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Also Known As	Philadelphia Academy • Academy of Philadelphia • College and Academy of Philadelphia
Date	1740 - present
Notable Alumni	Owen Josephus Roberts • Drew Gilpin Faust • Donald Trump • Noam Chomsky • Hilary Putnam • Elon Musk • Ezra Pound • James Martin • Alassane Ouattara • Tanya Sue Chutkan • Roger Arliner Young • Luigi Mangione • John Margolies • Donald Trump, Jr. • Ahn Cheol-Soo • Phebe Novakovic • Kevin Hassett • Steve Wynn • Beau Biden • Yuri Milner • Ivanka Trump • Mehmet Oz • Michael Milken • John Legend • John Edgar Wideman • John Ternus • Jon Huntsman, Jr. • John du Pont • William S. Paley • Anne Salmond • Stanley B. Prusiner • Sundar Pichai • Alice Paul • Helen Archibald Clarke • Frances Perkins • Ahmed H. Zewail • Gregg L. Semenza • Michael S. Brown • Jennifer Egan • Gerald Maurice Edelman • C.K. Williams • Charles Bachman • William Carlos Williams • Philip Dybvig • Harold Prince • Anil Ambani • Stanley Fish • J. Presper Eckert • R.S. Crane • Paul R. Ehrlich • Edwin Ray Guthrie • Negishi Ei-ichi • Robert J. Walker
Related People	Sir William Osler, Baronet

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