This is a working list of notable faculty, alumni and scholars of the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

, United States.

Faculty

Academia

Arts, media, and entertainment

Athletics

College football Hall of Famers

Head coaches

NFL champions

Chuck Bednarik Charles Philip Bednarik (May 1, 1925 – March 21, 2015), nicknamed "Concrete Charlie", was an American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL). He has been ranked one of the hardest hitting tacklers in NFL history an ...

(Class of 1949):

Philadelphia Eagles The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays ...

linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, p ...

and 1960 NFL champion; member of the

Pro Football Hall of Fame The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio. Opened on September 7, , the Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in the sport of professional football, including players, coach ...

and

College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vote ...

; namesake of the

Chuck Bednarik Award The Chuck Bednarik Award is presented annually to the defensive player in college football as judged by the Maxwell Football Club to be the best in the United States. The award is named for Chuck Bednarik, a former college and professional Ame ...

in college football; recipient of the 2010

Walter Camp Distinguished American Award The Walter Camp Distinguished American Award is presented by the Walter Camp Football Foundation to an individual who has used his or her talents to attain great success in business, private life or public service and who may have accomplished tha ...

*George Washington Tuffy Conn (February 22, 1892 – August 2, 1973) Class of 1920: was a professional

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player who played in

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...

for the Cleveland Tigers and the

Akron Pros The Akron Pros were a professional football team that played in Akron, Ohio from 1908 to 1926. The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, but later became Akron Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter mem ...

of the American Professional Football Association (renamed the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

in 1922) and won the first AFPA-NFL title that season with the Pros *

Jim Finn James Finn Jr. (born December 9, 1976) is a former American football fullback. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears as the final pick of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Pennsylvania. High school career Fi ...

(Class of 1999): NFL fullback and

New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...

Super Bowl XLII Super Bowl XLII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion ...

Champion *Ernest Alexander Tex Hamer (October 4, 1901 – May 9, 1981) Class of 1923: 1926 NFL Champion playing for

Frankford Yellow Jackets The Frankford Yellow Jackets were a professional American football team, part of the National Football League from 1924 to 1931, although its origin dates back to as early as 1899 with the Frankford Athletic Association. The Yellow Jackets won ...

*Walter Irving Pard Pearce - October 23, 1896 – May 24, 1974 (Class of 1920); won 1921 NFL Championship playing for the

Chicago Staleys The Chicago Bears American football franchise is a charter member of the National Football League (NFL), and has played in all of the league's 100 seasons. The team has captured nine NFL championships – eight NFL championships and one Super ...

(now the

Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NF ...

) *

Carroll Rosenbloom Dale Carroll Rosenbloom (March 5, 1907 – April 2, 1979) was an American businessman. He was the owner of two National Football League franchises; he was the first owner of the Baltimore Colts, and later switched teams, taking ownership of the ...

(Class of 1928) a two-year

letterman Letterman may refer to: * Letterman (sports), a classification of high school or college athlete in the United States People * David Letterman (born 1947), American television talk show host ** ''Late Night with David Letterman'', talk show that ...

as a halfback on the Penn football team in 1927 and

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

who was the owner of two

franchises (1) the

Baltimore Colts The Baltimore Colts were a professional American football team that played in Baltimore from its founding in 1953 to 1984. The team now plays in Indianapolis, as the Indianapolis Colts. The team was named for Baltimore's history of horse breed ...

, and (2) the

Los Angeles Rams The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Rams play ...

; where his franchises, amassed the best ownership winning percentage in NFL history (.660) (with a total regular season record of 226 wins, 116 losses, and 8 ties) and won 3 NFL championships (

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

), and one

Super Bowl The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game ...

( V) * Justin Watson (Class of 2018): NFL wide receiver and

Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) NFC South, South divisio ...

Super Bowl LV Super Bowl LV was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2020 season. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the American Football Conferen ...

Champion

Olympic medalists

The university currently holds the record (21) for most medals won by its alumni at any single Olympic Games ( 1900 Summer Olympic Games) and at least 43 different alumni have earned Olympic medals as detailed below.

Sports executives and owners

Professional basketball players

Ernie Beck Ernest Joseph Beck (born December 11, 1931) is a retired American professional basketball player. Born in Philadelphia, Beck played seven years in the National Basketball Association for the Philadelphia Warriors, St. Louis Hawks and Syracuse Na ...

, class of 1953; selected by

Philadelphia Warriors The history of the Golden State Warriors began in Philadelphia in 1946. In 1962, the franchise was relocated to San Francisco, California and became known as the San Francisco Warriors until 1971, when its name was changed to the current Golden St ...

as the 2nd overall pick in the 1953

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United S ...

draft (winning NBA championship in 1956), played for the

St. Louis Hawks The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its home games at ...

(now

Atlanta Hawks The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference (NBA), Eastern Conference Southeast Division (NBA), Sou ...

), and

Syracuse Nationals The Philadelphia 76ers are an American basketball team currently playing in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The 76ers are third in NBA history in wins and playoff appearances. 1946– ...

(now known as

Philadelphia 76ers The Philadelphia 76ers, colloquially known as the Sixers, are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eas ...

) *

Corky Calhoun David "Corky" Calhoun (born November 1, 1950) is an American former professional basketball player. Calhoun played in the NBA from 1972–1980 after a collegiate career at the University of Pennsylvania. Calhoun was the 1st round selection (4th o ...

, Class of 1972, was selected by

Phoenix Suns The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Suns are the only team in t ...

as the 4th overall pick in the 1972 NBA Draft, played for four teams in nine seasons and won NBA championship title with the

Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers (colloquially known as the Blazers) are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Con ...

in 1977 *"Chink" Francis Crossin (July 4, 1923 – January 10, 1981), Class of 1947, was selected by

as the 6th overall pick in the 1947

Basketball Association of America The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946. Following its third season, 1948–49, the BAA absorbed most of National Basketball League (NBL) and rebranded as the National Ba ...

(which a few years later merged into another professional league) Draft, played for the Warriors for three years and averaged a career-high 7.0 points per game in 1949–50, named EBA Most Valuable Player in 1952 *

Matt Maloney Matthew Patrick Maloney (born December 6, 1971) is an American former professional basketball player who played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Early years Maloney was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, but grew up in ...

, Class of 1995, was not selected in the 1995 NBA draft but signed with the

Houston Rockets The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston. The Rockets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its ho ...

, played six NBA seasons with the

, and

Chicago Bulls The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded on January 1 ...

and, in 1997, was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team *

Bob Morse Robert Duncan Morse (born January 4, 1951) is an American former professional basketball player. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. In 2008, Morse was chosen as one of the 50 most influential personalities in European club ba ...

: class of 1972; played in Europe, named in 2008 as one of the 50 most influential personalities in European club basketball played for

Italian League The Italic League or Most Holy League was an international agreement concluded in Venice on 30 August 1454, between the Papal States, the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence, and the Kingdom of Naples, following the Tr ...

club

Pallacanestro Varese Pallacanestro Varese, also called by its current sponsor's name, the Openjobmetis Varese, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Varese, Lombardy. Founded in 1945, the team plays in the Italian basketball league system, Italian first ...

, also led the Italian League in scoring during six seasons * Tony Price, class of 1979; selected by the

Detroit Pistons The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division and play their home games at Li ...

as the overall 29th pick in the second round of the 1979 NBA Draft, played five games for the San Diego Clippers *

Zack Rosen Zack Rosen (born March 14, 1989) is an American basketball player. Rosen, a point guard, played collegiately at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an All-American and Ivy League player of the year. College career Rosen is Jewish, f ...

: All-American basketball player, class of 2012; played professional basketball with

Hapoel Holon Hapoel Holon Basketball Club ( he, מועדון הכדורסל הפועל חולון), known for sponsorship reasons as Hapoel Atsmon Playgrounds Holon (), is a professional basketball club based in Holon, Israel. The team plays in the Israeli ...

Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. Hapoel Jerusalem Basketball Club ( he, מועדון כדורסל הפועל ירושלים), known for sponsorship reasons as Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem (הפועל בנק יהב ירושלים‎), is a professional basketball club based in t ...

, and Maccabi Ashdod B.C., each of which are part of the

Israeli Basketball Super League Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional competition in Israeli club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball co ...

, and won the 3-point shootout in the Israeli Super League All Star Game in 2014 and 2015 *

Jerry Simon Jerry Simon (born March 23, 1968) is an American-Israeli former college and professional basketball player. He played professional basketball in Israel for Hapoel Galil Elyon, Elitzur Kiryat Ata, and Hapoel Haifa in the Israeli Basketball Premier ...

: basketball player, class of 1990,

American-Israeli , native_name_lang = , image = , caption = , population = 110,000–150,000 , popplace = New York metropolitan area, Los Angeles metropolitan area, Miami metropolitan area, and other large metropolitan are ...

, who after being captain of Penn basketball team played professional basketball in Israel for three teams in the

Israeli Basketball Premier League Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making ...

, and for the

Israel men's national basketball team The Israel men's national basketball team ( he, נבחרת ישראל בכדורסל) represents Israel in international basketball tournaments. They are administered by the Israeli Basketball Association. Israel is currently ranked 33rd in the ...

* Matthew White: basketball player, class of 1979, selected by Portland Trail Blazers, played professionally in the

Liga ACB The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system. Administrated by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, wi ...

for several teams

Other athletes

Business

For a more comprehensive list of notable alumni in the business world, see

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a Private university, private Ivy League rese ...

. (Note: Not all of the following individuals attended the Wharton School, but may be alumni of other schools within the

Company founders

William Bingham William Bingham (March 8, 1752February 7, 1804) was an American statesman from Philadelphia. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801. Bingham was o ...

, Class of 1768, a founder and director of the

Bank of North America The Bank of North America was the first chartered bank in the United States, and served as the country's first ''de facto'' central bank. Chartered by the Congress of the Confederation on May 26, 1781, and opened in Philadelphia on January 7, 17 ...

, the first modern United States bank *

John Bogle John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (May 8, 1929 – January 16, 2019) was an American investor, business magnate, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive of The Vanguard Group, and is credited with creating the index fund. An avid inve ...

: founder and retired CEO of

The Vanguard Group The Vanguard Group, Inc. is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with about $7 trillion in global assets under management, as of January 13, 2021. It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-lar ...

Richard Bloch Richard Adolf Bloch (February 15, 1926 – July 21, 2004) was an American entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known for starting the H&R Block tax preparation and personal finance company with his older brother Henry in 1955. His personal e ...

(Class of 1942): co-founder,

H&R Block H&R Block, Inc., or H&R Block, is an American tax preparation company operating in Canada, the United States, and Australia. The company was founded in 1955 by brothers Henry W. Bloch and Richard Bloch. As of 2018, H&R Block operates approximat ...

Len Bosack Leonard X. Bosack (born 1952) is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology, and services. His net worth is approximately $200 mi ...

: co-founder,

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...

(Internet router company) * David J. Brown: co-founder of

Silicon Graphics Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and soft ...

Warren Buffett Warren Edward Buffett ( ; born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net w ...

: CEO of

Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its main business and source of capital is insurance, from ...

, investor, the second richest man in the world (attended for two years before transferring to the

University of Nebraska A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

) *Jonathan Brassington : CEO and co-founder

LiquidHub Capgemini SE is a multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, headquartered in Paris, France. History Capgemini was founded by Serge Kampf in 1967 as an enterprise management and data processing company. The comp ...

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

Steven A. Cohen Steven A. Cohen (born June 11, 1956) is an American hedge fund manager and owner of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball since September 14, 2020, owning roughly 97.2% of the team. He is the founder of hedge fund Point72 Asset Manageme ...

: founder and Manager, SAC Capital Partners and

Point72 Asset Management Point72 Asset Management, is an American hedge fund. It was founded in 2014 by Steve Cohen, after his previous company S.A.C. Capital Advisors pleaded guilty to insider trading charges. In 2018, the company reopened to external investors after ...

Catherine Austin Fitts Catherine Austin Fitts (born December 24, 1950) is an American investment banker and former public official who served as managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. and, during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, as United States Assistant Secret ...

