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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
Philip J. Ablove
Business
c. 1940   CFO of W. R. Berkley, 1973-83
Michael Abrash
Computer Programmer
?   Graphics Programming Black Book
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 22-Oct-2009 Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)
Christian Anfinsen
Chemist
26-Mar-1916 14-May-1995 Protein structure and folding
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
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Head of State
16-Nov-1904 11-May-1996 First President of Nigeria, 1963-66
Milton Babbitt
Composer
10-May-1916 29-Jan-2011 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
Albert C. Barnes
Curator
2-Jan-1872 24-Jul-1951 Barnes Foundation
Bill Bass
Scientist
30-Aug-1928   Human decomposition
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
Chuck Bednarik
Football
1-May-1925 21-Mar-2015 Eagles Linebacker, Hall of Famer
Michael Behe
Biologist
18-Jan-1952   Darwin's Black Box
Bert Bell
Football
25-Feb-1895 11-Oct-1959 NFL Commissioner, 1946-59
David Bell
Business
?   CEO of Financial Times Group, 1993-2005
John C. Bell, Jr.
Politician
25-Oct-1892 21-Mar-1974 Governor of Pennsylvania for 19 days
Michael A. Bell
Business
c. 1956   Monitor Clipper Partners
Alan L. Beller
Attorney
c. 1950   Partner, Cleary Gottlieb
Y. Marc Belton
Business
c. 1959   Executive at General Mills
Jules R. Benjamin
Historian
11-Jul-1938   The United States and Cuba
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 7-May-2004 US contractor, beheaded on Iraq videotape
Candice Bergen
Actor
9-May-1946   Murphy Brown
Alfred R. Berkeley III
Business
1944   President of NASDAQ, 1996-2003
Ann E. Berman
Business
c. 1952   CFO of Harvard University, 2002-06
Mark R. Bernstein
Attorney
7-Apr-1930 27-Apr-2015 Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein LP
Alfred Bester
Novelist
18-Dec-1913 30-Sep-1987 The Stars My Destination
Abner Biberman
Actor
1-Apr-1909 20-Jun-1977 Knock on Wood
Herbert J. Biberman
Screenwriter
4-Mar-1900 30-Jun-1971 Blacklisted screenwriter
Nicholas Biddle
Business
8-Jan-1786 27-Feb-1844 Second Bank of the United States
Beau Biden
Politician
3-Feb-1969 30-May-2015 Attorney General of Delaware, 2007-15
Jacob Bigelow
Botanist
27-Feb-1787 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
Richard Bloch
Business
15-Feb-1926 21-Jul-2004 H&R Block, cancer activist
Jack Bogle
Business
8-May-1929   Founder, The Vanguard Group
Geoffrey T. Boisi
Business
c. 1948   Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 2000-02
Patrick Bond
Scholar
17-Nov-1961   Elite Transition
Sheldon M. Bonovitz
Attorney
26-Apr-1937   Partner, Duane, Morris & Hecksher
Robert A. Bowman
Business
c. 1955   President and CEO, MLB Advanced Media
Julian P. Boyd
Historian
3-Nov-1903 21-May-1980 Princeton University Librarian, 1940-52
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
Frank W. Bruno
Business
c. 1965   Cerberus Global Investments
Warren Buffett
Business
30-Aug-1930   Billionaire in Omaha
Tory Burch
Fashion Designer
17-Jun-1966   Fashion designer
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
c. 1957   US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 2006-08
Gaylen J. Byker
Business
10-Apr-1948   President of Calvin College
Frank V. Cahouet
Business
25-May-1932   CEO of Mellon Financial, 1987-98
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell
Religion
c. 1954   Windsor Village United Methodist Church
Lloyd E. Campbell
Business
c. 1958   Managing Director, Rothschild, Inc.
