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The University of Pennsylvania is a private university in Philadelphia and the one of the oldest in the United States. The prestigious university was founded by Benjamin Franklin and is an Ivy League member. The athletic teams of Penn are called Quakers. Name these famous people who attended Penn.
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Founding Father and designer of the first official American Flag
Francis Hopkinson
Ninth President of the United States for 31 days in 1841, making his presidency the shortest in U.S. history
William Henry Harrison
45th and 47th President of the United States since 2025 and from 2017 to 2021
Donald Trump
Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011
Arlen Specter
Senator from Delaware from 2009 to 2010
Ted Kaufman
Governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011
Ed Rendell
Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009
Jon Huntsman Jr.
Governor of New Jersey since 2018
Phil Murphy
First President of Nigeria and "father of Nigerian nationalism"
Nnamdi Azikiwe
First Prime Minister and President of Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
President of Ivory Coast since 2010
Alassane Ouattara
Prime Minister of Latvia from 2019 to 2023
Krisjanis Karins
United States Secretary of Labor and first female member of any U.S. Cabinet
Frances Perkins
Baptist minister and one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement who was assassinated in 1968
Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the foremost leaders and strategists of the women's suffrage movement
Alice Paul
Daughter of a former president and senior advisor of her father's administration from 2017 to 2021
Ivanka Trump
Executive in the Trump Organization, former boardroom judge on "The Apprentice" and son of a former president
Donald Trump Jr.
"The father of modern linguistics"
Noam Chomsky
Founder of the Bank of North America, the first modern United States bank
William Bingham
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Founder of QVC
Joseph Segel
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the richest people in the world
Warren Buffett
Owner of X, co-founder of PayPal, founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla, one of the richest men in the world
Elon Musk
Inventor of the board game "Scrabble"
Alfred Butts
Creator of "Magic: The Gathering"
Richard Garfield
Creator of "The Addams Family"
Charles Addams
Creator of "Law & Order" series
Dick Wolf
Director, "Mean Girls"
Mark Waters
Actor, "Nebraska" "Coming Home" "The Hateful Eight"
Bruce Dern
Actress, "Pitch Perfect" "The Hunger Games" and Director of "Cocaine Bear" and "Charlie's Angels"
Elizabeth Banks
Actress, "Murphy Brown" "Gandhi" "Boston Legal"
Candice Bergen
Actor, "The Wire" "Gotham" "The Affair"
John Doman
Singer, "All of Me"
John Legend
Owner of the New York Mets
Steve Cohen
College Hall of Fame football coach and namesake of the trophy for the best college football player
John Heisman
Football head coach at Texas A&M since 2024
Mike Elko
Head coach of the Cleveland Browns since 2020
Kevin Stefanski
Head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies since 2019
Taylor Jenkins
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