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University of Pennsylvania

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Philadelphia, PA

Founding Date:
1740

Motto:
Leges sine Moribus vanae

Team:
Quakers

Enrollment:
18,913

Official Website:
http://www.upenn.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert Adams, Jr.
Politician
26-Feb-1849 1-Jun-1906 Congressman, committed suicide
Charles Addams
Cartoonist
7-Jan-1912 29-Sep-1988 The Addams Family
Dean S. Adler
Business
c. 1957   Lubert-Adler Management
Douglas Alexander
Politician
26-Oct-1967   British MP, Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Gloria Allred
Attorney
3-Jul-1941   Feminist lawyer
Maryanne Amacher
Composer
25-Feb-1943   Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)
Christian Anfinsen
Chemist
26-Mar-1916 14-May-1995 Molecular structure of proteins
Walter Annenberg
Business
13-Mar-1908 1-Oct-2002 Media mogul, created TV Guide
Susan E. Arnold
Business
c. 1954   Global Business President, Proctor & Gamble
Dennis A. Ausiello
Doctor
c. 1945   Massachusetts General Hospital
Jon Avnet
Film/TV Producer
17-Nov-1949   Fried Green Tomatoes
Milton Babbitt
Composer
10-May-1916   Music for Synthesizer
John W. Bachmann
Business
16-Nov-1938   Partner, Edward Jones
Jay H. Baker
Business
c. 1934   President of Kohl's, 1986-99
Elizabeth Banks
Actor
10-Feb-1974   The Baxter
Bill Bass
Scientist
30-Aug-1928   Mayor of the Body Farm
Lee Bass
Business
c. 1957   Billionaire
Richard I. Beattie
Attorney
c. 1939   Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Marc E. Becker
Business
c. 1973   Apollo Management
Ralph Becker
Politician
30-May-1952   Mayor of Salt Lake City
Arnold Beckman
Inventor
10-Apr-1900 18-May-2004 Philanthropist who invented pH meter
Chuck Bednarik
Football
1-May-1925   Eagles Linebacker, Hall of Famer
Michael Behe
Biologist
18-Jan-1952   Darwin's Black Box
David Bell
Business
?   CEO of Financial Times Group, 1993-2005
Alan L. Beller
Attorney
c. 1950   Partner, Cleary Gottlieb
Y. Marc Belton
Business
c. 1959   Executive at General Mills
Barry H. Beracha
Business
c. 1941   CEO of Earthgrains Company, 1993-2001
Laurence M. Berg
Business
c. 1967   Senior Partner, Apollo Advisors LP
Nick Berg
Victim
2-Apr-1978 May-2004 US contractor beheaded on Iraq videotape
Candice Bergen
Actor
9-May-1946   Murphy Brown
Alfred R. Berkeley III
Business
1944   Former NASDAQ president
Ann E. Berman
Business
c. 1952   CFO of Harvard University, 2002-06
Alfred Bester
Novelist
18-Dec-1913 30-Sep-1987 The Stars My Destination
Nicholas Biddle
Business
8-Jan-1786 27-Feb-1844 Second Bank of the United States
Jacob Bigelow
Botanist
27-Feb-1786 10-Jan-1879 American Medical Botany
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Columnist
c. 1955   K Street Confidential
Robert S. Blank
Business
c. 1941   Whitcom Partners
Marc Blitzstein
Composer
2-Mar-1905 22-Jan-1964 The Cradle Will Rock
Geoffrey T. Boisi
Business
c. 1948   Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 2000-02
Sheldon M. Bonovitz
Attorney
26-Apr-1937   Partner, Duane, Morris & Hecksher
Robert A. Bowman
Business
c. 1955   President and CEO, MLB Advanced Media
Joseph P. Brandon
Business
c. 1959   Chairman & CEO, General Re
William J. Brennan
Judge
25-Apr-1906 24-Jul-1997 US Supreme Court Justice, 1956-90
Julian A. Brodsky
Business
c. 1934   Vice Chairman of Comcast
Jack Brouillard
Business
c. 1948   CFO of H.E. Butt Grocery Co., 1991-2005
Bob Brown
Football
8-Dec-1941   NFL Hall of Famer
Michael S. Brown
Biologist
13-Apr-1941   Metabolism of cholesterol
Warren Buffett
Business
30-Aug-1930   Billionaire in Omaha
Philip J. Burguieres
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Weatherford International, 1991-97
Peter Burleigh
Diplomat
7-Mar-1942   US Ambassador to the UN, 1997-99
Michael J. Burns
Business
c. 1953   CEO of Dana, 2004-08
Patricia A. Butenis
Diplomat
?   US Ambassador to Bangladesh
Frank V. Cahouet
Business
25-May-1932   CEO of Mellon Financial, 1987-98
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell
Religion
c. 1954   Windsor Village United Methodist Church
Richard Carrión
Business
26-Nov-1952   CEO of Popular, Inc.
