List of Temple University people

This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of Temple University, a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Faculty

Russell Conwell

Russell Conwell - founder and first president of the university, author of Acres of Diamonds
Charles Ezra Beury - second president of the university
Robert Livingston Johnson - third president of the university
Millard E. Gladfelter - fourth president of the university
Paul R. Anderson - fifth president of the university
Marvin Wachman - sixth president of the university
Peter J. Liacouras - seventh president of the university
David Adamany - eighth president of the university
Ann Weaver Hart - ninth president of the university

Communication

English

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Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany - science fiction author
Thomas Kinsella - Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher; author of numerous volumes of poetry and a translation of the ancient Irish epic The Tain (Táin Bó Cúailnge); while at Temple, he developed a program for students to study in Ireland called "the Irish Experience"
Sonia Sanchez - poet

History

Law

Mathematics

John Allen Paulos

Emil Grosswald (1968–1980)
John Allen Paulos - author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

Music

Katherine Ciesinski
John Douglas - conductor and voice teacher; head of Temple's Opera Theatre program for two decades
Aaron Levinson - Grammy Award-winning producer and musician

Philosophy

Lewis Gordon
Espen Hammer
Joseph Margolis
Jitendra Nath Mohanty, emeritus
Miriam Solomon - Professor of Philosophy

Psychology

Lauren Alloy
Joseph Wolpe - South African psychiatrist and founding figure in behavior therapy

Religion

Sociology

Annette Lareau

Sports

Nikki Franke - fencer and fencing coach

Other disciplines

Molefi Asante - scholar, known for popularizing and developing Afrocentricity
Happy Fernandez - politician
Chevalier Jackson - pioneer physician in laryngology and endoscopy
Waldo Nelson - "father of pediatrics," longtime editor of The Journal of Pediatrics; author of Nelson Book of Pediatrics

Alumni

Academia

Shirley M. Tilghman, President of Princeton University (Ph.D., biochemistry)

Rebecca Alpert – activist, Rabbi, and current chair of the religion department
Edwin David Aponte – author and educator, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Christianity & Culture at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Leon Bass (Ph.D.) – educator
David Bressoud (Ph.D) – mathematician, former professor at Pennsylvania State University, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College
Noam Chomsky – linguist and activist, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; as child attended Temple-run experimental Deweyite school, Oak Lane Day School
Miguel A. De La Torre - Associate Professor of Social Ethics; Director of the Justice and Peace Institute at the Iliff School of Theology; author of several books concerning the marginalized
Angelo DiGeorge - physician and known for discovery of autoimmune disorder referred to as DiGeorge syndrome. Also, see Temple University School of Medicine, Notable Alumni and Pioneers
John Esposito - scholar of Middle East and Islamic studies, professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University
Stephen G. Haines – organizational theorist and management consultant
Linda Darling-Hammond – Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she launched the School Redesign Network
Thomas Anthony Harris - psychiatrist and author of I'm OK, You're OK
Nathan Katz – former professor at Williams College, current Florida International University professor and expert on Jewish communities in India
Donald Kraybill - foremost expert on Amish
Bill Mensch – computer scientist, founder, chairman and CEO of Western Design Center
Robert K. Merton – sociologist, former professor at Columbia University and Harvard University, former Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Tulane University
JoAnne Robbins – noted authority on dysphagia, professor at University of Wisconsin
Stephen Sheehi - Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Middle Eastern Studies, College of William and Mary, author of Foundations of Modern Arab Identity and Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims
Shirley M. Tilghman – former professor and President of Princeton University
Martin A. Pomerantz – physicist, astronomer, Director of Bartol Research Institute, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal and National Science Foundation's Distinguished Public Servant Award recipient
Ben Goertzel – Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC

Art

Laura Marie Greenwood – painter
Trenton Doyle Hancock – artist
Ralph Rucci - designer
Paula Scher - designer
Sarai Sherman - artist
Andrew Hussie – webcomic artist
Simmie Knox - presidential portrait painter (Clinton)
Aaron Shikler - presidential portrait painter (JFK)

