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This is a working list of notable faculty, alumni and scholars of theUniversity of Pennsylvania inPhiladelphia, United States.

• Benjamin Abella: professor of emergency medicine
• Herman Vandenburg Ames: professor of constitutional history
• Francesca Russello Ammon: urban historian, assistant professor in the city and regional planning as well as the historic preservation departments^[1]
• John Andrews (1746–1813):Academy and College of Philadelphia, A.B., with distinguished honors, class of 1765, andM.A. class of 1767), professor of moral philosophy and logic (1789–1813) (where his courses included a course on United States Constitution); 4th Provost (1810–1813), 3rd vice provost (1789–1810)^[2]
• Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867): physicist, scientist, and surveyor, professor of natural philosophy and chemistry, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
• Antony J. Blinken:US secretary of the State under PresidentJoseph R. Biden, director of thePenn Biden Center 2018–2020
• Edmund Bacon: adjunct professor of architecture
• E. Digby Baltzell: emeritus professor of history and sociology; scholar and author; creator of the acronym "WASP"
• Aaron T. Beck: emeritus professor of psychiatry; considered the father of bothcognitive therapy andcognitive behavioral therapy^[3][4]
• Richard Beeman: John Walsh Centennial Professor of History;Fulbright Scholar
• Janice R. Bellace: deputy provost and director of theHuntsman Program in International Studies and Business
• Charles Bernstein: Donald T. Regan Professor of English, prominentlanguage poet
• Mary Frances Berry: Geraldine Segal Professor of Social Thought; former chair US Civil Rights Commission
• Ray Birdwhistell: professor,Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
• Joseph R. Biden, former Benjamin Franklin Professor of Presidential Practice: 2017– April 2019 (presently on "leave of absence")^[5] 46thpresident of the United States
• Dwight David Eisenhower, honorary Doctor of Law, class of 1947:^[6] 34thpresident of the United States
• Matt Blaze: associate professor of computer science
• John Bowker: theologian
• Eric Bradlow: K.P. Chao Professor, professor of marketing, statistics, education and economics
• Ralph L. Brinster: Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology, creator of the transgenic mouse;National Medal of Science recipient
• Lawton Burns: chairperson of the Health Care Management Department of The Wharton School; James Joo-Jin Kim Professor
• Eugenio Calabi:Thomas A. Scott Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, known for his development of theCalabi–Yau manifold
• Arthur Caplan: Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
• Britton Chance: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics
• Roger Chartier: professor of history; chair of history at the Collège de France; leading cultural historian
• Pei-yuan Chia: senior fellow of the CSI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at theWharton School; former vice chairman ofCiticorp andCitibank, member ofAIG's board of directors
• Thomas Childers: Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History; author of numerous history publications and recipient of teaching awards
• Wallace H. Clark Jr.: pathologist, cancer researcher
• Mildred Cohn: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics and physical biochemistry
• George Crumb:Pulitzer Prize winner in music for "Echoes of Time and the River" in 1968 and received aGrammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for "Star-Child" in 2001;Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor in Music Department at Penn (1965–1997)^[7]
• Raymond Davis Jr.: National Medal of Science recipient; Nobel laureate; research professor of physics and astronomy
• Emile B. De Sauzé: language educator known for developing the conversational method of learning a language
• Frederick Dickinson: professor of Japanese history and co-director of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies
• John DiIulio: Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society
• W. E. B. Du Bois: African-American literary figure, visiting scholar, 1896–1897
• Gideon Dreyfuss: Isaac Norris Professor Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Loren Eiseley (1907–1977),University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences class of 1937, MA and Ph.D.: Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History and Sociology of Science at Penn,anthropologist,philosopher, andnatural science writer (such thatPublishers Weekly referred to him as "the modernThoreau" for broad scope of his writing reflected upon such topics as the mind ofSir Francis Bacon, theprehistoric origins of man, and the contributions ofCharles Darwin)^{[8][9][10][11][12]}
• Frederick Erickson: educational anthropologist^[13]
• Warren Ewens: professor of biology; creator ofEwens's sampling formula
• Peter Fader: Napster trial expert witness; Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing
• Ann Farnsworth-Alvear: associate professor of History
• Stubbins Ffirth: investigatedyellow fever
• Peter J. Freyd: professor of mathematics
• Michael Fitts: legal scholar, former dean of theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School for 14 years, president ofTulane University inNew Orleans, Louisiana, Judge Rene H. Himel Professor of Law at theTulane School of Law^[14]
• Stewart D. Friedman: practice professor of management at the Wharton School; founding director of the Wharton School's Leadership Program
• Paul Fussell: emeritus professor of literature; National Book Award winner; cultural and literary historian
• Celso-Ramón García: former William Shippen Jr. Professor of Human Reproduction; helped to develop thecombined oral contraceptive pill
• George Gerbner: professor and dean, Annenberg School for Communication; founder ofcultivation theory
• Jacob Gershon-Cohen: professor of radiology; developer of mammography for detecting breast cancer
• Murray Gerstenhaber: professor of mathematics and lawyer; discoverer ofGerstenhaber algebra
• Erving Goffman: professor of sociology; author ofThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,Asylums
• Claudia Goldin (professor of economics 1979–1990): Nobel Prize in Economics^[15]
• Paul Gyorgy: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of pediatrics, School of Medicine
• Steven Hahn: Pulitzer Prize winner; Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History
• David Harbater:Cole Prize recipient, known for solving theAbhyankar conjecture
• Lothar Haselberger: professor of architectural history
• De'Broski Herbert: professor of immunology
• Robin M. Hochstrasser: professor of chemistry
• Daniel Hoffman: poet, Felix E. Schelling professor of English, consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress
• Kathleen Hall Jamieson: professor of communications, Annenberg School for Communications; author; media analyst
• Daniel H. Janzen: professor of biology
• A.T. Charlie Johnson: Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• Vaughan Jones:Fields Medal winner, professor of mathematics
• Aravind Joshi: Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive science
• Louis Kahn: architect; works include theJatiyo Sangsad Bhaban in Bangladesh and JonasSalk Institute in California; professor of architecture
• Elihu Katz: Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communications
• E. Otis Kendall: professor of mathematics, 1855–1894
• Junhyong Kim: Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Endowed Professor of Biology
• Alan Kors: National Humanities Medal recipient, free speech advocate; George Walker Professor of History
• Bruce Kuklick: Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History
• William Labov: professor of linguistics; founder of quantitativesociolinguistics
• Ian Lustick: Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science; author ofTrapped in the War on Terror
• Robert Litzenberger: professor emeritus at Wharton
• Jerre Mangione: novelist and scholar of the Italian-American experience
• Mihailo Marković: professor of philosophy
• E. Ann Matter: associate dean for Arts & Letters, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies
• Walter A. McDougall: Pulitzer Prize winner; Alloy-Ansin Professor of History and International Relations
• Olivia S. Mitchell: International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management; executive director of the Pension Research Council and Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
• Irv Mondschein: track coach
• Roy F. Nichols: Pulitzer Prize winner; professor of history
• James J. O'Donnell: former vice provost for information systems and computing
• Brendan O'Leary: Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
• Burt Ovrut: professor of physics; pioneer of theheterotic string theory
• Robert Patterson (1743–1824): professor of mathematics 1779–1814 at, and 1810–1813 also served as vice provost of, University of Pennsylvania; in 1805, PresidentThomas Jefferson appointed him director of theUnited States Mint^[16]
• Bob Perelman: professor of English; language poet
• Samuel H. Preston: Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography; known for his development of thePreston curve
• Amir Pnueli: associate professor at theMoore School of Engineering 1976–1978;Turing Award winner
• Hans Rademacher: Scott Chair, professor of mathematics; known for his theory of the reciprocity law forDedekind sums
• Ravi Radhakrishnan: Herman P. Schwan Chair of Bioengineering
• Jagmohan Raju: Joseph J. Aresty Professor of Marketing; known for his research onpricing
• Robert A. Rescorla: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Psychology; co-creator of theRescorla–Wagner model
• Russell Burton Reynolds: US Army major general; assistant professor of military science and tactics
• David Rittenhouse: professor of astronomy; vice provost; trustee
• Rafael Robb: professor of economics
• George Rochberg: Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and professor of music
• C. Brian Rose: James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology; president of theArchaeological Institute of America; known for co-directing the modern excavations atTroy
• Philip Roth: Pulitzer Prize winner; professor of comparative literature and literary theory
• Brian M. Salzberg: neuroscientist, biophysicist and professor
• Florence B. Seibert: professor of biochemistry; winner of theGarvan–Olin Medal and member of theNational Women's Hall of Fame
• Martin E. P. Seligman: Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
• Jeremy Siegel: Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance; financial news commentator
• Rangita de Silva de Alwis: member-elect to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; senior adjunct professor of global leadership
• Rogers Smith: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
• Lee Stetson: dean of undergraduate admissions, 29 years
• Peter Sterling: neuroscientist and co-founder of the concept ofallostasis
• Thomas J. Sugrue: Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of History and Sociology
• Babu Suthar: Gujarati lecturer in South Asia Studies
• Iosif Vitebskiy: Soviet/Ukrainian Olympic medalist and world champion épée fencer
• Michael Vitez: Pulitzer Prize winner; professor of creative writing
• Donald Voet: associate professor of chemistry and co-author of several biochemistry textbooks
• Susan M. Wachter: Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate; co-director ofPenn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR)
• Arthur Waldron: Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History; Scholar of Asian and Chinese history, especially in respect to war and nationalism
• Richard Wernick: Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; professor of Humanities
• Howard Winklevoss: professor of actuarial science
• Lightner Witmer: professor of psychology; inventor of the term clinical psychology
• Tukufu Zuberi: Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations; professor of sociology

Penn alumni are the current or past presidents of over one hundred universities and colleges includingHarvard University, University of Pennsylvania,Princeton University,Cornell University,University of Californiasystem,University of Texassystem,Carnegie Mellon University,Northwestern University,Tulane University,Bowdoin College, andWilliams College; and eightmedical schools includingNew York University Medical School, andVanderbilt University School of Medicine.

• Julian Abele (1881–1950), class of 1902: architectural designer; co-designed such works as thePhiladelphia Museum of Art, the Central Branch of theFree Library of Philadelphia,Widener Memorial Library atHarvard University, and designed much of the campus ofDuke University, includingDuke Chapel^[17]
• William J. Bain: architect, co-founder of global architecture firmNBBJ
• Frank L. Bodine: architect
• Denise Scott Brown: architect; principal in Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates; wife of architectRobert Venturi
• Eduardo Catalano: architect
• Jaime Correa, architect andUniversity of Miami professor
• Frank Miles Day: architect who made major additions to the campuses of the University of Pennsylvania,Pennsylvania State University,Princeton University andWellesley College, among others; national president of theAmerican Institute of Architects, 1906–1907; a foundingeditor ofHouse & Garden
• Thomas Harlan Ellett: architect, designed theCosmopolitan Club in NYC andUnited States Post Office-Bronx Central Annex
• Joseph Esherick:Bay Area architect; professor atUniversity of California, Berkeley
• Robert Fan: Chinese architect, designedShanghai Concert Hall
• Bruce Graham: architect, designedSears Tower,John Hancock Center, andInland Steel Building inChicago, as well asUS Bank Center inMilwaukee (currently the tallest building inWisconsin)
• Charles Gwathmey:FAIA, architect who studied at Penn, and later at Yale
• George Harold Waldo Haag, class of 1934:FAIA, school architect
• Henry C. Hibbs: architect, designed much of the campus ofVanderbilt University, as well as buildings for many other schools and universities
• Leicester Bodine Holland: architect and archaeologist
• Norton Juster: architect and writer for children, author ofThe Phantom Tollbooth
• Louis Kahn: architect, works include theYale University Art Gallery andJatiyo Sangsad Bhaban National Assembly Building,Dhaka,Bangladesh
• William Harold Lee: architect
• Milton Bennett Medary Jr.: architect, designedWashington Memorial Chapel atValley Forge National Park and theBok Singing Tower; with fellow alumnus William Charles Hays, he designedHouston Hall, America's first student union
• Barton Myers: architect
• I. M. Pei:modernist architect; briefly attended in 1935 before transferring toMIT
• Lionel Pries: architect
• Edmund R. Purves (class of 1920, B.S. in Architecture): architect and executive director ofAmerican Institute of Architects^[18]
• Peter L. Shelton: architect andinterior designer
• C. Wellington Walker: architect, completed extensive projects inBridgeport, Connecticut, includingWarren Harding High School,Bridgeport Hospital,United States Post Office-Bridgeport Main, and many buildings on theUniversity of Bridgeport campus; co-designedFairfield University's Bellarmine Hall;Fellow of theAmerican Institute of Architects
• David A. Wallace: architect whose firmWallace McHarg Roberts & Todd was largely responsible for the revitalization ofBaltimore'sInner Harbor
• Georgina Pope Yeatman, architect