Gilbert F. Casellas
Attorney
c. 1952   Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo
Safra A. Catz
Business
Dec-1961   President & CFO of Oracle
Lee Caudill
Business
c. 1950   Former Avon/Liz Claiborne executive
Robert F. Cavanaugh
Business
c. 1959   DLJ Capital Partners
Pei-Yuan Chia
Business
c. 1939   Vice Chairman of Citicorp, 1994-96
Paula H. J. Cholmondeley
Business
c. 1948   VP at Sappi Fine Paper, 2000-04
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
7-Dec-1928   Linguist, dissident intellectual
Joseph Sill Clark
Politician
21-Oct-1901 21-Jan-1990 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1956-69
Richard A. Clarke
Government
1951   Former US counter-terrorism czar
Lawrence S. Coben
Business
c. 1957   Tremisis Energy
Bill Cobey
Politician
13-May-1939   Congressman from North Carolina, 1985-87
Betsy Z. Cohen
Business
c. 1942   CEO of RAIT Investment Trust, 1997-2006
Claudia Cohen
Columnist
16-Dec-1950 15-Jun-2007 Gossip columnist
Steve Cohen
Business
c. 1956   Hedge fund billionaire, SAC Capital Partners
Jared L. Cohon
Educator
c. 1947   President, Carnegie Mellon University
William T. Coleman, Jr.
Government
7-Jul-1920   US Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77
Arthur D. Collins, Jr.
Business
c. 1947   CEO of Medtronic, 2001-07
Edward Drinker Cope
Paleontologist
28-Jul-1840 12-Apr-1897 Potential holotype for Homo Sapiens
Robert A. Corrigan
Educator
21-Apr-1935   President, San Francisco State University
Jonathan J. Coslet
Business
c. 1965   Texas Pacific Group
Robert L. Crandall
Business
1935   CEO of American Airlines, 1985-98
Bruce Crawford
Business
16-Mar-1929   CEO of Omnicom Group, 1989-96
Adrian Cronauer
Radio Personality
8-Sep-1938   Subject of biopic Good Morning Vietnam
Edward E. Crutchfield
Business
c. 1941   CEO of First Union Corporation, 1984-2000
John H. Dalton
Military
31-Dec-1941   US Secretary of the Navy 1993-98
Herbert A. Denton
Business
c. 1947   Providence Capital
Donny Deutsch
TV Personality
22-Nov-1957   CNBC talk show host
Dick DeVos
Business
21-Oct-1955   Amway scion
Daniel R. DiMicco
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Nucor
Harold W. Dodds
Educator
28-Jun-1889 25-Oct-1980 President, Princeton University, 1932-57
Peter C. Doherty
Scientist
15-Oct-1940   T-cells and antigens
John Doman
Actor
9-Jan-1945   Ad exec turned prolific character actor
Michael J. Donahue
Business
c. 1958   COO of Bearingpoint, 2000-05
John William Draper
Chemist
5-May-1811 4-Jan-1882 Radiant energy and portrait photography
Connie K. Duckworth
Business
3-Nov-1954   Former Partner, Goldman Sachs
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Author
19-Jul-1875 18-Sep-1935 Harlem Renaissance influence
Richard Dunham
Journalist
c. 1956   Business Week
Richard S. Dziadzio
Business
c. 1964   CFO of AXA Financial
Gerald M. Edelman
Scientist
1-Jul-1929   Chemical structure of antibodies
James B. Edwards
Politician
24-Jun-1927   Governor of South Carolina, 1975-79
Julie H. Edwards
Business
c. 1958   CFO of Frontier Oil, 1994-2005
Paul R. Ehrlich
Scientist
29-May-1932   The Population Bomb
Carol B. Einiger
Business
c. 1948   Post Rock Advisors LLC
Loren Eiseley
Anthropologist
3-Sep-1907 9-Jul-1977 The Firmament of Time
Phil English
Politician
20-Jun-1956   Congressman, Pennsylvania 3rd
Mel Estrin
Business
c. 1941   University Research Company
Roger N. Farah
Business
c. 1952   President of Polo Ralph Lauren
Chaka Fattah
Politician
21-Nov-1956   Congressman, Pennsylvania 2nd
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Novelist
27-Apr-1882 30-Apr-1961 Comedy: American Style
Drew Gilpin Faust
Educator
18-Sep-1947   President of Harvard University