Tony Campolo
Religion
25-Feb-1935   Red-Letter Christian sociologist
Joseph M. Carey
Politician
19-Jan-1845 5-Feb-1924 Governor of Wyoming, 1911-15
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
Stanley N. Cohen
Biologist
17-Feb-1935   Recombinant DNA
Steve Cohen
Business
11-Jun-1956   Hedge fund billionaire
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
10-Dec-1947   CEO of Medtronic, 2001-07
Benjamin Franklin Cooling III
Historian
8-Dec-1938   Gray Steel and Blue Water Navy
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
Janet Cowell
Politician
19-Jul-1968   State Treasurer of North Carolina
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
Whitney Cummings
Comic
4-Sep-1982   Whitney
John H. Dalton
Military
31-Dec-1941   US Secretary of the Navy, 1993-98
Nathaniel A. Davis
Business
c. 1954   President of XM Radio
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
Martin Dibner
Novelist
5-Oct-1911 11-Jan-1992 The Deep Six
Daniel R. DiMicco
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Nucor
Charles K. Djou
Politician
9-Aug-1970   Congressman from Hawaii, 2010-11
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
Robert C. Doll
Business
c. 1955   Vice Chairman of Blackrock
John Doman
Actor
9-Jan-1945   Rodrigo Borgia on Borgia
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
James H. Duff
Politician
21-Jan-1883 20-Dec-1969 Governor of Pennsylvania, 1947-51
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
John Presper Eckert
Computer Programmer
9-Apr-1919 3-Jun-1995 ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers
Gerald M. Edelman
Scientist
1-Jul-1929 17-May-2014 Chemical structure of antibodies
James B. Edwards
Politician
24-Jun-1927 26-Dec-2014 Governor of South Carolina, 1975-79
Julie H. Edwards
Business
c. 1958   CFO of Frontier Oil, 1994-2005
Jennifer Egan
Novelist
6-Sep-1962   A Visit from the Goon Squad
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
Benjamin A. Elman
Historian
6-Sep-1946   Science in China, 1550-1900
Phil English
Politician
20-Jun-1956   Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1995-2009
Mel Estrin
Business
c. 1941   University Research Company
Ray Evans
Songwriter
4-Feb-1915 15-Feb-2007 Que Sera Sera
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 19-Aug-2016 CEO of Travelers, 2007-15
Harold Ford
Politician
11-May-1970   Congressman from Tennessee, 1997-2007
Vito Fossella
Politician
9-Mar-1965   Congressman from New York, 1997-2009
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, 2002-10
Eugene M. Freedman
Business
4-Feb-1932   Coopers & Lybrand
Henry Friedlander
Historian
24-Sep-1930 17-Oct-2012 The Origins of Nazi Genocide
Robert L. Friedman
Business
c. 1942   Managing Partner, Blackstone Group
Phillip Frost
Business
c. 1935   Founder of IVAX Corporation
Leo R. Futia
Business
27-Aug-1919   Former Chairman of Guardian Life
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
Jeffrey Goldberg
Journalist
22-Sep-1965   Atlantic Monthly
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
Ronald M. Gould
Judge
17-Oct-1946   9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Bruce J. Graham
Architect
1-Dec-1925 6-Mar-2010 Architect of the Sears Tower
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
Charles Gwathmey
Architect
19-Jun-1938 3-Aug-2009 Designed extension to the Guggenheim
Kirk S. Hachigian
Business
c. 1959   CEO of Cooper Industries
Jonathan Haidt
Educator
19-Oct-1963   The Happiness Hypothesis
Oron J. Hale
Historian
29-Jul-1902 19-Jul-1991 The Great Illusion, 1900-1914
Richard F. Hamm, Jr.