: CEO and founder of Solari Inc., former United States

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Geraldine Laybourne Geraldine Laybourne (''née'' Bond; born May 19, 1947) is an American entrepreneur and former TV executive. She worked at Nickelodeon from 1980 until 1996, when she became the president of Disney-ABC Cable Networks (including Disney Channel). She ...

: founder of

Oxygen Media Oxygen (branded on air as Oxygen True Crime) is an American television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming unit of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, through its Cable Entertainment Group subsidiary. The channel primar ...

John Grayken John Patrick Grayken (born June 1956) is an American-born Irish billionaire financier, the founder and chairman of the private equity firm Lone Star Funds. According to the ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'' in 2021, Grayken is worth $8.7 billio ...

: founder and chairman of

Lone Star Funds Lone Star Funds, legal name of main entity Lone Star Global Acquisitions, Ltd. is an American private equity firm that invests in distressed assets in the U.S., Canada and internationally. The founder of Lone Star established its first fund in 1 ...

James Dinan James Gerard Dinan (born 1959) is an American investor, hedge fund manager, philanthropist. He founded York Capital Management in 1991. Early life and education James Gerard Dinan was born to a Roman Catholic family in 1959 in Baltimore, Maryl ...

hedge fund A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as sho ...

manager and founder of

York Capital Management York Capital Management is a global institutional investment management firm with approximately $18.5 billion in assets under management as of June 2019. The firm was founded in 1991 by Jamie Dinan. York Capital is headquartered in New York City ...

Sam Hamadeh Hussam "Sam" Hamadeh (1971 – December 10, 2015) was a media entrepreneur based in New York with business interests in digital media, publishing, and film. Hamadeh co-founded Vault.com in 1997 with his brother, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman. an ...

: founder, Vault Inc. and film producer * Brad Handler: co-founder and chairman of Inspirato; first in-house attorney at

eBay eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became a ...

* Gilbert W. Harrison, founder, chairman and CEO, Financo, Inc. *

Vernon Hill Vernon W. Hill II (born August 18, 1945) is an American businessman, the founder and former chairman of Metro Bank, a UK retail bank with 77 stores, and assets of £7.4b ($10.6b). He was also the founder, former chairman, president and CEO of ...

: founder, chairman, and CEO,

Commerce Bancorp Commerce Bancorp was a Cherry Hill, New Jersey–based bank created in 1973. In 2007, it was purchased by Toronto-Dominion Bank, which merged Commerce with TD Banknorth to form TD Bank, N.A.; all of its banks and branches were given the TD Ba ...

Jon Huntsman Sr. Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. (June 21, 1937 – February 2, 2018) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder and executive chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals. Huntsman p ...

: billionaire, founder of the

Huntsman Corporation Huntsman Corporation is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of chemical products for consumers and industrial customers. Huntsman manufactures assorted polyurethanes, performance products, and adhesives for customers like BMW, ...

Josh Kopelman Joshua Kopelman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist. Kopelman is best known as a founder of First Round Capital, a pioneering seed-stage venture fund that led the seed round in Uber. Josh has consistently been ran ...

: founder,

Half.com Half.com was an e-commerce website and a subsidiary of eBay in which sellers offered items for sale at fixed prices. The items available on half.com were limited to books, textbooks, music, movies, video games, and video game consoles. Half prov ...

Douglas Lenat Douglas Bruce Lenat (born 1950) is the CEO of Cycorp, Inc. of Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence; he was awarded the biannual IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1976 for creating the machine learning p ...

: founder of artificial intelligence company

Cycorp Cyc (pronounced ) is a long-term artificial intelligence project that aims to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base that spans the basic concepts and rules about how the world works. Hoping to capture common sense knowledge, Cyc f ...

Ronald Li Ronald Li Fook-shiu (; 10 February 1929 – 27 December 2014) was the founder and former chairman of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and died of cancer. Li was arrested twice by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in December 1987 ...

: founder and past chairman of the

Hong Kong Stock Exchange The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK, also known as Hong Kong Stock Exchange) is a stock exchange based in Hong Kong. As of the end of 2020, it has 2,538 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of HK$47 trillion. It is repor ...

Ken Moelis Kenneth D. Moelis (born 1958) is an American billionaire investment banker, and founder of Moelis & Company, an investment banking firm. Early life and education Moelis was born in 1958, the son of Gaye (née Gross) and Herbert I. Moelis, pre ...

: founder of

Moelis & Company Moelis & Company is a global investment bank that provides financial advisory services to corporations, governments, and financial sponsors. The firm advises on strategic decisions such as mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restruct ...

Elon Musk Elon Reeve Musk ( ; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Bori ...

: technology entrepreneur; founder, CEO and CTO of

SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and a satellite communications corporation headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the stated goal of ...

; co-founder of

PayPal PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper ...

; board member of

Planetary Society The Planetary Society is an American internationally-active non-governmental nonprofit organization. It is involved in research, public outreach, and political space advocacy for engineering projects related to astronomy, planetary science, and ...

; investor and chairman of the board of

Tesla Motors Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles (electric cars and electric truck, trucks), battery energy storage from ...

* Peter Nicholas: billionaire co-founder of the medical device firm

Boston Scientific Boston Scientific Corporation ("BSC"), incorporated in Delaware, is a biomedical/biotechnology engineering firm and multinational manufacturer of medical devices used in interventional medical specialties, including interventional radiology, in ...

* William Novelli: CEO of

AARP AARP (formerly called the American Association of Retired Persons) is an interest group in the United States focusing on issues affecting those over the age of fifty. The organization said it had more than 38 million members in 2018. The magazin ...

; founder and past president of Porter Novelli, one of the world's largest lobbying and public relations firms, now part of the

Omnicom Group Omnicom Group Inc. is an American global media, marketing and corporate communications holding company, headquartered in New York City. Omnicom's branded networks and specialty firms provide services in four disciplines: advertising, customer re ...

William S. Paley William Samuel Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990) was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS) from a small radio network into ...

: founder,

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...

Corporation *

Stephen M. Peck Stephen M. Peck (February 2, 1935 – March 30, 2004) was an American investor and philanthropist who co-founded the asset management firm Weiss, Peck & Greer. Early life and education Stephen Martin Peck was born to a Jewish family on February ...

: investor and philanthropist, co-founder of Weiss, Peck & Greer *

Mark Pincus Mark Jonathan Pincus (born February 13, 1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur known as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Pincus also founded the startups Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com. Pincus served as ...

: co-founder of

Zynga Zynga Inc. () is an American developer running social video game services. It was founded in April 2007, with headquarters in San Mateo, California. The company primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Zynga states its missio ...

(class of 1988) * J.D. Power III: founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power & Associates *

Raj Rajaratnam Rajakumaran Rajaratnam (born June 15, 1957) is a Sri Lankan-American former hedge fund manager and founder of the Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm. On October 16, 2009, he was arrested by the FBI for insider trading ...

: billionaire founder of the

Galleon Group The Galleon Group was one of the largest hedge fund management firms in the world, managing over $7 billion, before closing in October 2009. The firm was the center of a 2009 insider trading scandal which subsequently led to its fall. The firm wa ...

Josh Resnick Josh Resnick is an American video game producer. Education Resnick received a Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College in 1989 and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Career Resnic ...

: founder and President,

Pandemic Studios Pandemic Studios, LLC was an American video game developer based in Westwood, Los Angeles. Andrew Goldman and Josh Resnick founded the studio in 1998 after leaving Activision. Pandemic Studios, alongside BioWare, was acquired in 2005 by Elevation ...

* Ralph J. Roberts: co-founder,

Comcast Corporation Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...

Michael Tiemann Michael Tiemann is an American software developer and executive, serving as vice president of open source affairs at Red Hat, Inc., and former President of the Open Source Initiative. Biography He earned a bachelor's degree from the Moore Schoo ...

: co-founder of

Cygnus Solutions Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software. Its tagline was: ''Making free software affordable''. For years, employ ...

GNU GNU () is an extensive collection of free software (383 packages as of January 2022), which can be used as an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems. The use of the completed GNU tools led to the family of operat ...

software company), now CTO of

Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide. Red Hat has become ass ...

Edward Rosenthal Edward Rosenthal (1903–1991) was a former vice chairman of Warner Communications and president/owner of the Jewish funeral home chain, Riverside Memorial Chapel.Riverside Memorial Chapel The Riverside Memorial Chapel is a Jewish funeral home chain with their main facility at 180 West 76th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.Henry Salvatori Henry Salvatori (March 28, 1901 – July 6, 1997) was an American geophysicist, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. Salvatori founded Western Geophysical in 1933 and, after selling the company in 1960, pursued a second caree ...

: founder,

Western Geophysical Western Geophysical was an international oil exploration company founded in California in 1933 by Henry Salvatori for the purpose of using reflection seismology to explore for petroleum. The company prospered and was sold by Salvatori to Litt ...

; founding stockholder of the ''

National Review ''National Review'' is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs. The magazine was founded by the author William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955. Its editor-in-chief i ...

'' magazine * Harry Scherman: co-founder of the

Book of the Month Club Book of the Month (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five to seven new hardcover books each month to its members. Books are selected and endorsed by a panel of judges, and members c ...

* Tanya Seaman: co-founder of

PhillyCarShare PhillyCarShare was a non-profit car-sharing organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania established in 2002. The service was acquired by Enterprise in 2011, and was renamed Enterprise CarShare in 2014. PhillyCarShare has cars available for use 24 h ...

Joseph Segel Joseph Myron Segel (January 9, 1931 – December 21, 2019) was an American entrepreneur. He was the founder of over 20 American companies, most notably QVC, an American television network, and the Franklin Mint, a producer of mail-order collectib ...

: founder,

QVC QVC (short for "Quality Value Convenience") is an American free-to-air television network, and flagship shopping channel specializing in televised home shopping, owned by Qurate Retail Group. Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel in West Chester, Pen ...

; founder,

Franklin Mint The Franklin Mint is a private mint founded by Joseph Segel in 1964 in Wawa, Pennsylvania. The building is in Middletown Township. The brand name was previously owned by Sequential Brands Group headquartered in New York City, New York. It is ...

Brian Sheth Brian N. Sheth is the former President of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity fund based in Austin, Texas. Sheth was listed in the Forbes 2018 World Billionaires list with an estimated net worth of $2 billion. He was also a member of Fortune ...

: co-founder and President of

Vista Equity Partners Vista Equity Partners is an American investment firm focused on financing and forwarding software, data, and technology-enabled startup businesses. Vista has invested in hundreds of companies, including Misys, Ping Identity, and Marketo. The co ...

Gregg Spiridellis JibJab is an American digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1999 by brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, it first achieved widespread attention during the 2004 United States presidential election, 2004 US pres ...

: founder,

JibJab JibJab is an American digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1999 by brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, it first achieved widespread attention during the 2004 US presidential election when their video of Geo ...

Media, Inc. *

Michael Steinhardt Michael H. Steinhardt (born December 7, 1940) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and former antiquities collector. In 1967, he founded a hedge fund, Steinhardt Partners which he ran until he closed it in 1995. After a ...

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

Other entrepreneurs and business leaders

Laura J. Alber Laura J. Alber (born 1968) is an American businesswoman who in 2010 became the CEO of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Early life Alber earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. While attending Penn, Alber had a small business sell ...

: president and CEO of

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an American publicly traded consumer retail company that sells kitchenware and home furnishings. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The company has 625 brick and mortar stores and distribute ...

Anil Ambani Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian businessman. He was the chairman of Reliance Group (also known as Reliance ADA Group), which was created in July 2006 following a demerger from Reliance Industries Limited. He leads a numbe ...

: billionaire, chairman,

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group or popularly known as Reliance ADA Group or simply Reliance Group is an Indian conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company, which was formed after Dhirubhai Ambani's business was divided up, ...

Walter Annenberg Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and diplomat. Annenberg owned and operated Triangle Publications, which included ownership of ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' ...

: billionaire publisher; philanthropist; former U.S Ambassador to the United Kingdom; awarded the

Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, along with the Congressional Gold Medal. It is an award bestowed by the president of the United States to recognize people who have made "an especially merito ...

