- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, … - Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann (1949 -), Ph.D., is the 8th President of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a political theorist who taught at Princeton University from 1976 to 2004 and served as its Provost. Upon succeeding former University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin, Gutmann became the first female president to succeed a female president of an Ivy League university. In her inaugural address, she launched the Penn Compact, … - Arthur Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan PhD, is Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to Penn in 1994, Caplan taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University. He was the Associate Director of the Hastings Center from 1984-1987. Born in Boston, Caplan did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University, … - William Smith
The Rev. Dr. William Smith (1728-1803) was the first president of the University of Pennsylvania. He was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, to Thomas and Elizabeth (Duncan) Smith. He attended the University of Aberdeen. In 1753, Smith wrote a pamphlet outlining his thoughts about education. - Judith Rodin
Judith Rodin (born 1944) Ph.D., is the first female president of an Ivy League university. She served as the seventh president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-2004 and in 2005 was named president of the Rockefeller Foundation. A Penn alumna, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970. Rodin is credited with expanding and improving the University and significantly changing the character of much of the area surrounding campus. - Martin Seligman
Martin E.P. Seligman (Albany, New York, 12 August 1942) is an American psychologist and writer. He is well known for his work on the idea of "learned helplessness", and more recently, for his contributions to leadership in the field of Positive Psychology. According to Haggbloom et al's study of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century, Seligman was the 13th most frequently cited psychologist in introductory psychology textbooks throughout the century. - Ed Rendell
Governor Ed Rendell, Governor’s Office, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17101 - Arlen Specter
Arlen J. Specter (born February 12 1930) is a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Republican Party. - Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television personality and author. He is the CEO of Trump Organization, an American-based real estate developer, and the founder of Trump Entertainment, which operates several casinos. He received a great deal of publicity following the success of his reality television show, … - George Allen
George Allen (December 17, 1808-May 28, 1876) was a noted college professor and clergyman. He was born in Milton, Vermont in 1808. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1827, and became a professor of languages at that school the following year. He left that position in 1830. The following year, he was admitted to the Vermont bar and married Mary Hancock Withington, with whom he would have four children. He was ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church in 1834. - Ezra Loomis Pound
Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho . He had an average middle-class childhood in Wyncote, Philadelphia , where his father held the position of assistant assayer for the United States Mint . Pound left high school, and attended the University of Pennsylvania , where he befriended another notable poet of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams , who was studying medicine at the time. - John Morgan
Dr. John Morgan (1735-1789) was co-founder of the first medical school in Colonial America and the second "Chief physician & director general" of the Continental Army (an early name for the U.S. Army Surgeon General). He was a graduate of University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was co-founder (1765, with Dr. William Shippen) of the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) Medical School, the first medical school in North America. - Drew Gilpin Faust
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust '68 will shatter one of America's oldest glass ceilings when she becomes the first woman to lead Harvard University in the school's 371-year history. Her appointment as president was unanimously approved by Harvard's Board of Overseers on Sunday, Feb. 11, after a highly publicized, yearlong search. - Jesse Gelsinger
Jesse Gelsinger (June 18 1981 - September 17 1999) was the first person publicly identified as having died in a clinical trial for gene therapy. He was 18 years old. Gelsinger suffered from ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, an X-linked genetic disease of the liver, whose victims are unable to metabolize ammonia - a byproduct of protein breakdown. - Benjamin Rush
Dr. Benjamin Rush (December 24 1745 - April 19 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Rush was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress. Later in life, he became a professor of medical theory and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania. - C. Everett Koop
Vice Admiral Cornelius Everett Koop, M.D. (born October 14 1916 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physician. He served as the Surgeon General of the United States from 1982 to 1989, under Ronald Reagan's presidency. He was in a sense the first "celebrity Surgeon General" and is probably still the best-known holder of the office. Koop obtained his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1937, where he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, … - Mary Frances Berry
Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She is also the former board chair of Pacifica Radio. She is a past president of the Organization of American Historians, the primary professional organization for historians of the United States. At Penn, Berry teaches American legal history. - David Rittenhouse
David Rittenhouse (April 8, 1732 - June 26, 1796) was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the first director of the United States Mint. - Edgar Prado
Edgar S. Prado is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Now a resident of Hollywood, Florida in 2004 Prado became the 19th jockey in thoroughbred racing history to win 5,000 races. On May 6, 2006, Prado rode Barbaro to victory in the 132nd Kentucky Derby, 6½ lengths ahead of the second finisher, Bluegrass Cat. The margin of victory was the largest since Triple Crown winner Assault won by eight lengths in 1946. - J. Scott Armstrong
J. Scott Armstrong (born March 26, 1937), Ph.D., is Professor of Marketing at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since 1968. Armstrong is interested in forecasting methods, survey research, educational methods, social responsibility, personnel selection, and scientific peer review. Most recently, his visiting appointments have included positions at the University of Otago and Manchester Business School. - William Labov
