100 Notable alumni of
University of Pennsylvania
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The University of Pennsylvania is 20th in the world, 13th in North America, and 13th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Pennsylvania sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 6 individuals affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania won Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
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Donald Trump
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- 1966-1968 graduated with Bachelor of Science in economics
- Occupations
- merchantinvestortelevision producerreal estate entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
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Elon Musk
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- 1992-1995 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- 1991-1995 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- investorengineerinventortechnology entrepreneurentrepreneur
- Biography
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Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as of February 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be around US$852 billion.
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Ivanka Trump
- Occupations
- television presenternon-fiction writermodelfashion designerpolitician
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Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump is an American businesswoman. She is the second child of U.S. President Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana Trump. Ivanka was a presidential advisor in her father's first administration (2017–2021), and also the director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship.
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Warren Buffett
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Studied in 1947
- Occupations
- entrepreneurfinancierinvestorshareholdereconomist
- Biography
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Warren Edward Buffett is an American investor and philanthropist who is the chairman and former CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. As a result of his success, Buffett is one of the best-known investors in America. According to Forbes, as of January 2026, Buffett's estimated net worth stood at US$148.9 billion, making him the ninth-richest individual in the world.
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Donald Trump Jr
- Occupations
- television presenterbusinesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Donald John Trump Jr., often nicknamed Don Jr., is an American businessman and activist. He is the eldest child of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and his first wife, Ivana Trump.
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Noam Chomsky
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- 1945-1949 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- 1949-1951 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- linguistopinion journalistpolitical writereducatorhuman rights defender
- Biography
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Avram Noam Chomsky is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American left as a consistent critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, and corporate influence on political institutions and the media.
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Tiffany Trump
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- In 2016 studied sociology and urban studies
- Occupations
- modelInternet celebritysociologistsinger
- Biography
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Tiffany Ariana Trump is the fourth child of U.S. president Donald Trump and his only child with his second wife, Marla Maples.
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Sundar Pichai
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration in business management
- Occupations
- computer scientistchief executive officerexecutive
- Biography
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Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian–American business executive who has been the CEO of Google since 2015 and the CEO of its parent company Alphabet Inc. since 2019.
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Elizabeth Banks
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- film producerfilm actorgame show hostfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Elizabeth Banks is an American actress and filmmaker. She is known for playing chaperone Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015) and an ICCA commentator in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial film debut with Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), whose $69 million opening-weekend gross set a record for a first-time director. She directed the action comedy Charlie's Angels (2019) and the horror comedy film Cocaine Bear (2023). Banks founded the film and television production company Brownstone Productions in 2002 with her husband, Max Handelman.
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Beau Biden
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- In 1991 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- judge advocatelawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III was an American politician, lawyer, and Army National Guard officer who served as the 44th attorney general of Delaware from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Biden family and the Democratic Party, he was the eldest child of 46th U.S. president Joe Biden and Neilia Hunter Biden.
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John Legend
- Occupations
- singerpianistsinger-songwriteractorrecord producer
- Biography
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John Roger Stephens, known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and record producer. He began his musical career working behind the scenes for other artists, playing piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything", and performing as an uncredited backing vocalist on Jay-Z's "Encore" and Alicia Keys' "You Don't Know My Name". He was the first artist to sign with rapper Kanye West's GOOD Music, through which he released his debut studio album, Get Lifted (2004). Preceded by the hit ballad "Ordinary People", the album reached the top ten of the Billboard 200 and received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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William Henry Harrison
- Occupations
- statespersondiplomatmilitary officerpolitician
- Biography
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William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States, serving from March 4 to April 4, 1841, the shortest presidency in U.S. history. He was also the first U.S. president to die in office, causing a brief constitutional crisis, since presidential succession was not then fully defined in the U.S. Constitution. Harrison was the last president born as a British subject in the Thirteen Colonies. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia, and a son of Benjamin Harrison V, who was a U.S. Founding Father. His own son John Scott Harrison was the father of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd U.S. president.
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Doc Holliday
- Occupations
- physiciandentistpoker player
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John Henry Holliday, better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best known for his role in the events surrounding and his participation in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. He developed a reputation as having killed more than a dozen men in various altercations, but modern researchers have concluded that, contrary to popular myth-making, Holliday killed only between one and three men. Holliday's colorful life and character have been depicted in many books and portrayed by well-known actors in numerous movies and television series.