• Charles Addams (1912–1988), college class of 1933, attended 1 year but did not graduate: creator ofThe Addams Family; said to have modeled the Addams Family mansion in part after Penn'sCollege Hall
• Kabir Akhtar (born 1975), college class of 1996^[19] television director andeditor; won anEmmy Award in 2016; credits include work forArrested Development,Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,Never Have I Ever,Behind the Music, and theAcademy Awards^[20]
• Elizabeth Alexander: poet who recited at the 2009 inauguration of PresidentBarack Obama
• Hoodie Allen, born Steven Markowitz: independent hip-hop artist, rapper, singer and songwriter
• Maryanne Amacher: composer
• Alex Aster: author
• Ti-Grace Atkinson: author, feminist
• Jon Avnet: film and television director, producer and writer
• Lucien Ballard:Academy Award-nominatedcinematographer
• Elizabeth Banks: film director and Emmy Award-nominated actress, known for starring inThe Hunger Games (2012); lead actress inInvincible; playedLaura Bush inW.;Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year in 2020^[21][22]
• Leslie Esdaile Banks née Peterson (1959–2011),Wharton School of Finance class of 1981: wrote under thepen names of Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks and L. A. Banks in various genres; was 2008Essence Literary Awards Storyteller of the Year^[23][24]
• Ralph Barbieri (1945–2020), Wharton MBA class of 1970:^[25][26] radio personality
• Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951),Penn Med class of 1892:^[27][28] inventor ofArgyrol; founder of theBarnes Foundation, one of the most valuable art collections in the world
• Jack Barry: televisiongame show producer and host, 1950s–1984
• Vanessa Bayer: actress, comedian,Saturday Night Live cast member, 2010–2017
• Eric Bazilian: singer, songwriter, guitarist, member ofThe Hooters
• W. Kamau Bell (born 1973): stand-up comic who has hosted the CNN seriesUnited Shades of America since 2016, and hosted FXX television seriesTotally Biased with W. Kamau Bell 2012–2013
• James Berardinelli:film critic
• Candice Bergen: Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress, star of the sitcomMurphy Brown^[29]
• Jed Bernstein:Tony Award-winning theater producer, president of theLincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Alfred Bester: recipient of the firstHugo Award for a science-fiction novel,The Demolished Man (1953); Science Fiction Grand Master (1988); author ofThe Stars My Destination (1956)
• Natvar Bhavsar: Indian-Americanabstract expressionist andcolor field artist
• H. G. Bissinger: author ofFriday Night Lights;Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Mark Blum (1950–2020): actor^[30]
• Beverly Bower: operatic soprano
• Stanley Burnside: cartoonist and painter
• Tory Burch:fashion designer andsocialite
• Alfred Butts: inventor of the board gameScrabble
• Nkechi Okoro Carroll: television producer and writer
• Lorene Cary: author, educator and social activist
• Guymon Casady: Emmy Award-winning television producer for theHBO seriesGame of Thrones
• Rick Chertoff: music producer
• Ryan Choi: composer, musician
• Claudia Cohen: former "Page Six" gossip columnist for theNew York Post
• Maureen Corrigan: author and critic
• Adrian Cronauer: radio personality and subject of biopicGood Morning, Vietnam
• Mark Cronin:television producer and writer
• Whitney Cummings: comedian and co-creator of the television series2 Broke Girls
• Pamela Day: businesswoman and contestant ofNBC reality showThe Apprentice 2
• Joseph Deitch: Tony Award-winningBroadway producer
• Pat de Groot: English-born American painter^[31][32]
• James DePreist: permanentconductor of theTokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; director of conducting and orchestral studies at theJuilliard School; laureate music director of theOregon Symphony
• Bruce Dern: two-time Academy Award-nominated actor
• John S. Detlie: Academy Award-nominatedart director and set designer
• Julie Diana: ballet dancer, ballet master, writer and arts administrator
• Gail Dolgin: Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker,Daughter from Da Nang
• John Doman: actor, star of HBO crime drama seriesThe Wire
• John Drimmer: Emmy Award-winning television producer
• Dayton Duncan: Emmy Award-winning non-fiction writer
• Jennifer Egan: Pulitzer Prize-winning;National Book Award finalist
• Ray Evans: Academy Award-winning songwriter
• Jonathan Leo Fairbanks: foundingcurator of the American decorative arts and sculpture department at theMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Jessie Fauset: author and contributor to theHarlem Renaissance
• Wendy Finerman: Academy Award-winning movie producer forForrest Gump in 1994
• Melissa Fitzgerald: actress, known for her role on the television seriesThe West Wing asCarol Fitzpatrick
• Frank Ford: long-time Phillyradio talk show host, and co-founder of theValley Forge Music Fair and theWestbury Music Fair
• Stephen J. Friedman: movie producer
• Zenos Frudakis: sculptor whose works are featured at institutions around the world
• Laura Gao: cartoonist, author ofMessy Roots^[33]
• Richard Garfield: inventor of thetrading card gameMagic: The Gathering
• Robert Gant: actor, known as Ben onQueer as Folk
• Matt Gerald: actor,Avatar,Dexter,Yellowstone
• Stuart Gibbs: prolificauthor of books for teens and tweens
• Nikki Giovanni: poet and author; attended Penn but did not earn a degree
• Benjamin Glazer (Penn Law class of 1905):Academy Award-winning screenwriter and producer; in 1927 won the firstAcademy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for7th Heaven; founding member of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences^[34]
• Leonard Goldberg: former chairman of20th Century Fox, television and movie producer
• Osvaldo Golijov:Grammy Award-winning composer of classical music
• Archie Green:folklorist andmusicologist
• Zane Grey,University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine: one of the twentieth century's most popular authors ofWestern novels and sport fishing
• Shelly Gross:Broadway producer and co-founder of theValley Forge Music Fair and theWestbury Music Fair
• Joseph Hallman: Philadelphia classical and pop music composer, writer
• Stephen Hartke: winner of theGrammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2013
• William Stanley Haseltine: 19th-century painter; his works are included in the collections of museums such as theMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and theNational Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
• Jennifer Higdon: Grammy Award-winningflutist andPulitzer Prize-winning composer of classical music
• John Hoke III: chief design officer,Nike, Inc.
• Donelson Hoopes, class of 1960: art historian
• Ariel Horn: novelist
• Kristin Hunter: novelist
• Tetsugo Hyakutake: Japanese photographer
• Rob Hyman: singer, songwriter, keyboard player, member ofThe Hooters
• Michael Jackman:BAFTA Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated producer of the 2025 filmConclave
• Moe Jaffe (1901–1972): Wharton (class of 1923) and Penn Law (class of 1926);^{[citation needed]} songwriter and bandleader, composed more than 250 songs^{[citation needed]} including "Collegiate"^[35] (played byChico Marx inHorse Feathers)^[36]
• George Clarke Jenkins: Academy Award-winningproduction designer and three-time Tony Award nominee
• John Jiller: playwright, novelist, and journalist
• Norton Juster: architect and writer for children, author ofThe Phantom Tollbooth
• Aaron Karo: college humorist who details Penn life in books and on theCollegeHumor website
• Reem Kassis: author ofThe Palestinian Table;James Beard Award nominee andGuild of Food Writers winner
• Duncan Kenworthy: producer ofFour Weddings and a Funeral,Notting Hill;BAFTA Award winner
• Florence Kirk: operatic soprano
• Harry Kurnitz: screenwriter, playwright
• Sara Larkin: visual artist
• Elliot Lawrence: Tony Award-winningjazz pianist, composer and bandleader
• Gwyneth Leech: artist
• John Legend, college class of 1999:rhythm and blues singer/songwriter; winner ofEmmy,Grammy Award,Oscar,Tony Award (EGOT^[37][38]
• Stephanie Lemelin: Canadian actress
• William Link: television and film writer and producer who co-created and produced the showsColumbo,Mannix,Ellery Queen andMurder, She Wrote
• Caren Lissner: novelist, author ofCarrie Pilby
• Alan W. Livingston: record producer who signedThe Beatles to their first major US contract; created the characterBozo the Clown
• Jay Livingston: Academy Award-winning songwriter
• John D. MacDonald: author, known for hisTravis McGee series
• Aron Magner: keyboardist, The Disco Biscuits
• Mary Ellen Mark: photographer;Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and art history (1962),^[39] master's degree inphotojournalism at Annenberg School for Communication (1964)
• Stanley Marsh 3: Texas businessman, philanthropist, and artist known for theCadillac Ranch off historicRoute 66; received bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and history, respectively, from Penn
• John Masius: Emmy Award-winning TV producer and writer,Touched by an Angel,St. Elsewhere
• Suchitra Mattai: Guyanese-born American multidisciplinary contemporary artist^[40]
• James McDaniel: Emmy Award-winning actor
• Thor Halvorssen Mendoza: human rights advocate and film producer; founder,Human Rights Foundation
• Eve Merriam (College for Women class of 1937): author and actress^[41]
• Jonah Meyerson: film and television actor
• Ethan Mordden: novelist, theater historian
• Stephen Robert Morse: filmmaker, Emmy Award-nominated producer ofAmanda Knox
• Naledge, born Jabari Evans: rapper, member of hip-hop groupKidz in the Hall
• David Naughton: actor known for starring in thehorror filmAn American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Wendy Neuss,Penn College: class of 1976 (with abachelor's degree inpsychology^[42]) executive producer of several TV films starring her ex-husbandPatrick Stewart, includingA Christmas Carol,The Lion in Winter andKing of Texas as the president of Flying Freehold Productions and co-producer ofStar Trek: The Next Generation and the seriesStar Trek: Voyager^[43][44] and produced theMotown series^[45]
• Morgan Neville: Academy Award-, Grammy Award-, and Emmy Award-winning director and producer
• Becki Newton (College class of 2000): actress, Amanda onUgly Betty^[46]
• Philip Francis Nowlan:science fiction writer, best known as the creator ofBuck Rogers
• Ken Olin:Golden Globe Award-winning actor, known for his lead role onthirtysomething and as director and executive producer ofAlias
• Kamau Amu Patton: multidisciplinary artist
• Rob Pearlstein: Academy Award-nominated writer and director
• Jim Perry, born Jim Dooley: US and Canadian television host
• Gina Philips: actress (attended, never graduated)
• Noah Pink: screenwriter, television producer, director, and swimmer
• Elizabeth Pipko: author, model
• Marc E. Platt: film, television and theatre producer who won twoTony Awards for serving as a producer for the Broadway productions ofThe Band's Visit andMichael R. Jackson'sPulitzer Prize-winning musicalA Strange Loop^[47]
• Chaim Potok: author,The Chosen,The Promise,My Name Is Asher Lev, andThe Gift of Asher Lev
• Ezra Pound: 20th-century Modernist poet; promoter of various writers and schools of literature; attended for two years before transferring toHamilton College; returned to Penn and earned a master's degree in romance philology
• Maury Povich: talk show host; recipient of aLifetime Achievement Emmy
• Harold Prince: winner of 21Tony Awards as aBroadway producer for shows such asWest Side Story andThe Phantom of the Opera
• Paul Provenza: actor, comedian, and director ofThe Aristocrats
• Alan Rachins: actor (L.A. Law andDharma and Greg)
• David Raksin: Academy Award-nominated composer known as the "grandfather of film music"
• Liza Redfield: first woman to be the full-time conductor of aBroadway pit orchestra
• Shabnam Rezaei: TV producer
• Tyler Ritter: actor (The McCarthys)
• Melissa Rivers, born Melissa Rosenberg: actress and daughter of comedianJoan Rivers
• Mark Rosenthal: screenwriter,Mona Lisa Smile,Planet of the Apes,Mighty Joe Young
• Anthony Russo: Emmy Award-winning film and television director-producer,Arrested Development,Community,Marvel Cinematic Universe films^[48]
• Mary B. Schuenemann: 20th-century watercolorist
• Teddy Schwarzman: film producer,The Imitation Game
• Lisa Scottoline: author oflegal thrillers;New York Times best-selling author:Edgar Award recipient
• Matt Selman: long-time writer for animated seriesThe Simpsons
• Sylvan Shemitz:lighting designer known for his work onGrand Central Terminal in New York City and theJefferson Memorial inWashington, D.C.
• Franklin L. Sheppard, class of 1872:Christian hymn composer who set "This is My Father's World" to music
• Robert B. Sinclair: film and theater director
• Trish Sie: Grammy Award-winningchoreographer and director
• Grover Simcox: illustrator, naturalist and polymath
• Linda Simensky (1985): producer of animated works^[49]
• Everett Sloane: actor
• Michael Smerconish: radio host andpolitical pundit
• Yakov Smirnoff: class of 2006, Masters in Psychology, comedian and painter^[50]
• David Branson Smith: screenwriter ofIngrid Goes West
• Martin Cruz Smith: author ofGorky Park
• Jordan Sonnenblick: author ofDrums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
• Devo Springsteen, born Devon Harris: Grammy Award-winning music producer and songwriter
• Ty Stiklorius: Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, music executive, and philanthropist
• David Stone:Broadway producer,Wicked
• Michael Tearson: voice of Philadelphia radio, DJ forWMMR,WXPN andWMGK
• Atha Tehon: art editor and book publisher
• Tammi Terrell: Grammy Award-nominatedsoul singer, known for her association withMotown and duets withMarvin Gaye^[51]
• George Thayer, American political writer^[52]
• Vivek Tiwary (born 1973), college and Wharton class of 1996: Broadway producer and winner of a Grammy Award^[53] and 25 Tony Awards^[54][55]
• Lynn Toler: judge on the TV seriesDivorce Court
• Bobby Troup: actor, songwriter known for writing the popular standard "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66", and for his role as Dr. Joe Early in the 1970s TV seriesEmergency!
• Garner Tullis: artist whose works are included in theCleveland Museum of Art,Museum of Modern Art in New York,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art andPhiladelphia Museum of Art
• M.G. Vassanji: Canadian novelist and member of theOrder of Canada
• Tony Verna: sports and entertainment producer credited with inventing the "instant replay"; dropped out
• William Thompson Walters: businessman and art collector,^[56] whose collection formed the basis of theWalters Art Museum
• Mark Waters: director,Mean Girls
• Ted Weems (originally Wemyes),bandleader honored with a star on theHollywood Walk of Fame^[57]
• Helen L. Weiss, College for Women class of 1941, composer who died at age 28 and for whom the Helen L. Weiss Music Award is given out annually since 1964 to a student in Penn Department of Music^[58]
• Ai Weiwei: artist
• Ned Wertimer: actor who portrayed Ralph thedoorman on the long-running sitcomThe Jeffersons
• John Edgar Wideman: author,Rhodes Scholar
• C.K. Williams: Pulitzer Prize andNational Book Award-winning poet
• William Carlos Williams: poet;National Book Award andPulitzer Prize winner
• Dick Wolf: Emmy Award-winning producer and creator ofLaw & Order series
• Aaron Yoo: actor who starred in the 2007 filmsDisturbia andAmerican Pastime
• Rick Yune: actor
• John Zacherle: horror-show host
• Harriet Zeitlin: artist
• Chip Zien (b. 1947; Penn College class of 1969): chairman of theMask and Wig Club as student and now actor^[59]
• Sidney Zion: novelist, journalist
• David Zippel: Tony Award-winning theatre lyricist

• Reds Bagnell:Maxwell Awardfootballhalfback at Penn, and member of theCollege Football Hall of Fame^[60]
• Chuck Bednarik (1925–2015), nicknamed "Concrete Charlie", class of 1949: played forPenn Quakers football as offensive center and defensive linebacker, as well as occasional punter; three-timeAll-American who was elected to theCollege Football Hall of Fame; won the Maxwell Award that year^[61]
• George H. Brooke: member of the College Football Hall of Fame; played for Penn andSwarthmore College^[62]
• Charlie Gelbert: member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[63]
• John Heisman: namesake of theHeisman Trophy; president of theAmerican Football Coaches Association; head football coach atClemson University (1900–1903),Georgia Tech (1904–1919), the University of Pennsylvania (1920–1922),Washington & Jefferson College (1923), andRice University (1924–1927)^[64]
• Bill Hollenback, class of 1909 (1886–1968): football player and coach; playing at Penn, he was selected as anAll-Americanfullback three consecutive years (1906–1908)
• Ed McGinley: member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[65]
• Leroy Mercer: member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the1910 College Football All-America Team^[66]
• John Minds: member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[67]
• Skip Minisi: member of theCollege Football Hall of Fame^[68]
• Bob Odell: member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[69]
• Winchester Osgood: former Penn football player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[70]
• John H. Outland: Penn Med class of 1900; namesake ofOutland Trophy incollege football^[71]
• George Savitsky: member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[72]
• Hunter Scarlett: member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[73]
• Vince Stevenson: member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[74]
• Bob Torrey: member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Charles Wharton: member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[75]

• Jerome Allen: formerNBA player, member of thePhiladelphia Big 5Hall of Fame andhead coach of Penn's men's basketball team (2009–2015)^[76]
• E. B. Beaumont: first head coach in football at theUniversity of Alabama^{[citation needed]}
• Marty Brill: head coach in football atLa Salle University andLoyola Marymount University^[77]
• Alfred E. Bull: head coach in football at theUniversity of Iowa,Franklin & Marshall College,Georgetown University,Lafayette College, andMuhlenberg College^[78]
• Byron W. Dickson: head coach in football atLehigh University^[79]
• Dexter Draper: head coach in football at theUniversity of Texas (1909)^[80]
• James Dwyer: head coach in football atLouisiana State University and theUniversity of Toledo^[81]
• Mike Elko: head coach in football atTexas A&M University^[82] (2023-present) and atDuke University^[83] (2021-2023).
• George Flint:All-Americanbasketball player at Penn and later became the head coach theUniversity of Pittsburgh'sPanthers men's basketball team for ten seasons, 1911–12 to 1920–21, where he compiled an overall record of 105–68 (.607)^[84][85]
• Bob Folwell: head coach in football atLafayette College,Washington & Jefferson College, the University of Pennsylvania, and theUnited States Naval Academy; first head coach of theNew York Giants^[86]
• Tom Gilmore: head coach in football at theCollege of the Holy Cross^[87]
• Edward Green: head coach in football at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1908 and at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, nowNorth Carolina State University, 1909–1913^[88]
• Dick Harter: head coach in men'sbasketball at theUniversity of Oregon,Pennsylvania State University, and University of Pennsylvania^[89]
• John Heisman: namesake of theHeisman Trophy; president of theAmerican Football Coaches Association; head football coach atOberlin College (1892, 1894), Buchtel College, now theUniversity of Akron (1893–1894),Auburn University (1895–1899),Clemson University (1900–1903),Georgia Tech (1904–1919), the University of Pennsylvania (1920–1922),Washington & Jefferson College (1923), andRice University (1924–1927)^[64]
• Bill Hollenback: member of theCollege Football Hall of Fame and head coach in football atPenn State (1909, 1911–1914)^[90]
• Jack Hollenback: head coach in football atFranklin & Marshall College 1908–1909, Pennsylvania State University in 1910, and Pennsylvania Military College, nowWidener University in 1911^[91]
• Danny Hutchinson: head coach in football atWesleyan University^[92]
• Roy Jackson: head coach in football at theUniversity of Pittsburgh^{[citation needed]}
• Taylor Jenkins (born 1984), class of 2007: head coach for theMemphis Grizzlies of theNational Basketball Association
• Charles Keinath: head coach inbasketball at Penn (1909–12)^[93]
• A. R. Kennedy: head coach in football atWashburn University (1903, 1916–1917) and theUniversity of Kansas (1904–1910)^[94]
• Alden Knipe: head coach in football at theUniversity of Iowa, 1898–1902^[95]
• Otis Lamson: member of the1905 College Football All-America Team, and 1907 head coach in football at theUniversity of North Carolina^[96]
• Matt Langel: head coach in men'sbasketball atColgate University^[97]
• Dan Leibovitz: head coach in men'sbasketball at theUniversity of Hartford^[98]
• George Levene: head coach in football at theUniversity of Tennessee (1907–09)^[99]
• Lou Little, born Luigi Piccolo: head coach in football atColumbia University 1930–1956, responsible for Columbia's 1934 win overStanford University in theRose Bowl; served as president of theAmerican Football Coaches Association^[100]
• John Lyons: head coach in football atDartmouth College (1992–2004)^[101] and assistant coach University of New Hampshire (2011–2021)^[102]
• Harry Arista Mackey: head coach in football at theUniversity of Virginia^[103]
• John Macklin: head coach in football, basketball, baseball and track and field at Michigan Agricultural College, nowMichigan State University (and the winningest head football coach in that school's history)^[104]
• Fran McCaffery: head coach inbasketball atLehigh University,University of North Carolina, Greensboro,Siena College and theUniversity of Iowa^[105]
• Jack McCloskey (class of 1948): head coach in men'sbasketball at Penn 1966–1971, thenWake Forest University^[106] andPortland Trail Blazers, later general manager of theDetroit Pistons andMinnesota Timberwolves^[107]
• Edward McNichol: Penn alumnus and head coach in men's basketball who led the Quakers to anational championship in his first season (1920–1921), producing a 21–2 overall record
• Sol Metzger: head coach in football at Penn,Oregon State University,West Virginia University,Washington & Jefferson College, and theUniversity of South Carolina^[108]
• David Micahnik: Penn alumnus andfencing coach and member of theUSFA Hall of Fame^[109]
• Allie Miller: head coach in football atVillanova University^[110]
• George Munger: member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach)^[111]
• B. Russell Murphy: first head coach inbasketball atJohns Hopkins University^[112]
• Samuel B. Newton: head coach in football at Pennsylvania State University (1896–1898),Lafayette College (1899–1901, 1911),Lehigh University (1902–1905), andWilliams College (1907–09)^[113]
• Harry Parker: head coach in varsityrowing atHarvard University^[114]
• Simon F. Pauxtis: head coach in football atDickinson College (1911–1912), and the Pennsylvania Military Academy, nowWidener University, 1916–1929 and 1936–1946^[115]
• Frank Piekarski: head coach in football atWashington & Jefferson College, and member of the1904 College Football All-America Team^[116]
• Jack Ramsay: head coach,Portland Trail Blazers and member of theBasketball Hall of Fame^[117]
• Charles Rogers: head coach in football at theUniversity of Delaware^[118]
• Seth Roland: head coach in men's soccer atFairleigh Dickinson University^[119]
• Michael Saxe: head coach inbasketball atVillanova University 1920–1926^[120]
• Frank Sexton:Major League Baseball player, and head coach in baseball atBrown University, Harvard University and theUniversity of Michigan^[121]
• Kevin Stefanski: head coach for theCleveland Browns of the NFL
• Andy Smith: Penn alumnus and head coach in football at theUniversity of California, Berkeley 1916–1925 (and until 2011, the winningest head football coach in that school's history); member of theCollege Football Hall of Fame (as coach)^[122]
• Andrew Toole: head coach inbasketball atRobert Morris University^[123]
• Elwood Otto "Woody" Wagenhorst (1863–1946), Penn Law class of 1892: head football coach at thePenn 1888–1891, compiling a record of 39–18, while a student at Penn Law;^[124]University of Alabama in 1896; andthe University of Iowa in 1897^[125]
• Garfield Weede: head coach in football atWashburn University andPittsburg State University; member of theKansas Sports Hall of Fame, anddentist^[126]
• Doctor Weeks: first head coach in football at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst^[127]
• Carl Sheldon Williams: college football coach; won national championships for Penn in 1904 and 1907^[128]
• Henry L. Williams: member of the College Football Hall of Fame (as coach); he coached at theUnited States Military Academy and theUniversity of Minnesota^[129]
• George Washington Woodruff: member of theCollege Football Hall of Fame (as coach)^[130]
• Wylie G. Woodruff: head coach in football at theUniversity of Kansas^[131]

