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Francesca Russello Ammon: urban historian, assistant professor in the city and regional planning as well as the historic preservation departments[1]
Rev. John Andrews, D.D. (1746–1813):
Academy and College of Philadelphia, A.B., with distinguished honors, class of 1765, and
M.A. class of 1767). Professor of moral philosophy and logic (1789–1813) (where his courses included a course on United States Constitution); 4th Provost (1810–1813), 3rd vice provost (1789–1810)[2]
Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867); American physicist, scientist, and surveyor, professor of natural philosophy and chemistry, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
Arthur Caplan: Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
Britton Chance: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics
Roger Chartier: professor of history; chair of history at the Collège de France; leading cultural historian
Pei-yuan Chia: senior fellow of the CSI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the
Wharton School; former vice chairman of
Citicorp and
Citibank, current member of
AIG's board of directors
Thomas Childers: Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History; author of numerous history publications and recipient of teaching awards
Mildred Cohn: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics and physical biochemistry
George Crumb:
Pulitzer Prize winner in music for "Echoes of Time and the River" in 1968 and received a
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for "Star-Child" in 2001;
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor in Music Department at Penn (1965–1997)[5]
Raymond Davis Jr.: National Medal of Science recipient; Nobel laureate; research professor of physics and astronomy
Emile B. De Sauzé: language educator known for developing the conversational method of learning a language
Frederick Dickinson: professor of Japanese history and co-director of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies
John DiIulio: Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society
W. E. B. Du Bois: African-American literary figure, visiting scholar, 1896–1897
Gideon Dreyfuss: Isaac Norris Professor Biochemistry and Biophysics
L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS: The Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery and Professor of Plastic Surgery at
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and chair of
Penn Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and its Director of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Program; Head of the
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric Hand Transplantation Program who performed the world’s first bilateral hand transplant for a child in 2015; chair of the board of regents of the
American College of Surgeons[14]
Ian Lustick: Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science; author of Trapped in the War on Terror
E. Ann Matter: associate dean for Arts & Letters, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies
Walter A. McDougall: Pulitzer Prize winner; Alloy-Ansin Professor of History and International Relations
Olivia S. Mitchell: International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management; executive director of the Pension Research Council and Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
Robert Patterson (educator) (1743–1824): from 1779 to 1814 was professor of mathematics at, and from 1810 to 1813 also served as vice provost of University of Pennsylvania and in 1805, President
Thomas Jefferson appointed him director of the
United States Mint.[15]
Jeremy Siegel: Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance; financial news commentator
Rangita de Silva de Alwis: member-elect to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; senior adjunct professor of global leadership
Rogers Smith: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Lee Stetson: dean of undergraduate admissions, 29 years
Thomas A. Wadden: Albert J. Stunkard Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Arthur Waldron: Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History; Scholar of Asian and Chinese history, especially in respect to war and nationalism
Richard Wernick: Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; professor of Humanities
Charles Addams (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) College class of 1933, attended 1 year but did not graduate: creator of The Addams Family; said to have modeled the Addams Family mansion in part after Penn's
College Hall
Leslie Esdaile Banks nee Peterson: (December 11, 1959 – August 2, 2011),
Wharton School of Finance class of 1981, BS in Economics; wrote under the
pen names of Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. A. Banks in various genres, including
African-American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction; won several literary awards, including the 2008
Essence Literary Awards Storyteller of the Year[19][20]
Ralph Barbieri (October 28, 1945 – August 3, 2020) Wharton MBA class of 1970:[21][22] radio personality
Julie Diana: ballet dancer, ballet master, writer and arts administrator
Guitarist
Jon Gutwillig and ex-drummer Sam Altman of the trance-fusion band the
Disco Biscuits; bassist Marc Brownstein and keyboardist
Aron Magner attended the university, but never graduated
Gail Dolgin: Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, Daughter from Da Nang
Doc Holliday: gunman and gambler in the western United States in the 1870s and 1880s; colleague of the Earp brothers; participated in the O.K. Corral gunfight; graduated from Philadelphia College of Dentistry (1872), which merged into Penn in 1909
Erik Larson (author) (College class of 1973) journalist and author of nonfiction books who has written a number of bestsellers, including The Devil in the White City, about the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago and a series of murders committed by
H. H. Holmes around the time of the Exposition[32]
Stanley Marsh 3: Texas businessman,
philanthropist, and artist known for the
Cadillac Ranch off historic
Route 66; received bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and history, respectively, from Penn
Ryota Matsumoto: Penn School of Fine Arts Master of Architecture degree (class of 2007)[36] is known as the forefather of the postdigital art and design movement who has received the Visual Art Open International Artist Award, Florence Biennale Mixed Media 2nd Place Award, Premio Ora Prize Italy 5th Edition, Premio Ora Prize Spain 1st Edition, The International Society of Experimental Artists Best of Show Award, Donkey Art Prize III Edition Finalist, Best of Show IGOA Toronto, Art Kudos Best of Show Award, the Electronic Language International Festival Media Art Finalist, Lynx International Prize Award, Lumen Prize Finalist, and Western Bureau Art First Prize as a new media artist.
Suchitra Mattai: Guyanese-born American multidisciplinary contemporary artist[37]
Ezra Pound: 20th-century Modernist poet; promoter of various writers and schools of literature; attended for two years before transferring to
Hamilton College; returned to Penn and earned a master's degree in romance philology
George C. Thomas Jr. (October 3, 1873 – February 23, 1932) class of 1894: golf course architect who designed the original course at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, and contributed to design of Pine Valley Country Club in Camden County, New Jersey, both outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and more than twenty courses in California, including Riviera Country Club in
Pacific Palisades and Red Hill Country Club in
Rancho Cucamonga[52]
Josh Tyrangiel (College class of 1994), an American journalist who was previously the deputy managing editor of TIME magazine and an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek[57][58]
amina wadud: First Lady
Imam in the modern era; activist for
social justice; renown scholar of progressive
Islam: one of the founding thinkers of Islamic
feminism; author and academic
Helen L. Weiss, College for Women class of 1941, composer who died at age 28 and for whom the Helen L. Weiss Music Award is given out annually since 1964 to a student in Penn Department of Music[60]
Bill Hollenback, class of 1909, (1886–1968): football player and coach; playing at Penn, he was selected as an
All-Americanfullback three consecutive years (1906-1908).
Ed McGinley: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[67]
John Macklin: head coach in football, basketball, baseball and track and field at Michigan Agricultural College, now
Michigan State University (and the winningest head football coach in that school's history)[106]
Edward McNichol: Penn alumnus and head coach in men's basketball who led the Quakers to a
national championship in his first season (1920–1921), producing a 21–2 overall record
George Washington
Tuffy Conn (February 22, 1892 – August 2, 1973) class of 1920: was a professional
American football player who played in
1920 for the
Cleveland Tigers and the
Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed the
National Football League in 1922) and won the first AFPA-NFL title that season with the Pros[134]
Walter Irving
Pard Pearce - October 23, 1896 – May 24, 1974 (class of 1920); won 1921 NFL Championship playing for the
Chicago Staleys (now the
Chicago Bears)
The university currently holds the record for most medals (21) 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.
