratic in America
• Joseph M. Carey: Attorney General of Wyoming (1869-71); and Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court (1871-1876)
• Bill Cobey: Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party (1999-2003)
• Herbert B. Cohen: Former Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
• Mark B. Cohen: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• James Harry Covington: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (1914-18)
• Jean B. Cryor: former Maryland Delegate
• John Morgan Davis: Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1959-63
• John Warren Davis: Former member of the New Jersey State Senate, as well as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and Judge for both the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Dan Debicella: Member of the Connecticut Senate
• William K. Dickey: Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and Chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority
• Stephen Dilts: Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation
• Charles Djou: Member of the Honolulu City Council
• Susan J. Dlott: Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1995- )
• Marie Donigan: Democratic member of the Michigan State House of Representatives (2004- )
• Josiah E. DuBois, Jr: U.S. State Department official highly instrumental in Holocaust rescue
• Norman Eddy: Secretary of State for Indiana (1870-72)
• Lucius Elmer: Former Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Attorney General of New Jersey
• Jack Evans: Member of the Council of the District of Columbia representing Ward 2 (1991- )
• James A. Finnegan: President of the Philadelphia City Council (1951-55)
• Ed Flanagan: Member of the Vermont Senate (2005- )
• Daniel Garodnick: New York City Council member (2006- )
• Michael F. Gerber: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Michael U. Gisriel: former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Robert A. Gleason Jr.: Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania
• Jonathan L. Goldstein: United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1974-77)
• W. Wilson Goode, Jr.: City Councilman At-Large in Philadelphia (1999- )
• Robert M. Gordon: Democratic member of the New Jersey Senate (2008- )
• Ronald M. Gould: Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• George Scott Graham: District Attorney for Philadelphia County (1880-1899)
• Stewart Greenleaf: Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1978- )
• David A. Gross: U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.
• John J. Hafer: Former Maryland State Senator.
• James S. Halpern: Judge, United States Tax Court (1990- )
• Randy J. Holland: Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1986- )
• James Hutchinson, Class of 1774: Surgeon General of Pennsylvania, 1778-84
• Scott Hutchinson: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• William F. Hyland: Attorney General of New Jersey
• Harry Ellis Kalodner: Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1946-77)
• Mike Kaplowitz: Vice-Chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators in New York
• Virginia Knauer: First woman elected to the Philadelphia City Council
• John C. Knox: Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1948-55)
• Peter B. Krauser: Chief Judge on the Court of Special Appeals for the state of Maryland, and past Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party
• Phyllis A. Kravitch: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Stephen P. Lamb: Judge and Vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery
• Tulio Larrinaga: Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico (1904-11)
• Daniel J. Layton: Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1933-45), and Attorney General of Delaware (1932-33)
• Paul Conway Leahy: Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1948-57)
• James Russell Leech: Judge, United States Tax Court (1932-52)
• Joseph Simon Lord III: Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1971-82)
• Alan David Lourie: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Alfred Leopold Luongo: Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1982-86)
• John Manners (New Jersey politician): President of the New Jersey Senate (1852)
• John Hartwell Marable: Member of the Tennessee Senate (1817-18)
• Frederica Massiah-Jackson: President Judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (2000-06)
• Robert Marion: Justice of the Peace for Charleston, SC
• John G. McCullough: Attorney General of California during the American Civil War
• William M. Meredith: Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1861-67); and President of the Philadelphia City Council (1834-49)
• Charles B. Moores: Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives (1895-96)
• Sybil Moses (c. 1939-2009): Prosecutor of the "Dr. X" Mario Jascalevich murder case and New Jersey Superior Court judge.^[4]
• Eva Moskowitz: New York City Council member (1999-2005)
• Raj Mukherji: Commissioner and Chairman of the Jersey City Housing Authority
• Howard G. Munson: Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (1980-88)
• John W. Murphy: Judge and Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (1946-62)
• Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Jr.: Former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1984-1996), he was the first African-American Chief Justice of any state's highest court; Justice of the Pa. Supreme Court (1971-1984)
• David Norcross: Past Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee
• William Paca: Chief Justice of Maryland (1788-90)
• Richard Peters, Jr., Class of 1761: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782-83, and Commissioner for the Board of War for the Continental Army; he also served as the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and served in the Pennsylvania Senate, and was appointed by George Washington to serve as judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1815-28
• Thomas McKean Pettit: Director, United States Mint, 1853
• Deborah T. Poritz: Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1996-2006)
• Gene E. K. Pratter: Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Pedro Ramos: Managing Director for the City of Philadelphia, former City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia, former Vice President of The University of Pennsylvania
• Arthur Raymond Randolph: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Walter N. Read: Chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (1982-89)
• William Bradford Reed: Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1838)
• Marjorie Rendell: Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1994-97), and for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1997- )
• Joseph J. Roberts: Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
• Laurie O. Robinson: Assistant Attorney General; US DOJ, 1994-2000, 2009-present
• Paul Hitch Roney: Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1986-89)
• Albert Rosenblatt: Judge on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York state (1998-2006)
• Rod J. Rosenstein: United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2005- )
• David Samson (New Jersey): Former Attorney General of New Jersey
• Bradley Schlozman: Former head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice
• William A. Schnader: Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1930-34)
• Murray Merle Schwartz: Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1985-89)
• Jonathan Sergeant, Class of 1763: Attorney General of Pennsylvania, he was also a member of the Continental Congress and the Framer of the New Jersey Constitution
• George Sharswood: Former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
• William E. Simkin: Past Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, appointed by John F. Kennedy
• Edward Skyler: Deputy Mayor for Operations for New York City
• Dolores Sloviter: Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Horace Stern: Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1952-56)
• Leo E. Strine, Jr.: Judge and Vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery
• David W. Sweet: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1978-88)
• Richard B. Teitelman: Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court (2002- )
• Martin Russell Thayer: President Judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (1874-96)
• Barbara Thomas: Former member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and current Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority
• Joseph Whitaker Thompson: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1931-46)
• William Tilghman: Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1805-27), he attended Penn but did not earn a degree
• Walter Tsou: Former Health Commissioner of Philadelphia, Former President of the American Public Health Association
• Eric Turkington: Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Henry Galbraith Ward: Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1907-24)
• Joseph R. West: President of the Board of Commissioners of Washington, D.C. (1882-83)
• Constance H. Williams: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
• Scott Wilson: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1929-43)
• Robert C. Wonderling: Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
• George Washington Woodruff: Former Attorney General of Pennsylvania