• Chuck Bednarik (class of 1949):Philadelphia Eagleslinebacker and 1960NFL champion; member of thePro Football Hall of Fame andCollege Football Hall of Fame; namesake of theChuck Bednarik Award in college football; recipient of the 2010Walter Camp Distinguished American Award
• George WashingtonTuffy Conn (1892–1973), class of 1920: professionalAmerican football player who played in1920 for theCleveland Tigers and theAkron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed theNational Football League in 1922) and won the first AFPA-NFL title that season with the Pros^[132]
• Jim Finn (class of 1999):^[133] NFLfullback andNew York GiantsSuper Bowl XLII Champion^[134]
• Ernest AlexanderTex Hamer (1901–1981), class of 1923: 1926 NFL Champion playing forFrankford Yellow Jackets
• Walter IrvingPard Pearce (1896–1974, class of 1920): won 1921 NFL Championship playing for theChicago Staleys (now theChicago Bears)
• Carroll Rosenbloom (class of 1928): two-yearletterman ashalfback on thePenn football team in 1927 and1928; owner of twoNational Football League franchises, theBaltimore Colts andLos Angeles Rams,^{[135][136][137][138]} where his franchises amassed the best ownership winning percentage inNFL history (.660) (with a total regular season record of 226 wins, 116 losses, and 8 ties) and won 3NFL championships (1958,1959,1968), and oneSuper Bowl (V)^[139]
• Justin Watson (class of 2018): NFLwide receiver andTampa Bay BuccaneersSuper Bowl LV andKansas City ChiefsSuper Bowl LVII andSuper Bowl LVIII Champion^[140]

The university currently holds the record for most medals (21) won by its alumni at any single Olympic Games (1900 Summer Olympic Games), and at least 43 alumni have earned Olympic medals, as detailed below.

• Irving Baxter (1876–1957),Penn Law class of 1901: competed in the 1900 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, where he won three silver and two gold medals; retired from competitive track and field without ever having lost a high jumping contest; admitted to the State Bar of New York, appointed special judge for City of Utica, New York, and US Commissioner of the Northern District of New York^[141]
• Greg Best: winner of two silver medals at the1988 Summer Olympic Games
• Andrew Byrnes: Canadianrower and winner of a gold medal at the2008 Summer Olympic Games and a silver medal at the2012 Summer Olympic Games
• Bill Carr: winner of two gold medals at the1932 Summer Olympic Games; member of theNational Track & Field Hall of Fame
• Nathaniel Cartmell: winner of four Olympic medals, two silver at the1904 Summer Olympic Games, and a gold and a bronze at the1908 Summer Olympic Games; firsthead coach in men'sbasketball at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Britton Chance,ForMemRS (1913–2010), Penn College class of 1935,B.A.,M.A. 1936, andPh.D. degree inphysical chemistry (1940) at Penn, winner of a gold medal in sailing at the1952 Summer Olympic Games retired as the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus ofbiochemistry and biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus ofPhysical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at theUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine^[142]
• Frank Chapot: winner of two silver medals inequestrian, one at the1960 Summer Olympic Games and another at the1972 Summer Olympic Games; member of theUnited States Show Jumping Hall of Fame
• Gene Clapp: winner of a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games
• Meredith Colket (1878–1947) (College class of 1901 andPenn Law class of 1904): winner of a silver medal in thePole vault at the1900 Summer Olympics inParis and won thesilver medal in the men's pole vault just behind his fellow Penn Law alumnus,Irving Baxter, who won thegold medal^[143][144]
• Ellie Daniel, class of 1974: winner of four Olympic medals, a gold, silver and bronze at the1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, and a bronze at the1972 Summer Olympic Games; member of theInternational Swimming Hall of Fame
• Anita DeFrantz, Penn Law class of 1976: won bronze medal at the1976 Summer Olympic Games as part of women's eight-oared shell; first woman and first African-American to represent the United States on theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and was IOC's first female vice president and first woman onUS Olympic Committee; chair of the Commission on Women and Sports
• Michalis Dorizas Penn Graduate School Class of 1924: winner of a silver medal (for Greece) at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games (also played Football and wrestled for Penn)^[145]
• Earl Eby: winner of a silver medal intrack and field at the1920 Summer Olympic Games
• Susan Francia: winner of two gold medals, one at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and one at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in women's rowing; and two gold medals at the 2009World Rowing Championships
• Sarah Garner: winner of a bronze medal at the2000 Summer Olympic Games and two gold medals at theWorld Rowing Championships (1997 and 1998)
• James Gentle: winner of a bronze medal at the1932 Summer Olympic Games; member of theNational Soccer Hall of Fame
• Samuel Gerson: winner of a silver medal inwrestling at the1920 Summer Olympics
• ThomasTruxtun Hare (Undergraduate class of 1901 and Penn Law class of 1903): at the1900 Summer Olympic Games; won silver medal in hammer throw and at the1904 Summer Olympic Games; won bronze medal in the "all-rounder" (now known as the decathlon) which consisted of 100-yard run, shot put, high jump, 880-yard walk, hammer throw, pole vault, 120-yard hurdles, weight throw, long jump and one mile run; won gold medal as part of tug of war team (also acharter member of theCollege Football Hall of Fame)^[146]
• L. Janusz Hooker: winner of a bronze medal (for Australia) at the1996 Summer Olympics
• Sarah Hughes, Penn Law class of 2018 (born 1985): former competitive figure skater who is the2002 Winter Olympics gold medalist champion and the 2001 world bronze medalist in ladies' singles^[147]
• Sid Jelinek: winner of a bronze medal at the1924 Summer Olympics
• John B. Kelly Jr.: accomplished oarsman, four-time Olympian, and Olympic medallist at the1956 Summer Olympic Games, president of theUnited States Olympic Committee and member of theUnited States Olympic Hall of Fame; brother of actressGrace Kelly; namesake of Kelly Drive in Philadelphia
• Alvin Kraenzlein Penn Dental School class of 1900: four-time gold medallist at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games^[148]
• Donald Lippincott: winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the1912 Summer Olympic Games
• Oliver MacDonald: winner of a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games
• Hugh Matheson: winner of a silver medal (for Great Britain) at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games
• Josiah McCracken: winner of a silver and a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games; later Chief Resident Physician atPennsylvania Hospital, one of the first public hospitals in the US
• Jack Medica: winner of a gold and two silver medals at the1936 Summer Olympic Games; graduate student at Penn, but did not earn a degree
• Ted Meredith: Olympic distance runner, won two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympic Games
• Leslie Milne: winner of a bronze medal in women'sfield hockey at the1984 Summer Olympic Games
• Ted Nash: winner of a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games and a bronze medal at the1964 Summer Olympic Games inrowing
• George Orton: winner of a gold and a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games; the debut Canadian to win an Olympic medal; member ofCanada's Sports Hall of Fame andCanadian Olympic Hall of Fame
• John Pescatore: winner of a bronze medal at the1988 Summer Olympic Games; head coach in men'srowing atYale University
• Lisa Rohde: winner of a silver medal in rowing at the1984 Summer Olympic Games
• Charles Sheaffer: winner of a bronze medal at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games
• Brandon Slay: winner of a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in freestyle wrestling
• Erinn Smart: winner of a silver medal infencing at the2008 Summer Olympic Games
• Walter Staley: winner of a bronze medal in men'sequestrian at the1952 Summer Olympic Games
• Julie Staver: winner of a bronze medal in women'sfield hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
• Phillip Stekl: winner of a silver medal inrowing at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
• Michael Storm: winner of a silver medal in the ModernPentathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
• John Baxter Taylor Jr.: debut African-American to win a gold medal at the1908 Summer Olympic Games
• Walter Tewksbury: winner of five medals at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games, two gold, two silver and a bronze
• Alan Valentine: winner of a gold medal as part of the Americanrugby union team at the1924 Summer Olympics

• Ernie Beck (class of 1953): selected byPhiladelphia Warriors as the 2nd overall pick in the 1953National Basketball Association draft (winning NBA championship in 1956),^[149] played for theSt. Louis Hawks (nowAtlanta Hawks), andSyracuse Nationals (now known asPhiladelphia 76ers)
• Corky Calhoun (class of 1972): selected byPhoenix Suns as the 4th overall pick in the 1972 NBA Draft, played for four teams in nine seasons; won NBA championship title with thePortland Trail Blazers in 1977^{[149][150][151]}
• "Chink"^[152]Francis Crossin (1923–1981; class of 1947): selected byPhiladelphia Warriors as the 6th overall pick in the 1947Basketball Association of America (which a few years later merged into another professional league) Draft, played for the Warriors for three years and averaged a career-high 7.0 points per game in 1949–50,^[149] namedEBA Most Valuable Player in 1952^[153]
• Matt Maloney (class of 1995): not selected in the 1995 NBA draft but signed with theHouston Rockets, played six NBA seasons with theHouston Rockets,Atlanta Hawks, andChicago Bulls and, in 1997, named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team^[149]
• Bob Morse (class of 1972): played in Europe, named in 2008 as one of the50 most influential personalities in European club basketball^[154] played forItalian League clubPallacanestro Varese, also led the Italian League in scoring during six seasons^[155]
• Tony Price (class of 1979): selected by theDetroit Pistons as the overall 29th pick in the second round of the 1979 NBA Draft, played five games for the San Diego Clippers^[149]
• Zack Rosen (class of 2012): All-American basketball player; played professionally withHapoel Holon,^[156]Hapoel Jerusalem B.C., andMaccabi Ashdod B.C., all of theIsraeli Basketball Super League;^[157] won the 3-point shootout in the Israeli Super League All Star Game in 2014 and 2015^[158][159]
• Jerry Simon (class of 1990): basketball player,American-Israeli, who after being captain of Penn basketball team played professional basketball in Israel for three teams in theIsraeli Basketball Premier League, and for theIsrael men's national basketball team^{[160][161][162][163][164][165][166]}
• Matthew White (class of 1979): basketball player, selected by Portland Trail Blazers, played professionally in theLiga ACB for several teams^{[167][168][169]}

• Chuck Bednarik (class of 1949):Philadelphia Eagleslinebacker and 1960NFL champion; member of thePro Football Hall of Fame andCollege Football Hall of Fame; namesake of theChuck Bednarik Award in college football; recipient of the 2010Walter Camp Distinguished American Award
• Eddie Bell, College class of 1955: first blackAll-American infootball, who then played for theNational Football League'sPhiladelphia Eagles 1955–1958,Canadian Football League'sHamilton Tiger-Cats in 1959 (where he was selected as an All-Star atlinebacker), andAmerican Football League'sNew York Titans in 1960
• George WashingtonTuffy Conn (1892–1973), class of 1920: professionalAmerican football player who played in1920 for theCleveland Tigers and theAkron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed theNational Football League in 1922) and won the first AFPA-NFL title that season with the Pros^[132]
• Jim Finn (class of 1999):^[133] NFLfullback andNew York GiantsSuper Bowl XLII Champion^[134]
• Ernest AlexanderTex Hamer (1901–1981), class of 1923: 1926 NFL Champion playing forFrankford Yellow Jackets
• Jeff Hatch (born 1979;^[170] class of 2002): selected during the third round of the2002 NFL draft as the 78th overall pick byNew York Giants^[171] where he playedoffensive tackle and started in four games in 2003^[172] and played football at Penn, where he was named aDivision I-AAAll-American in 2001^[173]
• Florian Gerard Kempf (born 1956), class of 1978: played four seasons in theNational Football League^[174] for theHouston Oilers andNew Orleans Saints^[175][176]
• Mitch Marrow (class of 1999): named All-Ivy League in '96 and '97;nd drafted by theCarolina Panthers in the 3rd round of the 1998 draft; ultimately retired due to back injuries^[177]
• Rob Milanese:Arena Football League wide receiver; school's all-time leading receiver
• Ben Noll (class of 2004): signed as anundrafted free agent by theSt. Louis Rams after the2004 NFL draft on June 18 and then played inNFL for theSt. Louis Rams,Dallas Cowboys, andDetroit Lions^[178][179]
• Ryan O'Malley (class of 2016): rated the 15th best tight end in the2016 NFL draft by NFLDraftScout.com,^{[citation needed]} signed with theOakland Raiders on May 10, 2016, after going undrafted in the 2016 NFL Draft^[180][181]
• Pete Overfield, Penn Law class of 1900:All-American at Penn^[182] and professionalfootball player for Homestead Library team, which defeatedBlondy Wallace's Philadelphia professionals 18 to 0 for the professional football championship of the United States (played at the Philadelphia park) as reported byThe New York Times;federal judge inAlaska;rancher
• Walter IrvingPard Pearce (1896–1974, class of 1920): won 1921 NFL Championship playing for theChicago Staleys (now theChicago Bears)
• Frank Reagan: former professional football player for theNew York Giants and thePhiladelphia Eagles, 1941–1951; led the NFL in interceptions in 1947
• John Schweder: football player who playedoffensive lineman for six seasons for theBaltimore Colts andPittsburgh Steelers
• George Sullivan: professional football player who played in 22 games, starting in 12, for theFrankford Yellow Jackets of theNational Football League 1924–1925;^[183] and 8 games, starting in 6, for the Philadelphia Quakers of theAmerican Football League during the1926 season^[183]
• Justin Tuck (Wharton School of Business; class of 2018), former NFL player, 2x Super bowl champion^[184]
• John Cochran Thurman (1900–1976; Wharton class of 1923): played tackle for theLos Angeles Buccaneers during their only season (1926) in theNational Football League; at Penn received All-American honors in 1922^[185]
• Joe Valerio: NFL pro who spent five seasons with theKansas City Chiefs
• Blondy Wallace: college All-American, NFL pro, andbootlegger
• Justin Watson (class of 2018): NFLwide receiver andTampa Bay BuccaneersSuper Bowl LV andKansas City ChiefsSuper Bowl LVII Champion^[140]
• Osbern Putnam "Diddy" Willson (1911–1961), Penn College class of 1933:guard, played three seasons with thePhiladelphia Eagles of theNational Football League (NFL)^[183]

• Doc Bushong, DDSUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, class of 1882: one of the first to matriculate, in 1878 in the brand-new Department of Dentistry; first graduate from any school at Penn to play in Major League baseball^[186] and since he played professional baseball during his time at Penn Dental he could not play for Penn^[187][186]
• Jake Cousins (B.A. 2017): MLB player forNew York Yankees^[188][189]
• Tom Cahill (1868–1894),Penn Med class of 1893, but left in 1891 and did not graduate:^[190] played one season in Major League Baseball for theLouisville Colonels
• Mark DeRosa:San Francisco Giants infielder/outfielder; part ofWorld Series-winning 2010 team^[191]
• Edward StephenDoc Farrell (1901–1966), Penn class of 1924: had 10-year Major League Baseball career with teams such as the New York Giants (now theSan Francisco Giants),New York Yankees andBoston Red Sox
• Charlie Ferguson (1863–1888): earned 728 strikeouts 1884–1888 as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Quakers, now thePhiladelphia Phillies; in 1931, rated as the fifth-best player to that point in baseball history^[192]
• Doug Glanville, Penn Engineering class of 1992, with major insystems engineering:^[193] one of only five Penn alumni to play in Major League Baseball since 1951, and first African-AmericanIvy League graduate to play in themajors;^[194] received the Outstanding Pro Prospect award in 1990;^[195]New York Timesop-ed columnist
• William JohnBilly Goeckel (1871–1922),Penn Law class of 1895: played for Penn's varsity baseball team 1893–1895 where he was "considered the finest collegiate first baseman of his day"^[196] and played portion of one season (in 1899) for thePhiladelphia Phillies; organizer and attorney for the Wilkes-Barre South Side Bank and Trust Company and chairman of Wilkes-Barre's Democratic City Committee; wrote "he Red and Blue," which has since become the Penn theme song and was leader ofUniversity of Pennsylvania Glee Club^[196]
• Jim Peterson: Major League Baseball player, 1931–1937; winner of the1931 World Series playing for thePhiladelphia Athletics (now theOakland Athletics)
• Roy Thomas:Philadelphia Phillies player andNational Leagueleader inruns scored,base on balls, andon-base percentage
• Steve Yerkes: Wharton dropout, playedMajor League Baseball 1909–1916 with theBoston Red Sox and theChicago Cubs; scored the Series-winning run in the tenth inning of Game Eight of the1912 World Series for the Red Sox
• Elwood Otto "Woody" Wagenhorst (1863–1946), Penn Law class of 1892: playedMajor League Baseball as athird baseman for thePhiladelphia Quakers in1888 (in two career games, he had one hit in eight at-bats),^[197] head football coach atPenn 1888–1891, compiling a record of 39–18, while a student at Penn Law,^[124] and head coach ofUniversity of Alabama in 1896 andUniversity of Iowa in 1897^[125]

