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Notable people[edit]

Main article: List of University of Pennsylvania people
See also: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania
See also: List of Wharton School alumni

Penn has produced many alumni that have distinguished themselves in the sciences, academia, politics, military, arts, media, and business. The quality and diversity of Penn's alumni body have established the institution as having one of the most powerful alumni networks in the United States, as well as internationally.[6] Moreover, 35 Nobel prize-winners have studied or taught at Penn, of which four have served on the faculty in the last two decades.[7] Penn also counts 133 members of the United States National Academies, 85 members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, 8 National Medal of Science laureates, 111 Sloan Fellows,[8] 59 members of the American Philosophical Society[9] and 167 Guggenheim Fellowships.[7] In addition, 26 Penn graduates have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships[10] and 14 have been awarded Marshall Scholarships.[11]

Politics[edit]

Fourteen heads of state or government have attended or graduated from Penn, including current president Donald J. Trump, former president William Henry Harrison, who attended the medical school for less than a semester;[12] former Prime Minister of the Philippines Cesar Virata; the first president of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe; the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah; and the current president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara. Other notable politicians who hold a degree from Penn include India's Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha,[13] former ambassador to China and former 2012 presidential candidate and Utah governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., Mexico's current minister of finance, Ernesto J. Cordero, long-serving Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter and former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell.

Law[edit]

The university's presence in the judiciary in and outside of the United States is also notable. It has produced three United States Supreme Court justices, William J. Brennan, Owen J. Roberts and James Wilson, Supreme Court justices of foreign states (e.g., Ronald Wilson of the High Court of Australia and Ayala Procaccia of the Israel Supreme Court), European Court of Human Rights judge Nona Tsotsoria, Irish Court of Appeal justice Gerard Hogan and founders of international law firms, e.g. James Harry Covington (co-founder of Covington & Burling), Martin Lipton (co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz) and George Wharton Pepper (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and founder of Pepper Hamilton).

Business[edit]

Penn alumni also have a strong presence in financial and economic life. In fact, the school has the most, at 25, undergraduate billionaires of any university in the world. In addition — counting all degrees — 47 Penn alumni are billionaires, the third most of any university.[14]

Penn has educated several governors of central banks including Yasin Anwar (State Bank of Pakistan), Ignazio Visco (Bank of Italy), Kim Choongsoo (Bank of Korea), Zeti Akhtar Aziz (Central Bank of Malaysia), Pridiyathorn Devakula (Governor, Bank of Thailand, and former Minister of Finance), Farouk El Okdah (Central Bank of Egypt) and Alfonso Prat Gay (Central Bank of Argentina), as well as the director of the United States National Economic Council, Gene Sperling. Founders of technology companies include Ralph J. Roberts (co-founder of Comcast), Elon Musk (founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX), Leonard Bosack (co-founder of Cisco), David Brown (co-founder of Silicon Graphics) and Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga, the company behind Farmville). Other notable businessmen and entrepreneurs who attended or graduated from the University of Pennsylvania include William S. Paley (former president of CBS), Warren Buffett[note 1] (CEO of Berkshire Hathaway), Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump, Safra Catz (president and CFO of Oracle Corporation), Leonard Lauder (chairman emeritus of Estée Lauder Companies and son of founder Estée Lauder), Steven A. Cohen (founder of SAC Capital Advisors), Robert Kapito (president of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager) and P. Roy Vagelos (former president and CEO of multinational pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.).

Mathematics and sciences[edit]

Literature, music, and drama[edit]

Religion[edit]

Philosophy[edit]

Sport[edit]

Adventure and exploration[edit]

Among other distinguished alumni are the current or past presidents of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust; the University of California, Mark Yudof; and Northwestern University, Morton O. Schapiro; poets William Augustus Muhlenberg, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, linguist and political theorist Noam Chomsky, architect Louis Kahn, cartoonist Charles Addams, actress Candice Bergen, theatrical producer Harold Prince, counter-terrorism expert and author Richard A. Clarke, pollster and strategist Frank Luntz, attorney Gloria Allred, journalist Joe Klein, fashion designer Tory Burch, recording artist John Legend and football athlete and coach John Heisman.

Within the ranks of Penn's most historic graduates are also eight signers of the Declaration of Independence and nine signers of the Constitution. These include George Clymer, Francis Hopkinson, Thomas McKean, Robert Morris, William Paca, George Ross, Benjamin Rush, James Wilson, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, Rufus King, Thomas Mifflin, Gouverneur Morris and Hugh Williamson.

  1. ^ "Ten great investors". Incademy Investor Education. Harriman House Ltd. Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  2. ^ Farrington, Robert. "The top 10 investors of all time". The College Investor. The College Investor, LLC. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  3. ^ He Won’t Back Down: Elon Musk, ‘‘Wharton School’’, September 1, 2010.
  4. ^ Entrepreneur Elon Musk: Why It's Important to Pinch Pennies on the Road to Riches, ‘‘Knowledge@Wharton’’, 03-27-2009
  5. ^ SpaceX Leadership: Elon Musk Archived May 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, ‘‘SpaceX’’, November 21, 2011.
  6. ^ Online College Tips – Online Colleges (March 14, 2011). "The 10 Most Powerful Alumni Networks | Online College Tips – Online Colleges". Onlinecollege.org. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  7. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Penn: Penn Facts was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Past Fellows". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  9. ^ "American Philosophical Society - Member History". American Philosophical Society. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  10. ^ "Selected Awards and Honors to Penn Students:Rhodes Scholarships". Penn University Archives & Records Center. 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  11. ^ "Selected Awards and Honors to Penn Students:Marshall Scholarships". Penn University Archives & Records Center. 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  12. ^ William Henry Harrison studied medicine at Penn from 1790 until his father died in 1791; after his father's death Harrison left the University to join the army."William H. Harrison". Ohio History Central An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History. Ohio Historical Society. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  13. ^ » Portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers. "Portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers". pmindia.gov.in.
  14. ^ Elkins, Kathleen (May 22, 2017). "The 10 colleges that produce the most billionaires". CNBC. Retrieved March 26, 2018.


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