Irving Baxter: (1876–1957)
Penn Law class of 1901; competed in the 1900 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, where he won three silver and two gold medals; retired from competitive track and field without ever having lost a high jumping contest; admitted to the State Bar of New York, appointed special judge for City of Utica, New York, and US Commissioner of the Northern District of New York[143]
Anita DeFrantz, Penn Law class of 1976: won bronze medal at the
1976 Summer Olympic Games as part of women's eight-oared shell; was first woman and first African-American to represent the United States on the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) and was IOC's first female vice president and first woman on
US Olympic Committee; chair of the Commission on Women and Sports
Michalis Dorizas: winner of a silver medal (for Greece) at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games
Susan Francia: winner of two gold medals: one at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and one at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in women's rowing; and two gold medals at the 2009
World Rowing Championships
Thomas
Truxtun Hare: (Undergraduate class of 1901 and
Penn Law class of 1903) who at the
1900 Summer Olympic Games won a silver medal in hammer throw and at the
1904 Summer Olympic Games won abronze medal in the "all-rounder" (now known as the decathlon) which consisted of 100 yard run, shot put, high jump, 880 yard walk, hammer throw, pole vault, 120 yard hurdles, weight throw, long jump and one mile run, and a gold medal as part of tug of war team (also a
charter member of the
College Football Hall of Fame)[147]
Sarah Hughes, Penn Law class of 2018, (born 1985) a former American competitive figure skater who is the
2002 Winter Olympics Gold Medalist Champion and the 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies' singles[148]
Oliver MacDonald: winner of a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games
Hugh Matheson: winner of a silver medal (for Great Britain) at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games
Josiah McCracken: winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games; later Chief Resident Physician at
Pennsylvania Hospital, one of the first public hospitals in the US
Jack Medica: winner of a gold and two silver medals at the
1936 Summer Olympic Games; he was a graduate student at Penn, but did not earn a degree
Ted Meredith: Olympic distance runner, won two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympic Games
Tony Price, class of 1979; selected by the
Detroit Pistons as the overall 29th pick in the second round of the 1979 NBA Draft, played five games for the San Diego Clippers[149]
Matthew White: basketball player, class of 1979, selected by Portland Trail Blazers, played professionally in the
Liga ACB for several teams[167][168][169]
George Washington
Tuffy Conn (February 22, 1892 – August 2, 1973) class of 1920: was a professional
American football player who played in
1920 for the
Cleveland Tigers and the
Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed the
National Football League in 1922) and won the first AFPA-NFL title that season with the Pros[134]
Mitch Marrow class of 1999: was named All-
Ivy League in '96 and '97 and drafted by the
Carolina Panthers in the 3rd round of the 1998 draft but ultimately retired due to back injuries[177]
Pete Overfield Penn Law class of 1900:
All-American at Penn[182] and professional
football player for Homestead Library team, which defeated
Blondy Wallace's Philadelphia professionals 18 to 0 for the professional football championship of the United States (played at the Philadelphia park) as reported by The New York Times;
federal judge in
Alaska;
rancher
Walter Irving
Pard Pearce, October 23, 1896 – May 24, 1974 (class of 1920); won 1921 NFL Championship playing for the
Chicago Staleys (now the
Chicago Bears)
Charlie Ferguson (April 17, 1863 – April 29, 1888) earned 728 strikeouts from 1884 to 1888 as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Quakers, now the
Philadelphia Phillies; in 1931, he was rated as the fifth-best player to that point in baseball history[187]
William John
Billy Goeckel (September 3, 1871 to November 1, 1922)
Penn Law class of 1895: played for Penn's varsity baseball team from 1893 through 1895 where he was "considered the finest collegiate first baseman of his day"[191] and played portion of one season (in 1899) for the
Philadelphia Phillies; organizer and attorney for the Wilkes-Barre South Side Bank and Trust Company and chairman of Wilkes-Barre's Democratic City Committee; wrote "he Red and Blue," which has since become the Penn theme song and was leader of
University of Pennsylvania Glee Club[191]
David Micahnik (born November 5, 1938) Penn College class of 1960 and
Penn Law class of 1964, fenced for the
University of Pennsylvania, where he was a first-team All-Ivy selection in épée as a senior, the 1960 US National Champion[197] and competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics[198]
Chris O'Loughlin (born 1967), Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games silver medalist, Pan American Games bronze medalist
Joe Burk (January 19, 1914 – January 13, 2008)
Wharton class of 1934 (and Penn crew coach from 1950 to 1969): was named the "world's greatest oarsman" in 1938[199] by winning the
Diamond Challenge Sculls at the
Henley Royal Regatta in 1938 (where he set a Henley course record, which was to stand for 27 years) and 1939, (beating
Roger Verey in the final) such that at the end of the 1939 season, Burk was voted the
James E. Sullivan Award as the country's outstanding amateur athlete (as he also won that year the Olympic try-outs [for
1940 Olympics, which were cancelled because of
World War II]; the National Regatta; and the
Philadelphia Challenge Cup aka The Gold Cup)
Russell "Rusty" Callow, Penn coach who also coached US Olympic Team
Grace "Sunny" Choi (born November 10, 1988) Wharton Undergrad class of 2011 BS in Econ.:
Breakdancer for United States Olympic team at
2024 Summer Olympics in Paris,[210] won the silver medal at World Games, and won first gold medal in breakdancing ever given at the
Pan American Games[211][212] and as a result of such win became the first American woman to qualify for breakdancing at the
2024 Olympics[213]
Nelson Zwingluis Graves (August 10, 1880, to March 31, 1918) class of 1903; while at Penn played cricket in 1898 for United States team in its game against Canada where he hit up 128 and in 1902 for
Philadelphian cricket team where he was one of the stars for a team that beat teams in Great Britain[214]
Syed Mohammed Hadi (August 12, 1899 – July 14, 1971) Masters degree in class of 1926:[215] played for India or one of its constituent states in
cricket,
tennis,
field hockey,
soccer,
table tennis,
chess, and
polo (nicknamed "Rainbow Hadi" because of his expertise in these seven sports[216]) and was one of the first Indians to compete as a tennis player at the
Olympics (
1924 Summer Olympics) and also represented India in the 1924 and 1925 Davis Cups[217]
Stan Startzell class of 1972: played (a) on Penn men's soccer team from 1969 to 1971[224](where he was twice a second team All American and a
first team All American in 1971[225][226][227] and was also second team All Ivy League as a placekicker on the Penn football team in 1971)[228] and (b) for the
New York Cosmos of the
North American Soccer League (who drafted Startzell on 1972 as the only native US player on the roster that season[229]) and (c) for
Philadelphia Atoms in 1973 (who won the league championship that year)[230]
John Borland Thayer, II (April 21, 1862 – April 15, 1912 [due to sinking of the
Titanic]) class of 1882: captain of the Penn Lacrosse team in 1879, previously a member of Penn baseball team,[231] and when not playing on Penn cricket team was part of the
Philadelphian side that visited England in 1884.[231]
Lambert Cadwalader: (College class of 1760, but did not graduate) New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784–1787
Tench Coxe: (attended in 1770s but did not graduate)[246] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1788–1789 (who authored dozens of essays that were an important contribution to
Federalist Papers advocating for the ratification of
United States Constitution)[247]
Philemon Dickinson: (College class of 1759) Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–1783[248]
Jonathan Elmer: (
Medical School class of 1769 (Bachelor's) and class of 1771 (Doctor's degree)) New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1777–1778, 1781–1783, 1787–1788[249]
Robert Goldsborough: (College class of 1760) Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–1776[250]
William Grayson: (College class of 1760, but did not graduate) Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–1787[251]
Whitmell Hill: (College class of 1760) North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778–1780 accessed November 4, 2021[252]
William Hindman: (College class of 1761, but did not graduate) Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–1786
Henry Latimer: (College class of 1770) Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784[255]
Thomas Mifflin: (College class of 1760, trustee 1773–1791, and treasurer 1773–1775)[256] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–1775 and 1782–1784, and president of the Continental Congress, 1783–1784
Samuel
Cadwalader Morris: (College class of 1760[257]) Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783–1784[258]
Richard Peters: (College class of 1761)[259] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–1783
Thomas FitzSimons, Penn Trustee 1789–1811: signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
Benjamin Franklin, Penn founder and Trustee 1749–1790: was one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
Francis Hopkinson, Penn degrees A.B. 1757; A.M. 1760; LL.D. 1790; Penn Trustee 1787–1791: signed the Declaration of Independence
Jared Ingersoll, Penn Trustee 1778–1791: signed the US Constitution
Robert Morris, Penn Trustee 1778–1791: one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
Thomas McKean, Penn degrees: A.M. (hon.) 1763 and LL.D. 1785; Penn Trustee 1779–1817; president of Penn Board of Trustees: signed the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Mifflin, Penn degree: A.B. 1760;
Pennsylvania delegate to the
Continental Congress and president of the Continental Congress; 1st Governor of Pennsylvania; signed US Constitution
William Paca, Penn degrees: A.B. 1759 and A.M. 1762; Penn Trustee;
Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–79; signed the Declaration of Independence;[266] Chief Justice of Maryland (1788–1790)
Benjamin Rush,
Penn Med class of 1766; Penn Med professor 1769–1813; signed the Declaration of Independence
Hugh Williamson, Penn degrees: A.B. 1757, A.M. 1760, and LL.D. (hon.) 1787; tutor 1755–1758; Penn professor of mathematics 1761–1763: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, signed US Constitution; representative to US Congress[267]
James Wilson, Penn degrees A.M. (hon.) 1766 and LL.D. 1790; Penn Trustee; delegate to Continental Congress; signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution, the first draft of which he wrote; US Supreme Court justice[268]
Virginia Knauer (March 28, 1915 – October 16, 2011) class of 1937: first director of the
Office of Consumer Affairs under President
Ronald Reagan, and special assistant to the president for consumer affairs under President
Richard Nixon (1969–1977 and 1981–1989) and started her political career in 1959 when she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Philadelphia City Council[281]
Clayton Douglass Buck: US senator from Delaware, 1943–1949; governor of Delaware, 1929–1937; attended Towne School of Engineering but did not earn a degree[294]
Joseph Maull Carey: US senator from Wyoming, 1890–1895; governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915; Wyoming delegate to the US Congress, 1885–90[295]
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1801; Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1789–1791, 1793–1795, 1799–1801; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree[307]
Richard Biddle, class of 1811: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1837–1840[322]
Andrew Biemiller: Wisconsin representative to the US Congress, 1945–1947 (attended the Graduate School but did not earn a degree)[323]