• Cliff Bayer: foil fencer, two-time Olympian, four-time US champion, NCAA champion, Pan Am silver medalist
• Maxine Esteban: Ivorian Olympic fencer
• Paul Friedberg: Olympic fencer, three-time NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games champion
• Shaul Gordon (born 1994) (College class of 2016): Canadian-Israeli Olympicsabre fencer for Canada^[198]
• Brooke Makler (1951–2010): Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, two-time Pan American Games champion
• Paul Makler Jr. (born 1946): Olympic fencer, NCAA champion
• Paul Makler Sr. (1920–2022): Penn Med class of 1964 and Penn undergraduate class of 1944: fenced for theUniversity of Pennsylvania Quakers,^[199][200] competed in the individual and teamépée events at the1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki,^[199] won a silver medal in the team foil event at the1955 Pan American Games,^[201][199] won anAmateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) national team épée title in 1956,^[199] and was president of the American Fencing Association in 1962^[201]
• David Micahnik (born 1938), Penn College class of 1960 and Penn Law class of 1964: fenced for Penn, where he was a first-team All-Ivy selection in épée as a senior, the 1960 US National Champion^[202] and competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics^[203]
• Chris O'Loughlin (born 1967): Olympic fencer, NCAA champion, Maccabiah Games silver medalist, Pan American Games bronze medalist

• Joe Burk (1914–2008),Wharton class of 1934 (and Penn crew coach 1950–1969): named the "world's greatest oarsman" in 1938^[204] by winning theDiamond Challenge Sculls at theHenley Royal Regatta in 1938 (where he set a Henley course record, which was to stand for 27 years) and 1939 (beatingRoger Verey in the final), such that at the end of the 1939 season, Burk was voted theJames E. Sullivan Award as the country's outstanding amateur athlete (as he also won that year the Olympic tryouts [for1940 Olympics, which were cancelled because ofWorld War II]; the National Regatta; and thePhiladelphia Challenge Cup aka The Gold Cup)
• Susan Francia: winner of gold medals as part of the women's 8-oared boat at2008 Olympics and2012 Olympics
• Augustus Goetz (1904–1976), Penn College class of 1925 and Penn Law class of 1929: competed in themen's coxed pair event at the1928 Summer Olympics^{[205][206][207]}
• Janusz Hooker (Wharton class of 1992):^[208] won the bronze medal in Men's Quadruple Sculls for Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics^[209]
• John B. Kelly Jr.: son ofJohn B. Kelly Sr., winner of three medals at1920 Summer Olympics; brother ofPrincess Grace of Monaco, second Penn Crew alumnus to win theJames E. Sullivan Award^[210] for being nation's best amateur athlete (in 1947), winner of a bronze medal at the1956 Summer Olympics
• Ted A. Nash (former Penn coach):1960 (gold medal) and1964 (bronze medal) US Olympic teams and US Olympic coach 1968–2008^[211]
• Harry Parker, class of 1957: 1960 US Olympic Team member^[212] and US Olympic coach 1964–1984
• John Anthony Pescatore: competed in the1988 Seoul Olympic Games for the US as stroke of the men's coxed eight, who won a bronze medal;^[213] later competed at the1992 Barcelona Olympic Games in the men's coxless pair
• Regina Salmons: member of 2021 US team^[214]

• Sam Burley:track and field record holder
• Edward Bushnell: track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics
• Danny Cepero: firstMajor League Soccergoalkeeper to score a goal from open play
• Grace "Sunny" Choi (born 1988), Wharton Undergrad class of 2011 BS in Economics:breakdancer for United States Olympic team at2024 Summer Olympics in Paris,^[215] won the silver medal at World Games, and won first gold medal in breakdancing ever given at thePan American Games;^[216][217] first American woman to qualify for breakdancing at the2024 Olympics^[218]
• Frank B. Ellis, class of 1893: co-founder of thePenn Relays, the oldest and largesttrack and field competition in the US
• Alexander Grant: early 20th-century US and world champion and record holder in severaltrack and field events
• Nelson Zwingluis Graves (1880–1918), class of 1903: while at Penn played cricket in 1898 for United States team in its game against Canada where he hit up 128 and in 1902 forPhiladelphian cricket team where he was one of the stars for a team that beat teams in Great Britain^[219]
• Syed Mohammed Hadi (1899–1971) master's degree, class of 1926:^[220] played for India or one of its constituent states incricket,tennis,field hockey,soccer,table tennis,chess, andpolo (nicknamed "Rainbow Hadi" because of his expertise in these seven sports;^[221]) one of the first Indians to compete as a tennis player at theOlympics (1924 Summer Olympics); also represented India in the 1924 and 1925 Davis Cups^[222]
• Wallace F. Johnson: early 20th-century UStennis champion
• Florian Gerard Kempf (born 1956), class of 1978: played four seasons in theNational Football League^[174] for theHouston Oilers andNew Orleans Saints^[175][176] andsoccer for thePhiladelphia Fury of theNorth American Soccer League and thePennsylvania Stoners of theAmerican Soccer League^[223]
• Frank Villeneuve Nicholson: rugby player,University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (class of 1910);^[224] in 1904 captained the Australian national rugby team in its match against England and in 1906 reintroduced rugby union as a sport to Penn students^{[225][226][227]}
• George Patterson (class of 1888): still holds the North American batting record; starred for the professionalPhiladelphia Cricket Team^[228]
• Stan Startzell, class of 1972: played (a) on Penn men's soccer team 1969–1971^[229] (where he was twice a second team All American and afirst team All American in 1971^{[230][231][232]} and was also second team All Ivy League as a placekicker on Penn football team in 1971)^[233] and (b) for theNew York Cosmos of theNorth American Soccer League (who drafted Startzell on 1972 as the only native US player on the roster that season^[234]) and (c) forPhiladelphia Atoms in 1973 (who won the league championship that year)^[235]
• John Borland Thayer, II (1862–1912 [due to sinking of theTitanic]), class of 1882: captain of the Penn lacrosse team in 1879, previously a member of Penn baseball team,^[236] when not playing on Penn cricket team was part of thePhiladelphian side that visited England in 1884^[236]
• George C. Thomas Jr. (1873–1932), class of 1894: golf course architect, designed Whitemarsh Valley Country Club outside Philadelphia, and more than 20 courses in California^[237]
• WilliamBill Tilden Jr. class of 1915 (did not graduate): tennis player, won 10Grand Slam titles, including 7US Opens and 3Wimbledons

• Steve Baumann: president of theNational Soccer Hall of Fame
• Bert Bell: formerNational Football LeagueCommissioner 1946–1959; co-founder of thePhiladelphia Eagles; past co-owner of thePittsburgh Steelers
• David Blitzer: owner of several sports teams
• Mel Bridgman: formerNational Hockey League player andgeneral manager of theOttawa Senators
• Clarence Clark, class of 1878: first secretary of theUnited States Lawn Tennis Association; member of theTennis Hall of Fame
• Steven A. Cohen: owner ofNew York Mets
• Joseph Dey: former executive director of theUnited States Golf Association; firstcommissioner of thePGA Tour; namesake of theJoe Dey Award sponsored by the USGA; member of theWorld Golf Hall of Fame
• Eddie Einhorn: vice chairman of theChicago White Sox
• Otto Frenzel: co-owner of thePittsburgh Penguins, 1975–1977
• Marvin Goldklang: minority owner of theNew York Yankees
• Austin Gunsel: commissioner of theNational Football League, 1959–1960
• Josh Harris: owner of thePhiladelphia 76ers,New Jersey Devils, andWashington Commanders
• Ron Hines: co-founder ofBlack American Racers Association
• Ned Irish: founder and president of theNew York Knicks, 1946–74; enshrined in theNaismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• Lee Joannes: president of theGreen Bay Packers, 1930–1947
• Red Kellett: former president of theBaltimore Colts
• Craig Littlepage: director of athletics at theUniversity of Virginia
• Jeff Luhnow: general manager of theHouston Astros
• Ed McCaskey: past chairman of theChicago Bears
• David Montgomery: part-owner, president, and CEO of thePhiladelphia Phillies
• Walter O'Malley: owner and chief executive of theBrooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers; member of theBaseball Hall of Fame
• Carroll Rosenbloom: former owner of theBaltimore Colts andLos Angeles Rams
• Ed Stefanski: president and general manager of thePhiladelphia 76ers
• Vernon Stouffer: former owner of theCleveland Indians
• Lud Wray: founder of thePhiladelphia Eagles with fellow Penn alumnusBert Bell; firsthead coach of the Boston Braves (now theWashington Commanders)

For a more comprehensive list of notable alumni in the business world, seeWharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. (Note: Not all of the following individuals attended the Wharton School, but may be alumni of other schools within theUniversity of Pennsylvania.)

• William Bingham, class of 1768: a founder and director of theBank of North America, the first modern US bank
• John Bogle: founder and retired CEO ofThe Vanguard Group
• Richard Bloch (class of 1942): co-founder,H&R Block
• Len Bosack: co-founder,Cisco Systems (Internetrouter company)
• David J. Brown: co-founder,Silicon Graphics
• Warren Buffett: CEO ofBerkshire Hathaway, investor, second richest man in the world (attended for two years before transferring to theUniversity of Nebraska)
• Jonathan Brassington: CEO and co-founder,LiquidHub^[238]
• William P. Carey: founder ofW. P. Carey & Co. LLC,^[239] a corporate real estate financing firm headquartered in New York City
• Steven A. Cohen: founder and manager,SAC Capital Partners andPoint72 Asset Management
• Catherine Austin Fitts: CEO and founder of Solari Inc., former United StatesAssistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing
• John Grayken: founder and chairman,Lone Star Funds^[240]
• James Dinan:hedge fund manager and founder ofYork Capital Management
• Sam Hamadeh: founder,Vault Inc. and film producer
• Brad Handler: co-founder and chairman, Inspirato; first in-house attorney ateBay
• Josh Harris: co-founder,Apollo Global Management
• Gilbert W. Harrison: founder, chairman and CEO,Financo, Inc.
• Vernon Hill: founder, chairman, and CEO,Commerce Bancorp
• Jon Huntsman Sr.: billionaire, founder of theHuntsman Corporation
• Charlie Javice: founder,Frank; notably convicted in high-profile fraud case
• Josh Kopelman: founder,Half.com
• Geraldine Laybourne: founder,Oxygen Media
• Douglas Lenat: founder, artificial intelligence companyCycorp
• Michael R. Levy: founder and publisher ofTexas Monthly magazine
• Ronald Li: founder and past chairman, theHong Kong Stock Exchange
• Ken Moelis: founder,Moelis & Company
• Elon Musk: technology entrepreneur; founder, CEO and CTO ofSpaceX; co-founder ofPayPal; board member ofPlanetary Society; investor and chairman of the board ofTesla Motors^[241]
• Peter Nicholas: billionaire co-founder of the medical device firmBoston Scientific
• William Novelli: CEO,AARP; founder and past president,Porter Novelli, one of the world's largest lobbying and public relations firms, now part of theOmnicom Group
• William S. Paley: founder,CBS Corporation
• Stephen M. Peck: investor and philanthropist, co-founder ofWeiss, Peck & Greer
• Mark Pincus: co-founder,Zynga (class of 1988)
• J.D. Power III: founder,f marketing research firmJ.D. Power & Associates
• Raj Rajaratnam: billionaire founder of thehedge fundGalleon Group
• Josh Resnick: founder and president,Pandemic Studios
• Ralph J. Roberts: co-founder,Comcast Corporation
• Michael Tiemann: co-founder,Cygnus Solutions (aGNU software company), nowCTO ofRed Hat
• Edward Rosenthal: founder,Riverside Memorial Chapel
• Henry Salvatori: founder,Western Geophysical; founding stockholder of theNational Review magazine
• Harry Scherman: co-founder,Book of the Month Club
• Tanya Seaman: co-founder,PhillyCarShare
• Joseph Segel: founder,QVC andFranklin Mint
• Brian Sheth: co-founder and president,Vista Equity Partners
• Gregg Spiridellis: founder,JibJab Media, Inc.
• Michael Steinhardt: co-founder, hedge fund Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz & Co.; philanthropist
• Marc Turtletaub: founder ofBig Beach
• Miranda Wang: co-founder, plastic recycler Novoloop^[242]

• Laura J. Alber: president and CEO,Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
• Anil Ambani: billionaire, chairman,Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
• Walter Annenberg: billionaire publisher; philanthropist; former U.S Ambassador to the United Kingdom; awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom; given the rank ofKnight Commander (the second-highest rank in theOrder of the British Empire) byQueen Elizabeth II
• Susan Arnold: past chairman of theWalt Disney Company; past vice-chairman ofProcter & Gamble
• Morton J. Baum: president,Hickey Freeman
• David Bell: past chairman of theFinancial Times
• Nariman Behravesh (born 1948): economist
• Alfred Berkeley: former president and vice-chairman,NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
• Nicholas Biddle: president,Second Bank of the United States
• Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell: chairman,Interserve andLloyds Banking Group
• Matt Blank: chairman and CEO,Showtime
• Mitchell Blutt: executive partner,J.P. Morgan Chase
• Christopher Browne: pastmanaging director, Tweedy, Browne Co.
• Charles Butt: billionaire, CEO and chairman,H-E-B Grocery Company^[243]
• Robert Castellini: CEO and part-owner of theCincinnati Reds baseball team
• Arthur D. Collins Jr.: chairman and CEO,Medtronic
• Stephen Cooper: CEO,Warner Music Group
• Robert Crandall: chairman and CEO,American Airlines, Inc
• Donny Deutsch: chairman, Deutsch, Inc.
• Michael DiCandilo:chief financial officer and executive vice president,AmerisourceBergen corporation
• Alexis Irénée du Pont Jr.: business executive forDuPont
• Eugene du Pont: first head of modern-day DuPont
• Mike Eskew: chairman and CEO,UPS
• Jay S. Fishman: chairman and CEO,The Travelers Companies
• Robert B. Goergen: chairman and CEO,Blyth, Inc.
• Steven Goldstone: former chairman and CEO,RJR Nabisco
• Joel Greenblatt:hedge fund manager and author
• George H. Heilmeier: former president and CEO,Bellcore (nowTelcordia)
• Charles A. Heimbold Jr.: US ambassador to Sweden, former chairman and CEO,Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• C. Robert Henrikson: chairman, president and CEO,MetLife
• Lauren Hobart: president and CEO,Dick's Sporting Goods
• Philip B. Hofmann: past chairman and CEO,Johnson & Johnson
• Jirair Hovnanian: home builder
• Alberto Ibargüen: president and CEO of theJohn S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida; former publisher of theMiami Herald
• John Carmichael Jenkins:planter and proponent ofslavery in theAntebellum South
• Reginald H. Jones: former chairman and CEO,General Electric
• Yotaro Kobayashi: chairman and co-CEO,Fuji Xerox
• Kong Dongmei: Chinese entrepreneur; granddaughter of the founder of thePeople's Republic of ChinaMao Zedong
• Leonard Lauder: chairman and CEO,Estée Lauder; billionaire investor^[244]
• Terry Leahy: CEO,Tesco
• Gerald Levin: former CEO,AOL Time Warner
• Edward J. Lewis: former chairman of the board of theOxford Development Company, one of the largest Pennsylvania-basedreal estate firms
• George Lindemann: billionaireindustrialist
• Joseph Wharton Lippincott: past president and chairman of the board ofJ. B. Lippincott Company, and grandson of industrialistJoseph Wharton, founder of theWharton School of Business
• Robert Litzenberger: partner,Goldman Sachs
• Betty Liu: executive vice chairman,New York Stock Exchange
• John A. Luke Jr.: chairman and chief executive officer,MeadWestvaco Corporation
• Peter Lynch: investor; vice chairman,Fidelity Investments
• Harold McGraw III: president and CEO,McGraw-Hill Companies; chairman ofBusiness Roundtable
• Michael Milken: trader, financier, pardoned felon
• Bill Miller: chairman and chief investment officer,Legg Mason Capital Management
• Jordan Mintz:Enron whistleblower
• Aditya Mittal: president and CFO,Mittal Steel Company
• Michael Moritz: venture capitalist,Sequoia Capital
• Michael H. Moskow: 8th president and CEO,Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Laxman Narasimhan: former CEO,Starbucks Corporation
• Phebe Novakovic: chairman and CEO,General Dynamics
• Bruce Pasternack: president and CEO,Special Olympics International; former senior vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
• Ronald O. Perelman: billionaire investor
• Benjamin W. Perkins Jr.:Thoroughbred racehorse trainer
• Douglas L. Peterson: CEO,McGraw Hill Financial
• Lionel Pincus: past chairman,Warburg Pincus
• Lewis E. Platt: president, CEO and chairman of the board,Hewlett-Packard
• Edmund T. Pratt Jr.: former chairman and CEO,Pfizer, Inc.
• Frank Quattrone: prominent investment banker, formerly withCredit Suisse First Boston
• Robert Rabinovitch: former president and CEO,Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Sylvia Rhone: former president and CEO,Eastwest Records,Elektra Records, andMotown Records; first Black woman to head a major record company
• Rich Riley: CEO, Shazam; former senior vice president and managing director ofYahoo! Europe, Middle East & Africa
• James O. Robbins: president and CEO,Cox Communications
• Brian L. Roberts: chairman and CEO,Comcast Corporation
• John P. Roberts: entrepreneur who bankrolled theWoodstock Festival
• Lucille Roberts, College for Women, class of 1964: namesake and proprietor of women's fitness clubs^[245]
• Eileen Clarkin Rominger:Goldman Sachs partner
• Frank Rooney: past CEO,Melville Corporation
• Harold Rosen: executive director,Grassroots Business Fund
• Arthur Ross: businessman andphilanthropist
• Perry Rotella: senior vice president and CIO,Verisk Analytics
• J. Brendan Ryan: chairman, Foote, Cone, and Belding
• Charles S. Sanford Jr.: CEO,Bankers Trust
• Alan D. Schnitzer: CEO,the Travelers Companies
• John Sculley: former president,PepsiCo; former CEO,Apple Computer
• Paul V. Scura: former executive vice president and head of the investment bank ofPrudential Securities
• Mike Sievert,Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (class of 1991): CEO,T-Mobile US^[246]
• Henry Silverman: COO of theApollo Group, formerly head ofCendant Corporation
• Young Sohn: president and chief strategy officer,Samsung Electronics
• Richard Stearns: president,World Vision
• Patrick J. Talamantes: CEO,McClatchy Company
• Brian Tierney: publisher ofThe Philadelphia Inquirer and thePhiladelphia Daily News
• Donald Trump Jr.: Executive ofThe Trump Organization, son of US President, Real Estate mogul and Penn alumnusDonald Trump^[247]
• Ivanka Trump: fashion model; businesswoman; judge of NBC reality showThe Apprentice 6; daughter of US president, real estate mogul, and Penn alumnusDonald Trump^[248]
• James S. Tisch: CEO,Loews Corporation
• Laurence Tisch: former CEO ofCBS
• Roy Vagelos: former CEO,Merck
• James L. Vincent: past president and CEO,Biogen Idec
• George Herbert Walker IV, college and undergraduate class of 1991 andWharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School class of 1992: Benjamin Franklin Scholar, graduatedPhi Beta Kappa and received a dual degree – a B.S. and a B.A., bothsumma cum laude, and received an MBA as a Palmer Scholar;^[249] received theHarry S. Truman Scholarship, member of theSt. Anthony Hall fraternity; CEO ofNeuberger Berman; formermanaging director ofLehman Brothers; formerly partner withGoldman Sachs & Co; co-president,Commodities Corporation^[250]
• Jacob Wallenberg: chairman,Investor
• Jeff Weiner: CEO,LinkedIn
• Dawne Williams: former CEO, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank
• Joseph P. Williams: creator of the first all-purpose bank credit card,BankAmericard (now Visa)
• Gary L. Wilson: CEO and chairman,Northwest Airlines
• William Wrigley Jr. II: chairman and former CEO,Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
• Steve Wynn: chairman and CEOWynn Resorts; former chairman and CEO,Mirage Resorts, Inc.; responsible for the renaissance ofLas Vegas
• Morrie Yohai: co-creator ofCheez Doodles
• Mark Zandi: economist
• Mortimer Zuckerman: real estate billionaire; publisher/owner of theNew York Daily News;editor-in-chief,U.S. News & World Report
• Martin Zweig: stock investor and author