Mark R. Fetting
Business
c. 1954   CEO of Legg Mason
Edwin Feulner
Activist
12-Aug-1941   Heritage Foundation founder
Stanley Fish
Scholar
19-Apr-1938   Deconstructionist literary critic
Jay S. Fishman
Business
4-Nov-1952   CEO of Travelers
Harold Ford
Politician
11-May-1970   Congressman from Tennessee, 1997-2007
Vito Fossella
Politician
9-Mar-1965   Congressman, New York 13th
W. Frank Fountain
Business
17-Jul-1944   Senior VP at Chrysler
Barbara Hackman Franklin
Government
19-Mar-1940   US Secretary of Commerce, 1992-93
Martin E. Franklin
Business
31-Oct-1964   CEO of Jarden
Shirley Franklin
Politician
10-May-1945   Mayor of Atlanta
Eugene M. Freedman
Business
c. 1932   Coopers & Lybrand
Robert L. Friedman
Business
c. 1942   Managing Partner, Blackstone Group
Phillip Frost
Business
c. 1935   Founder of IVAX Corporation
Lizanne Galbreath
Business
c. 1957   Partner, Galbreath & Company
Rakesh Gangwal
Business
1953   CEO of Worldspan
Robert Gant
Actor
13-Jul-1968   Ben on Queer as Folk
Thomas S. Gates
Government
10-Apr-1906 25-Mar-1983 US Secretary of Defense, 1959-61
William K. Gerber
Business
c. 1953   CFO of Kelly Services, 1998-2007
Benjamin A. Gilman
Politician
6-Dec-1922   Congressman from New York, 1973-2003
Nikki Giovanni
Poet
7-Jun-1943   Black Feeling, Black Talk
Cynthia A. Glassman
Government
?   Economic Affairs, US Commerce Dept.
Nathan Glazer
Pundit
25-Feb-1923   Co-Editor, The Public Interest
Linda A. Goldstein
Business
25-Jun-1954   Electronic Retailing Association
Steven F. Goldstone
Business
c. 1945   CEO of RJR Nabisco, 1997-99
Frederick M. Goltz
Business
c. 1972   Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Wilson Goode
Politician
19-Aug-1938   Mayor of Philadelphia, 1984-92
Oscar Goodman
Politician
26-Jun-1939   Mayor of Las Vegas
Benjamin F. Goodrich
Business
4-Nov-1841 3-Aug-1888 Founder of Goodrich Corporation
Ragnar Granit
Scientist
30-Oct-1900 31-Mar-1990 Physiology of the retina
Lon R. Greenberg
Business
c. 1950   CEO of UGI Corporation
James H. Greene, Jr.
Business
c. 1950   Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Paul Greengard
Scientist
11-Dec-1925   Signal transduction in the nervous system
Zane Grey
Novelist
31-Jan-1872 23-Oct-1939 Riders of the Purple Sage
Victor E. Grijalva
Business
c. 1939   Vice Chairman of Schlumberger, 1999-2001
Anthony Grillo
Business
12-Jul-1955   American Securities Advisors
Bathsheba Grossman
Sculptor
1966   Mathematical sculptor
Clifford J. Grum
Business
c. 1934   CEO of Temple-Inland, 1983-2000
Ben A. Guill
Business
c. 1950   First Reserve Corporation
Kirk S. Hachigian
Business
c. 1959   CEO of Cooper Industries
Stephen L. Hammerman
Business
18-Apr-1938   Former Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch
Robert Hare
Chemist
17-Jan-1781 15-May-1858 Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope
Patrick T. Harker
Educator
c. 1959   President, University of Delaware
Patricia S. Harrison
Business
?   Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Haldan K. Hartline
Scientist
22-Dec-1903 17-Mar-1983 Physiology of the retina
E. Newton Harvey
Zoologist
25-Nov-1887 21-Jul-1959 Light-emitting organisms
Gary Heidnik
Criminal
22-Nov-1943 6-Jul-1999 Sex torturer, murderer
Morton Heilig
Inventor
1926 1997 Early virtual reality pioneer
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
Business
27-May-1933   CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, 1994-2001
John Heisman
Football
23-Oct-1869 3-Oct-1936 Namesake of the Heisman Trophy
C. Robert Henrikson
Business
c. 1947   CEO of MetLife
Guy R. Henshaw
Business
c. 1946   Henshaw/Vierra Management Counsel
Robert M. Hernandez