Business
c. 1960   Dendreon Corporation
Stephen L. Hammerman
Business
18-Apr-1938   Former Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch
Lamartine G. Hardman
Politician
14-Apr-1856 18-Feb-1937 Governor of Georgia, 1927-31
Robert Hare
Chemist
17-Jan-1781 15-May-1858 Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope
Patrick T. Harker
Educator
19-Nov-1958   President, University of Delaware
Joshua J. Harris
Business
c. 1965   President of Apollo Management
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
H. D.
Poet
10-Sep-1886 27-Sep-1961 Imagist poet, Sea Garden
Gary Heidnik
Criminal
22-Nov-1943 6-Jul-1999 Sex torturer, murderer
Morton Heilig
Inventor
22-Dec-1926 14-May-1997 Early virtual reality pioneer
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
Business
27-May-1933   CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, 1994-2001
Richard H. Heindel
Educator
24-Aug-1912 31-Jul-1979 The American Impact on Great Britain
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
1948   CFO of PPG Industries
Karl M. von der Heyden
Business
?   Vice Chairman of Pepsi, 1996-2001
Marc Lamont Hill
Educator
17-Dec-1978   Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life
Roger S. Hillas
Business
11-Apr-1927   Former Chairman of PNC Financial
Godfrey Hodgson
Journalist
1-Feb-1934   The Myth of American Exceptionalism
Robert Hofstadter
Physicist
5-Feb-1915 17-Nov-1990 Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons
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
Henry M. Hoyt
Attorney
5-Dec-1856 20-Nov-1910 US Solicitor General, 1903-09
Norman Hsu
Philanthropist
Oct-1951   Notorious Democratic donor
Donald D. Humphreys
Business
c. 1949   Senior VP at Exxon Mobil
James K. Hunt
Business
c. 1950   THL Credit Group
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Politician
26-Mar-1960   US Ambassador to China, 2009-11
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
Jonathan B. Imber
Sociologist
18-Feb-1952   Trusting Doctors
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
Robert S. Kapito
Business
c. 1958   President of Blackrock
Neel Kashkari
Business
30-Jul-1973   President, Minneapolis Fed
Ted Kaufman
Government
15-Mar-1939   TARP oversight panel
Richard B. Kelson
Business
20-Nov-1946   CFO of Alcoa, 1997-2006
Leo Kiely
Business
16-Jan-1947   CEO of Molson Coors
Leslie Kilgore
Business
c. 1965   CMO of Netflix, 2000-12
Charles P. Kindleberger
Economist
12-Oct-1910 7-Jul-2003 The World in Depression
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
Philip S. Klein
Historian
10-Jun-1909 15-Feb-1993 President James Buchanan
Scott M. Kleinman
Business
c. 1975   Apollo Management
Catherine Baker Knoll
Politician
3-Sep-1930 12-Nov-2008 Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, 2003-08
Yotaro Kobayashi
Business
25-Apr-1933   CEO of Fuji Xerox, Ltd.
Evan Kohlmann
Scholar
?   Founder, Globalterroralert.com
C. Everett Koop
Government
14-Oct-1916 25-Feb-2013 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
19-Mar-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, 1998-2007
George M. Leader
Politician
17-Jan-1918 9-May-2013 Governor of Pennsylvania, 1955-59
Marc J. Leder
Business
c. 1962   Sun Capital Partners
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
19-Dec-1937   Clinton advisor
Kathleen Ligocki
Business
c. 1956   CEO of Tower Automotive, 2003-07
John C. Lilly
Scientist
6-Jan-1915 30-Sep-2001 Human-dolphin communication
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
Jay Livingston
Composer
28-Mar-1915 17-Oct-2001 Que Sera Sera
Alan D. Lourie
Judge
13-Jan-1935   US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
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
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky
Journalist
21-Jun-1942   Congresswoman from Pennsylvania, 1993-95
Roman Martinez IV
Business
c. 1948   Former Partner, Lehman Brothers
Megan McArdle
Blogger
29-Jan-1973   Atlantic Monthly blogger
Gordon D. McCallum
Business
c. 1960   Virgin Management, Ltd.
James McDaniel
Actor
25-Mar-1958   Lt. Arthur Fancy on NYPD Blue
Myra McDaniel
Attorney
13-Dec-1932 25-Feb-2010 Texas Secretary of State, 1984-87
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
William M. Meredith
Government
8-Jun-1799 17-Aug-1873 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1849-50
Michael Milken
Business
4-Jul-1946   Convicted financial executive
Alan B. Miller
Business
17-Aug-1937   Founder of Universal Health Services
Marc D. Miller
Business
c. 1970   Son of Alan B. Miller
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
12-Sep-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
John B. Morse, Jr.
Business
c. 1946   CFO of Washington Post Co., 1989-2008
Michael H. Moskow
Business
7-Jan-1938   CEO, FRB Chicago, 1994-2007
John H. Mullin III
Business
1941   Former Partner, Dillon Read & Co.
Elon Musk
Business
28-Jun-1971   CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors
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
Scott Nearing
Economist
6-Aug-1883 24-Aug-1983 Socialist economist
Joseph F. Neely
Business
c. 1940   Senior VP at Sara Lee, 1987-93
Ei-ichi Negishi
Chemist
14-Jul-1935   Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings
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.
Robert Nix, Sr.
Politician
9-Aug-1898 22-Jun-1987 Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1958-79
Robert Nix, Jr.