Foreign officials

• Zeti Akhtar Aziz: Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia
• Douglas Alexander: British Member of Parliament, and Secretary of State for International Development
• Boediono: Finance Minister of Indonesia
• Luis Donaldo Colosio: Mexican politician and PRI presidential candidate assassinated while on the campaign trail.
• Raymond Ch'ien Kuo Fung: Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, 1992-2002; Non-Executive Chairman, MTR Corporation Limited, 2003-present; Chairman, Hang Seng Bank, 2007-present
• Pridiyathorn Devakula: Governor, Bank of Thailand, and former Minister of Finance
• Aziz Dweik: Speaker of the Palestinian National Authority
• John Wallace de Beque Farris: Canadian politician and member of the Senate of Canada, 1937-70 and Attorney General of Vancouver, 1917-20
• Roy Ferguson: New Zealand Ambassador to the United States
• Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape: Mexican Secretary of Economy under President Felipe Calderón
• Umar Ahmad Ghuman: Pakistan's x-Minister of State for Privatization & Investment
• Hamid Yar Hiraj: Pakistan's x-Minister of State for Commerce
• Ahsan Iqbal: Past Federal Minister for Education for Pakistan
• Philip Jaisohn: Prominent figure in Korean independence movement and first Korean to become a naturalized U.S. citizen
• Cardozo M. Luna: 35th Vice Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
• Yvonne Mokgoro: Judge for the Constitutional Court of South Africa
• Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover: British politician in the House of Lords
• Paulo T.A. Paiva: Former Minister of Labor and Economic Planning of Brazil, 1994-1999; and Former Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank
• Sachin Pilot: Member of Parliament of India (2004- ) from the Indian National Congress party
• C. Rangarajan: Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1992-1997), Governor of Andhra Pradesh (1997-2003), additional Governor of Orissa (1998-1999), additional Governor of Tamil Nadu (2001-2002)
• Raul Roco: Former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines
• Mar Roxas: Senator of the Philippines (2004- )
• Nabil Shaath: Wharton alumnus, former deputy prime minister and information minister of the Palestinian National Authority- Current Foreign Minister
• Sir Ronald Wilson: Former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the nation

