The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has over 92,000 alumni in 150 countries. As of 2014, there are approximately 79,280 alumni in North America, 5,660 in Asia, 4,510 in Europe, 1,370 in the Caribbean and Latin America, 930 in Africa and the Middle East, and 380 in Australia and New Zealand. This is a list of notable Wharton School alumni.
Industry
- Anil Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Group
- Ayman Asfari, British-Syrian billionaire, CEO of Petrofac
- Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, Chairman of Interserve
- Mitchell J. Blutt, CEO Consonance Capital
- Julian A. Brodsky, founder, Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation
- Charles Butt, founder, Chairman and CEO, H-E-B
- Robert Castellini, owner, Cincinnati Reds
- Vikram Chatwal, hotelier
- Arthur D. Collins Jr., Chairman and CEO, Medtronic
- Robert Crandall, Chairman and CEO, American Airlines
- William J. DeLaney III, CEO of Sysco
- Donny Deutsch, Chairman and CEO, Deutsch Inc. and DHL
- Michael DiCandilo, CFO and Executive Vice President of AmerisourceBergen
- Dominique Heriard Dubreuil, CEO of Rémy Cointreau
- Mike Eskew, Chairman and CEO, UPS
- John L. Flannery, Chairman and CEO, General Electric Company
- Alex Furmansky, serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Budsies
- Rakesh Gangwal, Chairman and CEO, US Airways
- Robert B. Goergen, founder, Chairman and CEO, Blyth
- Chip Goodyear, CEO, BHP Billiton
- Alex Gorsky, CEO, Johnson & Johnson
- Leonard I. Green, founding partner of Leonard Green & Partners
- Nilesh Gupta, managing director Lupin Limited
- Jon Huntsman Sr., founder, Chairman and CEO, Huntsman Corporation
- Steve Ives, serial entrepreneur in information technology
- Reginald Jones, former Chairman and CEO, General Electric
- Gerard Kleisterlee, CEO and President, Philips
- Yotaro Kobayashi, Chairman and Co-CEO, Fuji Xerox
- Leonard Lauder, founder, CEO and Chairman, Estée Lauder
- Terry Leahy, CEO, Tesco
- Victoria Mars, Chairman, Mars, Incorporated
- Alan Miller, founder and CEO, Universal Health Services
- Aditya Mittal, President and CFO, Mittal Steel Company
- Phebe Novakovic, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Dynamics
- Manuel Pangilinan, Chairman and CEO, First Pacific
- Nelson Peltz, CEO of Triarc Companies (Snapple, Arby's, TJ Cinnamon and Pasta Connection)
- Jay Penske, Board of Directors of the Entrepreneurial School at the Wharton School
- Ronald O. Perelman, Chairman and CEO, MacAndrews & Forbes Group
- Lewis E. Platt, Chairman and CEO, Boeing
- J.D. Power III, founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power & Associates
- Edmund T. Pratt Jr., CEO and Chairman Emeritus, Pfizer
- Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation
- Anthony Connelly, President and CEO, Disney Cruise Line
- John Sculley, CEO, Pepsi
- Joseph Segel, founder of over 20 companies, most notably QVC and Franklin Mint
- Toots Shor, New York City saloon keeper
- Herbert D. Strauss, CEO and Chairman, Grey Advertising Agency.
- Nicholas F. Taubman, CEO and Chairman, Advance Auto Parts
- James S. Tisch, CEO, Loews Corporation
- Gary L. Wilson, Chairman and CEO, Northwest Airlines
- William Wrigley Jr., founder and CEO, Wrigley Company
- Klaus Zumwinkel, former Chairman and CEO, Deutsche Post
Finance
- Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, the Central Bank of Malaysia
- Tom Bayer, member of the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
- J.E. Coloma Libatique, former CEO, Praetoria Holdings
- Alfred Berkeley, former President and Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
- Richard A. Bloch, founder and CEO, H&R Block
- Mitchell J. Blutt, founder and Chairman, Consonance Capital
- Boediono, Governor of Bank Indonesia, the Central Bank of Indonesia
- Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (enrolled in 1947, dropped out in 1949, graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- Steven A. Cohen, founder, SAC Capital Advisors
- Pridiyathorn Devakula, Governor of the Central Bank of Thailand
- William P. Egan, founding partner of Alta Communications, founding partner of Marion Equity Partners
- Catherine Austin Fitts, Managing Member, Solari Advisors
- Dawn Fitzpatrick, Global Head of Equities, Multi-Asset and O'Connor at UBS Asset Management
- Ashish Goyal, first visually impaired trader in the world
- C. Robert Henrikson, Chairman, President and CEO, MetLife
- Vernon Hill, founder, Chairman and CEO, Commerce Bank
- Henry Jackson, founder and CEO of Merchant Equity Partners
- Robert S. Kapito, founder and President, BlackRock (world's largest asset manager)
- Vivek Kulkarni, founder and MD, Brickwork Ratings
- Jeffrey Alfred Legum, President and CEO, The Park Circle Motor Company
