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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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 - first LGBTQIA+ president ^{[1] [2]}
• Ann Weaver Hart – ninth president of the university - first female president ^[3]
• Neil D. Theobald – tenth president of the university
• Richard Englert – eleventh president of the university
• Jason Wingard – twelfth president of the university - first male of color president ^[4]
• JoAnne A. Epps – thirteenth president of the university - first female of color president ^[5]
• Theresa A. Powell – vice president of academic affairs ^[6]

Biology

• Stephen Blair Hedges
• Jody Hey
• Masatoshi Nei

Business

• Subodha Kumar

Communication

• Joseph P. Folger

English

Samuel R. Delany

• Samuel R. Delany – science fiction author
• George W. Johnson – former chair of the Temple Department of English; later President of George Mason University (1979–1996) ^[7]
• 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
• Miles Orvell – cultural historian, editor of the Encyclopedia of American Studies

Film

• Lauren Wolkstein

History

• Richard H. Immerman
• Alan McPherson
• David Alan Rosenberg
• Gregory J. W. Urwin
• Russell Weigley
• Ralph F. Young

Law

• Jim Drucker – former Commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, former Commissioner of the Arena Football League, and founder of NewKadia Comics
• C. Darnell Jones II
• David Kairys
• David G. Post

Mathematics

John Allen Paulos

• Emil Grosswald
• John Allen Paulos – author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

Music

• Katherine Ciesinski
• Rollo Dilworth – choral composer, conductor
• John Douglas – conductor and voice teacher; head of Temple's Opera Theatre program for two decades
• Cynthia Folio – composer, flutist, and music theorist
• Matthew Greenbaum – composer
• Aaron Levinson – Grammy Award-winning producer and musician
• Dick Oatts – saxophonist
• Terell Stafford – trumpet player

Philosophy

• Lewis Gordon
• Espen Hammer
• Joseph Margolis
• Jitendra Nath Mohanty, emeritus
• Miriam Solomon

Psychology

• Lauren Alloy
• Laurence Steinberg
• Joseph Wolpe – South African psychiatrist and founding figure in behavior therapy
• Rinad Beidas

Religion

• Ismail al-Faruqi
• Michael Alexander
• Edwin David Aponte
• Sr. Christine Schenk
• Leonard Swidler

Sociology

• Annette Lareau

Sports

• Nikki Franke – fencer and fencing coach

Other disciplines

• Molefi Asante – scholar, known for popularizing and developing Afrocentricity
• Emile B. De Sauzé – language educator known for developing the conversational method of learning a language
• Happy Fernandez – politician
• Mary Stuart Fisher – radiologist
• John E. Fryer – psychiatrist and gay rights activist, also known as Dr. Henry Anonymous
• Jacob Gershon-Cohen – Professor of Research Radiology and developer of mammography for detecting breast cancer ^[8]
• Chevalier Jackson – pioneer physician in laryngology and endoscopy
• Leah Modigliani – Associate Professor and Program Director of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
• Waldo Nelson – "father of pediatrics," longtime editor of The Journal of Pediatrics ; author of Nelson Book of Pediatrics
• Lucia V. Streng – chemist
• Ann M. Valentine – chemist
• Earl Bradley – pediatrician
• Mark L. Nelson – chemist and inventor of Nuzyra, an antibiotic FDA approved in 2018

Alumni

Academia

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
• Elizabeth D. Peña – Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Development & Diversity at the University of California, Irvine ^[9]
• 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 the 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 – 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
• Patrick Henry Tolan - Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and the Charles S. Robb Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia.
• 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, as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life

Art

• Laura Marie Greenwood – painter
• Trenton Doyle Hancock – artist
• Andrew Hussie – webcomic artist
• Simmie Knox – presidential portrait painter (Clinton)
• Nicholas Muellner – photographer and writer
• Ralph Rucci – designer
• Paula Scher – designer
• Sarai Sherman – artist
• Aaron Shikler – presidential portrait painter
• Jen Simmons – designer and web developer
• Tammy Stoner – artist and writer
• Ann Wilson – painter