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Bruce Dern
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013) and the Silver Bear for Best Actor for That Championship Season (1982). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). He is also a BAFTA Award, two-time Genie Award, and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee.
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Candice Bergen
- Occupations
- writerfilm producerfilm actorphotographertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards as the title character on Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018). She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008). In films, Bergen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over (1979) and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi (1982).
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Ashley Biden
- Occupations
- philanthropistsocial workeractivistbusinesspersonfashion designer
- Biography
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Ashley Blazer Biden is an American social worker, activist, and fashion designer. She served as the executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019. Before her administrative role at the center, Biden worked in the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families. She founded the fashion company Livelihood, which partners with the online retailer Gilt Groupe to raise money for community programs focused on eliminating income inequality in the United States, launching it at New York Fashion Week in 2017. Biden's parents are former U.S. president Joe Biden and former U.S. first lady Jill Biden.
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Mehmet Öz
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- surgeonmedical writerpresentermagazine writerthoracic surgeon
- Biography
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Mehmet Cengiz Oz, also known as Dr. Oz, is an American television presenter, physician, author, educator, and government official serving as the 17th administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) since 2025.
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Anil Ambani
- Occupations
- chief executive officerentrepreneurchairpersonpolitician
- Biography
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Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian businessman, chairman, and managing director of Reliance Group (a.k.a. Reliance ADA Group). The Reliance Group was created in July 2006 following a demerger from Reliance Industries Limited. He led several listed corporations, including Reliance Capital, Reliance Infrastructure, Reliance Power, and Reliance Communications. Anil's net worth is estimated at $1 Billion as of 26 June 2025.
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Bongbong Marcos
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr., commonly referred to by the initials BBM or PBBM, is a Filipino politician who has served as the 17th president of the Philippines since 2022. He is the second child and only son of 10th president Ferdinand Marcos and former first lady Imelda Marcos.
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Mauricio Macri
- Occupations
- politiciansports executivebridge playerbusinesspersoncivil engineer
- Biography
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Mauricio Macri is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previously served as Chief of Government of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015, and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2005 to 2007. Ideologically, he identifies himself as a liberal conservative on the Argentine centre-right.
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Laurene Powell Jobs
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Laurene Powell Jobs is an American entrepreneur, business executive and philanthropist. She is the founder and president of Emerson Collective, lead investor and chair of The Atlantic and co-founder and chair of XQ Institute. Powell Jobs also sits on the boards of the Ford Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago CRED, College Track and Elemental Impact. She was married to Steve Jobs, who was the co-founder and former chief executive of Apple Inc, for more than 20 years.
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Lex Luger
- Occupations
- Canadian football playertelevision actorAmerican football playeractorprofessional wrestler
- Biography
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Lawrence Wendell Pfohl, better known by the ring name Lex Luger, is an American retired professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and professional football lineman. He is best known for his work with National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under Jim Crockett Promotions, and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).
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Dick Wolf
- Occupations
- film producerexecutive producershowrunneractortelevision producer
- Biography
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Richard Anthony Wolf is an American television producer, best known for his Law & Order franchise. Since 1990, the franchise has included six police/courtroom dramas and four international spinoffs. He is also co-creator and executive producer of the Chicago franchise, which since 2012, has included four Chicago-based dramas and the co-creator and executive producer of FBI, which since 2018, has also become a franchise after spinning off two additional series.
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Geraldo Rivera
- Occupations
- writerpolitical reportertalk show hostpolitical writerradio personality
- Biography
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Geraldo Michael Rivera is an American journalist, attorney, author, and political commentator who worked at the Fox News Channel from 2001 to 2023. He hosted the tabloid talk show Geraldo from 1987 to 1998. He gained publicity with the live 1986 TV special The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults. Rivera hosted the news magazine program Geraldo at Large, hosts the occasional broadcast of Geraldo Rivera Reports (in lieu of hosting At Large). He served as a rotating co-host of The Five from 2022 to 2023. As of February 2024, Rivera retains the spot of correspondent-at-large with NewsNation.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Occupations
- economistuniversity teachermathematicianphilosopheressayist
- Biography
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American New York Polytech professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.
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Ai Weiwei
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Studied in 1981
- Occupations
- film directorsculptorarchitectsocial activistartist
- Biography
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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese government and its stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of "tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In April 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport for "economic crimes", and detained for 81 days without charge. Ai Weiwei emerged as a figure in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and a prominent political commentator.