; given the rank of

Knight Commander Commander ( it, Commendatore; french: Commandeur; german: Komtur; es, Comendador; pt, Comendador), or Knight Commander, is a title of honor prevalent in chivalric orders and fraternal orders. The title of Commander occurred in the medieval mili ...

(the second-highest rank in the

Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...

) by

Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. She was queen ...

Susan Arnold Susan E. Arnold (born March 8, 1954) is an American business executive; she is the chairwoman of The Walt Disney Company. Life and career Susan E. Arnold graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and from the ...

: former vice chairman of

Procter & Gamble The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer hea ...

Morton J. Baum Morton Jacob Baum (October 27, 1897 – August 1, 1963) was an American businessman. He was president of the Hickey Freeman from 1959 until his death. He began working for Hickey Freeman in 1919. He was elected the second president of Hickey Fre ...

: president of

Hickey Freeman Hickey Freeman is a manufacturer of suits for men and boys, based in Rochester, New York, US, founded in 1899. The Hickey-Freeman Co. is the most distinguished of the once booming men's clothing industry based in Rochester at the start of the 20 ...

* Alfred Berkeley: former president and vice-chairman of the

NASDAQ The Nasdaq Stock Market () (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Stock Market) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the US by volume, and ranked second ...

Stock Market, Inc. *

Nicholas Biddle Nicholas Biddle (January 8, 1786February 27, 1844) was an American financier who served as the third and last president of the Second Bank of the United States (chartered 1816–1836). Throughout his life Biddle worked as an editor, diplomat, au ...

: president of the

Second Bank of the United States The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the bank was chartered from February 1816 to January 1836.. The Bank's formal name, ac ...

Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell Norman Roy Blackwell, Baron Blackwell (born 29 July 1952) is a British former businessman,
The Peerage, Person Page 14368 Retrieved ...

: chairman of

Interserve Interserve is a British construction and support services business based in Reading, Berkshire, which went into administration in 2019 and which is expected to be wound up in 2024. At that time, the group generated revenue of £2.2 billion and h ...

and

Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Banking Group is a British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. It is one of the UK's largest financial services organisations, with 30 million customers and 65,000 employees. Lloyds Bank w ...

* Matt Blank: chairman and CEO of

Showtime Showtime or Show Time may refer to: Film * ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film * ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur Television Networks and channels * Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global w ...

* Mitchell Blutt: Executive Partner,

J.P. Morgan Chase JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in City of New York, New York City and Delaware General Corporation Law, inco ...

Dimitri Boylan Dimitri Boylan is the CEO of Avature, a Web 2.0 Human Capital Management software company. Early life and education Dimitri was born in Ohio to Irish immigrant parents. His father was an electrician from Cavan and his mother was a nurse from cou ...

: former CEO of Hotjobs.com, now part of

Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Man ...

* Christopher Browne: past

managing director A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

of Tweedy, Browne Co. *

Charles Butt Charles Clarence Butt (born February 3, 1938) is an American heir and billionaire. He inherited his family's San Antonio–based H-E-B supermarket chain in 1971. The privately held company has more than 300 stores and $31 billion in sales, acc ...

: billionaire, CEO and chairman,

H-E-B H-E-B Grocery Company, LP, is an American privately held supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 340 stores throughout the U.S. state of Texas, as well as in northeast Mexico. The company also operates Central Market, an ...

Grocery Company *

Robert Castellini Robert Castellini (born September 23, 1941) is an American businessman from Cincinnati, Ohio. Since 2006, he has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Cincinnati Reds, leading a group that purchased a majority share of the Major League Basebal ...

: CEO and part-owner of the

Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...

baseball team * Arthur D. Collins Jr.: chairman and CEO,

Medtronic Medtronic plc is an American medical device company. The company's operational and executive headquarters are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and its legal headquarters are in Ireland due to its acquisition of Irish-based Covidien in 2015. While it ...

* Stephen Cooper: CEO of

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and t ...

Robert Crandall Robert Lloyd "Bob" Crandall (born December 6, 1935 in Westerly, Rhode Island) is an American businessman who is the former president and chairman of American Airlines. Called an industry legend by airline industry observers, Crandall has been the ...

: chairman and CEO,

American Airlines American Airlines is a major airlines of the United States, major US-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is the Largest airlines in the world, largest airline in the world when measured ...

, Inc *

Donny Deutsch Donald Jay Deutsch (born November 22, 1957) is an American branding and marketing professional, television personality, and former Chairman of advertising firm Deutsch Inc. He joined his father's advertising firm, David Deutsch Associates, in 19 ...

: chairman, Deutsch, Inc. * Michael DiCandilo:

Chief Financial Officer The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financ ...

and Executive Vice President of

AmerisourceBergen AmerisourceBergen Corporation is an American drug wholesale company that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001. They provide drug distribution and consulting related to medical business operations and patient se ...

corporation * Alexis Irénée du Pont Jr.: business executive for

DuPont DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in ...

Eugene du Pont Eugène du Pont (November 16, 1840 – January 28, 1902) was an American businessman who served as the first head of the modern-day DuPont corporation. Life and education Du Pont was born on November 16, 1840 at Hagley House in New Castle C ...

: first head of modern-day DuPont * Mike Eskew: chairman and CEO,

UPS UPS or ups may refer to: Companies and organizations * United Parcel Service, an American shipping company ** The UPS Store, UPS subsidiary ** UPS Airlines, UPS subsidiary * Underground Press Syndicate, later ''Alternative Press Syndicate'' or ...

*Alexander C. Feldman: president,

US-ASEAN Business Council The US-ASEAN Business Council (also known as "US-ABC" or "USABC") is an advocacy group that aims to foster economic growth and trade ties between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s ten member countries. I ...

; former

Assistant Secretary of State Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) is a title used for many executive positions in the United States Department of State, ranking below the Under Secretary of State, under secretaries. A set of six assistant secretaries reporting to the Under Secret ...

* Jay S. Fishman: chairman and CEO of

The Travelers Companies The Travelers Companies, Inc., commonly known as Travelers, is an American insurance company. It is the second-largest writer of U.S. commercial property casualty insurance, and the sixth-largest writer of U.S. personal insurance through indepen ...

*Russell P. Fradin: chairman and CEO of

Hewitt Associates Hewitt may refer to: Places ;United Kingdom * Hewitt (hill), Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over two thousand feet with a relative height of at least 30 metres ;United States * Hewitt, Minnesota, a city * Hewitt, Texas, a city * Hewitt, M ...

Robert B. Goergen Robert B. Goergen is a corporate executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Blyth, Inc. He is also the founder and chairman of The Ropart Group, a private-equity investment firm. Goergen was a member of ...

: chairman and CEO of Blyth, Inc. * Steven Goldstone: former chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco *

Joel Greenblatt Joel Greenblatt (born December 13, 1957) is an American academic, hedge fund manager, investor, and writer. He is a value investor, alumnus of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and adjunct professor at the Columbia University G ...

manager and author * George H. Heilmeier: former president and CEO of

Bellcore iconectiv is a supplier of network planning and network management services to telecommunications providers. Known as Bellcore after its establishment in the United States in 1983 as part of the break-up of the Bell System, the company's name ...

(now

Telcordia iconectiv is a supplier of network planning and network management services to telecommunications providers. Known as Bellcore after its establishment in the United States in 1983 as part of the break-up of the Bell System, the company's name ...

) *

Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Charles A. Heimbold Jr. (born May 27, 1933) is an American businessman and diplomat, who was Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, and as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden. His son is American musician Pete Francis Heimbold, of Dispatch f ...

: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, former

chairman The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...

and

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company *

C. Robert Henrikson Carl "Rob" Robert Henrikson (born May 21, 1947) was the Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc. Henrikson was appointed CEO on March 1, 2006 and Chairman of the Board on April 25, 2006. Henrikson was succ ...

: chairman, president and CEO,

MetLife MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), better known as MetLife, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, wi ...

* Philip B. Hofmann: past phairman and CEO of

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company i ...

Jirair Hovnanian Jirair S. Hovnanian (June 9, 1927 – August 14, 2007) was an American home builder based in New Jersey. Hovnanian's business developed and built over 6,000 houses throughout South Jersey.Sims, Gayle Ronan"An entrepreneur's final act of generos ...

: home builder * John Carmichael Jenkins: planter and proponent of

slavery Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...

in the

Antebellum South In History of the Southern United States, the history of the Southern United States, the Antebellum Period (from la, ante bellum, lit=Status quo ante bellum, before the war) spanned the Treaty of Ghent, end of the War of 1812 to the start of ...

Reginald H. Jones Reginald H. Jones (11 July 1917 – 30 December 2003) was the chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1972 to 1981. Biography Jones was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom. After graduating from the Wharton School of the Universit ...

: former

and CEO of

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable energ ...

Yotaro Kobayashi Yotaro Kobayashi was a British-born Japanese executive who was chairman of the Fuji Xerox company, a joint venture between Fujifilm (75%) and Xerox (25%). He served as Pacific Asia chairman of the Trilateral Commission. He was educated at Keio U ...

: chairman and co-CEO,

Fuji Xerox was a joint venture partnership between the Japanese photographic firm Fujifilm Holdings and the American document management company Xerox to develop, produce and sell xerographic and document-related products and services in the Asia-Pacifi ...

Leonard Lauder Leonard Alan Lauder (born March 19, 1933) is an American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector. He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estée Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune, founded by their parents, Estée Laud ...

: chairman and CEO of Estée Lauder; billionaire investor *

Terry Leahy Sir Terence Patrick "Terry" Leahy (born 28 February 1956) is a British businessman, previously the CEO of Tesco, the largest British retailer and the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues. He now lives in Cuffley, Hertfordsh ...

: CEO,

Tesco Tesco plc () is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England. In 2011 it was the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues and the ninth-largest in th ...

Gerald Levin Gerald M. "Jerry" Levin (born May 6, 1939) is an American mass-media businessman. Levin was involved in brokering the merger between AOL and Time Warner in 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble, a merger which was ultimately disadvantageous ...

: former CEO of

AOL Time Warner Warner Media, LLC ( traded as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States. It was originally established in 1972 by ...

* Edward J. Lewis: former chairman of the board of the

Oxford Development Company Oxford Development Company is a real estate firm based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, providing real estate development, property management, brokerage services, investment advisory services, and business operations. In 2021, it was listed as the l ...

, one of the largest Pennsylvania-based

real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...

firms *

George Lindemann George Lyle Lindemann (March 26, 1936 – June 21, 2018) was an American billionaire businessman known for being the chairman and chief executive officer of Southern Union, a fossil fuel infrastructure and pipeline company.Robert Trigaux"F ...

: billionaire

industrialist A business magnate, also known as a tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur or investor who controls, through perso ...

Joseph Wharton Lippincott Joseph Wharton Lippincott (February 28, 1887 – October 22, 1976) was a noted publisher, author, naturalist, and sportsman. He was the grandson of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, founder of Philadelphia publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, and of ...

: past president and chairman of the board of

J. B. Lippincott Company J. B. Lippincott & Co. was an American publishing house founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1836 by Joshua Ballinger Lippincott. It was incorporated in 1885 as J. B. Lippincott Company. History 1836–1977 Joshua Ballinger Lippincott (Marc ...

, and grandson of industrialist

Joseph Wharton Joseph Wharton (March 3, 1826 – January 11, 1909) was an American industrialist. He was involved in mining, manufacturing and education. He founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel comp ...

, founder of the

Wharton School of Business The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

Robert Litzenberger Robert Litzenberger is Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for establishing the use of state prices in financial economics. Biography Litzenberger studied at Wagner College before going ...

: partner,

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

Betty Liu Betty W. Liu ( zh, 刘文思) is the Executive Vice Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and the Chief Experience Officer of Intercontinental Exchange. Liu joined the NYSE Group after ICE acquired Radiate, the ed-tech startup she founded. Liu ...

: executive vice chairman of the

New York Stock Exchange The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed c ...

John A. Luke Jr. John A. Luke Jr. is an American businessman. He serves as chairman and CEO of the MeadWestvaco Corporation. Education Luke attended The Hotchkiss School and then Lawrence University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1971. He attended the ...