Broadcasting

Al Alberts – singer, Philadelphia personality on WPVI-TV
Bob Brinker – financial talk radio host for Citadel Media
Tony Bruno – sports radio talk show host on ESPN, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Radio
Howard Bryant – senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine
Pat Callahan – host of This Week in Pro Football on 950 ESPN
Steve Capus – president, NBC News
John Clark – sports anchorman for NBC 10 news
Tracy Davidson – news presenter for NBC 10 news
Fritz Coleman – weather anchor, KNBC-TV news
Jerry Del Colliano – radio/TV broadcaster, digital media expert, USC professor, author
Vince DeMentri – anchorman for NBC 10 news
Ray Didinger – award-winning sports journalist, NFL Hall of Famer writer.
Lou DiPietro – YES Network dot-com writer/editor, co-host/producer of The Chris Shearn Show
Diplo – DJ/producer
Nick Gillespie - author, journalist, editor at reason.com
Tamron Hall – MSNBC anchor
John Kincade – sports radio talk show host on ESPN Radio
Mark Levin – conservative author, lawyer, and radio talk show host on WABC
Sheri Lynch – syndicated radio co-host of The Bob & Sheri Show
Marty Moss-Coane – host, daily WHYY-FM local public radio show Radio Times
Hiro Muramoto – Japanese cameraman for Reuters, killed while covering the 2010 Thai political protests
Kevin Negandhi – ESPN anchor
Ronn Owens – radio talk show host
Ed Sciaky – disc jockey
Gene Shay – disc jockey
Terry Smith – broadcaster, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Dan Trachtenberg – co-host, The Totally Rad Show
Marc Zumoff – sportscaster, Comcast Sportsnet, Philadelphia 76ers
Marc Lamont Hill – academic, journalist, author, activist, and television personality, Our World with Black Enterprise and online HuffPost Live host, BET News correspondent and a CNN political commentator.
Gabriel Ben – DJ/producer ^[1]^[2]

Business

Charisse Lillie – President of Comcast's foundation
John Carrig – former COO and president for ConocoPhillips
Lewis Katz – businessman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, former co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Brenton L. Saunders – CEO of Actavis, co-founder of Health Care Compliance Association
Ash Vasudevan – founding Managing Partner of Edge Holdings
Linda Eagle – president, co-founder of World Bank Institute
William Sharbaugh – COO of Pharmaceutical Product Development
Sam Greenblatt – vice president of technology and architecture in Enterprise Solution Group of Dell
Daniel Scavilla – senior vice president and CFO at Globus Medical
Ralph Wiest – distinguished engineer and CTO at IBM
Larry Miller – president of Jordan Brand, former president of Portland Trail Blazers
Herman Shooster – chairman of Global Response.
Bernard J. Milano – president and trustee of KPMG's Foundation.
Debra Chrapaty – CEO of Nirvanix
Martin F Jackson- CFO of Select Medical

Film, theatre, and television

Bill Cosby - actor
Keith Andes – actor
Darcy Antonellis – major film studio executive
David Brenner – standup comedian, actor, author, filmmaker
Richard Brooks – Oscar award-winning Hollywood filmmaker
Cody Calafiore – model, actor, runner up of Big Brother 16
Nicholas P. Dallis – soap comic writer
Norman Fell – comic actor best known for Three's Company (attended Theatre Dept. classes)
LaMont Ferrell – sitcom writer and producer, The Parent Hood, Moesha, Girlfriends, House of Payne
Jason Winston George – actor, Sunset Beach, Platinum
Johnny Ray Gill - actor, independent filmmaker (NBC's Harry's Law)
William Goldenberg – Oscar-winning Hollywood film editor
Veronica Hamel – actress, known for playing Joyce Davenport on the television series Hill Street Blues.
Lois Hamilton – actress
Tim Heidecker – comedian and co-creator of Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Tigre Hill – film director/producer
Saba Homayoon – actress
Irvin Kershner – film director, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Bruce Mailman – theatre producer and founder of The Saint
Chris Manley – film cinematographer, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Photography
William Marchant – playwright and screenwriter
Adam McKay – Emmy-nominated director of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), and Step Brothers (2008)
Mary Lou Metzger – singer, dancer The Lawrence Welk Show
Kunal Nayyar – actor, plays Raj on CBS's Big Bang Theory
Robert Prosky – actor
Da'Vine Joy Randolph – Tony Award-nominated actress for Ghost the Musical
Herbert Rudley – actor
Bob Saget – comedian, game show host, Full House
Michael Schoeffling – actor who played Jake Ryan in 1980s film Sixteen Candles
Svetlana Shusterman – from MTV's The Real World Key West
Tom Sizemore – actor
Paul F. Tompkins – actor, comedian
Eric Wareheim – comedian and co-creator of Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Patricia Wettig – Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actress, thirtysomething, Brothers & Sisters, Prison Break
Jesse Williams – actor (Grey's Anatomy)
Danny Woodburn – actor (Mickey on Seinfeld)

Government

Nikoloz Gilauri, Prime Minister of Georgia (business)

John F. Street, Mayor of Philadelphia (law)