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Lia Thomas
- Years
- 1999-.. (age 27)
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Lia Catherine Thomas is an American swimmer and the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship, having won the women's 500-yard freestyle event in 2022, before being barred from competing in women's events by World Aquatics. Thomas's career has been a part of the public debate about transgender women in women's sports.
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Cenk Uygur
- Occupations
- YouTuberradio personalitylawyertelevision producerpolitician
- Biography
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Cenk Kadir Uygur is a Turkish-American left-wing political activist, media host, and attorney. He is the co-creator of The Young Turks, a progressive and a left-wing populist sociopolitical news and commentary program.
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I. M. Pei
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Ieoh Ming Pei FAIA RIBA was a Chinese-American architect. Born in Guangzhou into a Chinese family, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the scholar-gentry to which his family belonged. In 1935, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's architecture school, but quickly transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unhappy with the focus on Beaux-Arts architecture at both schools, he spent his free time researching emerging architects, especially Le Corbusier.
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Chiang Wan-an
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Graduated with Master of Laws
- Graduated with Doctor of Juridical Science
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Chiang Wan-an, also known by his English name Wayne Chiang, is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who has served as the mayor of Taipei since December 2022. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he is the youngest mayor in the history of the office.
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Becki Newton
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Becki Newton is an American actress known for her roles as Amanda Tanen on Ugly Betty, Quinn Garvey on How I Met Your Mother, and Lorna Crane on The Lincoln Lawyer.
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Sachin Pilot
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Captain Sachin Rajesh Pilot is an Indian politician. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has been serving as Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Tonk since 2018. He has previously served as Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Corporate Affairs and Communication and IT in the Government of India under Manmohan Singh. Additionally he served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 2018 to 2020 under Ashok Gehlot. Pilot became the youngest citizen of India to become Member of Parliament at the age of 26.
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Tammi Terrell
- Occupations
- singersongwriterrecording artist
- Biography
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Thomasina Winifred Montgomery, professionally known as Tammi Terrell, was an American singer-songwriter, widely known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye.
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Maury Povich
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Maurice Richard Povich is an American former television personality, best known for hosting the tabloid talk show Maury which aired from 1991 to 2022. Povich began his career as a radio reporter, initially at WWDC and later as host of a daytime Washington, D.C. talk show Panorama. In the late 1980s, he gained national fame as the host of tabloid infotainment TV show A Current Affair, based at Fox's New York flagship station WNYW. In 1991, he co-produced his own show The Maury Povich Show, which in 1998 was rebranded as Maury.
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Vanessa Bayer
- Occupations
- voice actorstage actoractorchildren's writercomedian
- Biography
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Vanessa Bayer is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2017, for which she was nominated for an Emmy. She co-created, co-executive produced, and starred in the Showtime comedy I Love That for You, loosely based on her experience as a survivor of childhood leukemia. She has appeared in such films as Trainwreck (2015), Office Christmas Party (2016), Carrie Pilby (2016), Ibiza (2018), and Wander Darkly (2020).
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Steve Wynn
- Occupations
- art collectorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Stephen Alan Wynn is an American real estate developer and art collector. He was known for his involvement in the luxury casino and hotel industry, prior to being forced to step down in 2018. Early in his career he oversaw the construction and operation of several Las Vegas and Atlantic City hotels, including the Golden Nugget, the Golden Nugget Atlantic City, The Mirage, Treasure Island, the Bellagio, and Beau Rivage in Mississippi, and he played a pivotal role in the development of the Las Vegas Strip in the 1990s.
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Eric Weinstein
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Studied in 1982-1985
- Occupations
- mathematicianeconomistmanagerconsultant
- Biography
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Eric Ross Weinstein is an American investor and financial executive. As of 2021, he was managing director for the American venture capital firm Thiel Capital. Weinstein has hosted a podcast called The Portal, coined the term "intellectual dark web", and has proposed a theory of everything called "Geometric Unity" that has largely been ignored or met with skepticism in the scientific community.
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Rick Yune
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorscreenwritermodelfilm actor
- Biography
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Richard Yune is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and martial artist of Korean descent. His most notable roles have been in the movies Snow Falling on Cedars, the first Fast & Furious film The Fast and the Furious, the James Bond movie Die Another Day, and Olympus Has Fallen. He was part of the main cast of the Netflix original series Marco Polo. He also made his debut in the Indian cinema in the 2025 Indian-Malayalam language film L2: Empuraan, which he played a cameo role.
