This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of Temple University , a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA.
Russell Conwell
Samuel R. Delany
John Allen Paulos
Shirley M. Tilghman , President of Princeton University (Ph.D., biochemistry)
Katalin Karikó - 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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 .
Leon Bass (Ph.D.) – educator
John Baugh – linguist known for developing theory of linguistic profiling , Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Susan H. Brandt - historian
David Bressoud (Ph.D) – mathematician, former professor at Pennsylvania State University , DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College
Linda Darling-Hammond – Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she launched the School Redesign Network
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
David Drasin – mathematician, specializing in function theory.
John Esposito – scholar of Middle East and Islamic studies, professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University
Louis Filler – eminent professor of American Studies
Gail F. Forrest – spinal cord researcher at Kessler Foundation and New Jersey Medical School
Ben Goertzel – Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC
Stephen G. Haines – organizational theorist and management consultant
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
Edmund Kornfeld – Organic chemist
Donald Kraybill – 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
Glenda Price - former president of Marygrove College
JoAnne Robbins – noted authority on dysphagia , professor at University of Wisconsin
Charles Coleman Sellers – historian, biographer, and librarian, winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1970
Stephen Sheehi اسطفان شيحا – Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, College of William and Mary ; author of Foundations of Modern Arab Identity (University Press of Florida , 2004), Islamophobia : The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims (Clarity Press, 2011), and Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography 1860–1910 , (Princeton University Press , 2016).
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
Alan Wolfe – political scientist and sociologist on the faculty of Boston College who serves as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life . He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation , a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies,[2] "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".
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
Fritz Coleman – weather anchor, KNBC-TV news
Marsha Cooke - executive producer, ESPN Films , 30 for 30
Tracy Davidson – news presenter for NBC 10 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.
Diplo – DJ/producer
Nick Gillespie – author, journalist, editor at reason.com
Tamron Hall – MSNBC anchor
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.
John Kincade – sports radio talk show host on ESPN Radio
Mark Levin – conservative author, lawyer, and radio talk show host on WABC
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
Dyana Williams - Radio and television personality, journalist, and celebrity media coach
Marc Zumoff – sportscaster, Comcast Sportsnet, Philadelphia 76ers
Film, theatre, and television[ edit ]
Keith Andes – actor
Darcy Antonellis – major film studio executive
Joe Augustyn – screenwriter, producer
David Brenner – standup comedian, actor, author, filmmaker
Richard Brooks – Academy Award -winning Hollywood filmmaker
Quinta Brunson – actor, comedian
Cody Calafiore – model, actor, runner up of Big Brother 16 , winner of Big Brother 22
Dennis Christopher – actor
Bill Cosby – actor, comedian
Nicholas P. Dallis – soap comic writer
Colman Domingo – actor on Fear the Walking Dead
Norman Fell – comic actor best known for Three's Company (attended Theatre Dept. classes)
Jason Winston George – actor, Sunset Beach , Platinum
Johnny Ray Gill – actor, independent filmmaker (NBC's Harry's Law )
William Goldenberg – Academy Award -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!