Business
c. 1945   Vice Chairman of USX, 1994-2001
William H. Hernandez
Business
c. 1947   CFO of PPG Industries
Karl M. von der Heyden
Business
?   Vice Chairman of Pepsi, 1996-2001
Roger S. Hillas
Business
c. 1928   Former Chairman of PNC Financial
Robert Hofstadter
Physicist
5-Feb-1915 17-Nov-1990 Investigated electron scattering and nuclei
Randy J. Holland
Judge
c. 1947   Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
Michele J. Hooper
Business
c. 1951   Co-Founder, The Directors' Council
Francis Hopkinson
Author
2-Oct-1737 9-May-1791 The Ballad of the Kegs
Constance J. Horner
Government
24-Feb-1942   Former Civil Rights Commissioner
Ehud Houminer
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Philip Morris USA, 1988-90
Ara K. Hovnanian
Business
c. 1957   CEO of Hovnanian Enterprises
Norman Hsu
Philanthropist
Oct-1951   Notorious Democratic donor
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Politician
26-Mar-1960   Governor of Utah
Jon M. Huntsman
Business
21-Jun-1937   Founder of Huntsman Corporation
Robert J. Hurst
Business
1945   Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2004
Alberto Ibargüen
Publisher
c. 1944   President of the Knight Foundation
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Head of State
26-Dec-1953   President of Estonia
Herbert E. Ives
Physicist
21-Jul-1882 13-Nov-1953 Facsimile machine
Michael E. Jesanis
Business
c. 1955   CEO of National Grid USA, 2004-06
Andrew S. Jhawar
Business
c. 1972   VP at Apollo Management
Louis Kahn
Architect
20-Feb-1901 17-Mar-1974 Prominent architect
Tina S. Kaidanow
Government
?   US Chief of Mission in Kosovo
Harry P. Kamen
Business
c. 1932   CEO of Metropolitan Life, 1993-98
Alan T. Kane
Business
c. 1942   Fashion Institute of Technology
Jill Kanin-Lovers
Business
c. 1950   Senior VP at Avon, 1998-2004
Richard B. Kelson
Business
20-Nov-1946   CFO of Alcoa, 1997-2006
Leo Kiely
Business
16-Jan-1947   CEO of Molson Coors
Billie Jean King
Tennis
22-Nov-1943   Defeated Bobby Riggs in '73 Battle of the Sexes
Les Kinsolving
Journalist
18-Dec-1927   WorldNetDaily
James D. Kirsner
Business
c. 1943   CFO of Barra, Inc., 1993-2001
Joe Klein
Journalist
7-Sep-1946   Anonymous author of Primary Colors
Scott M. Kleinman
Business
c. 1975   Apollo Management
Catherine Baker Knoll
Politician
3-Sep-1930   Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania
Yotaro Kobayashi
Business
25-Apr-1933   CEO of Fuji Xerox, Ltd.
Evan Kohlmann
Scholar
?   Founder, Globalterroralert.com
C. Everett Koop
Government
14-Oct-1916   US Surgeon General, 1982-89
Michael J. Kowalski
Business
c. 1952   CEO of Tiffany & Co.
Joseph P. Landy
Business
c. 1961   Co-President, Warburg Pincus
Amy B. Lane
Business
c. 1953   Former Managing Director, Merrill Lynch
Michael W. Laphen
Business
c. 1951   CEO of Computer Sciences
Philip A. Laskawy
Business
1941   CEO of Ernst & Young, 1994-2001
Aerin Lauder
Business
23-Apr-1970   Senior VP at Estée Lauder
Leonard Lauder
Business
c. 1933   Chairman of Estee Lauder
Ronald S. Lauder
Business
26-Feb-1944   US Ambassador to Austria, 1986-87
William Lauder
Business
c. 1961   CEO, Estée Lauder
Frank Lavin
Diplomat
26-Oct-1957   US Ambassador to Singapore, 2001-05
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Doctor
1954   Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Gerry Laybourne
Business
19-May-1947   CEO of Oxygen Media
George M. Leader
Politician
17-Jan-1918   Governor of Pennsylvania, 1955-59
John Legend
Musician
28-Dec-1978   Get Lifted
John F. Lehman
Politician
14-Sep-1942   9-11 Commission member
Joseph Leidy
Biologist
9-Sep-1823 30-Apr-1891 Trichinosis and dinosaurs
Henry E. Lentz, Jr.
