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

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Penn alumni are the current or past presidents of over one hundred universities and colleges including Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Cornell University, University of California system, University of Texas system, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Tulane University, Bowdoin College, and Williams College; and eight medical schools including New York University Medical School, and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Chuck Bednarik (class of 1949): Philadelphia Eagles linebacker and 1960 NFL champion; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame; namesake of the Chuck Bednarik Award in college football; recipient of the 2010 Walter Camp Distinguished American Award

George Washington Tuffy Conn (1892–1973) 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[135]

Jim Finn (class of 1999):[136] NFL fullback and New York Giants Super Bowl XLII Champion[137]

Ernest Alexander Tex Hamer (1901–1981) class of 1923: 1926 NFL Champion playing for Frankford Yellow Jackets

Walter Irving Pard Pearce (1896–1974, class of 1920): won 1921 NFL Championship playing for the Chicago Staleys (now the Chicago Bears)

Carroll Rosenbloom (class of 1928) a two-year letterman as a halfback on the Penn football team in 1927 and 1928 who was the owner of two National Football League franchises, the Baltimore Colts and the Los Angeles Rams,[138][139][140][141] where his franchises amassed the best ownership winning percentage in NFL history (.660) (with a total regular season record of 226 wins, 116 losses, and 8 ties) and won 3 NFL championships (1958, 1959, 1968), and one Super Bowl (V)[142]

Justin Watson (class of 2018): NFL wide receiver and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl LV and Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVII and Super Bowl LVIII Champion[143]

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.

Ernie Beck, class of 1953; selected by Philadelphia Warriors as the 2nd overall pick in the 1953 National Basketball Association draft (winning NBA championship in 1956),[150] played for the St. Louis Hawks (now Atlanta Hawks), and Syracuse Nationals (now known as Philadelphia 76ers)

Corky Calhoun, class of 1972, was selected by Phoenix Suns as the 4th overall pick in the 1972 NBA Draft, played for four teams in nine seasons and won NBA championship title with the Portland Trail Blazers in 1977[150][151][152]

"Chink"[153] Francis Crossin (1923–1981), class of 1947, was selected by Philadelphia Warriors as the 6th overall pick in the 1947 Basketball Association of America (which a few years later merged into another professional league) Draft, played for the Warriors for three years and averaged a career-high 7.0 points per game in 1949–50,[150] named EBA Most Valuable Player in 1952[154]

Matt Maloney, class of 1995, was not selected in the 1995 NBA draft but signed with the Houston Rockets, played six NBA seasons with the Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, and Chicago Bulls and, in 1997, was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team[150]

Bob Morse: class of 1972; played in Europe, named in 2008 as one of the 50 most influential personalities in European club basketball[155] played for Italian League club Pallacanestro Varese, also led the Italian League in scoring during six seasons[156]

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[150]

Zack Rosen (class of 2012): All-American basketball player; played professionally with Hapoel Holon,[157] Hapoel Jerusalem B.C., and Maccabi Ashdod B.C., all of the Israeli Basketball Super League;[158] won the 3-point shootout in the Israeli Super League All Star Game in 2014 and 2015[159][160]

Jerry Simon: basketball player, class of 1990, American-Israeli, who after being captain of Penn basketball team played professional basketball in Israel for three teams in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, and for the Israel men's national basketball team[161][162][163][164][165][166][167]

Matthew White: basketball player, class of 1979, selected by Portland Trail Blazers, played professionally in the Liga ACB for several teams[168][169][170]

Chuck Bednarik (class of 1949): Philadelphia Eagles linebacker and 1960 NFL champion; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame; namesake of the Chuck Bednarik Award in college football; recipient of the 2010 Walter Camp Distinguished American Award

Eddie Bell College class of 1955: first black All-American in football, who then played for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles from 1955 through 1958, Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1959 (where he was selected as an All-Star at linebacker), and American Football League's New York Titans in 1960

George Washington Tuffy Conn (1892–1973) 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[135]

Jim Finn (class of 1999):[136] NFL fullback and New York Giants Super Bowl XLII Champion[137]

Ernest Alexander Tex Hamer (1901–1981) class of 1923: 1926 NFL Champion playing for Frankford Yellow Jackets

Jeff Hatch: (born 1979),[171] class of 2002, selected during the third round of the 2002 NFL draft as the 78th overall pick by New York Giants[172] where he played offensive tackle and started in four games in 2003[173] and played football at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Division I-AA All-American in 2001[174]

Florian Gerard Kempf (born 1956) class of 1978: played four seasons in the National Football League for the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints[176][177]

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[178]

Rob Milanese: Arena Football League wide receiver; school's all-time leading receiver

Ben Noll class of 2004: was signed as an undrafted free agent by the St. Louis Rams after the 2004 NFL draft on June 18 and then played in NFL for the St. Louis Rams, Dallas Cowboys, and Detroit Lions[179][180]

Ryan O'Malley class of 2016: O'Malley was rated the 15th best tight end in the 2016 NFL draft by NFLDraftScout.com,[citation needed] signed with the Oakland Raiders on May 10, 2016, after going undrafted in the 2016 NFL Draft[181][182]

Pete Overfield Penn Law class of 1900: All-American at Penn[183] 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 (1896–1974, class of 1920); won 1921 NFL Championship playing for the Chicago Staleys (now the Chicago Bears)

Frank Reagan: former professional football player for the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, 1941–1951; led the NFL in interceptions in 1947

John Schweder: football player who played offensive lineman for six seasons for the Baltimore Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers

George Sullivan: Professional football player who played in 22 games, starting in 12, for the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the National Football League from 1924 to 1925;[184] and 8 games, starting in 6, for the Philadelphia Quakers of the American Football League during the 1926 season[184] The AFL folded after the 1926 season

Joe Valerio: NFL pro who spent five seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs

Blondy Wallace: College All-American, NFL pro, and bootlegger

Justin Watson (class of 2018): NFL wide receiver and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl LV and Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVII Champion[143]

Osbern Putnam "Diddy" Willson (1911–1961) Penn College class of 1933, was a guard who played three seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL)[184]

Doc Bushong, DDS University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, class of 1882, was one of the first to matriculate, in 1878 in the brand-new Department of Dentistry, and was first University of Pennsylvania graduate from any school at Penn to play in Major League baseball[185] and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn[186][185]

Tom Cahill (baseball) (1868–1894) Penn Med class of 1893 but left in 1891 and did not graduate[187] played one season in Major League Baseball for the Louisville Colonels

Mark DeRosa: San Francisco Giants infielder/outfielder; part of World Series-winning 2010 team

Edward Stephen Doc Farrell (1901–1966) Penn class of 1924; had a 10-year Major League Baseball career with teams such as the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants), New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox

Charlie Ferguson (1863–1888) 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[188]

Doug Glanville: University of Pennsylvania Engineering class of 1992, with major in systems engineering;[189] one of only five Penn alumni to play in Major League Baseball since 1951, and the first African-American Ivy League graduate to play in the majors;[190] received the Outstanding Pro Prospect award in 1990;[191] New York Times op-ed columnist

William John Billy Goeckel (1871–1922) 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"[192] 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[192]

Scott Graham: long-time Philadelphia Phillies sportscaster

Jim Peterson: Major League Baseball player, 1931–1937; winner of the 1931 World Series playing for the Philadelphia Athletics (now the Oakland Athletics)

Roy Thomas: Philadelphia Phillies player and National League leader in runs scored, base on balls, and on-base percentage

Steve Yerkes: Wharton dropout, played Major League Baseball 1909–1916 with the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs; scored the Series-winning run in the tenth inning of Game Eight of the 1912 World Series for the Red Sox

Elwood Otto "Woody" Wagenhorst (1863–1946) Penn Law class of 1892: played Major League Baseball as a third baseman for the Philadelphia Quakers in 1888 (in two career games, he had one hit in eight at-bats),[193] served as the head football coach at Penn from 1888 to 1891, compiling a record of 39–18, while a student at Penn Law,[127] and as head coach of University of Alabama in 1896 and University of Iowa in 1897[128]

Cliff Bayer: foil fencer, two-time Olympian, four-time US champion, NCAA champion, Pan Am silver medalist