- Alexander Lloyd, venture capitalist
- Adriano B. Lucatelli, Swiss manager and businessperson
- Peter Lynch, Vice Chairman, Fidelity
- Ross Gerber, Co-founder, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki and economics writer
- William E. Macaulay, CEO and Chairman of First Reserve Corporation
- Howard Marks, founder, Oaktree Capital
- Michael Milken, inventor of the high-yield bond market; convicted of securities reporting violations and permanently barred from the securities industry
- Ken Moelis, founder, Moelis & Company
- Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
- John Neff, Chairman, Wellington Management
- Daniel Och, founder, Och-Ziff Capital Management
- Ronald Perelman, investor and businessman
- Frank Quattrone, founder of the Technology Groups at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse; founder of Qatalyst Partners
- Raj Rajaratnam, hedge fund CEO, Galleon Group; convicted of insider trading
- Larry Robbins, founder, Glenview Capital Management
- Eileen Clarkin Rominger, CIO, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Barry Rosenstein, (MBA 1984), American hedge fund manager
- Jacqui Safra, Swiss investor, owner of the Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster
- Michael Steinhardt, founder, Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz and Company
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, founder of Empirica Capital, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness
- Paul Wachter, businessman and investment advisor
- Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB
- Alan Wilzig, entrepreneur and investor
- Robert Wolf, President and CEO, UBS Investment Bank Americas
- Peter Wuffli, former CEO, UBS AG
- Martin Zweig, investment advisor, author of Winning on Wall Street
Technology
- Len Bosack, co-founder, Cisco Systems
- Safra Catz, CEO (former President and CFO), Oracle Corporation
- Sam Hamadeh, founder, Vault.com Inc.
- Mark D. Kingdon, CEO, Linden Lab, parent company of Second Life
- Josh Kopelman, founder, Half.com
- Curtis Lee, founder and CEO, Luxe
- Joey Levin, CEO, IAC
- Marc Lore, founder and CEO of Jet.com, acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion in August 2016
- Yuri Milner, CEO, Digital Sky Technologies
- Elon Musk, founder and CEO, Paypal; CEO and CTO, SpaceX, CEO and Product Architect, Tesla Motors
- Ben Nelson, CEO, Snapfish
- Peter M. Nicholas, founder, CEO and Chairman, Boston Scientific
- Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google
- Mark Pincus, founder and CEO, Zynga
- Lewis E. Platt, former Chairman and CEO, Hewlett Packard
- Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet, parent company of Google
- Josh Resnick, founder, CEO and President, Pandemic Studios Inc
- Rich Riley, Senior Vice President & Managing Director Yahoo! EMEA
- John Sculley, former CEO, Apple Inc.
- James L. Vincent, Chairman and CEO of Biogen Idec
- Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn
- Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
Government, law and nonprofit
- Susan Abrams, CEO of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
- Armand Arreza, former Administrator and CEO of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
- Ernesto Pérez Balladares, former President, The Government of Panama
- Boediono, Vice President (2009â€"present), Minister for the Economy (2005-2009), Minister of Finance (2001-2005), Indonesia
- William Brennan, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
- Patrick Chovanec, business professor at Tsinghua University
- Bill Cobey, former U.S. representative from North Carolina's 4th congressional district; director of the Jesse Helms Center
- James DePreist, Director and Conductor, Oregon Symphony
- Ron Dermer, Israeli ambassador to the United States
- Moonis Elahi, Pakistani businessman and politician
- Edwin Feulner, President of American Heritage Foundation
- Gary Gensler, former Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Sila MarÃa González Calderón, Puerto Rican Senator and former First Lady
- Gary L. Gottlieb, M.D., M.B.A., President and CEO of Partners HealthCare
- John J. Hafer, former Maryland State Senator
- Alfred Irving Hallowell, President of the American Anthropological Association
- Paul Judge, Chairman of the British Royal Society of Arts, Founder of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University
- Neel Kashkari, Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury; 2014 candidate for California governor
- Ted Kaufman, former U.S. Senator from Delaware
- Matin Ahmed Khan, Dean and Director, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, 1972-77
- Mohammad Uzair, Dean and Director, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.