Business
c. 1945   Lehman Brothers
Lawrence Lessig
Attorney
3-Jun-1961   Constitutional and internet law
Richard Lester
Film Director
19-Jan-1932   A Hard Day's Night
Arnold J. Levine
Biologist
1939   Cancer researcher
Ann Lewis
Activist
?   Clinton advisor
Kathleen Ligocki
Business
c. 1956   CEO of Tower Automotive, 2003-07
Ralph Linton
Anthropologist
27-Feb-1893 25-Dec-1953 The Study of Man
Martin Lipton
Attorney
22-Jun-1931   Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
John Litel
Actor
30-Dec-1892 3-Feb-1972 Two Dollar Bettor
John A. Luke, Jr.
Business
24-Nov-1948   CEO of MeadWestvaco
Jeffrey Lunstead
Diplomat
c. 1947   US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, 2003-06
Frank Luntz
Pundit
23-Feb-1962   Republican pollster, strategist
Robert I. MacDonnell
Business
c. 1937   Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Dayton S. Mak
Government
10-Jul-1917   US Ambassador to Kuwait, 1962-63
Roman Martinez IV
Business
c. 1948   Former Partner, Lehman Brothers
Gordon D. McCallum
Business
c. 1960   Virgin Management, Ltd.
Harold McGraw III
Business
c. 1948   CEO of McGraw-Hill
Ann Dore McLaughlin
Government
16-Nov-1941   US Secretary of Labor, 1987-89
John E. McLaughlin
Government
15-Jun-1942   Deputy Director CIA, 2000-04
Glenda G. McNeal
Business
c. 1961   Senior VP at American Express
Michael Milken
Business
4-Jul-1946   Convicted financial executive
Gillian A. Milovanovic
Diplomat
?   US Ambassador to Macedonia
Andrea Mitchell
Journalist
30-Oct-1946   NBC Foreign Affairs Correspondent
S. Weir Mitchell
Novelist
15-Feb-1829 4-Jan-1914 The Case of George Dedlow
Wayne Mixson
Politician
16-Jun-1922   Governor of Florida, 1987
John Cameron Monjo
Diplomat
17-Jul-1931   US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1992-95
Jonathan D. Moreno
Scholar
11-Jun-1952   Undue Risk
Marc Morial
Politician
3-Jan-1958   Mayor of New Orleans, 1994-2002
Rowland T. Moriarty
Business
c. 1947   CRA International
Michael Moritz
Business
c. 1954   Partner, Sequoia Capital
W. Howard Morris
Business
c. 1959   Prairie & Tireman Investments
Robert S. Morrison
Business
c. 1941   Vice Chairman of Pepsi, 2003-05
Michael H. Moskow
Business
7-Jan-1938   CEO, FRB Chicago, 1994-2007
John H. Mullin III
Business
1941   Former Partner, Dillon Read & Co.
Thomas D. Mutter
Doctor
9-Mar-1811 16-Mar-1859 Surgeon, Mütter Museum benefactor
Eadweard Muybridge
Photographer
9-Apr-1830 8-May-1904 Animal Locomotion
Joseph F. Neely
Business
c. 1940   Senior VP at Sara Lee, 1987-93
Susan Ness
Government
?   FCC Commissioner, 1994-2001
Joseph H. Netherland
Business
c. 1944   CEO of FMC Technologies, 2001-07
Becki Newton
Actor
4-Jul-1978   Amanda Tanen on Ugly Betty
Peter M. Nicholas
Business
c. 1941   Co-Founder of Boston Scientific
Martin A. Nisenholtz
Business
c. 1955   VP Digital Operations, New York Times Co.
Kwame Nkrumah
Head of State
21-Sep-1909 27-Apr-1972 First President of Ghana
William D. Novelli
Business
c. 1941   CEO, AARP
Lawrence C. Nussdorf
Business
c. 1946   Clark Enterprises, Inc.