Paul Friedberg: Olympic fencer, three-time NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games champion

Shaul Gordon (born 1994) (College class of 2016): Canadian-Israeli Olympic sabre fencer for Canada[194]

Brooke Makler (1951–2010), Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, two-time Pan American Games champion

Paul Makler Jr. (born 1946): Olympic fencer, NCAA champion

Paul Makler Sr. (1920–2022): Penn Med class of 1964 and Penn undergraduate class of 1944: fenced for the University of Pennsylvania Quakers,[195][196] competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.,[195] won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1955 Pan American Games,[197][195] won an Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) national team épée title in 1956,[195] and was president of the American Fencing Association in 1962[197]

David Micahnik (born 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[198] and competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics[199]

Chris O'Loughlin (born 1967), Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games silver medalist, Pan American Games bronze medalist

Maxine Esteban, Ivorian Olympic fencer

Joe Burk (1914–2008) Wharton class of 1934 (and Penn crew coach from 1950 to 1969): was named the "world's greatest oarsman" in 1938[200] 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

Susan Francia (winner of gold medals as part of the women's 8-oared boat at 2008 Olympics and 2012 Olympics)

Augustus Goetz (1904–1976), Penn College class of 1925 and Penn Law class of 1929, competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1928 Summer Olympics[201][202][203]

Janusz Hooker (Wharton class of 1992)[204] won the bronze medal in Men's Quadruple Sculls for Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[205]

John B. Kelly Jr., son of John B. Kelly Sr. (winner of three medals at 1920 Summer Olympics) and brother of Princess Grace of Monaco, was the second Penn Crew alumnus to win the James E. Sullivan Award[206] for being nation's best amateur athlete (in 1947), who was winner of a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics).

Ted A. Nash (former Penn Coach) – 1960 (gold medal) and 1964 (bronze medal) US Olympic Teams and US Olympic Coach from 1968 to 2008[207]

Harry Parker, class of 1957: 1960 US Olympic Team member[208] and US Olympic Coach 1964–1984

John Anthony Pescatore (who competed in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games for the United States as stroke of the men's coxed eight which earned a bronze medal[209] and later competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games in the men's coxless pair),

Regina Salmons (member of 2021 US team),[210]

Sam Burley: track and field record holder

Danny Cepero: first Major League Soccer goalkeeper to score a goal from open play

Grace "Sunny" Choi (born 1988) Wharton Undergrad class of 2011 BS in Econ.: Breakdancer for United States Olympic team at 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris,[211] won the silver medal at World Games, and won first gold medal in breakdancing ever given at the Pan American Games[212][213] and as a result of such win became the first American woman to qualify for breakdancing at the 2024 Olympics[214]

Frank B. Ellis, class of 1893: co-founder of the Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and field competition in the US

Alexander Grant: early 20th-century US and world champion and record holder in several track and field events

Nelson Zwingluis Graves (1880–1918) 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[215]

Syed Mohammed Hadi (1899–1971) Masters degree in class of 1926:[216] 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[217]) 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[218]

Wallace F. Johnson: early 20th-century US tennis champion

Florian Gerard Kempf (born 1956) class of 1978: played four seasons in the National Football League for the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints[176][177] and soccer for the Philadelphia Fury of the North American Soccer League and the Pennsylvania Stoners of the American Soccer League[219]

Frank Villeneuve Nicholson: rugby player, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (class of 1910);[220] in 1904 captained the Australian national rugby team in its match against England and in 1906 reintroduced rugby union as a sport to Penn students[221][222][223]

George Patterson (class of 1888), who still holds the North American batting record (and who starred for the professional Philadelphia Cricket Team[224]

Stan Startzell class of 1972: played (a) on Penn men's soccer team from 1969 to 1971[225](where he was twice a second team All American and a first team All American in 1971[226][227][228] and was also second team All Ivy League as a placekicker on the Penn football team in 1971)[229] 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[230]) and (c) for Philadelphia Atoms in 1973 (who won the league championship that year)[231]

John Borland Thayer, II (1862–1912 [due to sinking of the Titanic]) class of 1882: captain of the Penn Lacrosse team in 1879, previously a member of Penn baseball team,[232] and when not playing on Penn cricket team was part of the Philadelphian side that visited England in 1884.[232]

William Bill Tilden, Jr. class of 1915 (did not graduate): tennis player who won 10 Grand Slam titles, including 7 US Opens and 3 Wimbledons

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

William Bingham, class of 1768, a founder and director of the Bank of North America, the first modern United States bank

John Bogle: founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group

Richard Bloch (class of 1942): co-founder, H&R Block

Len Bosack: co-founder, Cisco Systems (Internet router company)

David J. Brown: co-founder of Silicon Graphics

Warren Buffett: CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, investor, the second richest man in the world (attended for two years before transferring to the University of Nebraska)

Jonathan Brassington : CEO and co-founder LiquidHub.[233]

William P. Carey: founder of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC,[234] a corporate real estate financing firm headquartered in New York City

Steven A. Cohen: founder and Manager, SAC Capital Partners and Point72 Asset Management

Catherine Austin Fitts: CEO and founder of Solari Inc., former United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing

John Grayken: founder and chairman of Lone Star Funds[235]

James Dinan: hedge fund manager and founder of York Capital Management

Sam Hamadeh: founder, Vault Inc. and film producer

Brad Handler: co-founder and chairman of Inspirato; first in-house attorney at eBay

Josh Harris: co-founder of Apollo Global Management

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

Vernon Hill: founder, chairman, and CEO, Commerce Bancorp

Jon Huntsman Sr.: billionaire, founder of the Huntsman Corporation

Josh Kopelman: founder of Half.com

Geraldine Laybourne: founder of Oxygen Media

Douglas Lenat: founder of artificial intelligence company Cycorp

Ronald Li: founder and past chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Ken Moelis: founder of Moelis & Company

Elon Musk: technology entrepreneur; founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder of PayPal; board member of Planetary Society; investor and chairman of the board of Tesla Motors

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

William Novelli: CEO of AARP; founder and past president of Porter Novelli, one of the world's largest lobbying and public relations firms, now part of the Omnicom Group

William S. Paley: founder, CBS Corporation

Stephen M. Peck: investor and philanthropist, co-founder of Weiss, Peck & Greer

Mark Pincus: co-founder of Zynga (class of 1988)

J.D. Power III: founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power & Associates

Raj Rajaratnam: billionaire founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group

Josh Resnick: founder and president, Pandemic Studios

Ralph J. Roberts: co-founder, Comcast Corporation

Michael Tiemann: co-founder of Cygnus Solutions (a GNU software company), now CTO of Red Hat

Edward Rosenthal: founder of Riverside Memorial Chapel

Henry Salvatori: founder, Western Geophysical; founding stockholder of the National Review magazine

Harry Scherman: co-founder of the Book of the Month Club

Tanya Seaman: co-founder of PhillyCarShare

Joseph Segel: founder, QVC; founder, Franklin Mint

Brian Sheth: co-founder and President of Vista Equity Partners

Gregg Spiridellis: founder, JibJab Media, Inc.

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

Laura J. Alber: president and CEO of Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Anil Ambani: billionaire, chairman, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

Walter Annenberg: billionaire publisher; philanthropist; former U.S Ambassador to the United Kingdom; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; given the rank of Knight Commander (the second-highest rank in the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II

Susan Arnold: past chairman of the Walt Disney Company; past vice-chairman of Procter & Gamble

Morton J. Baum: president of Hickey Freeman

Nariman Behravesh (born 1948): economist

Alfred Berkeley: former president and vice-chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.

Nicholas Biddle: president of the Second Bank of the United States

Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell: chairman of Interserve and Lloyds Banking Group

Matt Blank: chairman and CEO of Showtime

Mitchell Blutt: Executive Partner, J.P. Morgan Chase

Christopher Browne: past managing director of Tweedy, Browne Co.