: chairman and chief executive officer of

MeadWestvaco MeadWestvaco Corporation was an American packaging company based in Richmond, Virginia. It had approximately 23,000 employees. In February 2006, it moved its corporate headquarters to Richmond. In March 2008, the company announced a change to sta ...

Corporation *

Peter Lynch Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is an American investor, mutual fund manager, and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently more th ...

: investor; vice chairman of

Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments, commonly referred to as Fidelity, earlier as Fidelity Management & Research or FMR, is an American multinational financial services corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was established in 1946 and is on ...

Harold McGraw III Harold Whittlesey "Terry" McGraw III (born August 30, 1948) is an American businessman and is the chairman emeritus of McGraw Hill Financial (now S&P Global and formerly McGraw-Hill Companies). He served as chief executive officer of the company ...

: president and CEO of

McGraw-Hill McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. The company also publishes referenc ...

Companies and chairman of the

Business Roundtable The Business Roundtable (BRT) is a nonprofit lobbyist association based in Washington, D.C. whose members are chief executive officers of major United States companies. Unlike the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose members are entire businesses, BRT ...

Michael Milken Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ("junk bonds"), and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for vio ...

: trader, financier, felon * Bill Miller: chairman and chief investment officer,

Legg Mason Legg Mason was an American investment management and asset management firm headquartered in Baltimore, founded in 1899 and acquired by Franklin Templeton Investments as of July 2020. As of December 31, 2019, the company had $730.8 billion in asse ...

Capital Management *

Jordan Mintz Jordan H. Mintz was the former Managing Director for Corporate Tax at Enron and a whistleblower during the Enron scandal. Early life and education Mintz holds an LL.M. degree from New York University School of Law, a J.D. from Boston University S ...

Enron Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985 as a merger between Lay's Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional companies. ...

whistleblower *

Aditya Mittal Aditya Mittal (born 22 January 1976) is the CEO of ArcelorMittal which was founded by his father Lakshmi Mittal, who was ranked 21st in the 2012 Forbes list of billionaires. Education and career Born in India and raised in Indonesia, Mittal atte ...

: president and CFO,

Mittal Steel Company Mittal Steel Company N.V. was an Indian company and one of the world's largest steel producers by volume and turnover. After a merger in 2005, it is now part of ArcelorMittal. History Mittal Steel Company was formed as Ispat International in 19 ...

Michael Moritz Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz (born 12 September 1954) is a Welsh billionaire venture capitalist, philanthropist, author, and former journalist. Moritz works for Sequoia Capital, wrote the first history of Apple Inc., ''The Little Kingdom'', an ...

: venture capitalist,

Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors. , Sequoia's total a ...

Michael H. Moskow Michael H. Moskow (born January 7, 1938) is currently vice chairman and distinguished fellow on the global economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. From 1994 to 2007, he served as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Rese ...

: 8th President and CEO of the

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (informally the Chicago Fed) is one of twelve regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, make up the United States' central bank. The Chicago Reserve Bank serves the Sevent ...

Phebe Novakovic Phebe Novakovic is an American businesswoman and former intelligence officer. She serves as the Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of General Dynamics. As of 2018, she is listed as the world's 25th most powerful woman in business by ''Forbes' ...

: chairman and CEO of

General Dynamics General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded, aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of 2020, it was the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world by arms sales, and 5th largest in the Uni ...

Bruce Pasternack Bruce Pasternack (September 20, 1947 – January 13, 2021) was the President and CEO of the Special Olympics International from 2005 to 2007. He served on the board of directors of Codexis (NASDAQ: CDXS), a biotechnology company based out of R ...

: president and CEO of the

Special Olympics Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities, providing year-round training and activities to 5 million participants and Unified Sports partners in 1 ...

International; former Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. * Ronald O. Perelman: billionaire investor * Benjamin W. Perkins Jr.:

Thoroughbred The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are c ...

racehorse trainer * Douglas L. Peterson: CEO of

McGraw Hill Financial S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 The McGraw–Hill Companies, Inc.) is an American Public company, publicly traded corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City. Its primary areas of busi ...

Lionel Pincus Lionel I. Pincus (March 2, 1931 — October 10, 2009) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, running it from 1966 to 2002, and later became the chairman emeritus of the compa ...

: past chairman of

Warburg Pincus Warburg Pincus LLC is a global private equity firm, headquartered in New York, with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China, Southeast Asia and India. Warburg has been a private equity investor since 1966. The firm currently has over ...

Lewis E. Platt Lewis Emmett Platt (April 11, 1941 – September 8, 2005) was an American businessman and corporate director, who was chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard. Personal life and education Platt was born in Johnson C ...

: president, CEO and chairman of the board of

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

Edmund T. Pratt Jr. Edmund T. Pratt Jr. (1927 - September 5, 2002) was the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc. He served as President from 1971 to 1972, CEO from 1972 to 1991, and Chairman from 1972 to 1992. He is the namesake of Duke University's Engineering Scho ...

: former chairman and CEO of

Pfizer, Inc. Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfizer ...

Frank Quattrone Frank Quattrone (born 1955) is an American technology investment banker who started technology sector franchises at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse First Boston. He helped bring dozens of technology companies public during the 19 ...

: prominent investment banker, formerly with

Credit Suisse First Boston Credit Suisse First Boston (also known as CSFB and CS First Boston) is the investment banking affiliate of Credit Suisse headquartered in New York. The company was created by the merger of First Boston, First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse, ...

Robert Rabinovitch Robert Rabinovitch (born March 1, 1943) is a Canadian public servant and businessman who was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

: former president and CEO of the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...

Sylvia Rhone Sylvia Rhone (born March 11, 1952) is an American music industry executive. Since 2019, she is the chair and CEO of Epic Records, a label owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Rhone served previously in senior positions at Vested In Culture, Unive ...

: former president and CEO of

Eastwest Records East West Records (stylized as east''west'') is a record label formed in 1955, distributed and owned by Warner Music Group, headquartered in London, England. History Upon its creation in 1955 by Atlantic Records, the label had one hit with th ...

Elektra Records Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the 1 ...

, and

Motown Records Motown Records is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy, Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on June 7, 1958, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmant ...

; first

African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ...

woman to head a major record company *

Rich Riley Rich Riley (born August 17, 1973) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. Currently, he is co-CEO of Origin Materials, a chemicals and materials company. He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Shazam. He was an executive at Yahoo! f ...

: CEO, Shazam; former Senior Vice President and Managing Director of

Europe, Middle East & Africa * James O. Robbins: president and CEO of

Cox Communications Cox Communications, Inc. (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation, Dimension Cable Services and Times-Mirror Cable) is an American digital cable television provider, telecommunications and home automation services. It i ...

Brian L. Roberts Brian L. Roberts (born June 28, 1959) is an American billionaire businessman, and the chairman and CEO of Comcast, an American company providing cable, entertainment, and communications products and services which was founded by his father, Ralph ...

: chairman and CEO,

Lucille Roberts Lucille Roberts (December 7, 1943 – July 17, 2003) was an American businesswoman and entrepreneur who founded the Lucille Roberts chain of health clubs. A self-proclaimed "exercise nut," she turned her passion for working out into a health club ...

(College for Women, Class of 1964): namesake and proprietor of women's fitness clubs *

Eileen Clarkin Rominger Eileen Rominger is a partner at CamberView Partners. Previously, Rominger was the director of investment management at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and the global chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Ma ...

partner * Frank Rooney: past CEO of

Melville Corporation Melville Corporation, formerly based in Rye, New York, was a large retail holding company incorporated by Ward Melville in 1922 from Melville Shoe Corporation, Melville Shoe Company. It became CVS Corporation in 1996 under a massive reorganization ...

* Harold Rosen: Executive Director of the

Grassroots Business Fund The Grassroots Business Fund is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. It has field offices in Kenya, Peru, and India. Their mission is to build and support high-impact enterprises that provide sustainable economic opportunities to tho ...

* Arthur Ross: businessman and

philanthropist Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...

* Perry Rotella: senior vice president and CIO of

Verisk Analytics Verisk Analytics, Inc. is an American multinational data analytics and risk assessment firm based in Jersey City, New Jersey, with customers in insurance, natural resources, financial services, government, and risk management sectors. The company ...

J. Brendan Ryan J. Brendan Ryan is the vice chairman of FCB Worldwide, a global advertising agency network. Career Ryan graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan and holds a B.A. in history from Fordham University and an M.B.A. from Wharton. He spent nearly ...

: chairman of Foote, Cone, and Belding * Charles S. Sanford Jr.: CEO of

Bankers Trust Bankers Trust was a historic American banking organization. The bank merged with Alex. Brown & Sons in 1997 before being acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. Deutsche Bank sold the Trust and Custody division of Bankers Trust to State Street Corpor ...

* Alan D. Schnitzer: CEO of

the Travelers Companies The Travelers Companies, Inc., commonly known as Travelers, is an American insurance company. It is the second-largest writer of U.S. commercial property casualty insurance, and the sixth-largest writer of U.S. personal insurance through indepen ...

John Sculley John Sculley III (born April 6, 1939) is an American businessman, entrepreneur and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer (CEO) ...

: former president of

PepsiCo PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the food and beverage market. It oversees the manuf ...

; former CEO of

Apple Computer Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company b ...

* Paul V. Scura: former Executive Vice President and Head of the Investment Bank of

Prudential Securities Prudential Securities, also formerly known as Prudential Securities Incorporated (PSI), was the financial services arm of the insurer, Prudential Financial. In 2003, Prudential Securities was merged into Wachovia Securities, a division of Wacho ...

Mike Sievert Michael Sievert is an American business executive, currently the president and CEO of T-Mobile US, and a member of the company's board of directors. In November 2019, T-Mobile announced that Sievert would be promoted from chief operating officer ...

(Class of 1991): CEO of

T-Mobile US T-Mobile US, Inc. is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas and Bellevue, Washington, U.S. Its largest shareholder is a multinational telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG, which , holds 48.4 perc ...

Henry Silverman Henry R. Silverman (born August 1, 1940) is an American entrepreneur and private equity investor. Silverman is best known for his role in building Cendant Corporation into a multibillion-dollar business services company that provided car rentals ...

: COO of the

Apollo Group Apollo Education Group, Inc. is an American corporation based in the South Phoenix area of Phoenix, Arizona, with an additional corporate office in Chicago, Illinois. The company owns and operates several higher-learning institutions, including ...

, formerly head of

Cendant Corporation Cendant Corporation was an American provider of business and consumer services, primarily within the real estate and travel industries. In 2005 and 2006, it broke up and spun off or sold its constituent businesses. Although it was based in New Yo ...

* Young Sohn: president and Chief Strategy Officer of

Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational corporation, multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of ...

* Richard Stearns: president of

World Vision In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

Patrick J. Talamantes Patrick J.Talamantes (born c. 1966) was the President and CEO of the McClatchy Company from May 16, 2012, until January 25, 2017. He was replaced by Craig Forman. Early life He was born and raised in Sebastopol, California, where he attended ...

: CEO of

McClatchy Company The McClatchy Company, commonly referred to as simply McClatchy, is an American publishing company incorporated under Delaware's General Corporation Law and based in Sacramento, California. It operates 29 daily newspapers in fourteen states and ...

James S. Tisch James S. Tisch (born January 2, 1953) has been the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999. Early life and education He was born in 1953 in Atlantic City, New Jersey to Wilma "Billie" Stein and Laurence Tisch. His father was co-chairman of Loews C ...

: CEO,

Loews Corporation Loews Corporation is an American conglomerate headquartered in New York City. The company's majority-stake holdings include CNA Financial Corporation, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, Loews Hotels and Altium Packaging. Th ...

Laurence Tisch Laurence Alan Tisch (March 5, 1923 – November 15, 2003) was an American businessman, investor and billionaire. He was the CEO of CBS television network from 1986 to 1995. With his brother Bob Tisch, he was part owner of Loews Corporation. ...