Elias Boudinot: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1789–1795; New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778; Attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate.[citation needed]
Lambert Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1789–1791, 1793–1795; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784–1787; entered College of Philadelphia in 1757 but did not earn a degree[333]
Willard S. Curtin (November 28, 1905 – February 4, 1996) (
University of Pennsylvania Law School class of 1932) Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1957–1967, having been elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (and his election triumphs included defeating noted author
James A. Michener in the 1962 election) and respected for voting in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, as well as the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution and the
Voting Rights Act of 1965[349]
J. Burrwood Daly: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–1939; attended law school but did not earn a degree[350]
William Darlington: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–1817 and 1819–1823[351]
Philemon Dickerson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1833–1836 and 1839–1841[352]
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (College for Women class of 1963): representative of Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district to the US Congress, 1993–1995[400][401]
Robert Marion: South Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1805–1810[402]
Robert Mason Beecroft (College class of 1962, A.B., Graduate School class of 1965, A.M.; US chief of mission and
Special Envoy to the
Bosnian Federation 1997–1998[278]
Jerome Heartwell "Brud" Holland (January 9, 1916 – January 13, 1985): (Graduate School of Arts & Sciences class of 1950, Ph.D., and class of 1983, Honorary LL.D.): US ambassador to Sweden (appointed in 1970 as first African American Ambassador of the United States to Sweden, (1970-1972)[278]
Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881) attended College (1831–1832, but did not earn degree): served as Charge d'Affaires (aka United States ambassador) to
Sicily (1850–1853) and Minister Resident (Ambassador) of the United States to the
Ottoman Empire, (1861–1870)[278]
Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) attended Penn's Academy of Philadelphia, 1761, but did not earn a degree); Minister of the United States to
France (1792–1794)[278]
John H. Morrow (1910–2000) Penn Graduate School of Arts & Sciences class of 1952, Ph.D.: Ambassador of the United States to
Guinea, 1959–1961[278]
Phil Murphy (Wharton MBA class of 1983): US ambassador to Germany[501]
Caesar Augustus Rodney (1772–1824); Penn College class of 1789, A.B., 1789; Plenipotentiary (Ambassador) of the United States to
Argentina, 1823–1824[278]
Susan N. Stevenson, United States Ambassador to
Equatorial Guinea, was nominated by President Donald Trump on September 13, 2018, and was confirmed as Ambassador on January 2, 2019.[502][503]
John C. Bell, Jr., class of 1917, (October 25, 1892 – March 18, 1974) was the 18th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania (1943–1947) before becoming the 33rd and shortest-serving Governor of Pennsylvania, serving for nineteen days in 1947, 1937–1937[505][506][507]
William Wyatt Bibb: first governor of the state of Alabama, 1819–1820; served as governor of the Alabama Territory, 1817–1819[292]
Martin G. Brumbaugh (Ph.D. earned in 1894): governor of Pennsylvania, 1911–1915 and first Professor of Pedagogy in Penn's Department of Philosophy[508]
George B. McClellan:
General-in-chief of the Union Army during the US Civil War; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president 1864; later governor of New Jersey; attended law school for two years at the age of 12 before transferring to the
US Military Academy, from which he graduated at the age of 16[520]
John G. McCullough, Attorney General of California during the American Civil War; Governor of Vermont, 1902–1904
At least 53 Penn alumni and/or trustees have served in state legislatures in at least 18 states (at least five of whom have served as speaker of their respective houses of representatives (in Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) and one of whom served as President of
New Jersey Senate.
"Buck"
Charles Wharton (1868 – November 15, 1949)
Wharton School of Finance class of 1897: selected as an All-American
guard in 1896 and also played on Penn teams that were undefeated and won back-to-back national championships in 1894 and 1895; served as Delaware State Senator from 1914 to 1917; in 1963, was posthumously inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame
Judith Flanagan Kennedy (Penn Law, JD class of 1987) was the 56th mayor of
Lynn, Massachusetts, (2010 through 2018). She launched a write-in campaign for mayor and became Lynn's first female mayor.[566]
As of February 2023, twenty-nine (29) Penn alumni have served as justices of supreme courts of ten (10) different states and the District of Columbia, and eleven (11) have served as chief justices of a state supreme court.
John C. Bell Jr. (October 25, 1892 – March 18, 1974), class of 1917, was a justice of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1950–1972), and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1961–1972)
Alexander F. Barbieri (July 6, 1907 – January 1993) Penn College class of 1929, Penn Law class of 1932: Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Judge of Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania- one of the original members of the Commonwealth Court in 1970 (who was then appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1971 but was defeated for election in 1971 and returned to the Commonwealth Court as a senior judge (1983 to 1993))[573]
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
As of February 2024 there are at least 84 Penn alumni and/or faculty who have been appointed judges in United States federal court system (3 of whom have served on the Supreme Court, at least 23 of whom have served on Courts of Appeals, and at least 50 of whom have served on District Courts)
James Wilson (founding father), Penn's first Professor of Law: appointed by
George Washington as one of first Supreme Court Justices who taught Washington and his cabinet (as a Penn Professor) a course on the United States Constitution, which Wilson helped draft
James Hunter III (December 26, 1916 – February 10, 1989) Penn Law class of 1939, judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989[600][601]
Harry Ellis Kalodner (March 28, 1896 – March 15, 1977) Penn Law class of 1917[602] chief judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977[603]
Robert Lowe Kunzig (October 31, 1918 – February 21, 1982) Penn College class of 1939, Penn Law class of 1942, judge, US Court of Claims, 1971–1982[605]
John Bayard McPherson (November 5, 1846 – January 20, 1919) Penn Law Professor (1890–?) judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912–1919[607]
Francis Hopkinson, class of 1757:
Founding Father and
signatory to the
Declaration of Independence; judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787; judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1789–1791; considered to have played a key role in the design of the first
American flag, and is credited with writing the first secular American song
Alexander F. Barbieri (July 6, 1907 – January 1993) Penn College class of 1929, Penn Law class of 1932: Justice Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Judge -Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania- one of the original members of the Commonwealth Court in 1970 (who was the appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1971 but was defeated for election in 1971 and returned to the Commonwealth Court as a senior judge (1983 to 1993)[573]
James Cannon, class of 1767: Scottish-born American mathematician; one of the principal draftsmen of the State of
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776; often described as the most democratic in America
Richard L. Gabriel, class of 1987, (born March 3, 1962) was appointed in 2015 (and continues to serve after being retained in 2018) as an Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Justice Gabriel previously served on the
Colorado Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2015
Carl Goldstein (College class of 1960 and Penn Law class of 1963) Retired Judge, the
New CastleDelaware Superior Court (Full time: 1990 to 2003; part time 2003 to 2013)[666]
Raymond Headen (Penn Law class of 1987), judge on the 8th District Court of Appeals of Ohio[667]
Morton
Charles Hill (diplomat) (April 28, 1936 – March 27, 2021) (Penn Law class of 1960, JD,
Penn Graduate School class of 1961, MA) Yale University Diplomat in Residence and Lecturer[668] and United States State Department Foreign Service diplomat[669]
James Hutchinson, class of 1774:
Surgeon General of Pennsylvania (1778–1784)
Virginia Knauer (March 28, 1915 – October 16, 2011) class of 1937: first woman elected to the
Philadelphia City Council (1960–1968), appointed head of Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection, was President
Richard Nixon's special assistant for consumer affairs in 1969 (which at the time made her the highest-ranking woman in the administration (1969–1977)), and was appointed by President
Ronald Reagan as director of
Office of Consumer Affairs (where she mentored her top assistant,
Elizabeth Hanford and introduced her to her future husband,
Robert Dole (1981–1989))[670][671][281]
Pedro Ramos: Managing Director for the City of Philadelphia; former City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia; former Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius: (October 19, 1882 – July 17, 1954)
Prime Minister of Lithuania from June 24, 1940, to July 1, 1940 (de facto as he was appointed by unelected president not recognized by modern
Lithuanian republic), former associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
His Excellency Umar Ahmad Ghuman (College class of 1996) Former Federal Minister of State for Investment and Privatization 2002-2007, chairman Board of Investment, Member of
Parliament of Pakistan from Sialkot, Pakistan[701]
Mark Villar, Senator of the Philippines (2022–present), Secretary of
Public Works and Highways (2016–2021), member of the House of Representatives from Las Pinas (2010–2016)
Jack Redmond - College class of 2007, BA and MA: Circuit Judge (appointment effective as of 15th day of August, 2022), Birmingham, the Midlands,
United Kingdom[702]
Fisseha Yimer (b. August 2, 1940) Penn Law LLM class of 1972: Judge on the
High Court of Ethiopia (1975)[705]
Foreign Ambassadors
Patrick Dele-Cole (Penn Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, 1969–1973 and Visiting Professor of History, 1997);[706] Ambassador of Nigeria to Brazil, 1987–1991[278]
Ulrik Federspiel (Penn Graduate School class of 1971, A.M.; Ambassador of Denmark to Ireland, 1997–2000; Ambassador of Denmark to the United States, 2000–present[278]
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (born 1953)
Penn Graduate School class of 1979, A.M.; Ambassador of Estonia to the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 1993–1996; Foreign Minister of Estonia, 1996–2001[278]
Fisseha Yimer (August 2, 1940) Penn Law LLM class of 1972: Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations in New York (from 2000), Geneva (1996–2000) and Vienna (1992–1996)[705]
Umar Ahmad Ghuman (College class of 1996) Former Federal Minister of State for Investment and Privatization 2002–2007, chairman Board of Investment, Member of
Parliament of Pakistan from Sialkot, Pakistan
Sachin Pilot: Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Corporate Affairs in the
Indian government (2012–2014); former Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology (2014–2016)
Alice Paul: women's suffrage leader who led a successful campaign that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the US federal election in 1920
Mitchell D. Silber: former director of intelligence analysis for the
New York City Police Department from 2007 to 2012; current executive director of the Community Security Initiative, and expert in political risk, intelligence, and security analysis.