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
• 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.
• 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

Business

• John Carrig – former COO and president for ConocoPhillips
• Sam Greenblatt – Vice President of Technology and Architecture in Enterprise Solution Group of Dell
• Jai Gulati – CEO of Systel
• Lewis Katz – businessman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, former co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Larry Miller – president of Jordan Brand, former president of Portland Trail Blazers
• Rosemary Reed Miller – owner Toast and Strawberries, Washington D.C. fashion boutique
• Ash Vasudevan – founding Managing Partner of Edge Holdings

Film, theatre, and television

• Kalen Allen – actor and internet personality discovered by Ellen DeGeneres while at Temple
• 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
• Bryan Terrell Clark – Broadway 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 – film producer and screenwriter ^[10]
• 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 (Raj on CBS' The Big Bang Theory )
• Eric Owens – 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
• Nicole Raffie - Youtube influencer
• Herbert Rudley – actor
• Bob Saget – comedian, game show host, Full House
• Michael Schoeffling – actor (Jake Ryan in 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 – Broadway actor
• 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
• Christopher Wilkinson – Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, producer, and director
• Jesse Williams – actor (Jackson Avery on 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 Panama
• 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. ^[11]
• Camillo Gonsalves (B.A. 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 ^[12]
• Stephen Hahn – Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
• Allison Hepler – state representative ^[13]
• Joe Hoeffel – former Democratic congressman
• Malcolm Hoenlein – executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; ^[14] 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 ^[15]
• Paul E. Kanjorski – U.S. Congressman, representing Pennsylvania's 11th district ^[16]
• Guy Kratzer – Pennsylvania State Senator (1983-1986)
• Jerome Kurtz – Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1977–1980) ^[17]
• 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 ^[18]
• 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) ^[19]
• 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 ^[20]
• 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 ^[21]
• 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 ]}
• Mary Kay Costello – federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Literature

• Sharmi Albrechtsen – author, blogger
• Ben Bova – science fiction author
• Frank Brookhouser – journalist, columnist, and author
• 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, and anthropologist
• Jeffrey Robinson – author
• William Gardner Smith – author and journalist
• Jerry Spinelli – writer
• Lamont B. Steptoe – poet, photographer, and publisher
• Tony Trov – science fiction writer
• Johnny Zito – science fiction writer

Music

Daryl Hall and John Oates

• Irving Berlin (honorary degree 1954) – songwriter
• Rubén Colón Tarrats – orchestra director
• Abbie Conant–- classical trombonist
• Norman Connors – musician, composer, arranger, and 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 ^{[22] [23]}
• Susan Werner – singer-songwriter
• Danny Kirk – musician, ADALIE

Other

• John C. Allen – roller coaster designer
• Howard Bryant – sports journalist and columnist
• Ted Bundy – serial killer
• Reed Erickson – transgender activist, engineer, and philanthropist
• Richard L. Fox – tax attorney
• Judith E. Glaser – author and organizational anthropologist
• E. Urner Goodman – early leader of the Boy Scouts of America
• George E. Hargest – noted philatelic and member of the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame.
• 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 ^[24]
• Shantrelle P. Lewis – curator, historian, critic and filmmaker
• Georgia L. McMurray - activist
• Maralyn Lois Polak – journalist and author
• Jack Posobiec – alt-right political activist
• Stephen Starr – celebrity restaurateur
• Gary Tabach – retired United States Navy captain, the first Soviet-born citizen to be commissioned an officer in the Armed Forces of the United States
• John Thomas Taylor – congressional lobbyist for the American Legion
• Salvatore Testa - Italian American hitman for the Philadelphia crime family
• Michael van der Veen – attorney, who represented former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial
• Diana Vincent – jewelry designer
• James West – inventor, primarily of microphones
• Edith Windsor – Plaintiff in United States v. Windsor