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Alassane Ouattara
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Alassane Dramane Ouattara is an Ivorian politician and economist who has been President of Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) since 2010. An economist by profession, he worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Central Bank of West African States (French: Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, BCEAO), and was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993, appointed to that post by then-President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Ouattara became the president of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an Ivorian political party, in 1999.
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Shweta Bachchan Nanda
- Occupations
- journalistmodel
- Biography
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Shweta Bachchan Nanda is an Indian columnist, author, and former model. She has been a columnist for Daily News and Analysis and Vogue India, and is the author of the bestselling novel Paradise Towers. She has worked as a model for television advertisement, and in 2018 launched her own fashion label, MXS.
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Bret Weinstein
- Occupations
- biologistpodcasterevolutionary biologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Bret Samuel Weinstein is an American podcaster, author, and former professor of evolutionary biology. He served on the faculty of Evergreen State College from 2002 until 2017, when he resigned in the aftermath of a series of campus protests about racial equity at Evergreen, which brought Weinstein to national attention. Like his brother Eric Weinstein, he was named as a member of the intellectual dark web in a 2018 New York Times essay by columnist Bari Weiss. Weinstein has been a prominent purveyor of false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines and misinformation about HIV/AIDS.
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John Sculley
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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John Sculley III is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving on October 15, 1993. In 1987, Sculley was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$10.2 million.
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Ahmed Zewail
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- 1969-1974 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry
- Occupations
- inventorphysicistchemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian and American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, and also the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was the first Caltech faculty member to be named the Linus Pauling Chair of Chemical Physics and served as the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology.
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Heizō Takenaka
- Occupations
- economistbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Heizō Takenaka is a Japanese economist, and key figure in Junichiro Koizumi's administration (2001-2006), played a significant role in Japan's structural reforms, including labor market deregulation. As Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy and later Financial Services, he advocated for policies aimed at increasing economic flexibility, such as amending the Worker Dispatching Act (also known as the Temporary Staffing Services Act). These changes, enacted in 2003 and 2004, expanded the use of temporary (dispatched) workers by relaxing restrictions. Takenaka's reforms indirectly facilitated the replacement of regular government employees with temporary staff in public sectors, such as education, administrative services, and local government offices. Takenaka's affiliation with Pasona Group, Japan's largest temporary staffing agency, has sparked allegations of embezzlement from government and private sectors, stemming from claims that he replaced permanent employees with Pasona's temporary workers. He joined Pasona as a special advisor in February 2007 (shortly after leaving government) and became chairman in August 2009, serving until 2022. Takenaka benefited from the expanded dispatch market post-deregulation, securing government and private contracts in areas like administrative support, COVID-19 measures, and the Tokyo Olympics—leading to personal profits. Takenaka serves on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum.
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Charles Addams
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Studied in 1930-1931
- Occupations
- draftspersonpainteranimatorillustratorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Charles Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were popularized through various adaptations.
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Ashwini Vaishnaw
- Biography
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Ashwini Vaishnaw is an Indian politician, former IAS officer and an enterpreneur who is serving as the 39th Minister of Railways, 35th Minister of Information and Broadcasting and 2nd Minister of Electronics and Information Technology since 2024.
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Selçuk Bayraktar
- Occupations
- engineerbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Selçuk Bayraktar is a Turkish pilot, engineer and businessman. He is the chairman of the board and the chief technology officer of the Turkish technology company Baykar. He is also known as the designer of Turkey's first indigenous unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) Bayraktar TB2 and first unmanned fighter jet Bayraktar Kızılelma. Bayraktar is also the founding chairman of the Turkish Technology Team Foundation.
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Abby Huntsman
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Abigail Haight Huntsman is an American journalist and television personality. The daughter of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. and Mary Kaye Huntsman, Huntsman rose to prominence as a host on MSNBC and NBC News. She then became a general assignment reporter for Fox News Channel and later a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend. Huntsman co-hosted the ABC talk show The View from September 2018 to January 2020.
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Ruth Porat
- Occupations
- financier
- Biography
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Ruth Porat is a British-American business executive who is the president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google LLC and prior to that was the chief financial officer of the same companies from 2015 to 2024. Prior to joining Google, Porat was the executive vice president & chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley from January 2010 to May 2015.