Judge
13-Jul-1928 23-Aug-2003 Pennsylvania Chief Justice, 1984-96
Kwame Nkrumah
Head of State
21-Sep-1909 27-Apr-1972 First President of Ghana
David A. Norcross
Activist
30-Mar-1937   Republican National Lawyers Association
Anthony Noto
Business
2-May-1968   CFO of Twitter
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
Thomas M. O'Brien
Business
c. 1966   CEO of Travelcenters of America
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
David W. Ogden
Attorney
12-Nov-1953   Deputy US Attorney General
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
George W. Pepper
Politician
16-Mar-1867 24-May-1961 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-27
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
Philip Syng Physick
Doctor
7-Jul-1768 15-Dec-1837 Father of American surgery
Nicole W. Piasecki
Business
c. 1963   President of Boeing Japan
Irving Picard
Attorney
c. 1941   Overseeing Madoff recoupment
Sundar Pichai
Business
12-Jul-1972   CEO of Google
Lionel Pincus
Business
2-Mar-1931 10-Oct-2009 Co-Founder, Warburg Pincus
Mark Pincus
Business
13-Feb-1966   Zynga
Lew Platt
Business
11-Apr-1941 8-Sep-2005 CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 1992-99
Seth P. Plattus
Attorney
c. 1961   CAO of Cerberus Capital Management
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
Harold Prince
Theatre Producer
30-Jan-1928   Broadway musical producer, 21 Tony awards
Stanley B. Prusiner
Scientist
28-May-1942   Prions
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Historian
15-Mar-1951 13-Apr-2015 Clara Barton: Professional Angel
Maurice E. Purnell, Jr.
Attorney
c. 1940   Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
Hilary Putnam
Philosopher
31-Jul-1926 13-Mar-2016 Philosophy of Mind
Frank Quattrone
Business
14-Oct-1955   The Prince of Silicon Valley
John A. Quelch
Educator
c. 1951   Professor at HBS
Alan Rachins
Actor
3-Oct-1942   Larry Finkelstein on Dharma & Greg
Thomas A. Ralph
Attorney
c. 1941   Retired Partner, Dechert LLP
David Ramsay
Historian
2-Apr-1749 8-May-1815 The History of the American Revolution
Jack Ramsay
Basketball
21-Feb-1925 28-Apr-2014 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
Ed Rendell
Politician
5-Jan-1944   Governor of Pennsylvania, 2003-11
Marjorie O. Rendell
Judge
20-Dec-1947   3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Robert K. Ressler
Author
15-Feb-1937   Whoever Fights Monsters
Bernard G. Rethore
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Flowserve, 1997-2000
Thomas L. Rhodes
Journalist
c. 1941   President, National Review
James S. Riepe
Business
c. 1943   Vice Chairman of T. Rowe Price, 1997-2005
Jeremy Rifkin
Activist
26-Jan-1945   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
Owen J. Roberts
Judge
2-May-1875 17-May-1955 US Supreme Court Justice, 1930-45
Ralph J. Roberts
Business
13-Mar-1920 19-Jun-2015 Co-Founder of Comcast
Peter J. Robertson
Business
1947   Vice Chairman of Chevron
Judith Rodin
Educator
9-Sep-1944   President of UPenn, 1994-2004
Albert J. Rosenthal
Educator
5-Mar-1919 17-Mar-2010 Dean of Columbia Law School, 1979-84
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
Jon Runyan
Politician
27-Nov-1973   Congressman, New Jersey 3rd
A. Patricia Sampson
Business
c. 1949   The Sampson Group
Morton Owen Schapiro
Educator
1953   President, Northwestern University
David S. Schechter
Business
c. 1975   Icahn Capital LP
Andrew J. Schindler
Business
12-Aug-1944   CEO of RJ Reynolds, 1995-2004
Bradley Schlozman
Government
6-Feb-1971   DoJ Civil Rights Division
Karl M. Schmitt
Historian
22-Jul-1922   Mexico and the United States, 1821-1973
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
Robert V. Seminara
Business
c. 1972   Apollo Management
John W. Seybold
Business
8-Mar-1916 14-Mar-2004 Computerized typesetting pioneer
Andrew J. Shapiro
Government
1967   Asst. Secy. for Politico-Military Affairs, 2009-13
Charles S. Shapiro
Diplomat
c. 1957   US Ambassador to Venezuela, 2002-04
Paul E. Shapiro
Attorney
c. 1941   Former CAO, Revlon, Sunbeam
Jerome J. Shestack
Attorney
11-Feb-1923 18-Aug-2011 Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
Hideki Shirakawa
Chemist
20-Aug-1936   Metallic polymers
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
Walter Shorenstein
Business
23-Feb-1915 24-Jun-2010 San Francisco real estate mogul
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
