The Philadelphia Award is an annual prize given to a

Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

resident for community service.

Winners

* 2024 - Estelle B. Richman * 2023 - Sharmain Matlock-Turner * 2021 - Margaux Murphy * 2020 -

Ala Stanford Ala Stanford is an American pediatric surgeon. She is the founder of R.E.A.L. Concierge Medicine and the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium. She is also the first African-American, female pediatric surgeon to be trained entirely in the United Sta ...

* 2020 -

Brian L. Roberts Brian L. Roberts (born June 28, 1959) is an American entrepreneur, business executive and billionaire. He is the chairman and CEO of Comcast, a multinational telecommunications and media company providing entertainment and communications products ...

* 2019 - Rev. Luis Cortés, Jr. * 2019 - Nicole Kligerman * 2019 - Amy J. Goldberg * 2018 - Sylvester Mobley * 2017 -

Mel Heifetz Mel Heifetz (born November 4, 1935) is a Philadelphia-based real estate developer, philanthropist, and LGBT activist. He is a nationwide supporter of gay rights causes in America. and in 2018, he was awarded the Philadelphia Award. Early life ...

* 2016 - Charles L. Blockson * 2015 -

Marsha Levick Marsha Levick is a lawyer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She is a co-founder and Chief Legal Officer of the Juvenile Law Center and recognized as a leading expert in juvenile justice.Samantha Melamed"How Marsha Levick changed the f ...

* 2014 -

Kenneth Gamble Kenneth Gamble (born August 11, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Leon A. Huff (born April 8, 1942, Camden, New Jersey) are an American songwriting and production duo credited for developing the Philadelphia soul music genre (also known as P ...

* 2014 - Suzanne & Ralph Roberts * 2013 - Leigh & John Middleton * 2012 - Carl H. June, MD * 2011 - Aileen K. Roberts &

Joseph Neubauer Joseph Neubauer (born October 19, 1941 in Palestine) is an American businessman and the former CEO of Aramark, Aramark Corporation. Before joining Aramark, he was vice-president at PepsiCo and Chase Manhattan Bank. Neubauer is listed at #82 on Fo ...

* 2010 - Alice S. Bast * 2009 -

Joan Myers Brown Joan Myers Brown (born 25 December 1931) is an American dance company director and former dancer. In 1970, she founded PHILADANCO, a modern dance company in Philadelphia. In 2012, she received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of her car ...

* 2008 - H. Fitzgerald Gerry & Marguerite Lenfest * 2007 - Marciene Mattleman * 2006 -

Leonore Annenberg Leonore Cohn Annenberg (February 20, 1918 – March 12, 2009), also known as Lee Annenberg, was an American businesswoman, diplomat, and philanthropist. She was noted for serving as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1981 to 1982. Annen ...

* 2005 - Paul R. Levy * 2004 - Gloria Guard * 2003 -

Judith Rodin Judith Rodin (born Judith Seitz, September 9, 1944) is an American research psychologist, executive, university president, and global thought-leader. She served as the 12th president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 2005 to 2017. From 1994 to 2 ...

* 2002 -

Lorene Cary Lorene Cary (born 1956) is an American author, educator and social activist. Biography Cary grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1972, she was invited to the elite St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire ...

* 2001 -

Bernard C. Watson Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It has West Germanic origin and is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern ...

* 2000 - Ernesta D. Ballard * 1999 - Cecilia Moy Yep * 1998 - Graham S. Finney * 1997 -

Anne d'Harnoncourt Anne Julie d'Harnoncourt (September 7, 1943 – June 1, 2008) was an American curator, museum director, and art historian specializing in modern art. She was the director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), a post she held from 19 ...

* 1997 - Jane Golden * 1996 -

Arlin Adams Arlin Marvin Adams (April 16, 1921 – December 22, 2015) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. As late as 2013 he served as counsel to Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, and as a NAFTA ...

* 1995 -

Edward G. Rendell Edward Gene Rendell (; born January 5, 1944) is an American politician, author, and former prosecutor who served as the 45th governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011. He previously served as chair of the national Democratic Party from 1999 to 2 ...

* 1995 - John F. Street * 1994 - Jeremy Nowak * 1993 - The Hon.

Walter H. Annenberg Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and diplomat. Annenberg owned and operated Triangle Publications, which included ownership of ''The Philadelphia Inquirer' ...

* 1992 - Denise Scott-Brown &

Robert Venturi Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped shape the way that ...

* 1991 - Sr. Mary Scullion, RSM * 1990 - Herman Mattleman * 1989 - Hilary Koprowsky * 1988 - G. Stockton Strawbridge * 1987 -

Elaine Brown Elaine Brown (born March 2, 1943) is an American prison activist, writer, singer, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman who is based in Oakland, California.Wheaton, Sarah (December 12, 2010)"Inmates in Georgia Prisons Use Contraband Phones ...

* 1986 - Willard G. Rouse III * 1985 - Rev. Paul M. Washington * 1984 - Jennifer A. Allcock * 1983 - Edmund N. Bacon * 1982 - Carolyn L. Johnson * 1981 - Edwin Wolf II * 1980 - William M. Sample * 1979 - Robert Austrian * 1978 - Michael J. Sherman & Stephen Shutt * 1977 - R. Stewart Rauch * 1976 - Jonathan E. Rhoads * 1975 - Robert W. Crawford * 1975 - Perry C. Fennell, Jr. * 1975 - Melvin Floyd * 1975 - John C. Haas * 1975 - Ruth W. Hayre * 1975 - Floyd L. Logan * 1975 - Sol Schoenbach * 1975 - Irving W. Shandler * 1974 - William Henry Hastie * 1973 -

Ruth Patrick Ruth Myrtle Patrick (November 26, 1907 – September 23, 2013) was an American botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology. She authored more than 200 scientific papers, developed ways to measure the health of freshwa ...