Charles Butt: billionaire, CEO and chairman, H-E-B Grocery Company[236]

Robert Castellini: CEO and part-owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team

Arthur D. Collins Jr.: chairman and CEO, Medtronic

Stephen Cooper: CEO of Warner Music Group

Robert Crandall: chairman and CEO, American Airlines, Inc

Donny Deutsch: chairman, Deutsch, Inc.

Michael DiCandilo: chief financial officer and executive vice president of AmerisourceBergen corporation

Alexis Irénée du Pont Jr.: business executive for DuPont

Eugene du Pont: first head of modern-day DuPont

Mike Eskew: chairman and CEO, UPS

Alexander C. Feldman: president, US-ASEAN Business Council; former Assistant Secretary of State

Jay S. Fishman: chairman and CEO of The Travelers Companies

Russell P. Fradin: chairman and CEO of Hewitt Associates

Robert B. Goergen: chairman and CEO of Blyth, Inc.

Steven Goldstone: former chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco

Joel Greenblatt: hedge fund manager and author

George H. Heilmeier: former president and CEO of Bellcore (now Telcordia)

Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.: US ambassador to Sweden, former chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

C. Robert Henrikson: chairman, president and CEO, MetLife

Lauren Hobart: President and CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods

Philip B. Hofmann: past chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson

Jirair Hovnanian: home builder

John Carmichael Jenkins: planter and proponent of slavery in the Antebellum South

Reginald H. Jones: former chairman and CEO of General Electric

Yotaro Kobayashi: chairman and co-CEO, Fuji Xerox

Kong Dongmei: Chinese entrepreneur and granddaughter of the founder of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong

Leonard Lauder: chairman and CEO of Estée Lauder; billionaire investor[237]

Terry Leahy: CEO, Tesco

Gerald Levin: former CEO of AOL Time Warner

Edward J. Lewis: former chairman of the board of the Oxford Development Company, one of the largest Pennsylvania-based real estate firms

George Lindemann: billionaire industrialist

Joseph Wharton Lippincott: past president and chairman of the board of J. B. Lippincott Company, and grandson of industrialist Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School of Business

Robert Litzenberger: partner, Goldman Sachs

Betty Liu: executive vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange

John A. Luke Jr.: chairman and chief executive officer of MeadWestvaco Corporation

Peter Lynch: investor; vice chairman of Fidelity Investments

Harold McGraw III: president and CEO of McGraw-Hill Companies and chairman of the Business Roundtable

Michael Milken: trader, financier, pardoned felon

Bill Miller: chairman and chief investment officer, Legg Mason Capital Management

Jordan Mintz: Enron whistleblower

Aditya Mittal: president and CFO, Mittal Steel Company

Michael Moritz: venture capitalist, Sequoia Capital

Michael H. Moskow: 8th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Laxman Narasimhan: former CEO of the Starbucks Corporation

Phebe Novakovic: chairman and CEO of General Dynamics

Bruce Pasternack: president and CEO of the Special Olympics International; former senior vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

Ronald O. Perelman: billionaire investor

Benjamin W. Perkins Jr.: Thoroughbred racehorse trainer

Douglas L. Peterson: CEO of McGraw Hill Financial

Lionel Pincus: past chairman of Warburg Pincus

Lewis E. Platt: president, CEO and chairman of the board of Hewlett-Packard

Edmund T. Pratt Jr.: former chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Inc.

Frank Quattrone: prominent investment banker, formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston

Robert Rabinovitch: former president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Sylvia Rhone: former president and CEO of Eastwest Records, Elektra Records, and Motown Records; first Black woman to head a major record company

Rich Riley: CEO, Shazam; former senior vice president and managing director of Yahoo! Europe, Middle East & Africa

James O. Robbins: president and CEO of Cox Communications

Brian L. Roberts: chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation

Lucille Roberts University of Pennsylvania (College for Women, class of 1964): namesake and proprietor of women's fitness clubs[238]

Eileen Clarkin Rominger: Goldman Sachs partner

Frank Rooney: past CEO of Melville Corporation

Harold Rosen: Executive Director of the Grassroots Business Fund

Arthur Ross: businessman and philanthropist

Perry Rotella: senior vice president and CIO of Verisk Analytics

J. Brendan Ryan: chairman of Foote, Cone, and Belding

Charles S. Sanford Jr.: CEO of Bankers Trust

Alan D. Schnitzer: CEO of the Travelers Companies

John Sculley: former president of PepsiCo; former CEO of Apple Computer

Paul V. Scura: former executive vice president and head of the investment bank of Prudential Securities

Mike Sievert:Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (class of 1991): CEO of T-Mobile US[239]

Henry Silverman: COO of the Apollo Group, formerly head of Cendant Corporation

Young Sohn: president and chief strategy officer of Samsung Electronics

Richard Stearns: president of World Vision

Patrick J. Talamantes: CEO of McClatchy Company

James S. Tisch: CEO, Loews Corporation

Laurence Tisch: former CEO of CBS

Roy Vagelos: former CEO of Merck

James L. Vincent: past president and CEO of Biogen Idec

George Herbert Walker IV: College and Undergraduate class of 1991 and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School class of 1992, Benjamin Franklin Scholar graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received a dual degree – a B.S. and a B.A., both summa cum laude, and received an MBA as a Palmer Scholar;[240] received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship was a member of the St. Anthony Hall fraternity; CEO of Neuberger Berman; former managing director of Lehman Brothers; formerly a partner with Goldman Sachs & Co; co-president, Commodities Corporation.[241]

Jacob Wallenberg: chairman, Investor

Jeff Weiner: CEO of LinkedIn

Dawne Williams: former CEO of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank

Joseph P. Williams: creator of the first all-purpose bank credit card, BankAmericard (now Visa)

Gary L. Wilson: CEO and chairman, Northwest Airlines

William Wrigley Jr. II: chairman and former CEO of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, makers of chewing gum and confectionery products

Steve Wynn: chairman and CEO Wynn Resorts; former chairman and CEO Mirage Resorts, Inc.; responsible for the renaissance of Las Vegas

Morrie Yohai: co-creator of Cheez Doodles snack food

Mark Zandi: economist

Mortimer Zuckerman: real estate billionaire; publisher/owner of the New York Daily News; editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report

Martin Zweig: stock investor and author

Robert Adams Jr.: Penn graduate; served as a botanist with Penn professor Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden while exploring the northwest corner of Wyoming; their efforts led directly to the founding of Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the United States

Peter Custis, class of 1807: a leader of the Red River Expedition in 1806, the first civilian scientific expedition to explore the American West

Michael L. Gernhardt: (Penn Engineering class of 1983 (Masters) and 1991 (Ph.D.) in Bioengineering)[242] NASA astronaut

Charles Guillou: member of the 19th-century United States Exploring Expedition

Isaac Israel Hayes: 19th-century Arctic explorer; Heiss Island[243] in Franz Josef Land (Russia) was named in his honor

Elisha Kane: Arctic explorer who received medals from the United States Congress, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Société de Géographie for his work; namesake of the naval destroyer USS Kane

Garrett Reisman: (Penn class of 1991) dual bachelor degrees from Wharton and Engineering schools via the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology[244] NASA Space Shuttle astronaut

B. Clark Wheeler: founder of Aspen, Colorado

Sources: University of Pennsylvania Archives[264][265]

George Clymer: Penn Trustee 1779–1813; an elected member of the Continental Congress who was one of only six people who signed the Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution[266]

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;[267] 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[268]

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[269]

Joseph R. Biden, former Benjamin Franklin Professor 2017–2019: 46th president of the United States

Dwight David Eisenhower, Honorary Doctor of Law, class of 1947[270]

James A. Garfield, Honorary Doctorate, class of 1881[270]

William Henry Harrison (Penn Med during 1791 but did not graduate): 9th president of the United States[271][272]

Herbert Hoover, Honorary Doctorate, class of 1917[270]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Honorary Doctor of Law, class of 1940[270]

Theodore Roosevelt, Honorary Doctorate, class of 1905[270]

William Howard Taft, Honorary Doctorate, class of 1902[270]

Donald J. Trump, Wharton School of Finance class of 1968: 45th president of the United States

George Washington, Honorary Doctor of Law, class of 1783[270]

Woodrow Wilson, Honorary Doctorate, class of 1903[270]

As of May 2020 , 31 Penn alumni have served as senators from 16 different states as detailed below:

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

As of July 2021 , Penn alumni have served as United States ambassadors to at least 51 different countries.