Lawyers, advisors and civil rights leaders

• Sadie Tanner Alexander, first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D in the United States; first African-American woman to graduate from Penn Law; first black woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar; civil rights activist; appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Harry S. Truman
• Gloria Allred, lawyer, feminist
• Jasper Yeates Brinton, former U.S. Legal Advisor to Egypt, architect of the Egyptian court system and Justice of the Egyptian Supreme Court
• E. Wallace Chadwick, Chief Counsel to the United States Senate committee which investigated Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
• James Harry Covington, co-founder of Covington & Burling, a U.S. law firm with more than 600 lawyers
• Henry Drinker, original name partner in Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, a U.S. law firm with more than 650 lawyers
• Russell Duane, co-founder of Duane Morris LLP, a U.S. law firm with more than 650 lawyers
• Carrie Burnham Kilgore, first woman to graduate from Penn with a law degree (LL.B.) and the first woman to practice law in both Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; one of the first women to be admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and argued for a woman's right to vote before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court; first woman in New York to earn a medical degree
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1949–1950), primary figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s (took graduate courses, no degree)
• William Draper Lewis, founder and first Director of the American Law Institute
• Martin Lipton, founder of U.S. law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz
• 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, Class of 1864, co-founder of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, one of the world's largest law firms with over 1400 lawyers
• Alice Paul, women's suffrage leader who led a successful campaign that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920
• George Wharton Pepper, founder of Pepper Hamilton LLP, a U.S. law firm with more than 500 lawyers
• Steven P. Perskie, judge and politician
• Benjamin Powell, General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Edward Rawle, judge; founder of the New Orleans Public Schools and the first president of its board
• Bernard Segal, former president of the American Bar Association
• David Shrager, former president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Marietta Peabody Tree, U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights under President John F. Kennedy
• George W. Wickersham, name partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the oldest continuously operated law firm in the U.S.; president of the Council on Foreign Relations (1933–36)

Military

• Joseph Barnes: Surgeon General of the United States Army during and after the American Civil War
• Alexander Biddle: Union army officer during the American Civil War who fought at the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Battle of Gettysburg (under Abner Doubleday) and the Battle of Bristoe Station; later he served as a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society
• James Biddle: American commodore and explorer whose flagship was the USS Columbus and whose brother was fellow Penn alumnus and financier Nicholas Biddle
• William P. Biddle: 11th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
• George R. Christmas: Retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General, and President and CEO of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation
• Cecil Clay: Medal of Honor recipient and Brevet Brigadier General from the U.S. Civil War
• Samuel W. Crawford: American Civil War Major General and one of only two officers to attain the rank of general and serve at both Fort Sumter and Appomattox ^{[disambiguation needed]}
• Stephen Decatur: American commodore noted for his heroism during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, he was the youngest man ever to attain the rank of captain in the United States Navy; namesake of many communities and counties in the U.S.
• Henry A. du Pont: Medal of Honor recipient and Lieutenant Colonel from the American Civil War
• Harris Hull: Decorated Brigadier General of the United States Air Force during World War II
• George Izard: General in the United States Army during the War of 1812
• David Jackson, Class of 1768: Surgeon in the Continental Army and delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1785
• George G. Lundberg: Brigadier General and 1917 Economics graduate
• George B. McClellan: Major General during the American Civil War
• Montgomery C. Meigs: Quartermaster General of the United States Army with the rank of Brigadier General during the American Civil War, he attended Penn and then graduated from the United States Military Academy
• Frederick C. Murphy: Medal of Honor recipient from World War II who attended Penn before enlisting in the United States Army
• William Augustus Newell, Class of 1839: One of the Fathers of the modern day Coast Guard, he created the United States Life-Saving Service through the Newell Act, which merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915
• Samuel Nicholas: the Founder and 1st Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, commissioned in 1775
• Richard Somers: Naval officer and namesake of Somers, New York and Somers Point, New Jersey
• Tench Tilghman, Class of 1761: Lieutenant Colonel and longest serving Aide-de-camp to General George Washington of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War; Washington wrote about him: "..none could have felt his death with more regard than I did, because no one entertained a higher opinion of his worth".
• James Tilton: the first titled Surgeon General of the United States Army, he served in that capacity during the War of 1812
• Anthony Wayne: Famous United States Army general during the American Revolutionary War and namesake of many towns, cities and counties across the United States; he attended Penn but did not earn a degree
• Dick Zeiner-Henriksen: Highly decorated Norwegian resistance movement member from World War II