- Frank Lavin, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; former United States Ambassador to Singapore
- Lawrence Lessig, founder and Director of Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Peter Lorange, President, IMD (Switzerland)
- Reggie Love, former body man for President Barack Obama
- Cardozo M. Luna, Undersecretary of Department of National Defense; former Philippine Ambassador to the Netherlands; former Vice Chief of Staff and Lieutenant General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
- Bongbong Marcos, former senator in the 16th Congress of the Philippines
- Ann Dore McLaughlin, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
- Winnie Monsod, former Director-General of National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines; former member of the UN Committee for Development Planning (UNCDP) from 1987 to 2000; former member of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Philip D. Murphy, U.S. Ambassador to Germany and New Jersey politician
- John W. Murphy, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Michael Nutter, former Mayor of Philadelphia (2008-2015)
- Peter O'Donnell, Texas state Republican chairman in the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist
- Alassane Dramane Ouattara, President (2010â€"present), Ivory Coast; Governor of the Central Bank of West African States; Deputy Head of the International Monetary Fund
- Corrado Passera, former CEO, Banca Intesa of Italy, Italian Minister of Economic Development, Infrastructure and Transport
- Frances Perkins, architect of Social Security system
- Sachin Pilot, Indian politician
- John Quelch, Dean, London Business School
- Garrett Reisman, astronaut, NASA
- Eli Rosenbaum, Director, Office of Special Investigations (United States Department of Justice)
- Manuel Roxas II, Member of the House of Representatives (1993-2000), Senator (2004-2010), Secretary of Trade and Industry (2000-2003), Secretary of Transportation and Communications (2011-2012) and Secretary of Interior and Local Government (2012-2015) in the Philippines
- Andrew Saul, Chairman of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, Vice-Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority; investor; former owner/CEO of Brooks Brothers
- David Scott, US Congressman from Georgia
- Richard Stearns, President, World Vision
- Nao Takasugi, California State Assembly and Mayor of Oxnard, California
- William J. Trent, executive director of the United Negro College Fund (1944-1964)
- Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
- Rexford Tugwell, Governor of Puerto Rico
- Cesar Virata, Prime Minister (1981-1986) and Secretary of Finance (1970â€"1986), Philippines
- Charles Wall (c. 1903-1995), resident superintendent of George Washington's estate at Mount Vernon for 39 years, starting in 1937
- Adlai Wertman, professor of clinical management and organization, USC Marshall School of Business
- Bob Ziegelbauer, Wisconsin politician
- Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Interior, Pakistan
Media
- Walter Annenberg, founder and CEO of TV Guide, Seventeen magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Triangle Publications
- Donny Deutsch, Chairman, Deutsch, Inc. and host of CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
- Wendy Finerman, Oscar-winning film producer (Forrest Gump, 1994)
- Lindsay Gardner, Media executive, Layer3 TV Chief Content Officer, Democratic strategist and fundraiser
- Aaron Karo, author and comedian
- Laura Lang, CEO, Time, Inc.
- Gerald Lestz (1935), columnist, author, publisher, founder of the Demuth Museum
- Warren Lieberfarb, CEO and President, Warner Home Video
- Jay Livingston, Oscar-winning composer (The Paleface, 1948; Captain Carey, 1950; and The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956)
- Harold W. McGraw III, Chairman and CEO, McGraw-Hill
- Anthony Connelly, President and CEO, Disney Cruise Line
- William S. Paley, founder, Columbia Broadcasting System
- Manuel V. Pangilinan, President and CEO, Philippine Telephone Company
- Gregg Spiridellis, founder, JibJab Media Inc
- Kidlat Tahimik (Eric De Guia), Filipino filmmaker
- Laurence Tisch, former CEO of CBS
- Cenk Uygur, radio talk show host, The Young Turks, Air America Radio; columnist for The Huffington Post
- David Vise, Pulitzer Prize winner, Washington Post
- Rick Yune, actor, screenwriter, producer, martial artist
- Mortimer Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report
Real estate
- Jonathan Hipp, founder, CEO and President of Calkain Companies Inc.
- Edward J. Lewis, Chairman and CEO, Oxford Development Company
- William Mack, founder, CEO and President, Mack Company and Apollo Real Estate Advisors
- Pete Rummell, former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Imagineering and St. Joe Company
- Jeffrey Sutton, President of Wharton Properties
- Donald Trump Jr., Executive Vice President, Trump Organization
- Ivanka Trump, Executive Vice President, Trump Organization
Writers
- Nina Godiwalla, author of Suits: A Woman on Wall Street
- Jerry Mander, environmentalist and author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
- James Martin, Jesuit priest and writer
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, researcher in risk and uncertainty, originator of the Black Swan theory; author os Fooled by Randomness
- Clarissa Sligh, photographer and book artist
- Barney Berlinger, decathlete and winner of the Sullivan Award
- Mark DeRosa, Major League Baseball player for the Washington Nationals
- Douglas Glanville, Major League Baseball Player, MLB Analyst
Music
- Hoodie Allen, aka Steven Markowitz, hip-hop artist and rapper
Academia
- William Frederick Boulding (born 1955), dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
- Ramchandran Jaikumar, Daewoo Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
Sports
- Justin Tuck, New York Giants Defensive End.
- Joshua Harris, principal owner of the New Jersey Devils and the Philadelphia 76ers