Scott C. Nuttall
Business
c. 1972   Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Michael Nutter
Politician
29-Jun-1957   Mayor of Philadelphia
Gavin O'Connor
Film Director
1964   Tumbleweeds
Shaun F. O'Malley
Business
c. 1937   Chairman of Price Waterhouse, 1987-95
Morris W. Offit
Business
c. 1935   Founder of OFFITBANK
Ken Olin
Actor
30-Jul-1954   Michael Steadman on thirtysomething
Tagar C. Olson
Business
c. 1977   Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Mehmet Oz
Doctor
11-Jun-1960   Healing from the Heart
Thomas Nelson Page
Author
23-Apr-1853 1-Nov-1922 In Ole Virginia
William S. Paley
Business
28-Sep-1901 26-Oct-1990 Chairman of CBS, 1946-83
Gordon A. Paris
Business
c. 1953   Interim CEO of Hollinger, 2003-06
Robert T. Parry
Business
16-May-1939   President, San Francisco Fed, 1986-2004
Gregory J. Parseghian
Business
c. 1961   Briefly CEO of Freddie Mac, 2003
Alice Paul
Activist
11-Jan-1885 9-Jul-1977 Suffragette
Nicholas B. Paumgarten
Business
c. 1946   Corsair Capital LLC
Norman Pearlstine
Journalist
4-Oct-1942   Former Time Inc. Editor in Chief
I. M. Pei
Architect
26-Apr-1917   Designed Louvre's glass pyramid
Nelson Peltz
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Triarc
Ron Perelman
Business
1-Jan-1943   Billionaire owns 60% of Revlon
Frances Perkins
Government
10-Apr-1882 14-May-1965 First female US cabinet member
Richard C. Perry
Business
c. 1955   Perry Capital
Helen Frame Peters
Business
22-Mar-1948   Dean of Boston College, 2000-03
Gina Philips
Actor
10-May-1975   Jeepers Creepers
Nicole W. Piasecki
Business
c. 1963   President of Boeing Japan
Lew Platt
Business
11-Apr-1941 8-Sep-2005 CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 1992-99
Chaim Potok
Novelist
17-Feb-1929 23-Jul-2002 The Chosen
David S. Pottruck
Business
c. 1948   CEO of Charles Schwab, 1998-2004
Ezra Pound
Poet
30-Oct-1885 1-Nov-1972 The Cantos
Maury Povich
Talk Show Host
17-Jan-1939   The Maury Povich Show
Stanley B. Prusiner
Scientist
28-May-1942   Prions
Hilary Putnam
Philosopher
31-Jul-1926   Philosophy of Mind
Frank Quattrone
Business
1955   Troubled securities banker
John A. Quelch
Educator
c. 1951   Professor at HBS
Thomas A. Ralph
Attorney
c. 1941   Retired Partner, Dechert LLP
Jack Ramsay
Basketball
21-Feb-1925   Longtime NBA Coach
Ann N. Reese
Business
c. 1952   CFO of ITT, 1995-98
Irvin D. Reid
Educator
21-Feb-1941   President, Wayne State University
Thomas V. Reifenheiser
Business
c. 1936   Managing Director, Chase Securities
Ed Rendell
Politician
5-Jan-1944   Governor of Pennsylvania
Robert K. Ressler
Author
15-Feb-1937   Whoever Fights Monsters
Bernard G. Rethore
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Flowserve, 1997-2000
James S. Riepe
Business
c. 1943   Vice Chairman of T. Rowe Price, 1997-2005
Jeremy Rifkin
Activist
1943   Foundation on Economic Trends
Geraldo Rivera
Journalist
4-Jul-1943   Fox News commentator
Melissa Rivers
TV Personality
20-Jan-1968   Daughter of Joan Rivers
James O. Robbins
Business
c. 1942 10-Oct-2007 President of Cox Communications, 1985-2005
Brian Roberts
Business
28-Jun-1959   CEO of Comcast
Ralph J. Roberts
Business
c. 1920   Co-Founder of Comcast
Peter J. Robertson
Business
1947   Vice Chairman of Chevron
Judith Rodin
Educator
1944   President of UPenn, 1994-2004
Jean-Pierre Rosso
Business
11-Jul-1940   CEO of Case Corporation, 1994-99
John M. Roth
Business
c. 1957   Freeman Spogli & Co.