: former CEO of

Roy Vagelos Pindaros Roy Vagelos (born October 8, 1929, in Westfield, New Jersey), better known as P. Roy Vagelos or Roy Vagelos, is an American physician and business executive, who was president and chief executive officer (1985) and chairman (1986) of t ...

: former CEO of

Merck Merck refers primarily to the German Merck family and three companies founded by the family, including: * the Merck Group, a German chemical, pharmaceutical and life sciences company founded in 1668 ** Merck Serono (known as EMD Serono in the Unite ...

James L. Vincent James L. "Jim" Vincent (1940 – December 5, 2013) was the chairman and CEO of Biogen Idec from 1985 to 2002. He graduated from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and received an MBA from the Wha ...

: past president and CEO of

Biogen Idec Biogen Inc. is an American multinational biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in the discovery, development, and delivery of therapies for the treatment of neurological diseases to patients worldwide. History ...

* George Herbert Walker IV: College and Undergraduate Class of 1991 and

Graduate School Class of 1992, graduated

Phi Beta Kappa The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the most prestigious, due in part to its long history and academic selectivity. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal a ...

and received a dual degree – a B.S. and a B.A., both ' and received an MBA as a Palmer Scholar after completing the 5 year MBA program; received the

Harry S. Truman Scholarship The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is the premier graduate fellowship in the United States for public service leadership. It is a federally funded scholarship granted to U.S. undergraduate students for demonstrated leadership potential, academic ...

was a member of the

St. Anthony Hall St. Anthony Hall or the Fraternity of Delta Psi is an American fraternity and literary society. Its first chapter was founded at Columbia University on , the Calendar of saints, feast day of Anthony the Great, Saint Anthony the Great. The frater ...

fraternity; CEO of

Neuberger Berman Neuberger Berman Group LLC is a private, independent, employee-owned investment management firm. The firm manages equities, fixed income, private equity and hedge fund portfolios for global institutional investors, advisors and high-net-worth in ...

; former

Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ( ) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1847. Before Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Gol ...

; formerly a Partner with Goldman Sachs & Co; Co-President,

Commodities Corporation Commodities Corporation (frequently referred to as "CC") was a financial services company, based in Princeton, New Jersey that traded actively across various commodities. The firm was noted as one of the leading commodity and futures trading fir ...

and was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, graduated

and received a dual degree – a B.S. and a B.A., both '. He also received his MBA as a Palmer Scholar from the

after completing the 5 year MBA program. He was a member of the

fraternity. *

Jacob Wallenberg Jacob Wallenberg (born 13 January 1956) is a Swedish banker and industrialist, currently serving as a board member for multiple companies. ''The Guardian'' has once quoted him as the prince in Sweden's royal family of finance. Biography Earl ...

: chairman,

Investor An investor is a person who allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future Return on capital, return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest). Through this allocated capital most of the time the investor purchases some specie ...

* Jeff Weiner: CEO of

LinkedIn LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows job se ...

* Dawne Williams: former CEO of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank. * Joseph P. Williams: creator of the first all-purpose bank credit card,

BankAmericard Visa Inc. (; stylized as ''VISA'') is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world, most commonly through Visa-branded cred ...

, now known as the Visa, Inc. card *

Gary L. Wilson Gary L. Wilson is an American business executive. He served as chairman of the board of Northwest Airlines, chief financial officer of Walt Disney Company and chief financial officer of Marriott Corporation. Early life Wilson was born and raised ...

: CEO and chairman,

Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines Corp. (NWA) was a major American airline founded in 1926 and absorbed into Delta Air Lines, Inc. by a merger. The merger, approved on October 29, 2008, made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airlines ...

William Wrigley Jr. II William Wrigley Jr. (born October 6, 1963) is an American billionaire businessman, and CEO of Parallel, a company that sells cannabis products. He is the former chairman and CEO of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Early life Wrigley is the son of ...

: chairman and former CEO of the

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, known as the Wrigley Company, is an American multinational chewing gum (Wrigley's gum) company, based in the Global Innovation Center (GIC) in Goose Island, Chicago, Illinois. Wrigley's is wholly owned by Mars, In ...

, makers of

chewing gum Chewing gum is a soft, cohesive substance designed to be chewed without being swallowed. Modern chewing gum is composed of gum base, sweeteners, softeners/plasticizers, flavors, colors, and, typically, a hard or powdered polyol coating. Its te ...

and confectionery products *

Steve Wynn Stephen Alan Wynn (''né'' Weinberg; born January 27, 1942) is an American real estate developer and art collector. He is known for his involvement in the American luxury casino and hotel industry. Early in his career he oversaw the construction ...

: chairman and CEO

Wynn Resorts Wynn or wyn (; also spelled wen, ƿynn, and ƿen) is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound . History The letter "W" While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph , ...

; former chairman and CEO

Mirage Resorts Mirage Resorts (formerly Golden Nugget Companies) was an American company that owned and operated hotel-casinos. It was acquired by MGM Grand, Inc. in 2000, forming MGM Mirage (now MGM Resorts International). History Golden Nugget Companies Inc. ...

, Inc.; responsible for the renaissance of

Las Vegas Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...

* Morrie Yohai: co-creator of

Cheez Doodles Cheez Doodles are a cheese puff produced by Wise Foods. Originally developed and manufactured in 1964 by King Kone Corp. of the Bronx, New York, it became the prevalent cheese puff snack on the East Coast. Description Cheez Doodles are a chees ...

snack food *

Mark Zandi Mark M. Zandi is an Iranian-American economist who is the chief economist of Moody's Analytics, where he directs economic research. Zandi's research interests encompass macroeconomics, financial markets and public policy. He analyzes the economi ...

: economist *

Mortimer Zuckerman Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman (born June 4, 1937) is a Canadian-American billionaire media proprietor, magazine editor, and investor. He is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate inves ...

: real estate billionaire; publisher/owner of the ''

New York Daily News The New York ''Daily News'', officially titled the ''Daily News'', is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, NJ. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in ta ...

'';

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

of '' U.S. News & World Report'' *

Martin Zweig Martin Edward Zweig (July 2, 1942 – February 18, 2013) was an American stock investor, investment adviser, and financial analyst. According to ''Forbes'' magazine, he was renowned for his "eccentric and lavish lifestyle" as well as having ...

: stock investor and author

Exploration

* Robert Adams Jr.: Penn graduate; served as a botanist with Penn professor

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (September 7, 1829 – December 22, 1887) was an American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century. He was also a physician who served with the Union Ar ...

while exploring the northwest corner of

Wyoming Wyoming () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the south ...

; their efforts led directly to the founding of

Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowston ...

, the first

national park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...

in the United States *Peter Custis, Class of 1807: a leader of the Red River Expedition in 1806, the first civilian scientific expedition to explore the

American West The Western United States (also called the American West, the Far West, and the West) is the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term ''the Wes ...

* Michael L. Gernhardt: ( Penn Engineering Class of 1983 (Masters) and 1991 (Ph.D.) in Bioengineering)

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

astronaut *

Charles Guillou Charles Fleury Bien-aimé Guilloû (July 14, 1813 – January 2, 1899) was an American military physician. He served on a major exploring expedition that included both scientific discoveries and controversy, and two historic diplomatic missions. ...

: member of the 19th-century

United States Exploring Expedition The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the United States. The original appointed commanding officer was Commodore Thomas ap Catesby ...

Isaac Israel Hayes Isaac Israel Hayes (March 5, 1832 – December 17, 1881) was an American Arctic explorer, physician, and politician, who was appointed as the commanding officer at Satterlee General Hospital during the American Civil War, and was then elected, a ...

: 19th-century Arctic explorer;

Heiss Island Hayes Island, also known as Heiss Island (russian: Остров Хейса, translit=Ostrov Kheysa) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. It is located in the central area of the archipelago, north of Hall Island, between Champ Island and Wil ...

Franz Josef Land , native_name = , image_name = Map of Franz Josef Land-en.svg , image_caption = Map of Franz Josef Land , image_size = , map_image = Franz Josef Land location-en.svg , map_caption = Location of Franz Josef ...

(Russia) was named in his honor *

Elisha Kane Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the Af ...

: Arctic explorer who received medals from the

United States Congress The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washing ...

, the

Royal Geographical Society The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...

, and the

Société de Géographie The Société de Géographie (; ), is the world's oldest geographical society. It was founded in 1821 as the first Geographic Society. Since 1878, its headquarters have been at 184 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris. The entrance is marked by two gig ...

for his work; namesake of the naval destroyer * Garrett Reisman: ( Penn Class of 1991) dual bachelor degrees from Wharton and Engineering schools via the

Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universiti ...

NASA

Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program na ...

astronaut *B. Clark Wheeler: founder of

Aspen, Colorado Aspen is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 7,004 at the 2020 United States Census. Aspen is in a remote area of the Rocky Mounta ...

Government, politics, and law

Colonial American leaders

Members of the Continental Congress

Signers of the US Constitution and/or Declaration of Independence

Sources: University of Pennsylvania Archives *

George Clymer George Clymer (March 16, 1739January 23, 1813) was an American politician, abolitionist and Founding Father of the United States, one of only six founders who signed both the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. He was among the e ...

: Penn Trustee 1779–1813; an elected member of the

Continental Congress The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for thirteen of Britain's colonies in North America, and the newly declared United States just before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War. ...

who was one of only six people who signed the

Declaration of Independence A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood or proclamation of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the ...

and signed (for Pennsylvania)

US Constitution The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, in 1789. Originally comprising seven articles, it delineates the nation ...

Thomas FitzSimons Thomas Fitzsimons (October 1741August 26, 1811) was an Irish-born American Founding Father, merchant, banker, and politician. A resident of Philadelphia, Fitzsimons represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, was a delegate to Consti ...

, Penn Trustee 1789–1811: signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution *

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Encyclopædia Britannica, Wood, 2021 Among the leading inte ...

, Penn founder and Trustee 1749–1790: was one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution *

Francis Hopkinson Francis Hopkinson (October 2,Hopkinson was born on September 21, 1737, according to the then-used Julian calendar (old style). In 1752, however, Great Britain and all its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar (new style) which moved Hopkinson's ...

, Penn degrees A.B. 1757; A.M. 1760; LL.D. 1790; Penn Trustee 1787–1791: signed the Declaration of Independence *

Jared Ingersoll Jared Ingersoll (October 24, 1749 – October 31, 1822) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the United States Constitution. He se ...

, Penn Trustee 1778–1791: signed the US Constitution * Robert Morris, Penn Trustee 1778–1791: one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution *

Thomas McKean Thomas McKean (March 19, 1734June 24, 1817) was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father. During the American Revolution, he was a Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, the United ...

, Penn degrees: A.M. (hon.) 1763 and LL.D. 1785; Penn Trustee 1779–1817; president of Penn Board of Trustees: signed the Declaration of Independence *

William Paca William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

, Penn degrees: A.B. 1759 and A.M. 1762; Penn Trustee;

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–79; signed the Declaration of Independence; Chief Justice of Maryland (1788–1790) *

Benjamin Rush Benjamin Rush (April 19, 1813) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, ...

, Penn Med class of 1766; Penn Med professor 1769–1813; signed the Declaration of Independence *

Hugh Williamson Hugh Williamson (December 5, 1735 – May 22, 1819) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father, physician, and politician. He is best known as a signatory to the U.S. Constitution, and for representing North Carolina ...

, Penn degrees: A.B. 1757, A.M. 1760, and LL.D. (hon.) 1787; tutor 1755–1758; Penn professor of mathematics 1761–1763: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, signed US Constitution; representative to US Congress *

James Wilson James Wilson may refer to: Politicians and government officials Canada *James Wilson (Upper Canada politician) (1770–1847), English-born farmer and political figure in Upper Canada * James Crocket Wilson (1841–1899), Canadian MP from Quebe ...

, Penn degrees A.M. (hon.) 1766 and LL.D. 1790; Penn Trustee; delegate to Continental Congress; signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution, the first draft of which he wrote; US Supreme Court justice

US government

Presidents of the United States

William Henry Harrison William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, and had the shortest pres ...

, Penn Med class of 1791 but did not graduate: 9th

president of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...

Donald J. Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...

