Each year, the membership of Sphinx selects someone from the Penn community whom they feel embodies the qualities that Sphinx represents--achievement, leadership, commitment, and character--through his or her service to the University. This individual is honored at the spring banquet every April, and becomes an honorary life member of the Sphinx Senior Society.

The following is a partial list of honorary Sphinx members. The year in which they were honored is noted, if known.

1903
1903
1903
1903
1903
1903
1903
1903
1903
1903
1903
1939
1938
1939
1939
1970

1997
1999
2000
2001
2002
2004

Persifor Frazer
Henry Laussat Geyelin
Charles Custis Harrison
Clayton Fotteral McMichael
J. Hartley Merrick
Charles S.W. Packard
Josiah Harmer Penniman
Thomas Reath
Joseph George Rosengarten
Edgar Fahs Smith
J. William White
Herbert F. Goodrich
Arnold K. Henry
Harl McDonald
Oliver H. Perry Pepper
Martin Meyerson

David Grossman
Beth Hagovsky
Robert L. Barchi
Art Casciato
Rodney V. Robinson
Afaf Meleis

Professor of Chemistry; Pioneering Chemist/Geologist/Naturalist
 
University Provost (1894-1910)
Founder of the Mask & Wig Club
Secretary to the Board of Trustees
 
First modern University Provost (1921-1939)
Professor of Medicine at Penn; President, American College of Physicians
University Trustee
 
President of Penn's Athletic Association,University Trustee
Vice President of Penn Law school
Director of Admissions at Penn
Director of Penn Glee Club; Manager of Philadelphia Orchestra
Professor from 1892-1910, U.S. senator (1922-1927)
University President (1970-1981)

Director, Civic House
Associate Director for Wharton Student Affairs
University of Pennsylvania Provost (1999-2004)
Director, Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
Associate Director of Student Life
Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

C. Louis Borie III
Arthur Latham Church
Morris L. Clothier
Charles Day
Thomas Blaine Donaldson
Thomas Sovereign Gates
Frank Bacon Hancock
Robert Carmer Hill
Samuel Frederic Houston
Sydney Elmer Hutchinson
Joseph Levering Jones
Crawford C. Madeira
Louis Childs Madeira
Randal Morgan
Harry R. Neilson
George Wharton Pepper
Owen J. Roberts
Judith Rodin
Sydney Thayer
Francine Walker
Joseph Henry
Amy Gutmann
John J. DiIulio

Penn graduate and architect
 
 
 
 
University's First President (1930-1944)
 
University Trustee, namesake of Hill College House
University Trustee, son of donor for Houson Hall
Head of the Council on Athletics at Penn
 
 
 
University Trustee
Professor of Chemistry and University Provost
 
Penn Professor (1898-1918); Associate Justice,U.S. Supreme Court
University President (1994-2004)
 
Director of Student Life Affairs
Dean of the Wharton School (1933-1939)
University President (2004-present)
Professor and Faculty Director of the Fox Leadership Program