Religion

• Clive Orminston Abdulah: The Episcopal Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago
• David Werner Amram: Early American Zionist
• Kirbyjon Caldwell: Pastor of the Windsor Village United Methodist Church, a 14,000-member megachurch in Houston, Texas; he delivered the official benediction at the 2001 and 2005 inaugurations of President George W. Bush, and officiated at the wedding of the President's daughter Jenna Bush
• Thomas Clinton: Religious leader instrumental in the formation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
• Jacob Duche, Class of 1757: the first Chaplain to the Continental Congress
• George Duffield (Presbyterian): Early Presbyterian minister and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan
• James A. Flaherty: Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus (1909-27)
• William Hobart Hare: American Bishop of the Episcopal Church, elected in 1872
• John Henry Hobart: the third Episcopal Bishop of New York (1816-1830)
• Malcolm Hoenlein: Executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
• Oliver Huckel, Class of 1887 and 1890: University Chaplain of Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, and the University of Virginia
• Naamah Kelman: 1st woman in Israel to become a rabbi
• Samuel Magaw, Class of 1757 and 1760: Anglican priest and missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
• William Augustus Muhlenberg, Class of 1815 and 1818: Prominent clergyman founded the infirmary which became St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City; he later became Superintendent and Chaplain of the institution
• Robert Knight Rudolph: Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia
• Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, Class of 1883: Lutheran minister, educator, author and Church theologian
• Francis B. Schulte: American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia from 1985 to 1988, and Archbishop of New Orleans from 1989 to 2001
• William Bacon Stevens: Fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania (1865-87)
• Edward Thomson: American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the United Methodist Church), elected in 1864
• William White: the first and fourth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA (1789; 1795-1836), the first Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania (1787-1836), and the second United States Senate Chaplain (appointed December 9, 1790)