Wharton School of Finance The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

class of 1968: 45th president of the United States

Members of the United States Cabinet (or top level executive branch)

US senators

, 32 Penn alumni have served as senators from 16 different states as detailed below:

Members of the US House of Representatives

As of May 2020, 163 Representatives from 21 different states have been affiliated with Penn

US Supreme Court Justices

William J. Brennan William Joseph "Bill" Brennan Jr. (April 25, 1906 – July 24, 1997) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1956 to 1990. He was the seventh-longest serving justice ...

US Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point of ...

justice; recipient of the

Owen J. Roberts Owen Josephus Roberts (May 2, 1875 – May 17, 1955) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1930 to 1945. He also led two Roberts Commissions, the first of which investigated the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the seco ...

: US Supreme Court justice

US ambassadors

, Penn alumni have served as

ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

s to at least 51 different

countries A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state (polity), state, nation, or other polity, political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, so ...

State government

Governors

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

State legislators

Penn alumni have served in state legislatures of at least 18 states (at least four of whom have served as speaker of their respective houses of representatives (in Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) and one of whom served as President of state Senate (in New Jersey)). * Robert Adams Jr. (February 26, 1849 – June 1, 1906) -

(Class of 1869) where he was a member of

fraternity: a

Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...

member of the

Pennsylvania State Senate The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered ev ...

for the 6th district from 1883 to 1885(who also served as a member of the

U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

for

Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district Pennsylvania's second congressional district includes all of Northeast Philadelphia and parts of North Philadelphia east of Broad Street, as well as portions of Philadelphia's River Wards. It has been represented by Democrat Brendan Boyle since 2 ...

from 1893 to 1906 and served as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil from April 1, 1889, through June 1, 1890) * Jennifer Beck: (

Fels Institute of Government The Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania is a graduate school of public policy and public management. Founded in 1937 by Samuel Simeon Fels of the Fels Naptha Soap Company, the Fel Institute prepares its students for pub ...

, MGA) Republican Party politician who served in the

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representing the 11th Legislative District from 2012 to 2018 and prior to redistricting, served in the Senate from 2008 to 2012 representing the 12th Legislative District, serving portions of

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and

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counties, and represented the 12th District in the

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from 2006 to 2008 *

: (March 8, 1752 – February 7, 1804) first Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives * Louis A. Bloom: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County (1947–1952) and Judge

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for Delaware County *

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member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2007– ) * Stacy Brenner: Democratic member of the

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(2020-) * John F. Byrne, Jr.: Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district (1967–1970) *

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, BS, MD, Penn Med post doc education Class of 1882; Penn College Class of 1882: Utah State Senator; first female state senator elected in the United States *

Robert J. Clendening Robert J. Clendening (April 24, 1914 – July 28, 1982) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County, Pennsylvani ...

: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1949–1952) * Herbert B. Cohen (July 2, 1900 – December 2, 1970)

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(Class of 1922) and

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(Class of 1925) served as (a) Democratic member of the

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for four consecutive terms, 1933–40, twice as Majority leader, once as Minority leader, (b)

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from 1955 through 1956 and (c) Justice of the

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from 1957 through 1970 *

Mark B. Cohen Mark B. Cohen (born June 4, 1949) is a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 202, District 202 in the Pennsylvania House of R ...

: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives *

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: Pennsylvania State Senator for the 21st district from 1881 to 1884 * Jean B. Cryor: former Maryland Delegate *

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: Democratic member of the

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, including one term as

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(2000–2008) * John Warren Davis: former member of the

;

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for the District of New Jersey; judge for the

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and

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Dan Debicella Dan Debicella (born October 24, 1974) is a former State Senator and businessman, who represented the 21st district in the Connecticut State Senate The Connecticut State Senate is the upper house of the Connecticut General Assembly, the state ...

: member of the

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* William K. Dickey: Speaker of the

and

of the

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Marie Donigan Marie Donigan (born June 17, 1954) is an American politician and architect who served as a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives for the 26th District from January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2011. Early life and education Donigan wa ...

(Penn School of Design, MS in Landscape Architecture): Democratic member of the

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(2004–2011) * David Frockt: (born July 14, 1969)

, B.A. in Political Science (Class of 1991): first elected to the

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in 2010 and in 2011, after the death of Senator Scott White, the Metropolitan King County Council voted unanimously to appointed for the 46th legislative district of

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, which includes North

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, Lake Forest Park, and Kenmore

and in 2012 was retained by voters to serve the remaining two years of the open Senate term and in 2014 was re-elected to a full term in the State Senate, where he is a member on the Ways & Means, Law & Justice, and Human Services committees *

Michael F. Gerber Michael F. "Mike" Gerber (born May 25, 1972) is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 148th Legislative District from 2005 to 2012. Gerber is currently a partner and Chief Corporate Affairs ...

: Democratic member of the

* Michael U. Gisriel: former member of the

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Stewart Greenleaf Stewart John Greenleaf Sr. (October 4, 1939 – February 9, 2021) was an American politician and attorney who served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1979 to 2019. Greenleaf represented the 12th District, which includes portion ...

member of the

(1978– ) *

Bernard Gross Bernard M. Gross (born May 22, 1935) is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of t ...

(born May 22, 1935)

Class of 1956 and

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Class of 1959; lawyer elected twice as Democratic member of the

from the 200th district for years 1967–1970 *

John J. Hafer John J. Hafer (1932–2019) represented District 1 in the Maryland Senate, which covers Garrett, Allegany, and Washington Counties. He retired from office in 2007. Education Hafer attended Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and ...

: former

State Senator *

Phil Hart Philip Aloysius Hart (December 10, 1912December 26, 1976) was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until his death from cancer in Washington, D.C. in 1976. He was known as ...

: Republican member of the

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(2004– ) * Charlie Brady Hauser: member of the

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Jon Hinck Jon Hinck (born January 9, 1954) is an American environmentalist, lawyer and politician. From 2006 to 2012 he served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives, representing House District 118, part of Portland, Maine. From 2013 through ...

: member of the

(2006– ) * Constance N. Johnson: Democratic member of the Oklahoma State Senate (2005–2014); United States Senate Democratic nominee of Oklahoma (2014) *

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: Democratic member of the

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(2010– ) * Movita Johnson-Harrell: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2019– ) *

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: member of the

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(2009– ) * Steve Katz: member of the

and Candidate for

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* John Manners: president of the

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(1852) * John Hartwell Marable:

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(Class of 1814) but with no record of graduation; member of the

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(1817–18) *

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member of the Pennsylvania 2nd senatorial district 1994 to 1995 * Charles B. Moores:

(Class of 1874)

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of the

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(1895–96) *

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: Assemblyman of the

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(Penn Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Class of 2017) represents the 165th Legislative District, which includes parts of Springfield Township, Marple Township, Radnor Township and the borough of

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. * Joseph J. Roberts: former Speaker and Assemblyman of the

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: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative (1949–1952) * Vaughn Stewart: Democratic member of the

(2019– ) * David W. Sweet: Democratic member of the

(1978–88) * Chris Taylor: Democratic member of the

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(2011– ) *

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: Democratic member of the

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* Charles R. Weiner: Democratic Leader of the

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*"Buck" Charles Wharton (1868 – November 15, 1949)

Class of 1897: selected as an All-American

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in 1896 and also played on Penn teams that were undefeated and won back-to-back national championships in 1894 and 1895; served as Delaware State Senator from 1914 to 1917; in 1963, was posthumously inducted into the

* Constance H. Williams: Democratic member of the

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member of the Pennsylvania State Senate * Bob Ziegelbauer: Democratic Party member of the

Mayors

State Supreme Court justices

As of November 2022, twenty-four (24) Penn alumni have served as justices of supreme courts of nine (9) different states and the District of Columbia, and eleven (11) have served as chief justices of a state supreme court. * William Allen, a founder of

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and trustee of

, funded the state house (

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), served as

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, appointed judge of the Orphans’ and Common Pleas courts of Philadelphia and Chief Justice of the

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* Rachel Wainer Apter, College Class of 2002, New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice who was confirmed by

on October 17, 2022, and was sworn into office on October 21, 2022 *John C. Bell Jr.: former chief justice of the

(1961–1972), and Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1950–1972) *

: justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1951–56) (later Justice of the United States Supreme Court) *William Bradford (Attorney General), William Bradford: justice of the

(1791–94), and Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1780–91); attended Penn for three years before graduating from Princeton University *Joseph M. Carey: Attorney General of

(1869–71); justice, Wyoming Supreme Court (1871–1876) * Herbert B. Cohen (July 2, 1900 – December 2, 1970)

(Class of 1922) and

(Class of 1925) served as (a) Representative of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, 1933–40, twice as Majority leader, once as Minority leader, (b)

from 1955 through 1956 and (c) Justice of the

from 1957 through 1970 *James Harry Covington: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (1914–18) *Lucius Elmer: former justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Attorney General of New Jersey *Arthur J. England Jr.: Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (1978–80) *Richard L. Gabriel, Penn Law Class of 1987, (born March 3, 1962) was appointed in 2015 (and continues to serve after being retained in 2018) as an Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Justice Gabriel previously served on the Colorado Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2015. *Randy J. Holland: justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1986–2014) *Daniel J. Layton: Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1933–45), and Attorney General of Delaware (1932–33) *Robert N. C. Nix Jr.: former chief justice of the

(1984–1996), he was the first

Chief Justice of any state's highest court; justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1971–1984) *Deborah T. Poritz: Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1996–2006) *Mark Rindner (College Class of 1971, Graduate School of Education Class of 1971): justice of Alaska Supreme Court *George Sharswood: former chief justice of the

, and Dean (education), Dean of the

School of Law *Thomas Smith (Indiana judge), Thomas Smith: (University of Pennsylvania Medical School (Class of 1829) Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (January 29, 1847 through January 3, 1853)Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt,
Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices
, ''Indiana Law Review'', Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced i
Indiana Courts Justice Biographies page
*Horace Stern (Penn Law Class of 1890): Chief Justice of the

(1952–56) and Justice of

(1932–1952) *Leo E. Strine Jr. (Penn Law Class of 1988): Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court (2014–2019) judge and vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery *Richard B. Teitelman: Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court (2011–13) *William Tilghman: Chief Justice of the

(1805–27); attended Penn but did not earn a degree *Jasper Yeates (College Class of 1758), was a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1787, appointed as a justice of the

in 1791, served until his death in 1817.

