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src="../../../images/spacer_5x1.gif" width="1" height="5"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> </td> <td class="content"><div id="articles">Some famous University of Pennsylvania alumni:</p><ul> <li>Charles Addams: Creator, The Addams Family; he is said to have modeled the Addams Family mansion on Penn's College Hall</li> <li>Sadie Tanner Alexander: First African-American woman to receive a Ph.D in the United States; first African-American woman to graduate from Penn Law; first black woman to be admitted to Pennsylvania Bar; Civil Rights activist; appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Harry S. Truman.</li> <li>Gloria Allred: Lawyer, Feminist</li> <li>Christian B. Anfinsen: Nobel prize winner in Chemistry</li> <li>Walter Annenberg: Philantropist, former U.S Ambassador to the United Kingdom</li> <li>Nnamdi Azikiwe: First President of Nigeria</li> <li>Ernesto P. Balladares: President of Panama, 1994-1999</li> <li>Chuck Bednarik: Philadelphia Eagles Linebacker</li> <li>Bert Bell: Former National Football League Commissioner from 1946-1959, who took the league to unprecedented heights</li> <li>Candice Bergen: Actress, best known as TV's Murphy Brown</li> <li>Nicholas Biddle: President of the Second Bank of the United States</li> <li>Henry Bloch: Founder, H&R Block</li> <li>Richard Bloch: Founder, H&R Block</li> <li>Len Bosack: Co-founder, Cisco Systems (Internet routers company)</li> <li>William J. Brennan: U.S. Supreme Court Justice</li> <li>Michael S. Brown: Nobel prize winner in Chemistry</li> <li>Ron Brown: NBC International Affairs correspondent</li> <li>Warren Buffett: CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, investor, second richest man in the world (attended but did not graduate)</li> <li>Britton Chance: Scientist and Olympic gold medallist who made great contributions to spectrometry and biochemistry/biophysics research</li> <li>Noam Chomsky: Linguist and activist.</li> <li>Gordon Clark: philosopher and Christian theologian.</li> <li>Richard Clarke: Author and National Counter-Terrorism Director under the presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.</li> <li>Bruce Dern: Actor</li> <li>Donny Deutsch: Deustch Inc.</li> <li>Ira Einhorn: 1960s Hippie leader and imprisoned murderer of Holly Maddux</li> <li>Colin Emerle: 1990s musician, bassist for the Echo Orbiter.</li> <li>Chaka Fattah: U.S. Congressman representing Philadelphia.</li> <li>William Fawcett: Actor</li> <li>Richard Fisher: Fisher Brothers Construction, New York</li> <li>Harold E. Ford, Jr.: U.S. Representative from Tennessee, candidate for house minority leader, 2002</li> <li>Stephen Glass: Former reporter for <i>The New Republic</i>, author of <i>The Fabulist</i></li> <li>Leonard Goldberg: Former Chairman of 20th Century Fox/TV and Movie Producer</li> <li>Oscar Goodman: Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada and Attorney.</li> <li>Hussam Hamadeh: Founder, Vault.com</li> <li>William Henry Harrison (flunked out; class of 1791): 9th President of the United States</li> <li>Charles Heimbold: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, former CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb Corporation</li> <li>John Heisman: The Heisman Trophy is named after him</li> <li>Duncan Kenworthy: Producer, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Notting Hill</li> <li>Charles P. Kindleberger: economist, economic historian.</li> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. (1949-1950): The primary figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s (took graduate courses, no degree).</li> <li>Joe Klein: columnist and political analyst for Time Magazina.</li> <li>C. Everett Koop: Surgeon General of the United States, 1981-1989</li> <li>Alvin Kraenzlein: four-time Olympic champion</li> <li>Andrea Kremer: ESPN sports correspondent</li> <li>Leonard Lauder: Co-founder of Estée Lauder; billionaire investor</li> <li>Douglas Lenat: Founder of artificial intelligence company Cycorp</li> <li>Gerald Levin (Penn Law): former CEO AOL Time Warner</li> <li>Peter Lynch: Investor, vice-chairman of Fidelity Investments</li> <li>James Mason (senator): Influential U.S. Senator from Virginia in the early 19th century.</li> <li>Thomas McKean: Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress</li> <li>Michael Milken: Trader/financier</li> <li>Andrea Mitchell: NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent</li> <li>Gouverneur Morris: New York delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778-1779; U.S. Senator from New York, 1800-1803</li> <li>Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1791, 1793-1795. Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress, 1779-1780; Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, 1789-1797</li> <li>Kwame Nkrumah: First President of Ghana</li> <li>Alassane D. Ouattara: Prime Minister of C么te d'Ivoire, 1990-1993</li> <li>William S. Paley: Founder, CBS Corporation</li> <li>Ronald Perelman: Billionaire investor</li> <li>Ezra Pound: Famous Poet</li> <li>Maury Povich: Talk-show host</li> <li>Harold Prince: Famous Broadway Producer with works including <i>West Side Story</i> and <i>Phantom of the Opera</i></li> <li>Stanley Prusiner: 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine</li> <li>Hilary Putnam: Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic at Harvard University</li> <li>Alan Rachins: L.A. Law and Dharma and Greg actor</li> <li>Ed Rendell: Pennsylvania Governor, former Philadelphia Mayor and former Democratic National Committee Chairman</li> <li>Melissa Rivers (Birth name: Melissa Rosenberg), Actress and daughter of comedian Joan Rivers</li> <li>Owen J. Roberts: U.S. Supreme Court Justice</li> <li>Judith Rodin: First woman president of an Ivy League university</li> <li>Martin Cruz Smith: Author of Gorky Park</li> <li>Arlen Specter: U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia District Attorney</li> <li>Amir Shachmurove: One man band</li> <li>John Taylor: First African-American to win an Olympic Gold Medal</li> <li>Michael Tiemann: Co-founder of Cygnus Solutions (a GNU software company), now CTO of Red Hat</li> <li>Donald Trump: Billionaire investor/financier</li> <li>Roy Vagelos: Former CEO of Merck Pharmaceuticals</li> <li>Cesar Virata: Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1981-1986</li> <li>John Edgar Wideman: Author, Rhodes Scholar</li> <li>William Carlos Williams: Poet</li> <li>Steve Wynn: Chairman and CEO Wynn Resorts, Limited. 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