- 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, … - Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. - 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. - William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States. He served as the first Governor of the Indiana Territory and later as a U.S. Representative and Senator from Ohio. Harrison first gained national fame for leading U.S forces against American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and earning the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). As a general in the subsequent War of 1812, … - Ed Rendell
Governor Ed Rendell, Governor’s Office, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17101 - Walter Annenberg
Walter H. Annenberg KBE (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American billionaire publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat. He was the son of Sarah and Moses "Moe" Annenberg, who published "The Daily Racing Form" and purchased "The Philadelphia Inquirer" in 1936. - Arlen Specter
Arlen J. Specter (born February 12 1930) is a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Republican Party. - Donny Deutsch
Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch (born November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an advertising executive and talk show host. Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $300 million. He is also the managing partner of Deutsch Open City, an independent production company. - 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, … - Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah (September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972) was the founder and first President of Ghana. He was one of the most influential Pan-Africanists of the 20th century. - Charles Addams
Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912-September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two cartoon series, and three motion pictures. - John Legend
John Legend (born John Stephens, 28 December 1978, Springfield, Ohio) is a five-time Grammy Award winning R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist. His debut studio album, the platinum-selling "Get Lifted", was released in late 2004, and features collaborations with rap artist and producer Kanye West as well as rapper Snoop Dogg. "Get Lifted" produced two singles: "Used to Love U" (U.S. top 100, … - Nnamdi Azikiwe
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, usually referred to as Nnamdi Azikiwe, or, informally and popularly, as "Zik", was the founder of modern Nigerian nationalism and the first President of Nigeria, holding the position throughout the Nigerian First Republic. - E. Digby Baltzell
E. Digby Baltzell (14 November 1915–17 August 1996) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1915 to a wealthy, Episcopalian family. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940. Before entering the Ivy League however, "Digby" attended St. Paul's School, an Episcopalian boarding school in New Hampshire. After World War II service as a naval aviator he earned his doctorate degree from Columbia University. - 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. - 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. - Thomas Sovereign Gates
Thomas Sovereign Gates was an American investment banker and educator. He was the first president of the University of Pennsylvania from 6 October 1930 until 1944, and was the father of United States Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Born in Philadelphia, Gates was a student at University of Pennsylvania. - William Carlos Williams
Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 - March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. - Jon Huntsman Jr.
Jon Huntsman , Sr., W�59, was profiled in an article about the most influential people in Utah. The article focused on Huntsman�s incredible philanthropy, noting that Time magazine listed him as the sixth-largest philanthropist in the United States. Huntsman also chairs Wharton�s Board of Overseers, in addition to serving as chairman of International Services for the American Red Cross. ( Deseret News, 5/15/01 ) - Christian B. Anfinsen
Dr. Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. (March 26, 1916 - May 14, 1995) was a biochemist and a 1972 Nobel Prize winner for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma). Anfinsen was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania to a Norwegian American family. He earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1937, … - Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell on February 10, 1974) is an American actress. - John Andrews
Rev. John Andrews, D.D. (April 4, 1746-March 29, 1813) was an American minister and academic. He was one of the leaders of the group which separated the American Episcopal Church from the Anglican Church, and later advocated the union of the Episcopal and Methodist churches. At the time, he was considered America's First Scholar, where he dedicated his whole life to learning, teaching, and administrating colleges. He was born in Cecil County, Maryland in 1746, … - Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist. Currently the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens solely composed of protein. For his prion research he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997. - Phil English
Phillip Sheridan "Phil" English (born June 20, 1956) is a Congressman from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, since 1995 representing the state's 3rd Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House. English was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. While in college, he served as Chairman of the Pennsylvania College Republicans. U.S. Senator Rick Santorum has said before that while he was attending Penn State University, … - Harold Ford Jr.