Debra Hill (1950-2005), film producer and screenwriter best known for making the movie, Halloween .[ 9]
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
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), Academy award -winning writer of The Big Short
Mary Lou Metzger – singer, dancer The Lawrence Welk Show
Kunal Nayyar – actor, plays Raj on CBS's Big Bang Theory
Eric Owens (bass-baritone) – American operatic bass-baritone
Nadia Parfan – Ukrainian film director and creative producer
Robert Prosky – actor
Da'Vine Joy Randolph – Academy Award-winning actress for The Holdovers
Herbert Rudley – actor
Bob Saget – comedian, game show host, Full House
Michael Schoeffling – actor who played Jake Ryan in 1980s film Sixteen Candles
Peter Shub – actor, clown, and circus producer
Svetlana Shusterman – from MTV's The Real World Key West
James Riordan – actor, Broadway, Television and Film actor
Tom Sizemore – actor
Hugh Panaro – actor, Broadway
Paul F. Tompkins – actor, comedian
Dan Trachtenberg – film director of 10 Cloverfield Lane , and co-host The Totally Rad Show
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 )
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
M. Julian Bradley - first African-American Republican elected to Wisconsin State Senate
Frederick C. Branch – first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer
Horace J. Bryant – first African American to serve in a State Cabinet position in New Jersey
Jamira Burley – Municipal leader, national campaign deputy director
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
Mae E. De Vincentis – former United States Department of Defense official and the vice director for the Defense Logistics Agency
Harold L. Ervin – judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Edwin Duing Eshleman – former Republican congressman
Thomas M. Foglietta – U.S. Congressman and United States Ambassador to Italy
Vincent Fumo – Democratic Pennsylvania state senator
Tom Gannon – Pennsylvania State Representative for the 161st legislative district (1979–2006)
Hage Geingob - President of the Republic of Namibia (March 21, 2015 – February 4, 2024)
Nikoloz Gilauri – Prime Minister of Georgia
Joseph M. Gladeck, Jr. (B.S. 1972) – Pennsylvania State Representative 1979–2000.[ 10]
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[ 11]
Stephen Hahn – Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
Allison Hepler - state representative[ 12]
Joe Hoeffel – former Democratic congressman
Malcolm Hoenlein – executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ;[ 13] 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, also convicted of felony perjury[ 14]
Paul E. Kanjorski – U.S. Congressman , representing Pennsylvania's 11th district [ 15]
Guy Kratzer – Pennsylvania State Senator (1983-1986)
Jerome Kurtz – Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1977–1980)[ 16]
David See-Chai Lam OC, CVO, OBC, (林思齊) – 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia , Canada
Joseph Lazarow – Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey , 1976–1982[ 17]
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 U.S. 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
Joseph M. Pratt , U.S. congressman from Philadelphia (1944-1945)[ 18]
Cherinet Hariffo Political Science Graduate and Activist
R. K. Raghavan IPS – former Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation , India
Pallam Raju – Former 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[ 19]
Jim Saxton – U.S. Congressman representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district
Jacob Seidenberg - chairman of the Federal Services Impasses Panel
Younes Sekkouri – Moroccan Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills[ 20]
Martin J. Silverstein – United States Ambassador to Uruguay
John F. Street – former Mayor of Philadelphia
Nao Takasugi – California State Assembly
Johnny Young – U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia (2001-2004), U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain (1997-2001), U.S. Ambassador to Togo (1994-1997), U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone (1989-1992)[citation needed ]
Sharmi Albrechtsen – author, blogger
Ben Bova – science fiction author
Frank Brookhouser – Journalist, columnist, and author.
Jim Callahan – retired football player and writer
Tony Campolo – author, pastor, and speaker
Anita Cornwell – author
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
William Gardner Smith – author and journalist
Jerry Spinelli – writer
Lamont B. Steptoe – poet, photographer, publisher
Tony Trov – science fiction writer