Philosophy

• Herman T. Tavani — scholar in ethics, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Rivier University, and a recipient of the Weizenbaum Award ^[25]

Sports

Baseball

• Bobby Higginson – Major League Baseball outfielder, Detroit Tigers
• John Marzano – MLB catcher, sports analyst
• Harry Shuman – MLB pitcher, Pittsburgh Pirates ^[26]

Football

• Robby Anderson – National Football League wide receiver, New York Jets
• Matt Balasavage – 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
• Brian Broomell – Canadian Football League quarterback
• Tim Brown – CFL running back
• Lem Burnham – NFL defensive end, Philadelphia Eagles, did not play Temple, earned Ph.D at Temple
• Henry Burris – CFL quarterback, Ottawa Redblacks
• 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
• Dion Dawkins – NFL offensive tackle, Buffalo Bills
• 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 Hall of Fame defensive tackle, New York Jets; father of Dan Klecko
• Terrance Knighton – NFL defensive tackle, Denver Broncos
• Bill Manlove – NCAA Division III National Championship coach
• Tyler Matakevich – NFL linebacker, Pittsburgh Steelers, 2015 Bronko Nagurski Trophy and Chuck Bednarik Award Winner
• Jason McKie – NFL fullback, Chicago Bears
• Brandon McManus – NFL placekicker, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers
• 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
• Haason Reddick – NFL linebacker, Arizona Cardinals, Carolina Panthers, Philadelphia Eagles
• 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 – NFL fullback, Philadelphia Eagles
• 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
• Avery Williams – CFL linebacker, Montreal Alouettes
• Tavon Young – NFL cornerback, Baltimore Ravens

Fencing

• Kamali Thompson – Team USA fencer

Basketball

• Lavoy Allen – NBA player, Indiana Pacers
• Rick Brunson – NBA player, Philadelphia 76ers
• Duane Causwell – NBA player, Sacramento Kings, Miami Heat
• Mardy Collins – NBA player, New York Knicks
• Candice Dupree – WNBA player, Phoenix Mercury
• Feyonda Fitzgerald – WNBA player
• Mel Greenberg – Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, reporter for Philadelphia Inquirer
• Kamesha Hairston – WNBA player, Connecticut Sun
• Donald Hodge – NBA player, Dallas Mavericks
• 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, 3× NBA All-Star
• Mark Macon – NBA player, Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons
• Aaron McKie – NBA player, Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers, former Temple Owls men's basketball head coach
• Bill Mlkvy – NBA player, Philadelphia Warriors
• Shey Peddy – WNBA player, Washington Mystics, Phoenix Mercury
• Tim Perry – NBA player, Phoenix Suns, Philadelphia 76ers
• Pepe Sánchez – NBA player, Olympic gold medalist for Argentina
• Terence Stansbury – NBA player, Indiana Pacers, Seattle SuperSonics
• Mark Strickland – NBA player, Miami Heat, Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawks
• Khalif Wyatt – Israeli Basketball Premier League player, Hapoel Holon

Other sports

• Marcus McElhenney – Olympic bronze medalist, rowing
• Benny McLaughlin – National Soccer Hall of Fame
• Zach Pfeffer – soccer player
• Allen Rosenberg – rower and rowing coach
• Jason Read – Olympic gold medalist, rowing
• Eric Semborski – National Hockey League emergency goaltender, Chicago Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers
• Gabe Sapolsky – professional wrestling booker, part founder of Ring of Honor and Full Impact Pro
• Geoffrey Sisk – former PGA Tour golfer
• Gil Stein – commissioner of the National Hockey League, 1992–1993

Fictional alumni

• Toby Flenderson – character in the television series The Office ; has a degree in social work from Temple University
• Stanley Sugerman – character played by Adam Sandler in the 2022 film Hustle ^[27]

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