As of May 2020, 48 Penn alumni or trustees have served as governors of 24 different states, Puerto Rico and American Samoa as detailed below:

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) as detailed below:

Robert Adams Jr. (1849–1906; class of 1869 where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall fraternity): a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 6th district from 1883 to 1885[317](who also served as a member of the US House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1893 to 1906 and served as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil from April 1, 1889, through June 1, 1890)[318]

Harry W. Bass, (Penn Law class of 1896) first African American member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1911–1914[531]

Jennifer Beck: (University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government, MGA) Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey State Senate representing the 11th Legislative District from 2012 to 2018 and prior to redistricting, served in the Senate from 2008 to 2012 representing the 12th Legislative District, serving portions of Monmouth and Mercer counties, and represented the 12th District in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2006 to 2008

Arthur L. Bell MBA 1976, Maine state Representative

William Bingham (1752–1804): first Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Louis A. Bloom: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County (1947–1952) and Judge Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Delaware County

Karen Boback: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2007–2022)

Stacy Brenner: Democratic member of the Maine State Senate (2020–)[532]

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

Martha Hughes Cannon, BS, MD, Penn Med post-doc education class of 1882; Penn College class of 1882: Utah State Senator; first female state senator elected in the United States[533]

John B. Chase: member of Wisconsin State Senate[534]

Robert J. Clendening: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1949–1952)

Herbert B. Cohen (1900–1970; Wharton class of 1922 and University of Pennsylvania Law School class of 1925): served as Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, 1933–1940, twice as majority leader, once as minority leader; Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1955 through 1956; and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1957 through 1970[535][536]

Mark B. Cohen: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Eckley Brinton Coxe: Pennsylvania State Senator for the 21st district from 1881 to 1884

Jean B. Cryor: former Maryland Delegate

Glenn Cummings: Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives, including one term as Speaker of the House (2000–2008)

John Warren Davis: former member of the New Jersey State Senate; United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey; judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Dan Debicella: member of the Connecticut Senate

William K. Dickey: Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority

Marie Donigan (Penn School of Design, MS in Landscape Architecture): Democratic member of the Michigan State House of Representatives (2004–2011)[537]

David Frockt: (born 1969)[538] University of Pennsylvania, B.A. in Political Science (class of 1991): first elected to the Washington State House of Representatives in 2010 and in 2011, after the death of Senator Scott White, the Metropolitan King County Council voted unanimously to appointed for the 46th legislative district of Washington State Senate, which includes North Seattle, Lake Forest Park, and Kenmore Washington State Senate[539] and in 2012 was retained by voters to serve the remaining two years of the open Senate term and in 2014 was re-elected to a full term in the State Senate, where he is a member on the Ways & Means, Law & Justice, and Human Services committees[540]

Michael F. Gerber: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Michael U. Gisriel: former member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Stewart Greenleaf: Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1978– )

Bernard Gross (born 1935) Wharton School of Finance class of 1956 and Penn Law class of 1959; lawyer elected twice[541] as Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 200th district for years 1967–1970[542][543]

John J. Hafer: former Maryland State Senator

James Hamilton (trustee 1755–1783; president of board 1764, 1771–1773) member of Assembly of Province of Pennsylvania (1735–1740) and member of Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1746–1747)[516]

Phil Hart (Wharton MBA, class of 1984): Republican Party Senator in Idaho Senate (2022– ) who previously served in the Idaho House of Representatives for Legislative District 3B from 2004 to 2012[544]

Charlie Brady Hauser: member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Jon Hinck: member of the Maine House of Representatives (2006– )

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

Eric Johnson: Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives (2010– )

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

Tony Jordan: member of the New York State Assembly (2009– )

Steve Katz: member of the New York State Assembly and Candidate for New York State Senate

John Manners: president of the New Jersey Senate (1852)

John Hartwell Marable: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (class of 1814) but with no record of graduation; member of the Tennessee Senate (1817–1818)[545]

Bruce Marks: Republican member of the Pennsylvania 2nd senatorial district 1994 to 1995[546][547][548][549]

Charles B. Moores: University of Pennsylvania Law School (class of 1874)[550] Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives (1895–96)[551]

Raj Mukherji: Assemblyman of the New Jersey State Legislature

Jennifer O'Mara (Penn Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, class of 2017) represents the 165th Legislative District, which includes parts of Springfield Township, Marple Township, Radnor Township and the borough of Morton.[552][553]

Joseph J. Roberts: former Speaker and Assemblyman of the New Jersey State Legislature

Ronald B. Russell (Penn College class of 1982): Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives (2022– )[554]

Richard Peters Jr., class of 1761: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–1783; Commissioner for the Board of War for the Continental Army; Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; served in the Pennsylvania Senate; appointed as judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1815–1828)

James N. Robertson: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative (1949–1952)

Vaughn Stewart: Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2019– )

David W. Sweet: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1978–1988)

Chris Taylor: Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (2011– )

Eric Turkington: Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Charles R. Weiner: Democratic Leader of the Pennsylvania Senate

"Buck" Charles Wharton (1868–1949) Wharton School of Finance class of 1897: selected as an All-American guard in 1896 and also played on Penn teams that were undefeated and won back-to-back national championships in 1894 and 1895; served as Delaware State Senator from 1914 to 1917; in 1963, was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

Constance H. Williams: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate

Robert C. Wonderling: Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate

Bob Ziegelbauer: Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

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 as detailed below:

William Allen, a founder of Pennsylvania Hospital and trustee of University of Pennsylvania, funded the state house (Independence Hall), served as Mayor of Philadelphia, appointed judge of the Orphans’ and Common Pleas courts of Philadelphia and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (September 20, 1750 through 1767)[571][572]

Rachel Wainer Apter, College class of 2002, New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice who was confirmed by New Jersey Senate on October 17, 2022, and was sworn into office on October 21, 2022[573][574]

John C. Bell Jr. (1892–1974), 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 (1907–1993) 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))[575]

William J. Brennan: justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1951–1956) (later Justice of the United States Supreme Court)

William Bradford: justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1791–1794), and Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1780–91); attended Penn for three years before graduating from Princeton University

Elissa F. Cadish (College class of 1986): Justice Nevada Supreme Court (2019– )[576][577][578]

Joseph M. Carey: Attorney General of Wyoming (1869–1871); justice, Wyoming Supreme Court (1871–1876)

Herbert B. Cohen (1900–1970) Wharton (class of 1922) and University of Pennsylvania Law School (class of 1925) served as Representative of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, 1933–1940, twice as majority leader, once as minority leader; Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1955 through 1956; and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1957 through 1970[535][536]

James Harry Covington, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (1914–1918)(and co-founder of Covington & Burling)[579]

Lucius Elmer: former justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Attorney General of New Jersey

Arthur J. England Jr.: (Wharton Undergraduate class of 1955 and Penn Law class of 1961) served on the Florida Supreme Court (1975–1981) and was the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (1978–1980)[580]

Richard L. Gabriel, Penn Law class of 1987, (born 1962) was appointed in 2015 (and continues to serve after being retained in 2018) as an Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Justice Gabriel previously served on the Colorado Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2015

Randy J. Holland, justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1986–2017)[581]

William H. Lamb, (born 1940) Penn Law class of 1965): former justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (January 29, 2003 until January 2004)[571]

Daniel J. Layton: Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1933–1945), and Attorney General of Delaware (1932–33)

Robert N. C. Nix Jr.: former chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1984–1996), he was the first African-American Chief Justice of any state's highest court; justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1971–1984)

Joseph B. Perskie (1885–1957; class of 1907), associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1933 to 1947.[582]

Deborah T. Poritz, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1996–2006)[583](and previously was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1994 to 1996, in both cases becoming the first woman to serve in that position

Mark Rindner (College class of 1971, Graduate School of Education class of 1971): justice of Alaska Supreme Court[584]

Albert Rosenblatt: judge on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York state (1998–2006)

George Sharswood: former chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law

Thomas Smith: (University of Pennsylvania Medical School (class of 1829) Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court[585] (January 29, 1847, through January 3, 1853)[586]

Horace Stern (Penn Law class of 1890): Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1952–56) and Justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1932–1952)[587][588]

Leo E. Strine Jr. (Penn Law class of 1988): Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court (2014–2019)[589][590] and judge and vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery

Richard B. Teitelman: Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court (2011–2013)

William Tilghman: Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1805–1827); attended Penn but did not earn a degree

Jasper Yeates (College class of 1758),[591] was a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1787, appointed as a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1791, served until his death in 1817.[592]

Karen L. Valihura (Penn Law class of 1986) Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court[593] (appointed June 6, 2014)[594]

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)

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

Owen J. Roberts, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States[595]

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

At least 23 judges who served in 9 different circuit courts of appeal are alumni of Penn.