Science, medicine, and technology

• Charles Conrad Abbott, Class of 1865: American archaeologist and naturalist, he served as assistant curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to which he presented more than 20,000 archaeological specimens
• 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
• David Hayes Agnew: Attended as operating surgeon when President James A. Garfield was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet in 1881
• Christian Anfinsen: Nobel laureate and past Guggenheim Fellow
• John Light Atlee: One of the organizers of, and past President of the American Medical Association
• William Baldwin (botanist), Class of 1807: Prominent scientist whose personal papers are included in the collection of the Harvard University Herbarium
• Daniel Barringer: First person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on Earth, and namesake of the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona which is nearly a mile wide, and 570 feet deep
• William Bartram: Prominent 18th-19th century American naturalist, he attended Penn but did not earn a degree
• John Milton Bernhisel: Personal family physician to Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism, as well as a close friend of Brigham Young
• Alfred P. Boller: Famous bridge designer and structural engineer, he was the Chief Engineer of Manhattan's elevated railroad track system, the first of its kind in the world
• Michael S. Brown: Nobel Laureate and the 1985 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• William Channing, Class of 1844: Co-inventor of the world's first electric municipal fire alarm system, whose principles remain essentially unchanged today and form the basis of most public fire alarm systems
• Nathaniel Chapman: First President of the American Medical Association
• Edward Drinker Cope: 19th century American paleontologist who made known as many as 1,000 new species of extinct vertebrata in his lifetime. Among these were some of the oldest known mammals, obtained in New Mexico, and 56 species of dinosaur, including Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias, and Coelophysis. Most of his fossil collection is now with the American Museum of Natural History, and his home in Philadelphia is designated a National Historic Landmark
• William Holmes Crosby, Jr. Considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of modern hematology
• J. Presper Eckert: Inventor of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), he also designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC; National Medal of Science recipient
• Gerald Edelman: Nobel laureate and founder and director of The Neurosciences Institute
• Walter Freeman (neurologist): Lobotomist who performed nearly 3500 lobotomies in 23 states
• William Gambel: 19th century American 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)
• Edward Guinan: Co-discoverer of the planet Neptune's ring structure
• Morton Heilig: Cinematographer and inventor of the "Sensorama" device, he is considered by many to be the "Father of Virtual Reality"
• George H. Heilmeier: American engineer and National Medal of Science laureate and inductee of the National Inventor's Hall of Fame
• George Henry Horn: Entomologist who was president of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia and of its successor, the American Entomological Society, and whose collections of insects are now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University
• Horace Jayne: American zoologist and educator who served as the dean of the college faculty of the Wistar Institute and a trustee of Drexel University
• J. Clarence Karcher: Award-winning 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 Keating: 19th century geologist, explorer, and Penn professor
• Christian J. Lambertsen: Inventor of the US Navy frogmen's rebreathers for underwater breathing—the first device to be called "SCUBA"^[5]
• Robert Lanza: Chief Scientific Officer of Advanced Cell Technology
• Henry Carvill Lewis: Geologist
• John Peter Lesley: American geologist who, together with fellow alumni John Fries Frazer and James C. Booth, participated in the first geological survey of Pennsylvania
• John C. Lilly: Researcher of consciousness, counterculture figure
• Charles Delucena Meigs: Pioneering leader in obstetrics
• Henry Chapman Mercer: American archeologist whose work and museum, the Mercer Museum, inspired Henry Ford to open his own museum, The Henry Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan
• Robert Thomas Moore: Namesake and benefactor of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology at Occidental College; also past Chair of the Galápagos Commission of Ecuador and Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union
• Reuben D. Mussey: In 1835 he wrote the first definitive history of tobacco documenting its dangers
• Mary Engle Pennington: Pioneering bacteriologist, chemist and authority on refrigeration as a food preservative, she was Chief of the United States Department of Agriculture Food Research Laboratory, and the recipient of the Garvan-Olin Medal, the highest award given to women in the American Chemical Society; she is also an inductee of both the National Women's Hall of Fame and the ASHRAE Hall of Fame
• Philip Syng Physick: One of the foremost surgeons in post-colonial America, his patients included John Adams's daughter, Dolley Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall and President Andrew Jackson
• Frank Piasecki: Inventor of one of the first helicopters, and the first to develop a tandem-rotor helicopter, he received the country's highest technical honor, the National Medal of Technology, as well as the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Lifetime Achievement award
• Stanley B. Prusiner: Nobel Laureate and the 1994 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• Fairman Rogers: American civil engineer and charter member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• George E. Smith, Class of 1955: Nobel Laureate and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device-- the electronic eye of a digital camera
• Isaac Starr: Cardiovascular researcher and the 1957 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• James W. VanStone: Anthropologist and past Chair of the Anthropology Department at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago
• Ralph Teetor: Blind inventor of cruise control and member of the Automotive Hall of Fame
• Ernest S. Tierkel: Epidemiologist known as "Dr. Rabies" for his extensive work with the disease
• Benjamin Chew Tilghman: Inventor of the patented process known as sandblasting
• Bert Vogelstein: Cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University
• Caspar Wistar, Class of 1782: Professor of Chemistry, Anatomy and Surgery at Penn and University Trustee (and namesake of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia); he was also President of the American Philosophical Society and President of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery
• Lightner Witmer: Regarded as the founder of Clinical Psychology, he was the co-founder of the world's first psychological clinic in 1896 at the University of Pennsylvania
• Samuel Washington Woodhouse: 19th century American explorer and naturalist
• Nathaniel Wyeth (inventor): Mechanical engineer best known for creating the recyclable polyethylene terephthalate ("PET") semi-rigid beverage containers widely used for water and carbonated beverages today; he was a member of the Society of the Plastics Industry Hall of Fame, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• H.C. Yarrow: 19th/20th century American ornithologist, naturalist and surgeon, and Trustee of George Washington University
• Ahmed H. Zewail: Nobel Laureate and the 1993 recipient of the Wolf Prize in chemistry, and the 1996 recipient of the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences

Other

• Wharton Barker: Class of 1866: Banker and publicist who was a financial advisor to the Russian government, and the Populist Party presidential candidate of 1900 (receiving more than 50,000 votes)
• Jean Chatzky: Award-winning journalist, financial expert, best-selling author and motivational speaker on NBC's Today Show
• John Croghan: Past owner of the world's longest cave, now dedicated as the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky
• George William Crump: the world's first recorded streaker
• Alan Curtis: President and CEO of the Eisenhower Foundation
• Edwin Feulner: President of the Heritage Foundation
• Joel Henry Hildebrand: Past President of the Sierra Club
• Edward Hirsch: President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• John Henry "Doc" Holliday, Western gambler and gunfighter. Dental School, class of 1872.
• Francis Hopkinson, Class of 1757: Signatory to the Declaration of Independence; judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787; judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1789-1791; he is also considered by many to have played a key role in the design of the first American flag, and is credited with writing the first secular American song.
• Jotham Johnson: Past President of the Archaeological Institute of America
• John A. Lafore, Jr.: Past President of the American Kennel Club
• Francis Julius LeMoyne: Creator of the first crematory in the United States, he was also an abolitionist, founder of Washington, Pennsylvania.'s first public library (known as Citizen's Library), and an instrumental benefactor to LeMoyne-Owen College in Tennessee; his family house was utilized as part of the Underground Railroad and still stands today as a museum near the campus of Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania
• Frank Luntz: Preeminent Republican pollster and political strategist
• Patrick Murphy Malin: Past Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
• Thomas McKean: Trustee and Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress
• Nathan Francis Mossell: Founder of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP
• Scott Nearing: 20th century American conservationist, peace activist, educator, writer and economist
• John Nolen, Class of 1893: Major urban planner who designed and developed large-scale projects for dozens of American cities, including San Diego, Charlotte, North Carolina and Madison, Wisconsin
• William Pepper: Founder, Free Library of Philadelphia (the public library system of Philadelphia)
• Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., Reagan administration official; President, Economic Strategy Institute
• Andy Stern: President, Service Employees International Union
• Jack Thayer: Penn graduate was a 17-year-old first-class passenger on the RMS Titanic who provided several first-hand accounts of the disaster
• Sir Henry Worth Thornton: President, Canadian National Railway; Winning Vanderbilt University football coach 1894; knighted by King George V
• Joseph M. Torsella: President and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia; Rhodes Scholar
• Henry R. Towne: Developer of the famous YALE lock, and former President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Lynda Tran, Class of 2000: Communications Director of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine
• Judy Vredenburgh: President and CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
• B. Clark Wheeler: Founder of Aspen, Colorado
• Norman Tweed Whitaker: International Master of chess who served time in prison for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping
• Maggie Williams: Campaign manager for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign

Notable faculty

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (May 2007)