* 1972 -

J. Presper Eckert John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first cour ...

John W. Mauchly John William Mauchly ( ; August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first ...

* 1971 - Franklin C. Watkins * 1970 -

Louis I. Kahn Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. Whil ...

* 1969 -

Eugene Ormandy Eugene Ormandy (born Jenő Blau; November 18, 1899 – March 12, 1985) was a Hungarian-born American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director. His 44-year association with ...

* 1968 - Marcus Albert Foster * 1967 -

Richardson Dilworth Richardson K. Dilworth (August 29, 1898 – January 23, 1974) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 91st mayor of Philadelphia from 1956 to 1962. He twice ran as the Democratic nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, in ...

* 1966 -

Lessing J. Rosenwald Lessing Julius Rosenwald (February 10, 1891 – June 24, 1979) was an American businessman, a collector of rare books and art, a chess patron, and a philanthropist. Biography Born in Chicago, Lessing J. Rosenwald was the eldest son of Julius R ...

* 1965 - Rev. Leon H. Sullivan * 1964 - Gaylord P. Harnwell * 1963 - John H. Gibbon, Jr. * 1962 - George W. Taylor * 1961 - Edwin O. Lewis * 1960 - Allston Jenkins * 1959 - Harry A. Batten * 1958 - Helen C. Bailey * 1957 -

Catherine Drinker Bowen Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 – November 1, 1973) was an American writer best known for her biographies. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958. Biography Bowen was born Catherine Drinker on the Haverford College ca ...

* 1956 - Isidor S. Ravdin * 1955 - Joseph S. Clark, Jr. * 1954 -

Esmond R. Long Esmond "Es" Ray Long (June 16, 1890 – November 11, 1979) was an American pathologist, epidemiologist, and medical historian. He was named emeritus professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania and was the director of the Henry Phip ...

* 1953 -

George Wharton Pepper George Wharton Pepper (March 16, 1867May 24, 1961) was an American lawyer, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Christian activist, and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in ...

* 1952 - Francis Bosworth * 1951 - Franklin H. Price * 1950 -

Fiske Kimball Sidney Fiske Kimball (1888 – 1955) was an American architect, architectural historian and museum director. A pioneer in the field of architectural preservation in the United States, he played a leading part in the restoration of Montice ...

* 1949 - Frederick H. Allen * 1947 - Samuel S. Fels * 1946 - Maurice B. Fagan & Marjorie Penney * 1945 -

Owen J. Roberts Owen Josephus Roberts (May 2, 1875 – May 17, 1955) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1930 to 1945. He also led two Roberts Commissions, the first of which investigated the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the sec ...

* 1944 -

William Draper Lewis William Draper Lewis (1867–1949) was the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1896–1914), and the founding director (1923–1947) of the American Law Institute. Personal life and education William Draper ...

* 1943 - James M. Skinner * 1942 - William Loren Batt * 1940 -

Marian Anderson Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897April 8, 1993) was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson performed with renowned orchestras in major concert and recital venues throughout the United S ...

* 1939 -

Thomas Sovereign Gates Thomas Sovereign Gates (March 21, 1873 – April 8, 1948) was an American investment banker and educator. He was the first president of the University of Pennsylvania from 6 October 1930 until 1944, and was the father of United States Secretary ...

* 1938 -

Rufus M. Jones Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a precursor to ...

& Clarence Pickett * 1937 - Alfred Newton Richards * 1936 - George W. Wilkins * 1935 - Francis Fisher Kane * 1934 - Charles M.B. Cadwalader * 1933 -

Lucy Langdon Wilson Lucy Langdon Wilson (1864–1937) was an American educator and ethnographer who became widely known for her models of progressive education and for using laboratory methods to teach natural science to young school children. She was also a publishe ...

* 1932 - Earl D. Bond * 1931 -

The Unknown Citizen "The Unknown Citizen" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in ''The New Yorker'', and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection ...

* 1930 -

Paul Philippe Cret Paul Philippe Cret (October 23, 1876 – September 8, 1945) was a French-born Philadelphia architect and industrial designer. For more than thirty years, he taught at a design studio in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsyl ...

* 1929 - Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack) * 1928 -

Eli Kirk Price Eli Kirk Price (July 20, 1797 – November 14, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as a Whig member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 1st district from 1853 to 1855, as commissioner of ...

* 1927 -

W. Herbert Burk W. Herbert Burk (1867-1933) was an Episcopal priest and founding vicar of the Washington Memorial Chapel in the Valley Forge National Historical Park. He is known for assembling, over the course of many years, the collection of Revolutionary War ar ...

* 1926 -

Chevalier Jackson Chevalier Quixote Jackson (November 4, 1865 – August 16, 1958) was an American pioneer in laryngology. He is sometimes known as the "father of endoscopy", although Philipp Bozzini (1773–1809) is also often given this sobriquet. Chevalier Q. J ...

* 1925 -

Samuel Yellin Samuel Yellin (1884–1940) was an American master blacksmith and metal designer. Early life and education Samuel Yellin was born to a Jewish family in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Ukraine in the Russian Empire in 1884. At the age of eleven, he was ...

* 1924 - Charles C. Harrison * 1923 - Samuel S. Fleisher * 1922 -

Russell H. Conwell Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, author, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphi ...

* 1921 -

Leopold Stokowski Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. H ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Philadelphia Award Events in Philadelphia American awards Awards established in 1921 1921 establishments in Pennsylvania Non-profit organizations based in Philadelphia