Dolores K. Sloviter
Judge
5-Sep-1932   3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
George M. Smart
Business
c. 1945   CEO of Central States Can Co., 1978-93
Michael Smerconish
Radio Personality
15-Mar-1962   Philadelphia talk radio host
Yakov Smirnoff
Comic
24-Jan-1951   What a country
George E. Smith
Scientist
10-May-1930   Digital photography
Hulett C. Smith
Politician
21-Oct-1918 15-Jan-2012 Governor of West Virginia, 1965-69
Martin Cruz Smith
Novelist
3-Nov-1942   Gorky Park
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 14-Oct-2012 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1981-2011
Jack L. Stahl
Business
c. 1953   CEO of Revlon, 2002-06
Susan M. Stalnecker
Business
c. 1951   VP and Treasurer at DuPont
Saul Steinberg
Business
1939   Ex-CEO of Reliance Group Holdings
Richard Stites
Historian
2-Dec-1931 7-Mar-2010 The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia
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
28-Jun-1930 31-Aug-2012 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
J. Parnell Thomas
Government
16-Jan-1895 19-Nov-1970 HUAC chairman, took the Fifth
Craig B. Thompson
Doctor
c. 1952   Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Bill Tilden
Tennis
10-Feb-1893 5-Jun-1953 Winner of 21 Grand Slam titles
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
Juan R. Torruella
Judge
7-Jun-1933   1st Circuit Court of Appeals
Bobby Troup
Songwriter
18-Oct-1918 7-Feb-1999 (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
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
Cenk Uygur
Talk Show Host
21-Mar-1970   The Young Turks
Rodolphe M. Vallee
Business
c. 1960   US Ambassador to Slovakia, 2005-07
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
Ignazio Visco
Economist
21-Nov-1949   Governor, Bank of Italy
Paul D. Wachter
Business
c. 1956   Founder and CEO, Main Street Advisers
Robert J. Walker
Politician
23-Jul-1801 11-Nov-1869 Mississippi Senator, Treasury Secretary
William Walker
Military
8-May-1824 12-Sep-1860 American "filibuster"
Matthew D. Walter
Business
c. 1969   CEO of Bound Tree Medical
Kathleen A. Walters
Business
c. 1951   EVP at Georgia Pacific
Roger O. Walther
Business
1935   Tusker Corporation
Michael Ward
Business
c. 1964   Bain Capital
Richard Ware II
Business
c. 1946   Amarillo National Bank
Marilyn Ware
Business
c. 1944   US Ambassador to Finland, 2006-08
Alan J. Weber
Business
1949   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
Helene N. White
Judge
2-Dec-1954   6th Circuit Court of Appeals
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 20-Sep-2015 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
Fred Wilson
Business
20-Aug-1961   Union Square Ventures
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
8-Mar-1962   Chairman of UBS Group Americas
Alan Wolfe
Author
10-Jun-1942   The Future of Liberalism
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
Mark G. Yudof
Educator
30-Oct-1944   President of the University of California
Jordan C. Zaken
Business
c. 1975   Apollo Management
Ahmed H. Zewail
Chemist
26-Feb-1946 2-Aug-2016 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 R. Barber
Scholar
2-Aug-1939   Jihad vs. McWorld
Albert C. Barnes
Curator
2-Jan-1872 24-Jul-1951 Barnes Foundation
Bill Bass
Scientist
30-Aug-1928   Human decomposition
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 5-Apr-2011 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 7-Oct-2012 Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74
Stephen B. Burbank
Educator
c. 1946   UPenn Law Professor
Tony Campolo
Religion
25-Feb-1935   Red-Letter Christian sociologist
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
Raymond Davis, Jr.
Scientist
14-Oct-1914 31-May-2006 Detected solar neutrinos
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Business
17-Dec-1956   Health care administrator
W. E. B. Du Bois
Sociologist
23-Feb-1868 27-Aug-1963 Civil rights activist
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
Martha J. Farah
Psychologist
c. 1955   Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn
Drew Gilpin Faust
Educator
18-Sep-1947   President of Harvard University
Kenneth Feinberg
Government
23-Oct-1945   Pay Czar for TARP and Gulf of Mexico disaster
Paul Fussell
Historian
22-Mar-1924 23-May-2012 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
John H. Gibbon, Jr.