• Andrew B. Abel - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship recipient; Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor of Finance and Economics
• Roger Allen - Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
• Edmund Bacon - Adjunct Professor of Architecture
• E. Digby Baltzell - Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology; scholar and author; creator of the acronym WASP
• Aaron T. Beck - Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry; Father of Cognitive Therapy
• Jere R. Behrman - Fulbright Award recipient; Professor of Economics
• Janice R. Bellace - Deputy Provost and Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business
• Jean Bennett - Pioneer in the field of Gene Therapy. Led one of the first successful clinical gene therapy trials in the world.
• Charles Bernstein - Donald T. Regan Professor of English, prominent Language poet
• Mary Frances Berry - Geraldine Segal Professor of Social Thought; former chair U.S. Civil Rights Commission
• Ray Birdwhistell - Professor, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
• Matt Blaze - Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Robert F. Boruch - University Trustee Chair Professor, Graduate School of Education
• John Bowker - Theologian
• Rebecca Bushnell - Dean of School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English
• Eugenio Calabi - Thomas A. Scott Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, best known for his development of the Calabi-Yau manifold
• Arthur Caplan - Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
• Britton Chance - National Medal of Science recipient; Professor of Biophysics
• Roger Chartier - Professor of History; Chair of History at the Collège de France; leading Cultural Historian
• Pei-yuan Chia - Senior Fellow of the CSI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the Wharton School; former Vice-Chairman of Citicorp and Citibank, current member of AIG's Board of Directors
• Mildred Cohn - National Medal of Science recipient; Professor of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry
• Peter Conn - Andrea Mitchell Term Professor of English
• Raymond Davis, Jr. - National Medal of Science recipient; Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• George Crumb - Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; Annenberg Professor of Music
• Francis X. Diebold - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship recipient; W.P. Carey Term Professor in Economics
• 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
• Edward J. Doheny - Professor of Geology - founder and leader of Master of Science in Applied Geosciences (MSAG) program
• Charles L. Epstein - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Recipient; Francis J. Carey Term Professor of Radiology in Mathematics
• 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
• Marshall L. Fisher - UPS Professor of Operations Research at The Wharton School; noted for work in combinatorial optimization
• Peter J. Freyd - Professor of Mathematics
• Paul Fussell - Emeritus Professor of Literature; National Book Award winner; prominent cultural and literary historian
• George Gerbner - Professor and Dean, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Founder of cultivation theory.
• Erving Goffman - Professor of Sociology. Author: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums.
• Sol Goodgal - Professor of Microbiology - major contributor to the study of genetic transformation in bacteria
• Paul Gyorgy - National Medal of Science recipient; Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
• Steven Hahn - Pulitzer Prize winner; Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History
• David Harbater - Cole Prize recipient; E. Otis Kendall Professor of Mathematics; best known for solving the Abhyankar conjecture
• Paul Hendrickson - Professor of English; Six time Pulitzer Prize nominee for his work with the Washington Post
• Ralph S. Hirschmann - National Medal of Science recipient; Rao Makineni Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry
• Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Professor of Communications - Annenberg School for Communications; author; media analyst
• Shane Jensen - Assistant Professor of Statistics—The Wharton School
• Aravind Joshi - Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science
• Louis Kahn - Noted architect; works include the Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban in Bangladesh and Jonas Salk Institute in California; Professor of Architecture
• Elihu Katz - Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communications
• Donald F. Kettl - Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Political Science & Director of the Fels Institute of Government
• 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
• Peter D. Linneman - Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate; Professor of Finance and Business & Public Policy
• Ian Lustick - Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science; author of Trapped in the War on Terror
• Jerre Mangione‎ novelist and scholar of the Italian-American experience
• Edward Mansfield novelist and research on the effects of democracy on political stability of foreign nations.
• Mitch Marcus - RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence - Department of Computer Science
• E. Ann Matter - Associate Dean for Arts & Letters, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies
• Walter 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
• 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
• Mark Pauly - Discoverer of moral hazards in health care
• Fernando Pereira - Andrew and Debra Rachleff Professor of Computer Science
• Bob Perelman - Professor of English, Prominent L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poet
• Samuel H. Preston - Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography; best known for his development of the Preston curve
• Hans Rademacher - Scott Chair, Professor of Mathematics; best known for his theory of the reciprocity law for Dedekind sums
• Robert A. Rescorla - Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Psychology; Co-creator of the Rescorla-Wagner model
• David Rittenhouse - Professor of Astronomy; Vice-Provost, Trustee
• Rafael Robb - Professor of Economics
• C. Brian Rose - James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology; President of the Archaeological Institute of America; best known for co-directing the modern excavations at Troy
• Phillip Roth - Pulitzer Prize winner; Professor of Comparative Literature & Literary Theory
• Robert L. Schrieffer - National Medal of Science recipient; Professor of Physics
• Martin E. P. Seligman - Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
• Jeremy Siegel - Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance; Financial News Commentator
• Rogers Smith - Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
• Peter Stallybrass - Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English
• Thomas J. Sugrue - Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of History and Sociology
• Peter T. Struck - Associate Professor of Classical Studies
• Babu Suthar - Gujarati Lecturer in South Asia Studies
• Robert Venturi- Pritzker Prize Winner; Professor of Architecture
• Michael Vitez - Pulitzer Prize winner; Professor of Creative Writing
• Richard Wernick - Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; Professor of Humanities
• James Merton Wilson - Pioneer in the field of Gene Therapy
• Lightner Witmer - Professor of Psychology; Inventor of the term Clinical Psychology
• Tukufu Zuberi - Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations; Professor of Sociology

References

v • d • e University of Pennsylvania Schools Annenberg School for Communication  · Graduate School of Education  · School of Arts and Sciences  · School of Dental Medicine  · School of Design  · School of Engineering and Applied Science  · School of Law  · School of Medicine  · School of Nursing  · School of Social Policy and Practice  · School of Veterinary Medicine  · Wharton School Programs Fels Institute of Government  · Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business  · Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology  · Lauder Institute  · Nursing and Health Care Management  · Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management  · Vagelos Scholars Program In Molecular Life Sciences Places University City · College Hall · Fisher Fine Arts Library · Houston Hall · Irvine Auditorium · Kelly Writers House · Morris Arboretum · New Bolton Center · Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology · Van Pelt Library · Weigle Information Commons · Institute of Contemporary Art · Richards Medical Research Laboratories · Moore School of Electrical Engineering Athletics Basketball · Palestra · Franklin Field · Meiklejohn Stadium · Penn Relays · Band Media Pennsylvania Punch Bowl · The Daily Pennsylvanian · University of Pennsylvania Press · Wharton School Publishing · 34th Street Magazine · WQHS Radio · WXPN Life Student life · Notable alumni and faculty · Wharton School alumni · Penn Glee Club · Penn Masala · Philomathean Society · Mask and Wig · Penn Singers · Penny Loafers · "Hail, Pennsylvania!" · "The Red and the Blue"