- Cecil B. Moore
Cecil Bassett Moore was a Philadelphia lawyer and activist during the U.S. Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Born in West Virginia, Moore served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. In 1947, after his discharge at Fort Mifflin, Moore moved to Philadelphia and studied Law at Temple University. He earned a reputation as a no-nonsense lawyer who fought on behalf of his mostly poor, African-American clients concentrated in North Philadelphia.
- John Allen Paulos
John Allen Paulos is an extensively kudized author, popular public speaker , and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com ( archived or current , the text copyright by JAP, only the presentation copyright by ABC ) and formerly for the Guardian . Professor of math at Temple , a state university in Philadelphia, he earned his Ph.D. in the subject from the University of Wisconsin .
- John Marzano
John Robert Marzano (born February 14, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Major League Baseball player from 1987 to 1998 for the Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, and Seattle Mariners. Marzano was a backup catcher. John is the usual guest of Phillies Post Game Live on Comcast Sports Net. John co-hosts a show with Rob Charry on Saturdays, and is also a regular guest on WIP-AM's morning show Attended and played for the Owls of Temple University in Philadelphia, …
- Russell Conwell
Russell Herman Conwell (1843-1925) was an American Baptist minister, lawyer, writer, and outstanding orator. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and for his lecture and book "Acres of Diamonds." He was born in South Worthington, Massachusetts. He was buried in Founder's Garden at Temple University. He studied law at the Albany Law School and became a lawyer.
- John Chaney
John Chaney (born January 21, 1932 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a retired American college basketball coach, best known for his tenure at Temple University.
- Ann Weaver Hart
Ann Weaver Hart was elected the ninth university president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 4, 2006. The first female president of Temple, she assumed the presidency on July 1, 2006.
- Molefi Kete Asante
Molefi Kete Asante is a professor of African American studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to being a teacher and noted scholar, he is also a prolific author, poet, dramatist, painter, and in 1995, was made a traditional king of Tafo, Akyem, Ghana. Asante assumed the chair of African American studies at Temple University in 1984, and created Temple's first Ph.D. program in African American studies in 1987.
- Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Sanchez attended public schools in New York City and then Hunter College, where she received a B.A. in 1955. Sanchez became an important voice in the revolutionary social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
- Fran Dunphy
Fran Dunphy (b. 1948) is the head men's basketball coach at Temple University. He succeeded John Chaney in 2006.
- Egypt
"Egypt" is co-host of " The Ed Lover Show" at their flagship station WWPR, She is from Philadelphia,PA. Since May 2006, replacing the recently cancelled Star & Buc Wild on NY radio station Power 105.1. She was a weekend DJ at the hip-hop station. Egypt worked the midday shift at WBLS-FM, for two years before leaving in 2003.
- Terell Stafford
Terell Stafford is a professional jazz trumpet player and current Director of Jazz Studies at Temple University. Terell Stafford born in Miami, Florida and raised in both Chicago, Illinois and Silver Spring, Maryland. He went on to get a degree in music education from University of Maryland in 1988 and a degree in classical trumpet performance from Rutgers University in 1993.
- Dan Klecko
Dan Klecko (born January 12, 1981) is an American football player for the Indianapolis Colts in the National Football League. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round (117th pick overall) in the 2003 Draft. Klecko has also been a versatile player; he graduated from Marlboro High School, and then Temple University as an accomplished defensive lineman but was moved to linebacker in the summer of 2004. 1 He has also seen time on special teams, …
- Peter J. Liacouras
Peter James Liacouras is an American academic. Liacouras was the President of Temple University from 1981-2000. He is also a former Dean of the Temple University School of Law. He is currently chancellor of Temple University. During his presidency, the University underwent a building boom. He oversaw expanded sports, medical, housing, and learning facilities.
- Daryl Hall
Daryl Hall (born Daryl Franklin Hohl on October 11, 1946, Pottstown, Pennsylvania) is an American singer and songwriter best known as half of the music duo Hall & Oates (with music partner John Oates).
- Lynne Abraham
Lynne Abraham (born 1941) has been the District Attorney of the City of Philadelphia since 1991. She studied at Temple University for her undergraduate degree and also received her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law. Abraham served as the head of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority during the administration of Mayor Frank Rizzo. She is married to Edward Felbin. Abraham is a former judge on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, …
- Al Golden
Alfred James Golden (born July 4, 1969) is an American football head coach and former NFL player. He was named head football coach at Temple University in December 2005, becoming the second-youngest head coach in NCAA history. He served for 5 years as defensive coordinator at the University of Virginia.
- Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. is an award-winning American science fiction author. He has written works that have garnered substantial critical acclaim, including the novels "The Einstein Intersection", "Nova", "Hogg", "Dhalgren", and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is widely known in the academic world as a literary critic.
- Rachel Blau Duplessis
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born 1941), American poet and essayist, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. DuPlessis teaches English and Creative Writing at Temple University and is the author of "Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers" (1985), "H.D.: The Career of that Struggle" (1986), …
- Maurice Wright
Maurice Wright (1949-) is an American composer. Wright's works are (in his own words) "a synthesis of his diverse interests: vocal and instrumental music (new and old); technology and acoustics; and drama and film." Maurice Willis Wright was born in Front Royal, Virginia, a small town situated between the forks of the Shenandoah River and near the Blue Ridge Mountains. He began composing at age 10. He attended Duke University and Columbia University, …
- Rebecca Alpert
Rebecca T. Alpert is associate professor in the departments of religion and women's studies and the chair of the department of religion at Temple University.