Harold Eugene Ford, Jr. (born May 11, 1970) is the current chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee. Ford represented the state's, centered on Memphis, from 1997 to 2007. Ford did not seek reelection to his House seat in 2006 when he unsuccessfully sought the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Bill Frist. - Ronald Perelman
Ronald Owen Perelman (born January 1, 1943) is an American billionaire investor that made his fortune buying beleaguered corporations and re-selling them later for enormous profits. Once the richest man in America, he is now tied for 40th place with an estimated wealth of USD$7 billion. He has invested in the grocery, cigar, licorice, makeup, car, photography, television, camping, security, lottery, jewelry, banks, and comic book industries. - Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is a Wall Street stock investor. He is currently a research consultant at Fidelity Investments and his likeness is the primary marketing tool of the company. Lynch graduated from Boston College and studied finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump | Jewelry Ivanka Trump , daughter of none other than billionaire mogul Donald Trump, has finally announced the details her new plans to try designing jewelry. In an interview with retail publication Women's Wear Daily, Trump announced that she will be working with Dynamic Diamonds Corp., to create her own line of diamond jewelry. She also has plans to create three Ivanka Trump boutiques in which she will sell the jewelry line. - John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, in Washington, DC) is an American writer. - Hilary Putnam
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. He is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny to his own philosophical positions and to those of others, subjecting each position to rigorous analysis until he exposes its flaws. - Leonard Lauder
Leonard Lauder was chief executive of Estée Lauder Companies until 1999; now he serves as chairman of the board. Today Estee Lauder dominates the prestige cosmetics industry with such brands as Estee Lauder, Clinique, M.A.C., Aveda, Bobbi Brown and Stila. Son William takes over as CEO in 2004. He is the son of Joseph and Estée Lauder, and the older brother of Ronald Lauder. Leonard Lauder has long been a major benefactor of the Whitney Museum of American Art, … - Harvey Cox
Harvey Gallagher Cox, Jr. (born March 19, 1929 in Malvern, Pennsylvania) is one of the preeminent theologians in the United States and serves as professor of divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. Cox's research and teaching focus on theological developments in world Christianity, including liberation theology and the role of Christianity in Latin America. After a stint in the U.S. Merchant Marine, … - William S. Paley
William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois - October 26, 1990 in New York, New York) was the chief executive who built CBS from a small radio network to one of the foremost radio and television network operations in America. - Charles Butt
Charles Butt (born about 1940) is a third-generation U.S. grocer who took over his family's San Antonio-based H-E-B supermarket chain in 1971. The privately held company now more than 300 stores and $11 billion in sales. Butt graduated from University of Pennsylvania Wharton School with a Bachelor of Arts / Science. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. - 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. - Alvin Kraenzlein
Alvin Christian Kraenzlein (December 12, 1876 - January 6, 1928) was an American athlete. He was the first sportsman to win four Olympic titles in a single Olympic Games. As of 2004, he is still the only track and field athlete to have done so in individual events only. Kraenzlein was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later the University of Pennsylvania, studying to become a dentist. He won his first athletics title in 1897, … - William J. Brennan Jr.
William Joseph Brennan, Jr. (April 25, 1906 - July 24, 1997) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Known for his outspoken liberal views, including opposition to the death penalty and support for abortion rights, he is considered to be among the Court's most influential members. - Oscar Goodman
Mayor Oscar Goodman, City of Las Vegas - Michael Nutter
Michael Anthony Nutter is a Democratic politician and the winner of the 2007 Democratic Primary for Mayor of Philadelphia. Since Philadelphia is an overwhelmingly Democratic city, Nutter is the favored candidate for the 2007 Philadelphia Mayoral Election. Nutter is former councilman of the 4th Council District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which includes the neighborhoods of Wynnefield, Overbrook, Roxborough, Manayunk, East Falls and parts of North Philadelphia, … - Fan Chung
Fan Rong K Chung Graham (born October 9, 1949 in Kaohsiung), known professionally as Fan Chung, is a mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and complex networks (see graph theory for the general article). She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, under the direction of Herbert Wilf. She is currently the Akamai Professor in Internet Mathematics at the University of California, …
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