Arlin Adams (1921–2015), judge, Penn Law class of 1947 United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 1969–1987[596][597]

Edward R. Becker (1933–2006) Penn College class of 1954: former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

George M. Dallas (1839–1917),[598] Penn Law Professor of Torts and Evidence: Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1892–1909[599]

Andre M. Davis (born 1949) Penn College class of 1971:[600] judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2009–14)

Ronald M. Gould (born 1946): Penn class of 1968[601] judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

James Hunter III (1916–1989) Penn Law class of 1939, judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989[602][603]

Harry Ellis Kalodner (1896–1977) Penn Law class of 1917[604] chief judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977[605]

Phyllis A. Kravitch: judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit[606]

Robert Lowe Kunzig (1918–1982) Penn College class of 1939, Penn Law class of 1942, judge, US Court of Claims, 1971–1982[607]

Alan David Lourie (born 1935) Penn Graduate School of Arts and Sciences class of 1965, Ph.D. in Chemistry, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[608]

John Bayard McPherson (1846–1919) Penn Law Professor (1890–?) judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912–1919[609]

Florence Y. Pan: (Born 1965) class of 1988; College, BA, and Wharton, BS, Economics, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[610][611]

Arthur Raymond Randolph, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[612]

Marjorie Rendell: judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1994–97), and for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1997– )

L. Felipe Restrepo (Penn College class of 1981): United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2015 to present) and former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2006 to 2014)[613][614][615][616]

Paul Hitch Roney: chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1986–1989)

Max Rosenn, judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1970–2006[617]

Patty Shwartz, Penn Law class of 1986, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, assumed office April 10, 2013

Dolores Sloviter, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[618]

Joseph Whitaker Thompson, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1931–1946)[619]

Henry Galbraith Ward, Penn College (BA and MA class of 1870), judge, US United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1907–1924)[620]

Helene White, judge, US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[621]

Scott Wilson: judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1929–1943)[622]

Guy K. Bard (1895–1953) Penn Law class of 1922,[623] judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[624]

Harvey Bartle III, (born 1941) Penn Law class of 1965[625] judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[626]

Michael Baylson, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[627]

Ralph C. Body, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1965–1973[628]

Raymond J. Broderick, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[629]

Margo Kitsy Brodie (née Williams born 1966; Penn Law class of 1991): Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[630][631]

Allison D. Burroughs (born 1961) Penn Law class of 1988: United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts who received her federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014, and was sworn in on January 7, 2015. Judge Burroughs began her legal career as a law clerk for fellow Penn Law alumna Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1989 and also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1989 to 1995 and in the District of Massachusetts from 1995 to 2005.

James C. Cacheris: judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

A. Richard Caputo, judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[632]

Tanya Chutkan, Penn Law class of 1987, judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; judge overseeing the criminal trial of former US president Donald Trump related to the events leading up to the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack

Rudolph Contreras, judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

James Harry Covington, judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; co-founder of Covington & Burling[633]

James C. Cacheris: judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Stewart Dalzell (1943–2019), who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965 and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1969, was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.[634]

John Morgan Davis, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1964–1984

John Warren Davis, former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[635]

Paul S. Diamond, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[636]

John William Ditter Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[637]

Susan J. Dlott: judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1995– )

Herbert Allan Fogel, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1973–1978[638]

James S. Halpern: judge, United States Tax Court (1990–2005)[639]

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

Daniel Henry Huyett III, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1970–1998

Abdul Kallon, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alabama[640]

William Huntington Kirkpatrick, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1927–1958

John C. Knox, judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1948–55[641]

Charles William Kraft Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1956–2002

Caleb Rodney Layton III, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1957–1988[642]

Paul Conway Leahy, judge for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1942–66 -judge)(1948–57 -chief judge)[643]

James Russell Leech, judge, United States Tax Court (1932–1952)[644]

Joseph Simon Lord III, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1961–1992; Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1971–82)

Alfred Leopold Luongo, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1961–1986); Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1982–86)

Thomas Ambrose Masterson, judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1967–1973

James Focht McClure Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania[645]

Barron Patterson McCune, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania[646]

Joseph Leo McGlynn Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1974–1999

Gerald Austin McHugh Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2014–

Charles Louis McKeehan, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1923–1925

Roderick R. McKelvie, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1991–2002[647]

Mary A. McLaughlin, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[648]

Howard G. Munson: Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (1980–88)

John W. Murphy: Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (1946–1962); Chief Judge (for portion of 1945–1962)

Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[649]

Richard Peters Jr., class of 1761: Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–83; Commissioner for the Board of War for the Continental Army; Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; served in the Pennsylvania Senate; appointed by George Washington as judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1815–1828)

Gene E. K. Pratter, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[650]

Bruce E. Reinhart (Penn Law class of 1987) United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of Florida sworn in on March 14, 2018, law clerk for fellow Penn Law graduate Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1988 and also served as an Assistant United States Attorney, and known for approving search of former President's private residence[651]

Sue Lewis Robinson, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware[652]

Juan Ramon Sánchez, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[653]

Ralph Francis Scalera, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania[654]

Allen G. Schwartz, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1993–2003[655]

Murray Merle Schwartz, Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1974–[656]

Murray Merle Schwartz: Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1985–1989)

Norma Levy Shapiro, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[657]

Jerome B. Simandle, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[658]

Jonathan R. Steinberg: former judge for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

Charles Swayne, judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, 1890–1907

Donald West VanArtsdalen, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1970–1985[659]

Jay Waldman, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1988–2003

Gerald Joseph Weber,(Penn Law class of 1939), senior judge, chief judge, and judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1964–1988) (Chief Judge 1976–1982)[660]

Harold Kenneth Wood, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1959–1971

As of January 2023 there are at least 20 Penn Alumni who have been attorneys general in 5 states and District of Columbia

Penn alumni have served as heads of state of 11 different countries (in addition to the United States).

Suchan Chae (Penn School of Arts and Sciences class of 1985, Ph.D. in economics): former member of the National Assembly of Korea[695]

Wayne Chiang Wan-an (Penn Law LLM class of 2004, JD class of 2006): 24th mayor of Taipei[696]

Irving Gerstein: Canada senator (2009–2016)

Ron Huldai: mayor of Tel Aviv (1998–)

Raul Roco: former presidential candidate and secretary of education in the Philippines

Mauricio Rodas: mayor of Quito (2014–2019)[697][failed verification]

Yoginder K Alagh (MS, PhD): Member of upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India, Rajya Sabha, also known as the Council of States (1996–2000)

Douglas Alexander: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) (1997–2015), served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Scottish Secretary, Transport Secretary and International Development Secretary in the Cabinet under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and served Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet as Shadow Foreign Secretary[698]

David Campbell Bannerman: member of the European Parliament for East of England (2009– )

Suchan Chae: (University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences class of 1985, Ph.D. in economics) former member of the National Assembly of Korea (2004–2008)[695]

Aziz Dweik: (Penn Architecture School, Ph.D., class of 1988) Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council of the Palestinian National Authority and Interim President of the Palestinian National Authority[699][700]

Irving Gerstein member of the Senate of Canada (2009–2016)[701][702]

John Wallace de Beque Farris: Canadian politician and member of the Senate of Canada (1937–1970) and attorney general of Vancouver (1917–1920)