Ephraim Leister Acker (1827–1903) earned his M.D., (Penn Med class of 1852)[711] and LL.B., (
Penn Law class of 1886), served as Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1871–1873[314]
David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892) Penn Med class of 1838[719] volunteered as consulting and operating surgeon when President
James A. Garfield was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet in 1881[720] and wrote The Principles and Practice of Surgery based on his experience of fifty active years, of practicing medicine[719] which was a three-volume set published 1878–1883
John Archer, Penn Med class of 1768: first person to receive a medical degree from an American medical school and a US congressman from Maryland
John Light Atlee (1799–1885) Penn Med class of 1820: an American
physician and
surgeon who helped found Lancaster County Association of Physicians, organize the American Medical Association and served as its president, and was appointed professor of anatomy at
Franklin and Marshall College[723]
William Maclay Awl, (May 24, 1799 – November 19, 1876)[724] 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[725] 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....[726] 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[727][728]
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[734][735]
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[184] and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn[185][184]
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
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
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[743]
Walter Freeman: Penn Med class of 1920; lobotomist who performed nearly 3500
lobotomies in 23 states; first neurologist in Washington, D.C.[747]
A.Y.P. Garnett (1820–1888), Penn Med class of 1842: served as president of the American Medical Association[748] and served
Jefferson Davis[749] and as physician to
Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War
Isaac Hays: Penn College class of 1816 and Penn Med class of 1822
ophthalmologist; first treasurer and founding member of Board of the American Medical Association and editor for over fifty (50) years of American Journal of the Medical Sciences
David Jackson, Penn Med class of 1768: appointed to manage the lottery for costs of the
American Revolutionary War, but he resigned to become an army surgeon, Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786
Joseph Jorgensen, Penn Med class of 1865: Virginia representative to Congress
Myint Myint Khin, MD, (December 15, 1923 – June 19, 2014) an English major at the
University of Rangoon, she ultimately graduated from Penn Med with class of 1955, and also did her residency at University of Pennsylvania,[752][753] married (in 1953) to
San Baw, a medical school classmate who received an MD and an MS from Penn Med,[753][754][752] served as chair of the Department of Medicine of the
Institute of Medicine, Mandalay from 1965 to 1984, and served as a consultant at the
World Health Organization from 1985 to 1991, published eleven books in Burmese and two in English
Nathan Francis Mossell: (July 27, 1856 – October 27, 1946) Penn Med class of 1882: the first African-American graduate of
Penn Med who did post-graduate training at hospitals in Philadelphia and London, was the first black physician elected as member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society and was founder of
Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and the Philadelphia branch of the
NAACP[763]
Leo C. Mundy, Penn Med class of 1908, (1887–1944) physician and politician who served as a member of the
Pennsylvania Senate for the
21st district[764] 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[765]
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[766]
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[767] 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
John H. Outland, Penn Med class of 1899 (after starting at
University of Kansas); became one of the few men ever to win
All-American football honors as both lineman and the backfield player; voted "Most Popular Man" in the entire University of Pennsylvania
John M. Patton, Penn Med class of 1818: Virginia representative to Congress
William Pepper (August 21, 1843 – July 28, 1898), Penn Bachelor's Degree 1862 and 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;[769] 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.[260][770] founder of Philadelphia's
first free public library
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
Horatio C Wood, Jr. [sic], Penn Med class of 1862: author of the 1874 work Treatise on Therapeutics, Special Prize from
American Philosophical Society for his 1869 paper Research upon American Hemp, 1871 Warren Prize from Massachusetts General Hospital for Experimental Researches in the Physiological Action of Amyl Nitrite, 1872 Boylston Prize for Thermic Fever or Sunstroke, nephew of
George Bacon Wood
Joseph Janvier Woodward,(1833–1884), (commonly known as J. J. Woodward) Penn Med class of 1853): served as 34th president of the American Medical Association; pioneer in photomicrography, surgeon; performed the autopsies of
Abraham Lincoln and
John Wilkes Booth; attended to president James A. Garfield after he was shot[789]
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
Tench Tilghman, College class of 1761:
lieutenant colonel and longest-serving
aide-de-camp to General
George Washington of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War; Washington wrote about him: "...none could have felt his death with more regard than I did, because no one entertained a higher opinion of his worth".
James Tilton: first titled surgeon general of the US Army; served in that capacity during the
War of 1812
Henry D. Todd Jr., US Army major general who commanded artillery units during World War I[796]
Anthony Wayne: US Army general during the American Revolutionary War; namesake of many towns, cities and counties across the United States; attended Penn but did not earn a degree
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.[799]
Stephen Decatur: American commodore noted for his heroism during the
First Barbary War and the
War of 1812, he was the youngest man ever to attain the rank of
captain in the United States Navy (USN); namesake of many communities and counties in the US
Sundar J.M. Brown:[804] founder of IntelliGen Consulting Group and leading scholar of theoterrorism; former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Operations/Clandestine Services Case Officer (South Asia); US DOI/IC contractor
Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, class of 1883:
Lutheran minister, educator, author and church theologian; president of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America (1903–1920)
William Bartram: 18th- and 19th-century naturalist, attended Penn but did not earn a degree
Alfred P. Boller: bridge designer and structural engineer; chief engineer of
Manhattan's elevated railroad track system, the first of its kind in the world
Gonzalo Castro de la Mata: Peruvian ecologist; promoter of free-market solutions to environmental issues; chairman of the Inspection Panel of the World Bank since 2014
William Francis Channing, class of 1844: co-inventor of the world's first electric municipal
fire alarm system, whose principles remain essentially unchanged and form the basis of most public fire alarm systems
Jeffrey Chuan Chu: core member of the engineering team that designed the first American electronic computer, the
ENIAC
J. Clarence Karcher: geophysicist and businessman who invented and commercialized the
reflection seismograph, the means by which most of the world's oil reserves have been discovered
Eliya Zulu; Demographer and founder of the African Institute for Development Policy
Other
Mackenzie Fierceton, activist who has sued university over its role in investigation of her alleged abusive childhood that led to her withdrawing from her Rhodes scholarship in case still being litigated[811]
Scott Nearing (August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983) Penn Law class of 1904 (dropped out) Wharton class of 1905 (BS) and class of 1909 (Ph.D.): 20th-century conservationist, peace activist, educator, writer and economist[818]
Joshua Eilberg, Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1967–1979;[820] plead guilty to conflict of interest charges and was sentenced to 5 years of probation and fined $10,000[821][822]
Ira Einhorn: murderer nicknamed the "Unicorn Killer"
Sarma Melngailis (born 1972) Penn College and Wharton (class of 1994): vegan chef convicted of stealing 2 million dollars from supporters and being sentenced to 4 months in jail[826]
"for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons."
"for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development."