Mari Carmen Aponte - U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
Edward J. Bonin – Republican U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania
Frederick C. Branch – first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer
Michael E. Busch, Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
Jim Cawley – Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania
Robert Coughlin - longstanding Republican Pennsylvania representative to United States House of Representatives
Edwin Duing Eshleman former Republican congressman
Thomas M. Foglietta - US Congressman and United States Ambassador to Italy
Vincent Fumo – Democratic Pennsylvania state senator
Nikoloz Gilauri – Prime Minister of Georgia
Joseph M. Gladeck, Jr. (B.S. 1972) – Pennsylvania State Representative 1979–2000.^[3]
Camillo Gonsalves (BA in Journalism) - Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
Theo-Ben Gurirab - President of the United Nations General Assembly, 1999-2000; Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2005^[4]
Joe Hoeffel – former Democratic congressman
Malcolm Hoenlein – executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations;^[5] founding executive director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
Vincent Hughes – Pennsylvania state senator (Democrat)
Zambry Abdul Kadir – current Menteri Besar of Perak, Malaysia, from political party UMNO
Kathleen Kane - first woman Attorney General of Pennsylvania
Paul E. Kanjorski – U.S. Congressman, representing Pennsylvania's 11th district^[6]
Thomas W. Kelly – Lt. General Ret.,^[7] US Army
Jerome Kurtz – Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1977–1980)^[8]
David See-Chai Lam OC, CVO, OBC, (林思齊) – the 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, Canada
Joseph Lazarow – Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1976–1982^[9]
Bryan Lentz – private attorney; former Pennsylvania State Representative for the 161st legislative district (2007–2010); Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district
Joseph Melrose - former US Ambassador to Sierra Leone, currently a professor at Ursinus College
Bernard T. Mittemeyer, lieutenant general and former Surgeon General of the United States Army.
Francis J. Myers – former U.S. Senator and congressman, Pennsylvania
Pallam Raju – Cabinet Minister of India for Human Resources Development
Charles W. Sandman, Jr. - represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, 1967-1975; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1973^[10]
Jim Saxton – U.S. Congressman representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district
Martin J. Silverstein - United States Ambassador to Uruguay, 2001-2005
John F. Street – former Mayor of Philadelphia
Nao Takasugi – California State Assembly
Andrew J. Rozwadowski – Senior Procurement Specialist - City of Tamarac

Literature

Sharmi Albrechtsen – author, blogger
Ben Bova – science fiction author
Jim Callahan - retired football player and writer
Tony Campolo – author, pastor, and speaker
Eric Corey Freed – architect, author, public speaker
Jeffrey Gitomer – author, speaker, business trainer
David Goodis – crime fiction writer
Helene Hanff – writer
Tom McHale – novelist
Ted Polhemus – writer, photographer, anthropologist
Jeffrey Robinson – author
Jerry Spinelli – writer
Lamont B. Steptoe – poet, photographer, publisher
Tony Trov – science fiction writer
Johnny Zito – science fiction writer

Music

Daryl Hall and John Oates

Irving Berlin – honorary degree '54, songwriter
Dan "Soupy" Campbell – lead singer, The Wonder Years
Diplo, born Thomas Wesley Pentz – DJ, producer, rapper, and songwriter
Alix Dobkin – singer/songwriter
Gilbere Forte – rapper
Joe Genaro – musician, guitarist and songwriter with the Dead Milkmen
Ariana Ghez – classic oboist
Julie Gold – songwriter, Grammy Award winner
Tyler Grady - American Idol 2010 Top 24 finalist
Daryl Hall – musician
Marc-André Hamelin – pianist
Jared Hasselhoff – bassist in band The Bloodhound Gang
Mark Kramer – musician, producer-engineer, Mark Kramer Trio
Fred Mascherino – musician, Taking Back Sunday, Breaking Pangaea
Joe Masteroff – Tony Award-winning playwright
Bill McGlaughlin – composer, conductor, radio host of Exploring Music and Saint Paul Sunday
John Oates – musician
Eric Owens – opera singer
Billy Paul - Grammy Award winner and R&B singer, known for his number one single "Me and Mrs. Jones" and War of the Gods
Fayette Pinkney – original member of The Three Degrees
Jimmy Pop – lead singer of The Bloodhound Gang
Jill Scott – R&B/soul artist
Terell Stafford – professional jazz trumpet player
Tim – Korean ballad singer
Aaron Weiss – musician, mewithoutYou; brother of Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss – guitarist, mewithoutYou; brother of Aaron Weiss
Susan Werner – singer-songwriter
Cynthia Yeh – principal percussion, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Other

John C. Allen – roller coaster designer
Judith E. Glaser - author and organizational anthropologist
E. Urner Goodman – early leader of the Boy Scouts of America
Donniel Hartman – Israeli rabbi
Linda and Terry Jamison – "The Psychic Twins"
Steven Levy – writer for Wired and author of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution^[11]
Maralyn Lois Polak – journalist and author
Herman Shooster – founder of Global Response
Stephen Starr - celebrity restaurateur
Diana Vincent – jewelry designer

Sports

Other sports

Marcus McElhenney Olympian – Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's eight – bronze medal winner
Benny McLaughlin – National Soccer Hall of Fame
Allen Rosenberg – rower and rowing coach
Jason Read - Olympic gold medalist, rowing
Gabe Sapolsky – professional wrestling booker, part founder of Ring of Honor and Full Impact Pro
Gil Stein – President of the NHL, 1992–1993

References

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