Marc J. Rowan
Business
c. 1961   Billionaire, Apollo Management
Howard J. Rubenstein
Business
c. 1932   Rubenstein Associates
A. Patricia Sampson
Business
c. 1949   The Sampson Group
Morton Owen Schapiro
Educator
c. 1953   President, Williams College
David S. Schechter
Business
c. 1975   Icahn Capital LP
Andrew J. Schindler
Business
12-Aug-1944   CEO of R.J. Reynolds, 1995-2004
Bradley Schlozman
Government
6-Feb-1971   DoJ Civil Rights Division
Thomas J. Scotes
Diplomat
6-Jan-1932   US Ambassador to Yemen, 1975-78
David Scott
Politician
27-Jun-1946   Congressman, Georgia 13th
John Sculley
Business
6-Apr-1939   CEO of Apple, 1983-93
Charles S. Shapiro
Diplomat
c. 1957   US Ambassador to Venezuela, 2002-04
Paul E. Shapiro
Attorney
c. 1941   Former CAO, Revlon, Sunbeam
Alvin V. Shoemaker
Business
c. 1938   Chairman of First Boston, 1983-89
Thomas P. Shoesmith
Diplomat
25-Jan-1922 26-Apr-2007 US Ambassador to Malaysia, 1983-87
Henry R. Silverman
Business
1-Aug-1940   Chairman of Realogy
Wendy Silverstein
Business
c. 1960   Vornado Realty Trust
Richard A. Simonson
Business
25-Aug-1958   CFO of Nokia
Everett Sloane
Actor
1-Oct-1909 6-Aug-1965 Patterns
George M. Smart
Business
c. 1945   CEO of Central States Can Co., 1978-93
Yakov Smirnoff
Comic
24-Jan-1951   What a country
Hulett C. Smith
Politician
21-Oct-1918   Governor of West Virginia, 1965-69
William B. Smith
Business
c. 1944   Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley
Richard K. Smucker
Business
c. 1948   President and Co-CEO of Smucker
Mohsen M. Sohi
Business
c. 1959   CEO of Freudenberg-NOK GP
Arlen Specter
Politician
12-Feb-1930   US Senator from Pennsylvania
Jack L. Stahl
Business
c. 1953   CEO of Revlon, 2002-06
Saul Steinberg
Business
1939   Ex-CEO of Reliance Group Holdings
Fran M. Stoller
Attorney
20-Sep-1958   Partner, Loeb & Loeb
I. F. Stone
Journalist
24-Dec-1907 17-Jul-1989 I. F. Stone's Weekly
Roger W. Stone
Business
16-Feb-1935   CEO of Stone Container, 1979-99
Robert Strausz-Hupé
Diplomat
25-Mar-1903 24-Feb-2002 US Ambassador to Turkey, 1981-89
Gregory L. Summe
Business
c. 1956   CEO of PerkinElmer
Brian G. Sweeney
Business
c. 1964   VP at Cablevision Systems
Myles Tanenbaum
Business
c. 1930   Real Estate developer
Nicholas F. Taubman
Business
c. 1935   Advance Auto Parts scion
Steven H. Temares
Business
c. 1958   CEO of Bed Bath and Beyond
Tammi Terrell
Singer
29-Apr-1945 16-Mar-1970 Singing partner with Marvin Gaye
Parnell Thomas
Government
16-Jan-1895 19-Nov-1970 HUAC chairman
Craig B. Thompson
Doctor
c. 1952   Director of the Abramson Institute
James S. Tisch
Business
2-Jan-1953   CEO of Loews
Laurence Tisch
Business
5-Mar-1923 15-Nov-2003 CEO of CBS, 1986-95
Barrett A. Toan
Business
1947   CEO of Express Scripts, 1992-2005
Robert I. Toll
Business
c. 1941   Co-Founder of Toll Brothers
Donald Trump
Business
14-Jun-1946   The Donald
Ivanka Trump
Relative
30-Oct-1981   Daughter of Donald Trump
C. Delores Tucker
Activist
4-Oct-1927 12-Oct-2005 National Congress of Black Women
Rodolphe M. Vallee
Business
c. 1960   US Ambassador to Slovakia
Therese M. Vaughan
Government
c. 1957   Iowa Insurance Commissioner, 1994-2004
E. Norman Veasey
Judge
9-Jan-1933   Delaware Chief Justice, 1992-2004
Vincent du Vigneaud
Chemist
18-May-1901 11-Dec-1978 Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin
William Walker
Military
8-May-1824 12-Sep-1860 American "filibuster"
Matthew D. Walter
Business
c. 1969   CEO of Bound Tree Medical
Roger O. Walther
Business
1935   Tusker Corporation
Michael Ward
Business
c. 1964   Bain Capital
Marilyn Ware
Business
c. 1944   US Ambassador to Finland
Alan J. Weber
Business
c. 1948   CEO of US Trust, 2002-05
Timothy T. Weglicki
Business
c. 1952   ABS Capital Partners
Arthur F. Weinbach
Business
c. 1943   CEO of ADP, 1996-2006
Lawrence A. Weinbach
Business
c. 1939   CEO of Unisys, 1997-2005
Jeffrey Weiss
Business
c. 1964   President and COO of American Greetings
Matthew E. Welsh
Politician
15-Sep-1912 28-May-1995 Governor of Indiana, 1961-65
Olin L. Wethington
Government
17-Nov-1948   Chairman of AIG China
Faith Ryan Whittlesey
Diplomat
21-Feb-1939   Twice US Ambassador to Switzerland
George W. Wickersham
Government
19-Sep-1858 26-Jan-1936 US Attorney General, 1909-13
John Edgar Wideman
Novelist
14-Jun-1941   Sent for You Yesterday
James Wilkinson
Military
1757 28-Dec-1825 Duplicitous soldier and adventurer
Anré D. Williams
Business
c. 1964   EVP at American Express
C. K. Williams
Poet
4-Nov-1936   Repair
George Williams
Business
c. 1950   Williams Partners, Inc.