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Francesca Russello Ammon: urban historian, assistant professor in the city and regional planning as well as the historic preservation departments[1]
Rev. John Andrews, D.D. (1746–1813):
Academy and College of Philadelphia, A.B., with distinguished honors, class of 1765, and
M.A. class of 1767). Professor of moral philosophy and logic (1789–1813) (where his courses included a course on United States Constitution); 4th Provost (1810–1813), 3rd vice provost (1789–1810)[2]
Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867); American physicist, scientist, and surveyor, professor of natural philosophy and chemistry, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
Arthur Caplan: Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
Britton Chance: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics
Roger Chartier: professor of history; chair of history at the Collège de France; leading cultural historian
Pei-yuan Chia: senior fellow of the CSI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the
Wharton School; former vice chairman of
Citicorp and
Citibank, current member of
AIG's board of directors
Thomas Childers: Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History; author of numerous history publications and recipient of teaching awards
Mildred Cohn: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics and physical biochemistry
George Crumb:
Pulitzer Prize winner in music for "Echoes of Time and the River" in 1968 and received a
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for "Star-Child" in 2001;
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor in Music Department at Penn (1965–1997)[5]
Raymond Davis Jr.: National Medal of Science recipient; Nobel laureate; research professor of physics and astronomy
Emile B. De Sauzé: language educator known for developing the conversational method of learning a language
Frederick Dickinson: professor of Japanese history and co-director of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies
John DiIulio: Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society
W. E. B. Du Bois: African-American literary figure, visiting scholar, 1896–1897
Gideon Dreyfuss: Isaac Norris Professor Biochemistry and Biophysics
L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS: The Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery and Professor of Plastic Surgery at
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and chair of
Penn Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and its Director of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Program; Head of the
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric Hand Transplantation Program who performed the world’s first bilateral hand transplant for a child in 2015; chair of the board of regents of the
American College of Surgeons[14]
Ian Lustick: Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science; author of Trapped in the War on Terror
E. Ann Matter: associate dean for Arts & Letters, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies
Walter A. McDougall: Pulitzer Prize winner; Alloy-Ansin Professor of History and International Relations
Olivia S. Mitchell: International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management; executive director of the Pension Research Council and Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
Robert Patterson (educator) (1743–1824): from 1779 to 1814 was professor of mathematics at, and from 1810 to 1813 also served as vice provost of University of Pennsylvania and in 1805, President
Thomas Jefferson appointed him director of the
United States Mint.[15]
Jeremy Siegel: Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance; financial news commentator
Rangita de Silva de Alwis: member-elect to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; senior adjunct professor of global leadership
Rogers Smith: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Lee Stetson: dean of undergraduate admissions, 29 years
Thomas A. Wadden: Albert J. Stunkard Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Arthur Waldron: Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History; Scholar of Asian and Chinese history, especially in respect to war and nationalism
Richard Wernick: Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; professor of Humanities
Charles Addams (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) College class of 1933, attended 1 year but did not graduate: creator of The Addams Family; said to have modeled the Addams Family mansion in part after Penn's
College Hall
Leslie Esdaile Banks nee Peterson: (December 11, 1959 – August 2, 2011),
Wharton School of Finance class of 1981, BS in Economics; wrote under the
pen names of Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. A. Banks in various genres, including
African-American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction; won several literary awards, including the 2008
Essence Literary Awards Storyteller of the Year[19][20]
Ralph Barbieri (October 28, 1945 – August 3, 2020) Wharton MBA class of 1970:[21][22] radio personality
Julie Diana: ballet dancer, ballet master, writer and arts administrator
Guitarist
Jon Gutwillig and ex-drummer Sam Altman of the trance-fusion band the
Disco Biscuits; bassist Marc Brownstein and keyboardist
Aron Magner attended the university, but never graduated
Gail Dolgin: Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, Daughter from Da Nang
Doc Holliday: gunman and gambler in the western United States in the 1870s and 1880s; colleague of the Earp brothers; participated in the O.K. Corral gunfight; graduated from Philadelphia College of Dentistry (1872), which merged into Penn in 1909
Erik Larson (author) (College class of 1973) journalist and author of nonfiction books who has written a number of bestsellers, including The Devil in the White City, about the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago and a series of murders committed by
H. H. Holmes around the time of the Exposition[32]
Stanley Marsh 3: Texas businessman,
philanthropist, and artist known for the
Cadillac Ranch off historic
Route 66; received bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and history, respectively, from Penn
Ryota Matsumoto: Penn School of Fine Arts Master of Architecture degree (class of 2007)[36] is known as the forefather of the postdigital art and design movement who has received the Visual Art Open International Artist Award, Florence Biennale Mixed Media 2nd Place Award, Premio Ora Prize Italy 5th Edition, Premio Ora Prize Spain 1st Edition, The International Society of Experimental Artists Best of Show Award, Donkey Art Prize III Edition Finalist, Best of Show IGOA Toronto, Art Kudos Best of Show Award, the Electronic Language International Festival Media Art Finalist, Lynx International Prize Award, Lumen Prize Finalist, and Western Bureau Art First Prize as a new media artist.
Suchitra Mattai: Guyanese-born American multidisciplinary contemporary artist[37]
Ezra Pound: 20th-century Modernist poet; promoter of various writers and schools of literature; attended for two years before transferring to
Hamilton College; returned to Penn and earned a master's degree in romance philology
George C. Thomas Jr. (October 3, 1873 – February 23, 1932) class of 1894: golf course architect who designed the original course at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, and contributed to design of Pine Valley Country Club in Camden County, New Jersey, both outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and more than twenty courses in California, including Riviera Country Club in
Pacific Palisades and Red Hill Country Club in
Rancho Cucamonga[52]
Josh Tyrangiel (College class of 1994), an American journalist who was previously the deputy managing editor of TIME magazine and an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek[57][58]
amina wadud: First Lady
Imam in the modern era; activist for
social justice; renown scholar of progressive
Islam: one of the founding thinkers of Islamic
feminism; author and academic
Helen L. Weiss, College for Women class of 1941, composer who died at age 28 and for whom the Helen L. Weiss Music Award is given out annually since 1964 to a student in Penn Department of Music[60]
Bill Hollenback, class of 1909, (1886–1968): football player and coach; playing at Penn, he was selected as an
All-Americanfullback three consecutive years (1906-1908).
Ed McGinley: member of the College Football Hall of Fame[67]
John Macklin: head coach in football, basketball, baseball and track and field at Michigan Agricultural College, now
Michigan State University (and the winningest head football coach in that school's history)[106]
Edward McNichol: Penn alumnus and head coach in men's basketball who led the Quakers to a
national championship in his first season (1920–1921), producing a 21–2 overall record
George Washington
Tuffy Conn (February 22, 1892 – August 2, 1973) class of 1920: was a professional
American football player who played in
1920 for the
Cleveland Tigers and the
Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed the
National Football League in 1922) and won the first AFPA-NFL title that season with the Pros[134]
Walter Irving
Pard Pearce - October 23, 1896 – May 24, 1974 (class of 1920); won 1921 NFL Championship playing for the
Chicago Staleys (now the
Chicago Bears)
The university currently holds the record for most medals (21) 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.