Doctor
29-Sep-1903 5-Feb-1973 Open-heart surgery
Erving Goffman
Sociologist
11-Jun-1922 19-Nov-1982 The Presentation of Self
Nelson Goodman
Philosopher
7-Aug-1906 25-Nov-1998 Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
Vartan Gregorian
Educator
8-Apr-1934   President of Carnegie Corporation
Sanford J. Grossman
Business
21-Jul-1953   CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies
Lani Guinier
Educator
19-Apr-1950   The Tyranny of the Majority
Amy Gutmann
Educator
19-Nov-1949   President, University of Pennsylvania
Steven Hahn
Historian
18-Jul-1951   A Nation Under Our Feet
Robert Hare
Chemist
17-Jan-1781 15-May-1858 Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope
Patrick T. Harker
Educator
19-Nov-1958   President, University of Delaware
Peter D. Hart
Government
c. 1942   Democratic pollster
Haldan K. Hartline
Scientist
22-Dec-1903 17-Mar-1983 Physiology of the retina
Harald zur Hausen
Scientist
11-Mar-1936   Papilloma virus
Alan J. Heeger
Physicist
22-Jan-1936   Metallic polymers
Paul Hendrickson
Author
29-Apr-1944   Hemingway's Boat
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Judge
25-Feb-1928 14-Dec-1998 Chief Justice, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Grace Murray Hopper
Computer Programmer
9-Dec-1906 1-Jan-1992 Computer programming pioneer
Vernon W. Hughes
Physicist
28-May-1921 25-Mar-2003 Muons
James C. Humes
Government
31-Oct-1934   Speechwriter to five Presidents
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Scholar
24-Nov-1946   Annenberg Public Policy Center
Kent A. Jordan
Judge
24-Oct-1957   3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Louis Kahn
Architect
20-Feb-1901 17-Mar-1974 Prominent architect
Morton Keller
Historian
1-Mar-1929   Regulating a New Economy
William N. Kelley
Doctor
23-Jun-1939   Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome
Candace Kendle
Business
c. 1948   CEO of Kendle International
Nan Keohane
Scholar
18-Sep-1940   Political scientist
William R. Kintner
Scholar
21-Apr-1915 1-Feb-1997 Peace and the Strategy Conflict
Lawrence R. Klein
Economist
14-Sep-1920 20-Oct-2013 Macroeconometric modeling
Gabriel Kolko
Historian
17-Aug-1932   Century of War
Bill Kristol
Columnist
23-Dec-1952   Editor of The Weekly Standard
Simon Kuznets
Economist
30-Apr-1901 8-Jul-1985 National Income and Its Composition
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Doctor
1954   Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Roger S. Leeds
Business
c. 1944   Emerging Markets Private Equity Association
Joseph Leidy
Biologist
9-Sep-1823 30-Apr-1891 Trichinosis and dinosaurs
Flynt Leverett
Government
6-Mar-1958   Former National Security Council staffer
Frank Luntz
Pundit
23-Feb-1962   Republican pollster, strategist
Alan G. MacDiarmid
Chemist
14-Apr-1927 7-Feb-2007 Metallic polymers
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky
Journalist
21-Jun-1942   Congresswoman from Pennsylvania, 1993-95
John William Mauchly
Physicist
30-Aug-1907 8-Jan-1980 ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers
Elton Mayo
Psychologist
26-Dec-1880 7-Sep-1949 Student of Industrial Civilization
John Bach McMaster
Historian
29-Jun-1852 24-May-1932 History of the People of the United States
Otto Meyerhof
Scientist
12-Apr-1884 6-Oct-1951 Glycogen-lactic acid cycle
Scott Nearing
Economist
6-Aug-1883 24-Aug-1983 Socialist economist
Roy Franklin Nichols
Historian
3-Mar-1896 12-Jan-1973 The Disruption of American Democracy
Anne Norton
Educator
1954   Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire
William Osler
Doctor
12-Jul-1849 29-Dec-1919 Father of psychosomatic medicine
Nell Irvin Painter
Historian
2-Aug-1942   Creating Black Americans
Raymond Pearl
Biologist
3-Jun-1879 17-Nov-1940 Biogerontology
George W. Pepper
Politician
16-Mar-1867 24-May-1961 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-27
Edmund S. Phelps
Economist
26-Jul-1933   Golden Rules of Economic Growth
Philip Syng Physick
Doctor
7-Jul-1768 15-Dec-1837 Father of American surgery
Harvey Pitt
Government
28-Feb-1945   SEC Chairman, 2001-03
George H. Poste
Biologist
c. 1944   Health Technology Networks
Edward C. Prescott
Economist
26-Dec-1940   Dynamic macroeconomics
Paul J. Quirk
Political Scientist
14-Apr-1949   The Politics of Deregulation
David Rittenhouse
Astronomer
8-Apr-1732 26-Jun-1796 Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman
James Harvey Robinson
Historian
29-Jun-1863 16-Feb-1936 The Mind in the Making
Stephen A. Ross
Economist
c. 1943   Professor of Financial Economics, MIT
Philip Roth
Novelist
19-Mar-1933   Portnoy's Complaint