Rajeev Gowda (Wharton PhD): Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (2014-2020) from the Indian National Congress party

George Hollingbery: British Member of parliament (MP) (2010– )

Edward Jenkin: Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Great Britain; Agent-General of Canada

Bongbong Marcos: senator from the Philippines

Simón Gaviria Muñoz: president of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia (2011– )

Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover: British politician in the House of Lords

Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth: British member of the House of Lords (1998– )

Douglas Peters: member of the Canadian Parliament (1993–1997)

Sachin Pilot (Wharton MBA): Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2004–2014) from the Indian National Congress party

Mar Roxas: senator of the Philippines (2004–2010)

Jayant Sinha (Engineering MS): Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2014– ) from the Bharatiya Janata Party party

Conrad Sangma (Wharton BS): Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2016–2018) from the National People's Party party

Ashwini Vaishnaw (Wharton MBA class of 2010),[703] a member of Bharatiya Janata Party elected to be in Parliament of India representing Odisha State in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house in June 2019[704]

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[705]

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)

Peter Jacobson: judge of the Federal Court of Australia (2002– )

Yvonne Mokgoro: judge for the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Ayala Procaccia: justice of the Israel Supreme Court

Jack Redmond – College class of 2007, BA and MA: Circuit Judge (2022– ), Birmingham, the Midlands, United Kingdom[706]

Sir Peter Marcel Roth (born 1952),Penn Law LLM class of 1977)[707] is a British High Court judge[708]

Sir Ronald Wilson: former justice of the High Court of Australia

Fisseha Yimer (b. 1940) Penn Law LLM class of 1972: Judge on the High Court of Ethiopia (1975)[709]

Patrick Dele-Cole (Penn Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, 1969–1973 and Visiting Professor of History, 1997);[710] Ambassador of Nigeria to Brazil, 1987–1991[280]

Ron Dermer: 18th Israeli Ambassador to the United States (2013–2021)

Shen Lyu-shun (Penn Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MA, class of 1979, Ph.D. class of 1981: Republic of China representative to the US

Ulrik Federspiel (Penn Graduate School class of 1971, A.M.; Ambassador of Denmark to Ireland, 1997–2000; Ambassador of Denmark to the United States, 2000–present[280]

Roy Ferguson (Penn Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MA in International Relations, class of 1973, as a Fulbright scholar): 15th New Zealand Ambassador to the United States, New Zealand Ambassador to South Korea, and New Zealand Ambassador to North Korea[711]

Alfredo Toro Hardy (Penn Law LLM class of 1979), former Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Ireland and Singapore and former director of Venezuela's Diplomatic Academy[280]

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[280]

Andrés Rozental Gutman (born 1945) Penn Graduate School class of 1967, A.M.;[712] Ambassador of Mexico to Organization of American States, (1971–1974); Sweden (1983–1988); United Kingdom (1995–1997); Ambassador-at-large and Special Envoy of the President of Mexico, (2000– )[280]

Bernardo Vega (born 1938) Wharton class of 1959, B.S. in Econ., Dominican Ambassador to United States (1997–1999),[713] Governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (1982–1984)[280]

Fisseha Yimer (b. 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)[709]

Zeti Akhtar Aziz: governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia

Pridiyathorn Devakula: governor, Bank of Thailand, and former Minister of Finance

Farouk El Okdah: governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (2003– )

Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape: Mexican Secretary of Economy under President Felipe Calderón

Alfonso Prat Gay: former president of the Central Bank of Argentina (2002–2004); former Minister of Economy of Argentina (2015–2016)

Umar Ahmad Ghuman (College class of 1996) Former Federal Minister of State for Investment and Privatization 2002–2007, chairman Board of Investment, Member of Parliament of Pakistan from Sialkot, Pakistan

C. Rangarajan: governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1992–1997), governor of Andhra Pradesh (1997–2003), additional governor of Orissa (1998–1999), additional governor of Tamil Nadu (2001–2002)

Ignazio Visco: governor of the Bank of Italy (2011– )

Ashwini Vaishnaw (Wharton MBA class of 2010), a member of Bharatiya Janata Party who was appointed to Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology of India (July 7, 2021 to present) as Cabinet Minister in charge of Railways and Information Technology and is also a member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha State in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house in June 2019

Bernardo Vega (born 1938) Wharton class of 1959, B.S. in Econ., Dominican Ambassador to United States (1997–1999),[713] Governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (1982–1984)[280]

Boediono: Vice President of The Republic of Indonesia, 2009–2014

Yoginder K Alagh: past Union Minister of the Government of India

John William Ashe: president of the United Nations General Assembly at its 68th session

Luis Donaldo Colosio: Mexican politician and PRI presidential candidate assassinated while on the campaign trail

Raymond Ch'ien Kuo Fung: member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, 1992–2002; non-executive chairman, MTR Corporation Limited, 2003–present; chairman, Hang Seng Bank (2007– )

Donald Duke: governor of Cross River State, Nigeria (1999–2007)

Stefán Jón Hafstein Penn Annenberg School of Communications class of 1975: Icelandic writer and statesman in charge of Malawi[280]

Toomas Hendrik Ilves (born 1953) Penn Graduate School class of 1979, A.M.; Foreign Minister of Estonia, 1996–2001[280]

Chris Higgins: former Secretary of the Department of Treasury for Australia (1989-1990)

Ahsan Iqbal: past Federal Minister for Education for Pakistan

Philip Jaisohn: prominent figure in Korean independence movement; first Korean to become a naturalized US citizen

Cardozo M. Luna: 35th Vice Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines

Emilio Núñez: (University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine class of 1893) Vice President of Cuba (1917–21); former Cuban Minister of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor; general in Cuban Liberation Army; civil governor of the Province of Havana (1899–1902)

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)

Taleb Rifai: Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization; past Minister of Information and Planning of Jordan; past Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of Jordan

Conrad Sangma: Chief Minister of the Indian state of Meghalaya; former Minister of Finance, Power and Tourism (Government of Meghalaya)

Nabil Shaath: Wharton alumnus, former deputy prime minister and information minister of the Palestinian National Authority; current foreign minister

Sicelo Shiceka: Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs under President Jacob Zuma in South Africa (2009–2012)[714]

Jayant Sinha: Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Indian government (2016– ); former Minister of State for Finance (2014–2016)

Ashwini Vaishnaw: Minister of Railways, Communications, and Electronics and Information Technology in the Indian government (2021– )

As is detailed below, Penn Med has 4 alumni and 2 faculty members who were awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Ephraim Leister Acker (1827–1903) earned his M.D., (Penn Med class of 1852)[716] and LL.B., (Penn Law class of 1886), served as Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1871–1873[316]

Robert Adams Jr.: (1849-1906) class of 1869: member of St. Anthony Hall,[468] studied law under preceptor George W. Biddle (and admitted to the bar in 1872 but never practiced law),[717] served as member of the United States Geological Survey during the explorations of Yellowstone National Park; served in Pennsylvania State Senate[468][718][318] was appointed United States Minister to Brazil[468] was elected to Congress a vacancy and then served three terms as representative from the 2nd Pennsylvania district[468]

Pete Allen (1868–1946) Penn Med class of 1897,[719] played one game in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Spiders, specialized in proctology and was a member of the American Proctology Society, the American Medical Association and the Philadelphia County Medical Society, taught as an assistant professor of proctology at Jefferson Medical College[720]

Charles Conrad Abbott (1843–1919), Penn Med class of 1865[721] served as surgeon in Union Army during American Civil War[722] and in 1876 discovered traces of human presence in the Delaware River Valley dating from the first or "Kansan" ice age, and inferentially from the pre-glacial period when humans are believed to have entered upon the North American continent[723]

David Hayes Agnew (1818–1892) Penn Med class of 1838[724] volunteered as consulting and operating surgeon when President James A. Garfield was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet in 1881[725] and wrote The Principles and Practice of Surgery based on his experience of fifty active years, of practicing medicine[724] which was a three-volume set published 1878–1883

