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The list of notable Wharton School alumni are graduates of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The school has over 92,000 alumni in 150 countries.[1] As of 2018, there are approximately 99,000 alumni worldwide, including 79,280 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.[2]

Academia

Notable alumni include:

Business and industry

Warren Buffett enrolled in Wharton's undergraduate program in 1947 and dropped out in 1949.
John Sculley, president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), CEO of Apple (1983–1993), partner at Sculley Brothers, LLC (1995–present), co-founder of Zeta Interactive (2007–present)
Ronald Perelman, chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes Group, earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from Wharton.

Finance

Private equity CEOs, all Wharton alumni, at the Wharton Global Alumni Forum in Milan, Italy
Daniel Och, founder of Och-Ziff Capital Management, earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton.
Robert S. Kapito (far left), founder and president of BlackRock, earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from Wharton.
Frank Quattrone, founder of the Technology Groups at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, and founder of Qatalyst Partners, earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton.

Journalism

Law

Media

Triangle Publications publisher Walter Annenberg and Lenore Annenberg with President Ronald Reagan, 1981.

Military

Music

Politics and nonprofit

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017-2021)
Alassane Ouattara, president of the Ivory Coast (2010-present), governor of the Central Bank of West African States, deputy head of the International Monetary Fund
Boediono, vice president (2009-2014), Minister for the Economy (2005-2009), Minister of Finance (2001-2005), Indonesia
Cesar Virata, Prime Minister (1981–1986), Minister of Finance (1970–1986), Philippines
Corrado Passera, Minister of Economic Development, Infrastructure and Transport, Italy

Real estate

Sports

Technology

Elon Musk, founder and CEO of PayPal,[125] Tesla Motors[126] and SpaceX,[127] earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton.

Writers

Other

See also

References

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