• Robert Adams Jr.: Penn graduate; served as a botanist with Penn professorFerdinand Vandeveer Hayden while exploring the northwest corner ofWyoming; their efforts led directly to the founding ofYellowstone National Park, the firstnational park in the United States
• Michael L. Gernhardt (Penn Engineering class of 1983 (master's) and 1991 (Ph.D.) in Bioengineering):^[251]NASA astronaut
• Charles Guillou: member of the 19th-centuryUnited States Exploring Expedition
• Isaac Israel Hayes: 19th-century Arctic explorer;Heiss Island^[252] inFranz Josef Land (Russia) was named in his honor
• Elisha Kane: Arctic explorer, received medals from theUnited States Congress, theRoyal Geographical Society, and theSociété de Géographie for his work; namesake of the naval destroyerUSS Kane
• Garrett Reisman (Penn class of 1991): dual bachelor's degrees from Wharton and Engineering schools via theJerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology;^[253] NASASpace Shuttle astronaut

• Andrew Allen (College class of 1759): Pennsylvania delegate to theContinental Congress, 1775–1776^[254][255]
• William Bingham (College class of 1768): Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786–1788
• Elias Boudinot (attended theAcademy, but did not earn a college degree): New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778 and 1781–1783, andpresident of the Continental Congress in 1782–1783
• Lambert Cadwalader (College class of 1760, but did not graduate): New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784–1787
• Tench Coxe (attended in 1770s but did not graduate):^[256] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1788–1789 (and author of many contributions toThe Federalist Papers advocating for the ratification ofUnited States Constitution)^[257]
• Philemon Dickinson (College class of 1759): Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–1783^[258]
• Jonathan Elmer (Medical School class of 1769 (bachelor's) and class of 1771 (doctor's degree)): New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1777–1778, 1781–1783, 1787–1788^[259]
• Robert Goldsborough (College class of 1760): Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–1776^[260]
• William Grayson (College class of 1760, but did not graduate): Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–1787^[261]
• Whitmell Hill (College class of 1760): North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778–1780 accessed November 4, 2021^[262]
• William Hindman (College class of 1761, but did not graduate): Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1785–1786
• Francis Hopkinson (College class of 1757 withbachelor's and class of 1760 withmaster's degree):New Jersey delegate to theContinental Congress, 1776, who signedDeclaration of Independence^[263]
• David Jackson (Medical School class of 1768): Pennsylvania delegate to theContinental Congress, 1785^[264]
• Henry Latimer (College class of 1770): Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784^[265]
• Thomas Mifflin (College class of 1760, trustee 1773–1791, and treasurer 1773–1775):^[266] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–1775 and 1782–1784, and president of the Continental Congress, 1783–1784
• SamuelCadwalader Morris (College class of 1760^[267]): Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783–1784^[268]
• Richard Peters (College class of 1761):^[269] Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–1783
• David Ramsay (Medical School class of 1773^[270][271] and honorary doctorate class of 1780^[272]): South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, 1782–1783 and 1785–1786, and actingpresident of the Continental Congress in 1785–1786
• Joshua Seney (College class of 1773): Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778
• Jonathan Sergeant (College class of 1763): New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776–1777
• James Tilton (Medical School class of 1768 (bachelor's) and 1771 (doctor's degree)): Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress, 1783–1784

Sources: University of Pennsylvania Archives^[273][274]

• George Clymer, Penn trustee 1779–1813: elected member of theContinental Congress who was one of only six people who signedDeclaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania)US Constitution^[275]
• Thomas FitzSimons, Penn trustee 1789–1811: signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
• Benjamin Franklin, Penn founder and trustee 1749–1790: one of only six people who signed Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
• Francis Hopkinson, Penn degrees A.B. 1757; A.M. 1760; LL.D. 1790; Penn trustee 1787–1791: signed Declaration of Independence
• Jared Ingersoll, Penn trustee 1778–1791: signed US Constitution
• Robert Morris, Penn trustee 1778–1791: one of only six people who signed Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution
• Thomas McKean, Penn degrees: A.M. (hon.) 1763 and LL.D. 1785; Penn trustee 1779–1817; president of Penn Board of Trustees: signed Declaration of Independence
• Thomas Mifflin, Penn degree: A.B. 1760;Pennsylvania delegate to theContinental Congress and president of the Continental Congress; 1st governor of Pennsylvania; signed US Constitution
• William Paca, Penn degrees: A.B. 1759 and A.M. 1762; Penn trustee;Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774–79; signed Declaration of Independence;^[276] chief justice of Maryland (1788–1790)
• Benjamin Rush, Penn Med class of 1766; Penn Med professor 1769–1813: signed Declaration of Independence
• Hugh Williamson, Penn degrees: A.B. 1757, A.M. 1760, and LL.D. (hon.) 1787; tutor 1755–1758; Penn professor of mathematics 1761–1763: North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress, signed US Constitution; representative to US Congress^[277]
• James Wilson, Penn degrees A.M. (hon.) 1766 and LL.D. 1790; Penn trustee; delegate to Continental Congress; signed Declaration of Independence and signed (for Pennsylvania) US Constitution, the first draft of which he wrote; US Supreme Court justice^[278]

• William Henry Harrison (Penn Med during 1791 but did not graduate): 9th president of the United States^[279][280]
• Donald Trump, graduate ofWharton School of Finance (B.S.1968): 45th and 47thpresident of the United States^[281][282]

• Robert S. Adler, College class of 1966:^[283] commissioner (and acting chair, 2013–2013) of theUS Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Neil Barofsky (born 1970),Wharton Undergraduate class of 1992:^[284] special Treasury Department inspector general who supervised theTroubled Assets Relief Program
• Richard E. Besser,Penn Medical School class of 1986:^[285] served as acting director of theCenters for Disease Control
• Adolph E. Borie:US secretary of the Navy under PresidentUlysses S. Grant
• William Bradford:United States attorney general under PresidentGeorge Washington
• David Brailer:National Resource Center for Health Information Technology Coordinator; the "health information czar" under PresidentGeorge W. Bush
• Kenneth Braithwaite: US secretary of the Navy underPresident Donald J. Trump, earned a master's degree in government administration from Penn,Fels Institute of Government,^[286] in 1995^[287]
• William H. Brown, III: past chairman of the USEqual Employment Opportunity Commission
• Shirley Chater:commissioner of Social Security, 1993–97
• Richard A. Clarke: National Counter-Terrorism Director under presidentsBill Clinton andGeorge W. Bush
• Jay Clayton (Penn Engineering class of 1988 and Penn Law class of 1993): 32nd Chairman of theSecurities and Exchange Commission under President Donald Trump
• William T. Coleman Jr.:US secretary of transportation, 1975–1977, and recipient of thePresidential Medal of Freedom
• Alexander J. Dallas (1759–1817), Penn trustee (1794–1817):^[288] 6thUnited States Secretary of the Treasury 1814–1816^[289] was actingUnited States Secretary of War (March 2, 1815, to August 1, 1815) and for portion of 1815 was also actingUnited States Secretary of State and previously served asUnited States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1801–1814)
• John Howard Dalton (Wharton Graduate School class of 1971, MBA): served as 70thSecretary of the Navy 1993–1998
• John DiIulio: firstdirector of theWhite House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under PresidentGeorge W. Bush
• George Hall Dixon:deputy secretary of the treasury under PresidentGerald Ford
• George Nicholas Eckert: director of theUnited States Mint, 1851–1853
• Myer Feldman:White House Counsel to presidentsJohn F. Kennedy andLyndon Johnson
• William R. Ferris: chairman of theNational Endowment for the Humanities, 1997–2000
• Thomas K. Finletter:US secretary of the Air Force, 1950–1953
• Lindley M. Garrison:secretary of war under PresidentWoodrow Wilson
• Thomas S. Gates Jr. (Penn College class of 1928, A.B., and Hon. LL.D., 1956) Trustee): 7thUnited States Secretary of Defense (1959–1961) andSecretary of the Navy^[290]
• Henry Dilworth Gilpin: US attorney general under PresidentMartin Van Buren
• Earl G. Harrison: dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; commissioner of theUnited States Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942–1944
• Francis J. Harvey (born 1943),Penn Graduate School of Arts and Sciences class of 1969,Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering andMaterials Science:^[291][292] 19thSecretary of the United States Army 2004–2007
• Kevin Hassett:senior advisor to the president underDonald Trump
• Henry Hoyt: Penn Law class of 1881:US solicitor general, 1903–1909^[293][294]
• George A. Jenks, class of 1850 and 1853: US solicitor general, 1886–89
• Neel Kashkari: head of theOffice of Financial Stability in theUS Department of the Treasury
• Virginia Knauer (1915–2011), class of 1937: first director of theOffice of Consumer Affairs under PresidentRonald Reagan, and special assistant to the president for consumer affairs under PresidentRichard Nixon (1969–1977 and 1981–1989) and started her political career in 1959 when she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Philadelphia City Council^[295]
• C. Everett Koop (University of Pennsylvania Medical School class of 1947Doctor of Science degree in medicine^[296]):surgeon general, 1981–1989
• John F. Lehman: USSecretary of the Navy under PresidentRonald Reagan
• William Flynn Martin:deputy secretary of energy and executive secretary of theNational Security Council under President Reagan
• Ann Dore McLaughlin:US secretary of labor
• William M. Meredith, College class of 1812, Graduate School class of 1816: appointed by PresidentZachary Taylor as 19thUnited States Secretary of the Treasury (1849–1850)^[297][298]
• Samuel Moore: director,United States Mint, 1824–1935
• David W. Ogden:deputy attorney general under PresidentBarack Obama
• William Tod Otto:deputy secretary of the interior under PresidentAbraham Lincoln, 1863–1871
• Frances Perkins (Wharton School class of 1908, no degree):^[299] served as the 4thUnited States secretary of labor 1933–1945, the longest serving labor secretary and the first woman ever to serve in apresidential cabinet; instrumental in developing theSocial Security system
• Shira Perlmutter (Penn Law class of 1983): 14thRegister of Copyrights^[300]
• Thomas M. Pettit: class of 1815 (A.B.) and class of 1818 (A.M.):^[301] 8thdirector of the United States Mint, term started in March 1853 and ended when he died in office in April 1853
• Caesar Augustus Rodney: US attorney general 1807–1811 under presidentsThomas Jefferson andJames Madison; US senator (Delaware)
• Melissa Rogers: Penn Law class of 1991-director of theWhite House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President Joe Biden^[302][303]
• Philip H. Rosenfelt:United States Secretary of Education under presidentJoe Biden
• Rajiv Shah:under secretary of agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics and administrator of theUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID) under PresidentBarack Obama
• David Shulkin (Penn Med Alumnus who was Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar^[304]): 9thUnited States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
• Gene Sperling: director of theNational Economic Council under PresidentBarack Obama
• Clifford L. Stanley:under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness under President Barack Obama
• Benjamin Stoddert: first US secretary of the Navy (attended but did not earn a degree)
• Rexford Tugwell: head of theResettlement Administration and part ofFranklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust"
• Michael G. Vickers:assistant secretary of defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict;Central Intelligence Agency's principal strategist in paramilitary operation to drive theSoviets out of Afghanistan
• KatherineKathi Vidal (née Kelly) (Penn Law class of 1996)^[305] serves (as of June 2022) asUnder Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of theUnited States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)^[306]
• Robert John Walker (1801–1869; class of 1819): US senator from Mississippi (1835–1845),secretary of the treasury (1845–1849), andTerritorial Governor of Kansas (1857); responsible for drafting the 1849 bill that eventually established theUnited States Department of the Interior^[307]
• George W. Wickersham: US attorney general, 1909–1913
• George Washington Woodruff: actingsecretary of the interior underTheodore Roosevelt
• Hubert Work:United States postmaster general, 1922–1923 under PresidentWarren G. Harding, and US secretary of the interior, 1923–1928, under Harding and PresidentCalvin Coolidge

As of May 2020^[update], 31 Penn alumni have served as senators of 16 states:

• Lewis Heisler Ball: US senator from Delaware, 1903–1905, 1919–1925; Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1901–1903^[308]
• Ephraim Bateman: US senator and congressman from New Jersey^[309]
• William Wyatt Bibb: US senator and US representative from Georgia; governor of Alabama^[310]
• William Bingham, class of 1768: namesake ofBinghamton, New York, andBingham, Maine; US senator from Pennsylvania, 1795–1801 andPresident pro tem of the Senate; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786–88^[311]
• Clayton Douglass Buck: US senator from Delaware, 1943–1949; governor of Delaware, 1929–1937; attended Towne School of Engineering but did not earn a degree^[312]
• Joseph Maull Carey: US senator from Wyoming, 1890–1895; governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915; Wyoming delegate to the US Congress, 1885–90^[313]
• Henry H. Chambers, Penn Med class of 1811:US senator from Alabama 1825–26^[314]
• Joseph Sill Clark: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1957–1969^[315]
• Simon Barclay Conover: US senator from Florida, 1873–1979; attended School of Medicine and graduated from theUniversity of Nashville^[316]
• George Robertson Dennis: US senator from Maryland, 1873–1879^[317]
• Philemon Dickinson: US senator fromNew Jersey, 1790–1793^[258]
• James Henderson Duff: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1951–1957; attended law school but did not earn a degree^[318]
• Henry A. Du Pont: US senator from Delaware, 1906–1917, attended Penn and graduated from theUnited States Military Academy atWest Point^[319]
• Jonathan Elmer: US senator from New Jersey, 1789–1791^[259]
• William Grayson: US senator from Virginia, 1789–1790; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree^[320]
• William Henry Harrison: US senator from Ohio, 1825–1828^{[citation needed]}
• Weldon Brinton Heyburn: US senator from Idaho, 1903–1912
• William Hindman: US senator from Maryland, 1800–01; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree^[321]
• Ted Kaufman: US senator from Delaware, 2009–2011^[322]
• Henry Latimer: US senator from Delaware, 1795–1801; Delaware representative to the US Congress,^[265]
• Lewis Fields Linn: US senator from Missouri, 1833–1843; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree^[323]
• James Murray Mason (College class of 1818): US senator fromVirginia in the early 19th century^[324]
• Gouverneur Morris:New York delegate to theContinental Congress, 1778–1779; US senator from New York, 1800–1803; attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate^{[citation needed]}
• John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg: US senator from Pennsylvania, 1801; Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1789–1791, 1793–1795, 1799–1801; attended College of Philadelphia but did not earn a degree^[325]
• Arnold Naudain: US senator from Delaware, 1830–1836^{[citation needed]}
• George Wharton Pepper: US senator from Pennsylvania, chronicler of the Senate^[326]
• Caesar Augustus Rodney: US senator from Delaware, 1822–1823^[327]
• Arlen Specter: former US senator from Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia district attorney^[328]
• John Selby Spence: US senator from Pennsylvania 1836–1840; attended School of Medicine but did not earn a degree^[329]
• Robert John Walker, class of 1819: US senator from Mississippi, 1836–1845; introduced the bill that established theUS Department of the Interior^[330]
• Joseph Rodman West: US senator from Louisiana, 1871–1877; attended the College but did not earn a degree^[331]

As of December 2024, at least 163 representatives from 22 states have been affiliated with Penn as detailed below:

• Ephraim Leister Acker M.D., 1852 LL.B., 1886: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1871–1873^[332]
• Robert Adams Jr. (class of 1869; member ofSt. Anthony Hall fraternity): Republican member of theUS House of Representatives forPennsylvania's 2nd congressional district 1893–1906 (alsoEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil 1889–1890; member of thePennsylvania State Senate for the6th district 1883–1885)^[333][334]
• Wilbur L. Adams: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1933–1935^[335]
• John Archer: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1801–1807^[336]
• James Armstrong: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1793–1795^[337]
• L. Heisler Ball: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1901–1903^[308]
• Ephraim Bateman: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1826–1829^[309]
• John Milton Bernhisel: Utah delegate to the US Congress, 1851–1859, 1861–1863^[338]
• George A. Bicknell: Indiana representative to the US Congress, 1877–1881^[339]
• Richard Biddle, class of 1811: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1837–1840^[340]
• Andrew Biemiller: Wisconsin representative to the US Congress, 1945–1947 (attended the Graduate School but did not earn a degree)^[341]
• Elias Boudinot: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1789–1795; New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778; attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate^{[citation needed]}
• Benjamin Markley Boyer: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1865–1869^[342]
• Samuel Carey Bradshaw: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1855–1857^[343]
• Charles Browne (1875–1947; Penn Med class of 1900):^[344][345] representedNew Jersey's 4th congressional district, 1923–1925^[346][347]
• George Franklin Brumm: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1923–1927, 1929–1934^[348]
• Hiram R. Burton: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1905–1909^[349]
• John Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1855–1857^[350]
• Lambert Cadwalader: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1789–1791, 1793–1795; Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1784–1787; entered College of Philadelphia in 1757 but did not earn a degree^[351]
• Greene Washington Caldwell: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1841–1843^[352]
• Joseph Maull Carey: Wyoming representative after statehood and delegate (before statehood) to the US Congress, 1885–1890
• Matt Cartwright: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 2013–
• E. Wallace Chadwick: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–1949^[353]
• Earl Chudoff: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress 1949–1958^[354]
• George Bosworth Churchill: Massachusetts representative to the US Congress, 1925; attended graduate school 1892–1894, but did not earn a degree^[355]
• John Claiborne: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1805–1808^[356]
• John Daniel Clardy: Kentucky representative to the US Congress, 1895–1899^[357]
• Isaiah Dunn Clawson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1855–1859^[358]
• John Clopton: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1795–1799, 1801–1816^[359]
• Bill Cobey: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1985–1987^[360]
• Lewis Condict: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1811–1817^[361]
• Joel Cook: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress 1907–1911^[362]
• Thomas Buchecker Cooper: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1861–1862
• James Harry Covington: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1909–1914^[363]
• William Radford Coyle: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1925–1927, 1929–1933; attended law school but did not earn a degree^[364]
• George William Crump (Penn Med class of 1812, did not graduate): member of theUnited States House of Representatives in the19th United States Congress (1826–1827) and the US Ambassador toChile; also world's first recordedstreaker^[365][366]
• Willard S. Curtin (1905–1996; Penn Law School class of 1932): Pennsylvania representative to US Congress, 1957–1967^[367]
• J. Burrwood Daly: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–1939; attended law school but did not earn a degree^[368]
• William Darlington: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–1817 and 1819–1823^[369]
• Philemon Dickerson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1833–1836 and 1839–1841^[370]
• Charles Djou: Hawaii representative to the US Congress, 2010^[371]
• Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–1939^[372]
• Charles F. Dougherty: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1979–1983^[373]
• George Eckert: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1847–1849^[374]
• Norman Eddy: Indiana representative to the US Congress, 1853–1855^[375]
• Joshua Eilberg (Wharton Undergrad class of 1941, BS in Econ):^[376] Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1967–1979^[377]
• Lucius Elmer: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1843–1845^[378]
• Phillip Sheridan English: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1995–2009^[379]
• Thomas Dunn English: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1891–1895^[380]
• Chaka Fattah: US congressman representing 2nd Congressional district of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia region)^[381]
• Clare G. Fenerty: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–1937^[382]
• John Floyd: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1817–29,^[383]
• Harold Ford Jr.: US representative fromTennessee, candidate forHouse minority leader, 2002, candidate forUnited States Senate from Tennessee^[384]
• Vito Fossella: New York representative to the US Congress, 1997–2009^[385]
• Oliver W. Frey: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1933–1939^[386]
• Benjamin Gilman: New York representative to the US Congress, 1973–2003^[387]
• Benjamin Golder: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1925–1933^[388]
• Josh Gottheimer: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 2017–
• George Scott Graham: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1913–1931^[389]
• John Hahn: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–1817^{[citation needed]}
• William Henry Harrison: Ohio representative to the US Congress, 1816–1819^[390]
• Charles Eaton Haynes: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1825–1831 and 1835–1839^[391]
• James C. Healey: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1956–1965^[392]
• William Hindman: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1793–1799^[393]
• George Holcombe: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1821–1828^[394]
• Trey Hollingsworth: Indiana representative to the US Congress, 2017–
• Joseph Hopkinson, class of 1786: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–1819^[395]
• Charles R. Howell, attended in 1936 and 1937, did not graduate: representedNew Jersey's 4th congressional district in theUnited States House of Representatives, 1949–1955^[396]
• John William Jones: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1847–1849^[397]
• Owen Jones: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1857–1859^[398]
• Albert Walter Johnson: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–1963^[399]
• Joseph Jorgensen: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1877–1883^[400]
• James Kelly: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1805–1809^{[citation needed]}
• William Kennedy: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1803–1805, 1809–1811, 1813–1815^[401]
• Everett Kent: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1923–1925 and 1927–1929^[402]
• Karl C. King: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1951–1957^[403]
• William Huntington Kirkpatrick: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1921–1923^[404]
• Thomas Kittera: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1826–27^[405]
• John A. Lafore Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1957–1961^[406]
• Conor Lamb: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 2018–2023
• Henry Latimer: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1794–95^[265]
• Caleb Layton: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1919–1923^[407]
• James Leech: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1927–1932^[408]
• William Eckart Lehman: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1861–1863^[409]
• George Leiper: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1829–1831^[410]
• John Thomas Lenahan: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1907–1909^[411]
• Samuel Lilly: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1853–1855^[412]
• Lloyd Lowndes Jr.: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1873–1875^[413]
• James McDevitt Magee: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1923–1927^[414]
• Levi Maish: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1875–1879 and 1887–1891^[415]
• Francis Mallory: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1837–1843^[416]
• John Hartwell Marable: Tennessee representative to the US Congress, 1825–1829^[417]
• Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (College for Women class of 1963): representative of Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district to the US Congress, 1993–1995^[418][419]
• Robert Marion: South Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1805–1810^[420]
• Alexander Keith Marshall: Kentucky representative to the US Congress, 1855–1857^[421]
• James Murray Mason: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1837–1839^[324]
• Samuel K. McConnell Jr.: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1944–1957^[422]
• George Deardorff McCreary: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1903–1913^[423]
• Joseph McDade: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1963–1999^[424]
• Robert C. McEwen: New York representative to the US Congress, 1965–1981^[425]
• John Miller: New York representative to the US Congress, 1825–1827^[426]
• James Milnor: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1811–1813^[427]
• Dave Min:Wharton Undergrad class of 1999, BSE, andPenn College BA, class of 1999: elected representative to the US Congress for California, 2025^[428]
• George Mitchell: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1823–1827 and 1829–1832^[429]
• John Moffet: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1869^[430]
• Samuel Moore: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1818–1822^[431]
• Edward Joy Morris: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1843–1845 and 1857–1861^[432]
• Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–1949,^[433] architect, founder ofMuhlenberg Greene Architects
• Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (trustee 1779–1786): Speaker of theUnited States House of Representatives, 1789–1791, 1793–1795; Pennsylvania delegate to theContinental Congress, 1779–1780; Pennsylvania representative to theUS Congress, 1789–1797^[434]
• Edward de Veaux Morrell: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1900–1907^[435]
• John Murphy: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1943–1946^[436]
• Leonard Myers: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1863–1875^[437]
• William Augustus Newell, class of 1839: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1847–1851, 1865–1867^[438]
• Robert N.C. Nix Sr.: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1958–79^{[citation needed]}
• Edson Olds: Ohio representative to the US Congress, 1849–1855^[439]
• Archibald Olpp: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1921–1923^[440]
• Cyrus Maffet Palmer: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1927–1929^[441]
• John Patton: Virginia representative to the US Congress, 1830–1838^[442]
• Levi Pawling: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1817–1819^[443]
• John H. Pugh: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1877–1879^[444]
• Robert R. Reed: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1849–1851^[445]
• Jacob Richards: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1803–1809^[446]
• Lewis Riggs: New York representative to the US Congress, 1841–1843^[447]
• Caesar Augustus Rodney: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1803–1805^[448]
• Albert Rutherford: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1937–1941^[449]
• Leon Sacks: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1937–1941^[450]
• Benjamin Say: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1808–1809^[451]
• Mary Gay Scanlon: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 2018–
• Pius Schwert: Wharton School class of 1914, B.S. econ.: professional baseball catcher; New York representative in US Congress, 1939–1941^[452][453]
• David Scott: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 2003–^[454]
• Hardie Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1947–1953^[455]
• John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1915–1919^[456]
• Joshua Seney: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1789–1792^[457]
• John Sergeant: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1815–1823, 1827–1829 and 1837–1841^[458]
• Adam Seybert: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1809–15 and 1817–19^[459]
• Henry Marchmore Shaw: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1853–1855 and 1857–1859^[460]
• William B. Shepard: North Carolina representative to the US Congress, 1829–1837^[461]
• John E. Sheridan: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1939–1947^[462]
• William Simonton: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1839–1843^[463]
• Edward J. Stack: Florida representative to the US Congress, 1979–1981^[464]
• James Strawbridge: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1873–1875^[465]
• Joel Barlow Sutherland: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1827–1837^[466]
• John Swope: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1884–1887^[467]
• William Terrell: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1817–1821^[468]
• Martin Thayer: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1863–1865^[469]
• John Chew Thomas: Maryland representative to the US Congress, 1799–1801^[470]
• John Parnell Thomas: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1937–1950^[471]
• Hedge Thompson: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1827–1828^[472]
• Philip A. Traynor: Delaware representative to the US Congress, 1941–1943 and 1945–1947^[473]
• William Troutman: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1943–1945^[474]
• Charles Turpin: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1929–1937^[475]
• Jonathan Updegraff: Ohio representative to the US Congress, 1879–1882^[476]
• Joseph Vigorito: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1965–1977^[477]
• Percy Walker, MD (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine class of 1835): Alabama representative to the US Congress, 1855–1857^[478]
• George Wallhauser: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1959–1965^[479]
• John H. Ware, III: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1970–1975^[480]
• John Goddard Watmough: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1831–1835^[481]
• Anthony Wayne: Georgia representative to the US Congress, 1791–1792^{[citation needed]}
• James D. Weaver: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1963–1965^[482]
• William H. Wilson: Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1935–1937^[483]
• Charles A. Wolverton: New Jersey representative to the US Congress, 1927–1959^[484]

As of July 2021^[update], Penn alumni have served as United Statesambassadors to at least 51 differentcountries.

• Robert Adams Jr. (1849–1906) (Penn College class of 1869, A.B. and Wharton class of 1884, B.F.):Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary toBrazil 1889–1890^[485][334] (also served as member of Pennsylvania State Senate for6th district 1883–1885^[333] and member of theUS House of Representatives forPennsylvania's 2nd congressional district 1893–1906^[334])
• Paul H. Alling (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, master's degree, class of 1924^[486]): firstUnited States Ambassador to Pakistan in September 1947,^[487] with his credentials being presented in February 1948^[488]
• Leonore Annenberg (1918–2009),Penn, Hon. LL.D., 1985 (Doctor of Laws) (Penn trustee, 1982–?):Chief of Protocol of the United States (1981–1982)
• Walter Annenberg (1908–2002):Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (class of 1931 (did not graduate))^[489] but was a member ofZeta Beta Taufraternity^[490] and established theAnnenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania:^[491]US ambassador to the United Kingdom 1969–1974
• Wilson T. M. Beale Jr. (1909–1998), Wharton class of 1933, MBA: 3rdAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of United States to Jamaica September 1, 1965 – October 13, 1965^[290]
• Robert Mason Beecroft (College class of 1962, A.B., Graduate School class of 1965, A.M.; US chief of mission andSpecial Envoy to theBosnian Federation 1997–1998^[290]
• Kenneth Braithwaite:United States Ambassador to Norway^[492] underPresident Donald J. Trump; in 1995 earned a master's degree in government administration from Penn,Fels Institute of Government^[286][287]
• George Charles Bruno (Penn Law Fellow 1968):United States Ambassador to Belize^[493] (1994–1997)^{[494][495][496]}
• Peter Burleigh: US ambassador to theUnited Nations, thePhilippines,Palau,the Maldives, andSri Lanka; attended graduate school but did not earn a degree
• Patricia A. Butenis (College class of 1974: US ambassador toSri Lanka, theMaldives andBangladesh
• David L. Cohen (Penn Law class of 1981): nominated on July 21, 2021, to beUnited States Ambassador to Canada^[497][498] and on December 7, 2021, presented his credentials togovernor generalMary Simon^[499]
• William R. Crawford Jr. (Graduate School class of 1950, A.M.): US ambassador toYemen (1972–1974) andCyprus (1974–1978)
• Oliver S. Crosby Penn's College class of 1946: US ambassador toGuinea (1977)^[500]
• John S. Durham (College class of 1885 with bachelor's degree, class of 1888 Graduate School, master's degree in Civil Engineering andUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Law alumnus who did not graduate): journalist (editor ofDaily Pennsylvanian^[501]), author, attorney,civil engineer, and diplomat who served asUnited States Minister Resident to Haiti andconsul general September 3, 1891 – November 7, 1893, and concurrently aschargé d’affairesDominican Republic September 3, 1891 – November 18, 1893^[502]
• Thomas K. Finletter (1893–1980; College class of 1915 and Penn Law class of 1920): US ambassador toNATO andSecretary of the Air Force^[503]
• Robert A. Flaten (1934– ) (Penn Graduate School), Ph.D.: United States ambassador toRwanda (1990–1993)^[504] and as chair of the Executive Committee of theNobel Peace Prize Forum^[505]
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790),Penn founder and trustee, 1749–1789: served as Minister (Ambassador) of the United States toFrance (1776–1785)
• Thomas S. Gates Jr. (Penn College class of 1928, A.B., and Hon. LL.D., 1956, trustee): 3rdambassador and chief of the US Liaison Office in Beijing (1976–1979); 7thUnited States Secretary of Defense (December 2, 1959 – January 20, 1961); 8thUnited States Deputy Secretary of Defense^[290]
• Lloyd Carpenter Griscom (1872–1959; Penn Law class of 1891, LLB, and Penn Law class of 1907,Doctor of Laws): US ambassador toPersia,Japan,Brazil, andItaly^[506][507]
• Amy Gutmann: 8th president of University of Pennsylvania and ambassador toGermany 2022–present^[508]
• John E. Hamm: US ambassador to Chile
• William Henry Harrison:thirdAmbassador toGran Colombia and ninth President of United States^[509]
• John S. Hayes: US ambassador toSwitzerland andLiechtenstein
• Charles A. Heimbold Jr., Penn Law class of 1960: US ambassador toSweden and former chairman and CEO ofBristol-Myers Squibb Company^[510]
• Jerome Heartwell "Brud" Holland (1916–1985) (Graduate School of Arts & Sciences class of 1950, Ph.D., and class of 1983, honorary LL.D.): US ambassador to Sweden, appointed in 1970 as first African American Ambassador of the United States to Sweden (1970–1972)^[290]
• Jon Huntsman Jr.: US ambassador toRussia, thePeople's Republic of China andSingapore
• Stuart E. Jones (Penn Law class of 1986):United States Ambassador to Jordan^[511] andIraq^[512]
• David Jordan: US ambassador toPeru
• Tina Kaidanow (College class of 1987): US ambassador toKosovo^[513]
• Sung Kim (College class of 1982): US ambassador toIndonesia,US ambassador to the Philippines, the ambassador toRepublic of Korea and US special envoy to theSix-Party Talks^[514][515]
• Yuri Kim (born 1972) (College class of 1993, BA):^[516] US ambassador toAlbania
• Michael David Kirby, College class of 1976, BA: US ambassador toSerbia andMoldova^{[517][518][519]}
• Robert E. Lamb (1936– ) (Penn College class of 1962, A.B.): served as Ambassador of the United States toCyprus (1990–1993)
• Ronald Lauder (1944– ) Wharton Undergrad class of 1965, B.S. in Econ.: Ambassador of the United States toAustria (1986–1987)
• Franklin L. Lavin (Wharton Graduate School class of 1996, M.B.A.): Ambassador of the United States toSingapore (2001– )
• Jeffrey Lunstead Graduate School of Arts & Sciences class of 1977, Ph.D.:Ambassador of the United States toSri Lanka andMaldives, 2003–present^[290]
• James Murray Mason (1798–1871): Penn's College class of 1819, A.B.; Ambassador of theConfederate States of America to theUnited Kingdom andFrance, 1862–1865^[324]
• Marilyn McAfee (1940– ), Penn's College for Women class of 1961, A.B.: US ambassador toGuatemala (1993–1996)^[290]
• Gillian Milovanovic:United States Ambassador to Mali and 4thUnited States Ambassador to North Macedonia
• Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881) attended College (1831–1832, but did not earn degree): served as Chargé d'Affaires (aka United States ambassador) toSicily (1850–1853) and Minister Resident (Ambassador) of the United States to theOttoman Empire (1861–1870)^[290]
• Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816, attended Penn's Academy of Philadelphia, 1761, but did not earn a degree): Minister of the United States toFrance (1792–1794)^[290]
• John H. Morrow (1910–2000), Penn Graduate School of Arts & Sciences class of 1952, Ph.D.: US ambassador toGuinea, 1959–1961^[290]
• Phil Murphy (Wharton MBA class of 1983): US ambassador to Germany^[520]
• Wanda L. Nesbitt Penn College class of 1978, A.B.: Ambassador of the United States toMadagascar,Ivory Coast, andNamibia^[290]
• Condy Raguet: 1st US ambassador to Brazil
• Gautam A. Rana: US ambassador to Slovakia
• William Bradford Reed: US minister to China
• Caesar Augustus Rodney (1772–1824): Penn College class of 1789, A.B., 1789; Plenipotentiary (Ambassador) of the United States toArgentina, 1823–1824^[290]
• Thomas J. Scotes: US ambassador toYemen
• Charles S. Shapiro: US ambassador toVenezuela
• Thomas P. Shoesmith: US ambassador toMalaysia
• Martin J. Silverstein: US ambassador toUruguay
• Susan N. Stevenson: United States ambassador toEquatorial Guinea, nominated by President Trump on September 13, 2018, and was confirmed as Ambassador on January 2, 2019^[521][522]
• Robert Strausz-Hupé: US ambassador to Sri Lanka, Belgium, Sweden,NATO, and Turkey; founder of theForeign Policy Research Institute; prolific scholar of international relations andgeopolitics
• Henry J. Tasca: US ambassador toGreece andMorocco
• Nicholas F. Taubman: US ambassador toRomania
• Marilyn Ware: US ambassador to Finland
• Faith Ryan Whittlesey: US ambassador to Switzerland

