The following is a list of notable people who have served on the staff of The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania.

Contents

• Academia
• Business
• Journalists, authors, and writers
• Politics, government, and law
• Other

Academia

• Arnold Eisen, chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary
• Josiah Penniman, provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Michael Stuart Brown, geneticist and physician; 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Business

• Richard Fisher, New York real estate developer
• Leonard Lauder, chairman and CEO, Estée Lauder Companies
• Marc Turtletaub, CEO of The Money Store and co-founder of Big Beach

Journalists, authors, and writers

• Charles Addams, cartoonist
• Binyamin Appelbaum, editor, The New York Times
• Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights ; 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
• Claudia Cohen, gossip columnist, socialite, and television reporter
• Jean Chatzky, financial editor for TODAY
• Frank Dolson, Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer
• Lee Eisenberg, editor for Esquire magazine
• Robert Elegant, journalist known for his coverage of the Korean and Vietnam Wars
• Stefan Fatsis, former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of Word Freak
• Gaeton Fonzi, reporter and editor for Philadelphia Magazine
• Stephen Glass, disgraced former New Republic writer
• Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic
• Erik Larson, author
• Gab Marcotti, sports journalist, ESPN FC
• Charles Ornstein, senior reporter, ProPublica; 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
• Ashley Parker, reporter for The Washington Post
• Ken Rosenthal, sportswriter, reporter, and sportscaster for Fox Sports
• Dan Rottenberg, journalist, editor and author of 10 books
• Lisa Scottoline, author
• Alan Schwarz, reporter for The New York Times
• Steve Stecklow, global investigative reporter, Reuters ; 2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
• Richard Stevenson, Washington bureau chief for The New York Times
• Josh Tyrangiel, editor, Bloomberg Businessweek
• Cenk Uygur, host of TheYoungTurks

Politics, government, and law

• Harold Ford Jr., U.S. representative from Tennessee
• Benjamin Ginsberg, lawyer and counsel for George W. Bush and Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns
• David A. Gross, U.S. ambassador
• Helen Gym, Philadelphia City Council
• Frank Luntz, political consultant and pollster
• Gene Sperling, former director of the United States National Economic Council
• Maurice Obstfeld, chief economist, International Monetary Fund
• George Wharton Pepper, U.S. senator from Pennsylvania
• Owen Roberts, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• John Haines Ware III, U.S. representative from Pennsylvania

Other

• Wilson Hobson Jr., bronze medalist, 1932 Summer Olympics
• Josiah McCracken, physician; silver and bronze medalist, 1900 Summer Olympics
• Matt Selman, producer, The Simpsons
• Josh Heald, writer and producer, Hot Tub Time Machine and Cobra Kai