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Harold Ford Jr
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- political punditpolitician
- Biography
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Harold Eugene Ford Jr. is an American financial managing director, pundit, author, and former U.S. Congressman who served from 1997 to 2007 in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party from Tennessee's 9th congressional district, centered in Memphis. He is a member of the Ford political family from Memphis, and is the son of former Congressman Harold Ford Sr., who held the same seat for 22 years. In 2006, Ford made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the retiring Bill Frist. He was also the last chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).
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John C. Bogle
- Occupations
- economistinvestorfinancierbusinessperson
- Biography
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John Clifton "Jack" Bogle was an American investor, business magnate and philanthropist and founder. He was the founder and chief executive of The Vanguard Group and is credited with popularizing the index fund. An avid investor and money manager himself, he preached investment over speculation, long-term patience over short-term action, and reducing broker fees as much as possible. An ideal investment vehicle for Bogle was a low-cost index fund representing the entire US market, held over a lifetime with dividends reinvested.
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Andrea Mitchell
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C.
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Zahi Hawass
- Occupations
- egyptologistanthropologistnecropolis scholaruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Zahi Abass Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, a position he held twice. He has worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert and the Upper Nile Valley.
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Rod J. Rosenstein
- Occupations
- lawyerofficial
- Biography
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Rod Jay Rosenstein is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from 2017 to 2019. Prior to his appointment, he served as a United States attorney for the District of Maryland. At the time of his confirmation as deputy attorney general in April 2017, he was the longest-serving U.S. attorney. Rosenstein had also been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2007, but his nomination was never considered by the U.S. Senate.
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Steven A. Cohen
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- hedge fund managerfinancierart collector
- Biography
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Steven A. Cohen is an American hedge fund manager and owner of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the founder of Point72 Asset Management and S.A.C. Capital Advisors. In 2013, S.A.C. Capital Advisors plead guilty to wire and securities fraud to insider trading and paid $1.8 billion in fines. In 2020, Cohen acquired the Mets from Fred Wilpon for $2.4 billion.
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Phil Murphy
- Occupations
- diplomatbankerpolitician
- Biography
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Philip Dunton Murphy is an American politician, financier, and former diplomat who served from 2018 to 2026 as the 56th governor of New Jersey. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected governor in 2017 and narrowly reelected in 2021. From 2009 to 2013, Murphy was the U.S. ambassador to Germany.
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Ronald Perelman
- Occupations
- entrepreneurfinancier
- Biography
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Ronald Owen Perelman is an American banker, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated, his company, has invested in companies with interests in groceries, cigars, licorice, makeup, cars, photography, television, camping supplies, security, gaming, jewelry, banks, and comic book publishing. Perelman holds significant shares in companies such as Deluxe Entertainment, Revlon, SIGA Technologies, RetailMeNot, Merisant, Scantron, Scientific Games Corporation, Valassis, vTv Therapeutics and Harland Clarke. He previously owned a majority of shares in AM General, but in 2020 sold the majority of his shares in AM General along with significant works of art, in light of the impact of the economy on the high debt burdens many of his companies have from leveraged buyouts. In early 2020, Revlon, acquired by Perelman in the 1980s, undertook a debt deal. Previously worth $19.8 billion in 2018, Perelman is, as of November 2022, worth $1.9 billion.
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Jon Huntsman, Jr
- Occupations
- diplomatmissionarypolitician
- Biography
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Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as the 16th governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009. Huntsman is a member of the Republican Party. Huntsman has served three times as an ambassador of the United States: 1992-1993 as ambassador to Singapore, 2009-2011 as ambassador to China, and 2017-2019 as ambassador to Russia.
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Katalin Karikó
- Occupations
- researcherinventorbiochemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Katalin "Kati" Karikó is a Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in ribonucleic acid (RNA)-mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro-transcribed messenger RNA (mRNA) for protein replacement therapy. Karikó laid the scientific groundwork for mRNA vaccines, overcoming major obstacles and skepticism in the scientific community. Karikó received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023 for her work, along with American immunologist Drew Weissman.
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John Doman
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- actor
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John Doman is an American actor best known for playing Bill Rawls on HBO series The Wire, Colonel Edward Galson on Oz (2001), Dr. Deraad in ER (1999–2003), Rodrigo Borgia in the international television series Borgia (2011–2014), Don Carmine Falcone in Fox's show Gotham (2014–2017), and Bruce Buttler in The Affair (2014–2019).