Irving Baxter: (1876–1957)
Penn Law class of 1901; competed in the 1900 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, where he won three silver and two gold medals; retired from competitive track and field without ever having lost a high jumping contest; admitted to the State Bar of New York, appointed special judge for City of Utica, New York, and US Commissioner of the Northern District of New York[143]
Anita DeFrantz, Penn Law class of 1976: won bronze medal at the
1976 Summer Olympic Games as part of women's eight-oared shell; was first woman and first African-American to represent the United States on the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) and was IOC's first female vice president and first woman on
US Olympic Committee; chair of the Commission on Women and Sports
Michalis Dorizas: winner of a silver medal (for Greece) at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games
Susan Francia: winner of two gold medals: one at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and one at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in women's rowing; and two gold medals at the 2009
World Rowing Championships
Thomas
Truxtun Hare: (Undergraduate class of 1901 and
Penn Law class of 1903) who at the
1900 Summer Olympic Games won a silver medal in hammer throw and at the
1904 Summer Olympic Games won abronze medal in the "all-rounder" (now known as the decathlon) which consisted of 100 yard run, shot put, high jump, 880 yard walk, hammer throw, pole vault, 120 yard hurdles, weight throw, long jump and one mile run, and a gold medal as part of tug of war team (also a
charter member of the
College Football Hall of Fame)[147]
Sarah Hughes, Penn Law class of 2018, (born 1985) a former American competitive figure skater who is the
2002 Winter Olympics Gold Medalist Champion and the 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies' singles[148]
Oliver MacDonald: winner of a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games
Hugh Matheson: winner of a silver medal (for Great Britain) at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games
Josiah McCracken: winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games; later Chief Resident Physician at
Pennsylvania Hospital, one of the first public hospitals in the US
Jack Medica: winner of a gold and two silver medals at the
1936 Summer Olympic Games; he was a graduate student at Penn, but did not earn a degree
Ted Meredith: Olympic distance runner, won two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympic Games
Tony Price, class of 1979; selected by the
Detroit Pistons as the overall 29th pick in the second round of the 1979 NBA Draft, played five games for the San Diego Clippers[149]
Matthew White: basketball player, class of 1979, selected by Portland Trail Blazers, played professionally in the
Liga ACB for several teams[167][168][169]
George Washington
Tuffy Conn (February 22, 1892 – August 2, 1973) class of 1920: was a professional
American football player who played in
1920 for the
Cleveland Tigers and the
Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed the
National Football League in 1922) and won the first AFPA-NFL title that season with the Pros[134]
Mitch Marrow class of 1999: was named All-
Ivy League in '96 and '97 and drafted by the
Carolina Panthers in the 3rd round of the 1998 draft but ultimately retired due to back injuries[177]
Pete Overfield Penn Law class of 1900:
All-American at Penn[182] and professional
football player for Homestead Library team, which defeated
Blondy Wallace's Philadelphia professionals 18 to 0 for the professional football championship of the United States (played at the Philadelphia park) as reported by The New York Times;
federal judge in
Alaska;
rancher
Walter Irving
Pard Pearce, October 23, 1896 – May 24, 1974 (class of 1920); won 1921 NFL Championship playing for the
Chicago Staleys (now the
Chicago Bears)
Charlie Ferguson (April 17, 1863 – April 29, 1888) earned 728 strikeouts from 1884 to 1888 as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Quakers, now the
Philadelphia Phillies; in 1931, he was rated as the fifth-best player to that point in baseball history[187]
William John
Billy Goeckel (September 3, 1871 to November 1, 1922)
Penn Law class of 1895: played for Penn's varsity baseball team from 1893 through 1895 where he was "considered the finest collegiate first baseman of his day"[191] and played portion of one season (in 1899) for the
Philadelphia Phillies; organizer and attorney for the Wilkes-Barre South Side Bank and Trust Company and chairman of Wilkes-Barre's Democratic City Committee; wrote "he Red and Blue," which has since become the Penn theme song and was leader of
University of Pennsylvania Glee Club[191]
David Micahnik (born November 5, 1938) Penn College class of 1960 and
Penn Law class of 1964, fenced for the
University of Pennsylvania, where he was a first-team All-Ivy selection in épée as a senior, the 1960 US National Champion[197] and competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics[198]
Chris O'Loughlin (born 1967), Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games silver medalist, Pan American Games bronze medalist
Joe Burk (January 19, 1914 – January 13, 2008)
Wharton class of 1934 (and Penn crew coach from 1950 to 1969): was named the "world's greatest oarsman" in 1938[199] by winning the
Diamond Challenge Sculls at the
Henley Royal Regatta in 1938 (where he set a Henley course record, which was to stand for 27 years) and 1939, (beating
Roger Verey in the final) such that at the end of the 1939 season, Burk was voted the
James E. Sullivan Award as the country's outstanding amateur athlete (as he also won that year the Olympic try-outs [for
1940 Olympics, which were cancelled because of
World War II]; the National Regatta; and the
Philadelphia Challenge Cup aka The Gold Cup)
Russell "Rusty" Callow, Penn coach who also coached US Olympic Team
Grace "Sunny" Choi (born November 10, 1988) Wharton Undergrad class of 2011 BS in Econ.:
Breakdancer for United States Olympic team at
2024 Summer Olympics in Paris,[210] won the silver medal at World Games, and won first gold medal in breakdancing ever given at the
Pan American Games[211][212] and as a result of such win became the first American woman to qualify for breakdancing at the
2024 Olympics[213]
Nelson Zwingluis Graves (August 10, 1880, to March 31, 1918) class of 1903; while at Penn played cricket in 1898 for United States team in its game against Canada where he hit up 128 and in 1902 for
Philadelphian cricket team where he was one of the stars for a team that beat teams in Great Britain[214]
Syed Mohammed Hadi (August 12, 1899 – July 14, 1971) Masters degree in class of 1926:[215] played for India or one of its constituent states in
cricket,
tennis,
field hockey,
soccer,
table tennis,
chess, and
polo (nicknamed "Rainbow Hadi" because of his expertise in these seven sports[216]) and was one of the first Indians to compete as a tennis player at the
Olympics (
1924 Summer Olympics) and also represented India in the 1924 and 1925 Davis Cups[217]
Stan Startzell class of 1972: played (a) on Penn men's soccer team from 1969 to 1971[224](where he was twice a second team All American and a
first team All American in 1971[225][226][227] and was also second team All Ivy League as a placekicker on the Penn football team in 1971)[228] and (b) for the
New York Cosmos of the
North American Soccer League (who drafted Startzell on 1972 as the only native US player on the roster that season[229]) and (c) for
Philadelphia Atoms in 1973 (who won the league championship that year)[230]
John Borland Thayer, II (April 21, 1862 – April 15, 1912 [due to sinking of the
Titanic]) class of 1882: captain of the Penn Lacrosse team in 1879, previously a member of Penn baseball team,[231] and when not playing on Penn cricket team was part of the
Philadelphian side that visited England in 1884.[231]
Lambert Cadwalader: (College class of 1760, but did not graduate) New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784–1787
Tench Coxe: (attended in 1770s but did not graduate)[246] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1788–1789 (who authored dozens of essays that were an important contribution to
Federalist Papers advocating for the ratification of
United States Constitution)[247]
Philemon Dickinson: (College class of 1759) Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–1783[248]
Jonathan Elmer: (
Medical School class of 1769 (Bachelor's) and class of 1771 (Doctor's degree)) New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1777–1778, 1781–1783, 1787–1788[249]
Robert Goldsborough: (College class of 1760) Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–1776[250]
William Grayson: (College class of 1760, but did not graduate) Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–1787[251]
Whitmell Hill: (College class of 1760) North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778–1780 accessed November 4, 2021[252]
William Hindman: (College class of 1761, but did not graduate) Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–1786
Henry Latimer: (College class of 1770) Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784[255]
Thomas Mifflin: (College class of 1760, trustee 1773–1791, and treasurer 1773–1775)[256] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–1775 and 1782–1784, and president of the Continental Congress, 1783–1784
Samuel
Cadwalader Morris: (College class of 1760[257]) Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783–1784[258]
Richard Peters: (College class of 1761)[259] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–1783
Thomas FitzSimons, Penn Trustee 1789–1811: signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
Benjamin Franklin, Penn founder and Trustee 1749–1790: was one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
Francis Hopkinson, Penn degrees A.B. 1757; A.M. 1760; LL.D. 1790; Penn Trustee 1787–1791: signed the Declaration of Independence
Jared Ingersoll, Penn Trustee 1778–1791: signed the US Constitution
Robert Morris, Penn Trustee 1778–1791: one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
Thomas McKean, Penn degrees: A.M. (hon.) 1763 and LL.D. 1785; Penn Trustee 1779–1817; president of Penn Board of Trustees: signed the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Mifflin, Penn degree: A.B. 1760;
Pennsylvania delegate to the
Continental Congress and president of the Continental Congress; 1st Governor of Pennsylvania; signed US Constitution
William Paca, Penn degrees: A.B. 1759 and A.M. 1762; Penn Trustee;
Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–79; signed the Declaration of Independence;[266] Chief Justice of Maryland (1788–1790)
Benjamin Rush,
Penn Med class of 1766; Penn Med professor 1769–1813; signed the Declaration of Independence
Hugh Williamson, Penn degrees: A.B. 1757, A.M. 1760, and LL.D. (hon.) 1787; tutor 1755–1758; Penn professor of mathematics 1761–1763: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, signed US Constitution; representative to US Congress[267]
James Wilson, Penn degrees A.M. (hon.) 1766 and LL.D. 1790; Penn Trustee; delegate to Continental Congress; signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution, the first draft of which he wrote; US Supreme Court justice[268]
Virginia Knauer (March 28, 1915 – October 16, 2011) class of 1937: first director of the
Office of Consumer Affairs under President
Ronald Reagan, and special assistant to the president for consumer affairs under President
Richard Nixon (1969–1977 and 1981–1989) and started her political career in 1959 when she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Philadelphia City Council[281]
Clayton Douglass Buck: US senator from Delaware, 1943–1949; governor of Delaware, 1929–1937; attended Towne School of Engineering but did not earn a degree[294]
Joseph Maull Carey: US senator from Wyoming, 1890–1895; governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915; Wyoming delegate to the US Congress, 1885–90[295]
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1801; Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1789–1791, 1793–1795, 1799–1801; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree[307]
Richard Biddle, class of 1811: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1837–1840[322]
Andrew Biemiller: Wisconsin representative to the US Congress, 1945–1947 (attended the Graduate School but did not earn a degree)[323]