William Wallace Anderson: Penn College class of 1846 and Penn Med class of 1849[726] built and partially designed National Historic Landmarks Church of the Holy Cross (Stateburg, South Carolina) and Borough House Plantation, which is the largest assemblage of high-style pisé (rammed earth) structures in the United States[727]

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[728]

William Maclay Awl, (1799–1876)[729] 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 (1861–1932), Penn Med class of 1885[730] 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, (1786–1856) 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....[731] and Dean of Jefferson Medical College

Carrie Bearden, professor, the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

(Mary) Alice Bennett (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[732][733]

John Milton Bernhisel:(1799–1881) Penn Med class of 1827,[734] began practicing medicine in New York City but after became affiliated with the Latter Day Saint movement and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he served as the personal physician to Joseph Smith, and living in Smith's home and delivering some of his children, followed Brigham Young west with the majority of the Latter-day Saints to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, represented the Latter-day Saints before Congress to advocate for statehood as the State of Deseret, served in Congress, regent of the University of Utah, member of the Council of Fifty

William Wyatt Bibb (1781–1820) Penn Med class of 1801: served one term in Georgia House of Representatives,[735] was elected to United States Congress to fill a vacancy (an office to which he was reelected four times),[736] was elected by the state legislature to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy,[737] last governor of the Alabama Territory and first elected governor of Alabama[738]

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[739][740]

Leonard N. Boston: Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia (merged into University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) class of 1896, appointed Penn Med professor of physical diagnosis in 1912, and then associate professor of medicine in 1919, served as professor at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (now part of Drexel University College of Medicine) in 1928[741]

Allan G. Brodie, DDS (1897–1976) University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (Penn Dental) class of 1919: dentist and orthodonist, teacher, writer, and researcher who, in 1929, was invited by Dean Frederick Bogue Noyes to the University of Illinois College of Dentistry to organize its Department of Orthodontics, one of the first graduate orthodontics departments established in the United States

Michael S. Brown (born 1941) Penn College class of 1962 and Penn Med class of 1965, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism and is also the 1985 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research[742][743][744]

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[185] and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn[186][185]

Tom Cahill, Penn Med class of 1893 but left in 1891: played one season in Major League Baseball for the Louisville Colonels, died from an injury before finishing medical degree

Charles Caldwell, Penn Med class of 1796: founder of the University of Louisville School of Medicine[745]

John Carson: College class of 1771, Original Trustee, rechartered University of Pennsylvania, and original incorporator and Fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Samuel A. Cartwright, Penn Med alumnus from the 1810s who did not graduate: improved sanitary conditions during the American Civil War and was honored for his investigations into yellow fever and Asiatic cholera but criticised for unscientific creation of diseases affecting enslaved and free blacks

Henry H. Chambers, Penn Med class of 1811: US senator from Alabama

Nathaniel Chapman: (1780 –1853) Penn Med class of 1800: physician[746] who was the founding president of the American Medical Association in 1847,[747] founded the American Journal of the Medical Sciences in 1820 where he served as its editor for number of years, and also served as president of both the Philadelphia County Medical Society and the American Philosophical Society

John Claiborne, Penn Med class of 1798: Virginia representative to Congress

Lewis Condict, Penn Med class of 1794: New Jersey representative to Congress, trustee of Princeton College

Samuel W. Crawford, Penn Med class of 1850: US Army surgeon and a Union general in the American Civil War

William Holmes Crosby Jr. (1914–2005) Penn College class of 1936 and Penn Med class of 1940: a founding father of modern hematology; published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers in hematology, oncology, gastroenterology, iron metabolism, nutrition, and general medical practice; established in 1951 and was chief of the hematology and oncology specialties at Walter Reed Army Hospital until 1965; inventor of Crosby–Kugler capsule; published translator of poetry.

William Darlington, Penn Med class of 1804: War of 1812 major of a volunteer regiment, Pennsylvania representative to Congress

William Potts Dewees, Penn Med class of 1806: Obstetrician and author of System of Midwifery, a standard reference book on Obstetrics

Samuel Gibson Dixon: (1851–1918) 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[748]

Pliny Earle, class of 1837: physician, psychiatrist, poet; a founder of the American Medical Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, and the New England Psychological Society[749]

Gerald Edelman: (1929–2014) Penn Med class of 1954, an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the immune system[750] via research resulting in discovery of the structure of antibody molecules[751] and was founder and director of The Neurosciences Institute

Archibald Magill Fauntleroy: surgeon in the Confederate Army

Clement Finley, Penn Med class of 1818: 10th surgeon general of the United States Army

John Floyd, Penn Med class of 1804: 25th governor of Virginia, Virginia representative to Congress

Walter Freeman: Penn Med class of 1920; lobotomist who performed nearly 3500 lobotomies in 23 states; first neurologist in Washington, D.C.[752]

A.Y.P. Garnett (1820–1888), Penn Med class of 1842: served as president of the American Medical Association[753] and served Jefferson Davis[754] and as physician to Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War

Donald Guthrie (1880–1958), Penn Med class of 1905, surgeon best known for establishing Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania, in 1910, one of the earliest multi-specialty group medical practices, which Guthrie based on the principles he learned while a surgical resident (1906–1909) at Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota[755]

John Hahn (1776–1823) Penn Med class of 1798[756] elected to the Fourteenth Congress as a member of the US House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1815 to 1817

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

John Henry "Doc" Holliday, Dental School, class of 1872: western gambler and gunfighter

David Jackson, Penn Med class of 1768: appointed to manage the lottery for costs of the American Revolutionary War, but he resigned to become an army surgeon, Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786

Joseph Jorgensen, Penn Med class of 1865: Virginia representative to Congress

Myint Myint Khin, MD, (1923–2014) 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,[757][758] married (in 1953) to San Baw, a medical school classmate who received an MD and an MS from Penn Med,[758][759][757] served as chair of the Department of Medicine of the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay from 1965 to 1984, and served as a consultant at the World Health Organization from 1985 to 1991, published eleven books in Burmese and two in English

Albert Kligman, Ph.D., M.D.: University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences class of 1942 and Penn Med class of 1947; botanist and dermatologist who invented Retin-A, a popular acne medication[760]

Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, MBE, 2009: researcher, health activist, and cystic-fibrosis patient, founder of nonprofit Emily's Entourage

David E. Kuhl: developer of positron emission tomography, also known as PET scanning, a nuclear medicine imaging technique

Andrew Lam (ophthalmologist), Penn Med class of 2002: author and retinal surgeon

Caleb R. Layton, Penn Med class of 1876: Delaware representative to Congress

Francis Julius LeMoyne (attended Penn Med in 1821[761] but graduated from Jefferson Medical College): creator of the first crematory in the United States; abolitionist; founder of Washington, Pennsylvania's first public library (Citizen's Library); benefactor to LeMoyne–Owen College in Tennessee; his family house was utilized as part of the Underground Railroad and still stands today as a museum near the campus of Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania

Crawford Long, Penn Med class of 1839:[762] surgeon and pharmacist, namesake of Emory University-operated Crawford Long Hospital

George McClellan, class of 1819: founder of Jefferson Medical College, now Thomas Jefferson University

Willoughby D. Miller (1853–1907) Penn Dental class of 1879 (first class to graduate)[763] was an American dentist and the first oral microbiologist.[764] and was appointed dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1906, but died in 1907, prior to assuming the position[765][766][767]

George Edward Mitchell, Penn Med class of 1805: Maryland representative to Congress

Charles Delucena Meigs: pioneering leader in obstetrics

John Peter Mettauer: first plastic surgeon in the US

Nathan Francis Mossell: (1856–1946) 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[768]

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[769] 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[770]

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[771]

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[772] which led to publication of his textbook Modern Clinical Psychiatry, served as president of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society, and American Psychiatric Association

Archibald E. Olpp (1882–1949), Penn Med class of 1908: physician and politician who was an instructor in chemistry at Lehigh University and in biological chemistry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; served as first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps during the World War I; first Republican to be elected to Congress from the New Jersey's 11th congressional district[773]

John H. Outland, Penn Med class of 1899 (after starting at University of Kansas); became one of the few men ever to win All-American football honors as both lineman and the backfield player; voted "Most Popular Man" in the entire University of Pennsylvania