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Yuri Milner
- Occupations
- entrepreneurphysicist
- Biography
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Yuri Borisovich Milner (Hebrew: יורי מילנר, Russian: Юрий Борисович (Бенционович) Мильнер; born 11 November 1961) is a Soviet-born, Israeli entrepreneur, investor, physicist and scientist. He is a co-founder and former chairperson of internet company Mail.Ru Group (later VK), and a founder of investment firm DST Global.
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Tory Burch
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in art history
- Occupations
- fashion designerpersonal stylistphilanthropistsocialite
- Biography
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Tory Burch is an American fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the executive chairman and chief creative officer of her own brand, Tory Burch LLC. She was listed as the 88th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2020.
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Gloria Allred
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- attorney at lawcivil rights advocatelawyerhuman rights defenderradio personality
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Gloria Rachel Allred is an American attorney known for taking high-profile and often controversial cases, particularly those involving feminist causes. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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Evan McMullin
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- 2009-2011 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Evan McMullin is an American politician and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. McMullin ran as an independent in the 2016 United States presidential election and in the 2022 United States Senate election in Utah.
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Jonathan Haidt
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- 1987-1992 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- In 1992 graduated with Master of Arts in psychology
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- writerresearcherpsychologistuniversity teacher
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Jonathan David Haidt is an American social psychologist and author. He is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at the New York University Stern School of Business. Haidt's main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions.
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William Walker
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- In 1843 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- filibusterjournalistphysicianlawyerpolitician
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William Walker was an American journalist and mercenary. In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of manifest destiny, Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing colonies. Such an enterprise was known at the time as "filibustering".
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Christopher Mitchum
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- screenwriterpoliticianwriterfilm producerfilm actor
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Christopher Mitchum is an American film actor, screenwriter, and businessman. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the second son of film star Robert Mitchum and Dorothy Mitchum. He is the younger brother of actor James Mitchum.
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Melissa Rivers
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- television producertelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Melissa Warburg Rosenberg, known professionally as Melissa Rivers, is an American television host and actress. She is the only child of comedian Joan Rivers and producer Edgar Rosenberg.
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Josh Harris
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- 1982-1986 graduated with Bachelor of Science in economics
- Occupations
- investorsports team owner
- Biography
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Joshua Jordan Harris is an American investor and sports team owner. Harris is a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and managing partner of the NBA team Philadelphia 76ers, the NHL team New Jersey Devils, and the NFL team Washington Commanders. He is additionally a general partner of the English football club Crystal Palace and holds a minority stake in Joe Gibbs Racing. Harris left Apollo in 2022 to focus on Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, which he formed with David Blitzer in 2017 as a holding company for their shared sports properties.
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Rob Kapito
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- financier
- Biography
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Robert Steven Kapito is an American businessman and investor. He is a co-founder (with Larry Fink and Susan Wagner) and president of the New York City-based investment management firm BlackRock.
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Louis Kahn
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- painterarchitectuniversity teacherdesignerteacher
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Louis Isadore Kahn was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Martin Seligman
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- writerpsychologistbridge playeruniversity teacher
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Martin Elias Peter Seligman is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. Seligman is a strong promoter within the scientific community of his theories of well-being and positive psychology. His theory of learned helplessness is popular among scientific and clinical psychologists. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Seligman as the 31st most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
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Stephen Humphrey Bogart
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- actorbiographerwriterfilm actortelevision producer
- Biography
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Stephen Humphrey Bogart is an American writer, producer, and businessman. He is one of the two children of actor Humphrey Bogart and actress Lauren Bacall, and authored three semi-autobiographical books about his family.
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Francisco Sagasti
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Studied operations research
- Occupations
- industrial engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler is a Peruvian engineer, academic, politician, and author who served as the president of Peru from November 2020 to July 2021.
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Zhang Kangyang
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Zhang Kangyang, known as Steven Zhang, is a Chinese businessman and former chairman of Italian football club Inter Milan.
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Alice Paul
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- women's rights activistjuristsuffragette
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Alice Stokes Paul was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns and others, strategized events such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels, which were part of the successful campaign that resulted in the amendment's passage in August 1920.
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Katherine Oppenheimer
- Occupations
- biologistbotanist
- Biography
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Katherine Vissering "Kitty" Oppenheimer was an American biologist, botanist, and a member of the Communist Party of America until leaving in the 1930s. Her husbands were Frank Ramseyer, Joe Dallet, Richard Stewart Harrison, and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
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Ken Olin
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- film directortelevision actorfilm produceractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Kenneth Edward Olin is an American actor, television director, and producer. As an actor, Olin is known for his role as Michael Steadman in the ABC drama series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1990. Olin later began working behind the scenes, as a director and producer. His credits as a producer include Alias (2001–2006), Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), and This Is Us (2016–2022). Olin is married to actress Patricia Wettig.