• Hannah August:press secretary forFirst Lady of the United StatesMichelle Obama

As of May 2020, 48 Penn alumni or trustees have served as governors of 24 different states, Puerto Rico and American Samoa as detailed below:

• Amos W. Barber: 2nd governor ofWyoming, 1890–93
• Gunning Bedford Sr.: governor of Delaware, 1796–97^[523]
• John C. Bell Jr. (1892–1974; class of 1917): 18th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania (1943–1947) before becoming the 33rd and shortest-serving governor of Pennsylvania, serving for 19 days in 1947^{[524][525][526]}
• William Wyatt Bibb: first governor of the state of Alabama, 1819–1820; served as governor of the Alabama Territory, 1817–1819^[310]
• Martin G. Brumbaugh (Ph.D. earned in 1894): governor of Pennsylvania, 1911–1915; first professor of Pedagogy in Penn's Department of Philosophy^[527]
• C. Douglass Buck: governor of Delaware, 1929–37^[312]
• William Burton: governor of Delaware, 1859–1863^[528]
• Joseph M. Carey, class of 1864, governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915^[313]
• Thomas King Carroll: governor of Maryland, 1829–1831
• Joshua Clayton: governor of Delaware 1793–1798, attended Academy of Philadelphia but did not graduate^[529]
• Philemon Dickerson: governor of New Jersey, 1836–1837^[530]
• James Henderson Duff: governor of Pennsylvania (1947–1951); studied law at Penn Law before graduating from theUniversity of Pittsburgh^[318]
• James B. Edwards, post-graduate student at Penn: governor of South Carolina, 1975–79^{[citation needed]}
• John Floyd, class of 1804 of Penn Med: 25th governor of Virginia, 1830–1834^[531] Virginia representative to theUS Congress
• George F. Fort: governor of New Jersey, 1851–1854^{[citation needed]}
• William Gilpin, class of 1833: first governor of the Territory of Colorado, 1861–1862^{[citation needed]}
• Charles Goldsborough: governor of Maryland, 1819^[532]
• James Hamilton (trustee 1755–1783; president of board 1764, 1771–1773): governor of Province of Pennsylvania andPennsylvania Provincial Council (May 4 – October 16, 1771)^[533]
• William Henry Harrison: first governor of Indiana Territory, 1800–12^{[citation needed]}
• John Hubbard: governor of Maine, 1850–1853^{[citation needed]}
• Jon Huntsman Jr.: governor of Utah, 2005–2009^[534]
• George Izard, class of 1792: secondgovernor ofArkansas Territory, 1825–1828^{[citation needed]}
• Lawrence M. Judd: governor of Hawaii (1929–1934), andAmerican Samoa (1954)^{[citation needed]}
• William Carr Lane (Penn Med attended 1815–1816 academic year):2nd governor of Territory of New Mexico, 1852–1853, and first mayor ofSt. Louis, Missouri, 1823–1829^[535]
• George M. Leader (Penn College class of 1940, BA, and PennFels Institute of Government class of 1941, MGA):36th governor of Pennsylvania, 1955–1959^[536]
• Lloyd Lowndes Jr.: governor of Maryland, 1895–1899^[537][538]
• George B. McClellan:general-in-chief of the Union Army during the US Civil War; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president 1864; later governor of New Jersey; attended law school for two years at the age of 12 before transferring to theUS Military Academy, from which he graduated at the age of 16^[539]
• John G. McCullough, attorney general of California during the Civil War; governor of Vermont, 1902–1904
• Alexander McNair: first governor ofMissouri^[540]
• Thomas Mifflin, class of 1760: first governor of Pennsylvania, 1790–1799; signatory to theUS Constitution;brigadier general in theContinental Army during theAmerican Revolution^{[citation needed]}
• Charles R. Miller, 54th governor of Delaware, 1913–1917^[541]
• Wayne Mixson: governor of Florida, 1987
• Phil Murphy (Wharton MBA class of 1983): 56thgovernor of New Jersey^[542]
• William Augustus Newell: 18th governor of New Jersey, 1857–1860; governor of the Washington Territory, 1880–1884^[543]
• John M. Patton: acting governor of Virginia, 1841; great-grandfather of World War IIGeneralGeorge S. Patton Jr.^[544]
• Samuel W. Pennypacker: governor of Pennsylvania, 1903–1907^[545]
• Jesús T. Piñero: governor of Puerto Rico, 1946–49^{[citation needed]}
• Ed Rendell:governor of Pennsylvania, former mayor of Philadelphia and former Democratic National Committee chairman^{[citation needed]}
• Gove Saulsbury: governor of Delaware, 1865–1871^{[citation needed]}
• Hulett C. Smith: governor of West Virginia^[546]
• Rexford Tugwell: governor ofPuerto Rico^{[citation needed]}
• Robert John Walker (1801–1869; class of 1819) served briefly asgovernor of Kansas in 1857 (when he resigned due to his opposition to the administration-sponsored pro-slavery KansasLecompton Constitution)^[547] and also served as a member of theUS Senate from Mississippi 1835–1845 (where he was responsible for drafting the 1849 bill that eventually established theUnited States Department of the Interior), and asSecretary of the Treasury 1845–1849^[307]
• Matthew E. Welsh Wharton Undergrad class of 1934 (BS in Economics): 41st governor ofIndiana^[548]
• James Wilkinson Penn Med class of 1779 (did not graduate): first governor of theLouisiana Territory^[549]

At least 60 Penn alumni and/or trustees have served in state legislatures in at least 19 states (at least five of whom have served as speaker of their respective houses of representatives [in Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, and Pennsylvania] and one of whom served as President ofNew Jersey Senate) as detailed below:

• Robert Adams Jr. (1849–1906; class of 1869, member ofSt. Anthony Hall fraternity): Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the6th district 1883–1885^[333] (also served as a member of theUS House of Representatives forPennsylvania's 2nd congressional district 1893–1906 and served as theEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil April 1, 1889 – June 1, 1890)^[334]
• Charles Carmine Antonio Baldi Jr. (1890–1962), class of 1912 (did not graduate): elected and served nine terms as a Republican in thePennsylvania House of Representatives (1917–1935)^[550]
• Joseph F.M. Baldi (1893–1970), Wharton class of 1916 (B.S. in economics), Penn Law class of 1919 (did not graduate): elected and served two terms as a Republican in thePennsylvania House of Representatives (1929–1933)^[551]
• Harry W. Bass (Penn Law class of 1896): first African American member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1911–1914^[552]
• Jennifer Beck (Fels Institute of Government, MGA): Republican politician, served in theNew Jersey State Senate representing the11th Legislative District 2012–2018 and prior to redistricting, served in the Senate 2008–2012 representing the12th Legislative District, serving portions ofMonmouth andMercer counties, and represented the 12th District in theNew Jersey General Assembly 2006–2008
• Arthur L. Bell MBA 1976: Maine state representative
• William Bingham (1752–1804): firstSpeaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Louis A. Bloom: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County (1947–1952) and JudgePennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Delaware County
• Karen Boback: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2007–2022)
• Stacy Brenner:Democratic member of theMaine State Senate (2020– )^[553]
• John F. Byrne Jr.: Pennsylvania state senator for the 6th district (1967–1970)
• Martha Hughes Cannon, BS, MD, Penn Med post-doc education class of 1882; Penn College class of 1882:Utah state senator; first female state senator elected in the US^[554]
• John B. Chase: member ofWisconsin State Senate^[555]
• Robert J. Clendening: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1949–1952)
• Herbert B. Cohen (1900–1970;Wharton class of 1922 andUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School class of 1925): served as Democratic member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, 1933–1940, twice as majority leader, once as minority leader;Attorney General of Pennsylvania 1955–1956; justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court 1957–1970^[556][557]
• Mark B. Cohen: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Eckley Brinton Coxe: Pennsylvania state senator for the 21st district 1881–1884
• Jean B. Cryor: formerMaryland delegate
• Glenn Cummings: Democratic member of theMaine House of Representatives, including one term asSpeaker of the House (2000–2008)
• John Warren Davis: former member of theNew Jersey State Senate;United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey; judge for theUnited States District Court for the District of New Jersey andUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Dan Debicella: member of theConnecticut Senate
• William K. Dickey: Speaker of theNew Jersey General Assembly andchairman of theDelaware River Port Authority
• Marie Donigan (Penn School of Design, MS in Landscape Architecture): Democratic member of theMichigan State House of Representatives (2004–2011)^[558]
• Frank Farry, III (1975– ) Wharton class of 1995 (BS in Economics): Pennsylvania State Senate, 6th Senate District (2023– ), previously served in thePennsylvania House of Representatives representing the 142nd legislative district (2009–2022)^[559]
• Ed Flanagan: member of theVermont Senate (2005–2011); first openly gay person ever elected to statewide office in the United States when he was electedVermont state auditor (1993–2001) in 1995 when he was re-elected^[560]
• David Frockt (born 1969)^[561] Penn, B.A. in Political Science (class of 1991): first elected to theWashington State House of Representatives in 2010 and in 2011, after the death of SenatorScott White, the Metropolitan King County Council voted unanimously to appointed for the 46th legislative district ofWashington State Senate, which includes NorthSeattle,Lake Forest Park, andKenmoreWashington State Senate^[562] and in 2012 was retained by voters to serve the remaining two years of the open Senate term and in 2014 was re-elected to a full term in the State Senate, where he is a member on the Ways & Means, Law & Justice, and Human Services committees^[563]
• Michael F. Gerber: Democratic member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives
• Michael U. Gisriel: former member of theMaryland House of Delegates
• Robert M. Gordon Wharton MBA Class of 1978: Democratic member of theNew Jersey Assembly (2004-2008) andNew Jersey Senate (2008– 2018)^[564][565] and also served as Mayor ofFair Lawn, New Jersey^[566]
• Stewart Greenleaf: Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1978– )
• Bernard M. Gross (1935–2024)^[567] (Wharton School of Finance class of 1956, Penn Law class of 1959)^[568][569] elected twice as Democratic member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives from the 200th district for years 1967–1970^[570][571]
• John J. Hafer: formerMaryland state senator
• James Hamilton (trustee 1755–1783; president of board 1764, 1771–1773): member of Assembly ofProvince of Pennsylvania (1735–1740) and member ofPennsylvania Provincial Council (1746–1747)^[533]
• Phil Hart (Wharton MBA, class of 1984): Republican senator inIdaho Senate (2022– ) who previously served in theIdaho House of Representatives forLegislative District 3B 2004–2012^[572]
• Charlie Brady Hauser: member of theNorth Carolina General Assembly
• Jon Hinck: member of theMaine House of Representatives (2006– )
• Scott Hutchinson:Wharton Undergrad class of 1983: Republican member of Pennsylvania State Senate21st District and member ofPennsylvania House of Representatives 64th District^[573]
• Constance N. Johnson: Democratic member of theOklahoma State Senate (2005–2014); United States Senate Democratic nominee of Oklahoma (2014)
• Eric Johnson: Democratic member of theTexas House of Representatives (2010– )
• Movita Johnson-Harrell: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2019– )
• Tony Jordan: member of theNew York State Assembly (2009– )
• Steve Katz: member of theNew York State Assembly and Candidate forNew York State Senate
• John Manners: president of theNew Jersey Senate (1852)
• John Hartwell Marable:University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (class of 1814) but with no record of graduation; member of theTennessee Senate (1817–1818)^[574]
• Bruce Marks: Republican member of thePennsylvania 2nd senatorial district 1994–1995^{[575][576][577][578]}
• Albert Dutton MacDade: Pennsylvania state senator, 1921–1929, judge, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas (Delaware County), 1942–1948^[579]
• Dave Min: Penn College and Wharton Undergrad class of 1999 (BA and BSE) elected state senator forCalifornia's 37th Senate district (which includes portions ofOrange County)^[580] and ia now California representative elect to the US Congress, 2025-
• Charles B. Moores:University of Pennsylvania Law School (class of 1874)^[581]Speaker of theOregon House of Representatives (1895–96)^[582]
• Raj Mukherji:Assemblyman of theNew Jersey State Legislature
• James Newsom (W'95): Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 2025–present.
• Jennifer O'Mara (PennGraduate School of Arts & Sciences, class of 2017): represents the165th Legislative District^[583][584]
• Joseph J. Roberts: former Speaker andAssemblyman of theNew Jersey State Legislature
• Ronald B. Russell (Penn College class of 1982): Democratic member of theMaine House of Representatives (2022– )^[585]
• Richard Peters Jr., class of 1761: Pennsylvania delegate to theContinental Congress, 1782–1783; Commissioner for the Board of War for theContinental Army;Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; served in the Pennsylvania Senate; appointed as judge of theUS District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1815–1828)
• James N. Robertson: Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative (1949–1952)
• Vaughn Stewart: Democratic member of theMaryland House of Delegates (2019– )
• David W. Sweet: Democratic member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives (1978–1988)
• Chris Taylor: Democratic member of theWisconsin State Assembly (2011– )
• Eric Turkington: Democratic member of theMassachusetts House of Representatives
• Charles R. Weiner: Democratic Leader of thePennsylvania Senate
• "Buck"Charles Wharton (1868–1949),Wharton School of Finance class of 1897: selected as an All-Americanguard in 1896; played on Penn teams that were undefeated and won back-to-back national championships in 1894 and 1895; Delaware state senator 1914–1917; in 1963, posthumously inducted into theCollege Football Hall of Fame
• Constance H. Williams: Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
• Robert C. Wonderling: Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
• Bob Ziegelbauer: Democratic member of theWisconsin State Assembly

At least 50 Penn alumni or trustees have served as Mayors of cities in at least 23 states, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (including following large cities:Atlanta,Dallas,Las Vegas,Nashville,New Orleans,Philadelphia (10),Phoenix,Pittsburgh,Saint Louis,Saint Paul,Salt Lake City,San Antonio (2),San Francisco (2))