U.S. federal judges

* Arlin Adams, judge,

1969–1987 * Guy K. Bard, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Harvey Bartle III, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Michael Baylson, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania *Edward R. Becker: former chief judge of the

* Ralph C. Body, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1965–1973 * Raymond J. Broderick, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Margo Kitsy Brodie, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York * Allison Dale Burroughs,

Class of 1988 (born April 25, 1961), is a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts who received her federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014, and was sworn in on January 7, 2015. Judge Burroughs began her legal career as a law clerk for fellow

alumna Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1989 and also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1989 to 1995 and in the District of Massachusetts from 1995 to 2005. *James C. Cacheris: judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia * A. Richard Caputo, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Tanya S. Chutkan,

class of 1987, judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia * Rudolph Contreras, judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia. * James Harry Covington, judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Co-founder of Covington & Burling *James C. Cacheris: judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia *Andre M. Davis: judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2009– ) *Susan J. Dlott: judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1995– ) * George M. Dallas, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1892–1909 * Stewart Dalzell (September 18, 1943 – February 18, 2019), who graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965 and received his Juris Doctor from the

in 1969, was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. *Andre M. Davis: judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2009– ) *John Morgan Davis, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1964–84 * John Warren Davis, former United States federal judge, United States district judge of the

and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit * Paul S. Diamond, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * John William Ditter Jr., United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania *Susan J. Dlott: judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1995– ) * Herbert Allan Fogel, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1973–78 * Ronald M. Gould: judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit * James Halpern, judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1990–2005 * James Hunter III, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989 * Daniel Henry Huyett III, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1970–98 * Abdul Kallon, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alabama * Harry Ellis Kalodner, chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977 * William Huntington Kirkpatrick, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1927–58 * John C. Knox (New York judge), John C. Knox, judge, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1948–55 * Charles William Kraft Jr., United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1956–2002 *Phyllis A. Kravitch: judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit * Robert Lowe Kunzig, judge, U.S. Court of Claims, 1971–82 * Caleb Rodney Layton III, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1957–88 * Paul Conway Leahy, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1942–66 * James Russell Leech, judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1932–52 *Joseph Simon Lord III, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1961–92 * Alfred Leopold Luongo, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1961–86 * Thomas Ambrose Masterson, judge, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1967–73 * James Focht McClure Jr., United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania * Barron Patterson McCune, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania *Joseph Leo McGlynn Jr., United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1974–99 * Gerald Austin McHugh Jr., United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2014– * Charles Louis McKeehan, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1923–25 * Roderick R. McKelvie, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1991–2002 * Mary A. McLaughlin, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * John Bayard McPherson, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912–1919 (Read) * John W. Murphy (Pennsylvania politician), John W. Murphy, judge, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1946–62 * Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr., United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Gene E. K. Pratter, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Arthur Raymond Randolph, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit * Bruce E. Reinhart, Class of 1987, United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of Florida sworn in on March 14, 2018. Magistrate Judge Reinhart began his legal career as a law clerk for fellow Penn Law graduate Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1988 and also served as an Assistant United States Attorney * Luis Felipe Restrepo (known commonly as L. Felipe or Phil Restrepo) (Penn College Class of 1981): United States Circuit Judge of the

(2015 to present) and former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2006 to 2014). *

, justice, Supreme Court of the United States * Sue Lewis Robinson, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware * Max Rosenn, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1970–2006 * Juan Ramon Sánchez, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Ralph Francis Scalera, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania * Allen G. Schwartz, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1993–2003 * Murray Merle Schwartz, Chief United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1974– * Norma Levy Shapiro, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Patty Shwartz,

Class of 1986, judge,

, assumed office April 10, 2013 * Jerome B. Simandle, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the

* Dolores Sloviter, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit * Charles Swayne, judge, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, 1890–1907 * Joseph Whitaker Thompson, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1931–1946 * Donald West VanArtsdalen, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1970–19 85 * Jay Waldman, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania1988–2003 * Henry Galbraith Ward, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1907–1921 * Gerald Joseph Weber,(Penn Law Class of 1939), senior judge, chief judge, and judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1964–1988) (Chief Judge 1976 – 1982) * Helene White, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit * Scott Wilson (judge), Scott Wilson, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1929–42 * Harold Kenneth Wood, United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1959–1971

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*His Excellency Umar Ahmad Ghuman Former Federal Minister of State for Investment and Privitization 2002-2007, chairman Board of Investment, Member of Parliament from Sialkot, Pakistan graduate of the CAS, Class of 1996.

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Medicine

As is detailed below, Penn Med has four alumni who were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * Ephraim Leister Acker (1827–1903) earned his M.D., (Penn Med class of 1852) and LL.B., (

class of 1886), served as Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1871–1873 * Robert Adams Jr.: (1849-1906) class of 1869: member of

, studied law under preceptor George W. Biddle (and admitted to the bar in 1872 but never practiced law), served as member of the United States Geological Survey during the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, explorations of

; served in

was appointed United States Minister to Brazil was elected to Congress a vacancy and then served three terms as representative from the 2nd Pennsylvania district *Pete Allen (baseball), Pete Allen (1868–1946) Penn Med class of 1897, played one game in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Spiders, specialized in proctology and was a member of the American Proctology Society, the American Medical Association and the Philadelphia County Medical Society, taught as an assistant professor of proctology at Jefferson Medical College * Charles Conrad Abbott, Penn Med class of 1865 served as surgery, surgeon in Union Army during American Civil War and in 1876 discovered traces of human presence in the Delaware River Valley dating from the first or "Kansan" ice age, and inferentially from the pre-glacial period when humans are believed to have entered upon the North American continent *David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892) Penn Med class of 1838 volunteered as consulting and operating surgeon when President James A. Garfield was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet in 1881 and wrote ''The Principles and Practice of Surgery'' based on his experience of fifty active years, of practicing medicine which was a three-volume set published 1878–1883 *William Wallace Anderson: Penn Med class of 1849: designed the Borough House Plantation and Church of the Holy Cross (Stateburg, South Carolina), now National Historic Landmarks * John Archer (Maryland politician), John Archer, Penn Med class of 1768: first person to receive a medical degree from an American medical school and a US congressman from Maryland *John Light Atlee (1799–1885) Penn Med class of 1820: an American physician and surgery, surgeon who helped found Lancaster County Association of Physicians, organize the American Medical Association and served as its president, and was appointed professor of anatomy at Franklin and Marshall College * William Maclay Awl, (May 24, 1799 – November 19, 1876) Penn Med class of 1824 (did not graduate): acting superintendent of the Ohio "State Hospital," president of the Association of Superintendents of Asylums for the Insane of the United States and Canada, one of the founders of the Ohio State Medical Society * Lewis Heisler Ball (September 21, 1861 – October 18, 1932), Penn Med class of 1885 elected state treasurer of Delaware and to the US House of Representatives; appointed to US Senate for Delaware, later elected to Senate in the second popular election of a Senator in Delaware * William P. C. Barton, (November 17, 1786 – March 27, 1856) Penn Med class of 1808: author of ''A Treatise Containing a Plan for the Internal Organization and Government of Marine Hospitals in the U.S....'' and Dean of Jefferson Medical College * (Mary) Alice Bennett (January 31, 1851 – 1925): physician; first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1880); first woman in Pennsylvania to direct a female division in a mental institution *John Milton Bernhisel:(1799–1881) Penn Med class of 1827, began practicing medicine in New York City but after became affiliated with the Latter Day Saint movement and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he served as the personal physician to Joseph Smith, and living in Smith's home and delivering some of his children, followed Brigham Young west with the majority of the Latter-day Saints to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, represented the Latter-day Saints before Congress to advocate for statehood as the State of Deseret, served in Congress, regent of the University of Utah, member of the Council of Fifty * William Wyatt Bibb (October 2, 1781 – July 10, 1820) Penn Med class of 1801: served one term in Georgia House of Representatives, was elected to United States Congress to fill a vacancy (an office to which he was reelected four times), was elected by the Georgia General Assembly, state legislature to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy, last governor of the Alabama Territory and first elected governor of Alabama *Karin J. Blakemore: Penn College for Women class of 1974, leading medical geneticist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she was director of Chorionic Villus Sampling Program and Laboratory, Alphafetoprotein (AFP) Referral Service, Prenatal Diagnostic Center, and Maternal-Fetal Medicine and that division's fellowship program; led team at the Johns Hopkins University's Institute of Genetic Medicine * Leonard N. Boston: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia (merged into

) Class of 1896, appointed Penn Med professor of physical diagnosis in 1912, and then associate professor of medicine in 1919, served as professor at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (now part of Drexel University College of Medicine) in 1928 * Allan G. Brodie, DDS (1897–1976) University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (Penn Dental) class of 1919: dentist and orthodontics, orthodonist, teacher, writer, and researcher who, in 1929, was invited by Dean Frederick Bogue Noyes to the University of Illinois College of Dentistry to organize its Department of Orthodontics, one of the first graduate orthodontics departments established in the United States *Michael S. Brown (born April 13, 1941) Penn Med class of 1965, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism and is also the 1985 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research * Hiram R. Burton (1841–1927) Penn Med class of 1868: elected to the US House of Representatives (for Delaware's at-large district) twice and served in Congress from March 4, 1905, until March 3, 1909; also served as Delaware secretary of state *Doc Bushong, DDS, Penn Dental class of 1882: first graduate from any school at Penn to play in Major League Baseball and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn * Tom Cahill (baseball), Tom Cahill, Penn Med class of 1893 but left in 1891: played one season in Major League Baseball for the Louisville Colonels, died from an injury before finishing medical degree * Charles Caldwell (physician), Charles Caldwell, Penn Med class of 1796: founder of the University of Louisville School of Medicine *John Carson (physician), John Carson: College Class of 1771, Original Trustee, rechartered University of Pennsylvania, and original incorporator and Fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia * Samuel A. Cartwright, Penn Med alumnus from the 1810s who did not graduate: improved sanitary conditions during the American Civil War and was honored for his investigations into yellow fever and Asiatic cholera but criticised for unscientific creation of diseases affecting enslaved and free blacks * Henry H. Chambers, Penn Med class of 1811: US senator from Alabama *Nathaniel Chapman: (1780 –1853) Penn Med class of 1800: physician who was the founding president of the American Medical Association in 1847, founded the ''American Journal of the Medical Sciences'' in 1820 where he served as its editor for number of years, and also served as president of both the Philadelphia County Medical Society and the American Philosophical Society * John Claiborne, Penn Med class of 1798: Virginia representative to Congress * Lewis Condict, Penn Med class of 1794: New Jersey representative to Congress, trustee of Princeton College * Samuel W. Crawford, Penn Med class of 1850: US Army surgeon and a Union general in the American Civil War *William Holmes Crosby Jr. (1914–2005) Penn College class of 1936 and Penn Med class of 1940: a founding father of modern hematology; published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers in hematology, oncology, gastroenterology, iron metabolism, nutrition, and general medical practice; established in 1951 and was chief of the hematology and oncology specialties at Walter Reed Army Hospital until 1965; inventor of Crosby–Kugler capsule; published translator of poetry. * William Darlington, Penn Med class of 1804: War of 1812 major of a volunteer regiment, Pennsylvania representative to Congress * William Potts Dewees, Penn Med class of 1806: Obstetrician and author of ''System of Midwifery'', a standard reference book on Obstetrics *Samuel Gibson Dixon: (March 23, 1851 – February 26, 1918) Penn Law class of 1877 and Penn Med class of 1886; also studied bacteriology at King's College London, and at Pettenkoffer's Laboratory of Hygiene in Munich before returning to Penn Med as the professor of hygiene; commissioner of the State Department of Health in Pennsylvania from 1905 until his death in 1918, during which time he worked for the prevention of tuberculosis and similar diseases by introducing sanitary and hygienic reforms that set new standards for government public health programs that saved thousands of lives *Pliny Earle (physician), Pliny Earle, class of 1837: physician, psychiatrist, poet; a founder of the American Medical Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, and the New England Psychological Society *Gerald Edelman: (July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) Penn Med class of 1954, an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the immune system via research resulting in discovery of the structure of antibody moleculesStructural differences among antibodies of different specificities
by G. M. Edelman, B. Benacerraf, Z. Ovary and M. D. Poulik in ''Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A'' (1961) volume 47, pages 1751–1758. and was founder and director of The Neurosciences Institute *Archibald Magill Fauntleroy: surgeon in the Confederate Army * Clement Finley, Penn Med class of 1818: 10th surgeon general of the United States Army * John Floyd (Virginia politician), John Floyd, Penn Med class of 1804: 25th governor of Virginia, Virginia representative to Congress *Walter Freeman (neurologist), Walter Freeman: Penn Med class of 1920; lobotomist who performed nearly 3500 lobotomies in 23 states; first neurologist in Washington, D.C. *A.Y.P. Garnett (1820–1888), Penn Med class of 1842: served as president of the American Medical Association and served Jefferson Davis and as physician to Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War *Donald Guthrie (physician), Donald Guthrie (1880–1958), Penn Med class of 1905, surgeon best known for establishing Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital, Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania, in 1910, one of the earliest multi-specialty group medical practices, which Guthrie based on the principles he learned while a surgical resident (1906–1909) at Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota * John Hahn (politician), John Hahn 1776 1823) Penn Med class of 1798 elected to the 14th United States Congress, Fourteenth Congress *Isaac Hays: Penn College class of 1816 and Penn Med class of 1822 ophthalmologist; first treasurer and founding member of Board of the American Medical Association and editor for over fifty (50) years of ''American Journal of the Medical Sciences'' * David Jackson (delegate), David Jackson, Penn Med class of 1768: appointed to manage the lottery for costs of the American Revolutionary War, but he resigned to become an army surgeon, Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786 * Joseph Jorgensen, Penn Med class of 1865: Virginia representative to Congress *Myint Myint Khin, MD, (December 15, 1923 – June 19, 2014) an English major at the University of Yangon, University of Rangoon, she ultimately graduated from Penn Med with class of 1955, and also did her residency at University of Pennsylvania,Stafford 2014: 24Penn Medicine 2015 married (in 1953) to San Baw, a medical school classmate who received an MD and an MS from Penn Med,Khin Thet-Hta et al 2005: 513 served as chair of the Department of Medicine of the University of Medicine, Mandalay, Institute of Medicine, Mandalay from 1965 to 1984, and served as a consultant at the World Health Organization from 1985 to 1991, published eleven books in Burmese and two in English *Albert Kligman, Ph.D., M.D.: University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences class of 1942 and Penn Med class of 1947; botanist and dermatologist who invented Retin-A, a popular acne medication * Emily's Entourage, Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, MBE, 2009: researcher, health activist, and cystic-fibrosis patient, founder of nonprofit Emily's Entourage *David E. Kuhl: developer of positron emission tomography, also known as PET scanning, a nuclear medicine Medical imaging, imaging technique * Andrew Lam (ophthalmologist), Andrew Lam, Penn Med class of 2002: author and retinal surgeon * Caleb R. Layton, Penn Med class of 1876: Delaware representative to Congress *Crawford Long, Penn Med class of 1839: surgeon and pharmacist, namesake of Emory University-operated Crawford Long Hospital * George McClellan (physician), George McClellan, class of 1819: founder of Jefferson Medical College, now Thomas Jefferson University * Willoughby D. Miller (1853–1907) Penn Dental class of 1879 (first class to graduate) was an American dentist and the first oral microbiologist.Shklar, G; Carranza, FA: The Historical Background of Periodontology. In Newman, MG; Takei, HH; Carrana FA, editors: ''Carranza's Clinical Periodontology'', 9th Edition. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 2002. page 8. and was appointed dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1906, but died in 1907, prior to assuming the position * George Edward Mitchell, Penn Med class of 1805: Maryland representative to Congress *Charles Delucena Meigs: pioneering leader in obstetrics *John Peter Mettauer: first plastic surgeon in the US * Leo C. Mundy, Penn Med class of 1908, (1887–1944) physician and politician who served as a member of the