Johnny Zito – science fiction writer
Daryl Hall and John Oates
Irving Berlin – honorary degree '54, songwriter
Rubén Colón Tarrats – orchestra director
Abbie Conant - classical trombonist
Norman Connors - Musician, Composer, Arranger, & Producer
Evelyn Simpson Curenton - composer
Diplo , born Thomas Wesley Pentz – DJ, producer, rapper, and songwriter
Alix Dobkin – singer/songwriter
Pat Finnerty – musician, guitarist, and songwriter
Joe Genaro – musician, guitarist and songwriter with the Dead Milkmen
Ariana Ghez – classic oboist
Alex G - musician, guitarist, and songwriter
Julie Gold – songwriter, Grammy Award winner
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
James Poyser – Grammy Award winning keyboardist, songwriter, and producer
Fayette Pinkney – original member of The Three Degrees
Jimmy Pop – lead singer of The Bloodhound Gang
Jill Scott – R&B/soul artist
Debbie Sledge – Singer and member of the disco/R&B group Sister Sledge
Joni Sledge – Singer and member of the disco/R&B group Sister Sledge
Kathy Sledge – Singer and member of the disco/R&B group Sister Sledge
Kim Sledge – Singer and member of the disco/R&B group Sister Sledge
Allan Slutsky – Grammy Award-winning producer and musician
Jeffrey Solow – Grammy nominated classical cellist
Terell Stafford – professional jazz trumpet player
Tim – Korean ballad singer
Kenneth Thompkins - principal trombonist, Detroit Symphony Orchestra [ 21] [ 22]
Susan Werner – singer-songwriter
Robby Anderson – NFL wide receiver , New York Jets
Matt Balasavage – Former NFL tight end , Baltimore Ravens
Stan Batinski – NFL offensive guard , Detroit Lions
Todd Bowles – NFL Head Coach , New York Jets
Raheem Brock – NFL defensive end , Indianapolis Colts
Matt Brown
Lem Burnham – NFL defensive end , Philadelphia Eagles , did not play Temple, earned Ph.D at Temple
Jim Callahan – former Continental Football League player and writer
Larry Chester – NFL defensive tackle , Miami Dolphins
Jim Cooper – NFL offensive tackle , Dallas Cowboys
Mike Curcio – NFL linebacker , Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers
Derek Dennis – American football offensive lineman
Randy Grossman – NFL tight end , Pittsburgh Steelers
Tom Hanson – NFL halfback , Philadelphia Eagles
James Harris – NFL defensive end, Oakland Raiders
Mike Jarmoluk – NFL defensive tackle, Philadelphia Eagles
Lance Johnstone – NFL defensive end, Minnesota Vikings
Alex Joseph – NFL linebacker, San Francisco 49ers
Bucko Kilroy – NFL defensive tackle, Philadelphia Eagles
Dan Klecko – NFL fullback , Philadelphia Eagles
Joe Klecko – NFL defensive tackle, New York Jets; father of Dan Klecko
Terrance Knighton – NFL defensive tackle, Denver Broncos
Bill Manlove , national championship college coach
Jason McKie – NFL fullback, Chicago Bears
Brandon McManus – NFL placekicker , Denver Broncos
Nick Mike-Mayer – NFL placekicker , Atlanta Falcons
James Nixon – NFL cornerback , Green Bay Packers
James Parrish – former professional football player
Bernard Pierce – NFL, running back , Jacksonville Jaguars
Britt Reid – former assistant coach in the NFL
Kevin Ross – NFL cornerback, Kansas City Chiefs
Sarah Schkeeper – WFA Guard , New York Sharks
Leslie Shepherd – NFL wide receiver , Washington Redskins
Al Singleton – NFL linebacker , Dallas Cowboys
David Smukler (1914–1971) NFL football player
Rod Streater – NFL, wide receiver, Oakland Raiders
Rian Wallace – NFL linebacker, Pittsburgh Steelers
Steve Watson – NFL wide receiver, Denver Broncos
Muhammad Wilkerson – NFL defensive end, New York Jets
Tavon Young – NFL cornerback, Baltimore Ravens
Henry Burris – CFL quarterback, Ottawa Redblacks
Lavoy Allen – NBA player, Indiana Pacers
Rick Brunson – NBA player, Philadelphia 76ers
Mardy Collins – NBA player, New York Knicks
Candice Dupree – WNBA player, Phoenix Mercury
Mel Greenberg – Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, reporter for Philadelphia Inquirer
Marc Jackson – professional basketball player in Europe, former NBA player
Steve Javie – NBA referee
Eddie Jones – NBA player, Los Angeles Lakers , Miami Heat , Charlotte Hornets , Memphis Grizzlies , Dallas Mavericks
Mark Macon – NBA player, Denver Nuggets , Detroit Pistons
Aaron McKie – NBA player, Los Angeles Lakers , Philadelphia 76ers
Tim Perry – NBA player, Phoenix Suns , Philadelphia 76ers
Pepe Sánchez – former NBA player now with Spanish ACB ; gold- medal winner in basketball with Argentina, 2004 Summer Olympics
Khalif Wyatt (born 1991) – basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
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Founded : 1884
Students : 39,515
Endowment : 873 million