Notable Alumni of Thomas Jefferson University

Bethany Hall-Long 1963–

Former Governor of Delaware

Also attended: George Mason University

Anson Jones 1798–1858

Fourth and last president of the Republic of Texas

Charles B. Mitchel 1815–1864

US and Confederate senator from Arkansas

Herb Conaway 1963–

US Representative from New Jersey, physician

Doctor of Medicine

Also attended: Princeton University

Lamartine Griffin Hardman 1856–1937

65th governor of Georgia

George R. Robbins 1808–1875

Physician and U.S. Representative from New Jersey

Shahzada Dawood 1975–2023

Pakistani businessman killed in the Titan submersible implosion

Master of Science

Father: Hussain Dawood (Northwestern University)

Maurice Kanbar 1929–2022

Entrepreneur and inventor, creator of Skyy vodka

Carlos Juan Finlay 1833–1915

Cuban physician, yellow fever research pioneer

Robert Gallo 1937–

Biomedical researcher who helped establish HIV as cause of AIDS

Also attended: University of Chicago, Boston College, Providence College

James P. Bagian 1952–

Former NASA astronaut and physician

Also attended: Drexel University

J. Marion Sims 1813–1883

Physician and gynecological surgeon

Doctor of Medicine · Class of 1835

Also attended: University of South Carolina-Columbia

Silas Weir Mitchell 1829–1914

Physician regarded as father of medical neurology

Father: John Kearsley Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania)

Child: Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (Harvard University, Columbia University in the City of New York)

John Heysham Gibbon 1903–1973

Surgeon who invented the heart–lung machine

Also attended: Princeton University

Howard Krein 1966–

Otolaryngologist and business executive

Spouse: Ashley Biden (Tulane University of Louisiana, University of Pennsylvania)

Bartley P. Griffith 1949–

Heart surgeon, first pig heart transplant into a human

William Williams Keen 1837–1932

First brain surgeon in the United States

Also attended: Brown University

Child: Dora Keen (Bryn Mawr College)

Gamaliel Bailey 1807–1859

Abolitionist journalist and newspaper editor

Jay McCarroll 1974–

Fashion designer, Project Runway first season winner

Harry Lott 1880–1949

Rower, 1904 Olympic eight gold medalist

Pat Chambers 1970–

College basketball coach, formerly at Penn State

Adrian Brooks 1957–

Former professional footballer and college coach

Steve McLean 1961–

Former soccer forward, 1981 US youth world championship team

Kermit Gosnell 1941–2026

Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted as serial killer

Also attended: Dickinson College