David B. Ruderman
Historian
29-May-1944   Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key
Charles F. C. Ruff
Attorney
1-Aug-1939 19-Nov-2000 Clinton's impeachment attorney
Benjamin Rush
Politician
4-Jan-1746 19-Apr-1813 Signed Declaration of Independence
Thomas J. Sargent
Economist
19-Jul-1943   Rational expectations theory
Robert Schrieffer
Physicist
31-May-1931   BCS Theory of Superconductivity
Anthony J. Scirica
Judge
16-Dec-1940   3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Robert J. Shiller
Economist
29-Mar-1946   Irrational Exuberance
Arlen Specter
Politician
12-Feb-1930 14-Oct-2012 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1981-2011
Donald M. Stewart
Educator
1938   President of College Board, 1987-99
Robert Strausz-Hupé
Diplomat
25-Mar-1903 24-Feb-2002 US Ambassador to Turkey, 1981-89
Thomas J. Sugrue
Historian
24-Jul-1962   The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Timothy Swager
Chemist
1-Jul-1961   Chemist at MIT
Samuel O. Thier
Doctor
23-Jun-1937   CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002
Shirley M. Tilghman
Educator
17-Sep-1946   President of Princeton University
Andrew von Eschenbach
Government
30-Oct-1941   FDA Commissioner, 2005-09
Elizabeth Warren
Educator
22-Jun-1949   US Senator from Massachusetts
Randolph W. Westerfield
Educator
c. 1941   Business Professor, USC
John Edgar Wideman
Novelist
14-Jun-1941   Sent for You Yesterday
Mark H. Willes
Business
16-Jul-1941   CEO of Times Mirror, 1995-2000
Oliver E. Williamson
Economist
27-Sep-1932   Transaction cost economics
Ernest J. Wilson III
Educator
c. 1948   Dean, Annenberg School for Communication
Jerry Wind
Educator
c. 1939   Director, SEI Center, Wharton

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Leonore Annenberg
Socialite
20-Feb-1918 12-Mar-2009 Wife of Walter Annenberg
Alan L. Beller
Attorney
c. 1950   Partner, Cleary Gottlieb
Stanley M. Bergman
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Henry Schein
Nicholas Biddle
Business
8-Jan-1786 27-Feb-1844 Second Bank of the United States
Robert S. Blank
Business
c. 1941   Whitcom Partners
Geoffrey T. Boisi
Business
c. 1948   Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 2000-02
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Business
16-May-1955   CEO of Seagram, Warner Music, etc
Stephen B. Burbank
Educator
c. 1946   UPenn Law Professor
Richard Carrión
Business
26-Nov-1952   CEO of Popular, Inc.
Gilbert F. Casellas
Attorney
c. 1952   Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo
Stanley N. Cohen
Biologist
17-Feb-1935   Recombinant DNA
Thomas J. Colligan
Business
c. 1945   Vice Chairman of PWC, 2001-04
Arthur D. Collins, Jr.
Business
10-Dec-1947   CEO of Medtronic, 2001-07
Alexander J. Dallas
Government
21-Jun-1759 16-Jan-1817 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1814-16
Carol B. Einiger
Business
c. 1948   Post Rock Advisors LLC
Stephen G. Emerson
Educator
c. 1952   President, Haverford College
Mel Estrin
Business
c. 1941   University Research Company
Martha J. Farah
Psychologist
c. 1955   Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn
Jay S. Fishman
Business
4-Nov-1952 19-Aug-2016 CEO of Travelers, 2007-15
W. Frank Fountain
Business
17-Jul-1944   Senior VP at Chrysler
John A. Fry
Business
c. 1960   President, Franklin and Marshall College
Susan Fuhrman
Educator
c. 1943   President, Teachers College, Columbia
Claire L. Gaudiani
Educator
1944   President, Connecticut College, 1988-2001
Thomas P. Gerrity
Business
13-Jul-1941   Former Dean, Wharton School
Bruce J. Graham
Architect
1-Dec-1925 6-Mar-2010 Architect of the Sears Tower
Vartan Gregorian
Educator
8-Apr-1934   President of Carnegie Corporation
Ray J. Groves
Business
c. 1935   CEO of Ernst & Young, 1977-94
Amy Gutmann
Educator
19-Nov-1949   President, University of Pennsylvania
Patrick T. Harker
Educator
19-Nov-1958   President, University of Delaware
Alan J. Heeger
Physicist
22-Jan-1936   Metallic polymers
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
Business
27-May-1933   CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, 1994-2001
Robert J. Hurst
Business
1945   Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2004
Jared Ingersoll
Politician
24-Oct-1749 31-Oct-1822 Signed the US Constitution
Edward A. Kangas
Business
22-May-1944   CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, 1989-2000
William N. Kelley
Doctor
23-Jun-1939   Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome
Kevin Kelly
Editor
1952   Founding Editor, Wired Magazine
Yotaro Kobayashi
Business
25-Apr-1933   CEO of Fuji Xerox, Ltd.