- George Gerbner
George Gerbner was a communication theorist, the founder of cultivation theory, and a poet. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he immigrated to America in late 1939. Gerbner earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1942. He worked briefly for the San Francisco Chronicle as a writer, columnist and assistant financial editor. He joined the US Army in 1943.
- Mardy Collins
Mardy Collins (born August 4 1984, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player, who recently completed his college basketball career at Temple University, and was drafted by the New York Knicks with the 29<sup>th</sup> pick of the first round of the 2006 NBA Draft.
- Jay Ruby
Jay Ruby (1935-) is an American scholar who was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University until his recent retirement. He received his B.A. in History (1960) and Ph.D. in Anthropology (1969) from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a leader in the field of visual anthropology.
- Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley M. Tilghman was elected Princeton University's 19th president on May 5, 2001, and assumed office on June 15, 2001. An exceptional teacher and a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology, she served on the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president. Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968.
- Juan Gonzalez
Juan Gonzalez is an American investigative journalist. He has been a columnist for the "New York Daily News" since 1987. He co-hosts the radio and television program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn. After a stint as editor of his high school newspaper, the "Lane Reporter", Gonzalez enrolled in Columbia University, …
- Bobby Wallace
Bobby Wallace is a college football coach. He is currently the head coach of the University of West Alabama Tigers, a Division II school in Livingston, Alabama. Since going to UWA, Wallace has turned the program around. In 2006, Wallace led West Alabama to its a 6-5 record and its first winning season in fourteen years. Before UWA, Wallace was head coach at Temple University from 1998 to 2005.
- Eddie Jones
Eddie Charles Jones (born October 20 1971 in Pompano Beach, Florida) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Miami Heat. Jones played college basketball at Temple University alongside guard and future NBA player Aaron McKie. He was selected 10th overall in the 1994 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. In his rookie season he averaged 14.0 points per game and 2.05 steals per game, and played in 64 games, 58 of which he started.
- Alan Wolfe
Alan Wolfe is a political scientist and is currently on the faculty of Boston College and serves as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, …
- Walter E. Williams
Born in Philadelphia in 1936, Walter E. Williams holds a bachelor's degree in economics from California State University (1965) and a master's degree (1967) and doctorate (1972) in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1980, he joined the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and is currently the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics.
- James Fyfe
James J. Fyfe (February 16 1942 - November 12 2005) was a well-known criminologist -- a leading authority on the police use of force and police accountability -- and a police administrator. His research on the police use of deadly force has been cited extensively, most notably in the 1985 Supreme Court case of "Tennessee v. Garner", …
- Tom Bradley
Tom Bradley a native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania is an assistant football coach at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania in the United States. A graduate of Penn State and former player for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Bradley has been an assistant to coach Joe Paterno since 1979. His title on the Penn State coaching staff is "In charge of defense/cornerbacks".
- Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at the Stanford University School of Education. Previously a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, Darling-Hammmond is a notable voice in the field of education for her research on the effects of teacher quality, school leadership and school reform. Darling-Hammond entered the education field as a public school teacher, and went on to found her own pre-school center.
- Dick Oatts
Richard "Dick" Oatts is a jazz saxophonist from Iowa. He became interested in saxophone due to his father Jack Oatts. To this day he still plays on the same Selmer alto saxophone his father gave to him. He began his professional career in Minneapolis in 1972 and in 1977 he joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band.
- Ralph Young
Ralph Stuart Young was an American Major League Baseball second baseman. During his nine major league seasons, he played with the New York Yankees (1913), Detroit Tigers (1915-1921), and Philadelphia Athletics (1922).
- Larry Miller
Larry G. Miller, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a American sports executive. He is currently president of the Portland Trail Blazers National Basketball Association fanchise, being hired for the position on June 20 2007.. Miller replaced interim president Tod Leiweke in the role. Miller held a variety of executive positions at Nike, Inc, most recently Vice President and General Manager, Basketball, and prior to that President of the Jordan Brand.
- Ram Mudambi
Ram Mudambi is Professor and Washburn Research Fellow in General and Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University, USA. He has published over fifty refereed journal articles and six books on the multinational strategies of entrepreneurial firms; the location and research and development strategies of multinational firms, and the politics of international business. Dr.
- Ismail Al-Faruqi
Ismail Raji al-Faruqi (January 1, 1921 - May 27, 1986), is a renowned Palestinian-American philosopher who is widely recognized by his peers as an authority on Islam and comparative religion. He spent several years at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, then taught at several universities in North America, including McGill University in Montreal. He was Professor of Religion at Temple University, where he founded and chaired the Islamic Studies program. Dr.
- Wayne Hardin
Wayne Hardin was an American college football coach for Navy, and Temple. From 1959 to 1964, he coached at Navy, where he compiled a 38-22-2 record. From 1970 to 1982, he coached at Temple, where he compiled an 80-50-3 record. His 80 wins, ranked most in school history, and his 1979 squad went 10-2. He is credited with discovering and mentoring Roger Staubach (who eventually won the Heisman trophy under Hardin). He also coached Heisman Tropy winner Joe Bellino.
- Steve Alten
Steve Alten (born August 21, 1959, Philadelphia) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his "Meg" series, a set of novels positing the survival of large Megalodon sharks. Alten holds a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University, a master's in sports medicine from the University of Delaware, and a doctorate in sports administration from Temple University.
- Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks was a Hollywood film writer, director, and (occasionally) producer. Brooks was born Ruben Sax to Russian Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from West Philadelphia High School, and later Temple University. He was a sports reporter at several newspapers (the Atlantic City Press Union, the Philadelphia record and the New York World-Telegram), then moved into radio at WNEW in New York.