• Edward Bader: 29th mayor ofAtlantic City, New Jersey, 1920–1929^[586]
• Joseph F. Battle Jr.: mayor ofChester, Pennsylvania, 1979–1986
• Ralph Becker Jr.: 34th mayor ofSalt Lake City, 2008–2015^[587]
• John S. Brenner (Fels Institute of Government MGA): 23rd mayor ofYork, Pennsylvania, 2002–2010
• Peter Brownell: 39th mayor ofBurlington, Vermont, 1993–1995
• Louis Campbell (1852 - 1908): Penn Law Class of 1875, was 13th^[588] Mayor ofTacoma, Washington (1900-1904)^[589]
• Joseph M. Carey: 14th mayor ofCheyenne, Wyoming, 1881–1885
• Janet Cowell,Wharton School andLauder Institute graduate (B.A.,M.A.,M.B.A.): 63rd mayor ofRaleigh, North Carolina^[590]
• John B. Chase: mayor ofOconto, Wisconsin^[591]
• Joseph S. Clark: 90th mayor ofPhiladelphia, 1952–1956
• Donald S. Coburn: mayor ofLivingston, New Jersey, 1977–1978
• Elisha C. Dick (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine class of 1782): mayor ofAlexandria, Virginia, 1804–05^[592][593]
• Stephen Dilts: mayor ofHampton, New Jersey
• Walter Drumheller: first mayor ofSunbury, Pennsylvania
• Mark Farrell (Penn Law class of 2001): 44th mayor ofSan Francisco (January through July 2018
• Shirley Franklin:M.A. in sociology:^[594] mayor ofAtlanta, 2002–10
• Katherine SarahKate Gallego née Widland (born 1981):Master of Business Administration from theWharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,^[595][596]62nd mayor of Phoenix 2019–
• Wilson Goode: firstAfrican-American and 95th mayor of Philadelphia, 1984–1992
• Oscar Goodman: 21st mayor ofLas Vegas, Nevada, 1999–2011
• Robert M. Gordon: mayor ofFair Lawn, New Jersey, 1988–1991^[597]
• Henry Winfield Haldeman: mayor ofGirard, Kansas, 1895–1899
• James Hamilton (trustee 1755–1783; president of board 1764, 1771-1773) 28thmayor of Philadelphia^[533]
• John E. Hamm: mayor ofZanesville, Ohio, 1815
• Paul Heroux: Master's in criminology, elected state representative in Massachusetts^[598] and in 2018 as mayor ofAttleboro, Massachusetts^[599]
• George Hewston: 16th mayor of San Francisco, 1875^[600]
• Eric Johnson (Penn Law JD class of 2003^[601]): 60thmayor ofDallas, Texas, 2019–present
• Judith Flanagan Kennedy (Penn Law, JD class of 1987): 56th mayor ofLynn, Massachusetts (2010–2018) through a write-in campaign; Lynn's first female mayor^[602]
• Michael Keppele (College class of 1788^[603]): 54th mayor of Philadelphia, 1811–12
• William Kerr: mayor ofPittsburgh, 1845–1847
• William Carr Lane (Penn Med, attended 1815–1816 academic year): first mayor ofSt. Louis, Missouri, 1823–1829^[535]
• Harry Arista Mackey: 85th mayor of Philadelphia, 1928–1931
• Hannah McKinney: mayor ofKalamazoo, Michigan, 2005–2007
• Morton McMichael: 70th mayor of Philadelphia, 1866–1869
• Marc Morial: mayor ofNew Orleans, 1994–2002; president of theUnited States Conference of Mayors, 2001–2002; president and CEO of theNational Urban League, 2003–
• Magnus Miller Murray: mayor of Pittsburgh
• Ron Nirenberg: mayor ofSan Antonio, Texas, 2017–
• Michael Nutter (Wharton class of 1979, BS in Economics): 98th mayor of Philadelphia, 2007–2016
• Cherelle Parker (Fels Institute of Government class of 2016, MGA) 100th mayor of Philadelphia 2024–present^[604]
• Thomas R. Potts: first mayor ofSt. Paul, Minnesota, 1850–1851
• Samuel Powel, class of 1759: 45th mayor of Philadelphia andspeaker of the Pennsylvania Senate
• Ed Rendell: 96th mayor of Philadelphia, 1992–1999
• Felix Robertson: mayor ofNashville, Tennessee, 1818–1819, 1827–1829
• Alan Schlesinger: mayor ofDerby, Connecticut, 1994–1997
• Edward J. Stack: mayor ofPompano Beach, Florida, 1965–1969
• Nao Takasugi: mayor ofOxnard, California, 1982–1992
• Ivy Taylor: mayor ofSan Antonio, Texas, 2014–2017; first female African-American mayor of a city with a population of more than one million
• J. Parnell Thomas: mayor ofAllendale, New Jersey, 1926–1930
• Victor Yarnell: mayor ofReading, Pennsylvania, 1968–1972
• Francisco Zayas Seijo: mayor ofPonce, Puerto Rico, 2004–2008

As of July 23, 2023, 31 Penn alumni have served as justices of supreme courts of 11 states and the District of Columbia, and 12 have served as chief justices of a state supreme court, as detailed below:

• William Allen, a founder ofPennsylvania Hospital and trustee of Penn, funded the state house (Independence Hall),mayor of Philadelphia, appointed judge of the Orphans' and Common Pleas courts of Philadelphia, chief justice ofSupreme Court of Pennsylvania (September 20, 1750 – 1767)^[605][606]
• Rachel Wainer Apter, College class of 2002:New Jersey Supreme Court associate justice^[607][608]
• John C. Bell Jr. (1892–1974), class of 1917: justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court (1950–1972), chief justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1961–1972)
• Alexander F. Barbieri (1907–1993), Penn College class of 1929, Penn Law class of 1932: justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court; judge of Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania; one of the original members of the Commonwealth Court in 1970 (appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1971, but was defeated for election in 1971 and returned to the Commonwealth Court as a senior judge (1983–1993))^[609]
• William J. Brennan, Wharton Undergrad class of 1928: justice ofNew Jersey Supreme Court (1951–1956) (later justice of United States Supreme Court)
• William Bradford: justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court (1791–1794), and Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1780–91); attended Penn for three years before graduating fromPrinceton University
• Elissa F. Cadish (College class of 1986): justice,Nevada Supreme Court (2019– )^{[610][611][612]}
• Joseph M. Carey:Penn's Law Department class of 1867^[613] Attorney General ofWyoming (1869–1871); justice,Wyoming Supreme Court (1871–1876)
• Herbert B. Cohen (1900–1970),Wharton (class of 1922) andUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School (class of 1925): served as Representative of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, 1933–1940, twice as majority leader, once as minority leader;Attorney General of Pennsylvania 1955–1956; and justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court 1957–1970^[556][557]
• James Harry Covington, chief justice ofSupreme Court of the District of Columbia (1914–1918); and co-founder of Covington & Burling^[614]
• Lucius Elmer: former justice ofNew Jersey Supreme Court andAttorney General of New Jersey
• Arthur J. England Jr. (Wharton Undergraduate class of 1955 andPenn Law class of 1961): served on theFlorida Supreme Court (1975–1981); chief justice of Florida Supreme Court (1978–1980)^[615]
• Richard L. Gabriel, Penn Law class of 1987 (born 1962): appointed in 2015 (continues to serve after being retained in 2018) as associate justice ofColorado Supreme Court; previously served onColorado Court of Appeals 2008–2015
• Randy J. Holland, justice ofDelaware Supreme Court (1986–2017)^[616]
• Edwin Ames Jaggard, Penn Law class of 1882: judge on Minnesota District Court (Ramsey County, Minnesota) (1898–1905); justice onMinnesota Supreme Court (1905–1911)^[617][618]
• Benjamin Rowland Jones Jr. (May 29, 1906 – July 24, 1980) Penn Law class of 1930: justice ofSupreme Court of Pennsylvania 1957–1972 and chief justice 1972–1977^[619]
• William H. Lamb (born 1940), Penn Law class of 1965): former justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court (January 29, 2003 – January 2004)^[605]
• Daniel J. Layton: chief justice ofDelaware Supreme Court (1933–1945), andAttorney General of Delaware (1932–33)
• Robert N. C. Nix Jr.: former chief justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1984–1996), he was the firstAfrican-American chief justice of any state's highest court; justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1971–1984)
• Joseph B. Perskie (1885–1957; class of 1907), associate justice ofNew Jersey Supreme Court 1933–1947^[620]
• Deborah T. Poritz, chief justice ofNew Jersey Supreme Court (1996–2006)^[621] (previouslyAttorney General of New Jersey 1994–1996, in both cases the first woman to serve in that position
• Albert Rosenblatt: judge onNew York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York state (1998–2006)
• George Sharswood: former chief justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court, anddean of Penn School of Law
• Thomas Smith (University of Pennsylvania Medical School (class of 1829): justice ofIndiana Supreme Court^[622] (January 29, 1847, – January 3, 1853)^[623]
• Horace Stern (Penn Law class of 1890): chief justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court (1952–56) and Justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court (1932–1952)^[624][625]
• Leo E. Strine Jr. (Penn Law class of 1988): Chief Justice ofDelaware Supreme Court (2014–2019)^[626][627] and judge and vice-chancellor of theDelawareCourt of Chancery
• Richard B. Teitelman:chief justice of theMissouri Supreme Court (2011–2013)
• William Tilghman: chief justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court (1805–1827); attended Penn but did not earn a degree
• Jasper Yeates (College class of 1758):^[628] delegate to the Pennsylvania convention that ratified theUnited States Constitution in 1787, appointed as justice ofPennsylvania Supreme Court in 1791, served until his death in 1817^[629]
• Karen L. Valihura (Penn Law class of 1986),justice of theDelaware Supreme Court^[630] (appointed June 6, 2014)^[631]

As of February 2024 there are at least 84 Penn alumni and/or faculty who have been appointed judges in United States federal court system (3 of whom have served on the Supreme Court, at least 23 of whom have served on Courts of Appeals, and at least 50 of whom have served on District Courts)

• William J. Brennan:US Supreme Court justice; recipient of thePresidential Medal of Freedom
• Owen J. Roberts, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States^[632]
• James Wilson, Penn's first Professor of Law: appointed byGeorge Washington as one of first Supreme Court Justices who taught Washington and his cabinet (as a Penn Professor) a course on the United States Constitution, which Wilson helped draft

At least 23 judges who served in nine different circuit courts of appeal are alumni of Penn.

• Arlin Adams (1921–2015), judge, Penn Law class of 1947United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 1969–1987^[633][634]
• Edward R. Becker (1933–2006), Penn College class of 1954: former chief judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Andre M. Davis (born 1949), Penn College class of 1971:^[635] judge for theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2009–14)
• Ronald M. Gould (born 1946): Penn class of 1968^[636] judge for theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• James Hunter III (1916–1989), Penn Law class of 1939: judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989^[637][638]
• Harry Ellis Kalodner (1896–1977), Penn Law class of 1917:^[639] chief judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977^[640]
• Phyllis A. Kravitch: judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit^[641]
• Robert Lowe Kunzig (1918–1982), Penn College class of 1939, Penn Law class of 1942, judge, US Court of Claims, 1971–1982^[642]
• Alan David Lourie (born 1935), Penn Graduate School of Arts and Sciences class of 1965,Ph.D. inChemistry: judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit^[643]
• John Bayard McPherson (1846–1919), Penn Law Professor (1890–?): judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912–1919^[644]
• Florence Y. Pan (1965– ), class of 1988, College, BA, and Wharton, BS, Economics: Judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit^[645][646]
• Arthur Raymond Randolph, judge,United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit^[647]
• Marjorie Rendell: judge for theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1994–97), and for theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1997– )
• L. Felipe Restrepo (Penn College class of 1981): United States Circuit Judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2015 to present) and former United States District Judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2006–2014)^{[648][649][650][651]}
• Paul Hitch Roney: chief judge for theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1986–1989)
• Max Rosenn, judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1970–2006^[652]
• Patty Shwartz, Penn Law class of 1986: judge,United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Dolores Sloviter, judge,United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit^[653]
• Joseph Whitaker Thompson, judge,United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1931–1946)^[654]
• Henry Galbraith Ward, Penn College (BA and MA class of 1870), judge, USUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1907–1924)^[655]
• Helene White, judge, US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[656]
• Scott Wilson: judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1929–1943)^[657]

• Guy K. Bard (1895–1953), Penn Law class of 1922:^[658] judge,United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[659]
• Harvey Bartle III (born 1941), Penn Law class of 1965:^[660] judge,United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[661]
• Michael Baylson: judge,United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[662]
• Ralph C. Body: judge,United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1965–1973^[663]
• Raymond J. Broderick: judge,United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[664]
• Margo Kitsy Brodie (née Williams born 1966; Penn Law class of 1991): chief judge,United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York^[665][666]
• Allison D. Burroughs (born 1961), Penn Law class of 1988:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Massachusetts received her federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014, and sworn in on January 7, 2015; began her legal career as a law clerk for fellow Penn Law alumna JudgeNorma L. Shapiro of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1988–1989; also served as anAssistant United States Attorney in theEastern District of Pennsylvania 1989–1995 and in theDistrict of Massachusetts 1995–2005
• James C. Cacheris: judge on theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• A. Richard Caputo: judge,United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[667]
• Tanya Chutkan, Penn Law class of 1987: judge,United States District Court for the District of Columbia; judge overseeing the criminal trial of former US presidentDonald Trump related to the events leading up to the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack
• Rudolph Contreras: judge,United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
• James Harry Covington: judge,United States District Court for the District of Columbia; co-founder ofCovington & Burling^[668]
• James C. Cacheris: judge on theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• Stewart Dalzell (1943–2019): graduated from theUniversity of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business with aBachelor of Science degree in 1965 and received hisJuris Doctor from theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School in 1969,United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[669]
• John Morgan Davis:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1964–1984
• John Warren Davis: formerUnited States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit^[670]
• Paul S. Diamond:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[671]
• John William Ditter Jr.:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[672]
• Susan J. Dlott: judge for theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1995– )
• Herbert Allan Fogel:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1973–1978^[673]
• James S. Halpern: judge,United States Tax Court (1990–2005)^[674]
• Francis Hopkinson, class of 1757:Founding Father andsignatory to theDeclaration of Independence; judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787; judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1789–1791; considered to have played a key role in the design of the firstAmerican flag, and is credited with writing the first secular American song
• Daniel Henry Huyett III:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1970–1998
• Abdul Kallon:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Alabama^[675]
• William Huntington Kirkpatrick:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1927–1958
• John C. Knox: judge,United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1948–55^[676]
• Charles William Kraft Jr.:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1956–2002
• Caleb Rodney Layton III:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1957–1988^[677]
• Paul Conway Leahy:judge for theUnited States District Court for the District of Delaware (1942–66 -judge)(1948–57 -chief judge)^[678]
• James Russell Leech: judge,United States Tax Court (1932–1952)^[679]
• Joseph Simon Lord III:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1961–1992; Chief Judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1971–82)
• Alfred Leopold Luongo:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1961–1986); Chief Judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1982–86)
• Thomas Ambrose Masterson: judge,United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1967–1973
• James Focht McClure Jr.:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania^[680]
• Barron Patterson McCune:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania^[681]
• Joseph Leo McGlynn Jr.:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1974–1999
• Gerald Austin McHugh Jr.:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2014–
• Charles Louis McKeehan:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1923–1925
• Roderick R. McKelvie:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1991–2002^[682]
• Mary A. McLaughlin:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[683]
• Howard G. Munson: Chief Judge for theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of New York (1980–88)
• John W. Murphy: Judge of theUnited States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (1946–1962); Chief Judge (for portion of 1945–1962)
• Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr.:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[684]
• Richard Peters Jr., class of 1761: Pennsylvania delegate to theContinental Congress, 1782–83; Commissioner for the Board of War for theContinental Army;Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; served in the Pennsylvania Senate; appointed byGeorge Washington as judge of theUS District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1815–1828)
• Gene E. K. Pratter:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[685]
• Bruce E. Reinhart (Penn Law class of 1987):United States magistrate judge for theSouthern District of Florida sworn in on March 14, 2018, law clerk for fellow Penn Law graduate Judge Norma L. Shapiro of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1987–1988; also served as an Assistant United States Attorney; known for approving search of former president's private residence^[686]
• Sue Lewis Robinson:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Delaware^[687]
• Juan Ramon Sánchez:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[688]
• Ralph Francis Scalera:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania^[689]
• Allen G. Schwartz:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1993–2003^[690]
• Murray Merle Schwartz: ChiefUnited States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1974–^[691]
• Murray Merle Schwartz: Chief Judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Delaware (1985–1989)
• Norma Levy Shapiro:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[692]
• Jerome B. Simandle:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of New Jersey^[693]
• Jonathan R. Steinberg (1940–2015), Penn Law Class of 1963: appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 as federal judge for theUnited States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, retired in 2005 but stayed on as a senior judge until his death in 2015^[694]
• Charles Swayne, judge,United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, 1890–1907
• Donald West VanArtsdalen:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1970–1985^[695]
• Jay Waldman:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1988–2003
• Gerald Joseph Weber (Penn Law class of 1939): senior judge, chief judge, and judge,United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1964–1988) (Chief Judge 1976–1982)^[696]
• Harold Kenneth Wood:United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1959–1971