Elias Boudinot: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1789–1795; New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778; Attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate.[citation needed]
Lambert Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1789–1791, 1793–1795; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784–1787; entered College of Philadelphia in 1757 but did not earn a degree[333]
Willard S. Curtin (November 28, 1905 – February 4, 1996) (
University of Pennsylvania Law School class of 1932) Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1957–1967, having been elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (and his election triumphs included defeating noted author
James A. Michener in the 1962 election) and respected for voting in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, as well as the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution and the
Voting Rights Act of 1965[349]
J. Burrwood Daly: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–1939; attended law school but did not earn a degree[350]
William Darlington: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–1817 and 1819–1823[351]
Philemon Dickerson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1833–1836 and 1839–1841[352]
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (College for Women class of 1963): representative of Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district to the US Congress, 1993–1995[400][401]
Robert Marion: South Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1805–1810[402]
Robert Mason Beecroft (College class of 1962, A.B., Graduate School class of 1965, A.M.; US chief of mission and
Special Envoy to the
Bosnian Federation 1997–1998[278]
Jerome Heartwell "Brud" Holland (January 9, 1916 – January 13, 1985): (Graduate School of Arts & Sciences class of 1950, Ph.D., and class of 1983, Honorary LL.D.): US ambassador to Sweden (appointed in 1970 as first African American Ambassador of the United States to Sweden, (1970-1972)[278]
Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881) attended College (1831–1832, but did not earn degree): served as Charge d'Affaires (aka United States ambassador) to
Sicily (1850–1853) and Minister Resident (Ambassador) of the United States to the
Ottoman Empire, (1861–1870)[278]
Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) attended Penn's Academy of Philadelphia, 1761, but did not earn a degree); Minister of the United States to
France (1792–1794)[278]
John H. Morrow (1910–2000) Penn Graduate School of Arts & Sciences class of 1952, Ph.D.: Ambassador of the United States to
Guinea, 1959–1961[278]
Phil Murphy (Wharton MBA class of 1983): US ambassador to Germany[501]
Caesar Augustus Rodney (1772–1824); Penn College class of 1789, A.B., 1789; Plenipotentiary (Ambassador) of the United States to
Argentina, 1823–1824[278]
Susan N. Stevenson, United States Ambassador to
Equatorial Guinea, was nominated by President Donald Trump on September 13, 2018, and was confirmed as Ambassador on January 2, 2019.[502][503]
John C. Bell, Jr., class of 1917, (October 25, 1892 – March 18, 1974) was the 18th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania (1943–1947) before becoming the 33rd and shortest-serving Governor of Pennsylvania, serving for nineteen days in 1947, 1937–1937[505][506][507]
William Wyatt Bibb: first governor of the state of Alabama, 1819–1820; served as governor of the Alabama Territory, 1817–1819[292]
Martin G. Brumbaugh (Ph.D. earned in 1894): governor of Pennsylvania, 1911–1915 and first Professor of Pedagogy in Penn's Department of Philosophy[508]
George B. McClellan:
General-in-chief of the Union Army during the US Civil War; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president 1864; later governor of New Jersey; attended law school for two years at the age of 12 before transferring to the
US Military Academy, from which he graduated at the age of 16[520]
John G. McCullough, Attorney General of California during the American Civil War; Governor of Vermont, 1902–1904
At least 53 Penn alumni and/or trustees have served in state legislatures in at least 18 states (at least five of whom have served as speaker of their respective houses of representatives (in Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) and one of whom served as President of
New Jersey Senate.
"Buck"
Charles Wharton (1868 – November 15, 1949)
Wharton School of Finance class of 1897: selected as an All-American
guard in 1896 and also played on Penn teams that were undefeated and won back-to-back national championships in 1894 and 1895; served as Delaware State Senator from 1914 to 1917; in 1963, was posthumously inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame
Judith Flanagan Kennedy (Penn Law, JD class of 1987) was the 56th mayor of
Lynn, Massachusetts, (2010 through 2018). She launched a write-in campaign for mayor and became Lynn's first female mayor.[566]
As of February 2023, twenty-nine (29) Penn alumni have served as justices of supreme courts of ten (10) different states and the District of Columbia, and eleven (11) have served as chief justices of a state supreme court.
John C. Bell Jr. (October 25, 1892 – March 18, 1974), class of 1917, was a justice of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1950–1972), and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1961–1972)
Alexander F. Barbieri (July 6, 1907 – January 1993) Penn College class of 1929, Penn Law class of 1932: Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Judge of Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania- one of the original members of the Commonwealth Court in 1970 (who was then appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1971 but was defeated for election in 1971 and returned to the Commonwealth Court as a senior judge (1983 to 1993))[573]
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
As of February 2024 there are at least 84 Penn alumni and/or faculty who have been appointed judges in United States federal court system (3 of whom have served on the Supreme Court, at least 23 of whom have served on Courts of Appeals, and at least 50 of whom have served on District Courts)
James Wilson (founding father), Penn's first Professor of Law: appointed by
George Washington as one of first Supreme Court Justices who taught Washington and his cabinet (as a Penn Professor) a course on the United States Constitution, which Wilson helped draft
James Hunter III (December 26, 1916 – February 10, 1989) Penn Law class of 1939, judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989[600][601]
Harry Ellis Kalodner (March 28, 1896 – March 15, 1977) Penn Law class of 1917[602] chief judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977[603]
Robert Lowe Kunzig (October 31, 1918 – February 21, 1982) Penn College class of 1939, Penn Law class of 1942, judge, US Court of Claims, 1971–1982[605]
John Bayard McPherson (November 5, 1846 – January 20, 1919) Penn Law Professor (1890–?) judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912–1919[607]
Francis Hopkinson, class of 1757:
Founding Father and
signatory to the
Declaration of Independence; judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787; judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1789–1791; considered to have played a key role in the design of the first
American flag, and is credited with writing the first secular American song
Alexander F. Barbieri (July 6, 1907 – January 1993) Penn College class of 1929, Penn Law class of 1932: Justice Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Judge -Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania- one of the original members of the Commonwealth Court in 1970 (who was the appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1971 but was defeated for election in 1971 and returned to the Commonwealth Court as a senior judge (1983 to 1993)[573]
James Cannon, class of 1767: Scottish-born American mathematician; one of the principal draftsmen of the State of
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776; often described as the most democratic in America
Richard L. Gabriel, class of 1987, (born March 3, 1962) was appointed in 2015 (and continues to serve after being retained in 2018) as an Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Justice Gabriel previously served on the
Colorado Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2015
Carl Goldstein (College class of 1960 and Penn Law class of 1963) Retired Judge, the
New CastleDelaware Superior Court (Full time: 1990 to 2003; part time 2003 to 2013)[666]
Raymond Headen (Penn Law class of 1987), judge on the 8th District Court of Appeals of Ohio[667]
Morton
Charles Hill (diplomat) (April 28, 1936 – March 27, 2021) (Penn Law class of 1960, JD,
Penn Graduate School class of 1961, MA) Yale University Diplomat in Residence and Lecturer[668] and United States State Department Foreign Service diplomat[669]
James Hutchinson, class of 1774:
Surgeon General of Pennsylvania (1778–1784)
Virginia Knauer (March 28, 1915 – October 16, 2011) class of 1937: first woman elected to the
Philadelphia City Council (1960–1968), appointed head of Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection, was President
Richard Nixon's special assistant for consumer affairs in 1969 (which at the time made her the highest-ranking woman in the administration (1969–1977)), and was appointed by President
Ronald Reagan as director of
Office of Consumer Affairs (where she mentored her top assistant,
Elizabeth Hanford and introduced her to her future husband,
Robert Dole (1981–1989))[670][671][281]
Pedro Ramos: Managing Director for the City of Philadelphia; former City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia; former Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius: (October 19, 1882 – July 17, 1954)
Prime Minister of Lithuania from June 24, 1940, to July 1, 1940 (de facto as he was appointed by unelected president not recognized by modern
Lithuanian republic), former associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
His Excellency Umar Ahmad Ghuman (College class of 1996) Former Federal Minister of State for Investment and Privatization 2002-2007, chairman Board of Investment, Member of
Parliament of Pakistan from Sialkot, Pakistan[701]
Mark Villar, Senator of the Philippines (2022–present), Secretary of
Public Works and Highways (2016–2021), member of the House of Representatives from Las Pinas (2010–2016)
Jack Redmond - College class of 2007, BA and MA: Circuit Judge (appointment effective as of 15th day of August, 2022), Birmingham, the Midlands,
United Kingdom[702]
Fisseha Yimer (b. August 2, 1940) Penn Law LLM class of 1972: Judge on the
High Court of Ethiopia (1975)[705]
Foreign Ambassadors
Patrick Dele-Cole (Penn Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, 1969–1973 and Visiting Professor of History, 1997);[706] Ambassador of Nigeria to Brazil, 1987–1991[278]
Ulrik Federspiel (Penn Graduate School class of 1971, A.M.; Ambassador of Denmark to Ireland, 1997–2000; Ambassador of Denmark to the United States, 2000–present[278]
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (born 1953)
Penn Graduate School class of 1979, A.M.; Ambassador of Estonia to the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 1993–1996; Foreign Minister of Estonia, 1996–2001[278]
Fisseha Yimer (August 2, 1940) Penn Law LLM class of 1972: Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations in New York (from 2000), Geneva (1996–2000) and Vienna (1992–1996)[705]
Umar Ahmad Ghuman (College class of 1996) Former Federal Minister of State for Investment and Privatization 2002–2007, chairman Board of Investment, Member of
Parliament of Pakistan from Sialkot, Pakistan
Sachin Pilot: Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Corporate Affairs in the
Indian government (2012–2014); former Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology (2014–2016)
Alice Paul: women's suffrage leader who led a successful campaign that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the US federal election in 1920
Mitchell D. Silber: former director of intelligence analysis for the
New York City Police Department from 2007 to 2012; current executive director of the Community Security Initiative, and expert in political risk, intelligence, and security analysis.