Mehmet Oz: surgeon, author and TV host

John M. Patton, Penn Med class of 1818: Virginia representative to Congress

William Pepper (1843–1898), 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;[774] 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.[261][775] founder of Philadelphia's first free public library

Sidney Pestka: biochemist and geneticist; the "father of interferon"

Philip Syng Physick, class of 1785: surgeon in post-colonial America; called "the father of American surgery"

Stanley B. Prusiner: (born 1942) Penn College class of 1964 and Penn Med class of 1968: neurologist and biochemist who discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein resulting in him being awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for prion research developed by him and his team of experts[776][777]

John H. Pugh, Penn Med class of 1852: New Jersey representative to Congress

David Ramsay, Penn Med class of 1773, 1780 (Hon. M.D.): South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, one of the first major historians of the American Revolution

Howard A. Rusk: founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center; "father of comprehensive rehabilitation"

Jacob A. Salzmann (1901–1992) Penn Dental class of 1922: orthodontist known for developing an assessment index for determining malocclusion, which has been adopted by American Dental Association Council of Dental Health, the Council on Dental Care Programs, and by the American Association of Orthodontists[778][779]

Sandra Saouaf: earned her PhD from Penn in immunology[780]

Valentine Seaman: physician who introduced the small pox vaccine to the US

Gregg Semenza: (born 1956), Penn Med class of 1982: professor of genetic medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he is director of the vascular program at the Institute for Cell Engineering,[781] is a 2016 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research,[782] is known for his discovery of HIF-1, which allows cancer cells to adapt to oxygen-poor environments, and shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability"[783][784]

Adam Seybert, Penn Med class of 1793: Pennsylvania representative to Congress

Rajiv Shah, Penn Med class of 2001: former director of USAID, formerly at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; also alumnus of the Wharton School; president, Rockefeller Foundation

Thomas Smith: (University of Pennsylvania Medical School class of 1829)[785] who, after obtaining his medical degree, was hired as a surgeon on a merchant vessel that traveled to trade in several East Asian ports and spent nearly ten years in China and learned to speak Chinese.[785] and later became a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court[585] (January 29, 1847, through January 3, 1853)[586]

Isaac Starr: Isaac "Jack" Starr (1895 –1989) Penn Med class of 1920,[786] interned at Massachusetts General Hospital, appointed Penn Med's first assistant professor in pharmacology, first Hartzell Professor of Research Therapeutics,[786] and dean from 1945 to 1948,[787] known as the father of ballistocardiography,[788][789] and awarded the Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association "for fundamental contributions to knowledge of the heart and the circulation, and for his development of the first practical ballistocardiograph",[790] Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians,[786] the Burger Medal of the Free University of Amsterdam,[786] and an honorary Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree from University of Pennsylvania for his contributions to medicine[791][792]

Alexander Hodgdon Stevens: second president of the American Medical Association

Alfred Stillé: the first Secretary, and later president of the American Medical Association

Joel Barlow Sutherland, Penn Med class of 1812: Pennsylvania representative to Congress, served in the War of 1812 as assistant surgeon to the "Junior Artillerists of Philadelphia"

Wendy Sue Swanson, Penn Med class of 2003: pediatrician, social media activist, author of Seattle Mama Doc blog

Hedge Thompson, Penn Med class of 1802: New Jersey representative to the Congress

Samuel Hollingsworth Stout, Penn Med class of 1848: Confederate surgeon, teacher, slaveholder, farmer

Edward Bright Vedder: US Army physician and noted researcher of beriberi

Bert Vogelstein: cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University

Drew Weissman Penn faculty and winner of 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology (see also List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation)[793]

William Carlos Williams, Penn Med class of 1906, poet, pediatrician, and general practitioner

Caspar Wistar, Penn Med class of 1782: president of the American Philosophical Society and president of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery

George Bacon Wood, Penn Med class of 1818: Compiled first Dispensatory of the United States (1833); president of both the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and American Medical Association

Horatio C Wood, Jr. [sic], Penn Med class of 1862: author of the 1874 work Treatise on Therapeutics, Special Prize from American Philosophical Society for his 1869 paper Research upon American Hemp, 1871 Warren Prize from Massachusetts General Hospital for Experimental Researches in the Physiological Action of Amyl Nitrite, 1872 Boylston Prize for Thermic Fever or Sunstroke, nephew of George Bacon Wood

Joseph Janvier Woodward,(1833–1884), (commonly known as J. J. Woodward) Penn Med class of 1853): served as 34th president of the American Medical Association; pioneer in photomicrography, surgeon; performed the autopsies of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth; attended to president James A. Garfield after he was shot[794]

William R. D. Blackwood (1838–1922) University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine class of 1862: Medal of Honor recipient from the American Civil War

Cecil Clay (1842–1903) University of Pennsylvania class of 1864; joined fraternity St. Anthony Hall;[795] Medal of Honor recipient and brevet brigadier general from the American Civil War

Joseph K. Corson (1836–1913)) University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine class of 1863: Medal of Honor recipient from the American Civil War

Henry A. du Pont (1838–1926): Medal of Honor recipient and lieutenant colonel from the American Civil War and elected twice by Delaware Assembly to United States Senate

Frederick C. Murphy (1918–1945) University of Pennsylvania class of 1943: Medal of Honor recipient from World War II who attended Penn before enlisting in the United States Army[796]

Thomas K. Finletter: US secretary of the Air Force, 1950–1953

Harris Hull (1909–1993) Wharton School of Business and Finance: class of 1930 B.S. in Economics,[797] decorated brigadier general of the United States Air Force (USAF) during World War II

George G. Lundberg (1892–1981) Wharton School of Business and Finance: class of 1917 B.S. in Economics:[798] appointed brigadier general of the USAF during World War II

David G. Young III, MD, (College class of 1971, BA in Biology): United States Air Force brigadier general[799]

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

William P. Biddle: (class of 1875 and member of Delta Psi fraternity AKA St. Anthony Hall) Major general and the 11th commandant of the United States Marine Corps[802]

George R. Christmas: (class of 1962, B.A) retired USMC lieutenant general, and president and CEO of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation[803]

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.[804]

John Marston (USMC): Major general during WWII

Samuel Nicholas: (Academy and College of Philadelphia class of 1759) founder and first commandant of the USMC, commissioned in 1775[805]

James A. Helis University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Master of Arts in political science: rear admiral and the 12th superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, 2012–2018

Ted Weems: bandleader for the US Merchant Marine during World War II

James Biddle: American commodore and explorer whose flagship was the USS Columbus and whose brother was fellow Penn alumnus and financier Nicholas Biddle

Adolph E. Borie: US secretary of the Navy under President Ulysses S. Grant

Kenneth Braithwaite: University of Pennsylvania, Fels Institute of Government (class of 1995, master's degree in government administration)[276] a retired United States Navy one-star rear admiral.[475] who as of December 7, 2020, is serving as the 77th secretary of the Navy since May 29, 2020.[806] as he was nominated by President Donald Trump on March 2, 2020, and was sworn in on May 29, 2020[807][808] and previously served as United States Ambassador to Norway[475] under President Donald J. Trump[277]

John Howard Dalton (Wharton Graduate School class of 1971, MBA): served as 70th Secretary of the Navy from July 22, 1993, to November 16, 1998

Thomas S. Gates, Jr. (Penn College class of 1928, A.B., and Hon. LL.D., 1956) Trustee): 7th United States Secretary of Defense (December 2, 1959 - January 20, 1961) and Secretary of the Navy[280]

Stephen Decatur: American commodore noted for his heroism during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812, he was the youngest man ever to attain the rank of captain in the United States Navy (USN); namesake of many communities and counties in the US

Nancy J. Lescavage: Rear Admiral and 20th Director of the Navy Nurse Corps

Mary Joan Nielubowicz: Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1983–1987

William Ruschenberger: Surgeon for the USN and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1870–1882, and president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 1879–1883

Richard Somers: Naval officer and namesake of Somers, New York, and Somers Point, New Jersey

James A. Zimble: 30th surgeon general of the USN

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