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Richard Garfield
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Graduated with doctorate in mathematics
- Occupations
- mathematicianprofessorbusinesspersongame designer
- Biography
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Richard Channing Garfield is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer. Garfield created Magic: The Gathering, which is considered to be the first collectible card game (CCG). Magic debuted in 1993, and its success spawned many imitations.
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Rebecca Rittenhouse
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- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Rebecca Rittenhouse is an American actress. She has played Cody LeFever in the ABC prime time soap opera Blood & Oil and Dr. Anna Ziev in the Hulu romantic comedy series The Mindy Project. In 2022, she played the title character in the comedy series Maggie, which was cancelled after 13 episodes and purged from the Hulu streaming service in 2023.
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Lawrence Lessig
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- lawyernon-fiction writercomputer scientistprofessorpolitical activist
- Biography
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Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig III is an American legal scholar and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is the founder of Creative Commons and Equal Citizens. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election but withdrew before the primaries.
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Kevin Stefanski
- Occupations
- American football coach
- Biography
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Kevin Stefanski is an American professional football coach and former defensive back who is the head coach for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns from 2020 to 2025. He played college football at Penn from 2000 to 2004.
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Linda Yaccarino
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Linda Yaccarino is an American business executive. She served as chief executive officer (CEO) of X Corp from 2023 to 2025 and as chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal from 2011 to 2023. Since 2025, she is the CEO of telehealth company, eMed.
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Walter Jackson Freeman II
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- physicianpsychiatristneurologist
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Walter Jackson Freeman II was an American physician who claimed that he specialized in lobotomy. Wanting to simplify lobotomies so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals, where there were often no operating rooms, surgeons, or anesthesia and limited budgets, Freeman popularized a transorbital lobotomy procedure. The transorbital approach involved placing an orbitoclast (an instrument resembling an ice pick) under the eyelid and against the top of the eye socket; a mallet was then used to drive the orbitoclast through the thin layer of bone and into the brain. Freeman's transorbital lobotomy method did not require a neurosurgeon and could be performed outside of an operating room, often by untrained psychiatrists without the use of anesthesia by using electroconvulsive therapy to induce seizure and unconsciousness. In 1947, Freeman's partner James W. Watts ended their partnership because Watts was disgusted by Freeman's modification of the lobotomy from a surgical operation into a simple "office" procedure.
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William Carlos Williams
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- autobiographerpoetliterary criticwriterphysician writer
- Biography
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William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958), he took Paterson, New Jersey as "my 'case' to work up. It called for a poetry such as I did not know, it was my duty to discover or make such a context on the 'thought.'" Some of his best known poems, "This Is Just to Say" and "The Red Wheelbarrow", are reflections on the everyday. Other poems reflect the influence of the visual arts. He, in turn, influenced the visual arts; his poem "The Great Figure" inspired the painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth. Williams was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962).
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Conor Lamb
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- In 2006 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- In 2009 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- prosecutorlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Conor James Lamb is an American attorney and politician who served as a U.S. representative from 2018 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he briefly represented the Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district following a special election in 2018 and then won full terms to represent the 17th district in 2018 and 2020. He left the House to run for the U.S. Senate.
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W. Kamau Bell
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- television writerfilm directortelevision presentertelevision directortelevision producer
- Biography
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Walter Kamau Bell is an American stand-up comic and television host. He hosted the CNN series United Shades of America from 2016 to 2022, and hosted FXX television series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell from 2012 to 2013. He is the host of the live radio show and podcast Kamau Right Now on KALW, and also co-hosts the podcasts Denzel Washington Is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period with comedian Kevin Avery and Politically Re-Active with Hari Kondabolu. In 2022, Bell directed and produced the documentary miniseries We Need to Talk About Cosby.
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Nikki Giovanni
- Occupations
- university teacherteachercivil rights advocatewriterpoet
- Biography
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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for her poetry album, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she was named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends". Giovanni was a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.