Ephraim Leister Acker (1827–1903) earned his M.D., (Penn Med class of 1852)[711] and LL.B., (
Penn Law class of 1886), served as Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1871–1873[314]
David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892) Penn Med class of 1838[719] volunteered as consulting and operating surgeon when President
James A. Garfield was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet in 1881[720] and wrote The Principles and Practice of Surgery based on his experience of fifty active years, of practicing medicine[719] which was a three-volume set published 1878–1883
John Archer, Penn Med class of 1768: first person to receive a medical degree from an American medical school and a US congressman from Maryland
John Light Atlee (1799–1885) Penn Med class of 1820: an American
physician and
surgeon who helped found Lancaster County Association of Physicians, organize the American Medical Association and served as its president, and was appointed professor of anatomy at
Franklin and Marshall College[723]
William Maclay Awl, (May 24, 1799 – November 19, 1876)[724] 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[725] 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....[726] 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[727][728]
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[734][735]
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[184] and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn[185][184]
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
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
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[743]
Walter Freeman: Penn Med class of 1920; lobotomist who performed nearly 3500
lobotomies in 23 states; first neurologist in Washington, D.C.[747]
A.Y.P. Garnett (1820–1888), Penn Med class of 1842: served as president of the American Medical Association[748] and served
Jefferson Davis[749] and as physician to
Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War
Isaac Hays: Penn College class of 1816 and Penn Med class of 1822
ophthalmologist; first treasurer and founding member of Board of the American Medical Association and editor for over fifty (50) years of American Journal of the Medical Sciences
David Jackson, Penn Med class of 1768: appointed to manage the lottery for costs of the
American Revolutionary War, but he resigned to become an army surgeon, Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786
Joseph Jorgensen, Penn Med class of 1865: Virginia representative to Congress
Myint Myint Khin, MD, (December 15, 1923 – June 19, 2014) an English major at the
University of Rangoon, she ultimately graduated from Penn Med with class of 1955, and also did her residency at University of Pennsylvania,[752][753] married (in 1953) to
San Baw, a medical school classmate who received an MD and an MS from Penn Med,[753][754][752] served as chair of the Department of Medicine of the
Institute of Medicine, Mandalay from 1965 to 1984, and served as a consultant at the
World Health Organization from 1985 to 1991, published eleven books in Burmese and two in English
Nathan Francis Mossell: (July 27, 1856 – October 27, 1946) Penn Med class of 1882: the first African-American graduate of
Penn Med who did post-graduate training at hospitals in Philadelphia and London, was the first black physician elected as member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society and was founder of
Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and the Philadelphia branch of the
NAACP[763]
Leo C. Mundy, Penn Med class of 1908, (1887–1944) physician and politician who served as a member of the
Pennsylvania Senate for the
21st district[764] 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[765]
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[766]
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[767] 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
John H. Outland, Penn Med class of 1899 (after starting at
University of Kansas); became one of the few men ever to win
All-American football honors as both lineman and the backfield player; voted "Most Popular Man" in the entire University of Pennsylvania
John M. Patton, Penn Med class of 1818: Virginia representative to Congress
William Pepper (August 21, 1843 – July 28, 1898), Penn Bachelor's Degree 1862 and 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;[769] 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.[260][770] founder of Philadelphia's
first free public library
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
Horatio C Wood, Jr. [sic], Penn Med class of 1862: author of the 1874 work Treatise on Therapeutics, Special Prize from
American Philosophical Society for his 1869 paper Research upon American Hemp, 1871 Warren Prize from Massachusetts General Hospital for Experimental Researches in the Physiological Action of Amyl Nitrite, 1872 Boylston Prize for Thermic Fever or Sunstroke, nephew of
George Bacon Wood
Joseph Janvier Woodward,(1833–1884), (commonly known as J. J. Woodward) Penn Med class of 1853): served as 34th president of the American Medical Association; pioneer in photomicrography, surgeon; performed the autopsies of
Abraham Lincoln and
John Wilkes Booth; attended to president James A. Garfield after he was shot[789]
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
Tench Tilghman, College class of 1761:
lieutenant colonel and longest-serving
aide-de-camp to General
George Washington of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War; Washington wrote about him: "...none could have felt his death with more regard than I did, because no one entertained a higher opinion of his worth".
James Tilton: first titled surgeon general of the US Army; served in that capacity during the
War of 1812
Henry D. Todd Jr., US Army major general who commanded artillery units during World War I[796]
Anthony Wayne: US Army general during the American Revolutionary War; namesake of many towns, cities and counties across the United States; attended Penn but did not earn a degree
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.[799]
Stephen Decatur: American commodore noted for his heroism during the
First Barbary War and the
War of 1812, he was the youngest man ever to attain the rank of
captain in the United States Navy (USN); namesake of many communities and counties in the US
Sundar J.M. Brown:[804] founder of IntelliGen Consulting Group and leading scholar of theoterrorism; former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Operations/Clandestine Services Case Officer (South Asia); US DOI/IC contractor
Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, class of 1883:
Lutheran minister, educator, author and church theologian; president of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America (1903–1920)
William Bartram: 18th- and 19th-century naturalist, attended Penn but did not earn a degree
Alfred P. Boller: bridge designer and structural engineer; chief engineer of
Manhattan's elevated railroad track system, the first of its kind in the world
Gonzalo Castro de la Mata: Peruvian ecologist; promoter of free-market solutions to environmental issues; chairman of the Inspection Panel of the World Bank since 2014
William Francis Channing, class of 1844: co-inventor of the world's first electric municipal
fire alarm system, whose principles remain essentially unchanged and form the basis of most public fire alarm systems
Jeffrey Chuan Chu: core member of the engineering team that designed the first American electronic computer, the
ENIAC
J. Clarence Karcher: geophysicist and businessman who invented and commercialized the
reflection seismograph, the means by which most of the world's oil reserves have been discovered
Eliya Zulu; Demographer and founder of the African Institute for Development Policy
Other
Mackenzie Fierceton, activist who has sued university over its role in investigation of her alleged abusive childhood that led to her withdrawing from her Rhodes scholarship in case still being litigated[811]
Scott Nearing (August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983) Penn Law class of 1904 (dropped out) Wharton class of 1905 (BS) and class of 1909 (Ph.D.): 20th-century conservationist, peace activist, educator, writer and economist[818]
Joshua Eilberg, Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1967–1979;[820] plead guilty to conflict of interest charges and was sentenced to 5 years of probation and fined $10,000[821][822]
Ira Einhorn: murderer nicknamed the "Unicorn Killer"
Sarma Melngailis (born 1972) Penn College and Wharton (class of 1994): vegan chef convicted of stealing 2 million dollars from supporters and being sentenced to 4 months in jail[826]
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