for the Pennsylvania Senate, District 21, 21st district and who served in the United States Army during World War I where he was placed in charge of a one-thousand-bed military hospital in France and received the distinguished service citation from General John Pershing for heroism in treating and evacuating wounded soldiers under fire *Reuben D. Mussey: Penn Med class of 1809 wrote the first definitive history of tobacco documenting its dangers (1835); president of the American Medical Association * Arnold Naudain, Penn Med class of 1810: served in the War of 1812 as surgeon of the Delaware Regiment, US senator from Delaware * Arthur Percy Noyes (1880–1963), Penn Med class of 1906, served as superintendent of the Rhode Island state mental hospital and the Norristown, Pennsylvania, state mental hospital where he creating a psychiatric residency training programs for Penn Med, which lasted for over fifty years, and writing a seminal textbook, ''A Textbook on Psychiatry for Students and Graduates in Schools of Nursing'' which led to publication of his textbook ''Modern Clinical Psychiatry'', served as president of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society, and American Psychiatric Association * Archibald E. Olpp (May 12, 1882 – July 26, 1949), Penn Med class of 1908: physician and politician who was an instructor in chemistry at Lehigh University and in biological chemistry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; served as first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps during the World War I; first Republican to be elected to Congress from the New Jersey's 11th congressional district since it was created in 1913 * John H. Outland, Penn Med class of 1899 (after starting at University of Kansas); became one of the few men ever to win College Football All-America Team, All-American football honors as both lineman and the backfield player; voted "Most Popular Man" in the entire University of Pennsylvania *Mehmet Oz: surgeon, author and TV host * John M. Patton, Penn Med class of 1818: Virginia representative to Congress * William Pepper (August 21, 1843July 28, 1898), Penn Med class of 1864: lectured on morbid anatomy and clinical medicine and as professor at Penn and succeeded Dr. Alfred Still as professor of theory and practice of medicine; founded and editor of the ''Philadelphia Medical Times''; elected provost of the University of Pennsylvania in 1881 and remained in that position until 1894; medical director of the United States Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876; made Knight Commander of Saint Olaf by King Oscar II of Sweden.; founder of Philadelphia's Free Library of Philadelphia, first free public library *Sidney Pestka: biochemist and geneticist; the "father of interferon" *Philip Syng Physick, class of 1785: surgeon in post-Colonialism, colonial America; called "the father of American surgery" *Stanley B. Prusiner: (born May 28, 1942) Penn College class of 1964 and Penn Med class of 1968: Neurology, neurologist and biochemist who discovered prions, a class of Infection, infectious Biological reproduction, self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein resulting in him being awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for prion research developed by him and his team of experts * John H. Pugh, Penn Med class of 1852: New Jersey representative to Congress * David Ramsay (historian), David Ramsay, Penn Med class of 1773, 1780 (Hon. M.D.): South Carolina delegate to the

, one of the first major historians of the American Revolution *Howard A. Rusk: founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center; "father of comprehensive rehabilitation" * Jacob A. Salzmann (1901–1992) Penn Dental class of 1922: orthodontist known for developing an assessment index for determining malocclusion, which has been adopted by American Dental Association Council of Dental Health, the Council on Dental Care Programs, and by the American Association of Orthodontists *Sandra Saouaf: earned her PhD from Penn in immunology *Valentine Seaman: physician who introduced the small pox vaccine to the US *Gregg Semenza: (born July 12, 1956), Penn Med class of 1982: professor of genetic medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he is director of the vascular program at the Institute for Cell Engineering, is a 2016 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, is known for his discovery of HIF-1, which allows cancer cells to adapt to oxygen-poor environments, and shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability" * Adam Seybert, Penn Med class of 1793: Pennsylvania representative to Congress * Rajiv Shah, Penn Med class of 2001: former director of USAID, formerly at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; also alumnus of the Wharton School; president, Rockefeller Foundation *Thomas Smith (Indiana judge), Thomas Smith: (University of Pennsylvania Medical School Class of 1829) who, after obtaining his medical degree, was hired as a surgeon on a merchant vessel that traveled to trade in several East Asian ports and spent nearly ten years in Qing China, China and learned to speak Chinese language, Chinese. and later became a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (January 29, 1847 through January 3, 1853) *Isaac Starr: Isaac "Jack" Starr (1895 –1989) Penn Med class of 1920, interned at Massachusetts General Hospital, appointed Penn Med's first assistant professor in pharmacology, first Hartzell Professor of Research Therapeutics, and dean from 1945 to 1948, known as the father of ballistocardiography, and awarded the Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association "for fundamental contributions to knowledge of the heart and the circulation, and for his development of the first practical ballistocardiograph", Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians, the Burger Medal of the Free University of Amsterdam, and an honorary degree, honorary Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree from University of Pennsylvania for his contributions to medicine *Alexander Hodgdon Stevens: second President of the American Medical Association *Alfred Stillé: the first Secretary, and later president of the American Medical Association * Joel Barlow Sutherland, Penn Med class of 1812: Pennsylvania representative to Congress, served in the War of 1812 as assistant surgeon to the "Junior Artillerists of Philadelphia" * Wendy Sue Swanson, Penn Med class of 2003: pediatrician, social media activist, author of ''Seattle Mama Doc'' blog * Hedge Thompson, Penn Med class of 1802: New Jersey representative to the Congress *Samuel Hollingsworth Stout, Penn Med class of 1848: Confederate surgeon, teacher, slaveholder, farmer *Edward Bright Vedder: US Army physician and noted researcher of beriberi *Bert Vogelstein: cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University * William Carlos Williams, Penn Med class of 1906, poet, pediatrician, and general practitioner * Caspar Wistar (physician), Caspar Wistar, Penn Med class of 1782: president of the American Philosophical Society and president of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery * George Bacon Wood, Penn Med class of 1818: Compiled first ''Dispensatory of the United States'' (1833); president of both the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and American Medical Association * , Penn Med class of 1862: author of the 1874 work ''Treatise on Therapeutics'', Special Prize from American Philosophical Society for his 1869 paper ''Research upon American Hemp'', 1871 Warren Prize from Massachusetts General Hospital for ''Experimental Researches in the Physiological Action of Amyl Nitrite'', 1872 Boylston Prize for ''Thermic Fever or Sunstroke'', nephew of George Bacon Wood * Joseph Janvier Woodward,(1833–1884), (commonly known as J. J. Woodward) Penn Med class of 1853): served as 34th president of the American Medical Association; pioneer in photomicrography, surgeon; performed the autopsies of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth; attended to president James A. Garfield after he was shot

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*William R. D. Blackwood (May 12, 1838 – April 26, 1922)

Class of 1862: Medal of Honor recipient from the American Civil War *Cecil Clay (February 13, 1842 – September 23, 1903)

Class of 1864; joined fraternity

; Medal of Honor recipient and Brevet (military), brevet brigadier general from the American Civil War *Joseph K. Corson (November 22, 1836– July 24, 1913))

Class of 1863: Medal of Honor recipient from the American Civil War *Henry A. du Pont (July 30, 1838 – December 31, 1926): Medal of Honor recipient and lieutenant colonel from the American Civil War and elected twice by Delaware Assembly to United States Senate *Frederick C. Murphy (July 27, 1918 – March 19, 1945)

Class of 1943: Medal of Honor recipient from World War II who attended Penn before enlisting in the United States Army

Air Force officials

*Harris Hull (May 23, 1909 – January 29, 1993) University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business and Finance: Class of 1930 Bachelor of Science, B.S. in Economics, decorated Brigadier general (United States), brigadier general of the United States Air Force (USAF) during World War II *George G. Lundberg (October 19, 1892 – January 1981) University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business and Finance: Class of 1917 Bachelor of Science, B.S. in Economics: appointed Brigadier general of the United States Army, USAF during World War II *David G. Young III, MD, (College class of 1971, BA in Biology): United States Air Force brigadier general

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Coast Guard officials

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

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*William P. Biddle: (Class of 1875 and member of Delta Psi fraternity AKA

) Major general and the 11th Commandant of the Marine Corps, commandant of the United States Marine Corps *George R. Christmas: (Class of 1962, B.A) retired USMC lieutenant general, and president and

of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation *Robert L. Denig: (class of 1907, did not graduate) highly decorated (during World War 1) brigadier general in the USMC, who served as its first director of public information during World War 2. *John Marston (USMC): Major general during WWII *Samuel Nicholas: (University of Pennsylvania, Academy and College of Philadelphia Class of 1759) founder and first commandant of the USMC, commissioned in 1775

Merchant Marine officials

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

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*James Biddle (commodore), James Biddle: American commodore (United States), commodore and explorer whose flagship was the and whose brother was fellow Penn alumnus and financier

*Kenneth Braithwaite:

(Class of 1995, master's degree in government administration) a retired United States Navy One-star rank, one-star Rear admiral (United States)#Rear admiral (lower half), rear admiral. who as of December 7, 2020 is serving as the 77th United States Secretary of the Navy, secretary of the Navy since May 29, 2020. as he was nominated by President Donald Trump on March 2, 2020, and was sworn in on May 29, 2020 and previously served as United States Ambassador to Norway under President Donald J. Trump *Peter Burleigh: US ambassador to the United Nations, the Philippines, Palau, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka; attended graduate school but did not earn a degree *Stephen Decatur: American commodore noted for his heroism during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812, he was the youngest man ever to attain the rank of Captain (United States O-6), captain in the United States Navy (USN); namesake of many communities and counties in the US *Nancy J. Lescavage: Rear Admiral and 20th Director of the Navy Nurse Corps *Mary Joan Nielubowicz: Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1983–87 *William Ruschenberger: Surgeon for the USN and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1870–1882, and president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 1879–1883 *Richard Somers: Naval officer and namesake of Somers, New York, and Somers Point, New Jersey *James A. Zimble: 30th Surgeon General of the United States Navy, surgeon general of the USN

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