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Rich DeVos
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- businesspersoninvestor
- Biography
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Richard Marvin DeVos Jr. is an American businessman, author, and former politician. The son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, he was CEO of the multi-level marketing company from 1993 to 2002. In 2006, DeVos ran for Governor of Michigan but lost to the then-incumbent Democrat Jennifer Granholm. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed his father as the No. 351 richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately US$5.4 billion. DeVos is the husband of Betsy DeVos, the former United States Secretary of Education in the first Trump administration.
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Adrian Cronauer
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- lawyerradio personality
- Biography
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Adrian Joseph Cronauer was an American radio personality and United States Air Force Sergeant, whose experiences as an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams as Cronauer.
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Arlen Specter
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- In 1951 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- military officerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he was the longest-serving senator from Pennsylvania, having represented the state for 30 years.
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Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe GCFR PC, commonly referred to as Zik of Africa, was a Nigerian politician, statesman, and revolutionary leader who served as the 3rd and first black governor-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first president of Nigeria during the First Nigerian Republic (1963–1966). He is widely regarded as the father of Nigerian nationalism as well as one of the major driving forces behind the country's independence in 1960.
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Ahn Cheol-soo
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- university teacherentrepreneurcomputer scientistphysiologistphysician
- Biography
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Ahn Cheol-soo is a South Korean politician, medical doctor, businessperson, and software entrepreneur. He is a member of the National Assembly as part of the conservative People Power Party. Prior to his career in politics, Ahn founded AhnLab, Inc., an antivirus software company, in 1995. He was chairman of the board and Chief Learning Officer of AhnLab until September 2012, and remains the company's largest stakeholder. Prior to entering politics, Ahn served as dean of the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology at Seoul National University until September 2012. Ahn was considered a left-wing politician when he entered politics in 2012, then considered a centrist politician by his 2017 presidential bid, and is now considered a right-wing politician.
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Justin Sun
- Enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania
- Studied in 2011
- Occupations
- ambassadorbusiness executive
- Biography
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Justin Sun is a Chinese-born Kittitian crypto billionaire and businessman. He is the founder of TRON, a company that develops the TRON blockchain with the associated Tronix (TRX) cryptocurrency token, as well as USDD, a stablecoin issued by TRON DAO Reserve. Sun is also the owner of Rainberry (formerly BitTorrent Inc.), which developed the BitTorrent protocol and under Sun's leadership developed the BTT cryptocurrency token. Sun also owns the crypto currency exchanges Poloniex and HTX (formerly Huobi). Sun was Permanent Representative of Grenada to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva from 2021 to 2023.
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Hilary Putnam
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- university teacherphilosophercomputer scientistnon-fiction writermathematician
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Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to the studies of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science. Outside philosophy, Putnam contributed to mathematics and computer science. Together with Martin Davis he developed the Davis–Putnam algorithm for the Boolean satisfiability problem and he helped demonstrate the unsolvability of Hilbert's tenth problem.
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John C. Lilly
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- psychiatristpsychotherapistcetologistpseudoscientistneuroscientist
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John Cunningham Lilly was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer, and inventor. He was a member of a group of counterculture thinkers that included Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Werner Erhard, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists.
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David Naughton
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- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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David Walsh Naughton is an American actor and singer. He is known for his starring roles in the horror film An American Werewolf in London (1981) and the Disney comedy Midnight Madness (1980), as well as for a long-running "Be a Pepper" ad campaign for beverage maker Dr Pepper. He also starred in the short-lived sitcom Makin' It and sang its hit theme song "Makin' It", giving him a Top 5 hit on the Billboard charts.
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Max Blumenthal
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- bloggerfilmmakerjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Max Blumenthal is an American journalist, author, blogger, and filmmaker. He was a writer for The Nation, AlterNet, The Daily Beast, Al Akhbar, Mondoweiss, and Media Matters for America, and has contributed to Al Jazeera English, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a writing fellow of the Nation Institute. He was also a contributor to Sputnik and RT as of 2022.
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Frank Luntz
- Occupations
- political adviserpolitical punditstatistician
- Biography
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Frank Ian Luntz is an American political and communications consultant and pollster. His work has included developing talking points and other messaging for Republican causes, assistance with messaging for Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, and public relations support for The Israel Project. He advocated use of vocabulary crafted to produce a desired effect, including use of the term death tax instead of estate tax, and climate change instead of global warming.
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Yakov Smirnoff
- Occupations
- comedianactor
- Biography
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Yakov Naumovich Pokhis, better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is an American comedian, actor and writer. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in the Soviet Union, then immigrated to the United States in 1977 in order to pursue an American show business career, not yet knowing any English.