Maggie Williams
Government
25-Dec-1954   Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff
William Carlos Williams
Poet
17-Sep-1883 4-Mar-1963 Pictures from Brueghel
Barry W. Wilson
Business
c. 1945   Senior VP at Medtronic
Gary L. Wilson
Business
c. 1941   Chairman of Northwest Airlines, 1991-2007
Dick Wolf
Film/TV Producer
20-Dec-1946   Producer of Law and Order
Robert Wolf
Business
c. 1962   Chairman of UBS Group Americas
Kenneth L. Wolfe
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Hershey, 1994-2001
Hubert Work
Government
3-Jul-1860 14-Dec-1942 US Interior Secretary, 1923-28
Doreen A. Wright
Business
27-Feb-1957   Senior VP and CIO of Campbell Soup
William Wrigley, Jr. II
Business
c. 1964   Chairman of Wrigley
Peter Wuffli
Business
26-Oct-1957   CEO of UBS, 2003-07
John K. Wulff
Business
c. 1949   CFO of Union Carbide, 1996-2001
Steve Wynn
Business
27-Jan-1942   Las Vegas billionaire
Walter R. Young
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Champion Enterprises, 1990-2003
Mark G. Yudof
Educator
30-Oct-1944   President of the University of California
Ahmed H. Zewail
Chemist
26-Feb-1946   Femtochemistry
John B. Ziegler
Business
c. 1945   Former executive, GlaxoSmithKline
Mort Zuckerman
Business
4-Jun-1937   Owner, New York Daily News
Klaus Zumwinkel
Business
15-Dec-1943   Chairman of Deutsche Post

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bruce Ackerman
Scholar
19-Aug-1943   We the People
Alexander Dallas Bache
Physicist
19-Jul-1806 17-Feb-1867 First President, National Academy of Sciences
Elizabeth E. Bailey
Educator
1938   Professor, the Wharton School
Cecil Balmond
Engineer
1943   Deputy Chairman, Ove Arup
Benjamin Barber
Scholar
2-Aug-1939   Jihad vs. McWorld
Mary Frances Berry
Government
17-Feb-1938   Civil Rights Commissioner, 1980-2004
John S. Billings
Administrator
12-Apr-1838 11-Mar-1913 New York Public Library
Baruch S. Blumberg
Scientist
28-Jul-1925   Hepatitis B vaccine
Sheldon M. Bonovitz
Attorney
26-Apr-1937   Partner, Duane, Morris & Hecksher
Robert Brady
Politician
7-Apr-1945   Congressman, Pennsylvania 1st
Andrew Brimmer
Economist
13-Sep-1926   Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74
Stephen B. Burbank
Educator
c. 1946   UPenn Law Professor
James McKeen Cattell
Psychologist
24-May-1860 20-Jan-1944 Academic freedom
Edward Condon
Physicist
2-Mar-1902 26-Mar-1974 Quantum Mechanics
Edward Drinker Cope
Paleontologist
28-Jul-1840 12-Apr-1897 Potential holotype for Homo Sapiens
Robert A. Corrigan
Educator
21-Apr-1935   President, San Francisco State University
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Business
17-Dec-1956   Health care administrator
Michael Eric Dyson
Scholar
23-Oct-1958   Know What I Mean?
Loren Eiseley
Anthropologist
3-Sep-1907 9-Jul-1977 The Firmament of Time
David Eisenhower
Author
31-Mar-1948   Camp David namesake
Stephen G. Emerson
Educator
c. 1952   President, Haverford College
Drew Gilpin Faust
Educator
18-Sep-1947   President of Harvard University
Paul Fussell
Historian
22-Mar-1924   The Great War and Modern Memory
Geoffrey Garrett
Educator
c. 1958   President of the Pacific Council
Thomas P. Gerrity
Business
13-Jul-1941   Former Dean, Wharton School
Erving Goffman