Leonard Lauder
Business
19-Mar-1933   Chairman of Estee Lauder
William Lauder
Business
c. 1961   CEO, Estée Lauder
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Doctor
1954   Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Marc J. Leder
Business
c. 1962   Sun Capital Partners
Jeffrey M. Leiden
Doctor
c. 1953   Clarus Ventures
John Davis Lodge
Politician
20-Oct-1903 29-Oct-1985 Governor of Connecticut, 1951-55
Thomas J. Meredith
Business
c. 1950   CFO of Dell, 1992-2000
Alan B. Miller
Business
17-Aug-1937   Founder of Universal Health Services
Roy Franklin Nichols
Historian
3-Mar-1896 12-Jan-1973 The Disruption of American Democracy
Lawrence C. Nussdorf
Business
c. 1946   Clark Enterprises, Inc.
Shaun F. O'Malley
Business
c. 1937   Chairman of Price Waterhouse, 1987-95
Russell E. Palmer
Business
13-Aug-1934   Dean of the Wharton School, 1983-90
George W. Pepper
Politician
16-Mar-1867 24-May-1961 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-27
Richard C. Perry
Business
c. 1955   Perry Capital
Philip Syng Physick
Doctor
7-Jul-1768 15-Dec-1837 Father of American surgery
David S. Pottruck
Business
c. 1948   CEO of Charles Schwab, 1998-2004
Marjorie O. Rendell
Judge
20-Dec-1947   3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
James S. Riepe
Business
c. 1943   Vice Chairman of T. Rowe Price, 1997-2005
David Rittenhouse
Astronomer
8-Apr-1732 26-Jun-1796 Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman
Owen J. Roberts
Judge
2-May-1875 17-May-1955 US Supreme Court Justice, 1930-45
Judith Rodin
Educator
9-Sep-1944   President of UPenn, 1994-2004
Paul E. Shapiro
Attorney
c. 1941   Former CAO, Revlon, Sunbeam
Alvin V. Shoemaker
Business
c. 1938   Chairman of First Boston, 1983-89
Henry R. Silverman
Business
1-Aug-1940   Chairman of Realogy
Martin Silverstein
Diplomat
1954   US Ambassador to Uruguay, 2001-05
Hugo F. Sonnenschein
Economist
1941   President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000
Harold Stassen
Politician
13-Apr-1907 4-Mar-2001 Perennial presidential candidate
Saul Steinberg
Business
1939   Ex-CEO of Reliance Group Holdings
Myles Tanenbaum
Business
28-Jun-1930 31-Aug-2012 Real Estate developer
Samuel O. Thier
Doctor
23-Jun-1937   CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002
Craig B. Thompson
Doctor
c. 1952   Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Robert I. Toll
Business
c. 1941   Co-Founder of Toll Brothers
Donald Trump
Business
14-Jun-1946   The Donald
Marilyn Ware
Business
c. 1944   US Ambassador to Finland, 2006-08
Marna C. Whittington
Business
c. 1947   COO of Allianz Global Investors
Oliver E. Williamson
Economist
27-Sep-1932   Transaction cost economics
Gary L. Wilson
Business
c. 1941   Chairman of Northwest Airlines, 1991-2007
Jerry Wind
Educator
c. 1939   Director, SEI Center, Wharton
Robert Wolf
Business
8-Mar-1962   Chairman of UBS Group Americas
Melvin O. Wright
Business
29-Jul-1928   Former Dean Witter Reynolds VP

COACHES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bert Bell
Football
25-Feb-1895 11-Oct-1959 NFL Commissioner, 1946-59
Doug Collins
Basketball
28-Jul-1951   76ers Head Coach, 2010-13
Chuck Daly
Basketball
20-Jul-1930 9-May-2009 Won 2 NBA Championships with the Pistons
John Heisman
Football
23-Oct-1869 3-Oct-1936 Namesake of the Heisman Trophy
Digger Phelps
Basketball
4-Jul-1941   Notre Dame Head Coach, 1971-91


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