William Labov is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics. He is employed as a professor in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania, and pursues research in sociolinguistics, language change, and dialectology. - Mark Liberman
Mark Liberman is a linguist. He has a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics, and as a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. He is also currently the director of the Linguistic Data Consortium. He is an alumnus of MIT, having completed his PhD there in 1975. Liberman's main research interests lie in phonetics, prosody, and other aspects of speech communication. - Aaron T. Beck
Aaron Temkin Beck (born July 18, 1921) is an American psychiatrist and a professor emeritus at the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Beck is known as the father of Cognitive Therapy and inventor of the widely used Beck Scales, including the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Hopelessness Scale, Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Beck Youth Inventories. - David Scott
David Scott (born June 27 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 13th District of Georgia. - Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (February 20, 1901 or 1902 - March 17, 1974) was a world-renowned architect based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later also served as a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and at Yale University. - Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott (born 26 December, 1940) is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". - David Scott
Colonel David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is a former NASA astronaut, was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963, and as commander of the Apollo 15 mission is one of only twelve men who have walked on the moon. He was born on Randolph Air Force Base (after which he was named) near San Antonio, Texas and was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. - Jack
The Jack human simulation system was developed at the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s as an ergonomic assessment & virtual human prototyping system for NASA space shuttle development. In 1996 the software was spun off into a privately held company and is now sold as an ergonomic human simulation toolkit by USG. - Paul Rozin
Paul Rozin is a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His work primarily focusses on the psychological, cultural, and biological determinants of human food choice. Rozin earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1956 and a doctoral degree in biology and psychology from Harvard University in 1961. - Aravind Joshi
Aravind Krishana Joshi was born in 1929 in Pune, India. He is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics and natural language processing. Joshi studied at Pune University and the Indian Institute of Science, … - Ian Lustick
Ian Steven Lustick (b. 1949) is an American political scientist and specialist on the modern history and politics of the Middle East. Lustick completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 with a dissertation titled "Arabs in the Jewish State : a study in the effective control of a minority population" (A book adapted from the dissertation was published in 1980, see below). - Claudia Cohen
Claudia Lynn Cohen (December 16 1950 - June 15 2007) was an American gossip columnist, socialite and television reporter. The daughter of businessman Robert Cohen, the president of the Hudson County News Company, a magazine wholesaler, and his wife, Harriet, Claudia Cohen grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, and attended the Dwight School for Girls (now the Dwight-Englewood School) and the University of Pennsylvania. - James Hamilton
James Hamilton (Accomac County(?), Virginia, c. 1710-August 14 1783, New York, New York), son of the well-known Philadelphia lawyer Andrew Hamilton, was a prominent lawyer and governmental figure in Colonial Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Hamilton was educated in Philadelphia and England before becoming a practicing lawyer in 1731. When in 1733 his father resigned as prothonotary of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, he was appointed to the office. - Alan Charles Kors
Alan Charles Kors (Ph.D., Harvard University) teaches European intellectual history at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is professor of history and holds the George H. Walker Endowed Term Chair. Kors has fought for academic freedom since his arrival at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1993, he defended Eden Jacobowitz in the infamous "water buffalo case," which led to the writing of The Shadow University (1998) and to the founding of FIRE, both with Harvey Silverglate . - Glenn McGee
Glenn McGee, Ph. D. (born September 1, 1967 in Waco, Texas) is an American professor of medicine, philosophy, law and public health. He holds degrees in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and Baylor University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Human Genome Project. His work in the areas of ethics and the health sciences is widely cited and he is often called upon to advise and comment by government and the media, … - Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is a journalist, television commentator, and writer. She covers burgeoning international issues for all NBC News broadcasts, including "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams", "Today", and MSNBC. She is also often a guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews. She frequently anchors the 11AM hour of MSNBC Live. Mitchell graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, … - Chaka Fattah
Chaka Fattah, born Arthur Davenport (21 November 1956 in Philadelphia), has served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1994, representing the 2nd Congressional district of Pennsylvania (map), which includes North Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, a very small portion of Northeast Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township in Montgomery County. - Erik Larson
Erik Larson (born January 1, 1954) is an American author. He has written "Isaac's Storm" (1999), about the experiences of Isaac Cline during the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" (2003), about the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and a series of murders that were committed in the city around the time of the Fair, and "Thunderstruck", … - Matt Blaze
Matt Blaze is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania; he received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University. In 1993, Blaze published (with John Ioannidis) a paper presenting a protocol ("swIPe") that was to be one of the forerunners of IPsec. - Alice Paul
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 - July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns (a close friend) and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920.
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